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Arbeitsstelle Kleine Fächer @kleinefaecher.bsky.social · 1d

Save the Date: Am 30. Oktober startet die digitale Veranstaltungsreihe "Neue Wege alter Fächer: Lehre gestalten in den Altertumswissenschaften"! Programm und Infos unter www.kleinefaecher.de/beitraege/bl... @univie.ac.at @kleinefaecher.bsky.social @unimainz.bsky.social #AcademicSky #AncientBlueSky

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Anna Willi @annabwilli.bsky.social · 8d

Come work with us!🏺
Together with my brilliant colleague Georgia Barker we are looking for a project curator to research how childhood is represented in the collections of our two departments at the British Museum, Egypt & Sudan and Greece & Rome. 👇👇👇

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Project Curator: Hidden Stories of Childhood Greece and Rome; Egypt and Sudan Full-time: 41 hours per week (including one hour paid lunch break) Fixed term for 12 months £36,396 per annum Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on 17 October 2025

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Matthias Hoernes @matthiashoernes.bsky.social · 16d

Hi Leah, thank you so much for your interest. If you would like to present a paper, we would be happy to have you join us online. However, the time difference may be inconvenient, and we cannot yet confirm whether you will be able to attend all the papers.

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Matthias Hoernes @matthiashoernes.bsky.social · 17d

📣 In February next year, the "Etruscan and Italic Communities" network will meet in Vienna to discuss various forms of networks and mobilities in pre-Roman Italy. We would love to hear your paper, so please check out the Call for Papers. ➡️ www.academia.edu/143782531/Ca... #Archaeology 🏺

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James Coverley @jamescoverley.com · 19d

#Ancientbluesky #Skystorians #history #swearing #archaeology

This article is cool because I can legitimately say 'fuck' a lot and claim that this is all part of academic discourse.

So fucking read it, please. Oh, and please fucking subscribe to my shit. Thanks!

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Did the Romans Like Swearing?

It is one of the great incongruities of the English language that, despite being one of the most versatile and malleable forms of linguistic communication among the world's great tongues, it is also, ...

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 19d

This Etruscan guttus - a vessel used to store and pour liquids in small amounts, or to refill oil lamps - is shaped like an elephant. It may have been inspired by the elephants first seen in Italy during the invasions of Pyrrhus and of Hannibal of Carthage in the 3rd c. BCE. 🏺

300-200 BCE.

Black-glazed vessel shaped like an African elephant. There is a refill mouth on its back, and the upraised trunk is the pouring spout. A handle is on the other side.

Etruscan, from Etruria, Italy, 300-200 BCE. British Museum (1849,0620.4)

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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · May 9

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

Author-Paid PublicationFees Corrupt Science and Should Be Abandoned
Thomas J. H Morgan & Paul E. Smaldino

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Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies @dshcs.bsky.social · 28d

CfP for early career researcher ➡️ Fluid Communities: Concepts of Social Mobility and Identity Construction between textual evidence and materiality in Antiquity, December 5-6, 2025 @univie.ac.at

#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics

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CFP: Workshop Fluid Communities

Einladung zum Workshop Fluid Communities: Concepts of Social Mobility and Identity Construction between textual evidence and materiality in Antiquity am 5.–6. Dezember 2025

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HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · Sep 2

We have a new #HEASBlog on our website!

Students from @dominik-hagmann.bsky.social's #AI and Interdisciplinary Research course at @univie.ac.at's Department of #EvolutionaryAnthropology got hands-on experience with cutting-edge robotics at #general_laser.at in Vienna.

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You, Robot: Experiencing Robotics First-Hand at General Laser - HEAS

By: Dominik Hagmann As part of the University of Vienna’s course “AI and Interdisciplinary Research” held at the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology in the summer term of 2025, students from diver...

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Matthias Hoernes @matthiashoernes.bsky.social · Sep 2

Me neither. 😄 Thank you Fabien.

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Matthias Hoernes @matthiashoernes.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thank you. I will keep you posted.

