Gerrit Dusseldorp 🟥
@dussel.bsky.social
Does Pleistocene Archaeology @ Leiden University https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/gerrit-dusseldorp#tab-1 Cricket | Natural history
Weird headline. We have already found the alternative: Stop emitting CO2, CH4 etc and stop climate change.
Nature@nature.com · 2w agoCooling buildings accounts for nearly 10% of electricity use globally. That is expected to grow as heatwaves become more frequent, intense and long-lasting go.nature.com/4vN3Qym
📰 Could the re-assessment of spear-throwers from northern Chile "rewrite the history of ancient Andean hunters"? 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via The Greek Reporter greekreporter.com/2026/07/16/o...
5,000-Year-Old Spear-Throwers Rewrite the History of Ancient Andean Hunters - GreekReporter.com
Archaeologists uncovered the Andes' oldest known spear-throwers on Chile's Atacama coast from about 5,000 years ago.
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It’s out. aDNA analysis reveals that well-known Upton Lovell Early Bronze Age metalworker burial was that of a woman: www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Ancient DNA analysis reveals Wiltshire’s Upton Lovell Shaman was a woman
Exclusive: Analysis offers ‘smoking gun evidence’ that overturns previous assumption that bronze age individual was male
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As someone in this picture I find it a little odd that @natureportfolio.nature.com chose this image to illustrate the point. We were very careful when choosing a slogan for our signs that it be scientificly defenceable. "Science says New Oil & Gas = Death" is a plain statement of fact 🧵
Had to! "So we sailed on to the sun 'Til we found a sea of green" 🎵🎼🎶
The first molecular evidence of Homo naledi from at least 20 individuals shows that none are male. I've taken a deep dive into how the paleoproteomics works, what it says about naledi relationships, and why this result is less surprising than it sounds. www.johnhawks.net/p/the-first-...
The first molecular data from Homo naledi
Protein data from the Rising Star cave system show the known sample of this species is entirely female.
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#ItsAllAboutTheHistory News "The sale is not just about the value of the ring; it is about the history behind it and the privilege of being the person who helped bring an important piece of the past back into the public eye*," Jones said *Albeit temporarily. The ring went to an unnamed phone bid.
'Once in a lifetime' ring found in Cotswolds sells for thousands
The metal detectorist who found the ring says the sale is "beyond anything he could have imagined".
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I applaud Google´s priorities! Rooting for the Dutch team this weekend against Bangladesh!
~20,000 years ago, South African societies were producing microlithic stone tools in quartz. To understand how they reliably managed this in such a hard to work material, we conducted knapping experiments. They were just published @sidestone.bsky.social www.researchgate.net/publication/... 🏺
(PDF) The role of bipolar technology on quartz in the Robberg of Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter (South Africa)
PDF | We identify various bladelet production strategies, mainly on quartz, in the early Later Stone Age (LSA) and Robberg layers at Umhlatuzana Rock... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...
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Metal detecting is not just problematic in the Netherlands. I think we should address the myth of the detectorist as a citizen scientist. Citizen science is about cooperation and co-creation. Here, the best-case scenario is reporting finds after the fact, worst-case: illegal trade in antiquities.
Robin Peters@robinpeters85.bsky.social · 2mo agoGuter Artikel in der @zeit.de zur Raubgräberei mit Metallsonden. #Archäologie 🏺 www.zeit.de/2026/20/raub...
People really shouldn’t blame students for responding to loans in the way that they do, or for thinking that university is about skills training. They’ve been getting that message their entire life.
Ik had wat gedachtes bij die affaire in Limburg rond het veronderstelde graf van D'Artagnan: de rol van andere archeologen, de rol van de pers, en de toekomst van de #archeologie. mainzerbeobachter.com/2026/05/30/d...
D'Artagnan, archeologie en de waakhond - Mainzer Beobachter
De rel rond het mogelijke graf van D'Artagnan zou minder groot zijn geweest als journalisten hadden gevraagd waarom er nog geen rapport lag.
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Vrouwen eerst www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/... Giftartikel 🍀❤️🍀 @veramoreijn.bsky.social
Column | Vrouwen eerst
Binnenkort kan ik in Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland niet meer naar de wc. Althans, het kan natuurlijk wel, maar niet legaal. Overigens niet zo erg voor mij persoonlijk, zo lang het hier in Nederlan...
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Om 10u00 @ovt-vpro.bsky.social Komt een Neanderthaler bij de tandarts met Gerrit Dusseldorp, archeoloog @dussel.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social #paleontologie www.vpro.nl/ovt/artikele...
Komt een Neanderthaler bij de tandarts
Een kies uit Siberië toont krassporen van een stenen tandartswerktuig: 50.000 jaar geleden al deden Neanderthalers aan tandheelkunde.
