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My photo collage shows four images of small animal figurines carved from amber during the Danish Mesolithic period. Top left: profile photo of the head, neck, and part of the front torso of an animal (bear?) facing left. Carved from deep orange amber. Found at Bølling Sø (lake) Central Jutland, Denmark. Top right: small almost complete figurine of an amber bear seen in profile facing right. The lower legs are incomplete. The ears, muzzle and mouth are defined. Carved from translucent orange amber. Washed up on a beach at Fanø, Denmark. Bottom left: small figurine in the shape of a bear(?) carved from dark orange amber. It is known asvthe Resen Bear. There is fine incised geometric ornamentation on the body. Found in a bog at Resen, Denmark. Bottom left: bright orange amber animal head shown in profile facing left. Found in 1952 at Egemarke in Denmark, it is known as the Egemarke Elk. It is decorated with incised bands of closely aligned parallel zig-zag lines. There are two circular perforations at the bottom of the neck. All on display at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen.

Something lovely for the weekend!

Magical amber animals from the Mesolithic. Carved between 10,000-7,000 years ago.

Amber can generate static electricity⚡️ For their ancient owners, these small animals could give off sparks in the dark and make hair stand on end, as if by magic✨
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YouTube video by Gresham College Witch-Hunting in European and World History - Ronald Hutton

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Exquisite illumination, can't help but think that its composition may have been influenced by descriptions of an Elephant. 🤔

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Traffic camera photo in Kilpisjärvi, Enontekiö at 9.00 local time. The photo shows snowy road and a traffic sign with about 5 cm snow on the ground.

First snow of the season in Finland has fallen today morning in Enontekiö, Lapland.

This year, the first snow was about three weeks late. Usually the first measurable snow is registered somewhere in the country in late September.

YouTube video by ReligionForBreakfast Excavating Göbekli Tepe: An Interview with Archaeologist Jens Notroff

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Homophobic Christian Nationalist mob targets London’s gay district A homophobic religious mob calling themselves the ‘King’s Army’ organised an intimidating mob in the streets of London’s Soho – the heart of London’s LGBT+ community, home to many LGBT+ bars, clubs,…

The group describes itself as a ‘spiritual army’ opposed to ‘sin and cultural decay’, and ‘a coalition of Christians… who believe it’s time for the Church to stop living like civilians and start fighting like soldiers’. humanists.uk/2025/10/09/h...

Curious how we're working with farmers to boost biodiversity in the countryside? 🌾🐝

I just wrote a blog post for @gwct.org.uk about my research on pollinators & wild plants in farmland this summer

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A photo of a fragment of bone with the outline of a reindeer calf carved onto it.

For #FindsFriday I offer this gorgeous 15,000 year old engraving of a reindeer calf, nervously standing next to its mum. Found in the Madeleine rock shelter in the Dordogne, France. Part of the excellent Ice Age Art exhibition at the Cliffe Castle Museum in Keighley, Bradford. 🏺

Judge rules RSPB covert video surveillance is admissible evidence in prosecution of gamekeeper Racster Dingwall BREAKING NEWS….AND IT’S EXCELLENT NEWS! The District Judge presiding at York Magistrates Court has today ruled that the RSPB’s covert video and audio surveillance is to be conside…

Judge rules RSPB covert video surveillance is admissible evidence in prosecution of gamekeeper Racster Dingwall raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/09/j...

2/2 The party leading the polls wants to send refugees fleeing the Taliban, including women and girls, back into its clutches and wants to pay that vile regime to dispose of them as they see fit. The Final Solution of our times. Makes you proud to be British doesn’t it?

How bad science is becoming big business Fraudulent science is becoming an industry.

Department of Creative Industries course leader at #KingstonUni @Owen_Brierley has written for @ConversationUK about how bad science is big business 👇 theconversation.com/how-bad-scie...

The Mystery of the Desert Kites Documentary following an international team of archaeologists and researchers as they explore the extraordinary groups of megastructures that stretch across the Arabian desert.

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THE MAP: EXPANSION OF FARMING IN WESTERN EURASIA, 9600-4000 BCE
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Regional updates, particularly 🇺🇦. Colour and greyscale resolutions, and much asked for colour code and legend.

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This section of mosaic comes from a larger work held by the Musei Vaticani. Description from the Musei Vaticani: “This splendid mosaic, made up of tiny pieces of glass and coloured marble once decorated the floor of the dining room of a villa on the Aventine Hill in Rome at the time of the Emperor Hadrian. The decorative theme is that known as asarotos dikos, or "the unswept floor", created in the second century B.C. by Sosos of Pergamon and here by the artist Heraclitus, who has signed his name. The artist has created a floor which seems to be covered with the debris of a banquet, the remains that would normally be swept away: one can identify fruit, lobster claws, chicken bones, shellfish and even a tiny mouse who is gnawing a walnut shell. The solidity of the objects shown has been created by a clever use of colour to create shadows against the white background of the floor. Where the room would originally have had an entrance there is a design with theatrical masks and ritual objects; at the centre there is part of a complex Nile scene.”

Mondays can feel messy and given it’s #MosaicMonday we’re celebrating the messier side of Roman mosaics. The unswept floor style is credited by Pliny the Elder to the mosaicist Sosus of Pergamon. The style took off and celebrated the aftermath of a sumptuous banquet.

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The Murky Story of Our First Storytellers: On the Mysterious Evolution of Human Language In How Language Began, author and linguist Daniel Everett makes the controversial claim that our ancestors had been chatting with each other well before our species evolved. In which case, language…

Madeleine Beekman on Early Humans, Linguistic Acquisition, and the Glaring Gaps in Our Theories lithub.com/the-murky-st...

Wow! Some dedication to spot that -- Tilly looks suitably(for her) impressed 😀🐶

Very powerful stuff from the President of Ireland on stopping the starvation in #gaza

Jersey Tiger Moth. Car Park, Waitrose, Salisbury.

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

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Unveiling the multifunctional use of ochre in the Middle Stone Age: Specialized ochre retouchers from Blombos Cave Seven ochre artifacts from Blombos Cave show evidence of lithic retouching and pressure flaking, revealing specialized MSA tools.

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Is this a thing? Using AI to create fake adverts to boost website clicks?

This is how BA reported the story, in 2019 and 2020... I didn't have a lot to go on!

A stone axe with a light-colored, roughly shaped stone blade mounted horizontally on a wooden handle made of several jointed segments, displayed upright against a dark background.

This ca. 5,000-year-old Neolithic polished flint axe with its original ash wood handle is remarkable well preserved.

During the Neolithic period in Denmark, as agriculture began to expand, farmers had to clear the forests, which involved felling trees and burning away...🧵1/2

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YouTube video by BBC World Service Life at 50°C: Water Crisis - The Battle of Doongmabulla Springs | BBC World Service Documentaries

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