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Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida.bsky.social · 10d

CFP! Join us at TAG Nordic!🥳
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 10d

Call for papers - hopeful pasts for hopeful futures - a session at Nordic TAG 2026 (in person, Kalmar, Sweden) 6-9 May 2026 - deadline 15 October.

I'm organising this with Daniela Hofmann and @arkeostrida.bsky.social

How do we story the past? As many of us are trying to address cascading environmental, political and social polycrises through our work, reflection about the stories we tell, and why we tell them,
is more important than ever. Yet, certain kinds of stories – often involving origin/ancestry, warfare, inequality or ecological degradation – seem to enjoy a broader reach than stories of multiculturalism,
coexistence, cooperation, or integration. While this work outlines the scope and history of the problems we now confront, it rarely offer alternatives to the status quo or paths to a better future.
In this session, we discuss the implications of our narrative choices and how we can choose more actively to shape the approaching future. The past was diverse, comprising manifold social processes at various scales. The past was lived by people other than elites and warriors, and the dominant trends we observe were variously resisted and adapted. The past was not just human, but material and otherwise animate. In sum, the past has an innate capacity to surprise us, a property we can use to imagine different ways of being and relating.
We invite participants to reflect on how we might foreground work, both in scholarly articles and in outreach, to shape the future we want. Do we have moral and ethical obligations? And to whom (or to what)? Are different ways of telling more suited to different kinds of stories (articles versus images, computer games versus podcasts, Science Fiction versus childrens books)? Can we extract tales of hope to inspire better futures? Is that just idealistic dreaming or unscientific? How do we represent uncertainties and ambiguities? How do we turn our eyes from past to future with a better world in mind?
• The workshop will be structured around blocks of short presentations (6 slides in 6 minutes), followed by panel debates.
• Interested participants should contact us at daniela.hofmann@uib.no
• send a max 200 word abstract

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Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida.bsky.social · Aug 8

Fresh off the press - latest from the LAST project: "Under Pressure? Living with Climate Change and Environmental Hazards in the Past and Now" (Open access) link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Thanks to all contributors, and to my great co-editors: Marcel Bradtmöller, Sonja B. Grimm and Noa Lavi!!

Under Pressure?

This open access book gathers case studies of resilience and coping strategies in hunter-gatherer societies who were confronted with natural hazards

link.springer.com

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Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida.bsky.social · Jul 31

Reposting @stevenjgibbons.bsky.social great post - seeing that sharing knowledge is one of the best strategies against hazards turning disaster #LifeAftertheStoreggaDisaster

Steven J. Gibbons @stevenjgibbons.bsky.social · Jul 30

A little reminder that there is lots of completely open #seismic data in the world that can be viewed on any PC (and even a phone!) with only a few lines of python and the #obspy package. This plot shows 20 minutes of signal from today's Magnitude 8.8 #earthquake
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Python script for plotting the signal from the M8.8 Kamchatka earthquake recorded on station IU.MJAO (Matsushiro, Japan)

Signal from the M8.8 Kamchatka earthquake recorded on station IU.MJAO (Matsushiro, Japan)

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Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida.bsky.social · Jul 10

❤️ det var hyggelig!! Håper den ikke ble for skummel 😂

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Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida.bsky.social · Jun 21

Og der var den endelig i hus: boka mi! Kan bestilles på Orkana.no «Da sjøen ble et monster» - fortellingen om Eir - med nydelige illustrasjoner av Hege Vatnaland (og en faktadel om steinalder, storeggatsunamien og arkeologi)

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Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida.bsky.social · Jun 19

Ble invitert av #gjenklang studio til å fortelle om dagen i steinalderen da Storeggatsunamien rammet kysten gjenklangstudio.no/case/histori...

Historier som endret Norge | Gjenklang

Oppdag historien bak små og store hendelser som har påvirket landet vårt. Programleder Christian Gilsvik inviterer hver uke en ny ekspert som dykker ned i alt fra hvalfangst til første verdenskrig. Me...

gjenklangstudio.no

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Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida.bsky.social · Jun 8

bildet er fra VG - skulle ikke tro det er fra vår nærmeste allierte?
2000 soldater er sendt til LA for å stoppe demonstrasjoner mot deportasjonspraksisen Trump har igangsatt, mens LAPD understreker at dette var en fredelig demonstrasjon.. and so it begins…?

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Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida.bsky.social · May 20

Great New paper out!

Norwegian Archaeological Review @norwegianreview.bsky.social · May 20

The Hølland site is a key to the development of #ceramic production, from the Late #Roman #IronAge (AD 200–400) and throughout the Migration Period (AD 400–550) in Norway.

