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Nicola Scheyhing M.A.

@prehistoryteller.bsky.social

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Prehistoric Archaeologist 🏺& Museum 🏛enthusiast. Came for the adventure, stayed for the stories. PrehiStoryteller/VorGeschichtserzählerin. she/her.

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Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · Nov 14

So here’s me:
Hi, I’m Nicola. I’m a prehistoric archaeologist, museums person, tourism expert, cat mom, alternative music connoisseur, and professional nagger. My not so secret super power is to lower room temp by mustering people disapproving (honestly I am just incredible short-sighted).

Me, a middle aged white woman with reddish hair updo and glasses wearing a black dress with flowers sitting in a library with a bright red floor.

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Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 3h

You can find it here: link.springer.com/series/16659

Themes in Contemporary Archaeology

The Themes in Contemporary Archaeology series provides cutting edge perspectives on key areas of debate in current archaeological enquiry, with a particular ...

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Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 4h

The project was inspired by reading about the perspectives of many community members from marginalised backgrounds on Twitter (rip) during the pandemic. I‘m very thankful to all who tweeted on the lack of diversity in archaeology and its outreach, and promise to keep on learning!

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 4h

It also feels like a representation of me as someone struggling finding my place in the field as an independent researcher outside of traditional academic pathways. I am deeply grateful to my co-editors Jo Zalea Matias and @archaeologiskop.bsky.social for their long-standing support.

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Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 4h

Me (to The Internet, everybody listening, or just looking my way for more than 5 sec): „Look what we did!“
I received the prints of our #RepresentationMatters publication yesterday evening. It’s not only a collection of papers on the way we reproduce and communicate our knowledge towards audience.

A middle aged white Woman with an red updo and big glasses holding a large book, title says diversity in visual representations of the past. Representation matters.

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Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 5h

Schade, hinter der Paywall. Und noch mehr schade, dass die lokale Presse dazu garnichts zu berichten hat.

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Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 11h

I just got the printed version yesterday. It’s really brand-new.

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Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 1d

Can I humbly recommend our newly published edited volume? link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Diversity in Visual Representations of the Past

This volume presents an overview of the diversity and insight into the gaps in European media and archaeology.

link.springer.com

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 1d

We need to utterly transform how we protect our heritage: more funding for museums, more education and disrupting our equation of heritage with monetary value. This isn't a one off. From our fiekds to our museum cases, antiquities are seen as objects for personal acquisition and monetary gain.
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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 1d

Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem

Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 6d

Uh, sounds intriguing!

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 6d

Oh, heute zur Ausstellungseröffnung in der Talstraße? Ich habe erst heute von gelesen, weil die Ausstellung andere unbedingt sehen.

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 6d

Global Sumud Flotilla illegally intercepted & boarded. All contact with the Flotilla is lost (globalsumudflotilla.org)

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Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 7d

The book is part of the series „Themes in Contemporary Archaeology“ by @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social, and there is currently 20% off with the code below.

An info sheet displaying the cover of the book discussed above, title and editors, and some notes by the publisher: demonstrates a mythological approach to archaeological visual representation, focuses on diversity and identities, presents varied case studies that challenge stereotypical images of the past. Part of the book series themes in contemporary archaeology. The book is available on Springer nature, with a deduction of 20%off with the code SPRAUT. There is a QR code that leads to the publication page.

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 7d

#RepresentationMatters is published! Jo Zalea Matias, @archaeologiskop.bsky.social and I, together with our fantastic authors, are happy and proud that we finally made it! For more info and to order: link.springer.com/book/9783031...
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Uroš Matić @urosmatic.bsky.social · 10d

It took some time but our reflection on #gender #stereotypes in #archaeology is now out @springernature.com

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

What Is Wrong with This Image? Reflecting on Past Diversity Through Visual Representations of Gender Stereotypes in Archaeology

Gender and feminist archaeologists have fought for decades against gender stereotypes through academic writing, museum exhibitions, and popular literature, among other mediums. Despite their efforts, many of these stereotypes—e.g. depictions of men only as...

