Luc Amkreutz
@prehistoryrmo.bsky.social
Archaeologist; Curator Prehistory at RMO; Professor of Public Archaeology Leiden University; Limburg
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A possible outfit worn in 1200–450 BC Central Europe. Over 550 bronze artefacts associated with human remains at a dried-out lake site in Poland allowed researchers to recreate this hypothetical costume of the Bronze-Iron Age Lusatian culture.
🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
November 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
A possible outfit worn in 1200–450 BC Central Europe. Over 550 bronze artefacts associated with human remains at a dried-out lake site in Poland allowed researchers to recreate this hypothetical costume of the Bronze-Iron Age Lusatian culture.
🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
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This is very intriguing! Must be something circular - stone circle, henge thing, circular building 😯
'The dig team at the Ness, one of the most important Neolithic sites in the British Isles, are not revealing what they believe the find to be until more work is done.
But they say it is like nothing else ever found at the site – and may not even be Neolithic.'
But they say it is like nothing else ever found at the site – and may not even be Neolithic.'
'Extraordinary discovery' at Orkney's Ness of Brodgar Neolithic site
Archaeologists are to resume digging at the site after 3D radar technology uncovered a mystery find.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is very intriguing! Must be something circular - stone circle, henge thing, circular building 😯
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How can Neolithic waste help us understand how Europe's first farmers adapted to a more sedentary lifestyle? Our new joint project with the University of York, "RENEW: From Refuse to Resource: Ceramic and Bone Wastescapes in the Early Neolithic of Europe" hopes to shed light on this.
bit.ly/3Xgcnez
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November 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
How can Neolithic waste help us understand how Europe's first farmers adapted to a more sedentary lifestyle? Our new joint project with the University of York, "RENEW: From Refuse to Resource: Ceramic and Bone Wastescapes in the Early Neolithic of Europe" hopes to shed light on this.
bit.ly/3Xgcnez
bit.ly/3Xgcnez
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Årets sidste fund i #LivetSomArkæolog
November 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Årets sidste fund i #LivetSomArkæolog
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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...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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/...
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Early findings confirm the pits are human-made and date to the Late Neolithic, around the time Durrington Walls was constructed. Most reach depths of 4.5–6.9 metres, with fine clay-silt layers suggesting gradual infilling over time.
Early findings confirm the pits are human-made and date to the Late Neolithic, around the time Durrington Walls was constructed. Most reach depths of 4.5–6.9 metres, with fine clay-silt layers suggesting gradual infilling over time.
New research uncovers secrets of Stonehenge’s vast Neolithic pits - 2025 - News - University of Bradford
New research led by archaeologists from the University of Bradford is transforming our understanding of one of Britain’s most extraordinary prehistoric discoveries – the vast ring of Neolithic pits ne...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Early findings confirm the pits are human-made and date to the Late Neolithic, around the time Durrington Walls was constructed. Most reach depths of 4.5–6.9 metres, with fine clay-silt layers suggesting gradual infilling over time.
Early findings confirm the pits are human-made and date to the Late Neolithic, around the time Durrington Walls was constructed. Most reach depths of 4.5–6.9 metres, with fine clay-silt layers suggesting gradual infilling over time.
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Did Neandertals choose their prey when practicing cannibalism?🍖
Check out our new study, just published in Scientific Reports - @natureportfolio.nature.com!
We provide the strongest evidence to date for a highly selective cannibalism at the end of Neandertal lineage, 41-45.000 years ago.
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Check out our new study, just published in Scientific Reports - @natureportfolio.nature.com!
We provide the strongest evidence to date for a highly selective cannibalism at the end of Neandertal lineage, 41-45.000 years ago.
1/7
Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey
doi.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Did Neandertals choose their prey when practicing cannibalism?🍖
Check out our new study, just published in Scientific Reports - @natureportfolio.nature.com!
We provide the strongest evidence to date for a highly selective cannibalism at the end of Neandertal lineage, 41-45.000 years ago.
1/7
Check out our new study, just published in Scientific Reports - @natureportfolio.nature.com!
We provide the strongest evidence to date for a highly selective cannibalism at the end of Neandertal lineage, 41-45.000 years ago.
1/7
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How about "Where is our heritage demonstrably most risk from metal detecting"? It isn't lost, it's part of the archaeological record.
Cc @Tess_Machling🏺
#FindsFriday
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Cc @Tess_Machling🏺
#FindsFriday
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Where in the UK is the greatest amount of hidden treasure?
Objects uncovered have included precious Viking coins and a Roman earwax scoop
www.independent.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:05 AM
How about "Where is our heritage demonstrably most risk from metal detecting"? It isn't lost, it's part of the archaeological record.