Read more in our most recent online publication:

Pyrotechnology in Turbulent Times: The Hølland Ceramic Workshop and Its Implications for Connectivity in Migration Period Western Scandinavia

This article presents key results of the excavations of the unique Hølland site in Ogna, Jæren in southwest Norway (cal. date range 203 BC–AD 553). Strategically located in a core region for cerami...

www.tandfonline.com

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Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida.bsky.social · May 15

Just reminding all archaeologists - and other scientists - about this fine journal!!! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Norwegian Archaeological Review @norwegianreview.bsky.social · May 14

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Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida.bsky.social · May 2

Interessant - «finner ikke sumerisk oldtidsby» - mente jeg svensk tidsskrift eller samisk politiker? 🤭

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Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida.bsky.social · Apr 29

Kanskje etikk-timer hadde vært bedre - enn ekstra timer kristendom? Virker som at å plagiere andres tekst - unnskyld, være skyldig i «tekstlikhet», er vanlig praksis blant politikere?

Morgenbladet @morgenbladet.no · Apr 29

Rappet fra britisk forfatter: Under den prosaiske tittelen «Representantforslag 273 S» tar de på seg intet mindre enn en gjennomgripende revisjon av den vestlige idéhistorien. Men hele forslaget består av lett sammentrukket avskrift, på en måte man vanskelig kan kalle noe annet enn plagiat.

Mesteparten av KrF-trioens innlegg er rent plagiat

KrF har levert det mest intellektuelt ambisiøse innlegget Stortinget har sett på noen tiår. Men i den moderne verden som partiet så hardnakket hevder at har kristent opphav, regner vi åndsverk som eie...

www.morgenbladet.no

Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida.bsky.social · Mar 20

Du har rett! Skriver et notat om det jeg. Og flytter litt på det etterpå..

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Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida.bsky.social · Mar 20

Er ikke verden slik at alle skriver og elsker notat??

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Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida.bsky.social · Mar 20

Var voldsomt til agg der 🤭 .. akademikere satt opp som kontrast til de fine og folkelige industriarbeiderne og maskinoperatører må vite 😄

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Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida.bsky.social · Mar 20

Hørte #nyhetsmorgen litt over 7 og #JulieBrodkorp tidl. H-politiker, nå adm.dir. uimotsagt få beskrive akademikere som «selvhøytidelige […] som tror verden er å flytte og skrive notat» ikke rart universitetene er i fare når dette er det Høyresiden mener…

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Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida.bsky.social · Mar 13

Are all these scrapers from the Quarry site? was there a settlement site too? Anyway, very cool! Enjoy! 😃

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Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida.bsky.social · Mar 11

Gleder meg til de setter opp incentiv-tog jeg… 🤭

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Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida.bsky.social · Mar 1

🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 ❤️ I cannot find the words to express my disgust for the scene we witnessed from the Whitehouse through the media yesterday. Shame on Trump and Vance, SHAME!

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Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida.bsky.social · Feb 23

Glad to see there are still some voices of reason in the US.. 😃👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Todd (TJ) @agiftfromtodd.bsky.social · Feb 5

Reposted by Astrid J. Nyland

Kristian Løseth @kriloseth.bsky.social · Jan 23

Min tidligere kollega Christin har forfattet noen bevingede ord om ulempen med å ikke vedlikeholde jernbane. www.nrk.no/ytring/salde...

Salderingsposten

Passasjerene må regne med buss for tog i lange tider. Det sørger manglende vedlikehold for.

www.nrk.no

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Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida.bsky.social · Jan 11

The Big Dipper is clear tonight….

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Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida.bsky.social · Jan 9

sooooo... I was just made Professor(!) 🥳 very happy and grateful for the recognition of the work I have put into it 💪

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Reposted by Astrid J. Nyland

Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · Jan 7

If you are going to Meso2025 (Ferrara, Sept 15-19 2025; meso2025.sciencesconf.org) & are interested in presenting in the session on 'Colonisation Processes' that @arkeostrida.bsky.social and I chair, pls note abstract deadline of 15 Jan 1/2

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Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida.bsky.social · Jan 7

Reminding anyone interested in the MESO2025 conference in Ferrara, Italy in September that the deadline for submitting abstracts is 15th Jan 2025! Below you can check out a fab session hosted by @graemewarren.bsky.social and myself!

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Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida.bsky.social · Jan 4

Wow! Very cool! Thanks! 😃