Happy Easter Barrow! 🤎

Things Iran was doing in the Stone Age:

Revova Kurgan 3 is a monumental structure in Ukraine's North Pontic Steppe. Originally an Eneolithic ritual site, it was used as a burial mound by the Bronze Age Yamna culture. Does this reuse of sacred spaces indicate cultural continuity? #TombTuesday 🏺 #Archaeology 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Well done Czech team ! 🇨🇿 ✌🏼🤎

The Czech football team qualified for the World Cup after 20 years! 🇨🇿✌🏼🤎

The spread of rice farming across 1st millennium BC Japan. Introduced by migrant farmers from the Korean peninsula, the grain caused a population boom. Variation in growth rate indicates diverse interactions between farmers and foragers. 🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

"Dear people of the UK, when you go to vote on May 7th, just before you write the X in the box, count to 10 and think about what's happening in America. A quick recap below:" via The Daily Scar at Facebook

The good Americans! 🤎✌🏼

"Forgetful people who allow their timepiece to go on without making the sixty minute jump will find themselves behind everybody else" - so remember tonight's important "move", folks! (From May 1916, when summer time first came in)

The Corded Ware barrows in Lusatia! 🤎👍

Dutch model of the Beaker beer 🍺 ! 🤞🍻🤞Cheers! 🤎

Out today is our paper 'Genomic history of early dogs in Europe', in which we uncover the identity of the dogs that lived in Europe before agriculture—during the Paleolithic & Mesolithic periods: doi.org/10.1038/s415.... A thread ⬇️ (10) @biouea.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social

Domesticated dogs were already widely distributed in western Eurasia at least 14,200 years ago, according to two studies published in Nature. The papers report the oldest known dog genomes to date. go.nature.com/4lWrxBe go.nature.com/3NPY9zE 🧬 🏺 🧪

NEW Discovery of 30 prehistoric settlements in south-eastern Anatolia have big implications for our understanding of the origins of sedentary life in Western Asia. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Down with populists, fascists and Motorists! ✌🏼🇪🇺🤎!

Campaigning for democracy in the Czech Republic! 🇨🇿✌🏼🇪🇺🤎

Hands off the free media in the Czech Republic. Defending democracy! 🇨🇿✌🏼🇪🇺🤎

Well it’s sign of spiritual continuity! Great discovery! 🤎👍

Read the original research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

A Bravery Oscar Award! Well done 👍🤎

Based on an app, 'Uist Unearthed' explores the archaeology of the Outer Hebrides of Uist from the Bronze Age to the medieval period, making use of 3D reconstructions, animation and audio to tell the story of the islands' past 🆓 in our #NewBookChronicle doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

📰 Epipalaeolithic (12-10,000 BC) settlement discovered in south-eastern Anatolia, outside the Tigris valley, has big implications for the origins of sedentary life 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @labrujulaverde.bsky.social www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/03/a...

Forget the Neolithic nuclear family…!

How did prehistoric people respond to natural disasters? Some of 2025's most-read research suggested a volcanic eruption that blocked out the sun caused people in Neolithic Denmark to ritually sacrifice 'sun stones' to ensure a good harvest. Read it 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Read the review by Richard Bradley and purchase our Long Barrows Book! 🤎👍

Read the review and buy the book! It’s a very special book on people and nature in the sandstone landscape of North Bohemia! Highly recommended 🤎👍

@heasvienna.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social

Gender roles in Neolithic Hungary may have been more flexible than researchers previously expected. 🏺🧪

Our colleague Radan Haluzík has just published a new book, large and colorful: Turbo-Countryside: Full Landscapes and Empty Houses (Not Only) in the Balkans (Academia, 2026). Congratulations! www.academiaknihy.cz/cs/upcoming_...

Bad guys fighting bad guys 👎🏻

"Some Middle Bronze Age communities relied heavily on millet, others consumed little. Burial customs diverged." Communities have always _chosen_ how to live. We can too: history is not prewritten, but made by the actions of people archaeologymag.com/2026/02/farm...

👉 https://rspkt.cz/300010320 „První editorial po vypuknutí války v roce 2022 jsem zakončil slovy: „Tady není místo pro Putina. Naše srdce jsou se statečnou Ukrajinou.“ To platí i dnes. Jen ten obdiv k napadené zemi mezitím ještě zesílil,“ píše Erik Tabery v editorialu.

I remember enjoying Richard Lester’s The Three Musketeers ever so much when I was a kid. Figure it will make for an entertaining way to pass this rainy Saturday afternoon.

Review of our book have been just published in Antiquity by Richard Bradley. Thank you Richard! doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

An exceptional book by Petr Pokorný (CTS) and Petr Šída (et al). Read the review and get the book! 🤎

New discovery: prestigious Early Bronze Age burial found in Écouché-les-Vallées, Orne. The grave contained an exceptional set of grave goods such as 31 flint barbed and tanged arrowheads. www.myscience.fr/fr/news/wire...

Registration for this year's course "Anthropocene: contemporary world in transdisciplinary perspective" is now open. Don't hesitate and don't wait until the last minute. The number of participants is limited. www.anthropocene.cz/en/micro-cre...

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...