Hi Sonja, I'm trying to contact you, but none of the email addresses that I found still work.
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Hi Sonja, I'm trying to contact you, but none of the email addresses that I found still work.
New paper, roughly a summary of my dissertation, so if you didn't have the time to read the full book, here are the highlights
www.academia.edu/145483235/Tr...
My colleagues just published a kick-ass paper on Corded Ware and Bell Beaker chronology. This is really cool stuff!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We did an XRF to look for sulphides, I was also thinking of pyrite, but they are absent. Seems to be just Iron.
Has anyone ever seen anything like this? I can't yet share too much about the context, but it is well into the stone age.
so what are these yellow things. We currently think they were organic objects, covered with red ochre and somehow "fossilized" in iron deposits. In detail we can on some spots see structures that look like bone, and other spots we have clear plant fibres/cells.
Question for the hive mind. We have strange yellow iron concretions that are covered with red ochre. Ochre was also applied to flint and stone tools...
Now that the Bronze Age exhibit is over, we had a chance to do some XRF measurements on the Bell Beaker Gold ornaments from Bennekom. Will present a paper on them at the upcoming BB conference in Vannes, Brittany next May.
#stargazing
Well, 6 really, we shouldnt dismiss Earth just yet.
Apart from doing Sidestony things I'm currently working on various research projects:
Pan European "ceci n'est pas une battle axe" project;
Bell Beaker gold ornaments project;
a mesolithic ochre grave with possibly the oldest painted objects in NW Europe. This looks like its gonna be crazy!
While you're here, don't forget to give @sidestone.bsky.social a follow! We were already on various other socials, now also on bsky.
From the collection at the @drentsmuseum.bsky.social
Let me share with you my favourite TRB axe. Found at Zuidbarge this is the largest from the Netherlands at 32.5cm. Made in N-Germany or Denmark the maker didn't grind the sides so that you can see the excellent knapping skills. Apart from one tiny ridge caused by a step fracture that bothered them.
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