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Mareike C Stahlschmidt
@stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social
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geoarchaeolgist interested in human evolution, fire, ancient dna and most of all dirt
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emmacaton.bsky.social
The earliest confirmed evidence of an adult cremation pyre has been discovered in Malawi! 🔥

theconversation.com/oldest-known...
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age hunter-gatherers
An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What was behind this unexpected funeral ritual?
theconversation.com
January 1, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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johnhawks.net
“GenAI for Africa, a funding call from the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme…Out of 215 submissions, only two projects are expected to be funded, giving a success rate of under 1%”

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
www.nature.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social
Upgraded micromorphology toolbox for the last sampling day of the year @heasvienna.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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yannismicrooikon.bsky.social
📢Do you work on the (micro-) geoarchaeology of cave sediments? Join our Session #178 at the EAA 2026 Annual Meeting in Athens (26–29 August 2026)!
For further details, please scan the QR code below!
Abstract submissions open on 19 December 2025! 📢
December 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social
I am sat!
ifbookspod.bsky.social If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social · Nov 20
Episode 46: Sapiens

It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social
Beautiful text, we cannot wait to see Lucy next week on our HEAS trip from Vienna @heasvienna.bsky.social !
fossilhistory.bsky.social Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · Sep 30
Our famous ancestor Lucy is on display in Prague. I visited the exhibit and wrote up some early thoughts about the experience:
paigemadison.substack.com/p/circling-lucy
📸Czech Tourism
A life-like reconstruction of the fossil hominin “Lucy” (Australopithecus afarensis) created by Élisabeth Daynès. She is shown standing upright with dark hair and skin, gazing slightly to the side. She is holding green foliage to her lips. The rest of the room is dark.
September 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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martamlahr.bsky.social
#ESHE2025
Giulia Gallo ‘ Estimating fire duration through bioapatite crystallite growth in Middle Palaeolithic contexts’
Bioapatite crystals: XRD/point of calcination.
Nice experiment!
Roc de Marsa (~90Ka) & Le Moustier (~55Ka): 10-20 hrs fire duration, at Le Moustier assoc w burning megafauna
September 26, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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oeai.bsky.social
Morgen noch nichts vor?
Dann schauen Sie beim Tag der Offenen Grabung in Grubgraben bei Kammern vorbei. Unsere Archäolog:innen führen von 9 bis 14 Uhr durch die Ausgrabung und beantworten Ihre Fragen!
#TagderOffenenGrabung #KulturNiederoesterreich
September 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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tommyhigham.bsky.social
PhD Studentship alert!
I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia.
Details in the link below!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
University assistant predoctoral 1
University assistant predoctoral 1
jobs.univie.ac.at
September 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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tommyhigham.bsky.social
Great job opportunity here in Vienna at the Natural History Museum. @nhmwien.bsky.social
jobs.nhm.at/Curator-for-...
Stellenangebot Curator for the osteological collection of human remains (m/f/d) bei Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
Forschung, wissenschaftliche Tätigkeit in Wien
jobs.nhm.at
September 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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shumon.bsky.social
I am looking for a multispecies archaeologist with a strong theoretical and interpretive profile to join my group (100%, 3 years): uni.koeln/2E7CR

Deadline: 30.09.2025.
Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21")

@nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social
We had a lovely time at ISBA in Torino and almost managed to gather everyone from Vienna in one pic @heasvienna.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social @katerinad.bsky.social
August 30, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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rmcelreath.bsky.social
How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...
Which Kind of Science Reform
What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.
elevanth.org
July 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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nhmwien.bsky.social
#wearehiring Das NHM Wien sucht Vermittler*innen in den Bereichen:
- 🐛 Biologie
- 🪨 Erdwissenschaften
- 🦴 Archäologie / Anthropologie

👉 Zu den Ausschreibungen: jobs.nhm.at

Bewerbungsmöglichkeit bis 03.07.2025.

#nhmwien #nhmvienna #jobs #jobseekers #jobalert #Jobsuche #chancenergreifen
June 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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nhmwien.bsky.social
#savethedate Archäologie am Berg | Metallkunst in der Eisenzeit

Erlebe aktuelle archäologische Bergbau- und Gräberfeldforschung des NHM Wien mit zahlreichen Partnern am und im Salzberg.

⏰ Sa, 14./So, 15.6. | ab 10:00 Uhr
📌 "Alte Schmiede" am Salzberg in Hallstatt
👉 Programm: tinyurl.com/mpnj9vt6
Dokumentation einst – Michaela Almstätter malt einen nachgestellten Grabbefund ©NHM Wien, J.Rudorfer Georg Tiefengraber präsentiert stolz das rekonstruierte Prunkschwert eines wohl mächtigen Kriegers ©NHM Wien, Karina Grömer Gergana Almstätter zeigt wie man heute prunkvolle Keramik restauriert ©NHM Wien, Karina Grömer Das mehrköpfige Team vermittelt Aktuelles rund um die Obertaggrabungen des NHM Wien ©NHM Wien, J.Rudorfer
June 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social
Great to have you here!!
sallygeoarch.bsky.social Dr Sally Hoare @sallygeoarch.bsky.social · Jun 3
An exciting week at Uni Vienna working on micromorphology samples from the Lower Palaeolithic site of Barnham, UK! #fire #geoarchaeology
June 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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shumon.bsky.social
There is a job opening (Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 2 years, 100%) in my new VW project on the macro-evolution of Pleistocene technological ecosystems in Europe: ecolithic.uni-koeln.de/opportunitie...

Deadline 25.05.2025

Please distribute widely!
🏺🦣
May 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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lukwer.bsky.social
Mehrere Promotionsstellen an der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des DAI ausgeschrieben! Jetzt bewerben, gerne weiterleiten!

www.dainst.org/karriere/bew...

Mehr über uns erfahren: www.dainst.org/rgk
April 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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segovandevelde.bsky.social
|✨ Publication Alert! ✨|
Our latest research on #pyroarchaeology has just been published with @springernature.com in the #JournalOfArchaeologicalMethodAndTheory!
-> Late Mid-Pleistocene hominin fire control inferred from sooty speleothem analysis 🔥
Read here: rdcu.be/ehqag
April 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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harvatilab.bsky.social
📢Job alert!

W3 (Full) Professorship in Human Ecology at the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen.

⛓️‍💥 berufungen.uni-tuebingen.de

Deadline for applications: May 22, 2025 🗓

Please share and repost 🙏🏼 🤩

For questions please contact Prof. Harvati.
April 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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April 7, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Exciting study with the most wonderful illustrations. Bones buried below a fire event can show high degrees of heat alteration! 🔥
March 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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tommyhigham.bsky.social
Job alert!
@katerinad.bsky.social and I are looking for an archaeologist/archaeological scientist to join us on a 4 year post-doc, helping to manage and participate in field and lab work on 2 ERC grants in our group. We would love to hear from you via the link! 👇
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct...
March 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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peregx9.bsky.social
PhD position in archaeozoology and omics at the University of Vienna! 🤠🦊🐯🦁🐱🐰🐍🦬🐂🦣🐄 The student will be based in Vienna and co-supervised in Santander!
February 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM