#FindsFriday from the historic palace of Benin City. Ranging from pre-colonial bronzework of the Benin Kingdom to late-colonial-era Nigerian police regalia, they reveal the most-comprehensive archaeological picture of Benin City’s history to date. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Well, shall we learn from history?! ...

NEW Potsherd pavement from #medieval Ilorin, Yorùbáland. Potsherd pavements were a shared architectural tradition across West Africa, but nuanced variation in pottery production allowed for individual expression and identity within Yoruba communities. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

"Woche der offenen Tür" im #StadtmuseumHofheim. Es gibt viel Kunst, aber natürlich auch #Archäologie! Besonders: die VR-Installationen zum Kapellenberg! 😀 stadtmuseum.hofheim.de/sonderausste...

"Woche der offenen Tür" im #StadtmuseumHofheim. Es gibt viel Kunst, aber natürlich auch #Archäologie! Besonders: die VR-Installationen zum Kapellenberg! 😀 stadtmuseum.hofheim.de/sonderausste...

Brazil and Peru are failing uncontacted people – and the Amazon’s future is at stake | Julio Cusurichi Palacios and Beto Marubo

Join us in Mainz for Landscapes of #Conflict: Archaeological Perspectives from #Prehistory to the #MiddleAges — an international #conference exploring how conflict and peace shaped human–environment interactions through time. 📅 26–28 Nov 2025 | 🏛️ LEIZA, Mainz www.leiza.de/kalender/det...

Gut gemacht, und mir gefällt besonders das Zitat am Ende!

History does indeed repeat itself! Everywhere and through time. Just the scales change.

Nicht ganz! So wie der Titel nicht ganz korrekt ist, ist auch der Inhalt nur tw richtig. Klima ist in der Nacheiszeit zwar ein variabler Faktor, aber Grundmuster gesellschaftlichen Verhaltens können auch ohne Klima simuliert werden. Den Titel gab es übrigens 2013 schon bei Terra X...

#FindsFriday Researchers found traces of blue pigment on this 13,000-year-old artefact from Mühlheim-Dietesheim, Germany. It questions the idea that Palaeolithic artists only used red or black, painting a picture of a more vibrant Ice Age world than previously imagined. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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And...one week from today! Come in person or tune in @leizarchaeology.bsky.social

The Battle of Trafalgar took place #OnThisDay in AD 1805, resulting in a British victory over the combined French and Spanish fleet and ending Napoleon's planned invasion of England. In preparation for the invasion, many army camps were built along France's northern coast 1/2 🏺 #Archaeology

Ja, allerdings nur bis zum Kippunkt. Dann entlädt sich die im Wettrüsten aufgestaute Energie im gewaltsamen complexity collapse. Der Weg in den WWI ist ein trauriges Bsp.

Two weeks from today: Another exciting lecture on a timely topic at @leizarchaeology.bsky.social

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Das Versagen ist leider systemimanent: Inherent Collapse. Die dahinter liegenden gesellschaftlichen Mechanismen lassen sich bis in die Eiszeit zurückverfolgen. Nachhaltige Lösungen werden erst möglich, wenn wir das besser verstanden haben. Ein Baustein: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1.5 Grad Marke bis 2100 einhalten? Pariser Abkommen? Vergisst es - die Staaten haben versagt, Politiker, Medien und die gesamte Gesellschaft. Neueste Projektionen zeigen 2029 ist die Marke endgültig verloren. Ist übrigens nicht umkehrbar. Dankt der #Milliardenlobby. #Klimakatastrophe

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

You are an early-career scientist interested in social and environmental processes in the past? For our second phase, we are offering 5 positions for postdocs and 9 positions for doctoral students. Apply now! All the details: www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-r... #earlycareerscientists #jobs

Join us on Nov 4, 2025 at 6 PM for Anzhelika Kolesnychenko’s #talk “Social networks shaping the pathways of #Odesa #archaeology.” 📍LEIZA, Mainz | 🎥 Live: “Science at risk” YouTube More Information: www.leiza.de/kalender/det...

#Lidar of Poverty Point, the type-site for a prehistoric culture occupying the Lower Mississippi Valley from c. 1730–1350 BC. Radiocarbon dates show, however, that the nearby, supposedly peripheral site of Jaketown dates even earlier. 🔗 from 2023 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Life-size rock engravings of camels, gazelles, and other animals, found in Saudi Arabia and dating to between 12,800 and 11,400 years ago, demonstrate human occupation of an arid environment, according to a paper in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/4o1ON0p 🏺 🧪

Don’t miss Prof. Albert Hafner’s lecture on prehistoric lakeshore life in the Alps & Balkans! 📅 Thu, Oct 30 · 18:00 📍 LEIZA Mainz + online #Archaeology #LEIZArchaeology #lecture #research

A very simple basic pattern and a typical phase succession: Rigidity follows polarisation. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Interesting read, also for those concerned with political cycles: Why democracies die and what to do next | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Kapellenberg Hofheim: Relikte einer steinzeitlichen Hochkultur Artikel von Andrea Diener, FAZ www.msn.com/de-de/finanz...

