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Gerrit Dusseldorp 🟥
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Does Pleistocene Archaeology @ Leiden University https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/gerrit-dusseldorp#tab-1 Cricket | Natural history
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Gerrit Dusseldorp 🟥 @dussel.bsky.social · 17h
Metal detecting is at best a legalised tragedy of the commons, but so often just heritage crime.
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Steph Halmhofer, Big Archaeology @cultarchaeo.bsky.social · 1d
"...they are finding about 30 new holes in the ground each day... the activity has drastically increased over the past couple of weeks."

Hmmmm, this is concerning 🤔

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www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Parks Canada warns against unauthorized digs at parks along N.B.-N.S. border | CBC News
Parks Canada is raising the alarm over unauthorized archaeological activities at Fort Beauséjour–Fort Cumberland National Historic Site and Beaubassin and Fort Lawrence National Historic Sites.
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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 2d
Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem
Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 5d
Medieval sandal, from 14th century, found preserved in vultures nest on a cliff in southern Spain, a rough sandal woven from grasses and twigs

I'm not saying that vultures might also steal single socks from your laundry basket, but y'know...?

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Found: 650-year-old shoe, in vulture nest
Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests.
www.nationalgeographic.com
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Gerrit Dusseldorp 🟥 @dussel.bsky.social · 5d
Why now? A Dutch party leader lets slip that she thinks it is plausible Aboriginal societies only discovered fire use 40 years ago. This is a). rubbish and b). I think reflective of wider fallacious thinking about what societies should be striving towards.
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Gerrit Dusseldorp 🟥 @dussel.bsky.social · 5d
Wrote a brief newspaper summary of the sophistication of Australian hunter-gatherer ways of life @volkskrant.nl.

Take-home message: civilization is not a race to invention X, Y or Z, it is about enabling quality of life and the pursuit of happiness.

www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...
Opinie: Lachen om aboriginals? Ze hebben al tienduizenden jaren een rijk geestesleven
Technologie wordt vaak verward met civilisatie, blijkt ook uit het interview met Lidewij de Vos. Maar het gebruik van vuur of het stapelen van stenen tot pyramides zegt weinig over de kwaliteit van le...
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 7d
RIP Jane Goodall, by all accounts a wonderful woman who loved this Far Side cartoon
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Gerrit Dusseldorp 🟥 @dussel.bsky.social · 9d
Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 9d
Utilities, groceries, health care premiums all going sky high, and he’s blabbering on like he’s Louis XIV in Versailles.
The post from @realDonaldTrump claims that 24 Karat Gold was used in the Oval Office and Cabinet Room of the White House, impressing foreign leaders and others with its quality and beauty. It describes this as the "Best Oval Office ever" in terms of success and appearance, signed by "President DJT."
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Gerrit Dusseldorp 🟥 @dussel.bsky.social · 10d
Car exhaust fumes really do cause autism.

Trump's addiction to fossil fuels should make one cynical about his and RFK's latest red herring.

Stop whining about proven medical procedures and take on the car lobby!

But he's too much of a coward for that.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Prenatal exposure to criteria air pollution and traffic-related air toxics and risk of autism spectrum disorder: A population-based cohort study of California births (1990–2018)
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) prevalence has risen steadily in California (CA) over several decades, with environmental factors like air pollution (A…
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Gerrit Dusseldorp 🟥 @dussel.bsky.social · 12d
Had to go see it one final time.
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Gerrit Dusseldorp 🟥 @dussel.bsky.social · 12d
It was a privilege and pleasure to be able to see the Homo erectus type specimen in my hometown.

Now the fossils are returning home.

www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/...
The Netherlands to Return Dubois Collection Fossils to Indonesia
The Dutch government has decided to return the Dubois Collection to Indonesia.
www.naturalis.nl
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Camilla Mazzucato @camillamazzucato.bsky.social · 12d
AviArch is hiring! archaeobiomics.com/aviarch-avif... 🦆🦢🪺🐦🏺
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Sidestone Press @sidestone.bsky.social · 13d
OUT NOW!
Intent on the Paleolithic
Papers in honour of Prof. Dr. Wil Roebroeks
edited by Gerrit L. Dusseldorp, Wei Chu, Corrie Bakels & Marie Soressi

📚 Read online for free or purchase your own volume at www.sidestone.com/books/intent...

