July 5, 2026 at 12:53 PM
I did most of a book chapter on the LBK collapse and yeeeeeeeeeah
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I did most of a book chapter on the LBK collapse and yeeeeeeeeeah
Neolithic Bodies in Vráble – 7000 year-old Headless Human Skeletons in an Enclosed LBK Settlement in South–West Slovakia
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June 10, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Neolithic Bodies in Vráble – 7000 year-old Headless Human Skeletons in an Enclosed LBK Settlement in South–West Slovakia
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the LBK people also seem to have been ecological specialists, not generalist farmers. usually agricultural populations bounce back, but if the specialist knowledge wasn't transmitted...
November 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
the LBK people also seem to have been ecological specialists, not generalist farmers. usually agricultural populations bounce back, but if the specialist knowledge wasn't transmitted...
Finally trapped Little Black Kitty, who has been showing up for food over the last several months. I don't think LBK is truly feral; very fearful, but I think I can socialize. I will get LBK vetted/fixed/vaxxed.
November 23, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Finally trapped Little Black Kitty, who has been showing up for food over the last several months. I don't think LBK is truly feral; very fearful, but I think I can socialize. I will get LBK vetted/fixed/vaxxed.
Read the original research in Antiquity 🆓 'LBK outpost of Eilsleben: hunter-farmer encounters in the borderlands of Early Neolithic Central Europe' - Laura Dietrich et al.
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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LBK outpost of Eilsleben: hunter-farmer encounters in the borderlands of Early Neolithic Central Europe | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
LBK outpost of Eilsleben: hunter-farmer encounters in the borderlands of Early Neolithic Central Europe
doi.org
January 21, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Read the original research in Antiquity 🆓 'LBK outpost of Eilsleben: hunter-farmer encounters in the borderlands of Early Neolithic Central Europe' - Laura Dietrich et al.
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
10/10
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doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
10/10
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Weil der @michaelmazohl.com hier wenig aktiv ist, aber es einfach wichtig ist, hier was von drüben.
March 4, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Weil der @michaelmazohl.com hier wenig aktiv ist, aber es einfach wichtig ist, hier was von drüben.
A great account of the brilliant Kiel team's work at the LBK site of Vrable here. Andrew does such a good job of teasing out the complexity of that century of the LBK.
In 2022, archaeologists at @uni-kiel.de's @neolithicbodies.bsky.social found 34 decapitated skeletons piled in a space the size of a parking spot. In the 3 years since, they’ve found 50 more. The mass grave is evidence for the collapse of the 1st pan-European culture 7,000 years ago. @science.org 🏺💀
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
A great account of the brilliant Kiel team's work at the LBK site of Vrable here. Andrew does such a good job of teasing out the complexity of that century of the LBK.
#JuneGloom
#MusicChallenge
(24) The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters - Francisco Goya
Obscure ‘90s goth, fits this nightmare perfectly. 🙂
Movement · The Final Step
youtu.be/LJCYQwA-Lbk?...
#MusicChallenge
(24) The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters - Francisco Goya
Obscure ‘90s goth, fits this nightmare perfectly. 🙂
Movement · The Final Step
youtu.be/LJCYQwA-Lbk?...
June 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
#JuneGloom
#MusicChallenge
(24) The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters - Francisco Goya
Obscure ‘90s goth, fits this nightmare perfectly. 🙂
Movement · The Final Step
youtu.be/LJCYQwA-Lbk?...
#MusicChallenge
(24) The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters - Francisco Goya
Obscure ‘90s goth, fits this nightmare perfectly. 🙂
Movement · The Final Step
youtu.be/LJCYQwA-Lbk?...
🏺
Apt given this just showed up in my feed!
Evidence of LBK Neolithic farmers in Central Europe making ‘Mesolithic’ artefacts like red deer antler masks - good for thinking about interactions between groups with different traditions and dynamics of culture and genetics.
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Apt given this just showed up in my feed!
Evidence of LBK Neolithic farmers in Central Europe making ‘Mesolithic’ artefacts like red deer antler masks - good for thinking about interactions between groups with different traditions and dynamics of culture and genetics.
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
January 20, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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Apt given this just showed up in my feed!
Evidence of LBK Neolithic farmers in Central Europe making ‘Mesolithic’ artefacts like red deer antler masks - good for thinking about interactions between groups with different traditions and dynamics of culture and genetics.
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Apt given this just showed up in my feed!
Evidence of LBK Neolithic farmers in Central Europe making ‘Mesolithic’ artefacts like red deer antler masks - good for thinking about interactions between groups with different traditions and dynamics of culture and genetics.
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
it's doubly interesting because the LBK material indicates an egalitarian culture. not many signs of rank or position... except ending up headless in a ditch.
mentioned elsewhere that as an American, conformist pioneer agriculturalists in a hunter-gatherer landscape reminded me of THE CRUCIBLE.
mentioned elsewhere that as an American, conformist pioneer agriculturalists in a hunter-gatherer landscape reminded me of THE CRUCIBLE.
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
it's doubly interesting because the LBK material indicates an egalitarian culture. not many signs of rank or position... except ending up headless in a ditch.
mentioned elsewhere that as an American, conformist pioneer agriculturalists in a hunter-gatherer landscape reminded me of THE CRUCIBLE.
mentioned elsewhere that as an American, conformist pioneer agriculturalists in a hunter-gatherer landscape reminded me of THE CRUCIBLE.