"Aber wir wissen, wie ungeheuer anfällig Menschen sind für große Worte und wie anfällig leider auch vielleicht junge Menschen sein können, die (...) möglicherweise wiederum einem Rattenfänger auf den Leim gehen." Generalstaatsanwalt Dr. Fritz Bauer 1964. Sehenswert, weil hochaktuell.

Wie steigt die Wassernutzungseffizienz von Bäumen mit dem CO2-Gehalt der Atmosphäre? Jan Esper von der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz erhält Reinhart Koselleck-Förderung von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft in Höhe von 1,2 Millio... weiterlesen

Komplexe Baugeschichte eines 6.000 Jahre alten Monuments #archäologie

Excellent review on a fascinating book: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

And we need to face the unconfortable truth, that cyclical collapse may well be part of the human experience. Its well documented since the Palaeolithic and certainly since the Neolithic. But since then we live with it, and carry on.

amazing insights inro roman civilian life next to the military camp Kapersburg ... #hessenARCHÄOLOGIE www.hessenschau.de/kultur/20-ja...

Who are the Papua New Guineans? New DNA study reveals stunning origins

Kap25 Day 14: Measuring and drawing of trench profiles. Rounding up, as last day in the field... @archaeo-fk.bsky.social and the team achieved a lot! #hessenARCHÄOLOGIE at its best and @unimainz.bsky.social credit points well deserved!!! 👏👏👏 @leizarchaeology.bsky.social

„Ein Freund sagt, falsch abgebogen seien wir allerspätestens vor sechs Jahren, als der WDR einem Shitstorm gegen das ‚Meine Oma ist ’ne alte Umweltsau’-Lied nachgab und der damalige Intendant sich nicht etwa vor seine Mitarbeiter stellte, sondern sich im Gegenteil öffentlich entschuldigte.“ 👇👇👇👇👇

Dinosaurs promoted open habitats in the Late Cretaceous, and their extinction could have led to a radical reorganization of the landscape and ecosystem structure at the beginning of the Paleogene, according to a study in Communications Earth & Environment. go.nature.com/3InFngj #Paleosky 🧪

Kap25 Day 13: We did our press meeting today. Here our press release (in German): @leizarchaeology.bsky.social Komplexe Baugeschichte eines 6.000 Jahre alten Monuments. Neue Erkenntnisse zum Kapellenberg bei Hofheim am Taunus www.idw-online.de/-DRjfAA

Haunting image of three southern slaveholders, c. 1850. The banal face of evil. Original daguerreotype in the Metropolitan Museum, colorized and restored by Frank Hellsten

Kap25 day 12: The rains come and go 🌨️ as @archaeo-fk.bsky.social and the team dig deeper and deeper into the unknown... 🫢 @leizarchaeology.bsky.social @unimainz.bsky.social @challengesjgu.bsky.social

Kap25 day 11: Good progress despite 🌦️. Pits and huge postholes underneath erosion layers of mound. What is this all about? 🧐 @leizarchaeology.bsky.social @unimainz.bsky.social @challengesjgu.bsky.social

Zunahmen interner (und externer) Gewalt sind typisch für Endphasen von gesellschaftlichen Zyklen. Auch Europa wird diese Phase wieder durchlaufen bzw druchläuft sie bereits. Es sind Grundmuster gesellschaftlichen Verhaltens, die wir wenigstens seit 7000 Jahren durchgehend beobachten können.

Kap25 Day 10: Close to closing of week 2. As said before, we are stunned by what came up! 😀 @archaeo-fk.bsky.social and the magnificiant team deserve a relaxing weekend. I myself will search the literature for burial monument architecture during 5th and 4th millennia in western Europe...

BTW we are not the only ones doing archaeology at Kapellenberg these days. Members of the archaeology survey group of spau-gmbh.de preparing for geomagnetic prospection for rhein-main-link.amprion.net/Rhein-Main-L... Here we go! 💨💡

Kap25 Day 9: It gets ever more exciting as the rains reveal more and more features underneath the mound's erosion layers. That's what we wanted! @archaeo-fk.bsky.social 🤩💦 @leizarchaeology.bsky.social

Interesting read! And interesting diagram, showing a global tipping point around 2013. Personally, I fear the curve will continue to decline further. Democracy is time-dependent, just as any social phase 📉 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Kap25 Day 8: Back to the shovel after the rains. No damage, fortunately! @archaeo-fk.bsky.social and the team expect to complete the section in the forefront within the next days. Btw, did I mention before that they are doing an excellent job? ☝️👍 @leizarchaeology.bsky.social

A study in Nature Climate Change suggests that global warming may be associated with an increase in added sugar intake in the form of sugar-sweetened drinks and frozen desserts in the US, especially among more socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. go.nature.com/41Gch2u 🧪 🍎📃