Tobias Richter
@toricht.bsky.social
Professor @ Uni Copenhagen | Archaeologist & Lithicologist
Exploring old rocks and landscapes in southwest Asia
Off-duty: Dad, runner, hiker, boardgame enthusiast, and motorcycle wrangler.
Exploring old rocks and landscapes in southwest Asia
Off-duty: Dad, runner, hiker, boardgame enthusiast, and motorcycle wrangler.
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Millet was domesticated in China, where it was boiled and steamed. This changed as it moved west, with Central Asian communities adapting millet to their bread-baking traditions instead of adopting East Asian cooking practices #NationalHomemadeBreadDay 🥖
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🏺 #Archaeology
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🏺 #Archaeology
November 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Millet was domesticated in China, where it was boiled and steamed. This changed as it moved west, with Central Asian communities adapting millet to their bread-baking traditions instead of adopting East Asian cooking practices #NationalHomemadeBreadDay 🥖
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🏺 #Archaeology
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🏺 #Archaeology
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Updated thread on The Lost King film:
I’m digging over old ground but I have to challenge Steve Coogan's line. He claims it’s all true (as has Philippa Langley): Langley will be celebrated for her achievement, Richard Taylor & his personal gripes will be forgotten
So what’s the real story? 1/15
I’m digging over old ground but I have to challenge Steve Coogan's line. He claims it’s all true (as has Philippa Langley): Langley will be celebrated for her achievement, Richard Taylor & his personal gripes will be forgotten
So what’s the real story? 1/15
October 31, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Updated thread on The Lost King film:
I’m digging over old ground but I have to challenge Steve Coogan's line. He claims it’s all true (as has Philippa Langley): Langley will be celebrated for her achievement, Richard Taylor & his personal gripes will be forgotten
So what’s the real story? 1/15
I’m digging over old ground but I have to challenge Steve Coogan's line. He claims it’s all true (as has Philippa Langley): Langley will be celebrated for her achievement, Richard Taylor & his personal gripes will be forgotten
So what’s the real story? 1/15
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Interested in #palaeoproteomics, #ZooMS and human evolution? We currently have a postdoctoral position and a research position open.
Postdoc: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Research assistant: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Postdoc: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Research assistant: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
October 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Interested in #palaeoproteomics, #ZooMS and human evolution? We currently have a postdoctoral position and a research position open.
Postdoc: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Research assistant: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Postdoc: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Research assistant: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
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Not a place I expected to publish, but great to see the summary of our geology-archaeology collaboration is so popular. Open Access summary paper linked below. Thanks to the IRC, now @researchireland.ie, for supporting this work.
Most read in HGR:
'Looking Up for prehistoric hunter-gatherer archaeological sites in mountain landscapes in Europe' by @arctic-glacial.bsky.social, @diggermann.bsky.social, @graemewarren.bsky.social et al.
Read it #OpenAccess: bit.ly/HGR-EUR
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social
'Looking Up for prehistoric hunter-gatherer archaeological sites in mountain landscapes in Europe' by @arctic-glacial.bsky.social, @diggermann.bsky.social, @graemewarren.bsky.social et al.
Read it #OpenAccess: bit.ly/HGR-EUR
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Not a place I expected to publish, but great to see the summary of our geology-archaeology collaboration is so popular. Open Access summary paper linked below. Thanks to the IRC, now @researchireland.ie, for supporting this work.
My colleague @panktroels.bsky.social is currently looking for a postdoc to work with him on his new project "Understanding Epidemics in Ancient Mesopotamia". Please spread the word!
employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
#archaeology #assyriology #Mesopotamia
employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
#archaeology #assyriology #Mesopotamia
Postdoctoral position in Archaeology: Understanding Epidemics in Ancient Mesopotamia
employment.ku.dk
October 18, 2025 at 5:05 AM
My colleague @panktroels.bsky.social is currently looking for a postdoc to work with him on his new project "Understanding Epidemics in Ancient Mesopotamia". Please spread the word!
employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
#archaeology #assyriology #Mesopotamia
employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
#archaeology #assyriology #Mesopotamia
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Our new paper explores how we can use large bodies of stable isotope data from paleoenvironmental and bioarchaeological in wider cross-discipline studies.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
The palaeoenvironmental potential of bioarchaeological isotope data - Communications Earth & Environment
Bioarchaeological isotope data that provide information on the migratory and feeding behaviors of ancient species and their interactions with humans can improve understanding of past ecological and cl...
www.nature.com
July 15, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Our new paper explores how we can use large bodies of stable isotope data from paleoenvironmental and bioarchaeological in wider cross-discipline studies.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Featuring my illustration of party prep!
(Way too happy with myself for writing this headline.) 🧪🏺
Archaeologists discover that parties 11,000 years ago were BYOB — bring your own boar
Humans have feasted since the dawn of agriculture — but a new find suggests the practice of bringing exotic food to a communal gathering is even older.
www.livescience.com
July 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Featuring my illustration of party prep!
