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Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · 1h

#ctvrtkycts is back after the holidays and the renovation of our seminar room: tomorrow, Eric Shiraev (George Mason University) will speak on The Use and Misuse of Historical Names: Who Gets Remembered and Why It Matters. 10-12 a.m. at @CTS_uk_av or online at cesnet.zoom.us/j/92791774267.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 1d

NEW #Archaeology in wartime, protecting cultural property and the complexities of conflict. Explore the consequences of modern armed conflicts for archaeology and heritage in Robin Skeates' latest #AntiquityEditorial 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺

📷 K.A.C. Creswell

Interior of the nave of a destroyed mosque (the Great Omari Mosque, Gaza city).

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Jan Turek @janturek.bsky.social · 2d

Reject fascism!

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Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · 9d

“Anthropocene Ruptures: Crossing Borders, Building Connections”, Charles University Prague, October 9–10, 2025 - a two-day event of discussions, networking, and a field trip; participants also from Humboldt University, and University of Vienna. Link and program: www.anthropocene.cz/en/anthropoc...

Anthropocene Ruptures: Crossing Borders, Building Connections

CENTRAL Workshop Anthropocene Ruptures: Crossing Borders, Building Connections, organized by Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University

www.anthropocene.cz

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Jan Turek @janturek.bsky.social · 9d

Well it’s matter of taste. Enjoy!

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Jan Turek @janturek.bsky.social · 10d

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Jan Turek @janturek.bsky.social · 10d

Satisfaction!

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Jan Turek @janturek.bsky.social · 11d

Who The hell made such wrong map 😑 ???!!!

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 13d

We have lost an absolute trailblazer and heroine of science www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

www.theguardian.com

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Jan Turek @janturek.bsky.social · 16d

INDIANA JONES punching Nazis since 1936 👊

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Jan Turek @janturek.bsky.social · 16d

A MERE COINCIDENCE?
Be aware of the extremists! Support DEMOCRACY in the forthcoming Czech parliamentary elections!

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Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · 20d

📖 Book release! Hinterland. Archeologie severočeských pískovcových krajin. Co-edited by Petr Pokorný, contributions from Jindra Prach and Jan Hošek (CTS).

An illustrated journey (100+ images) through 20,000 years of sandstone landscapes, from the Ice Age to today.

🔗 www.kosmas.cz/knihy/559021...

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 21d

So often I went from Berlin to #GöbekliTepe in the past 20 years or so - but finally the Tepe is coming to Berlin! 😉

🏺 www.trtworld.com/article/a7e6...

TRT World - Türkiye’s Gobeklitepe to be showcased in Germany with a special exhibition in 2026

The Berlin exhibition highlights the country's global promotion of Göbeklitepe, with a major project on Museum Island and similar events planned abroad, the ministry says.

www.trtworld.com

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Archäologie Online @archaeologie-on.bsky.social · 24d

Komplexe Baugeschichte eines 6.000 Jahre alten Monuments #archäologie

Komplexe Baugeschichte eines 6.000 Jahre alten Monuments

Neue Erkenntnisse zum Kapellenberg bei Hofheim am Taunus | Der Kapellenberg bei Hofheim am Taunus (Main-Taunus-Kreis) ist ein bedeutendes Relikt aus der Jungsteinzeit und bietet durch seine gut erhaltenen Überreste tiefe Einblicke in das Leben und die Siedlungsstrukturen dieser Epoche. Aktuelle archäologische Grabungen ermöglichen nun neue Erkenntnisse zu seiner Baugeschichte. Das Projekt ist Teil einer langjährigen Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA), der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, der Abteilung hessenARCHÄOLOGIE des Landesamtes für Denkmalpflege Hessen und der Stadt Hofheim.

www.archaeologie-online.de

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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 28d

"He saw the state of the industry as it evolved out of the auteur-driven New Hollywood of the 1960s and 1970s and into the bombs, brawn, and boobs of the 1980s." He "envisioned a better cinematic world," and he set out to build it.

The great @sonnybunch.bsky.social on Redford's legacy.

