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Die Schamanin
»Geischtsrekonstruktion der mesolithischen Schamanin aus Bad Dürrenberg/Sachsen-Anhalt (📷 Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle 🛈 CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
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#Ausstellung #BadDürrenberg #HalleSaale #Mesolithikum #Museum #Schamanismus

Proceedings of the 40th Interdisciplinary Viking Symposium - 3 May 2023 in Odense:

”Travelling Viking Age”

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HEAS Seminar Series - Ancient Genomics - HEAS As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Ancient Genomics, Elena Irene Zavala from the University of Copenhagen will give a talk on Human Identification with Sediment DNA on the 23rd February 2026 at 10:...

We are looking forward to welcoming #ElenaIreneZavala to #HEASVienna next week for a #HEASSeminar in #AncientGenomics.

More information and registration on our website 👇🔗

Four challenges for usable/applied archaeologies Here, we respond to the useful comments from Kerr and Isendahl by clarifying four core elements of our argument. We frame these as four challenges for the future of usable archaeologies and hope they prove helpful in refining how archaeology might contribute meaningfully to contemporary global issues.

Check out the responses 👇 2/2

Christian Isendahl ➡️ doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

@sarahkerr.bsky.social ➡️ doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

& the authors' final response: doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

HEAS Seminar Series - Ancient Genomics - HEAS As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Ancient Genomics, Elena Irene Zavala from the University of Copenhagen will give a talk on Human Identification with Sediment DNA on the 23rd February 2026 at 10:...

Kick off your week with the latest #HEASVienna seminar, this time in Ancient Genomics, with Dr Elena Zavala who will be talking about sediment DNA and humans! Can't wait! Tomorrow 1030 am CE time!

More information and registration below: 👇
www.heas.at/events/heas-...

Keeping archaeology in the news...

Helleborus blooming in forest

Three days ago we were already there

Zwei schwarze Pferde im Schnee.

An Adriatic low swept in late and brought winter back to Carinthia.
Snow contrasts in February.

Schließung des Instituts für Archäologie an der HU-Berlin Die Archäologie gehört seit fast 200 Jahren zur wissenschaftlichen Tradition der Humboldt-Universität. Ihre Schließung bedeutet den Abbruch einer gewachsenen Forschungstradition und eine dauerhafte Sc...

Wenn ihr eine Minute Zeit habt, unterschreibt diese Petition gegen die mittelfristige Schließung des Archäologischen Instituts an der HU Berlin im Rahmen der Sparmaßnahmen:

The HU Berlin is closing the department of archaeology to save money!! Please sign the petition if you have a spare moment!

In a 'race against time,' archaeologists uncovered Roman-era footprints from a Scottish beach before the tide washed them away Archaeologists raced against the tide to record a unique set of footprints made 2,000 years ago on a Scottish beach.

Saving new Roman era footprints 👣 “The team of archaeologists worked in wind gusts up to 55 mph, racing to document the prints as the site was eroded...They used drones, cameras and, later in the lab, 3D modeling software to record images of the archaeological site.” by Dr. @killgrove.bsky.social

Now Open: SSH Doctoral Recruitment Call 2026

40+ fully funded 4yr PhD positions @univie.ac.at

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(Application Deadline 2 Mar 2026)

Contact me for #Palaeolithic projects!

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Künstlerische Darstellung einer Frau im Paläolithikum in Marathousa 1, die mithilfe eines kleinen Steinwerkzeugs einen Grabstock aus einem dünnen Erlenstamm herstellt. Diese Holzart wurde für den in Marathousa 1 gefundenen Grabstock verwendet. - Copyright K. Harvati

Frühester Nachweis von Menschenhand genutzter Holzwerkzeuge
Internationales Forschungsteam der Universitäten Tübingen und Reading sowie der Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung entdeckt rund 430.000 Jahre alte Belege in griechischer F...
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Cows Use Tools, Too, New Study Finds A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows, researchers say.

A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her back with a broom, the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows.

“Perhaps the absurd thing was not the absurdity of a cow using tools," one researcher said, "but the absurdity of us never thinking that a cow might be intelligent.”

Buchcover des Sammelbandes von Theorie | Archäologie | Reflexion 2, herausgegeben von Martin Renger, Stefan Schreiber und Alexander Veling mit bunten Waben im Hintergrund und Logo von Propylaeum

Was für eine schöne Adventsüberraschung: Theorie | Archäologie | Reflexion 2 ist bei @propylaeum.bsky.social erschienen! 🥳

Herausgeber: @martinrenger.bsky.social @stefanschreiber.bsky.social & @alexanderveling.bsky.social

👉 doi.org/10.11588/pro...

Dank an alle Beteiligten!