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The true "Art of the Deal"! (Sorry, couldn't help myself)
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery@dovermuseum.bsky.social · 3mo ago(1/8) Who is Deal Man? Deal Man is an Iron Age carved chalk figurine on display at Dover Museum. He was discovered in 1984 during excavations by the #Dover Archaeological Group ahead of construction work on a site adjacent to St Richards Road in, #Deal.
#ItsAboutTheHistory News Detectorists welcome the auction of elements of the Hambleden Hoard of medieval coins at Spinks, dispersing the "internationally important" find for private gain. (See previous post about how the French government deals with archaeological finds collected without permits.)
My new #UrbanPrehistory blog post reporting on the horrible fate of the Bogleys Stone of Fife - Barn Storm. This contains a trigger warning for anyone who thinks our heritage - and megaliths - matter. With thanks to Sam McKeand theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/b...
Barn Storm
It is not often I get angry, but a recent encounter with a standing stone has really annoyed – and shocked me. I am pretty used to prehistory being badly treated, and indeed a whole chapter o…
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Rita Verdonk-coaching 1. Walgelijke, strafbare dingen zeggen 2. De ophefmachine even laten draaien 3. Ingaan op uitnodigingen die altijd weer komen & doen alsof je ‘t anders had bedoeld Redacties laten zich bespelen door extreemrechts Jetten, treed op tegen Gidi M. en sluit samenwerking uit! FFS.
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MediocreMigrant@seadanourhussen.bsky.social · 3mo agoUpdate: Markuszio mag nu bij Sven Cock zeggen wat hij bedoelt met 'maximaal geweld'. Hij zegt (surprise) dat hij de marechaussee bedoelde. En dat 'waar ze vandaan komen' niet Palestina/Israël, maar Griekenland is. Ondertussen wordt zijn gore soundbite steeds herhaald: geweld, geweld, geweld.
A hominin presence here ~ 242 Kya Evolving entanglements with highland southern Africa: Site formation, initial chronology, and occupational pulsing during the Middle Pleistocene at Likonong Shelter, Lesotho🏺🧪 K. Pazan, @robertpatalano.bsky.social et al link.springer.com/article/10.1...
It is with deep sadness that Dr Marianne Moen and I resigned our positions as Editor-in-Chief and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Archaeology this morning. What follows is the letter we sent to the EAA's executive board, outlining the reasons for our resignation 1/n
Zena Kamash@zenakamash.bsky.social · 3mo agoWell... 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...
Renewable energy remains more cost effective for climate and health outcomes than direct air capture except under highly optimistic technology improvements, according to a study in Communications Sustainability. go.nature.com/3P2suvJ 🧪
This is now what passes for “science” from the BBC. Hackneyed cliches, faux mystery, factually incorrect statements. 1. Archaeologists are, once again, “baffled” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mystery of Welsh medieval cemetery deepens
Skeletons and artefacts unearthed from the site near Cardiff Airport are baffling archaeologists.
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Katerina gave a talk yesterday in Leiden as part of the “Experimental Archaeology Days”! ✨ She presented the recently published paper on the oldest handheld tools from Marathousa 1 🪵🔍- truly exciting work! What a wonderful symposium! 🙌🎉 @katharv.bsky.social #Archaeology #academia #science 🏺
A study in Nature Communications shows that hominins were consistently and specifically procuring a single kind of raw material to make stone tools at the South African site of Jojosi between 220 and 110 thousand years ago. go.nature.com/4cyKgiX 🏺🧪
📰 Did #Neanderthals hunt European pond turtles for their shells? 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @smithsonianmag.bsky.social www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
Turtles May Have Been Tasty Snacks for Neanderthals 125,000 Years Ago. But Their Shells Were Probably the Real Prize
New research based on fragments discovered at the Neumark-Nord site in Germany suggests Neanderthals may have transformed the shells into tools
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Hooray! Our @britishacademy.bsky.social Prehistoric Policies project now has a website 👇👇👇👇. PP examines how & why contemporary environmental policy makes claims about the deep time human past, and why that matters!
Ben Elliott@archsoundscapes.bsky.social · 4mo agoPrehistoric Policies now has its own corner of the internet to call home! Here you can find an overview of the project, information on the researchers involved, and details of our upcoming events. Stand by for a major announcement from us on Monday! www.uhi.ac.uk/en/archaeolo...
An inscription from a temple to Serapis in York, possibly built during the stay of the emperor Septimius Severus and family c.208-211 CE. The northern-most attested temple to an Egyptian god, the York temple may have also housed shrines to Isis, Harpocrates and Anubis. 🏺 #AncientBluesky #Egyptology
