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trstngnthr.bsky.social
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...
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
vaclavhrncir.bsky.social
Cultural transformations followed different regional trajectories, especially in areas of the inner peripheries.

🏺 #archaelogy #Neolithic
December 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
archbot44.bsky.social
Grateful to have the best team @pi-hisoka.bsky.social and I could ask for. The HERDS crew had a blast at the Seminar for Arabian Studies last week and now are back to crushing it excavating Neolithic campsites in Al Khashbah 🇴🇲 🏺
The HERDS team in front of the Zayed National Museum Checking out the Neolithic exhibits at Zayed National Museum Back to work excavating in Al Khashbah HERDS Team having fun on site
December 16, 2025 at 11:59 AM
jfcudennec.bsky.social
1/ Last week I attended to a conference entilted "Interactions between human societies and marine invertebrates" (I love how niche and obscure these meetings are), and I learned about the Neolithic desert kites, these huge traps in Middle East.

The link with marine inverts ? A quick thread ! 🦑🏺
Aerial view of the Jibal al‑Khashabiyeh desert kite : a system of stone walls constituting an anclosure were wild animals were trapped
December 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
tuatha.ie
For today's edition of our free #MonumentMonday newsletter, we take a little virtual visit to County Roscommon to visit a Neolithic portal tomb in a truly evocative location!

#SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Roscommon #Archaeology 🏺
An enormous mossy capstone supported by equally mossy upright stones in a wood in Roscommon, Ireland.
December 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
antiquity.ac.uk
Was lard used to build #Stonehenge? #NationalLardDay
Lipid residues in pottery from the nearby Neolithic village of Durrington Walls suggested animal fats may have been used as lubricants, helping transport Stonehenge's megaliths on 'greased sleds'.

(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
A Grooved Ware pottery vessel from Durrington Walls: a cylindrical clay pot in various shades of brown, orange and grey, decorated with incised lines making a geometric pattern. Reproduced with kind permission of Salisbury Museum CC.
December 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
jensnotroff.com
With all these recent #TasTepeler news and finds this barely three weeks old interview with Necmi Karul almost seems a bit outdated - but still offers some really fascinating insight into this ongoing large-scale #Neolithic research project in Türkiye:

🏺 www.thecollector.com/karahantepe-...
“The Earliest 3D Story”, Necmi Karul on Karahantepe's Latest Discoveries | TheCollector
An interview with Prof. Necmi Karul about Karahantepe’s Neolithic finds and the earliest three-dimensional storytelling scene.
www.thecollector.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
killgrove.bsky.social
9 out of 10 heads in a "skull pit" at a city in Neolithic China were male, according to a new DNA study, while most of the sacrifices made with elite burials were female. 🏺🧪
Male human heads found in a 'skull pit' in an ancient Chinese city hint at sex-specific sacrifice rituals
A genetic study of 80 skulls found at a Stone Age city in China has revealed that the sacrificed people were mostly men, in contrast to previous assumptions.
www.livescience.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
antiquity.ac.uk
A 'sun stone' from #Neolithic Bornholm, Denmark. They were deposited en-masse, and ice cores showed that this deposition coincided with a volcanic eruption that blocked out the sun, suggesting they were buried as part of a ritual to bring it back.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
A round stone plaque engraved with a sun motif.
December 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
antiquity.ac.uk
NEW Archaeologists play 6000-year-old shell trumpets from Neolithic Catalonia, revealing they were highly effective for long-distance communication and may have also been used as musical instruments.

A jazzy #AntiquityThread 1/11 🧵

🏺 #Archaeology
Miquel López-Garcia playing one of the shell trumpets from Mas d’en Boixos during a test at the Vinseum museum (Vilafranca del Penedès).
December 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
antiquity.ac.uk
Our December issue is out now! Featuring great #archaeology such as:

🔵 The oldest blue mineral pigment use in Europe
⛰️ Mesoamerican mountain monuments and water worship
🐚 Playing the shell trumpets of Neolithic Catalonia

& much more! 🏺
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Cover of the December 2025 issue of Antiquity, featuring a photogrammetric image of an ancient quarry, with evidence for the quarrying of stone and a partially complete humanoid statue lying on its back.
December 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
twigtechnology.bsky.social
Quick check on the Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles today, in 60 mph winds. Extremely proud that this important ancient site is now fully community owned.

#Orkney 🧪🏺💀
The entrance to a sandstone tomb built around 5000 years ago, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
November 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
antiquity.ac.uk
📰 >11,000-year-old statues from Şanlıurfa Province, Türkiye hint at death rituals and symbolic expression within #Neolithic communities in southwest Asia

🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @the-independent.com

www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Discovery of ancient statues rewrites prehistoric human history
Experts say the find sheds light on death rituals in the Neolithic age
www.independent.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
ruthfcarden.bsky.social
Wildcat bones dating back over 5,500 years ago uncovered during dig in the Burren #Ireland

Marion Dowd of ATU Sligo & team found partial skeleton of a male wild cat in a cave in west of Ireland, from the middle Neolithic.

