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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Blogeintrag über ein Neanderthaler-Inventar, Sammlung H. Pongratz, Berichte von Baales & Pongratz und nun, nachdem die Sammlung abgeschlossen ist, die Analyse aller Objekte von mir. Alle Ergebnisse nächstes Jahr. www.lwl-archaeologie.de/de/blog/west...

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Blogentry (German) about the Neanderthaler-Assemblage that was collected by H. Pongratz, reported before by Baales & Pongratz and now that the collection is finished, analysed by me. Paper will be in work next year. www.lwl-archaeologie.de/de/blog/west...

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For this weekend something very new. This is the first week I post pottery. And the first pottery I puzzled. Never stop learning, not even in archaeology. 100-200 AD, made by the local population of Ostwestfalen.

Shows a broken vessel that was glued back together after around 1900 years in the ground. The rim is almost complete. The pott has two broken handles. Uneven burning.

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Unifacial shaped Schaber (side-scraper). Edges shaped bifacial, but I record it as unifacial until it isn't. Butt of the flake still visibile. The Neanderthaler tool wishes you a nice weekend!

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

And, I cannot tell too much now, but there is a surface collection of probably Neanderthaler lithics. So far, the assemblage gives beautiful insights into Neanderthaler technological thinking. Absolutely beautiful. 🤍

Hällaflinta with preparations right for shaping on the other side and some initial shaping on the left.

Flake, likely Levallois, although the reduction system isn't clear yet. Again, Hälleflinta. Dorsal scar patterns from proximal and perpendicular from right. Flake is broken. Distal left old ventral surface. On the not visibile side cortex and shaping of one edge.

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The racoon walked over the Planum.

Racoon footbrints on the excavation surface.

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Friday 37°C, today 16°C. The rain is a blessing. In archaeology we have to be prepared for everything.

Items on the grass. A backpack, an umbrella, a lunchbox, a water-bottle and a Schuffel (weeder) to scrape the ground clean.

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Happy to say that I joined the LWL for two years to practice some Bodendenkmalpflege in the Regierungsbezirk Detmold. (I think Bodendenkmalpflege is the perfect word, so I didn't translate it.)

A field with an yellow excavator on it and green trees in the background.

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Almost forgot my selfmade longbow. No, it's not 100% accurate to the Mary Rose bows. Just inspired and adapted so I could use it.

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Next in the series of finds from the depth of my flat: My first drawing of a roman, late antiquity feature. A wall build from younger, repurposed architectural elements; spolia. My first try had some major flaws, so I had to do it again. Kept this first version. Now it goes to the bin. 👋🏻

Transparent drawing paper with pencil lines on it. 5 rectangles indicating 5 cut stones in a row. Smaller debris of bricks and other material around it.

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Currently packing my stuff because leaving Cologne after 16 years. 16 years of activity layers. Forgot that I have this in my collection. Rediscovered and put into the box of useful stuff for my next station.

A transparent piece of plastic with sediment type chart on it. Like coarse silt, very fine sand, fine sand, medium sand and so on. They are defined by the size of the single grains. With the transparent chart it's possible to see If the sediment behind fits the outlines of the types or not.

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Ossendorf et at. 2026 published data from the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia. doi.org/10.1007/s109... The authors write that they don't use the terms microlithic, geometrical microlith or LSA. Based on results by researchers from the last years. Part of the study is use-wear anslysis. A thought: 1/2

Figure 11 of Ossendorf et al. 2026. Shown are selected obsidian blanks of the three sites Dimtu, Simbero and Webi Gestro. Dimtu with pointed flakes, Simbero with backed tools that I would call geometrical microlith and Webi Gestro with notched bladelets and unretouched bladelets.

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The "Europäisches Hansemuseum" in Lübeck is highly recommendable. Excavations below, history above, detailed reconstructions, information that you can modify to your interests beforehand, graphs, sounds, rooms with minimal media stimulation. Informative and exciting. Perfect.

Europäisches Hansemuseum in Lübeck. Right iluminated information about the trade networks before the Hanse. Left rconstruction of a Lodja(?), a medieval river ship of Nowgorod.

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Neuer Podcast. New Podcast in German. spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/lpkEVt09MZb Moritz und ich reden in der ersten Folge über die ältesten Werkzeuge der Menschheit.

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Today ist International Archaeology Day and #fieldworkfriday. Congratulations to all researchers for your splendid results or important non-results! Picture from three years ago. Preparing the UAV for the first LIDAR flight in Benin City.

Box to recharge batteries, remote control for UAV, notebook, another box and UAV. All on a table.

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Côte Sauvage, Quiberon in Bretagne is full of silex, at least in one area. All pebbles, no modification. Could be original, could be from external sand used to make the walking path? Does anyone know? Or close silex sources? (Every flint put back on point of origin)

Ocean, ocean foam, cliffs, silex in a hand. Cote Sauvage

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Kerzéro, Neolithic Megalith at Erdeven, Bretagne. Before the road construction there were around 1000 stones, stretching over 2 km.

Neolithic Megalith of Kerzérho near Erdeven, Bretagne, France. Stones on green grass.

Map showing the Kerzérho structure from above and cut by a street.

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I got the book and have to retract my enthusiasm. The text is fine, gaining much from the direct input of the researchers. The illustrations are AI generated I think and it's not even stated.

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Looked at Nigerias new digital museum. It's really impressiv and works well. Abundant objects, detailed information, audio guides, beautiful design. Great work by NCMM, IHS Nigeria and all involved.

