Lasse Lukas P Herskind
@ll-herskind.bsky.social
Archaeology PhD fellow @ AarhusUni
"Mesolithic Memes Reanalysed (MESMERYSE) - computational approaches to Mesolithic art of South Scandinavia and beyond"
Linguistics // Semiotics // Aesthetics
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lasse-Lukas-Herskind
"Mesolithic Memes Reanalysed (MESMERYSE) - computational approaches to Mesolithic art of South Scandinavia and beyond"
Linguistics // Semiotics // Aesthetics
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lasse-Lukas-Herskind
Reposted by Lasse Lukas P Herskind
Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵
Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
September 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵
Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Back 🏡 again from #MESO2025 in Ferrara, Italy, where I finally got to meet the faces of the field.
A Mesolithic-specific week like this only comes along every 5yrs, so I appreciated every minute of it. Now it's back to the Paternity bubble 🫧🌷
A Mesolithic-specific week like this only comes along every 5yrs, so I appreciated every minute of it. Now it's back to the Paternity bubble 🫧🌷
September 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Back 🏡 again from #MESO2025 in Ferrara, Italy, where I finally got to meet the faces of the field.
A Mesolithic-specific week like this only comes along every 5yrs, so I appreciated every minute of it. Now it's back to the Paternity bubble 🫧🌷
A Mesolithic-specific week like this only comes along every 5yrs, so I appreciated every minute of it. Now it's back to the Paternity bubble 🫧🌷
This aurochs radius mattock-head was found 100years ago 🎉
Brøndsted 1934: "... the three long lines with the transverse zigzag is an unusually precise and well-executed motif for Mesolithic ornamentation, demonstrating that the art of this period was capable of deliberately stylised geometrisation"
Brøndsted 1934: "... the three long lines with the transverse zigzag is an unusually precise and well-executed motif for Mesolithic ornamentation, demonstrating that the art of this period was capable of deliberately stylised geometrisation"
July 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
This aurochs radius mattock-head was found 100years ago 🎉
Brøndsted 1934: "... the three long lines with the transverse zigzag is an unusually precise and well-executed motif for Mesolithic ornamentation, demonstrating that the art of this period was capable of deliberately stylised geometrisation"
Brøndsted 1934: "... the three long lines with the transverse zigzag is an unusually precise and well-executed motif for Mesolithic ornamentation, demonstrating that the art of this period was capable of deliberately stylised geometrisation"
"Transgressional phases, between 10.000-7.000 BP, may have caused a certain amount of inconvenience!"
June 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"Transgressional phases, between 10.000-7.000 BP, may have caused a certain amount of inconvenience!"
Oi, I won an Early Career Researcher award for this neat paper doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
(go read it plz❤️)
Thanks a lot to SAS & JAS!
lnkd.in/ee37g7-r
(go read it plz❤️)
Thanks a lot to SAS & JAS!
lnkd.in/ee37g7-r
The results of the 𝗝𝗔𝗦 / 𝗦𝗔𝗦 𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 are out, and we are excited to announce the winner for 2024 is Lasse Lukas Herskind from Aarhus University! | The Society for Archaeological S...
The results of the 𝗝𝗔𝗦 / 𝗦𝗔𝗦 𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 are out, and we are excited to announce the winner for 2024 is Lasse Lukas Herskind from Aarhus University!
Lasse received the award for his ...
lnkd.in
June 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Oi, I won an Early Career Researcher award for this neat paper doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
(go read it plz❤️)
Thanks a lot to SAS & JAS!
lnkd.in/ee37g7-r
(go read it plz❤️)
Thanks a lot to SAS & JAS!