Robert Redford, 1936–2025

Actor, star, indie entrepreneur.

www.thebulwark.com

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merryn @merryn02.bsky.social · Sep 15

When I did my degree twenty five years ago I was taught that big Neolithic longhouses were where the important people lived: the Big Man/Chief of the tribe theory. Another idea has been 'feasting halls', or maybe communal homes where folk lived together. Now, the idea of grain surplus and storage. 🏺

Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Sep 15

Aerial photograph of a monumental farmhouse from Late Neolithic Denmark #MonumentsMonday
Despite their size, they likely served the same roles as smaller centres of agricultural production, implying food surplus was a key signifier of elite status

Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺#Archaeology

Aerial photograph of two rows of postholes, outlining the shape of a very long rectangular structure. Two people stand within the outline for scale.

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Archaeologs @archaeologs.com · Sep 15

4,500-Year-Old Idols Discovered at Tavşanlı Höyük

#archaeology #news #history #bronzeage #anatolia

www.archaeologs.com/n/4500-year-...

4,500-Year-Old Idols Discovered at Tavşanlı Höyük - Archaeologs

Exciting discoveries have been made at Tavşanlı Höyük, one of the largest Bronze Age centers in Western Anatolia. According to information shared by Minister of Culture and Tourism Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, ...

www.archaeologs.com

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Sep 15

Ancient bevelled rim bowls from fourth millennium BC Iraqi Kurdistan were likely used to distribute large quantities of stew, suggesting the earliest state institutions were formed based on their ability to provision food to labourers.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Multiple bevelled rim bowls stacked together.

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Jan Turek @janturek.bsky.social · Sep 13

Excavation of Neolithic long barrow and Early Medieval round barrow (Muszkowice forest) with exciting discovery of a Funnel Beaker Neolithic pit containing large fragments of ceramic pots, daub, burned bones and flint fakes. Possible it was a sacrificial pit at the western end of the long barrow.

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Ivan Bartoš @bartosivan.bsky.social · Sep 10

Teď není čas, aby o naší budoucnosti rozhodovaly strany, které hazardují s bezpečností a obranou země a lísají se k agresorovi.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Sep 1

NEW As the first farmers expanded across Central Europe c. 5500–4900 BC, they built large cemeteries. Radiocarbon dates suggest cemetery burial was in fact a relatively short-lived practice, reflecting the dynamic social changes of the Early Neolithic.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Map of Central Europe, pinpointing nine Early Neolithic (Linearbandkeramik) cemeteries, including five in south-western Germany.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · Aug 20

Trans rights are, in fact, human rights. Pass it on. 🏳️‍⚧️🫂

#SciArt poster with 6 white boxes on a purple/grey background.
the test above in white says IN THIS LAB WE BELIEVE
boxes upper left to bottom right:
- text SCIENCE is real, a scientist in a blue labcoar holds a flask with teal liquid with an orange microbe above their head, while a round earth circles around them
- text LOVE is love, two stickfigures are happily write in a pride flag with hearts above them
- text BLACK LIVES matter, three stickfigures hold their fists proudly in the air
- text FEMINISM is for everyone, a stickfigure holds a purple female symbol sign and is wrapped in a purple schal with a trans colors pin
text EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY is cool, a mosquito stands by a series going from single atoms, to blue RNA, to red DNA, to a blue virus, to a red malaria parasite and orange bacteria, to a yellow worm, to a green amoeba, i drew this in a way where the amoeba looks like the mosquito's fart, I'm so sorry amoeba
- text IMMIGRANTS are welcome, a little stickfigure statue of liberty stands tall and proud in between clouds and birds

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Sep 8

Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Antiquity Prize!

They discovered an unknown Neolithic society in Morocco, revealing the importance of North Africa in the emergence of complex societies in the Mediterranean.

Our interview with two of the authors: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB5T...

Sunset over a field of grain, with the text 'Uncovering Morocco's unknown Neolithic society, Antiquity Prize 2025, Oued Beht, Morocco: a complex early farming society in north-west Africa and its implications for western Mediterranean interaction during later prehistory - Cyprian Broodbank, Giulio Lucarini et al.'

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Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · Sep 8

Today marks the start of the main (in-person) part of our summer school on the topic of the Anthropocene: The Contemporary World from a Transdisciplinary Perspective. This time, it will be held entirely in English. #ctssummerschool

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Jan Turek @janturek.bsky.social · Sep 6

Just excavating an Early Medieval round barrow connected with a Neolithic long barrow in the Muszkowice forest in Lower Silesia. Found scattered fragments of cremated bones, prehistoric and medieval pottery, iron ring and a ceramic spindlewhorl.To be continued…

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