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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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Re:the last image: did you know that those structures have been roofed originally? In Gigantjia the gradient in the walls is very prominent. In the temple of Mnejdra an image of a roofed building is carved into the limestone, and a small stone model of a roofed temple was found in the Mgarr area.
A drawing carved into limestone showing presumably a building with three portals built by large stone slabs covered by horizontal slaps creating a roof. A very small model of an oval carved building with a stone slab portal, and lines suggesting presumably a building made from stones. The roof is only slightly curved upwards.
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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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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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
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Surely do! It reminds me of the Italian aperitivo crodino, which is available at supermarkets in Germany. Maybe you can find that in your area, too?
November 3, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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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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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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The book is part of the series „Themes in Contemporary Archaeology“ by @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social, and there is currently 20% off with the code below.
An info sheet displaying the cover of the book discussed above, title and editors, and some notes by the publisher: demonstrates a mythological approach to archaeological visual representation, focuses on diversity and identities, presents varied case studies that challenge stereotypical images of the past. Part of the book series themes in contemporary archaeology. The book is available on Springer nature, with a deduction of 20%off with the code SPRAUT. There is a QR code that leads to the publication page.
September 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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#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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#EAA2025 Anyone able to join the virtual closing ceremony?
For me, the join button disappeared, regardless of what device I try.
September 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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September 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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I‘m starting slow at least, still recovering from surgery, and my body does „the Sammy“ today.
A pile of a woolplait with blue yellow orange teal block stripes on a dark green velvet sofa. Only a sleepy slightly grumpy looking head of a black cat is poking out.
September 6, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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New announcement of #EAA just dropped.
September 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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As a drained travel agent and tour guide, I naturally love going on adventures, and spend a lot of time and energy on planning trips to see archaeological sites and museums. I’m a proud mother of two Cat sons, Louis and Sammy. Currently, I’m recovering from a big surgery so it’s a bit silent here.
Me, middle aged white red haired woman wearing glasses, lounging on a green couch snuggling a big, grey black cat lying on my arms. Same owed me, middle-age white woman with an updo and glasses, wearing a headset, clearly during an obnoxious video meeting, showing off a red and white annoyed looking Cat right beside my face.
August 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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I do a lot of stuff independently, resolving around my research interests, and things i deem important or fun. I work on prehistoric materiality of ritual behaviour in central Europe and Southwest Asia, science communication of archaeology, and especially on representation of diversity.
Cover of a book, the lower half held in monochrome light brown, the upper half showing a drawing of a group of people, held in red and blue. Text is name of editors: Jo Zalea Matias, Nicola Scheyhing, Doris Gutsmiedl Schümann. Title is diversity and visual representations of the past. Representation matters. Published by European Association of archaeologist, Springer press.
August 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Influx of new followers, welcome!
Let’s give you are short introduction, shall we?
I‘m Nicola, I’m an archaeologist working in museum and marketing, my job resolves around the object I hold in this photo, and no, it’s not the real one.
I also barely write or talk about my dayjob on Social Media.
Photo of me, middle aged white women wearing red updo, large glasses and large hoop earrings. I’m smiling awkwardly, holding a copy of the sky disc of Nebra. It is a green coloured metal disc approximately the size of a dinner plate, showing golden inlays of a circle symbolising the sun, a moon, too long stripes running along both sides on about a quarter of the rim, a bend bow on the underside symbolising a boat, and the number of small dots like stars. Seven of them in between the Sun and the moon our grouped together like a flower. In the background, the creative chaos of a meeting room.
August 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Home.
August 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Sign of life: I’m still in hospital after surgery, but doing ok. In hope to head home today, tomorrow the latest.
July 31, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Why having #SheepSunday OR #StandingStoneSunday, when in Ireland you can have both? Demonstrated here at Beltany stone circle, fluffs are never far if you’re visiting prehistoric sites on the Green Island. One of my favourite photo motive combinations.