lnkd.in/ee37g7-r
So long and tschüss to Grabow, the iconic Late Palaeolithic amber workshop. Great campaign on all parameters, run by top-notch @au.dk @auarcher.bsky.social students 🚀
May 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
So long and tschüss to Grabow, the iconic Late Palaeolithic amber workshop. Great campaign on all parameters, run by top-notch @au.dk @auarcher.bsky.social students 🚀
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Off to the field with @ll-herskind.bsky.social and a group of awesome students - four weeks teaching excavation and my @erc.europa.eu project CLIOARCH’s very last field season. And we’re going to excavate the world’s oldest amber art workshop from the Late Pleistocene 🤩
May 4, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Off to the field with @ll-herskind.bsky.social and a group of awesome students - four weeks teaching excavation and my @erc.europa.eu project CLIOARCH’s very last field season. And we’re going to excavate the world’s oldest amber art workshop from the Late Pleistocene 🤩
Nerve-racking day of sampling from these precious artefacts, but the results will be equally invaluable.
Let's get those radiocarbon dates!
⏳🦴🏺
Let's get those radiocarbon dates!
⏳🦴🏺
April 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Nerve-racking day of sampling from these precious artefacts, but the results will be equally invaluable.
Let's get those radiocarbon dates!
⏳🦴🏺
Let's get those radiocarbon dates!
⏳🦴🏺
Take a moment to appreciate this stunning photo of a fragmented, perforated, neatly decorated artefact made from an aurochs radius ✨🏺
But how old is it, you ask? Time will tell!
#archaeology
But how old is it, you ask? Time will tell!
#archaeology
April 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Take a moment to appreciate this stunning photo of a fragmented, perforated, neatly decorated artefact made from an aurochs radius ✨🏺
But how old is it, you ask? Time will tell!
#archaeology
But how old is it, you ask? Time will tell!
#archaeology
I know full well that ResearchGate achievements are just a gamification gimmick that annoyingly fills our inboxes, but sometimes I have to admit it works. The 1000 "reads" of my 2023 MA thesis at least suggests that it lives its own life on the www.
Wonder how many actually read the thing though
Wonder how many actually read the thing though
March 26, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I know full well that ResearchGate achievements are just a gamification gimmick that annoyingly fills our inboxes, but sometimes I have to admit it works. The 1000 "reads" of my 2023 MA thesis at least suggests that it lives its own life on the www.
Wonder how many actually read the thing though
Wonder how many actually read the thing though
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Velkommen til vores første alumnedag på Moesgård - med bl.a. den helt store fredagsbar. Vi glæder os. Sign up here lnkd.in/dswV5fSw
February 10, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Velkommen til vores første alumnedag på Moesgård - med bl.a. den helt store fredagsbar. Vi glæder os. Sign up here lnkd.in/dswV5fSw
This heavily used #Maglemose amber pendant depicts a group of people. Brinch Petersen gives a spooky interpretation:
"...four geometrical and standing persons with upright arms with a fifth floating above while a severed head is being presented by the last standing figure to the right."
#prehistory
"...four geometrical and standing persons with upright arms with a fifth floating above while a severed head is being presented by the last standing figure to the right."
#prehistory
March 1, 2025 at 10:41 AM
This heavily used #Maglemose amber pendant depicts a group of people. Brinch Petersen gives a spooky interpretation:
"...four geometrical and standing persons with upright arms with a fifth floating above while a severed head is being presented by the last standing figure to the right."
#prehistory
"...four geometrical and standing persons with upright arms with a fifth floating above while a severed head is being presented by the last standing figure to the right."
#prehistory
First pummeled by a wild boar, later killed and dismembered. The #Ertebølle man from Grave 13 at Skateholm had a rough life.
Perhaps it would have been a comfort for him to know that, ~7000 years later, archaeologists would make a comically morbid cartoon out of it 🏺
Perhaps it would have been a comfort for him to know that, ~7000 years later, archaeologists would make a comically morbid cartoon out of it 🏺
February 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
First pummeled by a wild boar, later killed and dismembered. The #Ertebølle man from Grave 13 at Skateholm had a rough life.
Perhaps it would have been a comfort for him to know that, ~7000 years later, archaeologists would make a comically morbid cartoon out of it 🏺
Perhaps it would have been a comfort for him to know that, ~7000 years later, archaeologists would make a comically morbid cartoon out of it 🏺
Contemporary judgements of #prehistoric #art influence how we research and disseminate it.
