Past and present (and yes, the future 😀).

Good news! The Foundation for Anthropology and Prehistory in the Netherlands (SNMAP) has provided a grant for new radiocarbon dates from the prehistoric wetland site of Bergschenhoek, a site excavated by the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO) in 1978. With @prehistoryrmo.bsky.social

Going strong: collecting reference data for the study on detection of woodland management in the past (see Out et al. 2013, 2018). This year: oak. With thanks to Moesgaard and Aarhus Kommune.

Lake Bølling (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B8...)

New paper on Viking-Age Aarhus. Grateful for again great cooperation with colleagues from Moesgaard, Aarhus Uni and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. PI Jette Linaa, funding Danish Ministry of Culture. Open access link: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Troels-Smith 1959. En elmetræs-bue fra Aamosen: an elm bow from neolithic Muldbjerg, Aamose. Figure by B. Brorson Christensen. Wood identification by kriminalassistent E. Tellerup.

Image-of-the-day: Daro and Polk 1973: The autecology of Polydora ciliata along the Belgian coast

Ligustrum vulgare being native or not: tell me why about Denmark, Sweden and Norway 🤔

Visualising the past. Not only Amsterdam but also part of Berlin was built on posts.