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Mikkel Nørtoft

@mikkelnortoft.bsky.social

Postdoc in archaeology at UCPH/CAU Kiel. Into prehistoric wealth, inequality, migrations, resource networks, language, textiles, quantitative stuff, archaeogaming, etc.

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AI and Archaeology | Podcast Episode on RSS.com In this episode of Let's Dig Deeper, we're talking all things AI and archaeology!To help me learn more, I've invited Rebecca Bristow (PhD-student at UCPH) and Mikkel Nørtoft (Postdoc at UCPH) into the...

Rebecca Bristow and I had a great experience on Zeenat Haroon's Let's Dig Deeper podcast talking about AI in archaeology recorded in May but out today 🙂
#letsdigdeeper
Listen on your favourite podcast app here:
rss.com/podcasts/let...

20.09.2025 09:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks! And thanks for helping it along so well :)

01.08.2025 07:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Dolmen Game ("Ancestral Dolmens") Gameplay (uncut) March 2025
YouTube video by Mikkel Nørtoft Dolmen Game ("Ancestral Dolmens") Gameplay (uncut) March 2025

Check out a video of the gameplay here: youtu.be/6h4KqFgoPv4

31.07.2025 11:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gamifying the past: embodied LLMs in DIY archaeological video games Accepted for 2025 publication in Advances in Archaeological Practice, please cite as: Nørtoft, Mikkel; Hofmann, Daniela; Iversen, Rune. “Gamifying the past: embodied LLMs in DIY archaeological video g...

Our paper on our new archaeological DIY video game (created by me) with freely conversing characters is accepted for publication in Advances in Archaeological Practice 2025, and they let me share it while they do layout etc. Check it at www.academia.edu/143177364. Big thanks to @saa-aap.bsky.social

31.07.2025 11:55 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

Thanks to Kate Kanne and Jess Beck for enriching this event! :)

30.07.2025 13:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you for helping to make it a success, Dr Rohrlach!

30.07.2025 13:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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For my DFF project "Unearthing Social Echelons", this weekend in Kiel, I and Martin Furholt held the seminar
"Holistic approaches to Prehistoric Wealth and Inequality".
21 presentations from researchers in 7 countries.
Thanks to all participants, co-organizers, and DFF for making this happen.

17.06.2025 21:35 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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(PDF) Emerging Researchers Network (ERN) of the University of Copenhagen School of Archaeology PDF | The Emerging Researchers Network (ERN) was established in 2023 as an extension of the University of Copenhagen's School of Archaeology (SoA),... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

Here's our new preprint about our Emerging Researchers Network (ERN) in the UCPH School of Archaeology fostering a culture of mutual ECR support within and across institutes and faculties, breaking down structural barriers, our deeds, vision, and future plans.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

22.01.2025 12:20 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

It's great for a bike ride around the island, and for rock art! :)

22.01.2025 10:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Part of ancient Britain was a woman’s world, burials reveal 2000-year-old graves suggest women wielded as much—and sometimes more—power than men in some Celtic tribes

The Durotriges

An Iron Age people with women at the centre of power, kinship and land ownership

A great report on our joint @tcddublin.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social research project by @spoke32.bsky.social in @science.org 😊👍

www.science.org/content/arti...

16.01.2025 07:56 — 👍 680    🔁 141    💬 22    📌 13
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Sun stones and the darkened sun: Neolithic miniature art from the island of Bornholm, Denmark | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Sun stones and the darkened sun: Neolithic miniature art from the island of Bornholm, Denmark

This one's a banger www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

16.01.2025 09:51 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

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