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Mikkel Nørtoft @mikkelnortoft.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Paper of the month! :)

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AG TidA e.V. @agtida.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Was für eine schöne Adventsüberraschung: Theorie | Archäologie | Reflexion 2 ist bei @propylaeum.bsky.social erschienen! 🥳 Herausgeber: @martinrenger.bsky.social @stefanschreiber.bsky.social & @alexanderveling.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.11588/pro... Dank an alle Beteiligten! #Archäologie #Theorie

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I recently read Umberto Eco's essay "Ur-Fascism"; I think everybody should read it, e.g. here: theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe... If this seems too long for you, I have extracted the most important parts. Have fun, read them and who knows? You may spot some Ur-fascism right around the corner 😘

1. Cult of tradition
Dreaming of the ”good old days, when everything was in order”; “Judeo-Christian values”; romanticization of antiquity

2. Rejection of modernism
Rejection of ”modern-day depravity”; wish to discard pluralism, human rights and equality

3. Action for action’s sake
Action without much reflection; too much thinking, academia, science is unmanly, woke, weak

4. Getting rid of distinction
Disagreement is seen as treason, not as a way to improve knowledge

5. Fear of difference
Racism, anti-LGBTQ+, against diversity in any shape

6. Appeal to a frustrated middle class
Appealing to individual / social frustration of a middle class suffering from economic hardships or feelings of political humiliation and in fear of pressure from lower social classes

7. Obession with a plot
Feeling of being cheated by one or many international foes, resulting in xenophobia; nationalism

8. Identification of enemies and painting them as both too strong and too weak
Keeping followers in fear of imagined enemies while making them believe, at the same time, they can overcome their enemies

9. Life as permanent warfare
Pacifism as trafficking with the enemy; life is lived for struggle

10. Contempt for the weak; populism
Supporters are the best, everybody else is despicable; the masses need a strong ruler; every subordinate leader despises their own underlings

11. Heroism
Impatience to prove oneself; cult of death

12. Hypermasculinity
Disdain for women, intolerance and condemnation of “nonstandard” sexual habits; love for weapons

13. Selective populism
Disregard of the individual, view of citizens as “The People”, with the leader as their “interpreter”; disdain for government institutions

14. “Newspeak”
Impoverished vocabulary, only elementary syntax to limit instruments for complex and critical reasoning; deletion / banning certain words

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This news is fake: Dire wolfs have not returned. Rather, a tiny number of genes of grey wolves were edited using CRISPR to create some few resemblances to dire wolf genes (fur color, musculature). For more info: arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...

Cover of TIME magazine, featuring an image of a gene-edited grey wolf and falsely labeling it a dire wolf.

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

#Archaeology also deals with animals and human-animal relations and changes in animals in the course of time. Animals are not static, modern domesticates are custom-tailored ... cf. cow on the left, from 1888, and on the right, from 2015. Note shape of back, horns, udder size, overall frame 😔

Black-and-white photography, Danish cow, 1888, with a stocky build, sturdy legs, medium-sized udder, slightly concave back and horns.

Modern-day Holstein cow, with quadrangular frame, no horns, very large udder and slender legs

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

At Herculaneum, a human skeleton was found killed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, whose brain had, due to heat of a pyroclastic flow and subsequent fast cooling, turned to organic glass. 😮 rdcu.be/ecccO

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Unique formation of organic glass from a human brain in the Vesuvius eruption of 79 CE

Scientific Reports - Unique formation of organic glass from a human brain in the Vesuvius eruption of 79 CE

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

🦎 Animal #576 🦥 I figured it out in 1 guesses! 🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 10.2 metazooa.com #metazooa 😂 so smart!

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Metazooa

Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Sonntag ist Wahl in Deutschland. Geht mal besser wählen, sonst könnte es blöd kommen, und das hatten wir ja schon mal. 😊 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgPv...

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Jan Böhmermann – “Faschismus is back” | ZDF Magazin Royale

YouTube video by ZDF MAGAZIN ROYALE

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Deutschland: "Wir können nicht richtig abschieben, viele Länder nehmen ihre kriminellen Bürger nicht zurück!" Auch Deutschland: "Die deutschen IS-Kämpfer in syrischen Gefängnissen nehmen wir nicht zurück, danke." 🫠

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

My favorite artefact from the Magdalenien, ca. 15.000 years BP: a spear-thrower from Le Mas d'Azil, carved from reindeer antler, showing three life-stages of a horse: from foal to adult to dead, possibly skinned or defleshed animal 😍

a spear-thrower from the Magdalenian site of Le Mas d'Azil, carved from reindeer antler, depicting images of a foal head, an adult horse head and a dead, skinned or defleshed horse head.

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Meanwhile, #Denmark is reacting subtly and sensibly to Trump's ambitions regarding #Greenland. Translation help: kage = cake; kvaj = idiot 😂

A picture of little cakes in the shape of Donald Trump's head, titeled "Donald Trump kvaje kage", which translates to "Donald Trump idiot cake".

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I have been on Bluesky for a while now, but had kept my Twitter account (I am not calling it X) in hopes of change. Today, I deactived it, since the platform is run by a neonazi skyhigh on drugs. F*** this. ☠️

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

A Monday #MementoMori: The Wheel of Life in Verdings, Südtirol, depicting how it goes 😜 from infancy to death.

Image from a small cemetery church at Verdings, Südtirol, northern Italy, depicting death turning a giant wheel, with the stages of life depicted on the outside: from infancy over youth to adulthood to death.

