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📢Job📢 Post-Doc Research Fellow @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social 3 YR F/T £43,878 Leverhulme Trust-funded project: Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution Of Heritage-based Hostility On Social Media 😍 Researching the cultural evolution of archaeological information #archaeology 🏺⛏️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/p...

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22,000-year-old tracks are earliest evidence of transport vehicles. Tracks and footprints found in New Mexico are by far the earliest evidence of people using primitive vehicles to transport things www.newscientist.com/article/2469...

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For anyone interested in #archaeology I've created an 'Archaeologists of UK & Europe' starter pack of archaeologists, researchers, and institutions. If anyone suited would like to be included, reach out #uk #europe #history #skytorians #histsky #medieval #prehistory go.bsky.app/9rhAGCa

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'Multiple Dutch universities have announced reorganisations that are likely to involve layoffs, in the wake of drastic government budget cuts that will amount to about €500 million (£414 million) a year across higher education and research.' 1/2

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As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

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15,800-year-old engraved plaquettes from Germany depict fishing techniques, including the use of nets, not previously known in the Upper Paleolithic ...

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Great way to end the second week! First in-situ ostrich eggshell of the season at Klipdrift Cave ~14,000 years ago. 🏺 #archaeology

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How not to use AI pt. 100. This picture makes a mockery of the findings @archaeologynews.bsky.social The recovered fauna paints a super-interesting picture with e.g. rhino, ostrich, horse, a monkey, and pangolin. Isotopes suggests an open, arid environment. AI just puts a mammoth in a forest

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Thrilled to finally share this publication based on my master's thesis. Our study uses #LEH to examine how urban living in postmedieval Netherlands impacted infant and maternal health.🦷🤰👶 Check it out #openaccess here 👇https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oa.3393

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New commentary out in BBS! Archaeological objects like cave paintings, figurines, and musical instruments are often seen as early art forms uniquely tied to human symbolic cognition. But I've long been struck by how this view overlooks remarkable parallels in the animal world.

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Very pleased with this thorough review of our @rmoudheden.bsky.social exhibition ‘Bronze Age. Fires of Change’ in @antiquityj.bsky.social

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PhD Fellowship position in Archaeology at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo. The position is open in terms of thematic and chronological scope, from the Early Stone Age to Historical and Contemporary Archaeology www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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1/3 New recommendation: Lasse van den Dikkenberg and @alexbrandsen.nl (2025). Using Text Mining to Search for Neolithic Vlaardingen Culture Sites in the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt Delta. v2 peer-reviewed and recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #Archaeology 🏺🧪

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Shocking read: "...a traditional inukshuk stone structure, used as a navigational marker by the Inuit, that had been vandalized." ""...rock collected from the site for sale on the internet for upward of $10,000." www.science.org/content/arti...

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The South African Journal of Science released a special issue on the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Taung Child (and hence of the first hominin fossil from Africa). It contains a wide range of reflections on the scientific and societal impact of the discovery. sajs.co.za/issue/view/1...

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ROCEEH job opportunity: The Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities is seeking a Data Curator (m/f/d) with a background in Palaeolithic Archaeology for ROCEEH at the University of Tübingen starting on 01.05.2025 and lasting for two years.‍ www.researchgate.net/job/1018917_...

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Looking forward to organising this event @unileiden.bsky.social in May 2025 with Gül Aktürk Hauser: “An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Heritage Reparations: Responding to Climate-Induced Damages”. CfP deadline on 14 March 2025: bit.ly/3WLubyc.

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I wrote an article for The Conversation about generative AI visualisation in #archaeology, will discuss it further in a thread tomorrow. 🏺 theconversation.com/how-ai-image...

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Warum die radikale Rechte generative KI liebt und wie Midjourney & Co. die Ästhetik des gegenwärtigen digitalen Faschismus prägen, darüber durfte ich in «Geschichte der Gegenwart» (@g-d-gegenwart.bsky.social) schreiben #PlatformRealism geschichtedergegenwart.ch/echte-emotio...

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The Dutch police are looking for this person in connection with the break-in in the Assen museum and the looting of Romanian archaeological artefacts. www.politie.nl/gezocht-en-v...

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🧪 Yet another awful AI image in science reporting, used presumably because it's free. @phys.org.web.brid.gy & @sciencex.bsky.social editorial standards focus on factual, credible, reputable sources & checking. That MUST extend to images, or risk misleading their readers. sciencex.com/help/editori...

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Curating the British Museum's Palaeolithic and Mesolithic collections! What's not to like? bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com/templates/CI...

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Metal-detecting can be super-cool! Roman-age coin hoard found, reported and now on show in the National Antiquities Museum! www.rmo.nl/nieuws-pers/...

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Stolen history -https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwx1d00q7qo

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drentsmuseum.nl/en/news/clos... Sad news. A number of gold objects on loan stolen from a temporary exhibition in Assen. I hope that the objects can be retrieved. Nice things, such as the Drents museum, which organises world class exhibitions, they are so very vulnerable nowadays it seems.

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New publication on probable facial piercings ("labrets") in the Mid Upper Paleolithic of Central Europe. Really happy to finally see this in print: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Macaques on Japan's Shodoshima Island enjoy leaving chalk marks on stones. They have no symbolic purpose, but recognisable geometric features (parallelism, intersections, repetitions). (paper) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-024-01176-y

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We have a fully funded PhD at the Department of Archaeology, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, on coastal promontory forts - creating a catalogue and archive of this important site type and assessing the past and future impact of climate change www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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“Hoe zag het dagelijks leven in Amsterdam eruit in de Tweede Wereldoorlog?” - nou niet zo niet Amsterdam Time Machine. Gebruik gewoon geen AI afbeeldingen. Er zijn duizenden echte beelden beschikbaar. #aimissers

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Update (2): I was invited to comment on @vpro.nl radio programme OVT. Esp. in view of the Faro treaty's requirements to include the public in heritage discourse, I think we should stay away from short-cuts using AI, but concentrate on providing quality information. www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/o...

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Update: I emailed Archeon, to voice my concerns. I think the actors usually used in the museum are better informed and more fun to interact with than AI. The response was curt: "We will include your feedback in our evaluation"

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To all the archaebotanists here ⚠️⚠️ On behalf of the initiative “Ethics in Archaeobotany”, I invite you to complete a questionnaire until the 17th of January 2025: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Help to spread the voice! 🙏🙏

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www.nwo.nl/en/news/nwo-... I applaud this move (and the choice of date) by the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research.

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