Florian Cousseau
@flocousseau.bsky.social
Post Doctoral Research Associate in Prehistory | Durham University | Neolithic Europe | Megalithic Architecture
A couple of discoveries on our last day on site.
Dig diary – we thought it was all over…it is now
A couple of discoveries on our last day on site.
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Drone's eye view of Structure Forty-Four this afternoon.
Diary extra – Structure Forty-Four from above
Drone's eye view of Structure Forty-Four this afternoon.
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Another bright, busy day saw new orthostats emerge within the circular anomaly, continued rubble removal along the trench edge, fresh planning and sampling — plus a fleeting false alarm over a “stone axe.”
Dig diary – another slice of the anomaly and the axe that wasn’t
Another bright, busy day saw new orthostats emerge within the circular anomaly, continued rubble removal along the trench edge, fresh planning and sampling — plus a fleeting false alarm over a “stone axe.”
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A stone circle? A circular building? I can’t wait to learn what Ness of Brodgar team and Time Team will discover this summer.
Ness of Brodgar@nessofbrodgar.bsky.social · last mo.We’re back on site tomorrow to investigate an intriguing circular feature revealed by the Time Team ground-penetrating radar (GPR) survey in July 2025.
Excellent news!
Cambridge University Press - Archaeology@cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org · 3mo ago📣 @antiquity.ac.uk is flipping to #openaccess for research content! ✅ All research content published in the journal from January 2027 will be permanently and freely available to read, download and share around the world 🌍. Find out more! 🔗 https://cup.org/4cvNjZj #archaeology #SAA2026SFO
Reminder that the launch for the upcoming special issue on Kinship trouble in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal will be held next Tuesday (see post below for link to sign up). The issue itself will be published open access itself on the 14th before we launch. Hope you can come and join us!
Penny Bickle@pennybickle.bsky.social · 5mo agoTo celebrate our upcoming issue on "Kinship Trouble" in the Cambridge Archaeological journal, we're hosting a virtual launch on publication day; 14th April, 4pm-6pm UK time. The event is co-hosted by the Royal Anthropological Institute and AGE. To join, register here: therai.org.uk/events/cambr...
🚨L'AFAG lance son prix annuel destiné à récompenser un mémoire de Master de qualité dans le domaine de l’archéogéographie! 🏆🥇👨🎓👩🎓 Découvrez l'appel à candidature 👉 archeogeo.hypotheses.org/6266 ...et le règlement du prix 👉https://archeogeo.hypotheses.org/6259
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 La synthèse sur le Paris médiéval que l'on attendait, Hélène Noizet l'a fait et brillamment ! « Une nouvelle référence pour l’archéogéographie urbaine et l’histoire médiévale : à propos du livre Parcelles d’histoire. Paris au Moyen Âge d’Hélène Noizet » : archeogeo.hypotheses.org/6212
I can't wait to present our work on Central Brittany in Edinburgh. Thank you @guillaume-robin.bsky.social for the invitation.
Edinburgh Archaeology@edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 6mo ago🇫🇷 Thursday’s Research Seminar 12/2/26 @16:15 in the Meadows LT will be given by Dr Florian Cousseau (Durham) “Central #Brittany in the Middle #Neolithic: A Landscape Far from Empty” 🔗https://hca.ed.ac.uk/news-events/events/research-seminars/archaeology-seminars @hcaatedinburgh #edinarch #archaeology
Congratulations Stasa for this award about Goasseac’h!
Société d'Anthropologie de Paris (SAP)@sapanthropologie.bsky.social · 6mo agoLe prix du poster est descerné à Anastasia Brančič et al. "Between stone and ash: Combined method study of Middle Neolithic (4500-3500 BC) cremation and funerary practices in Dolmen A, cairn of Goasseac’h, Brittany, France"
A few hundred metres from the Goasseac'h cairn, which I excavate every year, a very well-preserved Bronze Age settlement has been excavated over the last two years by INRAP. Unfortunately, except for two pits, there is no feature directly associated with the Middle Neolithic period.
Inrap@inrap.fr · 10mo agoÀ Carhaix-Plouguer (Finistère), une fouille archéologique révèle plus de 6 000 ans d’histoire humaine, du Néolithique à l’Antiquité. En savoir plus 👉 www.inrap.fr/plus-de-six-...
C'est le lundi de la rentrée, c'est double ration de violence ! 🪓 À Achenheim, 6 squelettes fracturés et des trophées de guerre révèlent un massacre collectif il y a 6 200 ans. Une nouvelle étude montre que les victimes sont des prisonniers de guerre venus d'ailleurs. Explications en GIF ⬇️
L'Alsace au néolithique : massacres de prisonniers et trophées de guerre
À Achenheim, en Alsace, six squelettes fracturés et des trophées de guerre révèlent un massacre collectif il y a 6 200 ans. Une nouvelle étude révèle grâce à des analyses isotopiques que les victimes ...
