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

A minitature "Megalithic tomb" build out of pebbles at an excavation.
Foto: me

Harry Fokkens@harryfokkens.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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

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Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr in der Denkmalpflege

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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/

Photo by https://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. 😶

Luc Amkreutz@prehistoryrmo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Fascinating results on genetics of the Neolithic in the Netherlands👇

PAPER alert! With colleagues from ao@unileiden.bsky.social @leidenarchaeo.bsky.social @rmoudheden.bsky.social we present genomic data from 112 individuals (44 new) between 8500-1700BCE in the lower Rhine Meuse area with long hunter gatherer ancestry. Four takeaway points bsky.app/profile/natu...

Ulli Lust@ullilust.literatur.social.ap.brid.gy · 6mo ago

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 🏺

„Wir Kinder der Liebe“ - Sachcomic erscienen im Focus 02/2026. Teil 8 von 12, #wirkinderderliebe

PCI Archaeology@pciarchaeology.bsky.social · 7mo ago

@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!

1/3 New recommendation: Nikolai Paukkonen @npkk.bsky.social (2025). What You Don’t See is What You Don’t Get. Problems of Effortless Photorealism in Archaeological Field Documentation. V2 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... @helsinki.fi

Fig. 1 from the preprint: Increase of photogrammetry use in Finnish archaeological fieldwork reports (Paukkonen, 2024).

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...

HESCOR - Human & Earth System Coupled Research@hescor.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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 🏺

Screenshot from www.hescor-project.com. Examples of contact networks for younger LBK phases. The size of each circle (node) shows its degree — how many connections it has to other places. A higher degree means more links and more contact; a lower degree means fewer connections.

📢 New Blog Post How can a rock from hundreds of kilometers away become a stone tool? Dr. Johanna Hilpert explains how HESCOR researchers study prehistoric #networks of interaction and #exchange 🌐🤝 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/f0t5G #Magdalenian #LBK #Modelling

Antiquity Journal@antiquity.ac.uk · 7mo ago

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

Archaeologists uncover evidence for interaction between the first Neolithic farmers and Mesolithic foragers in Central Europe, indicating a level of technology transfer never-before observed. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #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 🏺

Photo of the Iron age farmstead in Titz covered in light snow.

BoCAS@bocas-news.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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

Our first talk in the new year takes us into WWII archaeology: Jörg Dietsche and Julian Weller present the work of the AG Luftkriegsgeschichte Rhein/Mosel e.V. This Friday, 4PM in HS 2 or get in touch for the Zoom link!

Poster showing a photo of the AG Luftkriegsgeschichte Rhein/Mosel e.V. team in the field, lecture title Recovery and identification of WWII aircraft wreckages - insights into the work of the AG Luftkriegsgeschichte Rhein/Mosel e.V. and place/date of talk, logos of VolkswagenStiftung, BoCAS and Uni Bonn