#Analecta
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Gerrit Dusseldorp 🟥 @dussel.bsky.social · 16d
My better half has had an asteroid named after her! Super cool!
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Marco Langbroek @marcolangbroek.bsky.social · 16d
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It gives me much pleasure to be able to announce that, on my suggestion, the Working Group on Small Body Nomenclature (WGSBN) of the IAU announced yesterday the naming of asteroid:

(732272) Langejans

...after TU Delft scientist Geeske Langejans.
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Gerrit Dusseldorp 🟥 @dussel.bsky.social · 16d
Forgot to tag our publisher @sidestone.bsky.social
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Gerrit Dusseldorp 🟥 @dussel.bsky.social · 16d
Publication alert 🏺! The 55th volume of the Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia contains a series of contributions celebrating the illustrious career of Palaeolithic archaeologist Wil Roebroeks.

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Intent on the Paleolithic @ Sidestone Press
This collection of papers was compiled in celebration of the remarkable academic career of Professor Wil Roebroeks, who has established himself as one of Europe’s leading figures in Palaeolithic archa...
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Gerrit Dusseldorp 🟥 @dussel.bsky.social · 19d
Walt Disney Company apparently planning to make further changes after cancelling Disney Kimmel. @disneyanimation.tumblr.com.web.brid.gy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vRX...
Jimmy Kimmel’s show has been cancelled | The New Disney | LUBACH
YouTube video by LUBACH
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Gerrit Dusseldorp 🟥 @dussel.bsky.social · 21d
Sago vind ik eigenlijk het interessantst. Stel ik me daarbij een zetmeel prakje van aardappelpuree-achtige consistentie bij voor?
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 22d
"a former museum curator advised [a collector] to keep the fact that he owned [a looted antiquity] on the down-low, investigators said. 'If you limit access to your emperor to dinner guests and clueless meter readers, you should be fine'..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/a...
Arrest Warrant Says Buyer of ‘Nude Emperor’ Bronze Knew It Was Looted
www.nytimes.com
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Gerrit Dusseldorp 🟥 @dussel.bsky.social · 22d
Investing in South African gold mining as a Ponzi scheme.

Very interesting observations by Boom2Dust research project.

www.boom2dust.nl/blog/acacia-...
B2D
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Menno van den Bos @mennovdbos.bsky.social · 23d
Extreem eenzijdig verhaal. Met Baudet als bron, want die werd ooit in België met een paraplu geslagen en dat toont aan dat je in Nederland niks kan zeggen, ofzo. Geen letter over alle bedreigingen van wetenschappers uit rechtse hoek.

En dat Brekelmans moest 'vluchten' van de UvA is een verzinsel.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 24d
'Homo sapiens, Denisovan and Neanderthal attention differed in degree rather than kind.'
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Towards an archaeology of attention: A neuro-genetic exploration
Late, large-brained humans such as Homo sapiens, Denisovans and Neanderthals are/were obligatory tool users. Making and using technology requires atte…
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Gerrit Dusseldorp 🟥 @dussel.bsky.social · 27d
This is a Dutch one of my mom. But unsure if this would be likely to have made it to Polynesia.
Dutch porcelain plate with elephant decoration
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Gerrit Dusseldorp 🟥 @dussel.bsky.social · 27d
There are, but perhaps less likely, Dutch similar scenes from Regout, Maastricht.
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Gerrit Dusseldorp 🟥 @dussel.bsky.social · 28d
My mom suggests "Spode, Indian Sporting Series" made from c. 1815
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Gerrit Dusseldorp 🟥 @dussel.bsky.social · Sep 8
Newsflash: "Complementary medicine" (Read: quackery) does not work.
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Sep 8
An umbrella review in Nature Human Behaviour finds that there is no high-quality evidence to support the efficacy of complementary, alternative and integrative medicines to treat symptoms of autism. Several CAIMs showed promising results, but they were supported by very low-quality evidence. 🧪
Complementary, alternative and integrative medicine for autism: an umbrella review and online platform - Nature Human Behaviour
The use of complementary, alternative and integrative medicine (CAIM) is highly prevalent among autistic individuals. This umbrella review finds that there is no high-quality evidence to support the efficacy of any CAIM for core or associated symptoms of autism. Although several CAIMs showed promising results, they were supported by very low-quality evidence.
go.nature.com
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