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DAI @dai-weltweit.bsky.social · 2h

Wie schützt man #Kulturerbe, wenn jede Minute zählt?

Die Cultural Heritage Response Unit #CHRU wächst weiter, mit klarer Mission: #Kulturgut-Fachleute & @thw.de-Einsatzkräfte arbeiten Hand in Hand, um die Lücke zwischen Katastrophen- & #Kulturgutschutz zu schließen.

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Montage aus zwei Fotos. Links: Zwei Männer in THW- und KulturGutRetter-Westen vermessen eine beschädigte Wand mit einem Lasergerät. Rechts: Ein Mann in CHRU-Weste, vom Betrachter abgewandt, neben einer Frau in Kulturgutretter-Weste und mit Schutzhelm vor einer Wand. Darunter Logos und Text: KulturGutRetter. Cultural Heritage Response Unit.

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Auswärtiges Amt @diplo.de · 18h

Außenpolitik besteht nicht nur aus Diplomatie zwischen Ministerien, sie muss tief in unseren Gesellschaften verankert sein. In Ägypten sind das das @dai-weltweit.bsky.social, die vielen deutschen Schulen und die über 500.000 Schüler, die Deutsch lernen. 4/4

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 4h

Oh, thanks for the heads up!

Seems to be my fault not correctly copying that link. This one here should work:

www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-tel...

New publication: “Markers of ‘Psychocultural’ Change” – Tepe Telegrams

www.dainst.blog

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 6h

You got a point there - and I'm glad to confirm that we indeed not only considered, but even covered this perspective as well. 😉

www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-tel...

Cover of the "Handbook of Cognitive Archaeology. Psychology in Prehistory" edited by Tracy B. Henley, Matt J. Rossano, and Edward P. Kardas, published by Routledge.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 13h

As well as some of the imagery at "our" site - from animal to human depictions. 😉

So, yes: There definitely is a "phallic element" to the iconography.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 18h

Hmm, theoretisch wohl schon. Praktisch entspricht es allerdings den offenbar geltenden Darstellungskonventionen für Gesichter, wie wir sie auch mit anderen Skulpturen dieser Zeit und Region greifen können. 😉

www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-tel...

Übersichtstafel mit verschiedenen Steinköpfen neolithischer Skulpturen vom Göbekli Tepe.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 2d

Turns out: Some of these T-pillars *do* have faces. 🙌

Iza Miszczak @izamiszczak.bsky.social · 2d

Türkiye’s Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, announced that archaeologists have uncovered a T-shaped pillar depicting a human face in Karahantepe—marking the first such discovery in history.

www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/1200...

12,000-year-old human-faced pillar unearthed in Karahantepe marks new chapter in archaeology - Türkiye Today

A human-faced T-shaped pillar found in Karahantepe marks a historic first, revealing early artistic expression from 12,000 years ago

www.turkiyetoday.com

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 21h

"Nostalgia for a past that never existed" absolutely is the summary of an ideological turn fully immersed in AI aestethics.

Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 22h

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 1d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 1d

Just saw this from Hegseth. Wild that he's going there. Even Teddy Roosevelt, no cringing pacifist, called Wounded Knee a "massacre ... [native women], children, unarmed Indians, and armed Indians who had surrendered were killed, sometimes cold-bloodedly and with circumstances of marked brutality."

Tweet from Pete Hegseth: "Under my direction, the soldiers who fought at the Battle of Wounded Knee will keep their medals. This decision is final. Their place in history is settled." Which, the last bit, kinda true.

Snippet from Aida Donald's Lion in the White House. Quote is from Roosevelt's defense of the military in the Philippines. He says "nothing had occurred as bad as ... the massacre... at Wounded Knee." At Wounded Knee, Roosevelt recalled, "squaws, children, unarmed Indians, and armed Indians who had surrendered were killed, sometimes cold-bloodedly, and with circumstances of marked brutality."

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 1d

Totally admitting that it's a challenge to recognize the "anthropomorphity" (is that even a word?) of these pillars (that's why I tried to point out some of the characteristics in the thread quoted in my follow-up skeet.

Wouldn't indeed exclude decorative tattoos or body painting either.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 2d

Do the Crane Dance! Just do it! 😂👍

Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 2d

Which just adds another neat little layer to our earlier discussion of how closely linked those different-yet-not-so-different types of PPN sculptures in the region:

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · Nov 12

#GöbekliTepe 's monumental T-pillars are actually giant #anthropomorphic sculptures. Got to admit, though, that in the beginning of my work there, meanwhile more than 17 years ago, I found it ... challenging to recognize this likeness.