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

#Neolithic Conference alert 📣: On May 22-25, 2025, the second Conference on the Emergence of the Neolithic in Europe takes place in Zadar, Croatia: conference.unizd.hr/ene2025/ Would be delighted to meet all Neolithic archaeologists there!!! 🌞 Please share and distribute!

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2nd Conference on the Emergence of the Neolithic in Europe – Sveučilište u Zadru | University of Zadar

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Merkwürdig: Die #AfD, die so bedacht auf Männlichkeit, Stolz und Ehre ist, propagiert gleichzeitig Unterordnung unter und blinden Gehorsam gegenüber Putin. Ist das männlich? 😵‍💫 Naja, was weiß ich schon, ich geh mal lieber zurück an den Herd 🤪

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Animals were important in prehistory! Depictions of leopards abound in ancient #Çatalhöyük, showing how important they were - however, among over a million animal bones, there was only one from a leopard (a claw). There may have existed a taboo on killing them 🥰🐆

A relief on a wall in Çatalhöyük, with two spotted leopards facing each other.

A drawing of a human figure on a wall in Çatalhöyük. The person is holding a bow and wears a leopard skin as a sort of loincloth.

A stamp seal from Çatalhöyük, depicting a spotted leopard.

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

In the Middle Neolithic of Austria, Moravia, Slovakia and Hungary, hundreds of figurines were made in a specific way: their body parts were individually shaped and then put together, which made them easy to break - maybe their only purpose. The figurine from Falkenstein could be reconstructed 😍

An anthropomorphic figurine from Falkenstein, Lower Austria, with a slender body, slightly accentuated hips, outstretched arms and traces of red and black paint on the head, neck, chest and thighs; date: 4600-4500 BC

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

"I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations—one can do either this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it—you will regret both." Why, thanks for the optimism, Søren Kierkegaard 😊

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UCPH School of Archaeology @ucph-soa.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

✨ We are hiring! Assistant Professor European/North European Iron Age & Medieval/Renaissance archaeology (500 BC - 1500 AD). Particularly digital methods. Permanent position from Sept 2025 Research & teaching focus Located in beautiful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Tenure track to Associate Prof after 6 years

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Tenure-track assistant professor in archaeology at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Just a little something I read today: "The feeling of being superfluous and the fear of being insignificant lead to totalitarianism" (Hannah Arendt). ➡️ Reminder: You are not superfluous or insignificant. If you feel that way, it is most often due to economic conditions that value competition. 😘

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Another example of the parallel depiction of life and death: a stone statue from PPN #Karahantepe, depicting a seated male with an erect phallus. Note the ribs and clavicles alluding to death, whereas the face and the seated posture display life. To learn more, check out the app "StoneMounds".

A larger-than-life stone figurine (2.45 m) of a seated male, holding his penis, with bones like ribs and clavicles clearly showing

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Behold this pretty cattle figurine from the early LBK site of Szentgyörgyvölgy-Pityerdomb (I kid you not, the name is awesome). You can read up on the site here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Cattle figurine made from red clay, with a pierced nose and decorated with zigzag incised lines

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Confirmation that another big wave of harassment is about to come my way. Joe Rogan is hosting the two pseudoarchaeology YouTubers who have been non-stop lying about me. Episode should likely drop tomorrow We have to speak up and support each other Anti intellectualism is the real cancel culture

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Life on the front ... and death on the back. #Neolithic figurine from #Catalhöyük, Türkiye, depicting a pregnant woman from one side and a skeletonized person from the other side, with ribs, shoulder blades, the spine and the pelvic bones showing. Source: www.catalhoyuk.com/archive_repo...

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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Glad to be here! Give us a follow if you like archaeology, animals, and Bronze Age Europe 🦴🧬🐂🐑🐐🐎

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

In the beginning of November, I got to see #Göbeklitepe and #Karahantepe - excavations at Karahantepe are still going on, and there are many more amazing sites in the region of Sanliurfa which look truly promising! The cradle of Neolithization is absolutely stunning 😍

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

In the light of recent developments, I will be posting solely under the Blue Sky now 😙 Starting off with a recently (today!) published paper about Neolithic figurines: doi.org/10.12766/jna...

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Everything Was Better in the Good Old Days: On the End of the LBK and the Emergence of Lengyel Culture Figurines | Journal of Neolithic Archaeology

Journal of Neolithic Archaeology

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

If it is true I am a top notch duolingo learner, why are Danes still a) laughing outright, or b) looking politely confused, or c) starting to speak English immediately to me?! I will continue the quest on not receiving The Danish Face when I speak Danish 😤

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Boooooones ... there will always be more bones ... how is your friday going? 😘

assorted animal bones, waiting patiently to be analyzed

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Dear DanishDiary, every Danish language atrocity is forgiven because yesterday we had Dream Cake (drømmekage) in Danish class. It was pure bliss, and we even almost understood the difference between tænker, synes, mener and tror ("to think") 😊

Danish drømmekage, or Dream Cake: a sweet, fluffy and utterly delicious experience.

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Unrelated to archaeology, but very beautiful: Michael Peter Anker, "Den druknede" (The drowned), 1896. Look at the light!! 😍

An oilpainting of a drowned fisherman, with family and friends standing around him and mourning him.

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

I woke up at 4:30 and ate a watermelon gumpop. How is your monday going? 🤪

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 10/08/2023

... and what better image to start on this lovely platform than a nice memento mori with a only somewhat accurate skeleton

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Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social · 10/08/2023

Well, this looks just like Twitter before it became X.

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