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Postdoc Job! Come and work with me in Durham, and a bunch of @sse1k.bsky.social heroes in Venice and Basel, doing agent-based modelling of socio-environmental systems in the Ancient Mediterranean... durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Archaeology and Agent-Based Modelling
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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It's out! 😀 THE MAP: EXPANSION OF FARMING IN WESTERN EURASIA, 9600-4000 BCE 2025.1 Regional updates, particularly 🇺🇦. Colour and greyscale resolutions, and much asked for colour code and legend. @barbarahorejs.bsky.social @leizarchaeology.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social zenodo.org/records/1688...
Some ethnoarchaeological excitement is coming your way! This upcoming volume is the first book dedicated to Toraja rock-cut tombs, providing a detailed overview of and fresh insights into this unique burial tradition. Learn more ➡ bit.ly/3HvRbg9
À quoi ça sert l'archéologie, et pourquoi dérange-t-elle ? Réponse à partir du vendredi 8 août à 19h sur @mediapart.fr pour une série d'émissions spéciales de "L'échappée" avec les historiens Jean-Paul Demoule, Dominique Garcia et Alain Schnapp @inrap.fr @inha.fr 👉 blogs.mediapart.fr/edwy-plenel/...
A new PCI-friendly journal in #Archaeology where you can submit your paper after our free and transparent evaluation! They will answer rapidly (<5 days) if they will accept it with minor modifications, with further peer review, or if they are not interested. 🏺 www.openscience.fr/Archeologie-...
Who was NG10 and what was the world they lived in? The sister paper to our CAJ paper is now out in Antiquity and the cover image no less! Working on these papers with this group, has been one of the richest academic experiences I have had in my career. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The ‘king’ of Newgrange? A critical analysis of a Neolithic petrous fragment from the passage tomb chamber | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
The ‘king’ of Newgrange? A critical analysis of a Neolithic petrous fragment from the passage tomb chamber - Volume 99 Issue 405
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A new batch of videos uploaded in a playlist of the Youtube channel of @collegedefrance.bsky.social including five presentations by members of our lab: Bruno Maureille, Jacques Jaubert, Maïté Rivollat, and 2 presentations by Bruno Boulestin! youtube.com/playlist?lis... #realarchaeology 🧪🏺
📣 Bonne nouvelle pour la recherche archéologique française à l'étranger ! L’amendement n°1429, proposé par le Rassemblement National dans le cadre de la loi de simplification de la vie économique, a été retiré ! ❌📄
L'article 15bis C vient d'être supprimé par adoption de l'amendement 2295.
Journée de grève qui s’annonce très suivie pour les archéologues ! Pas pour de meilleurs salaires, ni de meilleures conditions, non, pour que les vestiges archéologiques continuent à être étudiés, sauvegardés, car c’est notre rôle commun vis à vis du patrimoine. Rdv à République à Midi !
"Tout changement amènerait des risques" : les archéologues de l'Inrap en grève jeudi pour défendre les fouilles préventives
Un amendement introduit dans la loi de simplification actuellement à l'Assemblée nationale remet en cause le système des fouilles préventives. Le président de l'Institut national de recherches archéol...
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🚩For our international colleagues, an update on the very problematic situation of #archaeology in #France. The “Simplification of Economic Life” bill poses the most serious threat to #Frencharchaeology in two decades.
🔊🔊 Je ne pourrai malheureusement pas participer à la manifestation aujourd'hui, mais je suis de tout cœur avec mes collègues qui vont défendre à Paris l'archéologie française. Cet amendement ne doit pas casser l'un des plus beaux dispositifs d'archéologie préventive au monde !
@cgt-culture.bsky.social · last yr.Archéologie : communiqué de presse de l’intersyndicale SGPA-CGT / FSU Culture / SUD Culture / CNT Manifestation demain 12h place de la République en direction du ministère de la Culture, départ à 13h www.cgt-culture.fr/archeologie-...
The UHI Archaeology Institute has published a report of the 1985 re-excavation of the Vinquoy Hill chambered cairn, dedicating it to the late Jacqui Marwick, the archaeologist who led the operation. #archaeology #Orkney #Neolithic
New ORCA report details 1985 Vinquoy excavation for the first time
The UHI Archaeology Institute has published a report of the 1985 re-excavation of the Vinquoy Hill chambered cairn, dedicating it to the late Jacqui Marwick, the archaeologist who led the operation.
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In the Middle Neolithic of Ireland's Boyne Valley, passage graves were superseded by more open circular enclosures. Circular 'proto-henge' monuments developed in southern Britain shortly after. Were they inspired by interaction across the Irish Sea? 🏺 Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
