Jan Turek

5,000-year-old burials in Germany hold 3 women with bedazzled baby carriers Copper Age burials holding the remains of elite women and elaborate pouches decorated with hundreds of animal teeth have been discovered in Germany.

A piece on LiveScience on recent archaeological excavations in advance of the construction of the SuedOstLink direct power line through Saxony-Anhalt- Corded Ware Culture burials with evidence for richly adorned pouches. Great work by the colleagues in the field!

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Why by children? Any evidence for that? 😳

Pottery vessel with a round body and narrow neck, featuring several handles and a string. The pottery is displayed on a white stand in a museum setting, with a blurred nature-themed backdrop behind it.

#FindsFriday! Pottery vessel with five handles and remnants of a string, found in a Neolithic well in Altscherbitz, Saxony, dating 5100-5000 BC.
Multiple intact vessels have been discovered within the well. They may have been intentionally placed there ...🧵 1/2

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Stonehenge: several rectangular, upright stone blocks stood in a circle.

#FolkloreThursday henges and other prehistoric circular monuments feature prominently in British and Irish folklore, but where did they come from? 🏺 #Archaeology

New radiocarbon dates shed light on the 'beginning of the circle'

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Mysterious Neolithic rituals. Over 5,000-year-old sacrificial pits of the Salzmünde culture discovered near Gerstewitz, Saxony-Anhalt.

More information: idw-online.de/de/news856263

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Just excavating Late Neolithic or Late Bronze Age barrow with a ring ditch in Račiněves, nést The mythical Mount Říp. To be continued…🤎

This year's garden fruit harvest is exceptional; even the cornel bush, which usually has only a few cherries, provided a rich yield of Cornelian cherries. Enough for a compote drink in the Armenian style!🍒🍷🤎

Dík Jani! 🤎😘

At last I can hold our new book in my own hands!
Thanks Oxbow Books!

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100 let od objevu Věstonické venuše věnujeme hlavní téma letního dvojčísla umění. Mají k němu co říci nejen kunsthistorici, ale také třeba evoluční biologové nebo neurovědci...
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Diagrams indicating stratigraphic sections and a plan of the Mesolithic remains, depicting a circular ditch with several monoliths, postholes and stone wedging blocks. A photograph of one of the monoliths (a triangular stone with a wide, flat base and two tenons) is inset.

Mesolithic remains from the site of Le Plasker, part of the Carnac megalithic landscape, France #MesolithicMonday 🏺

Neolithic standing stones were constructed on the remains of a Mesolithic hut, indicating the complex has its origins much earlier than expected.

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Map of Central Europe, annotated with pawprints that denote the locations of archaeological and palaeontological sites where cat remains have been found.

This #NationalKittenDay, check out this paw-some map 😼

Wildcats migrated into Europe ~10,000 years ago, pre-dating the continent's first farmers. This suggests that, true to form, these curious cats came independently, without human influence.

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A grave of a man of the Corded ware Culture, grave offerings including a stone axe and pottery vessels.

Outstanding Corded Ware Culture burials with animal tooth-decorated bags discovered near Krauschwitz, Saxony-Anhalt. #Archaeology

More information: idw-online.de/de/news855272

Prehistoric arrowhead embedded in human rib reveals ancient violence in the Pyrenees over 4,000 years ago Flint arrowhead in human rib reveals rare evidence of Bronze Age violence in the Pyrenees over 4,000 years ago.

📰 Prehistoric arrowhead found embedded in a human rib from the Bronze Age Pyrenees, providing rare direct evidence for violence 4000 years ago

#ArchaeologyNews via @archaeologynews.bsky.social

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Extremely rich cherry harvest: over 7 kg!🍒And still plenty left on tree for birds 🐦 ! 🤎 🇨🇿

Aboriginal shell midden. Just north of Darwin. 7meters tall. Could be thousands years old!

The Dlouhé Dvory Neolithic long barrow presented today at the10th World Archaeological Congress in Darwin 🇦🇺👍

The 10th World Archaeological Congress started today in Darwin.
Happy to be with so many friends 🤎🦘🇦🇺

Birthday in Kakadu Park, wonderful!

Majestic ULURU 🦘🇦🇺🦘

The magic Uluru changing colour throughout the day. Truly sacred place 🇦🇺🦘🖤💛❤️🦘👍

This wide-angle aerial photograph shows a broad avenue with a column of military tanks positioned down the center of the street. The tanks appear to be Type 59 or similar models, arranged in a single-file line stretching into the distance. In the foreground, a solitary figure can be seen standing directly in front of the lead tank, though from this elevated perspective the person appears quite small. The avenue is flanked by rows of trees on both sides, with large open plaza areas visible. In the background, there are multi-story buildings and what appears to be a large public square or gathering area. The photograph has the characteristic color tone and grain of film photography from the late 1980s. This is the famous wide-shot perspective of the "Tank Man" incident at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, taken on June 4, 1989, capturing the moment when an unknown protester stood in front of a column of tanks following the government crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations. (ALT Text by Claude AI)

On this June 4th, wishing for a world with more people willing to stand in front of the tanks, and less who are willing to drive them.

Map of the Veluwe and the Utrechtse Heuvelrug regions of the Netherlands, highlighting locations of barrows, the borders of the research areas and locations with driftsand.

Burial mounds across the central Netherlands, indicating ones that were already known (black) and those recently discovered during the Heritage Quest project (red & orange). Volunteers helped double the number of known barrows!

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A photograph of a Christian church, with a prehistoric dolmen on the side serving as a chapel

Inside a dolmen-chapel, with a shrine to Santa Maria Madalena

A dolmen-chapel - a prehistoric tomb that's been turned into a Christian chapel

A dolmen-chapel that's been painted blue and white

Across Portugal, a few prehistoric megalithic tombs were transformed into chapels. They still serve as places of worship today.

🕊️ A peaceful Sunday reminder that some ground has always been holy.

🎥Come visit them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm1R...

#Megaliths #AncientArchitecture #SacredSites

Plan of the settlement layout at Maidanetske, indicating houses and ditches organised in concentric circles.

Happy #WorldMilkDay to all who celebrate 🥛

They definitely did at Chalcolithic Maidanetske 🇺🇦

Extensive pasturing strategies at the Trypillia settlement suggest high levels of social organisation and land partitioning to produce the best milk possible 🏺

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The 23rd Archeéologie et Gobelets Conference in Vannes and Carnac. Lifestyles and Networks in Bell Beaker Europe. Happy gathering, discussions and field trips. Thanks to organisers!

📚 You’ll want to check out this new book by @janturek.bsky.social from @cts.cuni.cz on Neolithic long barrows in Bohemia, set in the ritual landscape around the mythical Mount Říp.
Original post with full details and link to Oxbow Books below 👇
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You must have our new book on Bohemian Neolithic long barrows in ritual landscape around the mythical Mount Říp!
It is now available from the Oxbow Books.