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(Way too happy with myself for writing this headline.) 🧪🏺
Archaeologists discover that parties 11,000 years ago were BYOB — bring your own boar
Humans have feasted since the dawn of agriculture — but a new find suggests the practice of bringing exotic food to a communal gathering is even older.
www.livescience.com
July 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
(Way too happy with myself for writing this headline.) 🧪🏺
New paper out spearheaded by the fabulous Petra Vaiglova in which we present evidence for long-distance transport of wild boar used in feasts at early Neolithic Asiab:
rdcu.be/euyuO
rdcu.be/euyuO
Transport of animals underpinned ritual feasting at the onset of the Neolithic in southwestern Asia
Communications Earth & Environment - Ceremonial feasting in Early Neolithic Asiab, western Iran, involved transport of animals over substantial distances to celebrate far-flung social networks,...
rdcu.be
July 3, 2025 at 8:23 AM
New paper out spearheaded by the fabulous Petra Vaiglova in which we present evidence for long-distance transport of wild boar used in feasts at early Neolithic Asiab:
rdcu.be/euyuO
rdcu.be/euyuO
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The Wenner Green is considering closing SAPIENS Magazine. This would be a huge loss to Anthropology! Please write the board in support of this dynamic and vital publication! actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
Support Needed for SAPIENS Magazine and its Staff Union!
We, SAPIENS staff, write to our supporters with an urgent request for support. We were informed this week that our funder, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, may choose to close SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine...
actionnetwork.org
May 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The Wenner Green is considering closing SAPIENS Magazine. This would be a huge loss to Anthropology! Please write the board in support of this dynamic and vital publication! actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
The Wenner-Gren Foundation's board of trustees is apparently considering pulling the plug on SAPIENS magazine. SAPIENS magazine is an amazing platform doing crucial science communication across all of anthropology. Please support them and send a letter to the board
actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
Support Needed for SAPIENS Magazine and its Staff Union!
We, SAPIENS staff, write to our supporters with an urgent request for support. We were informed this week that our funder, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, may choose to close SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine...
actionnetwork.org
May 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The Wenner-Gren Foundation's board of trustees is apparently considering pulling the plug on SAPIENS magazine. SAPIENS magazine is an amazing platform doing crucial science communication across all of anthropology. Please support them and send a letter to the board
actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
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Unconventional doorways for #AdoorableThursday 🚪 🏺
Semi-subterranean houses at Neolithic Balıklı 🇹🇷 had no doors. They were entered through the roof!
This style of house is relatively unique for the region despite contact between nearby communities.
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Semi-subterranean houses at Neolithic Balıklı 🇹🇷 had no doors. They were entered through the roof!
This style of house is relatively unique for the region despite contact between nearby communities.
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
May 15, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Unconventional doorways for #AdoorableThursday 🚪 🏺
Semi-subterranean houses at Neolithic Balıklı 🇹🇷 had no doors. They were entered through the roof!
This style of house is relatively unique for the region despite contact between nearby communities.
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Semi-subterranean houses at Neolithic Balıklı 🇹🇷 had no doors. They were entered through the roof!
This style of house is relatively unique for the region despite contact between nearby communities.
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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Retraction Watch just announced the pending retraction of the Comet Research Group's Sodom & Gomorrah pseudoarchaeology paper. The authors are not taking it well. retractionwatch.com/2025/04/23/s...
Sodom comet paper to be retracted two years after editor’s note acknowledging concerns
The authors’ reconstruction of what the blast’s impact area may have been. Source Scientific Reports will retract a controversial paper claiming to present evidence an ancient city in t…
retractionwatch.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Retraction Watch just announced the pending retraction of the Comet Research Group's Sodom & Gomorrah pseudoarchaeology paper. The authors are not taking it well. retractionwatch.com/2025/04/23/s...
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as there's a once again a lot of media about archaeologies of inequality, please enjoy a little archaeology of equality...
looking at the world as it is rather than the grand narratives of conquest means it's not shocking to find people resist domination, even in the most dire circumstances
looking at the world as it is rather than the grand narratives of conquest means it's not shocking to find people resist domination, even in the most dire circumstances
An Anarchist Archaeology of Equality: Pasts and Futures Against Hierarchy | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge Core
An Anarchist Archaeology of Equality: Pasts and Futures Against Hierarchy - Volume 34 Issue 4
doi.org
April 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
as there's a once again a lot of media about archaeologies of inequality, please enjoy a little archaeology of equality...
looking at the world as it is rather than the grand narratives of conquest means it's not shocking to find people resist domination, even in the most dire circumstances
looking at the world as it is rather than the grand narratives of conquest means it's not shocking to find people resist domination, even in the most dire circumstances
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A micromorphological analysis of non-standard buildings at Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Türkiye) by Aroa García-Suárez🏺
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Home, annex or pied-à-terre? Assessing the socioeconomic dimension of small-sized built environments at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Central Anatolia
Built environments provide valuable information on domestic and group activities, the development of household identities, and the changing use of spa…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
A micromorphological analysis of non-standard buildings at Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Türkiye) by Aroa García-Suárez🏺
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Incredibly proud that our paper on the #palaeoproteomics analysis of the Penghu mandible, led by @tsutatsuta.bsky.social and in collaboration with Chun-Hsiang Chang, Enrico Cappellini and co, is out now in
@science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
@science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
A male Denisovan mandible from Pleistocene Taiwan
Denisovans are an extinct hominin group defined by ancient genomes of Middle to Late Pleistocene fossils from southern Siberia. Although genomic evidence suggests their widespread distribution through...
doi.org
April 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Incredibly proud that our paper on the #palaeoproteomics analysis of the Penghu mandible, led by @tsutatsuta.bsky.social and in collaboration with Chun-Hsiang Chang, Enrico Cappellini and co, is out now in
@science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
@science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Getting there: we've almost got the entire Danish Original 1 series of 1:4000 mapping georeferenced, cropped and tiled.
This is a culmination of many years of hard work by many people.
You can get a preview of our work here:
www.museumsgis.dk/kort/
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This is a culmination of many years of hard work by many people.
You can get a preview of our work here:
www.museumsgis.dk/kort/
1/2
MuseumsGIS
Geografisk InformationsSystem for Arkæologiske Museer
www.museumsgis.dk
March 23, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Getting there: we've almost got the entire Danish Original 1 series of 1:4000 mapping georeferenced, cropped and tiled.
This is a culmination of many years of hard work by many people.
You can get a preview of our work here:
www.museumsgis.dk/kort/
1/2
This is a culmination of many years of hard work by many people.
You can get a preview of our work here:
www.museumsgis.dk/kort/
1/2
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Cool study on the human-made landscape of the Mediterranean olive grove
The olive landscape: A nearly 4,000-year-old legacy of human-nature interaction in the Central Mediterranean
The olive tree is one of the most iconic symbols of the Mediterranean basin, deeply intertwined with the region's history, economy, and culture. But how did this tree, originally a wild species, come ...
phys.org
March 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Cool study on the human-made landscape of the Mediterranean olive grove
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Yesterday, we had a very special guest at the Centre for Textile Research.
H.M. Dronning Margrethe besøgte Center for Tekstilforskning ved Københavns Universitet
H.M. Dronning Margrethe besøgte Center for Tekstilforskning ved Københavns Universitet
www.kongehuset.dk
March 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Yesterday, we had a very special guest at the Centre for Textile Research.
What was that now with the Three Age System?
New evidence for copper metallurgy in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B.
www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/how-... 🏺
www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/how-... 🏺
How Anatolia’s last hunter-gatherers pioneered copper metallurgy 9,000 years ago - Türkiye Today
New findings in Anatolia show that hunter-gatherers were experimenting with copper metallurgy 9,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of early technology.
www.turkiyetoday.com
March 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
What was that now with the Three Age System?
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How did Europe's first farmers interact with their pigs and local wild boar? @jolijnerven.bsky.social has a new paper addressing just that using 11 ancient suis genomes!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Archaeogenomic insights into commensalism and regional variation in pig management in Neolithic northwest Europe | PNAS
The relationship between humans and pigs has changed dramatically since their domestication
in southwest Asia and subsequent human-induced introduc...
www.pnas.org
March 18, 2025 at 5:23 AM
How did Europe's first farmers interact with their pigs and local wild boar? @jolijnerven.bsky.social has a new paper addressing just that using 11 ancient suis genomes!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the Faculty of Life Sciences, Vienna seeks to appoint a post-doctoral researcher with expertise in archaeology/archaeological science and project management of archaeological fieldwork jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct...
Postdoctoral Research at the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology
Postdoctoral Research at the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology
jobs.univie.ac.at
March 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the Faculty of Life Sciences, Vienna seeks to appoint a post-doctoral researcher with expertise in archaeology/archaeological science and project management of archaeological fieldwork jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct...
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My thoughts on the Tinshemet discoveries in Israel (Nature Human Behaviour)
March 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
My thoughts on the Tinshemet discoveries in Israel (Nature Human Behaviour)
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Thai archaeologists have found the oldest human skeleton in the country. 🏺🧪
29,000-year-old remains of child unearthed in Thailand cave with 'symbols of blood and power'
The skeleton of a Stone Age child discovered in Thailand is rewriting what experts know about the prehistory of the area.
www.livescience.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Thai archaeologists have found the oldest human skeleton in the country. 🏺🧪
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Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️
March 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️