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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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Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · Nov 14
So here’s me:
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).
Me, a middle aged white woman with reddish hair updo and glasses wearing a black dress with flowers sitting in a library with a bright red floor.
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curtisdozier.bsky.social
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...
Cover of Abusing Antiquity? volume showing Athena (?) portrayed in the style of Attic red-figure painting holding a sign that says "you will not replace our Classics" and a shield with Pepe the frog on it.
November 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
prehistoryteller.bsky.social
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). 🏺
A structure build from roughly worked stone slabs several meters high standing in an agricultural landscape under a dramatic cloudy sky. There is a walkway in the foreground and the sea visible in the far back several kilometres away. An information display by Heritage Malta held in red and white with three horizontal sections, first text in Maltese, then two images: the left one showing a photo of a niche with an half round layout made by a wall of rough smaller stones, flanked by two large megalithic stealae and with a raised floor. On the right side a drawing of the layout of the whole side, consisting of two different alignment of rooms, both consisting of a clover shaped room connected to an oval second ante room. Text below in English says: in front of you a little raised floor separates the room from the rest of the area creating a distinct space. Early records suggests that here considerable quantities of pottery shirts and animal burns were found in a layer of soil and ash. Could this mean that animals or meat were used in rituals? To your left a table like arrangement of large stone blocks, possibly an altar, decorates a central niche. In a wall constructed by roughly worked, smaller cal sit stones, one deliberately more yellow coloured sandstone on the lowest level stands out. In front of it, too small upright standing stones seem to flank it. Another explanationary display as possible in the front of it. Image of the central structure from outside. The construction made from large, car seat slaps is clearly visible, and the upper layers are showing a slight bent that implies a narrowing of the row of stones to create a ceiling construction. A man is standing in the foreground, acting as a scale. The structure is visibly more than double his height.
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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jensnotroff.com
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.
Photo of Philipp Scheidemann proclaiming the Republic from a window of the Reichstag building on 9 November 1918. Photo of Munich's Marienplatz during the failed Beer Hall Putsch: In the foreground to the right men in Stahlhelm and Swastika brassard on a small truck. Photo showing the interior view of the destroyed synagogue in Berlin's Fasanenstrasse following the pogrom in November 1938. Photo of a lot of people standing in front and atop the Berlin Wall. Prominently in the close background: the Brandenburg Gate.
November 9, 2024 at 11:22 AM
prehistoryteller.bsky.social
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
prehistoryteller.bsky.social
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. 🏺
A comic with two panels. The first shows a human with a cart standing inbetween cart lines. The second shows the same situation from above. The figure asks oh no, which way do I go now? A one panel comic showing a metal and a pottery workshop. A young boy tells his father: Dad, I think I’d rather learn pottery than metal as a trade… there are two fire extinguisher under the image. True comic side-by-side: the first shows a man with a schnauzer, glasses and a hat. He looks at a ceramic vessel, and says: his funerary urns, metal… at all indicates that this was a bronze age cemetery. The second comic has three panels : the first shows an adult from behind watching a child play. Second panel shows a broken ceramic pot. The third shows the angry face of the adult, saying that was your dad grandfather in the urn. Now what are we going to bury? A three panel comic, showing in the first image the bird view of a settlement, as well as a person standing on a path leading towards a fortified settlement with a wall made from rough stone. The Second Image shows two people standing in between circular huts. The third image shows several people digging out pits on a plane.
November 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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philipoconnor.bsky.social
There is no ceasefire.
There never was.
October 29, 2025 at 7:21 AM
prehistoryteller.bsky.social
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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jacksaundrs.bsky.social
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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jensnotroff.com
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...
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October 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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brennawalks.bsky.social
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
prehistoryteller.bsky.social
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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tessmachling.bsky.social
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 🏺
A snipped section of my review for Norfolk Archaeology, describing it as 'Another sparkling review for the Snettisham Hoards' Another section from my review for Norfolk Archaeology: "However, for the examination of the terminals and other metalwork, omitting the insights of goldsmiths has led to some evidentially unsupportable conclusions (see torc L.14 above). The most glaring of these occurs with the 'iconic' Great Torc which is incorrectly identified as being of sheet and cast hybrid construction. The multiple evidence seen on the Great Torc (dents, cracks and hammering), comparable examples (e.g. the Netherurd and Near Stowmarket terminals), and previous research (Maching & Williamson 2020) which supports the interpretation of the Great torc terminals having been created using gold sheet has been largely ignored."
October 10, 2025 at 6:25 AM
prehistoryteller.bsky.social
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.
A middle aged white Woman with an red updo and big glasses holding a large book, title says diversity in visual representations of the past. Representation matters.
October 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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mattpope.bsky.social
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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mattpope.bsky.social Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · Oct 7
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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jgpausas.bsky.social
Global Sumud Flotilla illegally intercepted & boarded. All contact with the Flotilla is lost (globalsumudflotilla.org)
October 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
prehistoryteller.bsky.social
#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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Cover of a book, the upper half a drawing of a diverse group of people engaging in every day tasks, in blue and red colour. The names of the editors are embedded in white: Jo Zalea Matias, Nicola Scheyhing, Doris Gutsmiedl Schümann. The lower half is a golden brown, with the title printed in dark blue: diversity in visual representations of the past. Representation matters. At the lower rim there is the logo of the European Association of archaeologists on the left side, and the logo of the publisher Springer press on the right.
September 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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urosmatic.bsky.social
It took some time but our reflection on #gender #stereotypes in #archaeology is now out @springernature.com

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
What Is Wrong with This Image? Reflecting on Past Diversity Through Visual Representations of Gender Stereotypes in Archaeology
Gender and feminist archaeologists have fought for decades against gender stereotypes through academic writing, museum exhibitions, and popular literature, among other mediums. Despite their efforts, many of these stereotypes—e.g. depictions of men only as...
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September 28, 2025 at 12:42 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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oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social
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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archaeodeathprof.bsky.social
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.
andybrockman.bsky.social Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · Sep 19
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