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Sebastian Hageneuer
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Father, ANE Archaeologist, Research Associate, PhD, Gamer.

I dig up artifacts and my kid digs up my patience.
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#280CharAbstracts: 👩‍🏫 Martina Trognitz argues that teaching archaeology must include data literacy. Good data management, FAIR principles & Open Science should be exemplified by instructors and practiced by students.

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#Archaeology #Data
Graphic explaining the research data lifecycle. Source: Martina Trognitz, CC BY 4.0
September 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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The Interactive Pasts Conference (TIPC) is an event where we get together to celebrate our joint love for video games and the past and share our playful, creative, smart, cool, beautiful ideas with each other.

Come and join: interactivepasts.com/the-interact...
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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📣 New season of the Digital Classicist Berlin Seminar starts Oct 14!
Hybrid lectures on 3D, cuneiform, digital twins, AI, citizen science & more.
I’m happy to help organize it in my new role at BBAW.
More in my blog post 👉 itsmoreofacomment.com/2025/09/19/a...

#DigitalClassics #DH
September 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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🎓 New edited volume out now: Digital Methods of Learning & Teaching in Archaeology! Packed with chapters on #VR, #archaeogaming & more.

Open Access, CC‑BY‑ND, from a 2024 TU Darmstadt workshop. Read more in the blog post

👉 itsmoreofacomment.com/2025/08/29/a...

#DigitalArchaeology #OpenAccess
Cover of Bolder-Boos, Hageneuer, Pantelidis "Digitale Methoden des Lernens und Lehrens in der Archäologie". Background by Andrey Haimin on Unsplash.
August 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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ICYMI: I attended a workshop on virtual reality in digital media, where I was the only archaeologist. Nevertheless, I learnt a lot! The workshop, organised by J. Tomann and S. de Jong, was a delight. Read more about it here:

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#VirtualReality #Archaeology
A random selection of people listening to a talk at a conference. Photo by Sincerely Media on Unsplash.
August 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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🏺 Uruk/Warka is one of the world's earliest cities. Excavations have uncovered a wide range of monumental buildings.

Our focus was on the main buildings: C and B; the 'Pillared Hall' and 'Hallenbau'; the 'Great Courtyard'; and some smaller structures.

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This image shows a visualisation of the Pillared Hall in Uruk. Although it is a small building, it has wonderful decorations of coloured clay cones arranged in different geometric patterns. The walls were covered in egg-yolk yellow clay! © artefacts-berlin.de
August 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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#280CharAbstracts: S. N. Autenrieth and D. von Boekel investigate why the destruction of architectural monuments and pictorial works occurs during times of change in the UK, Mesoamerica, Germany, Afghanistan and Syria, both in the past and in the present day. #OpenAccess

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Bamyan, the destroyed site without the buddhas. Photo by Zabihullah Habibi on Unsplash
August 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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ICYMI: One of Egypt’s earliest wells built entirely of stone was excavated in 2000–2001. 🧱💧
Detailed 3D visualisations now illustrate its architecture, building techniques, features, and stratigraphy. A glimpse into ancient engineering!

🔗 www.artefacts-berlin.de/portfolio-it...

#DigitalArchaeology
This visualisation shows how the Samana well was excavated by archaeologists. The infographic illustrates the different layers discovered within the well. © artefacts-berlin.de
July 15, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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🦫 Just wrote about DBeaver – a free, cross-platform database client that handles local and remote DBs like a pro.

🚨 Caveat: updates can break stuff, but there is a solution.

Still: 🧰 probably the best tool I’ve used for managing complex DB setups.

Blog post 👉 itsmoreofacomment.com/2025/07/11/n...
Screenshot of the DBeaver software.
July 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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ICYMI: I’ve finally left Academia.edu.
They don’t support open science — they profit from locking your research behind paywalls and upselling “premium” features.

I’m done.

🔗 itsmoreofacomment.com/2022/10/28/w...

#OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing #AcademiaEdu #ScholarStrike
Leaving is always an option. Photo by mk. s on Unsplash
July 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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ICYMI: 🏺 How did light shape sacred space in ancient Mesopotamia?

We explored this by reconstructing lighting conditions in 4 key temple types.

✨ Sacred architecture, seen in a new light.
🔗 www.artefacts-berlin.de/portfolio-it...

#DigitalArchaeology #Mesopotamia #3DModeling #SacralArchitecture
This image shows an example of the interior of a Mesopotamian temple. Light from the next room shines into the dimly lit cella. © artefacts-berlin.de
July 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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For an old project, I instructed 4 students to evaluate an online 3D viewer that was developed. Our task was to evaluate its potential use in archaeology, and we already had some ideas. However, I wondered if a classic 3D viewer was the right approach.

