The middle Neolithic long barrows are often used in later periods for burial and sacrificial purposes, but this example from Dornberg is something special! 🤎👍 www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Proud that after five years of careful analysis and discussion our paper "Lasting Lower Rhine-Meuse forager ancestry shaped Bell Beaker expansion" has now been published.

Safe the date! Evening lecture on 12 February 2026 by Rick Schulting @leizarchaeology.bsky.social on an all too timely topic...

In the Middle Neolithic Boyne Valley 🇮🇪 passage graves were superseded by more open circular enclosures. Circular 'proto-henge' monuments developed in southern Britain shortly after. Were they inspired by interaction across the Irish Sea? #MegalithicMonday 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Yet another archaeological dream fulfilled! Just visited majestic Mohenjodaro.

Your contributions to our exciting EAA session are still welcomed! Join us for the event in Athens.

Und hier gleich noch was für den Terminkalender: In der kommenden Woche öffnet nämlich in der #Berlin​er James-Simon-Galerie die Ausstellung über den #Göbeklitepe & die anderen #TaşTepelern! Bin gespannt, welche alten Bekannten mir unter den Exponaten begegnen. 😉 🏺🏛️ www.smb.museum/ausstellunge...

My book První Evropané is forthcoming soon 🤎👍

From ancient Mesopotamia to the present day, fears of the restless dead coming back to cause mayhem have abounded. 'Killing the Dead' explores the ways bodies were treated around the world to prevent them from coming back 💀 🆓 in our #NewBookChronicle doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Our volume on Stone Age clothing is now online and completely open access: Jöris, O., Dietrich, O., Risch, R., & Meller, H. (Hrsg.). (2026). A Stone Age History of Clothing: Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 26. bis 28. September 2024 in Halle (Saale). doi.org/10.11588/pro...

New research on the first farmers in Central Germany: The settlement of Eilsleben, Börde district nachrichten.idw-online.de/2026/01/20/n...

In Neolithic Ireland, many monuments were orientated towards the summer solstice sunrise, perhaps to celebrate growth and life #CelebrateLife Some however, align with the autumn equinox sunrise, the end of the growing cycle. Did they symbolise death? 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

S archeologem Jiřím A. Svobodou o nové knize Paleolit českých zemí, ve které s týmem odborníků shrnuje dosavadní bádání o nejstarším období lidských dějin na našem území. 👉 https://rspkt.cz/300009964

Inside this rare enchidro-quartz crystal is actual water and sand that’s been trapped for millions of years. #History

For #StandingStoneSunday a #Neolithic human-shaped stela with a necklace and a belt, found in La Serre, Aveyron (#France). The lines on the cheeks are interpreted as facial #tattoos or scars. Dating 3000-2500 BC. In the late neolithic period several cultures living....🧵 1/2 🏺 #archaeology 📷 me

Šumava mountains - snow ❄️ snow everywhere. Cross country right from your doorstep!🤎

This carpet comes from Teheran’s Grand Bazaar (بازار بزرگ, Bāzār-e Bozorg). Let’s hope the new freedom for Persian people is coming from the same place! 🤎✌🏼

This is terrible! The war that the World is ignoring! Even the greatest peace maker Trump is not interested to end 👎🏻! Invisible people, invisible heritage, region urgently seeking for help! 🇸🇩

#NewgrangeSolstice earlier today 🇮🇪 ☀️ The light slowly creeping through the corridor, illuminating the inner chamber, as the northern hemisphere gradually starts facing the sun again. The ancestral beauty of it all

Cultural transformations followed different regional trajectories, especially in areas of the inner peripheries. 🏺 #archaelogy #Neolithic

Just teaching at the new building of the Department of Anthropology of the National Taiwan University 🇹🇼 🤎

Read our new paper on Prehistoric migrations in Central Europe, in the current volume of Vesmír! Martin Kuna & Jan Turek

📰 >11,000-year-old statues from Şanlıurfa Province, Türkiye hint at death rituals and symbolic expression within #Neolithic communities in southwest Asia 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

The Perils of Pits: further research at Durrington Walls henge (2021–2025) intarch.ac.uk/journal/issu...

