What is good archaeology? Documenting everything, and finding the right things in the right context!

What is archaeology? Sometimes it is just trying to keep up with the digger wherever it wants to go

»Det er både sikkerhedspolitik, det er konkurrencepolitik, og så er det selvfølgelig også klimapolitik,« siger @martinlidegaard.radikale.dk #dkpol politiken.dk/danmark/poli...

A little holiday pet project with my son: building a small contained aquarium using life from our local lake. The first attempt failed 😅, but the second is a success—now with breeding snails and a live Gasterosteus aculeatus. Great fun, highly recommended!

Dear all This years annual CAA DK seminar will take place the 17th of March 2026. You can join IRL or online. Message if you need help or translation of the invitation. See also www.facebook.com/share/p/16hu...

Isn’t it about time we boycot FIFA #fifaout

🦣🍖🧬 Fully funded 3-yr PhD in palaeogenomics & bioinformatics! Help me push non-model palaeogenomes beyond their limits @DTU in Denmark. Start: Feb 2026 (flexible) Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025 For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD Reposts appreciated 😁

Warning: lack of archaeology posts on here, and the following autoreply is active: Thank you for your email. I am currently on paternity leave and will return on February 1, 2026. During this period, I will have limited access to email, so response times may be longer than usual.

Mysterious Neolithic rituals. Over 5,000-year-old sacrificial pits of the Salzmünde culture discovered near Gerstewitz, Saxony-Anhalt. More information: idw-online.de/de/news856263 #archaeology

So help me out: what is this vertebrae,whale or mammoth? I’m guessing whale

🚨 Call for Sessions is OPEN! 📍 CAA 2026 – Vienna 🗓️ Deadline: 17 August 2025 Got a great session idea in digital archaeology? We want to hear from you! 🔗 2026.caaconference.org/call-for-ses... #CAA2026 #CAAConf #DigitalArchaeology #CallForSessions

Wheel cross etched in ceramic from Lindegaard II, Horsens. A production site deposition in wetlands of ceramic, metal, food, and other organic remains. C. 600-400 BCE 🏺 #archaeology #Denmark

Dear All Hereby CALL for the annual CAA Denmark seminar 2026 on #RemoteSensing & #Non-destructive Archaeology. Submit your calls before 1st of September. Call in Danish, but submissions are allowed in English. Email if any questions. Regards from the Board of CAA DK #Archaeology #CAADK #Digital

Make your data FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. A lot of valuable information is lost due to poor data structure and inadequate storage formats.

Tick-tock, tick-tock! Two days left to submit your paper proposal. The Call for Papers for the 2025 AARG Meeting in Trondheim will close on Wednesday 30th April 2025. You can find further details at aargonline.com/wp/events/aa...

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Commercial archaeology is always fun. Because each time you go into the field exploring new areas, you never really know what will appear. This time nothing, but next time something interesting

Starter pack for Danish Archaeology. Remember to comment if you want to join go.bsky.app/9SiLkC9

Dear all. Thank you all for an excellent day of archaeological discussion on all things data. But also on; who do archaeologist digitize for? With around 100 participants IRL and online, it was a great turnout

And now for something completely different: Mesolithic and Neolithic landscape with multiple different details. Spot the houses and details of land-use. #Archaeology #neolithic #3D #landscape #Denmark

Neolithic landscape with multiple different details. Spot the houses and details of land-use. #Archaeology #neolithic #3D #landscape #Denmark

Dear all… sorry for the lack of reminders: tomorrow the annual CAA DK seminar will be held in Odense. It is still possible to sign up for online participation, see program for details at: dk.caa-international.org And also follow us on: www.facebook.com/share/g/1BLA...

Archaeologists long favored the idea that our own genus, Homo, relied more on meat than earlier fossil relatives. This notion that meat was an essential ingredient for evolution of humanlike features has recently been challenged on several fronts ...

Come on USA… how can your Oval Office be so horrible

Revelations from a specialized seasonal site of transverse arrow production. Ertebølle culture at its best! #mesolithic #Ertebølle #archaeology #Denmark 🏺

The smallest things are sometimes the most incredible things to find when excavating. Here a small microlith of the Maglemosian culture some 9000 years ago. Archaeology is fun #denmark #archaelogy #mesolithic 🏺

Dear all. Please take notice of this years annual CAA Denmark seminar on : Available Data. A string of excellent talks regarding data management and for whom we make data available to. The seminar is on the 17th of March 2025, and is accessible online as well

If you are in the vicinity, come join me for a talk on fishing culture along the Gudenå. It will be a talk about the last 10.000 years, and past and present impact and shaping of landscape along the Gudenå river systems in Denmark www.facebook.com/share/1AF6hG...

Little tips of beauty! A small transverse from a middle/late ertebølle site with plenty of evidence of continued transverse production at a summer camp at the edge of water with plenty of uprooted ancient trees. More to follow #archaelogy #mesolithic #denmark #ertebølle🏺

Not enough archaeology on here. So here it is: a late Erteboelle blade core from the last hunter-gatherers of Denmark #mesolithic #archaology excavation eastern Jutland

Now also with a starter-pack for Danish archaeology. Share and comment if you want to join. For all archaeologist from or working within Denmark. go.bsky.app/9SiLkC9

During the weekend I experienced a great heated debate with friends, about what archaeology is; It resulted in me pointing out that archaeology is basic. It is the study of material culture of the past combined with the rest of academia. Archaeology in itself does not say much. What do you think?

Now also with a starter-pack for Danish archaeology. Share and comment if you want to join. For all archaeologist from or working within Denmark. go.bsky.app/9SiLkC9

There's enough of us now to do one of these! go.bsky.app/M9FwG2K 🏺

The Maglemose Culture simply produces stunning cores and blades ❤️ #archaeology #mesolithic #denmark