On 12 June 2025, over 1300 French archaeologists came together to demonstrate against the Government’s proposed exemption of designated ‘national priority’ building projects from any prior preventive archaeology measures. The very next day, the Government withdrew its proposal 1/2

arkeonews.net/no-mortar-no... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🏺 Genetic study of Middle Bronze Age individuals from the Grotta della Monica cave site in the southwestern Italian peninsula finds sporadic patterns of relatedness and the first conformance ancient instance of a person whose parents were father and daughter. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🏺 Detailed preprint on the genetics of early farming (TRB-Funnelbeaker associated) and persistent hunter-fisher-gatherer (Pitted Ware-associated) communities on Gotland. Discusses patterns of genetic relatives in both groups, admixture between the groups... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Oh, look! My friends around Magdalena Fraser & Federico Sanchez-Quinto et al have a new study analyzing more high-coverage Neolithic #aDNA genomes from the Baltic island of Gotland (including pathogens!!!) 👀 🧪 🏺 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Also Iceland will not participate in that song happening because Israel is not excluded! nos.nl/l/2594020

NEW Isotope analysis of copper artefacts from Bronze Age Möriken-Wildegg, Switzerland finds some copper was likely sourced as far away as Cyprus, indicating that, c.1400 BC, even rural communities were involved in the extensive Eurasian market networks. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

👇👇👇

I’m writing up this year’s top discoveries from ancient DNA and it reminded me to circulate a link to last year’s top 10 list. Some amazing stuff there and remarkable how fast this field moves! www.johnhawks.net/p/top-10-dis...

Another #aDNA preprint! We recovered DNA from 7,000 year old (!) goat leather from Cueva de los Murciélagos - and see a genetic link with Bermeya goats today! Credit to Francisco Martínez-Sevilla for seeing me on Youtube(?!) + reaching out to collaborate - there's still value in the internet.

Interesting investigation into a dodgy Elsevier journal -- with the additional nugget that the CEO of Elsevier's parent company made more than €15 million in total compensation last year. english.elpais.com/science-tech...

And earlier than that too. There are few things more human than travelling, with our without a crisis to motivate you. In fact crisis-only models of migration are historically quite recent. People journey for all sorts of reasons and always have

Three large coins hoards have been discovered in an ancient Roman residential block in Senon, northeastern France. Photo credit Simon Ritz/Inrap www.inrap.fr/un-quartier-...

wat zijn de consequenties? www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

www.anatolianarchaeology.net/an-amphithea... Archaeologists have now exposed the entire floor, hewn directly into the limestone, alongside multiple human heads carved into the walls and several seated human statues positioned around the interior

Great find this. What what I really like is the framing of this picture: a bunch of men gape at weapons and horse gear with at back a picture of a group of women laughing out loud😭

New report on how people engage with archaeology is out - Trowel and Error: A Public User Needs Survey. Lots to digest but key conclusions are: 1) archaeologists risk undervaluing and hiding ourselves, our practices and the role we play in society... www.archaeologyuk.org/our-work/tro...

Interesting. A doorway into the 'forest' but no fence😟

stunning!!

Cambridge’s #Archaeology journals are publishing an increasing amount of #openaccess (OA) #research. Read the latest articles here: ▶️ https://cup.org/3We1oBR @antiquity.ac.uk @saa-aap.bsky.social @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social#Archaeology

Thourough methodology and convincing argumentation, it seems to me. Also an interesting interpretation with reference to Bradleys 1998 The significance of monuments.

Despite my insomnia, I'm very happy to share our preprint: a multi-disciplinary assessment of a sheep mass mortality event from ~18th century France. We report the first ancient sheeppox virus (think smallpox) and the Taenia hydatigena (nasty roundworm) genomes. #aDNA

Recent underwater 3D scanning of the submerged Tsuzuraozaki lakebed site in Shiga prefecture captures images of a Jomon period pot that likely dates back to around 10,000 years ago. 🏺 #Japan #archaeology #3D #photogrammetry #Jomon www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

What a despickable and cowardly act of the @BBC

Archaeologists discover that Neanderthals ate the women and children first. 🧪🏺

🐺 Wolves in dog's clothing 🐺 Our latest in @pnas.org uncovers a surprise three to five thousand years ago: 2 canids in human contexts on a tiny island in the middle of the Baltic Sea, that ate marine food—but had 100% gray wolf ancestry. Where they tame wolves, or even an incipient domestication?

One of the Carrowkeel cairns for #tombTuesday last week. The climb up and the views around make this monument to a great experience.

Good news for Leiden University. Sarah de Rijcke new rector. www.mareonline.nl/sarah-de-rij...

Ooh, ooh:

👇👇👇 According to Baumgartel, the emerging picture is one of a community defined not by social ranks but by collective purpose. “We believe these were egalitarian hunter-gatherers,” she notes. “There is no archaeological indication of chiefs directing their labor.” arkeonews.net/radical-new-...

Sad indeed. Also this is sad and lazy: ".......based on a paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research: .........and written as a collaboration between ChatGPT and an East Anglia Bylines editor."

THREAD: Delighted that Peterborough Museum has received £250k, to further explore the amazing Bronze Age assemblage from Must Farm. One of my favourite projects of the past few years was creating replicas of the pots, to better understand the technology behind them 🏺 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When I wrote about the ancient Zanclean megaflood filling the Mediterranean in as little as 12-18 months (!), it was wistfully. I'm English. Lovely place, England, but Big Geological Drama? None of that round 'ere, sadly. Imagine my delight at what geophysicists found in the English Channel. 1/

In 2022, archaeologists at @uni-kiel.de's @neolithicbodies.bsky.social found 34 decapitated skeletons piled in a space the size of a parking spot. In the 3 years since, they’ve found 50 more. The mass grave is evidence for the collapse of the 1st pan-European culture 7,000 years ago. @science.org 🏺💀

For anyone interested in ancient diseases (either historical or prehistoric) here's an excellent, readable, comprehensive summary of where we are with ancient pathogen DNA. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Atlantic view from Knocknareah near Sligo. Quiye an affort to get there, but so worth it.....

What stunning views from these Irish passage graves @Carrowkeel