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Robin Peters
@robinpeters85.bsky.social
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Archaeologist | Prehistorian
interested in #neolithic europe, prehistoric rhineland, #rstats, playing guitar (badly)
Head of Field Office Titz, LVR-State Service for Archaeological Heritage Managment in the Rhineland (privat account/personal opinion)
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Gutes #Geschichte & #Archäologie 🏺 TV-Doku-Format von artede.bsky.social, das versucht gängige populäre Geschichtsnarrative zu hinterfragen. Die Folgen zu Arbeit, Tausch, und Eigentum sind klasse! 👍

www.arte.tv/de/videos/RC...
Stimmt es, dass ...? - Geschichte | ARTE
War die Pest die schlimmste Epidemie aller Zeiten? Haben wir früher härter gearbeitet als heute? Und stimmt es, dass Tausch die erste Währung war? Das Geschichtsmagazin "Stimmt es, dass ...?" hinterfr...
www.arte.tv
November 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
robinpeters85.bsky.social
Ethnicity ≠ genes ≠ language ≠ archaeological objects 🏺

Ethnicity is a social construct.
Ethnicity is dynamic.
Ethnicity is messy.

👇

doi.org/10.1017/S138...
Ethnicity in European archaeology: revitalizing a concept with the study of migration | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core
Ethnicity in European archaeology: revitalizing a concept with the study of migration
www.cambridge.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
robinpeters85.bsky.social
Very interesting reading: Bourgeois et al argue Corded Ware burial rituals emerge latest in regions closest to the steppe. This is in stark contrast to the proposed dispersal of steppe ancestry from East to West (Yamnaya hypothesis)
#Archaeology #aDNA #Archaeogenetics
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Spatiotemporal reconstruction of Corded Ware and Bell Beaker burial rituals reveals complex dynamics divergent from steppe ancestry
Chronological modeling shows fast, polyfocal dissemination of Corded Ware and Beaker rites before rapid Pan-European convergence.
www.science.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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arindaillustration.bsky.social
Graphic Recording des Podcasts "KI und Faschismus"- ein sehr interessantes Interview mit
@rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social , Professor für Ethik der Künstlichen Intelligenz. Sein Buch "Künstliche Intelligenz und der neue Faschismus" ist bei Reclam erschienen! (Das Philosophische Radio) #graphicrecording
October 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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profaliceroberts.bsky.social
I’m delighted to see that Richard Taylor has won his defamation case against the producers of this film. It was awful to see archaeological colleagues misrepresented, cast as villains to fit a lazy narrative. But remarkably, the producers “remain proud of the film”!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Man gets payout over portrayal in Steve Coogan Richard III film
Richard Taylor sued Steve Coogan and two production companies over his portrayal in the movie.
www.bbc.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Cool to see a photo of the excavation team! 👍The finds don't dig up themselfs.
October 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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medievalists.bsky.social
Early Medieval Settlement Unearthed in Northern England www.medievalists.net/2025/08/earl... #archaeology
Early Medieval Settlement Unearthed in Northern England - Medievalists.net
Archaeologists have uncovered an early medieval settlement in Northumberland, England, dating to the 6th–7th and 11th–12th centuries, revealing rare insights into daily life in medieval Europe.
www.medievalists.net
October 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
robinpeters85.bsky.social
R. Steinacher in der @taz.de "Man wird ja wohl noch sagen dürfen, dass die Invasionen der Barbaren Rom dieses Problem im Stadtbild beschert haben!" 😅
#Archäologie #Antike

www.taz.de/!6118137
Wer hat Angst vorm Mittelalter?
Mit apokalyptischen Szenarien warnen Rechte vor Migration. Die Zuwanderung seit 2015 werde Europa in die Knie zwingen wie damals die Römer, so die Erzählung. Doch was brachte das Römische Reich wirkli...
www.taz.de
October 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Visited the High Fens (Hohes Venn) today — a landscape dating back thousands of years.
Palaeoenvironmental evidence from the peat deposits reveal how humans interacted with this upland ecosystem since prehistoric times.
A living archive of natural & cultural history.
#Nature #Archaeology #Belgium
October 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Lesenswert! 👇
October 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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anthropology.net
New study of 7,000-year-old seeds in Germany shows Neolithic farmers expanded beyond einkorn & emmer, betting on barley & naked wheat to spread risk. Early agriculture was dynamic, not static. #Archaeology #Neolithic #Anthropology #FarmingHistory www.anthropology.net/p/when-farme...
When Farmers Gambled on Diversity: How Neolithic Communities in the Rhineland Transformed Their Fields
A new archaeobotanical study reveals how early European farmers shifted from einkorn and emmer to a more flexible, risk-spreading crop strategy nearly 7,000 years ago.
www.anthropology.net
October 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
robinpeters85.bsky.social
Anna Källèn's The Trouble with Ancient DNA is a great read. She convincingly argues that #Archaeogenetics are often falsely portrayed as a 'neutral machine where unbiased truths about ancient people (...) come straight out of bone powder.'
#Archaeology, #aDNA
Photo of Anna Källèn's book "The Trouble with Ancient DNA"
October 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Although it may not be a "looker," it is one of the few proofs that bronze was cast in the Northern Rhine Region during the Bronze Age. Thanks to my colleague Markus, who had a closer look and realised this is not a stone like any other. 😜
#Archaeology
bodendenkmalpflege.lvr.de/de/aktuelles...
October 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
robinpeters85.bsky.social
This nature restoration project in Norfolk sounds great. I wonder if they're cooperating with archaeologists/ethnobotanists.
#renaturation
#archaeology
#wetlands

‘It’s resurrection’: 1,000-year-old seeds could grow ancient plants in England’s ice-age ghost ponds
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It’s resurrection’: 1,000-year-old seeds could grow ancient plants in England’s ice-age ghost ponds
An expert team are resurrecting ice age ponds and finding rare species returning from a ‘perfect time capsule’
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Harvest season at the Iron Age farmstead in Titz
September 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
robinpeters85.bsky.social
Ladyshaver? LVR-ABRs find of the month September is an early Iron Age razor blade found as grave good in a woman’s grave at Bergheim-Paffendorf. One more example that the issue of gendered gave goods is not straightforward. #archaeology #gender #stereotypes

bodendenkmalpflege.lvr.de/de/aktuelles...
Razor Blade made of bronze.
September 2, 2025 at 7:08 AM
robinpeters85.bsky.social
If you’re into walking & archaeology, check out the Planlauf Terrain App, which offers high-resolution LiDAR data & GPS positioning. Perfect for exploring earthworks (e.g. @megalithic.bsky.social) while hiking or surveying. At least in forested regions. 😉

#GIS

planlaufterrain.com/App/
August 23, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Reposted by Robin Peters
pennybickle.bsky.social
New paper! Were cemeteries of the LBK long-lived, starting in the east and spreading westwards slowly? Our new 14C dates suggest they started contemporaneously across the LBK and were fairly short-lived (though this depends on what you mean by "short"...) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
New temporal dimensions of the Linearbandkeramik cemetery horizon in Schwetzingen (Germany) | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
New temporal dimensions of the Linearbandkeramik cemetery horizon in Schwetzingen (Germany)
www.cambridge.org
August 18, 2025 at 8:16 AM
robinpeters85.bsky.social
An unusual but very meaningful task: my colleagues uncovered a British WWII aircraft near Kerpen-Manheim.
#ConflictArchaeology #WWII

www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
Archäologen graben Trümmer eines britischen Weltkriegsbombers aus
Im Rheinischen Revier suchen Archäologen meistens nach Spuren aus der Römerzeit. Doch am Tagebau Hambach sind nun Überreste eines britischen Militärflugzeugs geborgen worden – und menschliche Knochen.
www.spiegel.de
August 18, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Archaeological data should be accessible but also beautifully visible! The sdsbrowser by @clemensschmid.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy & (#rstats) does a very good job showcasing lithic data. You can download, but also use a table view, plots & diagrams to get a 1st impression. 👍 sds.ufg.uni-kiel.de
August 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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I'm pleased to announce that earlier this year Nadia's and my PhD theses on the #Linearbandkeramik site of Arnoldsweiler have been published. 🎉 Arnoldsweiler is a remarkable Early #Neolithic settlement in western Germany with a well, a ditched enclosure, & a cemetery. Comments & reviews are welcome.
July 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
robinpeters85.bsky.social
👋 Hi everybody
I’m Robin Peters, an archaeologist at the LVR State Service for Archaeological Heritage Management in the Rhineland.
My work focuses on prehistoric settlement and funeral archaeology.
Looking forward to sharing science, discussing new papers, and connecting with curious minds! 👍
July 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM