Detlef Gronenborn
@dgron
archaeologist with an interest in past, present, and future societies personal account with personal opinions, some research affiliation-related
OK! Are you getting as tired of these silly KAP26 posts as I am? 🙄 Here is the last one, as this is our last day in the field 😀: We did get a basic understanding of the mound's central architecture and how the two axes were found during the 19th century. Now, all depends on the 14C samples.
But all this would not have been achieved without the professionalism of @archaeo-fk.bsky.social and #hessenARCHÄOLOGIE
KAP26 Day9 Almost done for this time. We are looking at what may be the central stone packing, and at what may be 19th cent. disturbances. An excellent team of students from @unimainz.bsky.social has done excellent work!!! Big Hand!!! 👏👏👏
KAP26 Day 7: Press event with Hofheim Mayor Wilhelm Schulze. An important and highly cherished summer date for all of us, with a long tradition! We explained our thoughts, press info (in German) here: www.leiza.de/presse/detai...
KAP26 Day 6: We are digging deeper and deeper into that mound. Heat and drought will not keep us from trying to solve that riddle...🌞🔥 @leizarchaeology.bsky.social #hessenARCÄOLOGIE
KAP26 Day 5: What this is??? 🤔 Let's wait and see... We will share our thoughts next Tuesday. Until then ... 🤫 But we think its looking good! 🙂
KAP26 Day 4 View on Kapellenberg ridge from the E. The hilltop enclosure covers almost the entire length, extending 1300 m from N-S. The mound is located at the highest spot.😮 @leizarchaeology.bsky.social #hessenARCHÄOLOGIE
KAP26 day 3: Morning break. What are we looking at? Certainly not just a pile of dirt and rocks...🤨 More soon, hopefully! If the heat permits 🌞 @leizafriends.bsky.social #hessenARCHÄOLOGIE
KAP26 Day 2: Once again we are trying to unravel that one BIG question - when did they start constructing that mound??? 🤨 From last year we know it must have been after 6000 BCE. That is somewhat unsurprising, though...🙄 @leizarchaeology.bsky.social #hessenARCHÄOLOGIE
Kapellenberg excavation 2026 (henceforth KAP26), day 1: Preparing the ground, fascination rising!!! 😮😃
Today this looks like an overgrown heap of dirt... But as from next week this location will become one of the most exciting excavations in western Germany! 😮 Kapellenberg 2026! More soon!
Vortrag morgen am @leizarchaeology.bsky.social Brandaktuell ☝️🫨: 🔜 Umwelt und Klima ☀️🔥🥵 aber Vortragssaal gekühlt ❄️❄️❄️😀 Info: www.leiza.de/kalender/det...
High-status Neolithic burial mound "Tumulus de Tumiac", Arzon, Brittany, France. 🇫🇷 Mid 5th millennium BCE. Extremely rich goods from all of W Europe. I still keep asking myself why societies suddenly agreed to freeze material surplus and labor in these monuments? www.academia.edu/29590646/Som...
Admittedly, there are sites more impressive than #Kapellenberg... at least at first sight. 🧐 Tumulus Saint-Michel at Carnac, Brittany, France 🇫🇷 www.menhirs-carnac.fr/decouvrir/le...
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
Its spring time 🌞🌷and Kapellenberg2026 season is rapidly approaching! Meanwhile, take a look 👀 from Meisterturm watch tower over #Hofheim and the extensive site of #Hattersheim towards Frankfurt airport 🛫. Now a global hub, once a "landscape of fear"... www.leiza.de/forschung/fo...
Entry to Jungfernhöhle (cave of virgins) near Tiefenellern, Bavaria. Interesting case of ritual violence during Late Linear Pottery rigidity phase. Deposition of mostly female skelettons around 5100/5000 BCE. And nowadays a beautiful hiking terrain...🥾
New Version out 😀 Diagram: Pleistocene-Holocene-Anthropocene 2025 (2026) zenodo.org/records/1864... With updated data ☝️. For teaching, public lectures etc etc... Brought to you by @leizarchaeology.bsky.social research focus "Human-Environment Interactions" @niklashausmann.bsky.social
In einer simplen Grafik kann man die Klimafolgen von Treibhausgasen zeigen. Negieren ist das Schlimmste was wir machen können: @leizarchaeology.bsky.social
Safe the date! Evening lecture on 12 February 2026 by Rick Schulting @leizarchaeology.bsky.social on an all too timely topic...
Parallel zu unten: "Woran scheitern Gesellschaften?" Interne gesell. Konflikte und Polarisierung entwickeln sich bereits während "guter Jahre" und führen - unausweichlich (?) - zum Umbruch...☹️ Antike Welt 6/2025 (hinter Bezahlwand) www.herder.de/wbg-magazine... @leizarchaeology.bsky.social
Kleiner Report in der aktuellen AiD 6/2025, 46-47: "Warum Krieg? Ein Blick in die Vergangenheit" Das Heft ist natürlich auch sonst interessant!☝️ @leizarchaeology.bsky.social @kerstinphofmann.bsky.social (Hinter Bezahlwand) www.herder.de/wbg-magazine...
"Woche der offenen Tür" im #StadtmuseumHofheim. Es gibt viel Kunst, aber natürlich auch #Archäologie! Besonders: die VR-Installationen zum Kapellenberg! 😀 stadtmuseum.hofheim.de/sonderausste...
Kap25 Day 14: Measuring and drawing of trench profiles. Rounding up, as last day in the field... @archaeo-fk.bsky.social and the team achieved a lot! #hessenARCHÄOLOGIE at its best and @unimainz.bsky.social credit points well deserved!!! 👏👏👏 @leizarchaeology.bsky.social
Kap25 day 12: The rains come and go 🌨️ as @archaeo-fk.bsky.social and the team dig deeper and deeper into the unknown... 🫢 @leizarchaeology.bsky.social @unimainz.bsky.social @challengesjgu.bsky.social
Kap25 day 11: Good progress despite 🌦️. Pits and huge postholes underneath erosion layers of mound. What is this all about? 🧐 @leizarchaeology.bsky.social @unimainz.bsky.social @challengesjgu.bsky.social