Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik
@dimitrij.bsky.social
archaeology...Neolithic...theory...landscape...animals...movement...psychoanalysis...Lacan...Žižek...Anthropocene
New essay out: Archaeology of the Future. A small reflection on how the world continues long after us, shaped by what we leave behind. dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2025/11/22/a...
Archaeology of the future – Feral Methods
Because archaeology has not finished. The past is turning into the future in front of us. Archaeology happens now, under our feet, in the air, in the oceans, in the cities, in the landfills. Life is constantly turning into remains, into matter that lasts and stays.
dimitrij.splet.arnes.si
November 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
New essay out: Archaeology of the Future. A small reflection on how the world continues long after us, shaped by what we leave behind. dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2025/11/22/a...
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Airborne laser scanning reveals stone walls stretching several kilometers across Europe's Karst Plateau, on the border between Slovenia and Italy, likely built over 4,000 years ago to herd and corral red deer—a legacy of coordinated hunting. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/urYx50Xir5z
October 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Airborne laser scanning reveals stone walls stretching several kilometers across Europe's Karst Plateau, on the border between Slovenia and Italy, likely built over 4,000 years ago to herd and corral red deer—a legacy of coordinated hunting. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/urYx50Xir5z
Read Europe’s Forgotten Megastructures: Stone Traps of Prehistoric Hunters on Kudos: www.growkudos.com/publications...
Europe’s Forgotten Megastructures: Stone Traps of Prehistoric Hunters
A free platform for explaining your research in plain language, and managing how you communicate around it – so you can understand how best to increase its impact.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Read Europe’s Forgotten Megastructures: Stone Traps of Prehistoric Hunters on Kudos: www.growkudos.com/publications...
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Massive stone “funnels” found in Slovenia and Italy may be Europe’s oldest hunting megastructures—proof that early societies shaped landscapes through cooperation and ingenuity. #Archaeology #Prehistory #HumanEvolution @pnas.org www.anthropology.net/p/walls-for-...
Walls for the Hunt: Europe’s Forgotten Megastructures and the Rise of Prehistoric Cooperation
Four massive stone traps hidden in the hills of Slovenia and Italy suggest that Europe’s earliest communities engineered landscapes to capture not just animals, but collective purpose.
www.anthropology.net
October 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Massive stone “funnels” found in Slovenia and Italy may be Europe’s oldest hunting megastructures—proof that early societies shaped landscapes through cooperation and ingenuity. #Archaeology #Prehistory #HumanEvolution @pnas.org www.anthropology.net/p/walls-for-...
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Four newly identified stone megastructures on the Slovenia-Italy border suggest large-scale communal hunting in prehistoric Europe, indicating complex social organization and advanced landscape management. doi.org/g96x5w
Discovery of four stone megastructures could change our view of prehistoric societies
Scientists have discovered evidence of stone megastructures on the Karst Plateau on the border of Slovenia and Italy that were most likely built before the Late Bronze Age.
phys.org
October 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Four newly identified stone megastructures on the Slovenia-Italy border suggest large-scale communal hunting in prehistoric Europe, indicating complex social organization and advanced landscape management. doi.org/g96x5w
🚨 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....
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
October 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
🚨 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....
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....
Definitely on my #readinglist
📕#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
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
October 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Definitely on my #readinglist
October 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Wow!
Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts.
www.popsci.com/environment/...
www.popsci.com/environment/...
Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts
Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.
www.popsci.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Wow!
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...
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
September 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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...
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...
Rain washed, sun returned.
September 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Rain washed, sun returned.
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
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September 28, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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_...
Back in my cabin in an undisclosed location in the Julian Alps.
September 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Back in my cabin in an undisclosed location in the Julian Alps.
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 by @alybatt.bsky.social is out now (14 Oct UK pub). Explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
September 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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.
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.
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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September 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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.
This is more than distressing. Unless there is full accountability, I do not see how the EAA can continue in its present form.
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.
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
September 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
This is more than distressing. Unless there is full accountability, I do not see how the EAA can continue in its present form.
Michel Serres, Hermes III - trans. Randolph Burks, @uminnpress.bsky.social, February 2026
www.upress.umn.edu/978151790191...
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
September 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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
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
September 19, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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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
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September 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
New link to request a special EAA meeting. If you haven’t yet, consider signing it ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/QInTdoHZ
Natsivaar (1919 – 1962), Untitled (family surrounded by strange creatures).
September 10, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Natsivaar (1919 – 1962), Untitled (family surrounded by strange creatures).
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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...
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
September 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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...
forms.gle/cTp7BXiUD1qC...
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
September 8, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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
The tone of recent @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social communications and the abrupt policy reversal have deeply damaged trust in its democratic process. Many of us have lost confidence in the leadership. A vote of confidence or resignation is the only path to restore accountability and unity.
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
The tone of recent @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social communications and the abrupt policy reversal have deeply damaged trust in its democratic process. Many of us have lost confidence in the leadership. A vote of confidence or resignation is the only path to restore accountability and unity.
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New in thePipeLine: EAA GAZA U-TURN TIMELINE OFFERS MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS
The beleaguered Executive Board of the #EAA has a new timeline trying making it look like the wronged and bullied party, but it doesn't explain who allegedly bullied its members into reversing a democratic vote.
The beleaguered Executive Board of the #EAA has a new timeline trying making it look like the wronged and bullied party, but it doesn't explain who allegedly bullied its members into reversing a democratic vote.
EAA GAZA U-TURN TIMELINE OFFERS MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS
The beleaguered Executive Board of the European Association of Archaeologists has offered members a timeline of events leading to the reversal of its decision to ask delegates from Israeli institut…
thepipeline.info
September 6, 2025 at 6:06 AM
New in thePipeLine: EAA GAZA U-TURN TIMELINE OFFERS MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS
The beleaguered Executive Board of the #EAA has a new timeline trying making it look like the wronged and bullied party, but it doesn't explain who allegedly bullied its members into reversing a democratic vote.
The beleaguered Executive Board of the #EAA has a new timeline trying making it look like the wronged and bullied party, but it doesn't explain who allegedly bullied its members into reversing a democratic vote.
Disappointed and disgusted by @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social reversal, especially the censorship now being enforced. Mobilising volunteers to police academic speech is unacceptable. Solidarity with those who speak up and those who refuse to carry out these instructions.
September 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Disappointed and disgusted by @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social reversal, especially the censorship now being enforced. Mobilising volunteers to police academic speech is unacceptable. Solidarity with those who speak up and those who refuse to carry out these instructions.