Until we finally excavated the "hands & loincloth" part ...

Drawing of a T-shaped pillar of the Göbekli Tepe type with arrows pointing out and labelling specific features like arms, hands, belt, and loincloth carved into the stone.

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 2d

A T-pillar with a human face on it, the first one ever having a detail as such, has been recently found in Karahantepe.😃

Habertürk @haberturk.com · 2d

Kültür ve Turizm Bakanı Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, Karahantepe'de gerçekleştirilen son kazılarda, ilk kez insan yüzü betimli bir T biçimli dikilitaş gün yüzüne çıkarıldığını duyurdu www.haberturk.com/karahantepe-...

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 2d

Turns out: Some of these T-pillars *do* have faces. 🙌

Iza Miszczak @izamiszczak.bsky.social · 2d

Türkiye’s Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, announced that archaeologists have uncovered a T-shaped pillar depicting a human face in Karahantepe—marking the first such discovery in history.

www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/1200...

12,000-year-old human-faced pillar unearthed in Karahantepe marks new chapter in archaeology - Türkiye Today

A human-faced T-shaped pillar found in Karahantepe marks a historic first, revealing early artistic expression from 12,000 years ago

www.turkiyetoday.com

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 2d

"Few careers let you hold pieces of the past in your hands while making it matter today."

Well earned, huge congrats to Brenna - and very much looking ahead to great new research! 👏

Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 2d

so... the wellcome trust gave me a £1,000,000? and i didnt even have to hold the world to ransom.

i am super excited, going to be recruiting SOON for a phd and a postdoc, and could not do anything without my amazing collaborators <3

www.lancashire.ac.uk/news/grant-t...

Archaeology research project receives £1 million grant to better understand how people got sick

University of Lancashire’s Dr Brenna Hassett receives Wellcome funding to understand how the invention of farming, herding, and sedentism changed human disease.

www.lancashire.ac.uk

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 2d

Yeah, time for fancy party hats! Huuuge congrats, Brenna! 👏👏👏

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 2d

Huge if true. 🏺🙌

(Excuse the pun. 😉)

Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer.bsky.social · 2d

What may be the largest recorded Neo-Assyrian lamassu (winged bull) has been unearthed in the ancient city of Nineveh, Mosul, Iraq. It was found in the remains of the throne room built by King Esarhaddon (681-669 B.C.) and is six meters (20 feet) high.
www.aina.org/news/2025092...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.

Text card: Listen for dangerous words.
Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.
#OnTyranny

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 2d

Leider nicht mein Garten, aber wir dürfen ihn exzessiv nutzen. 😄

Und die Quitten haben ihren Weg auch in den Saft gefunden, nehmen den Äpfeln ein bißchen die Säure. 😉

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 2d

Herbstfarben.

Teller mit leuchtend gelben Quitten. Ein einzelnes Blatt obenauf. Der auf einer Holzfläche stehende Teller halb im Anschnitt.

Nahaufnahme roter Äpfel, gelber Birnen und blauer Trauben in einem roten Behältnis.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 3d

Klar, gibt viel zu tun. Aber is' eben auch Apfelsaftsaison. 🍎🤷🏻‍♂️😉

Collage mit vier Szenen: Äpfel und Birnen liegen in einem Korb; ein Kind kurbelt eine hölzerne Mostpresse; goldbrauner Apfelsaft fließt in ein Gefäß; ein Kind trinkt den Saft aus einem Glas.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 4d

Right?! I mean, as if vultures weren't even cool enough already - they turn out being colleagues, too?! 😀

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 4d

Original study:

A. Margalida et al., The Bearded Vulture as an accumulator of historical remains: Insights for future ecological and biocultural studies, Ecology 106(9), 2025. 🔓

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Bearded Vulture as an accumulator of historical remains: Insights for future ecological and biocultural studies

Click on the article title to read more.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 4d

Bearded #vultures as collectors of historic artifacts, or: The deep #stratigraphies of multi-generational vulture nests ...

🐦🏺 www.popsci.com/environment/... (h/t @sapinuwa.bsky.social)

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 4d

Everyday life in historic Nigeria, tattooing in medieval Sudan, pre-colonial farming in southern Africa & more 🏺

Explore #OpenAccess and free research in our African #archaeology collection: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Rock art depicting people hunting animals such as elephants and antelope, overlaid with the text 'African Archaeology, Antiquity'.

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