Harry Fokkens
@harryfokkens.bsky.social
Em. Professor of European Prehistory at Leiden Universty.
Interested in the cultural transformations in the 3rd Millennium BCE
Interested in the cultural transformations in the 3rd Millennium BCE
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Three large coins hoards have been discovered in an ancient Roman residential block in Senon, northeastern France.
Photo credit Simon Ritz/Inrap www.inrap.fr/un-quartier-...
Photo credit Simon Ritz/Inrap www.inrap.fr/un-quartier-...
November 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Three large coins hoards have been discovered in an ancient Roman residential block in Senon, northeastern France.
Photo credit Simon Ritz/Inrap www.inrap.fr/un-quartier-...
Photo credit Simon Ritz/Inrap www.inrap.fr/un-quartier-...
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wat zijn de consequenties? www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
NRC rectificeert berichtgeving rondom informateur Wijers
Beste lezer, Deze week zijn er nieuwe feiten bekend geworden over onze berichtgeving over informateur Hans Wijers. Na nader intern onderzoek moeten we constateren dat we bij het voorleggen van zijn ve...
www.nrc.nl
November 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
wat zijn de consequenties? www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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www.anatolianarchaeology.net/an-amphithea...
Archaeologists have now exposed the entire floor, hewn directly into the limestone, alongside multiple human heads carved into the walls and several seated human statues positioned around the interior
Archaeologists have now exposed the entire floor, hewn directly into the limestone, alongside multiple human heads carved into the walls and several seated human statues positioned around the interior
An amphitheater-like Neolithic structure has been uncovered at Karahantepe in southeastern Türkiye - Anatolian Archaeology
A newly uncovered amphitheater-like structure at Karahantepe reveals how early Neolithic communities gathered, performed
www.anatolianarchaeology.net
November 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
www.anatolianarchaeology.net/an-amphithea...
Archaeologists have now exposed the entire floor, hewn directly into the limestone, alongside multiple human heads carved into the walls and several seated human statues positioned around the interior
Archaeologists have now exposed the entire floor, hewn directly into the limestone, alongside multiple human heads carved into the walls and several seated human statues positioned around the interior
Great find this.
What what I really like is the framing of this picture: a bunch of men gape at weapons and horse gear with at back a picture of a group of women laughing out loud😭
What what I really like is the framing of this picture: a bunch of men gape at weapons and horse gear with at back a picture of a group of women laughing out loud😭
#FindsFriday Transfixed by the Llyn Cerrig Bach votive assemblage 🥰 in St Fagans Museum on Tuesday in the expert hands of Adam Gwilt & @archaedelle.bsky.social, visiting with @richardosgood.bsky.social & the Op Nightingale team 👌
A great display mirroring deposition in the lake waters
📷 Dr Adelle
A great display mirroring deposition in the lake waters
📷 Dr Adelle
November 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Great find this.
What what I really like is the framing of this picture: a bunch of men gape at weapons and horse gear with at back a picture of a group of women laughing out loud😭
What what I really like is the framing of this picture: a bunch of men gape at weapons and horse gear with at back a picture of a group of women laughing out loud😭
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New report on how people engage with archaeology is out - Trowel and Error: A Public User Needs Survey. Lots to digest but key conclusions are: 1) archaeologists risk undervaluing and hiding ourselves, our practices and the role we play in society... www.archaeologyuk.org/our-work/tro...
Trowel and Error
A Public User Needs Survey for Archaeology
www.archaeologyuk.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
New report on how people engage with archaeology is out - Trowel and Error: A Public User Needs Survey. Lots to digest but key conclusions are: 1) archaeologists risk undervaluing and hiding ourselves, our practices and the role we play in society... www.archaeologyuk.org/our-work/tro...
Interesting. A doorway into the 'forest' but no fence😟
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Interesting. A doorway into the 'forest' but no fence😟
stunning!!
NEW Have archaeologists identified the largest nucleated settlement in prehistoric Ireland and Britain? Survey at Brusselstown Ring, one of the largest hillforts in Ireland, found evidence for potentially hundreds of occupied roundhouses!
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
November 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
stunning!!
