Looks funny, but it's a great way to learn about lithic technology. 😅 #archaeology 🏺

Interested in #archaeology and the #Mesolithic - #Neolithic transition? You can still register for the Transformations conference taking place in Groningen April 7-10 weleer.nl/transformati... Organized by @hanshuisman.bsky.social at @rug.nl

Mini Megalith! 🏺 We have (almost) none in the Rhineland, so we have to build our own. 😅 cc @megalithic.bsky.social

What a remarkable Mesolithic burial 🏺!?! And it is probably one of the earlist known cremation burials as well. 👇

Unter 27 & interessiert an #Archäologie 🏺? Absolviere ein Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr (FSJ) oder Bundesfreiwilligendienst (BuFDi) in der Außenstelle Titz der LVR-Bodendenkmalpflege und unterstütze uns auf unseren archäologischen Ausgrabungen! 👇 freiwilligesjahr-nrw.ijgd.de/fsj-denkmal #Archaeology

Enjoyed a pleasant walk last Sunday through the "Aachener Hügelland" near Orsbach, with some flint raw material collecting. 😉 This beautiful Vetschau/Orsbach flint was primarily used by Mesolithic hunter/gatherers, but also in the Late Neolithic 🏺in the Rhineland. 📷me

A fascinating but also somewhat eerie story: in 2004, the Archaeodrome open-air museum in Burgundy (France) had to close and became a kind of archaeological site 🏺/ #lostplace itself. Read more here: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch%C3... www.glauqueland.com/archeodrome/

Some (archaeology) #museums 🏺 are like all-you-can-eat buffets. There is too much on offer, & afterwards you feel stuffed, but somehow dissatisfied. 😶

Fascinating results on genetics of the Neolithic in the Netherlands👇

Beautiful and intriguing non-fiction comics by @ullilust.literatur.social.ap.brid.gy about human evolution and life in the Palaeolithic era that go beyond the usual narratives. #archaeology 🏺

@npkk.bsky.social is absolutely right: Photogrammetry, 3D scans, & #SfM 📷 are fantastic new tools, but they should supplement not replace the proper description and interpretation of archaeological features 🏺& stratigraphies!

Lovely exhibition for kids on bronze age river finds at Limburgs Museum in Venlo. It is inspired by the children book by L. Dielemans (in German titled “Zeit der Bronze”). Goed gedaan! 🏺 #Archaeology, #Museum www.limburgsmuseum.nl/tentoonstell...

Interesting to see how well connected the early neolithic sites (LBK) in the Rhineland, Hesse, Westphalia and Bavaria were, regarding stone tool exchange. The exchange with E and SW Germany was less pronounced, however. Looking forward to the results from @hescor.bsky.social. 👍 #archaeology 🏺

Fascinating evidence of interaction between the Linear Pottery Culture and the Mesolithic period! However, I do not agree with the blanket interpretation of earthworks/enclosures as fortifications. 🏺 #Archaeology

Left the cosy office to take a look at our frosty Iron Age farmstead and think about what life might have been like without central heating. 🥶❄️ 📷me #archaeology 🏺

Talk at @bocas-news.bsky.social on the British WWII aircraft excavated by my colleagues near Kerpen-Manheim last year in collaboration with the AG Luftkriegsgeschichte. #ConflictArchaeology 🏺, #WWII

Come work with us! 🙂 #archaeology🏺

Falls Ihr plant, eine archäologische Korrespondenzanalyse mit #rstats zu rechnen, kann ich sehr die gute Einführung von @franksiegmund.bsky.social empfehlen – eine praxisnahe Erklärung inklusive Beispieldatensätzen und R-Skript. 👍 #Archäologie 🏺 frank-siegmund.de/images/opend...

Wir suchen zum 1.7.26 eine Archäologin oder einen Archäologen🏺mit dem Schwerpunkt Mittelalter und/oder Neuzeit (Vollzeit, unbefristet, E14 TVöD). Bewerbung bis zum 11.1. unter diesem Link 👇 jobs.lvr.de/index.php?ac...

#AI robot from the University of Bonn reconstructs wall painting from ancient Pompeii. #archaeology 🏺, #ancientsky www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/...

"Herman would have probably hit you, if you called him a German/Germanic". 😅 I very much enjoyed K. Banghard's book on myths and stereotypes surrounding the "Germanic peoples". 🏺#archaeology, 💙📚 #booksky #skystorians 📷me (left), M. Pereckas (right)

My thoughts are with the courageous colleagues who have remained in Sudan to protect the country's cultural heritage 🏺. 👇 www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/30/c...

A very interesting site! However, it should be noted that there is also evidence of continuity between the Linear Pottery culture 🏺and the Post-LBK period in certain regions of Central Europe. It is evidence of crisis that makes headlines, not evidence of continuity.

