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Karsten Wentink

@karstenwentink.bsky.social

Co-founder of Sidestone Press. Guest researcher at Leiden University. PhD in funerary archaeology, usewear specialist, artefact biographies.

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Karsten Wentink @karstenwentink.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Thursday I'll give my first "official" presentation on the colourful, newly excavated, Mesolithic grave we have been working on (from the Netherlands). If you're in the neighbourhood of the RCE, you can still sign up: www.cultureelerfgoed.nl/actueel/agen...

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Karsten Wentink @karstenwentink.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Hi Sonja, I'm trying to contact you, but none of the email addresses that I found still work.

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Karsten Wentink @karstenwentink.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

New paper, roughly a summary of my dissertation, so if you didn't have the time to read the full book, here are the highlights www.academia.edu/145483235/Tr...

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Karsten Wentink @karstenwentink.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

My colleagues just published a kick-ass paper on Corded Ware and Bell Beaker chronology. This is really cool stuff! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Karsten Wentink @karstenwentink.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

We did an XRF to look for sulphides, I was also thinking of pyrite, but they are absent. Seems to be just Iron.

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Karsten Wentink @karstenwentink.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Has anyone ever seen anything like this? I can't yet share too much about the context, but it is well into the stone age.

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Karsten Wentink @karstenwentink.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

so what are these yellow things. We currently think they were organic objects, covered with red ochre and somehow "fossilized" in iron deposits. In detail we can on some spots see structures that look like bone, and other spots we have clear plant fibres/cells.

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Karsten Wentink @karstenwentink.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Question for the hive mind. We have strange yellow iron concretions that are covered with red ochre. Ochre was also applied to flint and stone tools...

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Karsten Wentink @karstenwentink.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Now that the Bronze Age exhibit is over, we had a chance to do some XRF measurements on the Bell Beaker Gold ornaments from Bennekom. Will present a paper on them at the upcoming BB conference in Vannes, Brittany next May.

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Karsten Wentink @karstenwentink.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

#stargazing

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Karsten Wentink @karstenwentink.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Well, 6 really, we shouldnt dismiss Earth just yet.

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Karsten Wentink @karstenwentink.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Apart from doing Sidestony things I'm currently working on various research projects: Pan European "ceci n'est pas une battle axe" project; Bell Beaker gold ornaments project; a mesolithic ochre grave with possibly the oldest painted objects in NW Europe. This looks like its gonna be crazy!

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Karsten Wentink @karstenwentink.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

While you're here, don't forget to give @sidestone.bsky.social a follow! We were already on various other socials, now also on bsky.

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Karsten Wentink @karstenwentink.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

From the collection at the @drentsmuseum.bsky.social

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Karsten Wentink @karstenwentink.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Let me share with you my favourite TRB axe. Found at Zuidbarge this is the largest from the Netherlands at 32.5cm. Made in N-Germany or Denmark the maker didn't grind the sides so that you can see the excellent knapping skills. Apart from one tiny ridge caused by a step fracture that bothered them.

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Karsten Wentink @karstenwentink.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Hello World

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