Screenshot of the Digital Museum of Nigeria by NCMM and IHS Nigeria. 3D Model of a museum with sculptures, explanations and audio guide.

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

The CRC 806 ended 2021. One of the outcomes is a children's book by Cornelia Ziegler, out now. One of the rich illustrations shows our camp at Sodicho Cave, Ethiopia. Compare to my photos. Amazing site, now a piece of art for children. Love it. www.aibo-publishing.de/kind-and-jug...

Colourful illustration depicting a view of ethiopian landscape. Green grass, tents, a house and a bigger kitchen tent in blue.

The blue kitchen tent from Sodicho, Ethiopia. To the right team tents. Multiple people enjoying breakfast in the foggy morning.

The house from the old llustration but as photograph. Rammed earth, reddish brown House with metal roof. Enset fields to the right, green grass in the foreground and trees in the background.

Panorama of the excavation Camp at Sodicho, Ethiopia. Sky full of stormy Clouds, reddish brown earth, green trees, blue kitchen tent and smaller tents.

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Forgot the roman "Spolien", here in Sevilla, Spain at the base of the Giralda.

Base of Giralda, Sevilla with reused roman material.

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Religious buildings, palaces, ornaments and here different defensive walls of rammed earth and stone in Portugal and Spain. It was an intriguing journey through the Almohad Empire and adjacent times.

Original rammed earth wall of the Kasbah of Silves, Portugal

Old almohad city wall in Sevilla, Spain. Plaza del Cabildo

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

In the course of a year I visited Marrakesh in Marocco and Sevilla in Spain. Fascinating to see the 12th century connections, similarities, development and admixture of architecture styles till 19th century. So much history and complex processes of exchange in the material.

Koutoubia Mosque and Minarett in Marrakesh, Morocco. 12th century

Giralda in Sevilla. First minarett of almohad mosque in 12th century. Later bell tower of cathedral.

Bab Agnaou, Kasbah of Marrakesh, Morocco.

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Today I took no pictures from the lectures at #SAfA2025. Instead some impressions from my commute to the conference and the new postcard from Planet Africa exhibition.

Pink postcard of Planet Africa Exhibition.

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Hello #SAfA2025. Thanks to @icarehb.bsky.social for the nice Welcome. Looking forward to the presentations starting tomorrow.

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

It is a well made, lovely museum. Great organic finds from the Neolithic and other times. Visited last weekend. Thanks!

Modern architecture of Federseemuseum levitating above the water.

Textile finds from different locations from the neolithic.

The outdoor area of Federseemuseum. Reconstructed huts in the back, birch trees, fire place, Rindenmulch pathways and greem grass.

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Révillon 1995, Technologie du débitage laminaire au Paléolithique moyen en Europe septentrionale : état de la question. DOI: 10.3406/bspf.1995.10058 Fig. 13, Lithics from Seclin, France. Distal core preparation and blades. Nubian 1 or already Nubian 2? Nubian The Prequel! #flintfriday

Two refittings from Seclin, France. Non-Levallois Cores with bidirectional scar pattern and refitted blanks.

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Totally different area but if you research terraces in general this 2024 work might be of interest: www.frontiersin.org/journals/env... And as extra, pictures from the Atlas mountains, Morocco. Around the vilage Tizi-N-Oucheg. They got terraces and rock art.

Terraces of Tizi N Oucheg. Mountains in green and irange. Green fields of rey on the terraces. On the edges rosebud hedges and in between fig and walnut trees. Smaller fields with vegetables.

Terraces of Tizi N Oucheg. Mountains in the background with village Tizi N Oucheg nestled in between. Green fields of terraces in the foreground. Cloudy sky illuminated by bright sun.

Rockart. Engravings on reddish rock surface. Lines. A vertical line crossed by two horizontal lines and two more lines. Perhabs a humanoid figure. To the right a square with a Line inside.

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Saw this wonderful miniature of La Grotte Colomb in Musée de l'Anciene Évêché in Grenoble. Around 13 to 11 ka people hunted marmots in the Vercor mountains. Similar to Fincha Habera in Ethiopia where they made BBQ with giant mole-rats, 47 - 31 ka. doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Miniature Details of Model of Grotte Colomb in Vercor, France. Person with Spear and leather clothing carrying dead marmot towards cave covered by some wood constructions.

Detail of man carrying dead marmot and spear. Model of hunter-gatherer site.

Person working on wood construction to shield cave. Dead marmot in Front. Model of Stone age site.

Model of french Vercor. Marmot overlooking the landscape.

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Spotted on @bbcafrica.bsky.social , reporting about @mowaa.bsky.social. It was an enlightning workshop about rammed earth architecture.

Bunch of people sitting around laterite and other ingredients for rammed earth bricks.

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Christian Schepers @schepers-cj.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I went hiking in the High Atlas of Morocco. Beautiful views, rock art and silex on the Yagour Plateau. #archaeology #art #hiking

A female bovid engraved on a flat, reddish rock surface. Below the bovid is an emgraved tool. A blade with a handle it seems.

Reddish soil of the Yagour Plateau. On the soil a piece of white, orange banded silex is visible.

The Yagour Plateau. The Mountain Range with snowy peaks visible in the Background. In the foreground flat rock surfaces with multiple engravings. Mostly cows.

Mountain range of the High Atlas. Clowdy sky, shrouded light, high summits with snow and lower valleys in brown, reddish, green colours.

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