Epic looking sheep standing in between a circle of stone slaps in an equally epic looking Irish landscape A sheep is grazing in between standing stones in a very very green landscape. Very, very, very green pasture with a sheep grazing, and a wide circle of small standing stones in the background in front of some evergreen trees
July 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Our book project has a publication date! #RepresentationaMatters! Diversity in the Visual Representation of the Past will be out at September 13th, 2025, published in the Themes of Contemporary Archaeology series. For more info see tinyurl.com/n7sayumw 🏺
Cover of a book, structured into two columns. The upper column shows a drawing of a diverse group of prehistoric people interacting, held in blue and red. The names of the editors are added in white: Jo Zalea Matias, Nicola Scheyhing and Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann. The lower column is held in a light brown. The title is representation matters diversity in visual representations of the past. It is published by Springer press and the European association of archaeologist in the series themes of contemporary archaeology.
June 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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I was today’s years old when I learned that on hot days fledglings of hawk swifts jump their nests to prevent dying from overheating.
Luckily for this smol fella we found him on our way to get an aperitifo, and I was able to drop him off at a wild bird specialist. Fingers crossed he makes it.
A baby hawk swift sitting on paper towels. The little fella is clearly unwell and exhausted.
June 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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We had a wonderful, and thankfully peaceful, #SummerSolstice at Goseck Sun Observatory.
Other than in the Uk and Scandinavia, in Germany traditionally midsummer is celebrated on the evening of the 21th of June. 🏺
A blue flag with an emblem of the Nebra sky disc and text, saying „discovery where it began. If courious ask your archaeologist“. The last sentence is a play on a well known statement, if it comes to risks and side effects ask your doctor or pharmacist. A crowded table covered in information leaflets. Me, a middle aged white Woman with a red updo and black clothes explaining something vividly to onlisteners. My colleague, a white woman with a sun straw hat holds a display i explain. Stunning sunset behind the ditch and rampart of the circular ditched enclosure. The silhouette of a young girl wearing a dress and sun hat on the rampart. A beautifully coloured sky just after sunset. The silhouettes of the postures of the palisade of the enclosure are in the lower part of the picture, in the center there are some longer ones sticking out, forming a visible gap, in which the sun set.
June 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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The ongoing excavation takes place on an area where two years ago a storm felled two trees, and their root balls brought Neolithic pottery fragment to light. It’s in direct neighbourhood to some of the megalithic dolmen graves of the area. More on them: megalithicroutes.eu/germany/
Large stones align a shallow mound, covered by grass, in a light forest.
May 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Folks, fellas, fellow prehistory enthusiasts, last Saturday I did a thing: I spent the day on my first dig since 2011. Thanks to the possibility of a training excavation for volunteers by the State department, I spent the very nice, backbreaking day in Haldensleber Forst. #FieldworkFriday
A selfie of a white woman wearing a black cap, huge black sunglasses and a grey hoodie, standing in a forest, with an ongoing excavation trench in the background.
May 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Been to Haldensleber Forst, visiting some of the Megalithic routes sites.
An assemblage of large stones in a wood. They are forming the capstones of a Neolithic dolmen grave. The entrance of a dolmen grave, formed by large stones flanking a narrow walkway and a gap in between two cap stones. An assemblage of large stones in a wood. They are forming the capstones of a Neolithic dolmen grave.
May 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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I would have recommended visiting the exhibition for those around, but it just closed down today.
If you happen to be in the vicinity though, visit the big special exhibition “Treasures and tragedies” on mining, dealing with other important topics like mining, exploitation and its social impact.
A museums display with household goods and unspecific metal objects, all heavily deformed and with signs of burning. In the background, there’s a large poster, it’s black and shows a white watch. Under it there is written aus Schutt und Asche, which translates into from soot and ashes. Archaeological finds from Saxony 1933 to 1945. 28.03 - 08.05.2035. A black wall with diamond pattern, some of those rhombs are mirrors. A yellow sign reads silberglanz und Kumpeltot, which roughly translates into shiny silver and miner’s death, which is a reminiscence to the very beloved hard liquor, which was preferred by the miners. It further reads mining in Saxony. A white ceramic figurine of a very emaciated, sad looking horse. Until the mid of the 20th century, horses have been exploited in underground mining. Most of them never saw daylight for the rest of their life, and normally they became blind after some years. A big display asking the visitors on their opinion on the discussion about reviving mining in the Saxon area of Erzgebirge, which recently gained traction due to the discovery of lithium. A big container is containing pink and white balls. The visitors can put them into cylinders marked with yes or no.
May 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM