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Felix Riede
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Evolutionary archaeologist at-large interested in cultural transmission, environmental/computational archaeology, and novel ecosystems. Professor, papa, pizza-lover.

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · 19d
Hey @andrameneganzin.bsky.social, this is such a great paper on why defining, capturing, and (most of all) analyzing the emergence of 'behavioural modernity' still is such an important topic link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Congrats.
The Fate of Behavioral Modernity - Biological Theory
Biological Theory - Over the past twenty years, empirical and theoretical advances have significantly reshaped the research agenda on “behavioral modernity” and its conceptualization....
link.springer.com

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Dec 2
Europe’s earliest blue mineral pigment? From the Palaeolithic, you ask?? Indeed - read it here first, now even fully paginated 👇
antiquity.ac.uk Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Dec 2
Our December issue is out now! Featuring great #archaeology such as:

🔵 The oldest blue mineral pigment use in Europe
⛰️ Mesoamerican mountain monuments and water worship
🐚 Playing the shell trumpets of Neolithic Catalonia

& much more! 🏺
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Cover of the December 2025 issue of Antiquity, featuring a photogrammetric image of an ancient quarry, with evidence for the quarrying of stone and a partially complete humanoid statue lying on its back.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Dec 2
Our December issue is out now! Featuring great #archaeology such as:

🔵 The oldest blue mineral pigment use in Europe
⛰️ Mesoamerican mountain monuments and water worship
🐚 Playing the shell trumpets of Neolithic Catalonia

& much more! 🏺
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Cover of the December 2025 issue of Antiquity, featuring a photogrammetric image of an ancient quarry, with evidence for the quarrying of stone and a partially complete humanoid statue lying on its back.

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Nov 21
Exactly - the origin of many tech innovations lies in toys (=scale models)! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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John Marsham @johnmarsham.bsky.social · Nov 19
Unprecedented rain. We're taking our climate outside the range our entire agriculture & trade based human civilisation has grown up in.

I think this site is ~400 to 1800 AD. It wasn't built for this.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
Record rains drive flooding in Vietnam, submerging ancient city
Vietnam's weather agency has recorded its highest level of rainfall for a 24-hour period in the historic city of Hue.
www.aljazeera.com

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Nov 18
Deadline extended to Nov 26!

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Nov 5
Dear assessment committee would be a fine choice, I reckon - but that won’t be make or break!

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Nov 5
Deadline approaches for our open professorship here at @au.dk @auarcher.bsky.social. Get in touch if you have q

international.au.dk/about/profil...
Full Professorship(s) in Archaeology - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University
international.au.dk

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Nov 4
And now also on YouTube courtesy of (the somewhat oddly named) Hidden History youtu.be/ibf62rLFbeY?.... OTT picture but otherwise not a bad summary, really

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Nov 4
Great too have you here!

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Oct 17
Chimps and object play - what’s not to like? But why is it important? Find out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Atypical tool and object use in wild immature chimpanzees reveals developmental pathways to innovation - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Atypical tool and object use in wild immature chimpanzees reveals developmental pathways to innovation
www.nature.com

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Oct 17
Amazing!

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Sep 29
Top notch footage!
antiquity.ac.uk Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Sep 29
Europe's oldest blue pigment

Dating back ~13,000 years, it questions the long-held belief that Palaeolithic artists only used red or black and indicates a more vibrant Ice Age world than previously imagined

Read the original research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Sep 29
Also covered in National Geographic: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Sep 29
And now covered in @science.org by the fab @spoke32.bsky.social: www.science.org/content/arti.... Do check it out for yourself - the earliest evidence of mineral-based blue pigment in Palaeolithic Europe!

Reposted by Felix Riede, Aidan O’Sullivan

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Sep 29
Europe's oldest blue pigment

Dating back ~13,000 years, it questions the long-held belief that Palaeolithic artists only used red or black and indicates a more vibrant Ice Age world than previously imagined

Read the original research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Sep 29
I, too, am proud to share this quite exciting finding with you: Europe's oldest mineral blue pigment. It's azurite and we found it on a legacy object that had long languished in a storehouse. New analysis bring new insights :) #palaeolithicblues
izzywisher.bsky.social Dr Izzy Wisher @izzywisher.bsky.social · Sep 29
Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵

Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺

doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Close-up image of a sand coloured stone, with a diagonal crack. The sand rock has a textured surface, and small spots of blue can be seen towards the centre of the stone. The background is grey. Microscopic photo of the blue spots, that are irregular in shape and size and positioned diagonally across the image. The rest of the photo shows the rough sand coloured texture of the stone.

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Dr Izzy Wisher @izzywisher.bsky.social · Sep 29
Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵

Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺

doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Close-up image of a sand coloured stone, with a diagonal crack. The sand rock has a textured surface, and small spots of blue can be seen towards the centre of the stone. The background is grey. Microscopic photo of the blue spots, that are irregular in shape and size and positioned diagonally across the image. The rest of the photo shows the rough sand coloured texture of the stone.

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Risk & Disaster TIG @riskdisastertig.bsky.social · Aug 13
Check out @felixthehauskat.bsky.social, Kathrine L. D. Andreasen & Peter M. Yaworsky's "Human Impacts of the 8.2 ka Event on Mesolithic Foragers in Western Denmark: A Model-Based Approach Inspired by 'Radical' #Disaster #Risk Reduction Research" in "Under Pressure" at
Human Impacts of the 8.2 ka Event on Mesolithic Foragers in Western De
The 8.2 ka event had a major but regionally variable climatic impact in the Northern Hemisphere. In Denmark, it impacted lakes and rivers, which were essential landscape features for contemporaneous foragers. There is also evidence for a marked increase in sand drift...
link.springer.com

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · Aug 7
Job Alerts!🚨 We are looking to fill three Independent Junior Research Group Leader positions in the 'HUMAN ORIGINS' Cluster of Excellence at the University of Tübingen
Application deadline: Sept. 10, Starting Jan. 1, 2026

1. Genotype-Phenotype interactions:
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
Independent Junior Research Group Leader (m/f/d, 100%)
uni-tuebingen.de

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Jan 3
4) The cradles of agrodiversity in Northern Europe - a PhD fellowship focused on where, when, and how pre-Roman small-scale cropping and gardening truly began. Perfect for an archaeology-minded geoscientist/geoarchaeologist: phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...
The cradles of agrodiversity in Northern Europe
phd.nat.au.dk

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Kevin Lala @kevinlala.bsky.social · Jan 13
What a fantastic job Anne Odling-Smee and her team at DesignScience have done at renovating the niche construction webiste. It is really beautiful and easy to use, and an extremely valuable resource for anyone interested in this topic.

www.nicheconstruction.com
Screenshot of new niche construction website

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Jan 3
3) 2.5 yr postdoctoral position in Palaeolithic gene-culture coevolution. Together with a palaeogenomics postdoc, we seek to generate material culture data such that we can capture these ancient gene-culture cophylogenetic dynamics international.au.dk/about/profil...
Postdoctoral position in Palaeolithic gene-culture coevolution, Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University
international.au.dk