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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · 9d

Top notch footage!

Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 9d

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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Dr Izzy Wisher @izzywisher.bsky.social · 9d

Wonderful video by @antiquity.ac.uk summarising our research!

Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 9d

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 · 9d

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

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · 9d

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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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · 9d

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 · 9d

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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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...

link.springer.com

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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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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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The Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past @sscipchildhood.bsky.social · Apr 3

Last day to get your abstracts in for SSCIP 2024!

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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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Mar 31

Coming up this afternoon! 👇

FRONTIERS - Science Journalism Residency Program @frontiersmedia.bsky.social · Mar 26

🚀 Would you like to be a science journalist in residence or host a journalist at your institution?

Join us online for the FRONTIERS Info Day on 31 March, 14:00 CEST, and ask us your questions!

📌 Register: forms.gle/v6wqTs4eVpBh...
@cesj.bsky.social
@ccsupf.bsky.social
@erc.europa.eu

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Mar 31

Wow, brave and awesome. You’ll be a great v- dean!

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Alejandro Ordonez @anordonez1.bsky.social · Mar 31

🌟 LAST CHANCE! 🌟 Join us at @econovoau.bsky.social for an incredible opportunity to study human ecology relations across socio-technological configurations! Apply now and be part of something amazing! ⏰ Deadline is TOMORROW at 23:59 CEST! lnkd.in/d4ws3iiK #OpportunityKnocks #JoinUs

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Mar 31

@au.dk is a top-100 university and Aarhus a super-liveable city with forest, beach, and ocean (well, the Baltic) at your doorstep. You can even hang out at beautiful Campus Moesgaard :)

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Mar 31

Join the dynamic @econovoau.bsky.social team and work with me, @jcsvenning.bsky.social and @anordonez1.bsky.social to study human ecological relation and niches across socio-technological configurations (foragers, farmers, etc.) past, present and future.

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Mar 31

Interested in humans from a macro-ecological/macro-archaeological perspective? Here's the right postdoc for you international.au.dk/about/profil... - deadline tomorrow April 1st at 2359 CEST!

2-yr postdoc on human macroecology in a functional trait perspective Aarhus University (re-advertisement) - 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 · 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

Finally, working with strings is very algorithmic, it's a form of ethnomathematics - esp. ethno-topology - and it may have been a meeting ground between human brains and mathematical cognition for millennia as early humans were 'honing their tools of the mind' (osf.io/preprints/ps...)

OSF

osf.io

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Mar 31

Some regions also have their very own unique practices perhaps reflecting their particular histories of dispersal and interaction.

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · Mar 31

Both knots and string figures show really interesting patterns: in both domains most societies traditionally practice only a limited repertoire of all the possible ones suggesting some deeply shared history.

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