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

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"Then something went terribly wrong. Vráble and other mass graves across Europe attest to a wave of brutality around 5000 B.C.E., about the same time as hundreds of LBK settlements across the continent abruptly vanished." www.science.org/content/arti...

To complete the set, here is Seahenge: an Early Bronze Age timber monument from the Norfolk coast. In contrast to Stonehenge, it was likely a small-scale community gathering locale rather than a place of large-scale ‘elite’ display. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏅 Právě tyto hodnoty podle něj vystihují i práci nových laureátů. Medaile za rozvoj svých oborů převzali matematik Petr Hájek, fyzikové Karel Hrbáček a Ludvík Kunz a archeoložka Natalie Venclová.

📚 Publikace Ibn Fadlána Cesta z Baghdádu k volžským Bulharům, kterou z arabštiny do češtiny přeložil Ondřej Beránek, získala prestižní ocenění Turjuman Award. 🏆 Ocenění uděluje Sharjah International Book Fair. Více⬇️ sibf.com/en/awards?aw...

Ancient DNA studies usually link changes in lifestyle and language in the past to population movements. But not always! A new study in @nature.com reveals a South American ancestry that stayed steady for 8,500 years, despite major cultural and linguistic shifts. @science.org 🏺 🧬

📷 is a frontispiece from the latest issue of Antiquity © Anas Alhajj Photography / CC-BY-SA-2.0 www.flickr.com/photos/86455... (login required) 🆓 in our latest #AntiquityEditorial on archaeology in wartime: doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Dear all, if you can, please consider donating to Lucie, who has a brain tumor and needs funds to pay for her treatment. She’s only 20 years old and deserves a chance at beating cancer. If you can’t donate, please share! donio.cz/nadeje-pro-l...

À Carhaix-Plouguer (Finistère), une fouille archéologique révèle plus de 6 000 ans d’histoire humaine, du Néolithique à l’Antiquité. En savoir plus 👉 www.inrap.fr/plus-de-six-...

My students today campaigned against the fascist idiots trying to get control over the Czech ministry of environment. I’m proud of them! 🤎👍

Support Democracy! Never give up! ✌🏼

Happy International Archaeology Day! #InternationalArchaeologyDay 🏺 #Archaeology

#ctvrtkycts is back after the holidays and the renovation of our seminar room: tomorrow, Eric Shiraev (George Mason University) will speak on The Use and Misuse of Historical Names: Who Gets Remembered and Why It Matters. 10-12 a.m. at @CTS_uk_av or online at cesnet.zoom.us/j/92791774267.

NEW #Archaeology in wartime, protecting cultural property and the complexities of conflict. Explore the consequences of modern armed conflicts for archaeology and heritage in Robin Skeates' latest #AntiquityEditorial 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 📷 K.A.C. Creswell

Reject fascism!

“Anthropocene Ruptures: Crossing Borders, Building Connections”, Charles University Prague, October 9–10, 2025 - a two-day event of discussions, networking, and a field trip; participants also from Humboldt University, and University of Vienna. Link and program: www.anthropocene.cz/en/anthropoc...

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Satisfaction!

We have lost an absolute trailblazer and heroine of science www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

INDIANA JONES punching Nazis since 1936 👊

A MERE COINCIDENCE? Be aware of the extremists! Support DEMOCRACY in the forthcoming Czech parliamentary elections!

📖 Book release! Hinterland. Archeologie severočeských pískovcových krajin. Co-edited by Petr Pokorný, contributions from Jindra Prach and Jan Hošek (CTS). An illustrated journey (100+ images) through 20,000 years of sandstone landscapes, from the Ice Age to today. 🔗 www.kosmas.cz/knihy/559021...

So often I went from Berlin to #GöbekliTepe in the past 20 years or so - but finally the Tepe is coming to Berlin! 😉 🏺 www.trtworld.com/article/a7e6...

Komplexe Baugeschichte eines 6.000 Jahre alten Monuments #archäologie