Silje Evjenth Bentsen
@siljeeb.bsky.social
Archaeologist/senior advisor Nordland County Council • Honorary research fellow University of the Witwatersrand • Co-chair EAA Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Community @eaapam.bsky.social
Delighted to launch a new Research Topic with Dr Mariana Nabais!
Pushing the Boundaries: Coastal Adaptation during the Palaeolithic is now open for submissions in Frontiers in Environmental Science.
Submit your article by the 30th of September 2026: www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
Pushing the Boundaries: Coastal Adaptation during the Palaeolithic is now open for submissions in Frontiers in Environmental Science.
Submit your article by the 30th of September 2026: www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
Frontiers | Pushing the Boundaries: Coastal Adaptation during the Palaeolithic
Coastal environments have emerged as pivotal zones for human evolution. The dynamic and resource-rich coastlines offered vital ecological and cognitive oppor...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Delighted to launch a new Research Topic with Dr Mariana Nabais!
Pushing the Boundaries: Coastal Adaptation during the Palaeolithic is now open for submissions in Frontiers in Environmental Science.
Submit your article by the 30th of September 2026: www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
Pushing the Boundaries: Coastal Adaptation during the Palaeolithic is now open for submissions in Frontiers in Environmental Science.
Submit your article by the 30th of September 2026: www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
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“Americans are curious, inquisitive, learning, and enriching themselves…”
Banned Books Week honorary chair @georgetakei.bsky.social knows we need the right to read to understand each other.
Full interview: youtu.be/Gm4-SOEwEYk
#BannedBooksWeek #CensorshipIsSo1984
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Banned Books Week honorary chair @georgetakei.bsky.social knows we need the right to read to understand each other.
Full interview: youtu.be/Gm4-SOEwEYk
#BannedBooksWeek #CensorshipIsSo1984
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October 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
“Americans are curious, inquisitive, learning, and enriching themselves…”
Banned Books Week honorary chair @georgetakei.bsky.social knows we need the right to read to understand each other.
Full interview: youtu.be/Gm4-SOEwEYk
#BannedBooksWeek #CensorshipIsSo1984
w/@topshelfcomix.bsky.social
Banned Books Week honorary chair @georgetakei.bsky.social knows we need the right to read to understand each other.
Full interview: youtu.be/Gm4-SOEwEYk
#BannedBooksWeek #CensorshipIsSo1984
w/@topshelfcomix.bsky.social
Need a guide to fire-cracked rocks? Read my review of Fernanda Neubauer's intro to fire-cracked rock analysis here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Fernanda Neubauer. Fire-Cracked Rock Analysis: A Guide to Function, Cooking and Interpretation (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2024, 249pp., 86 colour figs, hbk, ISBN 978-3-031-64824-6) | European Journ...
Fernanda Neubauer. Fire-Cracked Rock Analysis: A Guide to Function, Cooking and Interpretation (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2024, 249pp., 86 colour figs, hbk, ISBN 978-3-031-64824-6) - Volume 28 Issu...
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October 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Need a guide to fire-cracked rocks? Read my review of Fernanda Neubauer's intro to fire-cracked rock analysis here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Pm me if you need access.
Pm me if you need access.
How was the landscape used in prehistory? Good example of using Least Cost Analysis in archaeology and study shows the importance of canoeing: www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
Frontiers | Modeling Coast Salish landscape/seascape use and territory with GIS
In this paper we use Least Cost Analysis (LCA) and GIS to model site catchments for villages from two Coast Salish tribes—Tsleil-Waututh and Sts'ailes. Here,...
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July 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
How was the landscape used in prehistory? Good example of using Least Cost Analysis in archaeology and study shows the importance of canoeing: www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
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Please consider submitting an abstract to our PaM community discussion session on Named Stone Tool Industries for the annual meeting in Belgrade Sept 3-6.Abstracts can be submitted until Feb 6th. And, please do help us spread the word!
The PaM community discussion session for #eaa2025 is #250: Sink the NASTIES? Named Stone Tool Industries (NASTIES) as obstacles to archaeological research. Submit your abstract by the 6th of Feb at www.e-a-a.org/EAA2025/Home... and please do share our call for papers!