Cc @Tess_Machling🏺
#FindsFriday
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Cc @Tess_Machling🏺
#FindsFriday
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An Cailleach brings the winter 🌬️
The mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter, and is associated with storms, reshaping the landscape, and horned beasts like deer. She defies convention and is a force for regeneration.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
The mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter, and is associated with storms, reshaping the landscape, and horned beasts like deer. She defies convention and is a force for regeneration.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
An Cailleach brings the winter 🌬️
The mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter, and is associated with storms, reshaping the landscape, and horned beasts like deer. She defies convention and is a force for regeneration.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
The mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter, and is associated with storms, reshaping the landscape, and horned beasts like deer. She defies convention and is a force for regeneration.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
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One of the most powerful WWI poets. It’s this poem
—not the clean, dignified, civilised ceremony at the memorial — that shows us the reality of war.
—not the clean, dignified, civilised ceremony at the memorial — that shows us the reality of war.
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
One of the most powerful WWI poets. It’s this poem
—not the clean, dignified, civilised ceremony at the memorial — that shows us the reality of war.
—not the clean, dignified, civilised ceremony at the memorial — that shows us the reality of war.
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Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
Op de Amerikaanse begraafplaats in Margraten is het opeens stil geworden rond de zwarte Amerikanen die hielpen Nederland bevrijden. Twee panelen die hun bijdrage herdachten – én wezen op hun strijd tegen racisme binnen het leger – werden zonder toelichting verwijderd.
www.nrc.nl
November 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
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A fossil filled concretion chunk - eroded out of shale layers. Almost all of the visible fossils are Goniatites - ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus.
County Clare, Ireland.
County Clare, Ireland.
November 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
A fossil filled concretion chunk - eroded out of shale layers. Almost all of the visible fossils are Goniatites - ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus.
County Clare, Ireland.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Op de Amerikaanse begraafplaats in Margraten is het opeens stil geworden rond de zwarte Amerikanen die hielpen Nederland bevrijden. Twee panelen die hun bijdrage herdachten – én wezen op hun strijd tegen racisme binnen het leger – werden zonder toelichting verwijderd. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
Monument: Op de Amerikaanse begraafplaats in Margraten is het opeens stil geworden rond de zwarte Amerikanen die hielpen Nederland bevrijden. Twee panelen die hun bijdrage herdachten – én wezen op hun...
www.nrc.nl
November 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Op de Amerikaanse begraafplaats in Margraten is het opeens stil geworden rond de zwarte Amerikanen die hielpen Nederland bevrijden. Twee panelen die hun bijdrage herdachten – én wezen op hun strijd tegen racisme binnen het leger – werden zonder toelichting verwijderd. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Honoured to announce that I have been appointed 8th Eugène Dubois visiting professor www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
Archaeology as a bridge between past and future
Luc Amkreutz, curator of prehistory at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden and professor of Public Archaeology at Leiden University, has a mission: to make the past accessible and relevant to...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Honoured to announce that I have been appointed 8th Eugène Dubois visiting professor www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
Bijzonder trots dat ik benoemd ben op de Eugène Dubois wisselleerstoel aan de @maastrichtu.bsky.social www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/nl/nieuws/ar...
Archeologie als brug tussen verleden en toekomst Luc Amkreutz 8e Eugène Dubois hoogleraar
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November 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Bijzonder trots dat ik benoemd ben op de Eugène Dubois wisselleerstoel aan de @maastrichtu.bsky.social www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/nl/nieuws/ar...
Honoured to announce that I have been appointed 8th Eugène Dubois visiting professor www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/archaeo...
Archaeology as a bridge between past and future - Luc Amkreutz Appointed 8th Eugène Dubois visiting professor
https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/archaeology-bridge-between-past-and-future-luc-amkreutz-appointed-8th-eugène-dubois-visiting
November 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Honoured to announce that I have been appointed 8th Eugène Dubois visiting professor www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/archaeo...
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The light over the Atlantic coast of Ireland is like nowhere else on Earth 🌎
October 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The light over the Atlantic coast of Ireland is like nowhere else on Earth 🌎
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The engraved entrance stone to the famous Neolithic passage tomb of Newgrange at County Meath in Ireland. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Newgrange #Prehistory #Ireland
October 21, 2025 at 6:20 AM
The engraved entrance stone to the famous Neolithic passage tomb of Newgrange at County Meath in Ireland. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Newgrange #Prehistory #Ireland
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In today's edition of our free #MonumentMonday newsletter, we take a trjp to a hidden glade below Cnoc na Cailligh (The Hill of the Hag), to find one of my favourite megalithic tombs, the wonderful Gaulstown Dolmen!
#SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Prehistory #Archaeology 🏺 #Waterford
#SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Prehistory #Archaeology 🏺 #Waterford
October 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
In today's edition of our free #MonumentMonday newsletter, we take a trjp to a hidden glade below Cnoc na Cailligh (The Hill of the Hag), to find one of my favourite megalithic tombs, the wonderful Gaulstown Dolmen!
#SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Prehistory #Archaeology 🏺 #Waterford
#SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Prehistory #Archaeology 🏺 #Waterford
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Heerlijk herfstfilmpje uit Gulpen-Wittem! #MagnifiekZL
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📸: erik_joegel - Instagram
October 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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