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A laptop with the words "Just Start." on the screen. Photo by Dayne Topkin on Unsplash
June 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Just got back from #ICAANE in Lyon — a great experience! Enjoyed insightful talks, a well-run program, and the chance to present my work on digitally reassembling the garden scene of the North Palace at Nineveh.

Also: tea, people-watching, and Lyon's charm 🌧️🍷☀️

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June 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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📅 May 19–20 | Darmstadt + Online Join us for the second DiKopA Workshop on digital teaching & learning in archaeology! Talks, keynotes & discussions on digitisation, reproducibility & more. Full programme now online! 🔗 itsmoreofacomment.com/2025/05/09/u...

#Archaeology #DigitalTeaching #DiKopA
Darmstadt | Photo by Renato Dehnhardt on Pexels
May 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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ICYMI: 🏺Yeha Visualisation Project. We have created not just a reconstruction of a building or a town, but of an entire palaeoenvironment! The Ethio-Sabaean settlement in Ethiopia from the 1st mill. BCE is located in a valley & features a beautiful palace.

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Bird's eye view of the settlement of Yeha, showing the palace, temple and many residential buildings. A river flows by and the mountains in the background surround the settlement. © artefacts-berlin.de
May 5, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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#280CharAbstracts: @DelitzHeike and F. Levenson discuss the social significance of great architecture and the sociology of #monumentality. They compare nomadic architecture with medieval cathedrals and the ritual topography of Uruk.

#openaccess

🔗 www.doi.org/10.14361/978...
This image shows the 3D visualisation of the Bit Resh in detail. A massive white temple surrounded by courtyards and walkways. People walking in front of the temple seem insignificant. © artefacts-berlin.de
April 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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ICYMI: 🏺 Tepe Gawra ("the great mound"), is located in #Iraq. The "Round House" dates from around 4000 BCE.
As our architec. reconstruction is of course only tentative, we have decided to use colour coding to illustrate the degree of certainty in the model.

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The picture shows three different levels of a reconstruction of the "Round House" at Tepe Gawra. Green is relatively certain, yellow is a good guess and red is completely fictional. © artefacts-berlin.de
March 31, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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🏺 ICYMI: The so-called "Red House" was discovered in the centre of the lower town of Tell Schech Hamad. It was built and used during the Neo-Babylonian period (626-539 BCE) and destroyed by fire.

We created a 3D model of the replastered remains.

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The image shows the visualised remains of the Red House at Tell Schech Hamad, Syria. © artefacts-berlin.de
March 24, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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ICYMI: Deadlines are both a blessing and a curse. They motivate me, but they also lower the quality of my work. The fact is, you can't work in academia without deadlines. But how do they work for you? Do you need/hate/ignore deadlines?

My own opinion: 🔗 itsmoreofacomment.com/2022/09/23/d...
A typewriter with a sheet of paper in it. The word 'deadline' is written on the paper. Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash
March 18, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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🏺 Heron of Alexandria (c. 10-70 CE) was a Greek-Egyptian mathematician and inventor. One of his inventions was automatic temple doors.

The doors would open automatically when a fire was lit and close again when the fire died down.

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This fictional temple is used to demonstrate the mechanism of the Heron of Alexandria. © artefacts-berlin.de
March 17, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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ICYMI: 🚀 Part two of my three-part series on academic #productivity!
This time, I’m exploring the value of discussion over mere questioning—in other words, the long-term benefits of meaningful exchange over short-term solutions.

🔗 itsmoreofacomment.com/2021/07/23/t...
People working together at a table. Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash.
March 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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#280CharAbstracts: M. Remmy presents his experiences using #geocaching software. Students of #archaeology and DH have developed new games that guide the user through modern Cologne. #archaeogaming

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Photo of Cologne
February 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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ICYMI: 🏺 The 3-storey ziggurat was surrounded by a complex system of walls and courtyards. Archaeological records document various installations. A number of secondary sources were consulted. Over 4000 human models and 300 buildings were used in this view.

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The image shows a loose reconstruction of a religious ceremony at Uruk. A procession of priests follows the king on his way to the central ziggurat. Outside the sacred area, the whole city is celebrating. © artefakte-berlin.de
February 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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ICYMI: Pi-Ramesse (House of Ramses) is located in Egypt. It was founded by Ramses II. A nearly 7 minute animation was created over a period of 9 months. The urban structure of the city was very carefully visualised and resulted in this.

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Main view of the central island with canal and inner lake. © artefacts-berlin.de
February 17, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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#280CharAbstracts: The Emotive Project introduces a multi-component digital kit for using learning environments to foster prehistoric empathy in young people for #culturalheritage.

@ubiquitypress #openaccess
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Screenshot of the ChatBot created by the project.
February 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM