I recently read Umberto Eco's essay "Ur-Fascism"; I think everybody should read it, e.g. here: theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe... If this seems too long for you, I have extracted the most important parts. Have fun, read them and who knows? You may spot some Ur-fascism right around the corner 😘

This news is fake: Dire wolfs have not returned. Rather, a tiny number of genes of grey wolves were edited using CRISPR to create some few resemblances to dire wolf genes (fur color, musculature). For more info: arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...

#Archaeology also deals with animals and human-animal relations and changes in animals in the course of time. Animals are not static, modern domesticates are custom-tailored ... cf. cow on the left, from 1888, and on the right, from 2015. Note shape of back, horns, udder size, overall frame 😔

At Herculaneum, a human skeleton was found killed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, whose brain had, due to heat of a pyroclastic flow and subsequent fast cooling, turned to organic glass. 😮 rdcu.be/ecccO

🦎 Animal #576 🦥 I figured it out in 1 guesses! 🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 10.2 metazooa.com #metazooa 😂 so smart!

Sonntag ist Wahl in Deutschland. Geht mal besser wählen, sonst könnte es blöd kommen, und das hatten wir ja schon mal. 😊 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgPv...

Deutschland: "Wir können nicht richtig abschieben, viele Länder nehmen ihre kriminellen Bürger nicht zurück!" Auch Deutschland: "Die deutschen IS-Kämpfer in syrischen Gefängnissen nehmen wir nicht zurück, danke." 🫠

My favorite artefact from the Magdalenien, ca. 15.000 years BP: a spear-thrower from Le Mas d'Azil, carved from reindeer antler, showing three life-stages of a horse: from foal to adult to dead, possibly skinned or defleshed animal 😍

Meanwhile, #Denmark is reacting subtly and sensibly to Trump's ambitions regarding #Greenland. Translation help: kage = cake; kvaj = idiot 😂

Die Schriftstellerin Hanna Sukare erzählt im @derstandard.at von ihrem alten Nachbar und Freund in der Leopoldstadt, der wieder Angst hat. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

I have been on Bluesky for a while now, but had kept my Twitter account (I am not calling it X) in hopes of change. Today, I deactived it, since the platform is run by a neonazi skyhigh on drugs. F*** this. ☠️

A Monday #MementoMori: The Wheel of Life in Verdings, Südtirol, depicting how it goes 😜 from infancy to death.

The Enigma of the Absence of Figurative Representations in the Neolithic of Northern Europe: Where Are the Figurines?: www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/01/t...

#Neolithic Conference alert 📣: On May 22-25, 2025, the second Conference on the Emergence of the Neolithic in Europe takes place in Zadar, Croatia: conference.unizd.hr/ene2025/ Would be delighted to meet all Neolithic archaeologists there!!! 🌞 Please share and distribute!

Merkwürdig: Die #AfD, die so bedacht auf Männlichkeit, Stolz und Ehre ist, propagiert gleichzeitig Unterordnung unter und blinden Gehorsam gegenüber Putin. Ist das männlich? 😵‍💫 Naja, was weiß ich schon, ich geh mal lieber zurück an den Herd 🤪

Animals were important in prehistory! Depictions of leopards abound in ancient #Çatalhöyük, showing how important they were - however, among over a million animal bones, there was only one from a leopard (a claw). There may have existed a taboo on killing them 🥰🐆

In the Middle Neolithic of Austria, Moravia, Slovakia and Hungary, hundreds of figurines were made in a specific way: their body parts were individually shaped and then put together, which made them easy to break - maybe their only purpose. The figurine from Falkenstein could be reconstructed 😍

"I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations—one can do either this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it—you will regret both." Why, thanks for the optimism, Søren Kierkegaard 😊

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Just a little something I read today: "The feeling of being superfluous and the fear of being insignificant lead to totalitarianism" (Hannah Arendt). ➡️ Reminder: You are not superfluous or insignificant. If you feel that way, it is most often due to economic conditions that value competition. 😘

Another example of the parallel depiction of life and death: a stone statue from PPN #Karahantepe, depicting a seated male with an erect phallus. Note the ribs and clavicles alluding to death, whereas the face and the seated posture display life. To learn more, check out the app "StoneMounds".

Behold this pretty cattle figurine from the early LBK site of Szentgyörgyvölgy-Pityerdomb (I kid you not, the name is awesome). You can read up on the site here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Confirmation that another big wave of harassment is about to come my way. Joe Rogan is hosting the two pseudoarchaeology YouTubers who have been non-stop lying about me. Episode should likely drop tomorrow We have to speak up and support each other Anti intellectualism is the real cancel culture

Life on the front ... and death on the back. #Neolithic figurine from #Catalhöyük, Türkiye, depicting a pregnant woman from one side and a skeletonized person from the other side, with ribs, shoulder blades, the spine and the pelvic bones showing. Source: www.catalhoyuk.com/archive_repo...

Glad to be here! Give us a follow if you like archaeology, animals, and Bronze Age Europe 🦴🧬🐂🐑🐐🐎

In the beginning of November, I got to see #Göbeklitepe and #Karahantepe - excavations at Karahantepe are still going on, and there are many more amazing sites in the region of Sanliurfa which look truly promising! The cradle of Neolithization is absolutely stunning 😍

In the light of recent developments, I will be posting solely under the Blue Sky now 😙 Starting off with a recently (today!) published paper about Neolithic figurines: doi.org/10.12766/jna...

If it is true I am a top notch duolingo learner, why are Danes still a) laughing outright, or b) looking politely confused, or c) starting to speak English immediately to me?! I will continue the quest on not receiving The Danish Face when I speak Danish 😤

Boooooones ... there will always be more bones ... how is your friday going? 😘

Dear DanishDiary, every Danish language atrocity is forgiven because yesterday we had Dream Cake (drømmekage) in Danish class. It was pure bliss, and we even almost understood the difference between tænker, synes, mener and tror ("to think") 😊

Unrelated to archaeology, but very beautiful: Michael Peter Anker, "Den druknede" (The drowned), 1896. Look at the light!! 😍

I woke up at 4:30 and ate a watermelon gumpop. How is your monday going? 🤪

... and what better image to start on this lovely platform than a nice memento mori with a only somewhat accurate skeleton

Well, this looks just like Twitter before it became X.