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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · 22h

What began as an weekend walks and curiosity among friends led to one of Europe’s largest prehistoric landscape discoveries.

A reminder that archaeology still holds vast, hidden stories, waiting in the folds of the land.

#Archaeology #PNAS #Karst #LiDAR

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · 22h

These massive guiding walls and pits show that hunter-gatherer communities in Europe organized collective labour and reshaped landscapes on a monumental scale.

They coordinated movement, terrain, and animal behaviour, turning the landscape itself into a hunting machine.
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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · 22h

🚨 New paper out today in PNAS!
We report the discovery of prehistoric hunting megastructures on the Karst Plateau (Slovenia/Italy) – several-kilometre-long dry-stone systems used to trap wild herds
doi.org/10.1073/pnas....

Prehistoric hunting megastructures in the Adriatic hinterland | PNAS

Airborne laser scanning survey of the Karst Plateau in the Adriatic hinterland has revealed four monumental dry-stone structures, characterized by ...

doi.org

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · 3d

Definitely on my #readinglist

Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 3d

📕#BookReview

Hannah Chazin's 'Live stock and dead things' reconsiders the idea that domestic herd animals were passive economic resources in the past, investigating how living and working with animals shaped society, economy, ritual and politics 1/2

(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Cover of the book reviewed with the text 'Book Review, Antiquity'.

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · 8d

#readinglist

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 8d

Postal goodies #3 is @leifw.bsky.social's Language Machines

The front cover of Leith Weatherby's Language Machines book with some wire frame spheres on the front.

Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · 9d

Wow!

Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 11d

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts.
www.popsci.com/environment/...

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · 15d

What is it like to be a buzzard?
This essay is about looking up, and being looked at in return; about sharing a sky with another species, and wondering what it means to live in radical symmetry with it. dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2025/06/18/w...

What Is It Like to Be a Buzzard? – Feral Methods

On a slope above our house lives a buzzard. Her sharp cries shake me out of the current of human things I am caught in; and when I look up at the sky, I see her circling overhead. The question that rises is not new, but I want to ask it again, not what it is like to be a bat, but what it is like to be a buzzard.

dimitrij.splet.arnes.si

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · 16d

Rain washed, sun returned.

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · 17d

Roxy Music’s Avalon video, directed by Ridley Scott, is the missing bridge between xenomorphs and replicants. Media archaeology reminder: worlds bleed through shared images, not tidy continuities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpA_...

Roxy Music - Avalon

YouTube video by RoxyMusicVEVO

www.youtube.com

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · 19d

Back in my cabin in an undisclosed location in the Julian Alps.

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · 23d

#readinglist

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 24d

A timely new critique of capitalism’s persistent failure to value nature.

Free Gifts by @alybatt.bsky.social is out now (14 Oct UK pub). Explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature by Alyssa Battistoni

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · 23d

This is journalism as it should be, devoted, investigative, clear-headed, and professional. Work like yours plays a crucial role in disentangling this mess and in making reconciliation and resolution even possible. Thank you, also @mrsoup.bsky.social.

Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · 23d

Yes, of course - but without your investigative work and careful reporting they wouldn’t have had the opportunity to tell, and we wouldn’t have had the chance to hear. Thank you!

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · 23d

When (or if) the current EAA mess is finally cleared up, with new leadership, proper accountability, and an ethical compass restored, we really ought to make @andybrockman.bsky.social a honorary EAA member. If anything good comes of this debacle, it will be thanks to his investigative spadework.

Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 25d

Thank you to everyone who has read and shared our story about the allegations the President of the #EAA supported a campaign pressuring the Executive Board to reverse its Gaza vote.

There is now a #WatchingBrief video with a discussion putting the story in context.

Please Like Share and Subscribe.

EAA President (allegedly) Orchestrated Campaign Against EAA Board!

YouTube video by The Watching Brief

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · 26d

Could it be Vučedol/Cetina white incrusted ware? Something like this? studentski.hr/vijesti/kult...

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · 26d

This is more than distressing. Unless there is full accountability, I do not see how the EAA can continue in its present form.

Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 26d

EXCLUSIVE: EAA PRESIDENT ACCUSED OF HELPING ORCHESTRATE PROTEST CAMPAIGN AGAINST HER OWN EXECUTIVE BOARD’S GAZA VOTE

thePipeLine with the extraordinary story of how the President of the European Association of Archaeologists is accused of helping orchestrate a campaign to overturn its Gaza vote.

EXCLUSIVE: EAA PRESIDENT ACCUSED OF HELPING ORCHESTRATE PROTEST CAMPAIGN AGAINST HER OWN EXECUTIVE BOARD’S GAZA VOTE

thePipeLine can reveal allegations that the President of the beleaguered European Association of Archaeologists [EAA], Professor Eszter Bánffy, was instrumental in organising a covert campaign to p…

thepipeline.info

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · 26d

#readinglist

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 26d

Michel Serres, Hermes III - trans. Randolph Burks, @uminnpress.bsky.social, February 2026
www.upress.umn.edu/978151790191...

Hermes III

Unlocking the hidden patterns of knowledge—where science, art, and philosophy speak a common languageHermes III: Translation is the third volume in Michel ...

www.upress.umn.edu

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · 26d

#readinglist

Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 26d

Good morning.

Together with @littletollerbooks.bsky.social we publish a very important book

The destruction of our peat lands is of international concern.

40 nature writers incl. Rob Macfarlane - Amy Liptrot - Horatio Clare & music legend Patti Smith.

You can order here: www.littletoller.co.uk

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · Sep 11

Looks like this form is also down? Anyone knows what’s going on here?

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Joana Valdez-Tullett @joanavaldez.bsky.social · Sep 10

New link to request a special EAA meeting. If you haven’t yet, consider signing it ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/QInTdoHZ

Enketo Express for KoboToolbox

ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · Sep 10

Natsivaar (1919 – 1962), Untitled (family surrounded by strange creatures).

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Guillermo Diaz de Liaño @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social · Sep 8

Calling all #EAA past and present members! A lot of us are not happy with the events of last week, and with EAA's bleak attitute towards the ongoing genocide. Sign this petition for a special meeting, so we can call a vote of confidence against the current board. Thanks!

forms.gle/cTp7BXiUD1qC...

Call for a Special Meeting of the EAA

Recent events during the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists* have generated profound discontent and distrust toward the current Executive Board among members of the associati...

forms.gle

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · Sep 8

I don’t think this is an honest response so much as damage control. The language is vague to the point of evasion,
no clear timelines, no concrete commitments, and no direct addressing of the elephant in the room. bsky.app/profile/dimi...

Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · Sep 8

The latest announcement by @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social (“Next steps after the AMBM…”): This isn’t accountability, it’s gaslighting: vague apologies, procedural smokescreens, no responsibility, deferring debate, hiding behind volunteerism. Textbook damage control. #EAA

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · Sep 8

Appeal to volunteerism as shield: “we all volunteer our time, a big task is ahead.” Sympathy invoked, critique framed as ingratitude. Moral blackmail. If you can’t take it-stand down. Or just stand down.

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · Sep 8

Kicking the can down the road: a “larger project” to revisit politics & activism, with talk of “future direction of travel” & “big task ahead.” No timeline, no actors, no commitments. Just delay, hoping outrage cools before accountability arrives.

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