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 11d

Please share—3,000 match for two families trapped under fire 🚨

I’m still here every hour because these families are out of time. @akramabdelwahed.bsky.social can’t get online but the news is not positive.

Help our friend & his family flee Gaza City. It’s life and death. 93/7000 by Tuesday night

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 14d

My condolences.

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Oxford Archaeology @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social · 19d

We're looking for a palynologist to work within our environmental archaeology team 🦠

The position is open for all of our office locations and you'll be working on a range of sites from prehistoric Poulton-le-Fylde to Roman Somerset & beyond.

Closing date - 19th October 📋
tr.ee/OA-Palynologist

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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 19d

This is shocking and concerning for the EAA and its membership. As a signatory of the open letter asking the EAA to act responsibly and ethically, the way @archagainstaparth.bsky.social and EAA members were treated is appalling. More thoughts later.

Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 19d

EXCLUSIVE: EAA PRESIDENT ACCUSED OF HELPING ORCHESTRATE PROTEST CAMPAIGN AGAINST HER OWN EXECUTIVE BOARD’S GAZA VOTE

thePipeLine with the extraordinary story of how the President of the European Association of Archaeologists is accused of helping orchestrate a campaign to overturn its Gaza vote.

EXCLUSIVE: EAA PRESIDENT ACCUSED OF HELPING ORCHESTRATE PROTEST CAMPAIGN AGAINST HER OWN EXECUTIVE BOARD’S GAZA VOTE

thePipeLine can reveal allegations that the President of the beleaguered European Association of Archaeologists [EAA], Professor Eszter Bánffy, was instrumental in organising a covert campaign to p…

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Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 20d

Damn. I‘m also on reserchgate, is that still not hell-ish?

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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · Sep 3

I am looking for a multispecies archaeologist with a strong theoretical and interpretive profile to join my group (100%, 3 years): uni.koeln/2E7CR

Deadline: 30.09.2025.
Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21")

@nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social

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Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 24d

I had a first day back at work yesterday after eight weeks post op, and feel like a wrought out wet towel. Also artemisia pollen are kicking my brain today.

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 24d

Halle bleibt stabil! 💪🥳

Omas* gegen Rechts Leipzig 🌈🦄🏳️‍🌈 @omasgegenrechtsle.bsky.social · 25d

1000 Teilnehmer waren für die rechte Demo gegen den heutigen CSD in Halle angemeldet, gekommen sind nur etwa 50. Und auch die sind mittlerweile wieder auf dem Heimweg. 😂👋🏻
#HappyPride und laßt es ungestört ordentlich fröhlich, laut u bunt glitzern! 🌈🦄🏳️‍🌈
#hal1309

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 25d

Remember: archaeology is never and can’t never be unpolitical.

Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 26d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Archaeologists scramble to evacuate Gaza artefacts threatened by Israeli strike

Officials hurriedly remove nearly three decades of finds in ‘high-risk operation’

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 25d

If you're overwhelmed by the amount of Gaza fundraisers flooding your TL just imagine how overwhelmed they are getting the 25th evacuation order while being starved to death and terrorized with bombs paid by our tax money. Choose 3 fundraisers and give $5 to each...even that can save lives. 🙏🏼

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Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · 26d

In Gaza, Emergency Evacuation of the EBAF Archaeological Repository
The day before, the 13-story tower, where 180 cubic meters of artifacts and history are stored, received an evacuation order prior to bombing #archaeology #🏺
www.terresainte.net/2025/09/a-ga...

À Gaza, évacuation en urgence du dépôt archéologique de l’EBAF

Le 10 septembre au matin, l'armée israélienne a annoncé le bombardement de l'immeuble où 30 ans de fouilles archéologiques sont entreposées à Gaza. Diplomates, archéologues et autres officiels se sont...

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