See our new paper in @antiquity.ac.uk on interactions between Neolithic farmers and Mesolithic hunter-gatherer in the borderland of Central Europe #Archaeology @hpiezonka.bsky.social @oliverdietrich.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social
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www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 15, 2026 at 4:59 PM
See our new paper in @antiquity.ac.uk on interactions between Neolithic farmers and Mesolithic hunter-gatherer in the borderland of Central Europe #Archaeology @hpiezonka.bsky.social @oliverdietrich.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social
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www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
there's so much drama in the LBK
it's kinda hard to farm when they decapitay
it's kinda hard to farm when they decapitay
In addition to being a fascinating (if horrific) insight into a mostly-unknown period of European prehistory, this includes a BANGER of a quote: "I can see why all these people without heads wouldn’t be good for a community, and might be a cause for abandonment."
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
there's so much drama in the LBK
it's kinda hard to farm when they decapitay
it's kinda hard to farm when they decapitay
Flossy 🦮
Adult female Pit Bull Terrier
Adoptable from Saving Grace Rescue LBK (Lubbock, TX)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/flossy-79009618/tx/lubbock/saving-grace-rescue-lbk-tx1297/
Adult female Pit Bull Terrier
Adoptable from Saving Grace Rescue LBK (Lubbock, TX)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/flossy-79009618/tx/lubbock/saving-grace-rescue-lbk-tx1297/
October 28, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Flossy 🦮
Adult female Pit Bull Terrier
Adoptable from Saving Grace Rescue LBK (Lubbock, TX)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/flossy-79009618/tx/lubbock/saving-grace-rescue-lbk-tx1297/
Adult female Pit Bull Terrier
Adoptable from Saving Grace Rescue LBK (Lubbock, TX)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/flossy-79009618/tx/lubbock/saving-grace-rescue-lbk-tx1297/
Really enjoyed @patrickwyman.bsky.social's latest. Societies endlessly rise and fall over the millennia, as the climate and ecosystems shift, and people either collectively adapt or don't. We're way too complacent about the indefinite durability of our society and way of life. Also RIPs to the LBK
August 7, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Really enjoyed @patrickwyman.bsky.social's latest. Societies endlessly rise and fall over the millennia, as the climate and ecosystems shift, and people either collectively adapt or don't. We're way too complacent about the indefinite durability of our society and way of life. Also RIPs to the LBK
January 18, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Honoring my dearly departed kitty LBK (Little Black Kitty) for #throwbackthursday. He crossed the rainbow bridge in October and I miss him so much. He did not follow rules and I loved him for it. He was larger than life, into everything, always by my side. RIP Baby Cat.
#blackcats #catsofbluesky
#blackcats #catsofbluesky
January 31, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Honoring my dearly departed kitty LBK (Little Black Kitty) for #throwbackthursday. He crossed the rainbow bridge in October and I miss him so much. He did not follow rules and I loved him for it. He was larger than life, into everything, always by my side. RIP Baby Cat.
#blackcats #catsofbluesky
#blackcats #catsofbluesky
Local manufacture of 'Mesolithic' things on a LBK site - very cool...
Archaeologists have uncovered one of the first instances of interaction between #Neolithic farmers and #Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in central Europe, indicating a level of technology transfer not observed before.
🏺A communicative #AntiquityThread 1/10 🧵
🏺A communicative #AntiquityThread 1/10 🧵
January 21, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Local manufacture of 'Mesolithic' things on a LBK site - very cool...
#lookandplay (373)
#MusicChallenge
Movement - The Final Step
Obscure 90s goth tune
youtu.be/LJCYQwA-Lbk?...
#MusicChallenge
Movement - The Final Step
Obscure 90s goth tune
youtu.be/LJCYQwA-Lbk?...
March 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
#lookandplay (373)
#MusicChallenge
Movement - The Final Step
Obscure 90s goth tune
youtu.be/LJCYQwA-Lbk?...
#MusicChallenge
Movement - The Final Step
Obscure 90s goth tune
youtu.be/LJCYQwA-Lbk?...
LBK recharging her batteries with solar! 😉
March 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
LBK recharging her batteries with solar! 😉
A happy Arbor Day in LBK
April 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
A happy Arbor Day in LBK
Melon 🐕
Adult male Pit Bull Terrier
Adoptable from Saving Grace Rescue LBK (Lubbock, TX)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/melon-79009617/tx/lubbock/saving-grace-rescue-lbk-tx1297/
Adult male Pit Bull Terrier
Adoptable from Saving Grace Rescue LBK (Lubbock, TX)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/melon-79009617/tx/lubbock/saving-grace-rescue-lbk-tx1297/
October 28, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Melon 🐕
Adult male Pit Bull Terrier
Adoptable from Saving Grace Rescue LBK (Lubbock, TX)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/melon-79009617/tx/lubbock/saving-grace-rescue-lbk-tx1297/
Adult male Pit Bull Terrier
Adoptable from Saving Grace Rescue LBK (Lubbock, TX)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/melon-79009617/tx/lubbock/saving-grace-rescue-lbk-tx1297/
New paper! Were cemeteries of the LBK long-lived, starting in the east and spreading westwards slowly? Our new 14C dates suggest they started contemporaneously across the LBK and were fairly short-lived (though this depends on what you mean by "short"...) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
New temporal dimensions of the Linearbandkeramik cemetery horizon in Schwetzingen (Germany) | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
New temporal dimensions of the Linearbandkeramik cemetery horizon in Schwetzingen (Germany)
www.cambridge.org
August 18, 2025 at 8:16 AM
New paper! Were cemeteries of the LBK long-lived, starting in the east and spreading westwards slowly? Our new 14C dates suggest they started contemporaneously across the LBK and were fairly short-lived (though this depends on what you mean by "short"...) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...