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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik

@dimitrij.bsky.social

archaeology...Neolithic...theory...landscape...animals...movement...psychoanalysis...Lacan...Žižek...Anthropocene https://dimitrij.splet.arnes.si

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik@dimitrij.bsky.social · last mo.

New essay: "Triptych III: The Archive" The archive doesn't store archaeological memory. It produces it and then disappears, so its accumulated decisions present themselves as "archaeology itself." On why the discipline can't see the apparatus it sees through. dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2026/06/29/t...

Triptych III: The Archive

The archive appears, at first, to be the final stage of memory. Memory organises traces; the archive preserves those organisations. Yet this is only half the story. Once memory acquires hard material ...

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik@dimitrij.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A remarkable spectacle… The majoritiy speak clearly, and then,in the labyrinth of task groups, procedural clarifications and administrative mediation, the political content quietly evaporates...

Zena Kamash@zenakamash.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Well... A reminder of Jan vote: Motion A: 67% (486 members) agreed to exclude Israeli institutions (not individuals) from participating in EAA AMs until the end of the genocide in Palestine ends [paraphrased] 1/2 www.e-a-a.org/EAA/News___P...

Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik@dimitrij.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New essay on trace, memory, and archaeology. Memory is not stored in things. It is produced through organisation, reading, and cuts into persistence. On traces, palimpsests, violence, and why archaeology always works in the present. dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2026/01/20/t...

Triptych II: Memory – Feral Methods

Persistence alone, however, is insufficient for memory. If every enduring trace were already memory, memory would be automatic and indiscriminate. Such an account collapses memory into mere duration. Memory requires more than endurance: it requires that traces enter into relations.

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik@dimitrij.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I’ve posted Triptych I: Trace, the first essay in a small triptych. It stays close to material marks and what they become over time. dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2026/01/11/t...

Triptych I: On Trace – Feral Methods

Before it is read, it is not yet a trace. After it is read, it is never just itself again. The trace exists only in the encounter. It becomes a trace only when something enters into relation with it, a gaze, a body, a tool, a question, a method.

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik@dimitrij.bsky.social · 7mo ago

In light of the upcoming EAA special meeting, where the future of the Association is genuinely at stake, I’m sharing the letter I submitted to The European Archaeologist about the current crisis. dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2026/01/09/o...

On the Impossibility of Maintaining Distance – Feral Methods

Archaeology is always already political, because its interpretations of the past shape identities, heritage, and claims to belonging, and can and are mobilised by states, institutions, and communities as tools of power, exclusion, or legitimation. But archaeology is political also because it speaks about the Other in order to sustain itself. It is a collective practice that studies the persistence, fracture, and failure of human ways of living together, while continuously organising, regulating, and disciplining social relations within its own community. How archaeologists live and work together is not external to knowledge production; it is constitutive of it.

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik@dimitrij.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New essay out: Archaeology of the Future. A small reflection on how the world continues long after us, shaped by what we leave behind. dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2025/11/22/a...

Archaeology of the future – Feral Methods

Because archaeology has not finished. The past is turning into the future in front of us. Archaeology happens now, under our feet, in the air, in the oceans, in the cities, in the landfills. Life is constantly turning into remains, into matter that lasts and stays.

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Anthropology.net@anthropology.net · 10mo ago

Massive stone “funnels” found in Slovenia and Italy may be Europe’s oldest hunting megastructures—proof that early societies shaped landscapes through cooperation and ingenuity. #Archaeology #Prehistory #HumanEvolution @pnas.org www.anthropology.net/p/walls-for-...

Walls for the Hunt: Europe’s Forgotten Megastructures and the Rise of Prehistoric Cooperation

Four massive stone traps hidden in the hills of Slovenia and Italy suggest that Europe’s earliest communities engineered landscapes to capture not just animals, but collective purpose.

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Science X / Phys.org@sciencex.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Four newly identified stone megastructures on the Slovenia-Italy border suggest large-scale communal hunting in prehistoric Europe, indicating complex social organization and advanced landscape management. doi.org/g96x5w

Discovery of four stone megastructures could change our view of prehistoric societies

Scientists have discovered evidence of stone megastructures on the Karst Plateau on the border of Slovenia and Italy that were most likely built before the Late Bronze Age.

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik@dimitrij.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚨 New paper out today in PNAS! We report the discovery of prehistoric hunting megastructures on the Karst Plateau (Slovenia/Italy) – several-kilometre-long dry-stone systems used to trap wild herds doi.org/10.1073/pnas....

Prehistoric hunting megastructures in the Adriatic hinterland | PNAS

Airborne laser scanning survey of the Karst Plateau in the Adriatic hinterland has revealed four monumental dry-stone structures, characterized by ...

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik@dimitrij.bsky.social · 10mo ago

What is it like to be a buzzard? This essay is about looking up, and being looked at in return; about sharing a sky with another species, and wondering what it means to live in radical symmetry with it. dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2025/06/18/w...

What Is It Like to Be a Buzzard? – Feral Methods

On a slope above our house lives a buzzard. Her sharp cries shake me out of the current of human things I am caught in; and when I look up at the sky, I see her circling overhead. The question that rises is not new, but I want to ask it again, not what it is like to be a bat, but what it is like to be a buzzard.

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