Harry Fokkens
@harryfokkens.bsky.social
Em. Professor of European Prehistory at Leiden Universty.
Interested in the cultural transformations in the 3rd Millennium BCE
Interested in the cultural transformations in the 3rd Millennium BCE
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Detailed preprint on the genetics of early farming (TRB-Funnelbeaker associated) and persistent hunter-fisher-gatherer (Pitted Ware-associated) communities on Gotland. Discusses patterns of genetic relatives in both groups, admixture between the groups...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Detailed preprint on the genetics of early farming (TRB-Funnelbeaker associated) and persistent hunter-fisher-gatherer (Pitted Ware-associated) communities on Gotland. Discusses patterns of genetic relatives in both groups, admixture between the groups...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org
December 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Detailed preprint on the genetics of early farming (TRB-Funnelbeaker associated) and persistent hunter-fisher-gatherer (Pitted Ware-associated) communities on Gotland. Discusses patterns of genetic relatives in both groups, admixture between the groups...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Detailed preprint on the genetics of early farming (TRB-Funnelbeaker associated) and persistent hunter-fisher-gatherer (Pitted Ware-associated) communities on Gotland. Discusses patterns of genetic relatives in both groups, admixture between the groups...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Oh, look! My friends around Magdalena Fraser & Federico Sanchez-Quinto et al have a new study analyzing more high-coverage Neolithic #aDNA genomes from the Baltic island of Gotland (including pathogens!!!) 👀 🧪 🏺
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Ancestry, admixture, and pathogens in contemporaneous Neolithic farmers and foragers on the Island of Gotland
Two archaeological cultural complexes coexisted on Gotland for over 500 years, between ~3300 and 2800 calBCE, i.e. the Neolithic Funnelbeaker culture (FBC), and the Pitted ware culture (PWC). The ance...
www.biorxiv.org
December 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Oh, look! My friends around Magdalena Fraser & Federico Sanchez-Quinto et al have a new study analyzing more high-coverage Neolithic #aDNA genomes from the Baltic island of Gotland (including pathogens!!!) 👀 🧪 🏺
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Also Iceland will not participate in that song happening because Israel is not excluded! nos.nl/l/2594020
Ook IJsland doet komend jaar niet mee aan songfestival om deelname Israël
Het land is niet blij dat Israël niet wordt uitgesloten van deelname.
nos.nl
December 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Also Iceland will not participate in that song happening because Israel is not excluded! nos.nl/l/2594020
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NEW Isotope analysis of copper artefacts from Bronze Age Möriken-Wildegg, Switzerland finds some copper was likely sourced as far away as Cyprus, indicating that, c.1400 BC, even rural communities were involved in the extensive Eurasian market networks.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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December 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
NEW Isotope analysis of copper artefacts from Bronze Age Möriken-Wildegg, Switzerland finds some copper was likely sourced as far away as Cyprus, indicating that, c.1400 BC, even rural communities were involved in the extensive Eurasian market networks.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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Listen now on your favourite podcast platforms, including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc, or on our Abarta Heritage website, where you can find shownotes and links to the papers:
www.abartaheritage.ie/kinship-cult...
www.abartaheritage.ie/kinship-cult...
Kinship, Culture, & Death in Neolithic Ireland Amplify Archaeology
In this episode of Amplify Archaeology Podcast, Neil chats with Dr Jessica Smyth, Dr Neil Carlin and Dr Susan Greaney about Neolithic Ireland
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December 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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I’m writing up this year’s top discoveries from ancient DNA and it reminded me to circulate a link to last year’s top 10 list. Some amazing stuff there and remarkable how fast this field moves!
www.johnhawks.net/p/top-10-dis...
www.johnhawks.net/p/top-10-dis...
Top 10 discoveries about ancient people from DNA in 2024
New resolution is emerging of some events in ancient human populations, and a clearer view of some parts of the genome.
www.johnhawks.net
December 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I’m writing up this year’s top discoveries from ancient DNA and it reminded me to circulate a link to last year’s top 10 list. Some amazing stuff there and remarkable how fast this field moves!
www.johnhawks.net/p/top-10-dis...
www.johnhawks.net/p/top-10-dis...
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Another #aDNA preprint! We recovered DNA from 7,000 year old (!) goat leather from Cueva de los Murciélagos - and see a genetic link with Bermeya goats today!
Credit to Francisco Martínez-Sevilla for seeing me on Youtube(?!) + reaching out to collaborate - there's still value in the internet.
Credit to Francisco Martínez-Sevilla for seeing me on Youtube(?!) + reaching out to collaborate - there's still value in the internet.
Genetic analysis of 7,000 year old preserved goat leather from Cueva de los Murciélagos (Albuñol, Spain).
Advances in ancient DNA research have expanded the range of materials from which genetic information can be recovered, enabling the analysis of atypical materials. These often preserve both host and e...
www.biorxiv.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Another #aDNA preprint! We recovered DNA from 7,000 year old (!) goat leather from Cueva de los Murciélagos - and see a genetic link with Bermeya goats today!
Credit to Francisco Martínez-Sevilla for seeing me on Youtube(?!) + reaching out to collaborate - there's still value in the internet.
Credit to Francisco Martínez-Sevilla for seeing me on Youtube(?!) + reaching out to collaborate - there's still value in the internet.
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Interesting investigation into a dodgy Elsevier journal -- with the additional nugget that the CEO of Elsevier's parent company made more than €15 million in total compensation last year.
