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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · 12d

Top notch footage!

Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 12d

Europe's oldest blue pigment

Dating back ~13,000 years, it questions the long-held belief that Palaeolithic artists only used red or black and indicates a more vibrant Ice Age world than previously imagined

Read the original research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · 12d

Also covered in National Geographic: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · 12d

And now covered in @science.org by the fab @spoke32.bsky.social: www.science.org/content/arti.... Do check it out for yourself - the earliest evidence of mineral-based blue pigment in Palaeolithic Europe!

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 12d

Europe's oldest blue pigment

Dating back ~13,000 years, it questions the long-held belief that Palaeolithic artists only used red or black and indicates a more vibrant Ice Age world than previously imagined

Read the original research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · 12d

I, too, am proud to share this quite exciting finding with you: Europe's oldest mineral blue pigment. It's azurite and we found it on a legacy object that had long languished in a storehouse. New analysis bring new insights :) #palaeolithicblues

Dr Izzy Wisher @izzywisher.bsky.social · 12d

Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵

Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺

doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Close-up image of a sand coloured stone, with a diagonal crack. The sand rock has a textured surface, and small spots of blue can be seen towards the centre of the stone. The background is grey.

Microscopic photo of the blue spots, that are irregular in shape and size and positioned diagonally across the image. The rest of the photo shows the rough sand coloured texture of the stone.

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Dr Izzy Wisher @izzywisher.bsky.social · 12d

Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵

Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺

doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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Risk & Disaster TIG @riskdisastertig.bsky.social · Aug 13

Check out @felixthehauskat.bsky.social, Kathrine L. D. Andreasen & Peter M. Yaworsky's "Human Impacts of the 8.2 ka Event on Mesolithic Foragers in Western Denmark: A Model-Based Approach Inspired by 'Radical' #Disaster #Risk Reduction Research" in "Under Pressure" at

Human Impacts of the 8.2 ka Event on Mesolithic Foragers in Western De

The 8.2 ka event had a major but regionally variable climatic impact in the Northern Hemisphere. In Denmark, it impacted lakes and rivers, which were essential landscape features for contemporaneous foragers. There is also evidence for a marked increase in sand drift...

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · Aug 7

Job Alerts!🚨 We are looking to fill three Independent Junior Research Group Leader positions in the 'HUMAN ORIGINS' Cluster of Excellence at the University of Tübingen
Application deadline: Sept. 10, Starting Jan. 1, 2026

1. Genotype-Phenotype interactions:
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Independent Junior Research Group Leader (m/f/d, 100%)

uni-tuebingen.de

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Jan 3

4) The cradles of agrodiversity in Northern Europe - a PhD fellowship focused on where, when, and how pre-Roman small-scale cropping and gardening truly began. Perfect for an archaeology-minded geoscientist/geoarchaeologist: phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...

The cradles of agrodiversity in Northern Europe

phd.nat.au.dk

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Kevin Lala @kevinlala.bsky.social · Jan 13

What a fantastic job Anne Odling-Smee and her team at DesignScience have done at renovating the niche construction webiste. It is really beautiful and easy to use, and an extremely valuable resource for anyone interested in this topic.

www.nicheconstruction.com

Screenshot of new niche construction website

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Jan 3

3) 2.5 yr postdoctoral position in Palaeolithic gene-culture coevolution. Together with a palaeogenomics postdoc, we seek to generate material culture data such that we can capture these ancient gene-culture cophylogenetic dynamics international.au.dk/about/profil...

Postdoctoral position in Palaeolithic gene-culture coevolution, Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University

international.au.dk

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Jan 3

2) 2.5yr postdoctoral position in population genomics of the Palaeolithic. Together with @mikkelschierup.bsky.social we seek to reconstruct Late Pleistocene ancestries and migrations using available genomic data. international.au.dk/about/profil...

