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British Iron Age gold coins worth £33,000 sold to US collectors The collection was found in a field near Bury St Edmunds features distinctive horse designs

At least this records that folks were appalled by the sale...

#Archaeology #Treasurw #Detecting 🏺

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World Leader Recalls How ‘Truly Uninformed’ Trump Was During Meeting-Turned-‘Spectacle’ “We are rather amazed at the attention he gives to us. We are a small country, and we are no threat to the United States,” the leader said.

EU politicians should follow SA's example and stop brownnosing Trump.

“I do think the Afrikaner policy is racist,” Ramaphosa told the Times. “It is that racist sort of demeanor that we want to be able to whittle down so that he can see the truth of the situation.”

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Bury St Edmunds Iron Age coin hoard sells for more than £33,000 Finder Prof Tom Licence plans to use some of his share to fund archaeological work in eastern England.

"It was an honour to see expert collectors taking these coins into their care,"

Really?? REALLY? and there was me thinking you just enjoyed making a fast buck, with at least two of the most important coins now off to the USA...

#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure 🏺

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New #jobs at @uni-kiel.de within the @clusterroots.bsky.social advertised: one doctoral & two postdoctoral positions. The postdoc positions are for any projects relating to archaeological science and are explicitely looking for for applicants from Africa and Asia: www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-r...

Terrible headline (this is NOT what the new research - link below - shows!), terrible AI image! Argh!
Here’s the actual research:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Where do I start?! 1/4

🧪🏺 Seen a few cases of gen- #AI art creeping into #archaeology & #HumanOrigins publications recently, this is not a trend we should engage in or simply accept...

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Archaeologists seek better pay after many ‘bled out of the profession’ due to low wages Average salary of those working in sector stands at €35,000 with Unite union pushing for Labour Court order

Archaeologists seek better pay after many ‘bled out of the profession’ due to low wages

Airport bookshop at Johannesburg: perceptive categorisation

If you are in KZN, you can attend the talk here:

70,000-Year-Old Secrets Revealed | Dr Gerrit Dusseldorp | Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter YouTube video by Arise Creative

Tomorrow afternoon I will present the results of our work on Middle and Later Stone Age archaeology at Umhlatuzana 🏺 I promise an AI-free ppt!

You can watch it live online here: www.youtube.com/live/Zo-mLI9... (Provided the spare tyre I just put on the car holds for about 370 km)

I liked this paper, exploring what we can say about non-yet-proficient-knappers.

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Congratulations! Great work!

Lasting Lower Rhine–Meuse forager ancestry shaped Bell Beaker expansion - Nature A distinctive population with high hunter-gatherer ancestry persisted 3,000 years later than in most European regions, contributing to later Lower Rhine–Meuse Bell Beaker users.

Proud that after five years of careful analysis and discussion our paper "Lasting Lower Rhine-Meuse forager ancestry shaped Bell Beaker expansion" has now been published.

AI onthult: Romeinse steen in museum Heerlen is bordspel Doel van het spel is het blokkeren van de pionnen van de andere speler.

De enige AI die we willen!✨🏺

Ανοιχτή επιστολή σχετικά με τις εξελίξεις στην European Association of Archaeologists - Σύλλογος Ελλήνων Αρχαιολόγων Ανοιχτή επιστολή σχετικά με τις εξελίξεις στην European Association of Archaeologists Κατόπιν της ομόφωνης απόφασης των μελών του…

The Association of Archaeologists in Greece, representing all the archaeologists with permanent contracts in the state sector, is withdrawing its participation in the organizing of the @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social conference in Athens..Open letter, in English, below.

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I am trying to adapt by giving more pass/fail assignments: any serious try is a pass. No need for perfection, no need to pull an all-nighter just to get an incrementally higher grade for an assignment etc.

I am really hoping this helps relieve the pressure a bit.

And sometimes back again. There is much greater flexibility in tech organisation than we expected.

The main driver of the work is Viola Schmid @heasvienna.bsky.social, also many thanks to Irini Sifogeorgaki, Tullio Abruzzese, @sofieblik.bsky.social and Lijia Huang.

@leidenarchaeo.bsky.social

Instead, we show that tool changes went hand in hand with shifts in how people organised land use provisioned themselves.

We also find that the initial transition wasn’t linear: Middle Stone Age–like elements briefly reappear after the shift.

In South Africa, it is Homo sapiens all the way down. So what drives the change? The start of the Later Stone Age used to be seen as the final development of modern human behaviour, we now know better.

Homo sapiens already developed sophisticated societies and technology in the Middle Stone Age.

Wind(ow) of change: The end of the Middle Stone Age and the beginning of the Later Stone Age at Umhlatuzana rockshelter showcasing concurrent technological and techno-economic shifts The site of Umhlatuzana rockshelter contains a key sequence documenting developments in human behaviour from ∼70 ka throughout the Late Pleistocene an…

The change in technology is so great, archaeologists use it to mark the start of a new era. The Middle Stone Age gives way to the Later Stone Age.

In Europe, similar changes are associated with the disappearance of Neanderthals and the arrival of modern humans

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Between 50,000 and 20,000 years ago, South African societies radically reorganised their stone tool technology.

Does this reflect cognitive evolution, or something else? Our analysis at Umhlatuzana suggests the latter.

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With the extension of the EAA 2026 deadline, it may be good to reiterate the need for a boycott of the event until the EAA executive steps down.

Figure summarizing the Table 2 of the article: Overview of the four relatively adequate world hypotheses and their onto-epistemological commitments and imports as well as their broader implications for archaeological typo-praxis.

1/3 New recommendation: Shumon T. Hussain (2025). The Loss of Typological Innocence: Pluralism in the Epistemology and Ontology of Archaeological Typo-Praxis. v3 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... @shumon.bsky.social 🧪🏺

Het feit dat een gekwalificeerd land af zou zeggen is hoe dan ook een belangrijk signaal, ook al haalt Trump/Infantino gewoon iemand anders.

(Ik heb dan weer weinig fiducie in de "moral fibre" van KNVB en de voetballers).

Ook al is dat het geval. Maakt dat wat uit?

Op het WK cricket in India/Sri Lanka wordt Bangladesh vervangen door Schotland omdat Bangladesh niet in India wil spelen. Dat devalueert sowieso het toernooi.

(Interessant genoeg krijgt Pakistan wel de garantie dat al hun wedstrijden in Sri Lanka zijn).

Handmotieven in Indonesische grot zijn oudste grotkunst ooit gevonden Lange tijd werd gedacht dat Europese rotskunst de oudste ter wereld was. Maar uit Indonesië komt de ene na de andere spectaculaire ontdekking.

🖐️ Handmotieven in een grot op Sulawesi mogelijk de oudste grotkunst ooit gevonden 🌍

De datering is 'absoluut spectaculair', vertelt @dussel.bsky.social (@unileiden.bsky.social) in @trouw.nl, maar wie de kunst maakte blijft zeer onzeker.

@dearcheoloog.bsky.social @leidenarchaeo.bsky.social

I assume for most people doing tests the purpose is more spiritual, and provides ideas about ancestry (which in these commercial tests may not be very representative)

Testen hoeveel Neanderthaler-DNA je bezit? ‘Heeft echt geen meerwaarde’ Hoeveel Neanderthaler-DNA bezit ik? Met een simpele DNA-zelftest kun je een antwoord krijgen op deze vraag. Maar hoe representatief zijn deze percentages? En...

@avrotros.bsky.social asked me what the use of commercial DNA testing for Neanderthal ancestry is? Does it tell you anything about the state of your health?

Functionally, knowing your percentage seems meaningless.

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