Vi skrev engang en bog sammen. Okay, du skrev den, men jeg var da med lidt i processen. Jeg vil også have del ‘pengefesten’ 🤣

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A blue eyed, brown skinned Stone Age girl sitting by the water surrounded by fishing equipment, mallard ducks and hazelnuts, in what is now Denmark. She is holding a piece of birch pitch gum in her hand. From the ancient gum researchers were able to find DNA from the person who had chewed it, and even from the food she had probably eaten shortly before.

I noticed that the dear girl is out in the public again, and this time in association with a news story about a study on the skin colour changes of prehistoric Europeans over time. So here she is, Lola, the Danish birch pitch chewing gum girl.

Aerial photograph of a monumental farmhouse, outlined in postholes. Two people stand in the outline.

What facilitated the emergence of social elites in Late #Neolithic Denmark? Analysis of monumental farmhouses suggests food production and control of surpluses was key, implying a powerful farmer elite displayed their status through food provisioning.

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Neolithic Italian skull cache suggests centuries of ancestor veneration rituals Archaeologists Dr. Jess Thompson and her colleagues have published a study dealing with the possible identification of human skulls used in ancestral veneration in the European Journal of Archaeology....

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The discovery at Masseria Candelaro (Puglia, Italy), an ancient village in Puglia, provides rare insight into how Neolithic people maintained connections with their ancestors.

Den danske ‘fake history hunter’ 🤜🤛

A Stone Age woman dressed in leather and fur clothing is standing sideways. Her headwear is decorated with the bill and feathers of a great crested grebe. She also wears a necklace made of teeth of several animal species. A pair of deer hooves is hanging below the necklace.

Illustration based on the Mesolithic burial at Gøngehusvej 7 in Vedbæk, Denmark.

Cover of the December 2024 issue of Antiquity, featuring a composite image of aerial photography and lidar data showing the 18ha Samnite hillfort at Monte Santa Croce-Cognolo in central Italy. A suite of non-invasive investigations has revealed a lack of evidence for permanent occupation within the area enclosed by the site’s monumental walls; instead, the results point to pastoral activities, compatible with local oral accounts of the recent use of the site for year-round pasturing and seasonal foraging. For more information, see ‘Italy’s empty hillforts: reassessing urban-centric biases through combined non-invasive prospection methods on a Samnite site (fourth–third centuries BC)’ by Giacomo Fontana & Wieke de Neef in this issue. Image: Giacomo Fontana, Ancient Hillforts Survey.

Our December issue is out now! Featuring great #archaeology like:

🐎 Scythian origins in Central Asia
⛓️ Repair and recycling of Roman armour
🌿 The power of farmers in Neolithic Denmark

& more! 🔗 buff.ly/346lv7h