January 29, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Please consider submitting an abstract to our PaM community discussion session on Named Stone Tool Industries for the annual meeting in Belgrade Sept 3-6.Abstracts can be submitted until Feb 6th. And, please do help us spread the word!
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📢 Call for papers! #EAABelgrade - Session #229
Join us with the great Viola Schmid to discuss Cores-on-Flakes during the Middle Palaeoltihic and Middle Stone Age!
Deadline for submission: *6 February*
www.e-a-a.org/eaa2025/
@archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @eaapam.bsky.social #UISPP
Join us with the great Viola Schmid to discuss Cores-on-Flakes during the Middle Palaeoltihic and Middle Stone Age!
Deadline for submission: *6 February*
www.e-a-a.org/eaa2025/
@archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @eaapam.bsky.social #UISPP
January 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
📢 Call for papers! #EAABelgrade - Session #229
Join us with the great Viola Schmid to discuss Cores-on-Flakes during the Middle Palaeoltihic and Middle Stone Age!
Deadline for submission: *6 February*
www.e-a-a.org/eaa2025/
@archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @eaapam.bsky.social #UISPP
Join us with the great Viola Schmid to discuss Cores-on-Flakes during the Middle Palaeoltihic and Middle Stone Age!
Deadline for submission: *6 February*
www.e-a-a.org/eaa2025/
@archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @eaapam.bsky.social #UISPP
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Dr. Jones illustrating the most important and rewarding part of being an archaeologist.
January 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Dr. Jones illustrating the most important and rewarding part of being an archaeologist.
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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social
January 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social
Noen som leter etter jobb innen forvaltning av kulturminner? Nordland fylkeskommune har ledige stillinger som leder (frist 6.1.2025) samt feltarkeolog (fast frist 13.1.2025) og rådgivere nyere tid (frist 13.1.2025) - se www.nfk.no/tjenester/ku...
Ledige stillinger på Kulturminner i Nordland
Kulturminner i Nordland har nå ledige stillinger som leder for Kulturminner i Nordland, feltarkeolog og rådgivere nyere tids kulturminner. Lenker til annonser og kontaktinformasjon finner du nedenfor....
www.nfk.no
January 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Noen som leter etter jobb innen forvaltning av kulturminner? Nordland fylkeskommune har ledige stillinger som leder (frist 6.1.2025) samt feltarkeolog (fast frist 13.1.2025) og rådgivere nyere tid (frist 13.1.2025) - se www.nfk.no/tjenester/ku...
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My new year’s resolution generator for @theguardian.com. Let me know what you get!
January 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
My new year’s resolution generator for @theguardian.com. Let me know what you get!
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The PaM community discussion session for #eaa2025 is #250: Sink the NASTIES? Named Stone Tool Industries (NASTIES) as obstacles to archaeological research. Submit your abstract by the 6th of Feb at www.e-a-a.org/EAA2025/Home... and please do share our call for papers!
January 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The PaM community discussion session for #eaa2025 is #250: Sink the NASTIES? Named Stone Tool Industries (NASTIES) as obstacles to archaeological research. Submit your abstract by the 6th of Feb at www.e-a-a.org/EAA2025/Home... and please do share our call for papers!
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Greetings! We are the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic community of the European Association of Archaeologists. Follow us here, on Instagram: www.instagram.com/eaapam/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/PaMCommunity/ and our EAA websites and wordpress: eaapalaeomesocommunity.wordpress.com/author/eaapa...
January 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Greetings! We are the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic community of the European Association of Archaeologists. Follow us here, on Instagram: www.instagram.com/eaapam/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/PaMCommunity/ and our EAA websites and wordpress: eaapalaeomesocommunity.wordpress.com/author/eaapa...
Call for papers for EAA2025 is open! The PaM discussion session is #250: Sink the NASTIES? Named Stone Tool Industries (NASTIES) as obstacles to archaeological research. Submit your abstract by the 6th of Feb at www.e-a-a.org/EAA2025/Home...
December 28, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Call for papers for EAA2025 is open! The PaM discussion session is #250: Sink the NASTIES? Named Stone Tool Industries (NASTIES) as obstacles to archaeological research. Submit your abstract by the 6th of Feb at www.e-a-a.org/EAA2025/Home...