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Cambridge’s #Archaeology journals are publishing an increasing amount of #openaccess (OA) #research. Read the latest articles here: ▶️ https://cup.org/3We1oBR
@antiquity.ac.uk @saa-aap.bsky.social @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
@antiquity.ac.uk @saa-aap.bsky.social @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Cambridge’s #Archaeology journals are publishing an increasing amount of #openaccess (OA) #research. Read the latest articles here: ▶️ https://cup.org/3We1oBR
@antiquity.ac.uk @saa-aap.bsky.social @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
@antiquity.ac.uk @saa-aap.bsky.social @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
Thourough methodology and convincing argumentation, it seems to me. Also an interesting interpretation with reference to Bradleys 1998 The significance of monuments.
New article in IA69 by Vince Gaffney and colleagues on the Neolithic pit structure at #Durrington Walls Henge includes new #OSL dates and #sedaDNA environmental studies. Results indicate a cohesive pit structure at a massive scale.
doi.org/10.11141/ia....
doi.org/10.11141/ia....
The Perils of Pits: further research at Durrington Walls henge (2021–2025)
In 2020, a series of large features were identified, set within two arc-like structures, to the north and south of Durrington Walls henge (Gaffney et al. 2020). Based on geophysical survey and borehol...
intarch.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Thourough methodology and convincing argumentation, it seems to me. Also an interesting interpretation with reference to Bradleys 1998 The significance of monuments.
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Despite my insomnia, I'm very happy to share our preprint: a multi-disciplinary assessment of a sheep mass mortality event from ~18th century France. We report the first ancient sheeppox virus (think smallpox) and the Taenia hydatigena (nasty roundworm) genomes.
#aDNA
#aDNA
Evidence of sheeppox in 17th-19th century France: a multi-disciplinary investigation of a sheep mass mortality assemblage
Epizootic outbreaks posed major threats to food security, economic stability, and animal welfare in past communities. While these events and their impacts are well documented in historical records, ve...
www.biorxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Despite my insomnia, I'm very happy to share our preprint: a multi-disciplinary assessment of a sheep mass mortality event from ~18th century France. We report the first ancient sheeppox virus (think smallpox) and the Taenia hydatigena (nasty roundworm) genomes.
#aDNA
#aDNA
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Recent underwater 3D scanning of the submerged Tsuzuraozaki lakebed site in Shiga prefecture captures images of a Jomon period pot that likely dates back to around 10,000 years ago. 🏺 #Japan #archaeology #3D #photogrammetry #Jomon
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
3-D Lake Biwako scan reveals 10,000-year-old pottery vessel | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
OTSU—A nearly intact pottery vessel believed to be over 10,000 years old was discovered near the Tsuzuraozaki underwater ruins in Lake Biwako, the Shiga prefectural government said Nov. 25.
www.asahi.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Recent underwater 3D scanning of the submerged Tsuzuraozaki lakebed site in Shiga prefecture captures images of a Jomon period pot that likely dates back to around 10,000 years ago. 🏺 #Japan #archaeology #3D #photogrammetry #Jomon
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
What a despickable and cowardly act of the @BBC
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
What a despickable and cowardly act of the @BBC
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Archaeologists discover that Neanderthals ate the women and children first. 🧪🏺
Neanderthals cannibalized 'outsider' women and children 45,000 years ago at cave in Belgium
Fragmented Neanderthal bones discovered in a cave in Belgium show that one group cannibalized the women and children of another group.
www.livescience.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Archaeologists discover that Neanderthals ate the women and children first. 🧪🏺
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🐺 Wolves in dog's clothing 🐺
Our latest in @pnas.org uncovers a surprise three to five thousand years ago: 2 canids in human contexts on a tiny island in the middle of the Baltic Sea, that ate marine food—but had 100% gray wolf ancestry.
Where they tame wolves, or even an incipient domestication?
Our latest in @pnas.org uncovers a surprise three to five thousand years ago: 2 canids in human contexts on a tiny island in the middle of the Baltic Sea, that ate marine food—but had 100% gray wolf ancestry.
Where they tame wolves, or even an incipient domestication?
November 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
🐺 Wolves in dog's clothing 🐺
Our latest in @pnas.org uncovers a surprise three to five thousand years ago: 2 canids in human contexts on a tiny island in the middle of the Baltic Sea, that ate marine food—but had 100% gray wolf ancestry.
Where they tame wolves, or even an incipient domestication?
Our latest in @pnas.org uncovers a surprise three to five thousand years ago: 2 canids in human contexts on a tiny island in the middle of the Baltic Sea, that ate marine food—but had 100% gray wolf ancestry.
Where they tame wolves, or even an incipient domestication?
One of the Carrowkeel cairns for #tombTuesday last week.
The climb up and the views around make this monument to a great experience.
The climb up and the views around make this monument to a great experience.
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
One of the Carrowkeel cairns for #tombTuesday last week.
The climb up and the views around make this monument to a great experience.
The climb up and the views around make this monument to a great experience.
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Ooh, ooh:
New open access publication: Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place: Was Patrilocality the Dominant Mode of Postmarital Residence across Later European Prehistory? Current Anthropology.
Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place : Was Patrilocality the Dominant Mode of Postmarital Residence across Later European Prehistory? | Current Anthropology
This paper questions whether forms of female mobility and their relation to kinship were uniform throughout later European prehistory. Patrilocality has become the primary way in which sex-based diffe...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Ooh, ooh:
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According to Baumgartel, the emerging picture is one of a community defined not by social ranks but by collective purpose. “We believe these were egalitarian hunter-gatherers,” she notes. “There is no archaeological indication of chiefs directing their labor.”
arkeonews.net/radical-new-...
According to Baumgartel, the emerging picture is one of a community defined not by social ranks but by collective purpose. “We believe these were egalitarian hunter-gatherers,” she notes. “There is no archaeological indication of chiefs directing their labor.”
arkeonews.net/radical-new-...
Radical New Theory Transforms a 3,500-Year-Old North American Mystery - Arkeonews
New research reveals Poverty Point’s 3,500-year-old earthworks were built by egalitarian hunter-gatherers for ritual purposes, not a
arkeonews.net
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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According to Baumgartel, the emerging picture is one of a community defined not by social ranks but by collective purpose. “We believe these were egalitarian hunter-gatherers,” she notes. “There is no archaeological indication of chiefs directing their labor.”
arkeonews.net/radical-new-...
According to Baumgartel, the emerging picture is one of a community defined not by social ranks but by collective purpose. “We believe these were egalitarian hunter-gatherers,” she notes. “There is no archaeological indication of chiefs directing their labor.”
arkeonews.net/radical-new-...
Sad indeed.
Also this is sad and lazy:
".......based on a paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research: .........and written as a collaboration between ChatGPT and an East Anglia Bylines editor."
Also this is sad and lazy:
".......based on a paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research: .........and written as a collaboration between ChatGPT and an East Anglia Bylines editor."
The sad thing is that it was all so incredibly obvious this would be the outcome.
Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study explains it:
a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study explains it:
a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Sad indeed.
Also this is sad and lazy:
".......based on a paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research: .........and written as a collaboration between ChatGPT and an East Anglia Bylines editor."
Also this is sad and lazy:
".......based on a paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research: .........and written as a collaboration between ChatGPT and an East Anglia Bylines editor."
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THREAD: Delighted that Peterborough Museum has received £250k, to further explore the amazing Bronze Age assemblage from Must Farm. One of my favourite projects of the past few years was creating replicas of the pots, to better understand the technology behind them 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Peterborough Museum gets £250k for Bronze Age project
The two-year initiative will explore the discoveries made at Must Farm in Whittlesey.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
THREAD: Delighted that Peterborough Museum has received £250k, to further explore the amazing Bronze Age assemblage from Must Farm. One of my favourite projects of the past few years was creating replicas of the pots, to better understand the technology behind them 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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When I wrote about the ancient Zanclean megaflood filling the Mediterranean in as little as 12-18 months (!), it was wistfully.
I'm English. Lovely place, England, but Big Geological Drama? None of that round 'ere, sadly.
Imagine my delight at what geophysicists found in the English Channel.
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I'm English. Lovely place, England, but Big Geological Drama? None of that round 'ere, sadly.
Imagine my delight at what geophysicists found in the English Channel.
1/
November 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
When I wrote about the ancient Zanclean megaflood filling the Mediterranean in as little as 12-18 months (!), it was wistfully.
I'm English. Lovely place, England, but Big Geological Drama? None of that round 'ere, sadly.
Imagine my delight at what geophysicists found in the English Channel.
1/
I'm English. Lovely place, England, but Big Geological Drama? None of that round 'ere, sadly.
Imagine my delight at what geophysicists found in the English Channel.
1/