Luc Amkreutz
@prehistoryrmo.bsky.social
Archaeologist; Curator Prehistory at RMO; Professor of Public Archaeology Leiden University; Limburg
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The Perils of Pits: further research at Durrington Walls henge (2021–2025)
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The Perils of Pits: further research at Durrington Walls henge (2021–2025)
In 2020, a series of large features were identified, set within two arc-like structures, to the north and south of Durrington Walls henge (Gaffney et al. 2020). Based on geophysical survey and borehol...
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November 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The Perils of Pits: further research at Durrington Walls henge (2021–2025)
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With our beautiful @rmoudheden.bsky.social Helden disc on the cover (Thracian guilded silver ornament depicting the mythological scene of Hercules wrestling the Nemean lion with of course dogs as well).
L'histoire politique des Arvernes, racontée à travers les ossements et images de loups, de chiens et de renards retrouvés sur les sites de la fin de l'âge du Fer en Auvergne.
Libre d'accès, sans inscription :
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Libre d'accès, sans inscription :
www.academia.edu/145202328/De...
November 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
With our beautiful @rmoudheden.bsky.social Helden disc on the cover (Thracian guilded silver ornament depicting the mythological scene of Hercules wrestling the Nemean lion with of course dogs as well).
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Nov 29: Feast of Brénainn (Brendan), founder-abbot of Birra (Birr, Ireland) (†573). He intervened at a synod in Meath which ended Columba’s excommunication, and advised him to build his celebrated monastery on Iona. Also May 9. 📸August Schwerdfeger #medievalsky
November 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Nov 29: Feast of Brénainn (Brendan), founder-abbot of Birra (Birr, Ireland) (†573). He intervened at a synod in Meath which ended Columba’s excommunication, and advised him to build his celebrated monastery on Iona. Also May 9. 📸August Schwerdfeger #medievalsky
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Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2
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November 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2
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One of the half-human, half-deer headdresses found at the important Mesolithic site at Star Carr in North Yorkshire. Dating to around 9000 BC, this example is part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #Mesolithic #StarrCarr #Archaeology
November 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
One of the half-human, half-deer headdresses found at the important Mesolithic site at Star Carr in North Yorkshire. Dating to around 9000 BC, this example is part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #Mesolithic #StarrCarr #Archaeology
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Even in winter, the wood whispers to tramp its paths. Its Sprites and Woodwose may sleep through days demanding our heaviest coats, but its mysteries do not. Bare branches scratch the low sky and still its mysteries sing. We walk for wonder. We walk for cold magics. – #EmilyCBanting, 1981
November 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Even in winter, the wood whispers to tramp its paths. Its Sprites and Woodwose may sleep through days demanding our heaviest coats, but its mysteries do not. Bare branches scratch the low sky and still its mysteries sing. We walk for wonder. We walk for cold magics. – #EmilyCBanting, 1981
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Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! 🤩
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! 🤩
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
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A possible outfit worn in 1200–450 BC Central Europe. Over 550 bronze artefacts associated with human remains at a dried-out lake site in Poland allowed researchers to recreate this hypothetical costume of the Bronze-Iron Age Lusatian culture.
🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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November 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
A possible outfit worn in 1200–450 BC Central Europe. Over 550 bronze artefacts associated with human remains at a dried-out lake site in Poland allowed researchers to recreate this hypothetical costume of the Bronze-Iron Age Lusatian culture.
🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
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This is very intriguing! Must be something circular - stone circle, henge thing, circular building 😯
'The dig team at the Ness, one of the most important Neolithic sites in the British Isles, are not revealing what they believe the find to be until more work is done.
But they say it is like nothing else ever found at the site – and may not even be Neolithic.'
But they say it is like nothing else ever found at the site – and may not even be Neolithic.'
'Extraordinary discovery' at Orkney's Ness of Brodgar Neolithic site
Archaeologists are to resume digging at the site after 3D radar technology uncovered a mystery find.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is very intriguing! Must be something circular - stone circle, henge thing, circular building 😯
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How can Neolithic waste help us understand how Europe's first farmers adapted to a more sedentary lifestyle? Our new joint project with the University of York, "RENEW: From Refuse to Resource: Ceramic and Bone Wastescapes in the Early Neolithic of Europe" hopes to shed light on this.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
How can Neolithic waste help us understand how Europe's first farmers adapted to a more sedentary lifestyle? Our new joint project with the University of York, "RENEW: From Refuse to Resource: Ceramic and Bone Wastescapes in the Early Neolithic of Europe" hopes to shed light on this.
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Årets sidste fund i #LivetSomArkæolog
November 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Årets sidste fund i #LivetSomArkæolog
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New open access publication: Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place: Was Patrilocality the Dominant Mode of Postmarital Residence across Later European Prehistory? Current Anthropology.
Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from!
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Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place : Was Patrilocality the Dominant Mode of Postmarital Residence across Later European Prehistory? | Current Anthropology
This paper questions whether forms of female mobility and their relation to kinship were uniform throughout later European prehistory. Patrilocality has become the primary way in which sex-based diffe...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
New open access publication: Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place: Was Patrilocality the Dominant Mode of Postmarital Residence across Later European Prehistory? Current Anthropology.
Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Early findings confirm the pits are human-made and date to the Late Neolithic, around the time Durrington Walls was constructed. Most reach depths of 4.5–6.9 metres, with fine clay-silt layers suggesting gradual infilling over time.
Early findings confirm the pits are human-made and date to the Late Neolithic, around the time Durrington Walls was constructed. Most reach depths of 4.5–6.9 metres, with fine clay-silt layers suggesting gradual infilling over time.
New research uncovers secrets of Stonehenge’s vast Neolithic pits - 2025 - News - University of Bradford
New research led by archaeologists from the University of Bradford is transforming our understanding of one of Britain’s most extraordinary prehistoric discoveries – the vast ring of Neolithic pits ne...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Early findings confirm the pits are human-made and date to the Late Neolithic, around the time Durrington Walls was constructed. Most reach depths of 4.5–6.9 metres, with fine clay-silt layers suggesting gradual infilling over time.
Early findings confirm the pits are human-made and date to the Late Neolithic, around the time Durrington Walls was constructed. Most reach depths of 4.5–6.9 metres, with fine clay-silt layers suggesting gradual infilling over time.
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Did Neandertals choose their prey when practicing cannibalism?🍖
Check out our new study, just published in Scientific Reports - @natureportfolio.nature.com!
We provide the strongest evidence to date for a highly selective cannibalism at the end of Neandertal lineage, 41-45.000 years ago.
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Check out our new study, just published in Scientific Reports - @natureportfolio.nature.com!
We provide the strongest evidence to date for a highly selective cannibalism at the end of Neandertal lineage, 41-45.000 years ago.
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Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey
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November 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Did Neandertals choose their prey when practicing cannibalism?🍖
Check out our new study, just published in Scientific Reports - @natureportfolio.nature.com!
We provide the strongest evidence to date for a highly selective cannibalism at the end of Neandertal lineage, 41-45.000 years ago.
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Check out our new study, just published in Scientific Reports - @natureportfolio.nature.com!
We provide the strongest evidence to date for a highly selective cannibalism at the end of Neandertal lineage, 41-45.000 years ago.
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How about "Where is our heritage demonstrably most risk from metal detecting"? It isn't lost, it's part of the archaeological record.
Cc @Tess_Machling🏺
#FindsFriday
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Cc @Tess_Machling🏺
#FindsFriday
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Where in the UK is the greatest amount of hidden treasure?
Objects uncovered have included precious Viking coins and a Roman earwax scoop
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November 14, 2025 at 7:05 AM
How about "Where is our heritage demonstrably most risk from metal detecting"? It isn't lost, it's part of the archaeological record.
Cc @Tess_Machling🏺
#FindsFriday
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Cc @Tess_Machling🏺
#FindsFriday
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An Cailleach brings the winter 🌬️
The mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter, and is associated with storms, reshaping the landscape, and horned beasts like deer. She defies convention and is a force for regeneration.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
The mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter, and is associated with storms, reshaping the landscape, and horned beasts like deer. She defies convention and is a force for regeneration.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
An Cailleach brings the winter 🌬️
The mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter, and is associated with storms, reshaping the landscape, and horned beasts like deer. She defies convention and is a force for regeneration.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
The mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter, and is associated with storms, reshaping the landscape, and horned beasts like deer. She defies convention and is a force for regeneration.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
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One of the most powerful WWI poets. It’s this poem
—not the clean, dignified, civilised ceremony at the memorial — that shows us the reality of war.
—not the clean, dignified, civilised ceremony at the memorial — that shows us the reality of war.
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
One of the most powerful WWI poets. It’s this poem
—not the clean, dignified, civilised ceremony at the memorial — that shows us the reality of war.
—not the clean, dignified, civilised ceremony at the memorial — that shows us the reality of war.
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Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
Op de Amerikaanse begraafplaats in Margraten is het opeens stil geworden rond de zwarte Amerikanen die hielpen Nederland bevrijden. Twee panelen die hun bijdrage herdachten – én wezen op hun strijd tegen racisme binnen het leger – werden zonder toelichting verwijderd.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
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A fossil filled concretion chunk - eroded out of shale layers. Almost all of the visible fossils are Goniatites - ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus.
County Clare, Ireland.
County Clare, Ireland.
November 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
A fossil filled concretion chunk - eroded out of shale layers. Almost all of the visible fossils are Goniatites - ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus.
County Clare, Ireland.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Op de Amerikaanse begraafplaats in Margraten is het opeens stil geworden rond de zwarte Amerikanen die hielpen Nederland bevrijden. Twee panelen die hun bijdrage herdachten – én wezen op hun strijd tegen racisme binnen het leger – werden zonder toelichting verwijderd. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
Monument: Op de Amerikaanse begraafplaats in Margraten is het opeens stil geworden rond de zwarte Amerikanen die hielpen Nederland bevrijden. Twee panelen die hun bijdrage herdachten – én wezen op hun...
www.nrc.nl
November 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Op de Amerikaanse begraafplaats in Margraten is het opeens stil geworden rond de zwarte Amerikanen die hielpen Nederland bevrijden. Twee panelen die hun bijdrage herdachten – én wezen op hun strijd tegen racisme binnen het leger – werden zonder toelichting verwijderd. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
