Detlef Gronenborn
@dgron.bsky.social
- archaeologist with an interest in past, present, and future societies - personal account with personal opinions, some research affiliation-related
KAP26 Day 7: Press event with Hofheim Mayor Wilhelm Schulze. An important and highly cherished summer date for all of us, with a long tradition! We explained our thoughts, press info (in German) here: www.leiza.de/presse/detai...
KAP26 Day 6: We are digging deeper and deeper into that mound. Heat and drought will not keep us from trying to solve that riddle...🌞🔥 @leizarchaeology.bsky.social #hessenARCÄOLOGIE
KAP26 Day 5: What this is??? 🤔 Let's wait and see... We will share our thoughts next Tuesday. Until then ... 🤫 But we think its looking good! 🙂
KAP26 Day 4 View on Kapellenberg ridge from the E. The hilltop enclosure covers almost the entire length, extending 1300 m from N-S. The mound is located at the highest spot.😮 @leizarchaeology.bsky.social #hessenARCHÄOLOGIE
KAP26 day 3: Morning break. What are we looking at? Certainly not just a pile of dirt and rocks...🤨 More soon, hopefully! If the heat permits 🌞 @leizafriends.bsky.social #hessenARCHÄOLOGIE
KAP26 Day 2: Once again we are trying to unravel that one BIG question - when did they start constructing that mound??? 🤨 From last year we know it must have been after 6000 BCE. That is somewhat unsurprising, though...🙄 @leizarchaeology.bsky.social #hessenARCHÄOLOGIE
Kapellenberg excavation 2026 (henceforth KAP26), day 1: Preparing the ground, fascination rising!!! 😮😃
Interesting long-term study 🗣️☝️🧐: The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene
Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational...
science.org
Today this looks like an overgrown heap of dirt... But as from next week this location will become one of the most exciting excavations in western Germany! 😮 Kapellenberg 2026! More soon!
Bilanz der ersten 2 Wochen: - 34.540 Aufrufe und 1838 👍, keine 👎 Untergang und Ende von Zyklen werden in der Öffentlichkeit rezipiert, auch wenn sie vor 7000 Jahren passierten. 😶 Forschungen u.a. am @leizarchaeology.bsky.social
Detlef Gronenborn@dgron.bsky.social · 4w ago"Der Untergang einer Ära: das brutale Ende der Linearbandkeramik" Die Massengräber von Asparn-Schletz und Kilianstädten vor 7000 Jahren, Soziale Zyklen, etc etc...in 25 min: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkKU...
Did the British bring Smallpox to Australia in the late 18th Century, resulting in the deaths of millions of Aboriginal People? www.science.org/content/arti...
British ‘First Fleet’ brought smallpox to Australia—and may have killed millions
Two papers pin the deadly disease’s introduction on British colonists and suggest the continent held far more people than previously believed
science.org
Vortrag morgen am @leizarchaeology.bsky.social Brandaktuell ☝️🫨: 🔜 Umwelt und Klima ☀️🔥🥵 aber Vortragssaal gekühlt ❄️❄️❄️😀 Info: www.leiza.de/kalender/det...
Potsherd pavement from medieval Yorùbáland, modern Nigeria. Such pavements were made across West Africa, but production varied between settlements, indicating local innovation and identity was prioritised despite the region's interconnectedness. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
"Der Untergang einer Ära: das brutale Ende der Linearbandkeramik" Die Massengräber von Asparn-Schletz und Kilianstädten vor 7000 Jahren, Soziale Zyklen, etc etc...in 25 min: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkKU...
Das brutale Ende der Linearbandkeramik
YouTube video by Fundstelle
youtube.com
Heute am @ieg-mainz.bsky.social mit @dgron.bsky.social um über das Naturverständnis in der Archäologie zu sprechen.
