Archaeologist; Curator Prehistory at RMO; Professor of Public Archaeology Leiden University; 2025-2026 Dubois chair professor at Maastricht University; FSA; Limburg
Luc Amkreutz
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Altostratus (?) cloud ☁️ over Savelsbos forest, Sint-Geertruid, South Limburg. I enjoy the lines in this composition 📷
This night I remember James Lee Cole who 82 years ago with the 82nd jumped out of an airplane into occupied Normandy, at St. Mère Église preparing the way for D-Day a few hours later. James survived but was sadly killed during Market Garden several months later. 🙏
For #FindsFriday and #FlintFriday these nice artefacts from a field near Sint-Geertruid last week. They are a rather worn out flake-based scraper and a possible core preparation blade. Middle Neolithic Michelsberg culture. 🪨
Rainy Leiden Monday antidote image. This weekends glorious walnut tree (Juglans) 🌳 in the orchard in StG, Limburg.
One of the oldest known musical instruments!
A Paleolithic #flute made from a #swan's wing bone some 40,000 years ago!
The preserved length is about 12.6 cm with three finger holes. The original length of the flute is unknown.
Found in the Geißenklösterle Cave at Blaubeuren. This... 🧵1/2
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Bryn Celli Ddu is a remarkable Neolithic passage tomb built to align with midsummer sunrise some 5,000 years ago!
On the longest day of the year, the rising sun lights up the inner burial chamber where a stone pillar keeps watch from the shadows.
Anglesey, Wales 📷 by me
#TombTuesday
#Archaeology
Now reading.
Standing looking out over the North Sea this morning led me to thoughts of how this place got its name - from Old English meaning “stag pool” or the “island of harts” derived from heorot (a hart, or male deer) and pōl (a pool or inlet) - and on to petrified forest and Doggerland.
New version of the THE MAP is out! 😀
"Expansion of Farming in Western Eurasia, 9600-4000 BCE"
v 2026.2 is partly based on georeferenced site data bases, other areas updated.
All info and various versions on
zenodo.org/records/2061...
@leizarchaeology.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social
This is a stunning find.
Marks inside an Iron Age skull that was entombed in a cairn in Scotland suggest that someone removed the dead woman's brain after she died.
🧪 #archaeology #history
www.newscientist.com/article/2529...
In 1902 a farmer ploughed up this bronze horse at Trundholm, Denmark.
Thinking it was an old toy he took it home for his children! 😱
On closer inspection he contacted the National Museum.
Now the ‘Sun Chariot’ is an iconic symbol of Denmark’s Bronze Age 3,400 years ago!
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
Scrape marks inside a skull and sharpened limb bones in a set of remains found in Scotland may be evidence of unusual Iron Age funerary rituals