Tunanlegget i Øksnes kommune inn på topplista over norske funn i 2024. Gratulerer til mine supre kolleger!
Dette fant arkeologene i 2024: Barnegraver i Østfold, en sølvskatt fra vikingtiden og kanskje Norges første steinkirke
For arkeologene har året vært preget av færre utgravinger enn før. Men flotte funn har de gjort likevel. Her er årets toppliste.
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December 28, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Tunanlegget i Øksnes kommune inn på topplista over norske funn i 2024. Gratulerer til mine supre kolleger!
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Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.
December 26, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.
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#OTD
Richard Erskine Leakey was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1944. 🏺🧪
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While he had many titles... paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician, people knew him best for his contribution to the study of human evolution and his conservation efforts in Kenya.
Richard Erskine Leakey was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1944. 🏺🧪
achievement.org/achiever/ric...
While he had many titles... paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician, people knew him best for his contribution to the study of human evolution and his conservation efforts in Kenya.
December 19, 2024 at 3:00 PM
#OTD
Richard Erskine Leakey was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1944. 🏺🧪
achievement.org/achiever/ric...
While he had many titles... paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician, people knew him best for his contribution to the study of human evolution and his conservation efforts in Kenya.
Richard Erskine Leakey was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1944. 🏺🧪
achievement.org/achiever/ric...
While he had many titles... paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician, people knew him best for his contribution to the study of human evolution and his conservation efforts in Kenya.
So sad to hear about the passing of Francois Audouze. She was such an inspiration to me during my MA studies. www.e-a-a.org/EAA/Navigati...
Francois Audouze
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November 27, 2024 at 10:56 AM
So sad to hear about the passing of Francois Audouze. She was such an inspiration to me during my MA studies. www.e-a-a.org/EAA/Navigati...
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Kon-Tiki Museum in #Norway repatriates Rapanui human remains to Easter Island and Chilean officials at ceremony in Oslo. The remains were taken by Thor Heyerdahl during his trans-Pacific raft expeditions in the 1950s.
News - Norway Museum Repatriates Rapanui Remains to Easter Island - Archaeology Magazine
OSLO, NORWAY—According to an AFP report, Norway’s Kon-Tiki Museum handed over human remains to Easter […]
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November 18, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Kon-Tiki Museum in #Norway repatriates Rapanui human remains to Easter Island and Chilean officials at ceremony in Oslo. The remains were taken by Thor Heyerdahl during his trans-Pacific raft expeditions in the 1950s.
SURPRISE!! My article on Experimental archaeology for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia was finally published! See doi.org/10.1093/acre... Photo by Magnus Haaland from the experiments 2020 when I worked at SapienCE.
April 25, 2024 at 10:32 AM
SURPRISE!! My article on Experimental archaeology for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia was finally published! See doi.org/10.1093/acre... Photo by Magnus Haaland from the experiments 2020 when I worked at SapienCE.
Fire stick farming in Australia already 11 000 years ago!? 🔥 www.nature.com/articles/d41...?
Indigenous Australian fire-stick farming began at least 11,000 years ago
Analysis of a sediment core dating back 150,000 years showed that fire patterns in Australia changed with the rise of Indigenous people’s use of fire. Analysis of a sediment core dating back 150,000 y...
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March 13, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Fire stick farming in Australia already 11 000 years ago!? 🔥 www.nature.com/articles/d41...?
Unfortunately a true story
Norwegian authorities approved the development of a quarry near #Vingen #RockArt area with concerning implications for local cultural heritage. Please consider signing the petition to encourage collective efforts to halt the quarry project! 🏺
Vingen Rock Art in Norway
Norway's rock art in danger, fears of rock carvings in the vicinity - NRK Vestland - reports on the decision made by government authorities on February 5th regarding the quarry and shipping port in Fr...
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March 13, 2024 at 9:33 AM
Unfortunately a true story
Send us your abstracts for #eaa2024! Session 995: Sense and Sustainability in Foraging Communities - submit at submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2024/ #palaeolithic #mesolithic
January 11, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Send us your abstracts for #eaa2024! Session 995: Sense and Sustainability in Foraging Communities - submit at submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2024/ #palaeolithic #mesolithic