Noch ein bischen hin, aber jetzt schon mal der Verweis auf den kommenden Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Jan Esper, @unimainz.bsky.social am @leizarchaeology.bsky.social . "Natürliche Klimazeugen" 🌲🌦️ Rettet das Datum🗓️: 15. Juli 2026, 18:00 st
High-status Neolithic burial mound "Tumulus de Tumiac", Arzon, Brittany, France. 🇫🇷 Mid 5th millennium BCE. Extremely rich goods from all of W Europe. I still keep asking myself why societies suddenly agreed to freeze material surplus and labor in these monuments? www.academia.edu/29590646/Som...
Admittedly, there are sites more impressive than #Kapellenberg... at least at first sight. 🧐 Tumulus Saint-Michel at Carnac, Brittany, France 🇫🇷 www.menhirs-carnac.fr/decouvrir/le...
New version of the THE MAP is out! 😀 "Expansion of Farming in Western Eurasia, 9600-4000 BCE" v 2026.2 is partly based on georeferenced site data bases, other areas updated. All info and various versions on zenodo.org/records/2061... @leizarchaeology.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social
New version of the THE MAP is out! 😀 "Expansion of Farming in Western Eurasia, 9600-4000 BCE" v 2026.2 is partly based on georeferenced site data bases, other areas updated. All info and various versions on zenodo.org/records/2061... @leizarchaeology.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social
Polarisierung mit Gewaltanstieg sind typisch für die desintegrativen Phasen von Zyklen. Das sind besonders kritische Situationen, die schnell außer Kontrolle geraten und dann in Rigiditätsfallen enden. 📉 Nicht gut!
Tagesschau Bot@tagesschau.bsky.social · 2mo agoPolitisch motivierte Straftaten erreichen Höchststand #PolitischmotivierteKriminalität #Statistik #Dobrindt
Applied archaeology, written by a non-archaeologist, once again...but certainly an inspiring read! 🌍📉 Sustainability or dystopia? What past patterns tell us about where society is heading www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Sustainability or dystopia? What past patterns tell us about where society is heading
A new book applies principles of environmental tipping points to past societal transformations — and attempts to draw lessons about what the future holds today.
nature.com
Noch ein bischen hin, aber jetzt schon mal der Verweis auf den kommenden Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Jan Esper, @unimainz.bsky.social am @leizarchaeology.bsky.social . "Natürliche Klimazeugen" 🌲🌦️ Rettet das Datum🗓️: 15. Juli 2026, 18:00 st
A news study by @unipotsdam.bsky.social @paleomonrepos.bsky.social & @unileiden.bsky.social now #openaccess: Eemian palaeogenetics demonstrates loss of diversity in modern fallow deer (Dama dama): iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Eemian palaeogenetics demonstrates loss of diversity in modern fallow deer (Dama dama)
Zoology; Phylogenetics; Paleobiology; Paleogenetics
cell.com
🐚 New paper out in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. Limpet shells from prehistoric Franchthi (Greece) show when prehistoric people did what. Large sample sets turn out to reveal social practices that small ones miss. 🧵1/5 🏺 buff.ly/G5mDmsi
Seasonality at prehistoric Franchthi: the use of large sample sets - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
Understanding the seasonality of resource exploitation provides critical insights into past human behaviours, how prehistoric communities structured their subsistence strategies, organised resource…
link.springer.com
Brutal and emboldened: how Nigeria’s bandit crisis spun out of control
Brutal and emboldened: how Nigeria’s bandit crisis spun out of control
Conflicts over land and resources have deepened owing to climate breakdown, deforestation and population growth
theguardian.com
"Eierarsch"-Strategie als demokratische Resilienzhandlung...intern hat das noch geklappt. Unstreitbar ist leider, dass in Zeiten gesellschaftlicher Polarisierung die Mitte schwächer wird. Wie stabil sich nun die demokratische Mitte in der gegenwärtigen Desintegrationsphase hält, wird sich zeigen.
Tagesschau Bot@tagesschau.bsky.social · 2mo agoKubicki ist neuer FDP-Chef #Eilmeldung #FDP #Kubicki
Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America, was founded #OnThisDay in AD 1607. Learn about family history and a genealogical secret kept hidden for centuries there 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 📷 Michael Lavin, Jamestown Rediscovery (Preservation Virginia) 🏺 #Archaeology
