Mirco Brunner

Achieving Equality: Why There Was Not as Much Inequality in Prehistoric Europe as We Imagine
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Several archaeologists excavating in a square pit with several terraced layers.

Did mosquitos help find Europe's first farmers? #WorldMosquitoDay 🦟
Draining a lake in Albania to combat malaria uncovered waterlogged wooden structures. Dating to c. 5300 BC, they make up one of the earliest agricultural settlements in Europe! 🏺#Archaeology

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This Arctic murder mystery remains unsolved after 150 years Bad luck or bad blood might have caused the death of Charles Francis Hall on this disastrous voyage to the North Pole—but the jury is still out.

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YouTube video by Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle Das Metallurgen-Grab von Stedten | Museum exklusiv

1963 wurde auf dem Silberhügel im Tagebau Amsdorf-Etzdorf (Landkreis Mansfeld-Südharz) beim Kiesabbau ein Steinkistengrab von einem Bagger aufgerissen. Die Kombination der Grabbeigaben bezeugt eine ungewöhnliche reiche Grabausstattung für einen Mann der Glockenbecherkultur.
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Oxford chemists identify honey offering in a 2,500-year-old shrine | Researchers in the University of Oxford’s Department of Chemistry have solved a decades-old archaeological puzzle by re-investigating the molecular composition of an intriguing residue found in

NEW: Researchers from our Department of Chemistry have solved a decades-old archaeological mystery by re-examining the molecular makeup of a mysterious residue found in bronze jars from a 6th century BCE Greek shrine in Paestum, southern Italy.

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Our paper on the Dunavec site has made it onto the front page of @antiquity.ac.uk : antiquity.ac.uk

Oblique aerial view of a square, tiered excavation.

Excavation at the Neolithic pile-dwelling settlement of Dunavec, Albania 🏺 #Archaeology

Found at the bottom of a lake, researchers dated the waterlogged wooden remains, indicating Dunavec was occupied by some of the first farmers in Europe.

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Several archaeologists excavating in a square pit with several terraced layers.

Archaeologists excavating at a Neolithic pile-dwelling settlement at Lake Maliq, Albania 🏺

Waterlogging preserved wooden structures at the site and dendrochronology of them indicates it was one of the first farming settlements in Europe #Woodensday

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Cover of the June 2025 issue of Antiquity, featuring three photographs of the Neolithic passage tomb of Newgrange in Ireland before, during and after excavation.

Our June issue is out now! Featuring great #archaeology 🏺 like:

👗 Prehistoric Indonesian clothing production
🏰 Medieval Asia's extensive wall systems
🪆 Ceramic puppets from Central America

& more! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Black-and-white photograph of box grid excavations at the bottom of a drained lake. A series of square trenches are separated by a grid of preserved vertical trenches known as baulks.

Photograph from 1971 excavations at the Neolithic pile-dwelling settlement of Dunavec, Albania #WaybackWednesday 🏺

50 years later, new excavations provide the first secure absolute dates, indicating it was a key site in the expansion of agriculture into Europe.

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Oblique aerial view of a square, tiered excavation.

NEW This isn't a funnel to the underworld, it's excavation at Neolithic Dunavec, Albania! 🏺

Found at the bottom of a lake, researchers dated the waterlogged wooden remains, indicating Dunavec was occupied by some of the first farmers in Europe.

Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...