Katharina Fuchs

Uralter Müll zeigt, wie Steinzeitbauern erstmals lernten, mit Abfall zu leben

So very excited to announce our new project - From Reuse to Resource - joint with the Freie Universitaet Berlin, funded by DFG-AHRC. Starting early 2026, we're going to be analyzing the wastescapes of Neolithic settlements to rethink ontologies of rubbish nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/11/25/u...

#Settlement area, economy, and #headlessbodies in the ditch – #Vráble is undoubtedly one of the most exceptional #LBK sites. However, without our partners, the specialists at the #SlovakAcademyOfSciences, it would have remained hidden forever… 🇸🇰
archeol.sav.sk/index.php/en/
#researchacrossboarders

A fascinating article by @andrewcurry.com @science.org!
🔬....we hope to find out soon whether 'killings/massacres' actually happened in Vráble or whether ritual practices took place here–skull removal and decapitation are different procedures... 💀👀 stay tuned!
@uni-kiel.de @clusterroots.bsky.social

Universities in 'battle of the century' with journal publisher Elsevier One New Zealand university told its staff all universities in New Zealand and Australia would "lose some degree of access" to the publisher's 1600 titles from the start of next year.

The irony here is that academics don’t just write the articles for free—we also referee and edit for them for free. Something is deeply broken.

“New Zealand's eight universities spent $30-million a year on journal licences and about half of that sum went to Elsevier.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Visual with the word ‘Jobs’ and the ROOTS logo

You are an early-career scientist interested in social and environmental processes in the past? For our second phase, we are offering 5 positions for postdocs and 9 positions for doctoral students.

Apply now!

All the details: www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-r...
#earlycareerscientists #jobs

Alcohol and the rise of complex societies A cross-cultural study reveals how the consumption of wine and beer facilitated the evolution of human societies

Now, this sounds like a really fascinating cross-cultural study on the role #alcohol (and its consumption) may have had on the evolution of complex human #societies:

🍺🏺 www.mpg.de/25055517/071... via @maxplanck.de

Curious what’s happening at our excavations at the mysterious #LBK site #Vráble? Follow our instagram account for daily updates from the field! ⛏️🏺🦴🕵🏼 ⛅️

www.instagram.com/neolithicbod...

#archaeology #bioarchaeology #neolithic #science #archaeologistslife #wherearetheskulls

Finally online: @neolithicbodies.bsky.social project! Follow for more information on the mysterious #LBK site of Vráble-Vel’ke Lehemy, where dozens of headless skeletons where found in a ditch… perhaps we find some skulls this summer?
@uni-kiel.de @dfg.de #archaeology #neolithic #humanosteology

Stone Age farmers’ households passed from mother to daughter Moms and daughters were at the center of the family in ancient Çatalhöyük, ancient DNA and archaeological evidence suggest

There is a lot going on here but these results are wonderful (even if I find some of the archaeologists’ comments problematic). Here are a few notes to be followed up with a blog post at “Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives” 1/

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours Researchers in Japan have developed a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours, offering up a potential solution for a modern-day scourge polluting oceans and harming wildlife.

“the new material is as strong as petroleum-based plastics but breaks down into its original components when exposed to salt. Those components can then be further processed by naturally occurring bacteria,thereby avoiding generating microplastics that can harm aquatic life and enter the food chain.”

Remains of a First World War dugout in a snowy forest, with the text 'Conflict Archaeology, Antiquity'.

Interested in the #archaeology of conflict? Check out our #ConflictArchaeology collection, with #OpenAccess content such as:

Iraq's most famous early Islamic conquest site
Arrowheads from the Tollense Valley
Destruction of Ukrainian heritage

& more! 🏺
buff.ly/jusFBa7

ROOTS receives funding for second phase German Excellence Commission approves up to 60 million euros for Kiel research on humans and the environment in the past.

Research into the links between humans, the environment and culture in past worlds continues! We thank the reviewers and the Excellence Commission for the positive decision on #ROOTS2. www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-r...
@dfg.de @uni-kiel.de #excellencestrategy 🏺

Deutschlandkarte der Verteilung der Exzellenzcluster auf Bundesländer und Universitäten.

Die #Exzellenzcluster stehen fest: Heute hat die Exzellenzkommission 70 Projekte zur Förderung ausgewählt. 45 Cluster werden fortgesetzt, 25 neu eingerichtet. Die Förderung beginnt ab 1. Jan. 2026 für 7 Jahre, die Fördersumme beträgt insg. 539 Mio. €/Jahr. Die Liste: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3

Kiel University in the Excellence Strategy: Success for the two Kiel clusters PMI and ROOTS The German Research Foundation announced which collaborative research projects will receive funding for the next seven years as Clusters of Excellence.

Double success for Kiel University: The Clusters of Excellence 'Precision Medicine in Chronic Inflammation' (PMI) and 'ROOTS – Social, Environmental, and Cultural Connectivity in Past Societies' @clusterroots.bsky.social will be funded for another seven years!

📢 We're hiring!
The Leibniz-Zentrum for Archaeology (LEIZA) is launching a new international, English-language, Diamond Open Access journal—and we're looking for a Managing Editor (m/f/d) to lead the way.

📍#Mainz or #Schleswig
🕒 Full- or part-time
💼 EG 13 TV-L

#archaeology #journal #editing 1/4

YouTube video by DFG bewegt The Excellence Strategy

Milestone in the #ExcellenceStrategy: From 19–22 May the Excellence Commission reviews 98 proposals for Clusters of Excellence & selects projects for funding. Announcement live on 22 May via our youtube channel, our social media, DFG's & @wissenschaftsrat.de websites. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV2M...

#Milliardär*innen drücken sich mal wieder erfolgreich darum, ihren gerechten Beitrag zu zahlen.

Wir fordern:
👉 #Steuerprivilegien bei der #Erbschaftsteuer abschaffen!

Preprint on long-distant kinship structures, mating networks and cultural expressions in #Neolithic Germany published by @uni-kiel.de @clusterroots.bsky.social scientists! #aDNA #paleogenetics #megaliths #gallerygraves

How do archaeologists figure out the sex of a skeleton? Archaeologists can estimate a person's sex with 95% accuracy, but many experts are focused on what can be learned about humans outside the male/female gender binary.

"Every way that we try to put a strict, solid line of demarcation on biological sex, there are people who fall outside of those lines," Estabrook said. 🏺🧪

I am offering two 4-year PhD positions (fully funded) and a 57 month combined post-doc / project manager position as part of my NWO-Vici grant, which starts in September.

100 Generationen Gleichheit Der Übergang von der nomadischen zur sesshaften, auf Landwirtschaft beruhenden Lebensweise zu Beginn der Jungsteinzeit war einer der tiefgreifendsten Einschnitte in der Geschichte der Menschheit. Schon lange diskutiert die Wissenschaft, ob dieser Entwicklungsschritt, verbunden mit weiteren Innovationen und damit steigender Produktivität der Landwirtschaft, schnell zu sozialer Ungleichheit führte – und damit letztendlich die Keimzelle aller Wohlstandsunterschiede bis in die Gegenwart darstellt.

100 Generationen Gleichheit #archäologie

Höcke zur Hochstufung: "Mit welchen scheinheiligen (..) Mitteln hier eine Partei verboten werden soll (..) weil sie den Bonzen des gegenwärtigen Systems gefährlich wurde. (..) weil die Wahrheit eben den Inhabern der gegenwärtigen Republik gefährlich und unbequem ist."

Spaß, das war Goebbels 1928

AfD "gesichert rechtsextrem": Das könnte lustig werden für alle Beamten in der verfassungsfeindlichen Partei. Staatstreue und so. "Beamte stehen zu ihrem Dienstherrn in einem öffentlich-rechtlichen Dienst- und Treueverhältnis": das gilt für diese Staatsfeinde gerade nicht!

Körperspende: Das sieht sonst nur, wer Medizin studiert Im Präpariersaal zergliedern Medizinstudierende Leichen. Wir haben sie monatelang begleitet: von der Angst vorm ersten Schnitt bis zum Begräbnis ihres Körperspenders.

Was bewegt Menschen dazu, Körperspender*in zu werden? Und was bedeutet es für Medizinstudierende, im Präpariersaal zu lernen? Antworten gibt die Reportage „Lernen an Leichen“, für die @zeit.de einen Kurs des Anatomischen Instituts der #UniKiel begleitet hat:

🚨 I am hiring!

Join me at Masaryk University as a postdoc researcher in human #bioarchaeology & #isotope analysis. Work on past mobility, diet & funerary practices using cutting-edge lab facilities.

⏳ Apply by 1 June 2025
📍 Brno, CZ
🔗 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/339250

😯

A reminder of a great week - the photo gallery of the #GfA Conference 2025 @uni-kiel.de is online!🦴☀️💙 @clusterroots.bsky.social
#BiologicalAnthropology #movingforward #yeswecan

gfa-anthropologie.de/tagungen/gfa...

An illustration of a woman with a trail of papers behind her. The hedline is: How I finally found my confidence as a scientist

"Many scientists know from the start that they want to be academic researchers. But for others the path unfolds gradually, with spurts of doubt and uncertainty along the way. In a way, that’s fitting." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/43Ph9Ei

How can we improve statistical training in archaeological science? The aim of this paper is to shine light on fundamental statistical concepts that archaeologists do not talk about enough. I argue that more deliberate…

look what my brilliant colleague petra vaiglova wrote!