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...
english.elpais.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Interesting investigation into a dodgy Elsevier journal -- with the additional nugget that the CEO of Elsevier's parent company made more than €15 million in total compensation last year.
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
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And earlier than that too. There are few things more human than travelling, with our without a crisis to motivate you. In fact crisis-only models of migration are historically quite recent. People journey for all sorts of reasons and always have
November 30, 2025 at 10:26 PM
And earlier than that too. There are few things more human than travelling, with our without a crisis to motivate you. In fact crisis-only models of migration are historically quite recent. People journey for all sorts of reasons and always have
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Three large coins hoards have been discovered in an ancient Roman residential block in Senon, northeastern France.
Photo credit Simon Ritz/Inrap www.inrap.fr/un-quartier-...
Photo credit Simon Ritz/Inrap www.inrap.fr/un-quartier-...
November 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Three large coins hoards have been discovered in an ancient Roman residential block in Senon, northeastern France.
Photo credit Simon Ritz/Inrap www.inrap.fr/un-quartier-...
Photo credit Simon Ritz/Inrap www.inrap.fr/un-quartier-...
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wat zijn de consequenties? www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
NRC rectificeert berichtgeving rondom informateur Wijers
Beste lezer, Deze week zijn er nieuwe feiten bekend geworden over onze berichtgeving over informateur Hans Wijers. Na nader intern onderzoek moeten we constateren dat we bij het voorleggen van zijn ve...
www.nrc.nl
November 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
wat zijn de consequenties? www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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www.anatolianarchaeology.net/an-amphithea...
Archaeologists have now exposed the entire floor, hewn directly into the limestone, alongside multiple human heads carved into the walls and several seated human statues positioned around the interior
Archaeologists have now exposed the entire floor, hewn directly into the limestone, alongside multiple human heads carved into the walls and several seated human statues positioned around the interior
An amphitheater-like Neolithic structure has been uncovered at Karahantepe in southeastern Türkiye - Anatolian Archaeology
A newly uncovered amphitheater-like structure at Karahantepe reveals how early Neolithic communities gathered, performed
www.anatolianarchaeology.net
November 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
www.anatolianarchaeology.net/an-amphithea...
Archaeologists have now exposed the entire floor, hewn directly into the limestone, alongside multiple human heads carved into the walls and several seated human statues positioned around the interior
Archaeologists have now exposed the entire floor, hewn directly into the limestone, alongside multiple human heads carved into the walls and several seated human statues positioned around the interior
Great find this.
What what I really like is the framing of this picture: a bunch of men gape at weapons and horse gear with at back a picture of a group of women laughing out loud😭
What what I really like is the framing of this picture: a bunch of men gape at weapons and horse gear with at back a picture of a group of women laughing out loud😭
#FindsFriday Transfixed by the Llyn Cerrig Bach votive assemblage 🥰 in St Fagans Museum on Tuesday in the expert hands of Adam Gwilt & @archaedelle.bsky.social, visiting with @richardosgood.bsky.social & the Op Nightingale team 👌
A great display mirroring deposition in the lake waters
📷 Dr Adelle
A great display mirroring deposition in the lake waters
📷 Dr Adelle
November 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Great find this.
What what I really like is the framing of this picture: a bunch of men gape at weapons and horse gear with at back a picture of a group of women laughing out loud😭
What what I really like is the framing of this picture: a bunch of men gape at weapons and horse gear with at back a picture of a group of women laughing out loud😭
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New report on how people engage with archaeology is out - Trowel and Error: A Public User Needs Survey. Lots to digest but key conclusions are: 1) archaeologists risk undervaluing and hiding ourselves, our practices and the role we play in society... www.archaeologyuk.org/our-work/tro...
Trowel and Error
A Public User Needs Survey for Archaeology
www.archaeologyuk.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
New report on how people engage with archaeology is out - Trowel and Error: A Public User Needs Survey. Lots to digest but key conclusions are: 1) archaeologists risk undervaluing and hiding ourselves, our practices and the role we play in society... www.archaeologyuk.org/our-work/tro...
Interesting. A doorway into the 'forest' but no fence😟
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Interesting. A doorway into the 'forest' but no fence😟
stunning!!
NEW Have archaeologists identified the largest nucleated settlement in prehistoric Ireland and Britain? Survey at Brusselstown Ring, one of the largest hillforts in Ireland, found evidence for potentially hundreds of occupied roundhouses!
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
stunning!!
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Cambridge’s #Archaeology journals are publishing an increasing amount of #openaccess (OA) #research. Read the latest articles here: ▶️ https://cup.org/3We1oBR
@antiquity.ac.uk @saa-aap.bsky.social @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
@antiquity.ac.uk @saa-aap.bsky.social @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Cambridge’s #Archaeology journals are publishing an increasing amount of #openaccess (OA) #research. Read the latest articles here: ▶️ https://cup.org/3We1oBR
@antiquity.ac.uk @saa-aap.bsky.social @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
@antiquity.ac.uk @saa-aap.bsky.social @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
Thourough methodology and convincing argumentation, it seems to me. Also an interesting interpretation with reference to Bradleys 1998 The significance of monuments.
New article in IA69 by Vince Gaffney and colleagues on the Neolithic pit structure at #Durrington Walls Henge includes new #OSL dates and #sedaDNA environmental studies. Results indicate a cohesive pit structure at a massive scale.
doi.org/10.11141/ia....
doi.org/10.11141/ia....
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...
intarch.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Thourough methodology and convincing argumentation, it seems to me. Also an interesting interpretation with reference to Bradleys 1998 The significance of monuments.