Postdoctoral position in population genomics of the palaeolithic - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - BiRC - Bioinformatics Research Center, Aarhus University

international.au.dk

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ECONOVO - DNRF Center of Excellence @econovoau.bsky.social · Jan 14

📢Film launch!
🐂 🪲🌿We are proud to present our important work on #novelecosystems. Give it a watch & find out how & why we study novel ecosystems to understand their impacts on #biodiversity and #biosphere functioning and how we can manage them for a better future 🦋🌿🌎
@dg.dk @aarhusuni.bsky.social

Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · Jan 14

🌍🎥New film out! Discover how @econovoau.bsky.social tackles the ongoing transformation of the #biosphere & rise of novel ecosystems, shaping #biodiversity & #climatechange resilience for the future ⛈️🍂🌳💦🔥🌳🦬Watch here👉
www.linkedin.com/posts/svenni... 🌍🎥
#ecology #GlobalChange #rewilding #restoration

Jens-Christian Svenning on LinkedIn: #ecosystems #econovo #biodiversity #novelecosystems #globalchange…

🌍🎥 New ECONOVO Film: Understanding and Shaping the Biosphere of the Future 🌱✨ Today, we’re proud to share a short film about our work at the Center for…

www.linkedin.com

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Jan 15

2025 in a nutshell…

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Jan 15

It's not just the Financial Times last weekend - in parallel, the insurance industry is also increasingly concerned about the risks of #AMOC slowing or shut-down. See this article in The Journal of the Chartered Insurance Institute:
thejournal.cii.co.uk/2025/01/10/c...

Climate change: AMOCalypse Now

Praveen Gupta reveals the potential impact of an Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation slowdown – and why insurers must be ready to respond.

thejournal.cii.co.uk

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Jan 15

"Neanderthal cave art? A proposal from cognitive archaeology"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Neanderthal cave art? A proposal from cognitive archaeology

Despite the evidence supporting Neanderthal’s symbolic capacity, cave art remains mainly ascribed to modern humans in the Cantabrian Region (Spain), a…

www.sciencedirect.com

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The Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past @sscipchildhood.bsky.social · Nov 30

📢 NEWS 📢 We are delighted to announce that the 2025 SSCIP Annual Conference will take place in Aarhus, Denmark from 24th - 26th June 🥳

The conference theme is 'Children and Climate Change' 🌏 Call for Papers and further information will be circulated soon #childhood #archaeology #history Please RT!

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Jan 15

🚨😷🧪 NEW: A growing body of evidence shows that pandemics, biodiversity loss, and climate change are part of a broader polycrisis - but there are no simple solutions. A sweeping overview of "Pathogens and planetary change" for the first issue of @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social, out now 🔓 rdcu.be/d6lHl

Top panels: graphs showing increases in spillover events, extinction rates, and temperature anomalies over the last few centuries. Bottom panel: a map of 10 pandemics since the year 1900. Four were linked to agriculture, two to wildlife use, and one to climate change.

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Roope Kaaronen @roopekaaronen.net · Jun 28

Our knotropology en español with comments by @felixthehauskat.bsky.social and external knot experts.

www.elperiodico.com/es/sociedad/...

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Jun 18

And here’s to more!

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Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) @aiasdk.bsky.social · May 28

Two new 3-2-1-Go! Collaborative Theme Groups selected to AIAS. The ‘Tracks and Footprints’ and ‘When Politics Meets Business’ groups bring together researchers across faculties and disciplines to transform perspectives, build bridges and understandings around one theme🎉
aias.au.dk/events/show/...

Two cross-faculties collaborative theme groups selected to AIAS

Following a successful year with four active cross-faculties 3-2-1-Go! Collaborative Theme Groups, the Interdisciplinary Taskforce at Aarhus University and AIAS have selected two new groups who will j...

aias.au.dk

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · May 10

www.theclimatebrink.com/p/volcanic-c...

Volcanic cooling

Large volcanic eruptions have a major cooling impact on the climate

www.theclimatebrink.com

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · May 4

Off to the field with @ll-herskind.bsky.social and a group of awesome students - four weeks teaching excavation and my @erc.europa.eu project CLIOARCH’s very last field season. And we’re going to excavate the world’s oldest amber art workshop from the Late Pleistocene 🤩

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Mathilde Vestergaard Meyer @mathildevm.bsky.social · Apr 6

DEADLINE EXTENSION!

The deadline for submitting an abstract for the upcoming @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference has been extended to Thursday the 10th of April, 12 pm (GMT+2)

Note that online participation will also be an option

See more here: conferences.au.dk/sscip-2025/c...

Call for Abstracts

conferences.au.dk

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Mar 31

Interested in children and childhoods of the past? Come join us at @au.dk - in the fab facilities of @aiasdk.bsky.social - for this year's @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference.

Abstract deadline is April 4th!

conferences.au.dk/sscip-2025

SSCIP 2025

conferences.au.dk

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Mar 31

Awesome!

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