Schöner Artikel zu K. Banghards Buch 'Die wahre Geschichte der Germanen' in der @taz.de #Archäologie 🏺 💙📚 www.taz.de/!6126321

Gutes #Geschichte & #Archäologie 🏺 TV-Doku-Format von artede.bsky.social, das versucht gängige populäre Geschichtsnarrative zu hinterfragen. Die Folgen zu Arbeit, Tausch, und Eigentum sind klasse! 👍 www.arte.tv/de/videos/RC...

Ethnicity ≠ genes ≠ language ≠ archaeological objects 🏺 Ethnicity is a social construct. Ethnicity is dynamic. Ethnicity is messy. 👇 doi.org/10.1017/S138...

Very interesting reading: Bourgeois et al argue Corded Ware burial rituals emerge latest in regions closest to the steppe. This is in stark contrast to the proposed dispersal of steppe ancestry from East to West (Yamnaya hypothesis) #Archaeology #aDNA #Archaeogenetics www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Graphic Recording des Podcasts "KI und Faschismus"- ein sehr interessantes Interview mit @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social , Professor für Ethik der Künstlichen Intelligenz. Sein Buch "Künstliche Intelligenz und der neue Faschismus" ist bei Reclam erschienen! (Das Philosophische Radio) #graphicrecording

I’m delighted to see that Richard Taylor has won his defamation case against the producers of this film. It was awful to see archaeological colleagues misrepresented, cast as villains to fit a lazy narrative. But remarkably, the producers “remain proud of the film”! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Cool to see a photo of the excavation team! 👍The finds don't dig up themselfs.

Early Medieval Settlement Unearthed in Northern England www.medievalists.net/2025/08/earl... #archaeology

R. Steinacher in der @taz.de "Man wird ja wohl noch sagen dürfen, dass die Invasionen der Barbaren Rom dieses Problem im Stadtbild beschert haben!" 😅 #Archäologie #Antike www.taz.de/!6118137

Visited the High Fens (Hohes Venn) today — a landscape dating back thousands of years. Palaeoenvironmental evidence from the peat deposits reveal how humans interacted with this upland ecosystem since prehistoric times. A living archive of natural & cultural history. #Nature #Archaeology #Belgium

Lesenswert! 👇

New study of 7,000-year-old seeds in Germany shows Neolithic farmers expanded beyond einkorn & emmer, betting on barley & naked wheat to spread risk. Early agriculture was dynamic, not static. #Archaeology #Neolithic #Anthropology #FarmingHistory www.anthropology.net/p/when-farme...

Anna Källèn's The Trouble with Ancient DNA is a great read. She convincingly argues that #Archaeogenetics are often falsely portrayed as a 'neutral machine where unbiased truths about ancient people (...) come straight out of bone powder.' #Archaeology, #aDNA

Although it may not be a "looker," it is one of the few proofs that bronze was cast in the Northern Rhine Region during the Bronze Age. Thanks to my colleague Markus, who had a closer look and realised this is not a stone like any other. 😜 #Archaeology bodendenkmalpflege.lvr.de/de/aktuelles...

This nature restoration project in Norfolk sounds great. I wonder if they're cooperating with archaeologists/ethnobotanists. #renaturation #archaeology #wetlands ‘It’s resurrection’: 1,000-year-old seeds could grow ancient plants in England’s ice-age ghost ponds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Harvest season at the Iron Age farmstead in Titz

Ladyshaver? LVR-ABRs find of the month September is an early Iron Age razor blade found as grave good in a woman’s grave at Bergheim-Paffendorf. One more example that the issue of gendered gave goods is not straightforward. #archaeology #gender #stereotypes bodendenkmalpflege.lvr.de/de/aktuelles...

If you’re into walking & archaeology, check out the Planlauf Terrain App, which offers high-resolution LiDAR data & GPS positioning. Perfect for exploring earthworks (e.g. @megalithic.bsky.social) while hiking or surveying. At least in forested regions. 😉 #GIS planlaufterrain.com/App/

New paper! Were cemeteries of the LBK long-lived, starting in the east and spreading westwards slowly? Our new 14C dates suggest they started contemporaneously across the LBK and were fairly short-lived (though this depends on what you mean by "short"...) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

An unusual but very meaningful task: my colleagues uncovered a British WWII aircraft near Kerpen-Manheim. #ConflictArchaeology #WWII www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

Archaeological data should be accessible but also beautifully visible! The sdsbrowser by @clemensschmid.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy & (#rstats) does a very good job showcasing lithic data. You can download, but also use a table view, plots & diagrams to get a 1st impression. 👍 sds.ufg.uni-kiel.de

I'm pleased to announce that earlier this year Nadia's and my PhD theses on the #Linearbandkeramik site of Arnoldsweiler have been published. 🎉 Arnoldsweiler is a remarkable Early #Neolithic settlement in western Germany with a well, a ditched enclosure, & a cemetery. Comments & reviews are welcome.

👋 Hi everybody I’m Robin Peters, an archaeologist at the LVR State Service for Archaeological Heritage Management in the Rhineland. My work focuses on prehistoric settlement and funeral archaeology. Looking forward to sharing science, discussing new papers, and connecting with curious minds! 👍