Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik

New essay out: Archaeology of the Future. A small reflection on how the world continues long after us, shaped by what we leave behind. dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2025/11/22/a...

LiDAR image of a prehistoric hunting trap on the Karst Plateau, highlighting the structure’s scale and integration into the landscape. CREDIT: Dimitrij Mlekuž Vrhovnik.

Airborne laser scanning reveals stone walls stretching several kilometers across Europe's Karst Plateau, on the border between Slovenia and Italy, likely built over 4,000 years ago to herd and corral red deer—a legacy of coordinated hunting. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/urYx50Xir5z

Europe’s Forgotten Megastructures: Stone Traps of Prehistoric Hunters A free platform for explaining your research in plain language, and managing how you communicate around it – so you can understand how best to increase its impact.

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Walls for the Hunt: Europe’s Forgotten Megastructures and the Rise of Prehistoric Cooperation Four massive stone traps hidden in the hills of Slovenia and Italy suggest that Europe’s earliest communities engineered landscapes to capture not just animals, but collective purpose.

Massive stone “funnels” found in Slovenia and Italy may be Europe’s oldest hunting megastructures—proof that early societies shaped landscapes through cooperation and ingenuity. #Archaeology #Prehistory #HumanEvolution @pnas.org www.anthropology.net/p/walls-for-...

Thanks! Yes, dating is definitely the weak link for now, and we’ll do everything we can to improve it.
These kinds of structures are pretty hard to date directly, but we’ll probably try surface exposure dating next.

Discovery of four stone megastructures could change our view of prehistoric societies Scientists have discovered evidence of stone megastructures on the Karst Plateau on the border of Slovenia and Italy that were most likely built before the Late Bronze Age.

Four newly identified stone megastructures on the Slovenia-Italy border suggest large-scale communal hunting in prehistoric Europe, indicating complex social organization and advanced landscape management. doi.org/g96x5w

What began as an weekend walks and curiosity among friends led to one of Europe’s largest prehistoric landscape discoveries.

A reminder that archaeology still holds vast, hidden stories, waiting in the folds of the land.

#Archaeology #PNAS #Karst #LiDAR

These massive guiding walls and pits show that hunter-gatherer communities in Europe organized collective labour and reshaped landscapes on a monumental scale.

They coordinated movement, terrain, and animal behaviour, turning the landscape itself into a hunting machine.
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Prehistoric hunting megastructures in the Adriatic hinterland | PNAS Airborne laser scanning survey of the Karst Plateau in the Adriatic hinterland has revealed four monumental dry-stone structures, characterized by ...

🚨 New paper out today in PNAS!
We report the discovery of prehistoric hunting megastructures on the Karst Plateau (Slovenia/Italy) – several-kilometre-long dry-stone systems used to trap wild herds
doi.org/10.1073/pnas....

Definitely on my #readinglist

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Wow!

What is it like to be a buzzard?
This essay is about looking up, and being looked at in return; about sharing a sky with another species, and wondering what it means to live in radical symmetry with it. dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2025/06/18/w...

Rain washed, sun returned.

YouTube video by RoxyMusicVEVO Roxy Music - Avalon

Roxy Music’s Avalon video, directed by Ridley Scott, is the missing bridge between xenomorphs and replicants. Media archaeology reminder: worlds bleed through shared images, not tidy continuities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpA_...

Back in my cabin in an undisclosed location in the Julian Alps.

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This is journalism as it should be, devoted, investigative, clear-headed, and professional. Work like yours plays a crucial role in disentangling this mess and in making reconciliation and resolution even possible. Thank you, also @mrsoup.bsky.social.

Yes, of course - but without your investigative work and careful reporting they wouldn’t have had the opportunity to tell, and we wouldn’t have had the chance to hear. Thank you!

When (or if) the current EAA mess is finally cleared up, with new leadership, proper accountability, and an ethical compass restored, we really ought to make @andybrockman.bsky.social a honorary EAA member. If anything good comes of this debacle, it will be thanks to his investigative spadework.

Could it be Vučedol/Cetina white incrusted ware? Something like this? studentski.hr/vijesti/kult...

This is more than distressing. Unless there is full accountability, I do not see how the EAA can continue in its present form.

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Looks like this form is also down? Anyone knows what’s going on here?

New link to request a special EAA meeting. If you haven’t yet, consider signing it ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/QInTdoHZ

Two stylized human figures, possibly wearing hooded parkas, walk side by side in simple profile at the top center of the image. Around them are several pencil-drawn creatures: four bear- or dog-like animals—some standing on two legs, others on four—and one large, humanoid monster with a bulbous body, clawed hands, and spindly tentacle-like limbs. One of the quadrupeds appears crouched, and two upright figures face each other at the lower left. The drawing is monochrome with minimal shading, and a signature or annotation (“NETSEVAK E7957”) appears in the lower right corner.

Natsivaar (1919 – 1962), Untitled (family surrounded by strange creatures).

Call for a Special Meeting of the EAA Recent events during the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists* have generated profound discontent and distrust toward the current Executive Board among members of the associati...

Calling all #EAA past and present members! A lot of us are not happy with the events of last week, and with EAA's bleak attitute towards the ongoing genocide. Sign this petition for a special meeting, so we can call a vote of confidence against the current board. Thanks!

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I don’t think this is an honest response so much as damage control. The language is vague to the point of evasion,
no clear timelines, no concrete commitments, and no direct addressing of the elephant in the room. bsky.app/profile/dimi...

Appeal to volunteerism as shield: “we all volunteer our time, a big task is ahead.” Sympathy invoked, critique framed as ingratitude. Moral blackmail. If you can’t take it-stand down. Or just stand down.