Mesolithic art has, in implicit comparison to more famous traditions, often been described as “sparse and poor, without much care… As a whole, a hasty, random frippery without independent worth or bearing”
Mesolithic art has, in implicit comparison to more famous traditions, often been described as “sparse and poor, without much care… As a whole, a hasty, random frippery without independent worth or bearing”
February 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Contemporary judgements of #prehistoric #art influence how we research and disseminate it.
Mesolithic art has, in implicit comparison to more famous traditions, often been described as “sparse and poor, without much care… As a whole, a hasty, random frippery without independent worth or bearing”
Mesolithic art has, in implicit comparison to more famous traditions, often been described as “sparse and poor, without much care… As a whole, a hasty, random frippery without independent worth or bearing”
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🌍 We have just released a NEW global top 100 list of scientist and science communicators on Bluesky. @lassehjorthmadsen.bsky.social and I map out the new emerging community: How are the research fields clustered? All likes, reshares, and love 😍 is appreciated! mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...
Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science - Mike Young Academy
Scientific Twitter is about to find its true successor. And it is not X. This, our latest release, shows that the Bluesky network of scientists is growing — and growing.
mikeyoungacademy.dk
November 14, 2024 at 1:46 PM
🌍 We have just released a NEW global top 100 list of scientist and science communicators on Bluesky. @lassehjorthmadsen.bsky.social and I map out the new emerging community: How are the research fields clustered? All likes, reshares, and love 😍 is appreciated! mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...
February 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The Beautiful Rotten-Fish Bone-Knife:
This ~9430yr-old slotted bone tool (arguably a stylized depiction of a fish/fish skeleton) from Norje Sunnansund was excavated in relation to a ditch used to store and ferment fish - the world's earliest evidence of fermentation. Swedish tradition runs deep!?🐟💚
This ~9430yr-old slotted bone tool (arguably a stylized depiction of a fish/fish skeleton) from Norje Sunnansund was excavated in relation to a ditch used to store and ferment fish - the world's earliest evidence of fermentation. Swedish tradition runs deep!?🐟💚
February 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The Beautiful Rotten-Fish Bone-Knife:
This ~9430yr-old slotted bone tool (arguably a stylized depiction of a fish/fish skeleton) from Norje Sunnansund was excavated in relation to a ditch used to store and ferment fish - the world's earliest evidence of fermentation. Swedish tradition runs deep!?🐟💚
This ~9430yr-old slotted bone tool (arguably a stylized depiction of a fish/fish skeleton) from Norje Sunnansund was excavated in relation to a ditch used to store and ferment fish - the world's earliest evidence of fermentation. Swedish tradition runs deep!?🐟💚
Two Mesolithic butterflies - A moment of artistic expression? Animist magic? Or a meaning-laden, communicative symbol?
#StoneAge #Art #Magic #Symbolism 🏺
#StoneAge #Art #Magic #Symbolism 🏺
February 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Two Mesolithic butterflies - A moment of artistic expression? Animist magic? Or a meaning-laden, communicative symbol?
