- archaeologist with an interest in past, present, and future societies
- personal account with personal opinions, some research affiliation-related
Detlef Gronenborn
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"Eierarsch"-Strategie als demokratische Resilienzhandlung...intern hat das noch geklappt.
Unstreitbar ist leider, dass in Zeiten gesellschaftlicher Polarisierung die Mitte schwächer wird. Wie stabil sich nun die demokratische Mitte in der gegenwärtigen Desintegrationsphase hält, wird sich zeigen.
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
Applied archaeology, written by a non-archaeologist, once again...but certainly an inspiring read! 🌍📉
Sustainability or dystopia? What past patterns tell us about where society is heading www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America, was founded #OnThisDay in AD 1607.
Learn about family history and a genealogical secret kept hidden for centuries there 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
📷 Michael Lavin, Jamestown Rediscovery (Preservation Virginia)
🏺 #Archaeology
A news study by @unipotsdam.bsky.social @paleomonrepos.bsky.social & @unileiden.bsky.social now #openaccess: Eemian palaeogenetics demonstrates loss of diversity in modern fallow deer (Dama dama): iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
🐚 New paper out in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. Limpet shells from prehistoric Franchthi (Greece) show when prehistoric people did what. Large sample sets turn out to reveal social practices that small ones miss. 🧵1/5 🏺 buff.ly/G5mDmsi
Brutal and emboldened: how Nigeria’s bandit crisis spun out of control
Polarisierung mit Gewaltanstieg sind typisch für die desintegrativen Phasen von Zyklen. Das sind besonders kritische Situationen, die schnell außer Kontrolle geraten und dann in Rigiditätsfallen enden. 📉 Nicht gut!
Und das gilt nicht nur für das Klima...
Noch ein bischen hin, aber jetzt schon mal der Verweis auf den kommenden Vortrag von
Prof. Dr. Jan Esper, @unimainz.bsky.social
am @leizarchaeology.bsky.social .
"Natürliche Klimazeugen" 🌲🌦️
Rettet das Datum🗓️: 15. Juli 2026, 18:00 st
A new book applies principles of environmental tipping points to past societal transformations — and attempts to draw lessons about what the future holds today.
Understanding the seasonality of resource exploitation provides critical insights into past human behaviours, how prehistoric communities structured their subsistence strategies, organised resource…