Nicola Scheyhing M.A.
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Nicola Scheyhing M.A.
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Prehistoric Archaeologist 🏺& Museum 🏛enthusiast. Came for the adventure, stayed for the stories. PrehiStoryteller/VorGeschichtserzählerin. she/her.
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Hi, I’m Nicola. I’m a prehistoric archaeologist, museums person, tourism expert, cat mom, alternative music connoisseur, and professional nagger. My not so secret super power is to lower room temp by mustering people disapproving (honestly I am just incredible short-sighted).
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More publication news: "Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right," edited by @drhelenroche.bsky.social and @denisemccoskey.bsky.social, is now available for pre-order from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social.
www.bloomsbury.com/us/abusing-a...
November 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I promised more photos from our vacation to Malta, so for #StandingStoneSunday today: we did a short trip to Gozo to visit Gigantjia. The best known megalithic structure on the smaller island, it’s also the one on the archipelago who is preserved with the highest walls (husband for scale). 🏺
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Remember, remember the 9th of November. #OnThisDay in German #history🗃️:

1918: Kaiser dethroned, #WeimarRepublic proclaimed.

1923: Hitler's #BeerHallPutsch coup d'état in Munich fails.

1938: #Kristallnacht. Anti-Jewish Pogroms, synagogues burning.

1989: #BerlinWall falls.
November 9, 2024 at 11:22 AM
What we do for „the art“: got up at 5:50 to wait two hours in line for tickets for the Hypogeum. I tried to get some online ten weeks ago, and they have been sold out, so the pricey last minute ones are my only chance. Fingers crossed, I’m third in line already.
November 3, 2025 at 5:58 AM
I‘m currently on a short vacation in Malta, and we visited the National Museum of Archaeology today. While the exhibition about the Neolithic temples is the star of the show, I also loved the comics contextualising the later periods presentation. 🏺
November 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Dear bubble, please help me out: I’m searching literature about the exhibition and handling of of human remains in museum contexts under religious and/or cultural settings of Islamic beliefs. Can someone point me towards relevant publications?
October 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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After 7 paragraphs musing about potential Hamas 'ceasefire violations' like 'not finding bodies under all the rubble quickly enough' we get a casual mention that the IDF has killed 38 people in paragraph 8
October 19, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Wenn Vergangenheit ideologisch vereinnahmt wird, um Machtverhältnisse in der Gegenwart zu reproduzieren, sollten Altertumswissenschaftler:innen das durchaus einordnen.

Meine ich in einem #IdeeArchäologie​-Beitrag​ für @lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de:

lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/idee_archaeo...
Wir müssen reden! Über Pseudoarchäologie und die ideologische Aneignung von Vergangenheit | L.I.S.A. WISSENSCHAFTSPORTAL GERDA HENKEL STIFTUNG
Die Antike boomt. Unter prominenten Silicon Valley-Pionieren und Tech-Milliardären jedenfalls ist eine Begeisterung für griechisch-römische Geschichte verbreitet, mit der sie zusehends zu einer reichw...
lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de
October 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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I'm hiring! 4 year post doc on my Wellcome Trust grant -- come be inventive about isotopes in teeth with me in PPN Turkiye :) www.lancashire.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...

please share!
Post Doctoral Research Assistant - 1160-25
Thinking of the next step in your career? Take a look at our exciting new role, Post Doctoral Research Assistant based at our Other. Find out more and apply he…
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October 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
As I received another call for sessions for the next EAA meeting: as of today, has there been ANY reaction following the Business meeting or the following election? Or are we just back to business as usual? @archagainstaparth.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Seeing as @oxbowbooks.bsky.social sought to cherry pick my review of Snettisham, I thought I would add from the rest of my review.

You might also wish to read longer review here, which goes into detail about my significant issues with the books:

bigbookoftorcs.com/2024/12/11/t...

#Archaeology 🏺
October 10, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Me (to The Internet, everybody listening, or just looking my way for more than 5 sec): „Look what we did!“
I received the prints of our #RepresentationMatters publication yesterday evening. It’s not only a collection of papers on the way we reproduce and communicate our knowledge towards audience.
October 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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We need to utterly transform how we protect our heritage: more funding for museums, more education and disrupting our equation of heritage with monetary value. This isn't a one off. From our fiekds to our museum cases, antiquities are seen as objects for personal acquisition and monetary gain.
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Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem
Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Global Sumud Flotilla illegally intercepted & boarded. All contact with the Flotilla is lost (globalsumudflotilla.org)
October 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
#RepresentationMatters is published! Jo Zalea Matias, @archaeologiskop.bsky.social and I, together with our fantastic authors, are happy and proud that we finally made it! For more info and to order: link.springer.com/book/9783031...
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September 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Please share—3,000 match for two families trapped under fire 🚨

I’m still here every hour because these families are out of time. @akramabdelwahed.bsky.social can’t get online but the news is not positive.

Help our friend & his family flee Gaza City. It’s life and death. 93/7000 by Tuesday night
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
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September 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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We're looking for a palynologist to work within our environmental archaeology team 🦠

The position is open for all of our office locations and you'll be working on a range of sites from prehistoric Poulton-le-Fylde to Roman Somerset & beyond.

Closing date - 19th October 📋
tr.ee/OA-Palynologist
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September 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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This is shocking and concerning for the EAA and its membership. As a signatory of the open letter asking the EAA to act responsibly and ethically, the way @archagainstaparth.bsky.social and EAA members were treated is appalling. More thoughts later.
EXCLUSIVE: EAA PRESIDENT ACCUSED OF HELPING ORCHESTRATE PROTEST CAMPAIGN AGAINST HER OWN EXECUTIVE BOARD’S GAZA VOTE

thePipeLine with the extraordinary story of how the President of the European Association of Archaeologists is accused of helping orchestrate a campaign to overturn its Gaza vote.
EXCLUSIVE: EAA PRESIDENT ACCUSED OF HELPING ORCHESTRATE PROTEST CAMPAIGN AGAINST HER OWN EXECUTIVE BOARD’S GAZA VOTE
thePipeLine can reveal allegations that the President of the beleaguered European Association of Archaeologists [EAA], Professor Eszter Bánffy, was instrumental in organising a covert campaign to p…
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September 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM