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arkeostrida.bsky.social
Astrid J. Nyland
@arkeostrida.bsky.social
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Stine Age Archaeologist in Stavanger, Norway, who also own a farm that needs some work
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Went to Edinburgh - found best café decoration ever! #blastfromthepast
November 3, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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CFP! Join us at TAG Nordic!🥳
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cjfrieman.bsky.social Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · Sep 29
Call for papers - hopeful pasts for hopeful futures - a session at Nordic TAG 2026 (in person, Kalmar, Sweden) 6-9 May 2026 - deadline 15 October.

I'm organising this with Daniela Hofmann and @arkeostrida.bsky.social
How do we story the past? As many of us are trying to address cascading environmental, political and social polycrises through our work, reflection about the stories we tell, and why we tell them, is more important than ever. Yet, certain kinds of stories – often involving origin/ancestry, warfare, inequality or ecological degradation – seem to enjoy a broader reach than stories of multiculturalism, coexistence, cooperation, or integration. While this work outlines the scope and history of the problems we now confront, it rarely offer alternatives to the status quo or paths to a better future. In this session, we discuss the implications of our narrative choices and how we can choose more actively to shape the approaching future. The past was diverse, comprising manifold social processes at various scales. The past was lived by people other than elites and warriors, and the dominant trends we observe were variously resisted and adapted. The past was not just human, but material and otherwise animate. In sum, the past has an innate capacity to surprise us, a property we can use to imagine different ways of being and relating. We invite participants to reflect on how we might foreground work, both in scholarly articles and in outreach, to shape the future we want. Do we have moral and ethical obligations? And to whom (or to what)? Are different ways of telling more suited to different kinds of stories (articles versus images, computer games versus podcasts, Science Fiction versus childrens books)? Can we extract tales of hope to inspire better futures? Is that just idealistic dreaming or unscientific? How do we represent uncertainties and ambiguities? How do we turn our eyes from past to future with a better world in mind? • The workshop will be structured around blocks of short presentations (6 slides in 6 minutes), followed by panel debates. • Interested participants should contact us at daniela.hofmann@uib.no • send a max 200 word abstract
September 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
arkeostrida.bsky.social
Fresh off the press - latest from the LAST project: "Under Pressure? Living with Climate Change and Environmental Hazards in the Past and Now" (Open access) link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Thanks to all contributors, and to my great co-editors: Marcel Bradtmöller, Sonja B. Grimm and Noa Lavi!!
Under Pressure?
This open access book gathers case studies of resilience and coping strategies in hunter-gatherer societies who were confronted with natural hazards
link.springer.com
August 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
arkeostrida.bsky.social
Reposting @stevenjgibbons.bsky.social great post - seeing that sharing knowledge is one of the best strategies against hazards turning disaster #LifeAftertheStoreggaDisaster
stevenjgibbons.bsky.social Steven J. Gibbons @stevenjgibbons.bsky.social · Jul 30
A little reminder that there is lots of completely open #seismic data in the world that can be viewed on any PC (and even a phone!) with only a few lines of python and the #obspy package. This plot shows 20 minutes of signal from today's Magnitude 8.8 #earthquake
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Python script for plotting the signal from the M8.8 Kamchatka earthquake recorded on station IU.MJAO (Matsushiro, Japan) Signal from the M8.8 Kamchatka earthquake recorded on station IU.MJAO (Matsushiro, Japan)
July 31, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Og der var den endelig i hus: boka mi! Kan bestilles på Orkana.no «Da sjøen ble et monster» - fortellingen om Eir - med nydelige illustrasjoner av Hege Vatnaland (og en faktadel om steinalder, storeggatsunamien og arkeologi)
June 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
arkeostrida.bsky.social
Ble invitert av #gjenklang studio til å fortelle om dagen i steinalderen da Storeggatsunamien rammet kysten gjenklangstudio.no/case/histori...
Historier som endret Norge | Gjenklang
Oppdag historien bak små og store hendelser som har påvirket landet vårt. Programleder Christian Gilsvik inviterer hver uke en ny ekspert som dykker ned i alt fra hvalfangst til første verdenskrig. Me...
gjenklangstudio.no
June 19, 2025 at 6:03 AM
arkeostrida.bsky.social
bildet er fra VG - skulle ikke tro det er fra vår nærmeste allierte?
2000 soldater er sendt til LA for å stoppe demonstrasjoner mot deportasjonspraksisen Trump har igangsatt, mens LAPD understreker at dette var en fredelig demonstrasjon.. and so it begins…?
June 8, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Great New paper out!
May 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Just reminding all archaeologists - and other scientists - about this fine journal!!! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
May 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Interessant - «finner ikke sumerisk oldtidsby» - mente jeg svensk tidsskrift eller samisk politiker? 🤭
May 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Kanskje etikk-timer hadde vært bedre - enn ekstra timer kristendom? Virker som at å plagiere andres tekst - unnskyld, være skyldig i «tekstlikhet», er vanlig praksis blant politikere?
morgenbladet.no Morgenbladet @morgenbladet.no · Apr 29
Rappet fra britisk forfatter: Under den prosaiske tittelen «Representantforslag 273 S» tar de på seg intet mindre enn en gjennomgripende revisjon av den vestlige idéhistorien. Men hele forslaget består av lett sammentrukket avskrift, på en måte man vanskelig kan kalle noe annet enn plagiat.
Mesteparten av KrF-trioens innlegg er rent plagiat
KrF har levert det mest intellektuelt ambisiøse innlegget Stortinget har sett på noen tiår. Men i den moderne verden som partiet så hardnakket hevder at har kristent opphav, regner vi åndsverk som eie...
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April 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
arkeostrida.bsky.social
Hørte #nyhetsmorgen litt over 7 og #JulieBrodkorp tidl. H-politiker, nå adm.dir. uimotsagt få beskrive akademikere som «selvhøytidelige […] som tror verden er å flytte og skrive notat» ikke rart universitetene er i fare når dette er det Høyresiden mener…
March 20, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 ❤️ I cannot find the words to express my disgust for the scene we witnessed from the Whitehouse through the media yesterday. Shame on Trump and Vance, SHAME!
March 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Glad to see there are still some voices of reason in the US.. 😃👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
February 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Reposted by Astrid J. Nyland
kriloseth.bsky.social
Min tidligere kollega Christin har forfattet noen bevingede ord om ulempen med å ikke vedlikeholde jernbane. www.nrk.no/ytring/salde...
Salderingsposten
Passasjerene må regne med buss for tog i lange tider. Det sørger manglende vedlikehold for.
www.nrk.no
January 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
arkeostrida.bsky.social
The Big Dipper is clear tonight….
January 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
arkeostrida.bsky.social
sooooo... I was just made Professor(!) 🥳 very happy and grateful for the recognition of the work I have put into it 💪
January 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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graemewarren.bsky.social
If you are going to Meso2025 (Ferrara, Sept 15-19 2025; meso2025.sciencesconf.org) & are interested in presenting in the session on 'Colonisation Processes' that @arkeostrida.bsky.social and I chair, pls note abstract deadline of 15 Jan 1/2
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January 7, 2025 at 9:35 AM
arkeostrida.bsky.social
Reminding anyone interested in the MESO2025 conference in Ferrara, Italy in September that the deadline for submitting abstracts is 15th Jan 2025! Below you can check out a fab session hosted by @graemewarren.bsky.social and myself!
January 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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mcornelissen.bsky.social
Very excited our comparative paper is out!
"The European #Mesolithic in Mountain Landscapes [...]"
Thanks for a fab collaboration Caroline Posch, @graemewarren.bsky.social
Astrid Nyland, Micheál Butler, Sam Kelley. So, if you like hunter-gatherer #archaeology & #mountains: doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
doi.org
September 5, 2024 at 5:43 AM
arkeostrida.bsky.social
Very sad to learn that John Barrett just passed away. He was so inspirational as a lecturer back when I did my MA in Sheffield 1999. Remember especially his lectures on ‘Reinventing archaeology’!
December 29, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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kiaustvoll.bsky.social
Two very exciting PhD opportunities in Oslo, one on Bronze Age rock art, the other on Glacial Archaeology.

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhD Research Fellow in Glacial Archaeology (268820) | University of Oslo
Job title: PhD Research Fellow in Glacial Archaeology (268820), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, January 5, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
November 19, 2024 at 7:40 AM
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graemewarren.bsky.social
New paper klaxon... 1st major output of Martin Moucheron's IRC-funded PhD at UCD Archaeology. Assessment of remaining potential of the shell 'midden' at Sutton, Co. Dublin, excavated mid C20 by Mitchell. Congrats to Martin!

#Mesolithic #huntergathererarchaeology

www.iai.ie/journal-of-i...
November 19, 2024 at 8:03 AM