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Matthias Hoernes @matthiashoernes.bsky.social · Sep 2

It was fascinating to see the 3D printer in action. This support structure will soon be proudly carrying the fragments of the Polygnotos Krater in the @univie.ac.at Archaeological Collection. Many thanks to www.archaeo-perspectives.at for their enthusiasm. #Archaeology 🏺

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Matthias Hoernes @matthiashoernes.bsky.social · Aug 22

I thought I had a vague idea of Hellenistic Apulia, but this new tomb painting surpasses all expectations. Seized from the infamous Symes collection, it is now on display in Canosa. Its vivid colours and striking scene are breathtaking. #Archaeology 🏺
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A Canosa il viaggio nell’aldilà del giovane Artau - Il Giornale dell'Arte

A Canosa il viaggio nell’aldilà del giovane Artau

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Matthias Hoernes @matthiashoernes.bsky.social · Aug 10

A high-impact article on the employment situation of essential staff members in Italian archaeological parks. #Archaeology 🏺 #cats www.artribune.com/arti-visive/...

Sapevate che nei parchi archeologici italiani vivono delle colonie di gatti?

Dopo Paestum e il Colosseo, è la volta del Parco di Ercolano: qui i gatti sono diventati, negli anni, una presenza simbolica e amatissima negli spazi di accoglienza dei visitatori

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Aug 9

📷 Taken by our editor Robin Skeates, it is a frontispiece from our latest issue. Check out the associated Editorial on the theme 'Linguae francae, present and past' to explore languages and language inequality in #archaeology 🆓

Editorial: Linguae francae, present and past

Should we agree that English is the lingua franca of world archaeology?

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Matthias Hoernes @matthiashoernes.bsky.social · Aug 8

Grazie mille!

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Matthias Hoernes @matthiashoernes.bsky.social · Aug 8

After touring around Basilicata and Calabria for four weeks, I am heading back to Napoli, but I could not leave southern Italy without spending a night in Sala Consilina in the Vallo di Diano (Campania). #Archaeology #photography #ThePhotoHour

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Matthias Hoernes @matthiashoernes.bsky.social · Aug 6

Tiriolo, located in Calabria, boasts majestic views of both the Ionian and Tyrrhenian coasts, as well as incredible archaeology such as the early Hellenistic 'Palazzo dei Delfini', the chamber tomb, and the iconic helmet with its fancy hairstyle (today in Catanzaro). #Archaeology 🏺

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Matthias Hoernes @matthiashoernes.bsky.social · Aug 5

Many thanks to the colleagues at Metaponto. Despite the museum being a huge construction site, they found time to browse their storerooms with me. It is hard to imagine such enthusiasm, effort, and hospitality outside of southern Italy. #Archaeology 🏺

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · Jul 30

Oxford chemists identify honey offering in a 2,500-year-old shrine | University of Oxford
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Oxford chemists identify honey offering in a 2,500-year-old shrine |

Researchers in the University of Oxford’s Department of Chemistry have solved a decades-old archaeological puzzle by re-investigating the molecular composition of an intriguing residue found in

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Jan-Martin Wiarda @jmwiarda.bsky.social · Jul 17

Titel ohne Zukunft?
Privatdozenten sind habilitiert, hochqualifiziert – und oft ohne Einkommen, Stelle oder Perspektive. Eine neue Initiative will ihnen Gehör verschaffen. Wer steht hinter "PD Prekär"?
Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/07...

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FabienBP @fabienbp.bsky.social · Jul 23

Mon livre est sorti de presse ! Il faudra tout de même attendre la rentrée pour vous le procurer, ou venir directement au Livre sur la place à Nancy le 13 septembre pour que je vous le dédicace.

Couverture, violette, du livre "Perséphone et la culture populaire. Patriarcat et féminisme aux Enfers", aux éditions EDUL.

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Matthias Hoernes @matthiashoernes.bsky.social · Jul 23

My second stop was Cirò and Cirò Marina. Huge thanks to many people, including the amazing Soprintendenza di Catanzaro e Crotone, for giving me access to materials, making countless calls to organise things, showing me around the region, and sharing their knowledge and passion. #Archaeology 🏺

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Matthias Hoernes @matthiashoernes.bsky.social · Jul 18

We are deeply grateful for the funding. To celebrate this, some photos from San Chirico Raparo. One of the Lucanian tombs there contained this extravagant black-gloss fountain model, and they also had an abundance of lead barbecue equipment that we are going to analyse. #Archaeology 🏺 #AcademicSky

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Matthias Hoernes @matthiashoernes.bsky.social · Jul 16

Whenever I have time, I try to visit the burial plots that I work on, and the ones in Lucania never fail to amaze me with their views of the landscape.

San Martino d'Agri, Tempa Cagliozzo; with some of the assemblages displayed in the Museum of Grumento Nova. #Archaeology 🏺 #AcademicSky

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