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Fantastic results today surveying a long barrow near Chettle on Cranborne Chase with the trusty FM36 gradiometer. Socially distanced survey by members of .

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2021-04-19

Various types of Neolithic Vinča culture figurines. Vinča culture flourished in present-day Serbia, and smaller parts of Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia and Romania, between 5700BC and 4500BC https://t.co/PusAQN2Qd8

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2021-03-28

STAY TUNED! The Neolithic and its archaeology first came to our gallery and are now going digital. "The Curious Case of Çatalhöyük" exhibition will be online on 24 March...

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2021-03-22

Is it still yet?

Asking for those hunters - with their amazing skills of observation and artistic representation. 😉

(From the archaeologist‘s some illustrated notes on PPN animal at

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2021-03-04

Hey teachers! Have you seen this brand new resource on Scotland’s Neolithic

We teamed up with & others to create a pack that explores these distinctive cups, rings and grooves https://t.co/vJLBLwi3e1

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2021-02-25

Neolithic rock art in Scotland: new online booklet from Forestry and Land Scotland (more academic than the image suggests...)
https://t.co/qMH54dOCnL

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2021-02-18

This is the place where Rama first met Hanuman, is still a beautiful place with lotuses in bloom and a variety of birds living in it. Archaeologists have found the remains of several Neolithic settlements in the area.

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2021-02-07

Fairy Fact Friday 3

Do you know what the most prevalent feminine mythical character in Romanian folklore is? That would be the great goddess of Neolithic, said to be the mother of all, of night, day, sky, and earth.

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2021-02-06

8 pixels in this entire image but listen. what if i made sprites for my neolithic characters as if they were in a dating sim

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2021-02-05

4/10 Piet de Jong’s longest collaboration was with the Athenian Agora & the , where he documented three decades of incredible finds.

Unlike his work at Bronze Age palaces, this meant working with everything from burnished Neolithic pottery to Byzantine frescoes!

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2021-01-14

A quick visit yesterday (past) Norton Camp Hillfort, Norton Fitzwarren, Somerset. Low elevation site, on the end of a low rise of land. to R/British occupation enclosure w/well described to the site (no time for exploration tho' ☹️).

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2020-12-02

One type of "offerings" found in Bornholm "woodhenges" were burned flint axes...When flint is heated it explodes with loud bangs. These were basically firecrackers 🙂 spirting razor sharp flakes everywhere as they exploded. Cool https://t.co/Y4K51uWnjw

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2020-11-25

figurines from Macedonia depicting anthropomorphised house. And a ritual from Macedonia in which a bride's enters her husband's house through the legs of his mother, the mistress of the house, who is equated with the house itself https://t.co/AYh5PoMkry

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2020-11-25

A great series to learn more about the Era!

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Book One - https://t.co/pkE7ofBfDH
Book Two -
https://t.co/O6X15vTRhC

Book Three Coming Next Year!

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2020-11-14

Broken stone vessels? - Too good to discard!

New article by , , and yours truly on the "Life and Afterlife of '#Greenstone' Vessels from (in Ahrens. Rokitta-Krumnow, Bloch & Bührig (eds.), marru 10, 2020:

https://t.co/ttzitFOe1E

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2020-10-28

Uncategorized flint object consisting of a leaf-shaped bifacial knife or an unfinished arrowhead preform of probable Neolithic or Early Bronze Age date. Pic: Somerset County Council

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2020-10-09

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Passage graves from the Neolithic period, which are found mostly in the parts of Western Europe.
View from above (red: capstones, brown: orthostats, blue: portal). Painted with ink and watercolor for

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2020-10-05

Just two miles northeast of are 20 massive pits, created 4,500 years ago, that seem to have formed a circular boundary more than a mile wide around the Neolithic site of Durrington Walls.

https://t.co/lJeBD4oRvY

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2020-10-03

Early Slavic houses differ from Germanic longhouses by being small, made for one family, whereas the longhouse can shelter the whole kin. These architectural differences can be traced to the Neolithic period of Western and South-Eastern Europe.

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2020-09-28

Ku-Aya and Barbaru, my Neolithic/Copper-Age ocs whom I already love with a passion

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2020-09-28