Felix Riede

Europe’s earliest blue mineral pigment? From the Palaeolithic, you ask?? Indeed - read it here first, now even fully paginated 👇

Exactly - the origin of many tech innovations lies in toys (=scale models)! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Record rains drive flooding in Vietnam, submerging ancient city Vietnam's weather agency has recorded its highest level of rainfall for a 24-hour period in the historic city of Hue.

Unprecedented rain. We're taking our climate outside the range our entire agriculture & trade based human civilisation has grown up in.

I think this site is ~400 to 1800 AD. It wasn't built for this.

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Deadline extended to Nov 26!

Dear assessment committee would be a fine choice, I reckon - but that won’t be make or break!

Full Professorship(s) in Archaeology - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University

Deadline approaches for our open professorship here at @au.dk @auarcher.bsky.social. Get in touch if you have q

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And now also on YouTube courtesy of (the somewhat oddly named) Hidden History youtu.be/ibf62rLFbeY?.... OTT picture but otherwise not a bad summary, really

Great too have you here!

Atypical tool and object use in wild immature chimpanzees reveals developmental pathways to innovation - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Atypical tool and object use in wild immature chimpanzees reveals developmental pathways to innovation

Chimps and object play - what’s not to like? But why is it important? Find out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Amazing!

Top notch footage!

Wonderful video by @antiquity.ac.uk summarising our research!

Also covered in National Geographic: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

And now covered in @science.org by the fab @spoke32.bsky.social: www.science.org/content/arti.... Do check it out for yourself - the earliest evidence of mineral-based blue pigment in Palaeolithic Europe!

I, too, am proud to share this quite exciting finding with you: Europe's oldest mineral blue pigment. It's azurite and we found it on a legacy object that had long languished in a storehouse. New analysis bring new insights :) #palaeolithicblues

Human Impacts of the 8.2 ka Event on Mesolithic Foragers in Western De The 8.2 ka event had a major but regionally variable climatic impact in the Northern Hemisphere. In Denmark, it impacted lakes and rivers, which were essential landscape features for contemporaneous foragers. There is also evidence for a marked increase in sand drift...

Check out @felixthehauskat.bsky.social, Kathrine L. D. Andreasen & Peter M. Yaworsky's "Human Impacts of the 8.2 ka Event on Mesolithic Foragers in Western Denmark: A Model-Based Approach Inspired by 'Radical' #Disaster #Risk Reduction Research" in "Under Pressure" at

Job Alerts!🚨 We are looking to fill three Independent Junior Research Group Leader positions in the 'HUMAN ORIGINS' Cluster of Excellence at the University of Tübingen
Application deadline: Sept. 10, Starting Jan. 1, 2026

1. Genotype-Phenotype interactions:
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Our knotropology en español with comments by @felixthehauskat.bsky.social and external knot experts.

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And here’s to more!

Two cross-faculties collaborative theme groups selected to AIAS Following a successful year with four active cross-faculties 3-2-1-Go! Collaborative Theme Groups, the Interdisciplinary Taskforce at Aarhus University and AIAS have selected two new groups who will j...

Two new 3-2-1-Go! Collaborative Theme Groups selected to AIAS. The ‘Tracks and Footprints’ and ‘When Politics Meets Business’ groups bring together researchers across faculties and disciplines to transform perspectives, build bridges and understandings around one theme🎉
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Volcanic cooling Large volcanic eruptions have a major cooling impact on the climate

www.theclimatebrink.com/p/volcanic-c...

Off to the field with @ll-herskind.bsky.social and a group of awesome students - four weeks teaching excavation and my @erc.europa.eu project CLIOARCH’s very last field season. And we’re going to excavate the world’s oldest amber art workshop from the Late Pleistocene 🤩

DEADLINE EXTENSION!

The deadline for submitting an abstract for the upcoming @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference has been extended to Thursday the 10th of April, 12 pm (GMT+2)

Note that online participation will also be an option

See more here: conferences.au.dk/sscip-2025/c...

Last day to get your abstracts in for SSCIP 2024!

Awesome!

Coming up this afternoon! 👇

Wow, brave and awesome. You’ll be a great v- dean!

🌟 LAST CHANCE! 🌟 Join us at @econovoau.bsky.social for an incredible opportunity to study human ecology relations across socio-technological configurations! Apply now and be part of something amazing! ⏰ Deadline is TOMORROW at 23:59 CEST! lnkd.in/d4ws3iiK #OpportunityKnocks #JoinUs

@au.dk is a top-100 university and Aarhus a super-liveable city with forest, beach, and ocean (well, the Baltic) at your doorstep. You can even hang out at beautiful Campus Moesgaard :)

Join the dynamic @econovoau.bsky.social team and work with me, @jcsvenning.bsky.social and @anordonez1.bsky.social to study human ecological relation and niches across socio-technological configurations (foragers, farmers, etc.) past, present and future.