What would you do if you had half a year completely to yourself? Here's my answer to that question.

I've worked at a fairly leisurely pace. But I did not spend my seventh through twelfth month of unemployment watching TV. My main project since November is almost done now: a state-of-the-art typological, chronological and spatial analysis of a large group of stone axes that nobody had done anything about in 70 years.

Hopefully in a journal soon.

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For #MosaicMonday the flooded crypt of the Basilica di San Francesco in #Ravenna.

The Basilica dates to the 10th century and was built on a 5th century church. Due to Ravenna’s marshland and the subsidence of the ground's surface the crypt is permanently submerged by water and nowadays home of goldfishes.

The mosaics belong to the church of the fifth century AD. The crypt is believed to hold the remains of Bishop Neon, who lived in the 5th century.

📷 Photo: Nicola Strocci

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Check out Frederik's new photos of the Slagsta rock-art panel near Stockholm. This thing is at least 2600 years old.

You can see why major rock art goes unnoticed in normal ancient monument surveying! You need a specialist, like my colleague Sven-Gunnar Broström who made the discovery.

thoughtfuldane.com/2026/04/25/…

#archaeology #art

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The Slagsta Rock Carvings - Thoughtful Dane

I passed by the Slagsta Rock Carvings on my way to work yesterday. It was mid afternoon and the sun shone from a clear sky. Leaves on the surrounding trees only starting to sprout, trees casting little shadow.

^{Frederik Jensen (Thoughtful Dane)}

Check out Frederik Jensen's new micro card game with Bronze Age rock art!

thoughtfuldane.com/2026/04/23/…

#archaeology #boardgames

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Petroglyph: Memory with a twist - Thoughtful Dane

Petroglyph is a 17-card micro game for 1 to 4 players that I’m working on. The first test print arrived today. It looks gorgeous! Petroglyph is a neat mash up of Sushi Go with classic Memory. Easy to learn and fun to play for a wide audience.

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RE: mas.to/@Bracco_JP/116437013046…

My prehistory lab, the LAMPEA in Aix-en-Provence, is hiring a #PhD candidate on this truly fascinating topic. English speaking candidates are welcome, and the area ain't a bad place to stay :)

#FediHire #Prehistory #Archaeology #Sahul #AgentBasedModelling #Anthropology #JobAd #Research #Science

Jean-Pierre Bracco (@Bracco_JP@mas.to)

Attached: 3 images At @Aix-Marseille university, shortlisting of a doctoral project on the analysis of early human settlements in Australia using modeling (ABM + dynamic models) Labs: LAMPEA and PIIM Seeking a candidate to present the project to a …

^{Jean-Pierre Bracco (mas.to)}

I've made a point of going everywhere in the archaeology of the mid-to-late 1st millennium elite, ticking boxes, trying to become an unavoidable scholar. I've excavated a mead hall, a boat grave, a great barrow. I've written about gold bracteates, gold foil figures, jewellery and weaponry. I've metal detected famous sites. And today my big animal art paper came out. I'm confident that this will be cited like crazy moving forward.

degruyterbrill.com/document/do…

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Spheres of power and local dialects of Style II animal art in Vendel Period Zealand and Scania. Tissø, Lejre, Uppåkra, AD 570–770

This study aims to study the shifting relationships between elite manor sites on Zealand and in West Scania by means of regional differences in the Vendel Period animal art of c. AD 570–770.

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