#cats 🏺🦣

www.rte.ie/news/munster...
Wildcat bones found in Co Clare dated to 5,500 years ago
The first directly dated wildcat bones found in Ireland have been identified, confirming that the species inhabited the island more than 5,500 years ago.
www.rte.ie
November 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
antiquity.ac.uk
Hairpins and needles made of bone from Neolithic China for #PinsAndNeedlesDay 🪡
Bone-working was important in prehistoric China, used to make many tools. Initially a household industry, it became more specialised and standardised over time.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
Ten pointed pieces of bone, some broken off partway along.
November 27, 2025 at 8:45 AM
jensnotroff.com
The more of these other #TasTepeler sites in SE #Türkiye is coming to light, the more fascinating the early #Neolithic of the region gets:

arkeonews.net/a-stunning-t...

Have a look at this just announced sculpture from #Sayburc, emphasized ribs already hinting at death, but there's more ... 🏺💀
Torso and head of a human stone sculpture, apparently standing in a glass showcase standing in the landscape (grass and soil is visible in the background) - the rib cage es emphasised with carved lines, the bald head has a only vaguely depicted nose and thick lips and eyes with horizontal lines.
November 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
antiquity.ac.uk
At late Yangshao culture (5300–4800 BP) settlements in Neolithic China, people built settlements surrounded by circular, often extensive ditch systems. New research suggests they were an intelligent way to collect, store and transport rainwater #WednesdayWisdom

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Stratigraphic section from one of the ditch systems at the Shuanghuaishu site, Henan Province. Much of the sediment was likely deposited during flooding and from flowing water in the ditch.
November 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social
#TombTuesday This overgrown pile of rocks is all that's left of a Neolithic tomb - Holm of Papay North in Orkney

Excavations in the 1980s found at least 18 red deer were placed here with the burials 5500 years ago!

Why?? 🤔

📸 Me

#archaeology #scotland #photooftheday 🏺
A tangle of stones and overgrown grass with a narrow passageway in between, under a blue sky
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
twigtechnology.bsky.social
Most people don’t know that part of a Steward’s job at Skara Brae is keeping away the #Orkney Neolithic demons.

I’ve just performed the salting ritual on our visitor centre (the site uses environmental and monument friendly artificial salt) 🧂😈🏺🧪
Photo of the entrance to the visitor centre at Skara Brae in Orkney. There’s a paved road leading away from sandstone buildings, with flagged steps leading down to the doors. Salt is scattered in patches across the ground, and a small white bucket of salt with a blue scoop is close by.
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM
adamibbotson.bsky.social
The so-called “Snake Stone”. A large fallen boulder below The Wainstones, a rocky outcrop in the North York Moors. 🤔

It has a single large piece of Neolithic rock art on it: a long line terminating in a dot. (zoom in to find it!)

#Archaeology #prehistory 🏺
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
mu-peter.bsky.social
The emergence and diversification of dog morphology 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This study looked at more than 640 canid crania over the past 50,000 years (see the Perspective by Fillios) and found that by the beginning of the Holocene, dogs already displayed extensive variation.
Morphometric variation of Mesolithic-Neolithic morphological dogs.
November 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
drnwillburger.bsky.social
A late Neolithic dagger found in the pile dwelling site of the Roseninsel, Bavaria.The blade is made of flint from the Monti Lessini, upper Italy.
Dating 3500 - 2700 BC.

On display at Archäologische Staatssammlung München

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology
A leaf-shaped stone dagger with a flaked, uneven surface, mounted on a neutral gray background. The tool has a pointed tip and a wider base.
November 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
jensnotroff.com
No way this whole #Neolithic research stuff will ever get boring. Just look at this fantastic little clay #figurine from Nahal Ein Gev II (modern Israel), conveying a 12,000 years old #Natufian story …

🏺 phys.org/news/2025-11...
The woman and the goose: A 12,000-year-old glimpse into prehistoric belief
A 12,000-year-old clay figurine unearthed in northern Israel, depicting a woman and a goose, is the earliest known human-animal interaction figurine. Found at the Late Natufian site of Nahal Ein Gev I...
phys.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:23 PM
drnwillburger.bsky.social
A complete pottery vessel, featuring repairs mid-body and a cord tied around its neck.

Found in a Neolithic well in Altscherbitz, Saxony, dating 5100-5000 BC.
Multiple complete vessels have been discovered within the well. They may have been intentionally...🧵 1/2

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology
A rounded pottery vessel with a narrow, slightly flared rim and a cord wrapped tightly around its neck. The surface is a muted gray-brown with subtle incised lines. A repaired area is clearly visible on the mid-body, where a patch of lighter material fills a damaged section. The vessel sits on display against a softly lit background.
November 17, 2025 at 6:47 AM
antiquity.ac.uk
NEW The Fens of eastern England have been occupied since the Neolithic, but are threatened by environmental change. The Fenscapes project synthesises the region's rich archaeoenvironmental data to support both heritage and environmental preservation.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
Elevation map of the Fens showing present-day topography and major settlements. Insert: map of Britain with the Fens (an area of eastern England) highlighted.
November 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM