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#Archaeologist🏺, got a hat (no whip though). Once known as "Yunus" among Bedouins. Demanding a revival of the venerable profession of the #ExpeditionPainter👨‍🎨. 🔗 jensnotroff.com 🔗 trowelandpen.com
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In Korea fand sich eine fast 1500 Jahre alte Krone aus dem Königreich Silla – dekoriert mit den schillernden Flügeln von Prachtkäfern. Vergleichbares sei bisher nicht bekannt. #repost

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"Why was it carved here? Why this text? There are no answers." 🏺 www.popsci.com/science/rune...

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Dann schreibe ich in meinen Ankündigungstext für nächstes Semester: "Die Autorin lebt noch!!"

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🏺🦣🧪 Proposal that Skhul 1, a historically extremely important burial found by McCown and Garrod in 1932 (the year before Tabun), might have been a child from hybrid #Neanderthal & early H. sapiens population in Levant c. 150-90 ka

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Oh, this is a good one! 👌 Sometimes such a hole really tells a whole story ...

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Well, imho "Wolf Sisters That Dined On Woolly Rhino" is an excellently fitting name for a post-punk metal band. 🤘🏺

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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Yeah, but … this is just a stone.

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📺 #IchBinHanna​-Community: Ihr werdet gesucht für 1 TV-Format! Die Anfrage: „Für eine Dokumentation für den Öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk suchen wir Wissenschaftler*innen ohne Lebenszeitprofessur, die bereit wären, mit uns über ihre Erfahrungen mit dem dt. Wissenschaftssystem zu sprechen: (1/3)

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I hadn’t heard of Percy Fawcett until I read Brazilian Adventure, Peter Fleming’s book about his search for him. A wild escapade!

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Did you know that WAC-10 World Archaeology Congress (next week) is free for students to attend online? Register here: worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/

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Sommerloch-Krokos dieses Mal als TikTok-Challenge oder wie? 🐊🤔 www.rbb24.de/panorama/bei... www.swr.de/swraktuell/b... www.welt.de/vermischtes/...

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100 years ago, British explorer Percy Fawcett disappeared in search of a #LostCity hidden in the Amazon. He never returned ... but somehow turned up in every adventure story ever since. 🏺 trowelandpen.com/2025/05/29/f...

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Still not convinced? - Well, here's one more example of #archaeology 🏺 looking far back to find solutions addressing timeless challenges: in past, present, and future.

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And, again: Not every present challenge needs a future tech solution. Sometimes a past cultural one still works. 🏺 How ancient pre-Hispanic farmers in #Peru made desert #agriculture climate resilient, more than 1,400 years ago - a lesson in long-term thinking:

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🏺 #Archaeology isn’t just about the past. It's about solving the future with help of the past: 💧 In #Ecuador, an 18th-century map and a pre #Inca myth helped revive ancient #WaterManagement systems - tackling present-day drought with #Indigenious knowledge. 📰 www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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A hand-drawn map from 1792 and a thousand-year old way of working with natural rhythms of land and rainfall to refill aquifers. Lift yourself up today with a story of how one historian's drive to give back to his town becomes a people's initiative, stewarding plentiful water for all. #GoodGreenNews

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com Explains the Secrets of Göbekli Tepe has now been ported over to Spotify! It holds up as a great discussion with an informed expert on the site open.spotify.com/episode/5RXG...

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Wir sehen gerade im Kontext von Kriegen und Konflikten eine immense Flut an Propaganda und Desinformation. Seid vorsichtig, was ihr teilt. Falschinformationen können gefährliche Konsequenzen haben. Ein paar Hinweise für den eigenen Social Media-Gebrauch 👇

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#Teilhabe am gesellschaftlichen Leben ist kein Luxus. Teilhabe am gesellschaftlichen Leben ist #Lebensqualität. Teilhabe am gesellschaftlichen Leben ist #Menschenrecht. www.change.org/p/friedrich-...

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Die Ankündigung, ausgerechnet bei der #Eingliederungshilfe zu sparen, ist einigermaßen erschütternd. Als Vater einer Tochter, die gerade auch dieser Unterstützung große Fortschritte in ihrem Lebensalltag verdankt, macht mich das ehrlich gesagt wütend. www.lebenshilfe.de/presse/press...

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Guess who's really uncovering all those "mysteries" ancient sites like #GobekliTepe are "hiding" (under millennia of dust and rubble)? Spoiler: Not an angry millionaire with a Netflix show, but e.g. these hardworking guys here, digging under the sun. #ThoseWhoShovel.

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Duftende Statuen, verschollene Expeditionen und (vermeintlich) wiedergefundene biblische Wunder, Neanderthaler-Fingerabdrücke und bronzezeitliche Babyrasseln. Kann keiner sagen, dass der Mai ein archäologisch langweiliger Monat gewesen wäre. Die Nachlese im Blog: 🏺 trowelandpen.com/2025/05/31/n...

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Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who prevent history from being taught intend to repeat it.

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Alan Rickman as Sherlock Holmes and David Suchet as Moriarty in a production of William Gillet's stageplay Sherlock Holmes. Anyone have a time machine?

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A section of the #Roman Eifel #aqueduct that supplied water to the city of Cologne. The vaulted underground tunnel with an inspection shaft at Mechernich-Breitenbenden was unearthed during construction work in the late 1970s. The estimated maximum flow rate...🧵1/2 #archaeology 🏺

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Duftende Statuen, verschollene Expeditionen und (vermeintlich) wiedergefundene biblische Wunder, Neanderthaler-Fingerabdrücke und bronzezeitliche Babyrasseln. Kann keiner sagen, dass der Mai ein archäologisch langweiliger Monat gewesen wäre. Die Nachlese im Blog: 🏺 trowelandpen.com/2025/05/31/n...

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How ... did I live under a rock or what? How could I have missed this whole movie about #SaintExupery​'s time as #MailPilot until now?! This looks wonderful: youtu.be/MfBHNfqcF6o

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Andalusian #WallPorn, Córdoba (Spain).

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From the archaeologist's #TravelSketchbook: Glacier view, southern #Greenland. Somewhere northwest of Narsaq.

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Portrait of the now extinct British subspecies of the Large Copper from John Curtis's British Entomology (1824) when it was still flying

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I'd be totally on board for collapsible branches! 🙌

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The #fingerprint a #Paleolithic teenager - right there on one of those Ice Age "venus" figurines. In all its glory. 😲 www.academia.edu/109155602/Fi...

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And while we're in #Córdoba, let's pay a visit to all the city's famous #philosopher sons who got a monument in town: 👨‍🦲 Seneca (* c. 4 BCE) 👳‍♂️ Maimonides (* 1138 CE)

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Recently sharing some news here about the excavation of a royal tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings has sparked a lot of comments reflecting an often posed question … So, let's have a look: What actually *is* the difference between #GraveRobbing and #archaeology? 🏺 trowelandpen.com/2025/02/26/g...

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okay, so there's a subset (superset?) of door people that includes wall people

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Das hier ist die vielleicht wichtigste und doch wohl wenigst beachtete Nachricht des Tages. Eine weitere planetare Grenze ist überschritten. Wie üblich ist das Paper eher vorsichtig formuliert. Deshalb hier deutlicher: man muss über komplexe Systeme nur eines wissen: Ohne sie ist alles aus. Für uns.

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Be reflective if you must be armed. If you carry a weapon in public service, may God bless you and keep you. But know that evils of the past involved policemen and soldiers finding themselves, one day, doing irregular things. Be ready to say no. (T. Snyder, #OnTyranny (2017), Lesson 7)

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