#Archäologie #Theorie

Skeptischer Rückblick auf Erich von Dänikens Tätigkeit. Er hat eine Schar "Jünger" in zweiter und dritter "Generation" herangezogen, die seine Ideen weiter fröhlich in die Welt tragen. Wir werden diesen Schwurbel nicht los...auch wenn der "Meister" im hohen Alter im Kreise seiner Lieben verstarb.

@barbarahorejs.bsky.social introducing #DarioVujevic at the first #HEASSeminar of 2026 taking place now online and in-person

Photo of a much, much younger me (probably age 15) and Erich von Däniken, sitting and looking somewhere else.

#ErichVonDäniken passed away.

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Admitting, his were among the books that piqued my interest in archaeology.

Later actually studying the past of course revealed the problematic angles of these narratives.

Still giving him credit for sparking curiosity.

HEAS Seminar Series - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic - HEAS As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic Bence Viola from the University of Toronto will give a talk on Teeth, Genes, and Taxonomy – fifteen years of Denisovan discov...

We are looking forward to welcoming @benceviola.bsky.social back to Vienna for the first #HEASSeminar in the 2025-2026 series in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic.

@univie.ac.at

More information and registration on our website 👇🔗

Dachstein-Fund: Gerippe am Gletscher erinnert an vergangenes Vergnügen Am Dachstein wurde eine alte Liftanlage entdeckt, die seit Jahrzehnten unter dem Eis lag. Die Teile sind bereits abtransportiert worden.

On the Dachstein glacier in Austrian alps, archaeology of my generation’s childhood begins.
As the ice melts, remnants of a 1970s ski lift station re-emerge. No word on whether it was documented before it has been dismantled and removed.

(behind pay wall)

News article in British Archaeology magazine

And we're in the news!

*Roman massacre at Maiden Castle reinterpreted* in the latest (and always excellent) British Archaeology magazine @archaeologyuk.bsky.social

Out now!

For the full article on the c14 dating programme see

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Un #RomanSiteSaturday

A photo of the felt hat

WOW! A 2,000-year-old felt hat intended to keep #Roman soldiers cool in the heat of the desert of Egypt has been painstakingly brought back to life.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

🏺 #archaeology

It's so weird how LLMs know so much about things I don't know anything about, and yet make fundamental and basic errors about things I do know anything about. Oh well, I'm sure that's a coincidence.

Zeitgeschichte: Kärnten und die Partisanen Die Ausstellung "Hinschauen! Poglejmo." im Kärntner Landesmuseum setzt sich mit der Rolle Kärntens im Zweiten Weltkrieg auseinander. Was ganz normal klingt, ist im österreichischen Süden auch 80 Jahre...

Zeitgeschichte
Kärnten und die Partisanen
"Wer, wie ich, im Kärnten der 1980er aufgewachsen ist, hat diese verfälschte Darstellung der Geschichte in jungen Jahren ebenso eingeimpft bekommen wie die "Urangst", wonach "der Slowene" stets eine Bedrohung..."

So war es.

www.falter.at/maily/202508...

Illustrations of a tattoo depicting a deer being attacked by a griffin, showing it: A) in its current state; B) recreated to fill in missing elements and account for skin desiccation; and C) an idealised rendering (credit: D. Riday).

NEW How did ancient tattooers learn their craft?

High-res, near infrared photography and collaboration with modern tattooers reveals the complex process behind tattoos on Siberia's 'ice mummies'.

#AntiquityThread 1/14 🧵

Warning: this thread contains images of human remains

New Pazyryk tattoos dropped! 🤩

#A5 is a #geospatial index that partitions the world into pentagonal cells. The cells are available at 31 different resolution levels, with the largest cell covering the whole world, and the smallest less than 30mm². Within each resolution level the cells have equal area, as per the #OGC definition.

🎉 Save the Date! 🎉

The Bioarchaeological Society of Austria is turning 10!
We warmly invite you to celebrate with us at the

10-Year Anniversary of the Bioarchaeological Society of Austria

🗓 Thursday, 23 October 2025
📍 Georg-Coch-Platz 2, Vienna

More details to follow – stay tuned!

‪Zur polizeilichen Razzia am Gedenk- und Lernort Peršmanhof: gemeinsame Erklärung von @doew.at, Mauthausen Memorial & Mauthausen Komitee, unterstützt vom KZ-Verband & Wiener Wiesenthal Institut.

Auszüge in diesem 🧵 von DÖW-Leiter @akranebit.bsky.social, vollständig hier: www.ots.at/presseaussen...

🚨 New JAS paper! 🚨 We modeled #Qin / #Han wall construction using #rstats + #QuartoPub to show collapse wasn’t just about cost—logistics broke the system. Supplying 350k+ forced migrants likely strained >30% of the Qin state’s population. #Archaeology

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