#StoneAge #Art #Magic #Symbolism 🏺
#StoneAge #Art #Magic #Symbolism 🏺
One of the finer things to come out of Amager - an island otherwise known for Copenhagen's waste storage and 19th century decapitations - is this decorated axe from the middle #Kongemose, ca.6150-5800 BC 🏺
Site: Carstensminde
Photo: Nationalmuseet
Site: Carstensminde
Photo: Nationalmuseet
February 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
One of the finer things to come out of Amager - an island otherwise known for Copenhagen's waste storage and 19th century decapitations - is this decorated axe from the middle #Kongemose, ca.6150-5800 BC 🏺
Site: Carstensminde
Photo: Nationalmuseet
Site: Carstensminde
Photo: Nationalmuseet
Bone and antler was the common medium for #Mesolithic #Art, usually red/roe deer, wild boar & aurochs. But there are a few exotic exceptions:
Surprised zoologists declared that this dagger was made from the bill of a #Swordfish. There is archaeological consensus that its owner must have had style🏺⚔️🐟
Surprised zoologists declared that this dagger was made from the bill of a #Swordfish. There is archaeological consensus that its owner must have had style🏺⚔️🐟
January 31, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Bone and antler was the common medium for #Mesolithic #Art, usually red/roe deer, wild boar & aurochs. But there are a few exotic exceptions:
Surprised zoologists declared that this dagger was made from the bill of a #Swordfish. There is archaeological consensus that its owner must have had style🏺⚔️🐟
Surprised zoologists declared that this dagger was made from the bill of a #Swordfish. There is archaeological consensus that its owner must have had style🏺⚔️🐟
In South Scand. #Mesolithic imagery, human depictions are rare, but all in a similar style: geometrically stylized, always showing people in motion - and a bit ominous if you ask me 😬
Meet 'Dansarna från Bökeberg', two figures engraved on separate objects from a Swedish inland settlement. Wild stuff
Meet 'Dansarna från Bökeberg', two figures engraved on separate objects from a Swedish inland settlement. Wild stuff
January 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
In South Scand. #Mesolithic imagery, human depictions are rare, but all in a similar style: geometrically stylized, always showing people in motion - and a bit ominous if you ask me 😬
Meet 'Dansarna från Bökeberg', two figures engraved on separate objects from a Swedish inland settlement. Wild stuff
Meet 'Dansarna från Bökeberg', two figures engraved on separate objects from a Swedish inland settlement. Wild stuff
Treated myself to THE palaeontology textbook - the equally cool sister of archaeology
But I fear this bookshelf addition will also add fuel to the 'digging-up-dinosaurs'-confusion among friends & family
But I fear this bookshelf addition will also add fuel to the 'digging-up-dinosaurs'-confusion among friends & family
January 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Treated myself to THE palaeontology textbook - the equally cool sister of archaeology
But I fear this bookshelf addition will also add fuel to the 'digging-up-dinosaurs'-confusion among friends & family
But I fear this bookshelf addition will also add fuel to the 'digging-up-dinosaurs'-confusion among friends & family
This was both an inspiring workshop and a fitting celebration of Kristian Tylén - I feel refueled and happy to be working in this dynamic #archaeology & #CogSci intersection 🔀. Special thanks to @izzywisher.bsky.social
It’s been a super fun and intellectually-stimulating workshop these past 3 days, celebrating eSYMb and the work of Kristian Tylén - and hearing all of the amazing interdisciplinary work being done on symbolic behaviour! And with the most wonderful colleagues who really embraced Kristian’s spirit
January 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This was both an inspiring workshop and a fitting celebration of Kristian Tylén - I feel refueled and happy to be working in this dynamic #archaeology & #CogSci intersection 🔀. Special thanks to @izzywisher.bsky.social
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3rd day of "Celebrating eSYMb: The Evolution of Symbolic
Behaviour - A Workshop in Memory of Kristian Tylén" workshop.
Murillo Pagnotta on the makapangsat cobble: this face-like pebble is a controversial archeological finding, but can we test the idea that it's attention grabbing because of 1/
Behaviour - A Workshop in Memory of Kristian Tylén" workshop.
Murillo Pagnotta on the makapangsat cobble: this face-like pebble is a controversial archeological finding, but can we test the idea that it's attention grabbing because of 1/
January 10, 2025 at 8:51 AM
3rd day of "Celebrating eSYMb: The Evolution of Symbolic
Behaviour - A Workshop in Memory of Kristian Tylén" workshop.
Murillo Pagnotta on the makapangsat cobble: this face-like pebble is a controversial archeological finding, but can we test the idea that it's attention grabbing because of 1/
Behaviour - A Workshop in Memory of Kristian Tylén" workshop.
Murillo Pagnotta on the makapangsat cobble: this face-like pebble is a controversial archeological finding, but can we test the idea that it's attention grabbing because of 1/