Signe Sangill Termansen
@signest.bsky.social
Archaeologist/archaeobotanist with a love of the Stone Age and plants. Also talk to me about yarn! PhD fellow at Aarhus University and mom of two amazing kids.
Reposted by Signe Sangill Termansen
“There is danger in fictionalizing the past. The present ‘post-truth’ moment shows how easy it is for misinformation, propaganda, and conspiracy theories to thrive. Yet ... Without imagining the past, we can’t connect to it.”
Read more: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
Read more: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
August 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“There is danger in fictionalizing the past. The present ‘post-truth’ moment shows how easy it is for misinformation, propaganda, and conspiracy theories to thrive. Yet ... Without imagining the past, we can’t connect to it.”
Read more: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
Read more: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
Missed my kitchen and my kids <3
July 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Missed my kitchen and my kids <3
One very sweaty and very happy archaeobotanist at the poster session yesterday. Now I get to focus solely on all the amazing presentations to come! #IWGP2025
July 23, 2025 at 7:32 AM
One very sweaty and very happy archaeobotanist at the poster session yesterday. Now I get to focus solely on all the amazing presentations to come! #IWGP2025
Find me and this poster at 13.30 at the IWGP. Feel free to always talk to me about plants and hunter-gatherer plant relationships 🌳
July 22, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Find me and this poster at 13.30 at the IWGP. Feel free to always talk to me about plants and hunter-gatherer plant relationships 🌳
Very Dutch vibes at the IWGP conference in Groningen! I too happen to love Stroopwaffles!
July 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Very Dutch vibes at the IWGP conference in Groningen! I too happen to love Stroopwaffles!
University life during the two most popular vacation weeks! It’s a desert 🏜️ at least I have @sofiefh.bsky.social for lunch company ❤️
July 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
University life during the two most popular vacation weeks! It’s a desert 🏜️ at least I have @sofiefh.bsky.social for lunch company ❤️
There has to be a scientific term for the complete halt in writing that happens every time you hit a new heading, right?
July 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
There has to be a scientific term for the complete halt in writing that happens every time you hit a new heading, right?
Ready to give this ‘out of office writing’ a try. So far not the worst view I’ve ever been subjected to!
June 29, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Ready to give this ‘out of office writing’ a try. So far not the worst view I’ve ever been subjected to!
Reposted by Signe Sangill Termansen
The annual research celebration day at @auarcher.bsky.social is tomorrow and my poster is based on our JAS Reports paper, published earlier this year. Feel free to download the paper (open access) or take a peek at the poster 🔎
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
June 26, 2025 at 6:19 AM
The annual research celebration day at @auarcher.bsky.social is tomorrow and my poster is based on our JAS Reports paper, published earlier this year. Feel free to download the paper (open access) or take a peek at the poster 🔎
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Signe Sangill Termansen
Why did Palaeolithic artists decide to produce art on the same walls that someone else had decorated? Do rock art palimpsests reflect dialogues that occurred across tens-of-thousands of years? My new OA paper develops a conceptual framework to explore these dimensions! 👇🏺
doi.org/10.1007/s108...
doi.org/10.1007/s108...
Dialogues Across Time? Conceptualising the Temporal Relationships of Palimpsests in the Upper Palaeolithic Cave Art of El Castillo (Cantabria, Spain) - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
Cave sites were frequently reused throughout the Upper Palaeolithic, with many sites within south-western Europe having deep chronologies of activity. The repeated engagement with the same caves, or s...
doi.org
June 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Why did Palaeolithic artists decide to produce art on the same walls that someone else had decorated? Do rock art palimpsests reflect dialogues that occurred across tens-of-thousands of years? My new OA paper develops a conceptual framework to explore these dimensions! 👇🏺
doi.org/10.1007/s108...
doi.org/10.1007/s108...
Publication alert! Way outside my normal work scope, here is a paper on metal detecting and teaching it in universities! Jointly written by the students who participated in a course designed by @minosthearcher.bsky.social
intarch.ac.uk/journal/issu...
intarch.ac.uk/journal/issu...
Metal Detecting in University Education: Empowering future archaeologists through training
This article presents and explores the reflections of students enrolled in 'Small finds - grand stories. The use of metal detector finds in research and dissemination' course at Aarhus University. Thi...
intarch.ac.uk
May 23, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Publication alert! Way outside my normal work scope, here is a paper on metal detecting and teaching it in universities! Jointly written by the students who participated in a course designed by @minosthearcher.bsky.social
intarch.ac.uk/journal/issu...
intarch.ac.uk/journal/issu...
The streets are bright with summer snow (cherry blossoms) ❄️☀️
May 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The streets are bright with summer snow (cherry blossoms) ❄️☀️
Celebrating Mother’s Day the perfect way. Booking a tattoo appointment (courtesy of husband and kids) and drinking a mock-jito in the spring sun.
May 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Celebrating Mother’s Day the perfect way. Booking a tattoo appointment (courtesy of husband and kids) and drinking a mock-jito in the spring sun.
This month has been insane for thrift store finds 😍😍😍
May 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
This month has been insane for thrift store finds 😍😍😍
Reposted by Signe Sangill Termansen
Jeg gennemgår magasinkasser for tiden og nogle af dem er vidunderlige! Ildrød Ertebøllekultur 🔥
April 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Jeg gennemgår magasinkasser for tiden og nogle af dem er vidunderlige! Ildrød Ertebøllekultur 🔥
Until next time, Norway!
April 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Until next time, Norway!
Fluberget 🎨🎨🖌️
April 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Fluberget 🎨🎨🖌️
My first archaeological cave experience! Vistehola ☀️☀️
April 25, 2025 at 7:42 AM
My first archaeological cave experience! Vistehola ☀️☀️
Spending the week in beautiful Stavanger thinking about research design in environmental archaeology ❤️
Travelling alone is terrifying, but Norway is gorgeous!
Travelling alone is terrifying, but Norway is gorgeous!
April 23, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Spending the week in beautiful Stavanger thinking about research design in environmental archaeology ❤️
Travelling alone is terrifying, but Norway is gorgeous!
Travelling alone is terrifying, but Norway is gorgeous!
Another day another plant talk! Today for the student run Medieval Garden at Moesgaard. Lots of fun ❤️
April 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Another day another plant talk! Today for the student run Medieval Garden at Moesgaard. Lots of fun ❤️
Tour des megaliths with the BA students and @neonoejo.bsky.social today. First stop Poskær Stenhus 😍☀️
April 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Tour des megaliths with the BA students and @neonoejo.bsky.social today. First stop Poskær Stenhus 😍☀️
Hey @handansken.bsky.social kan Stavanger noget vildt for en stenalderplantearkæolog som skal være der en halv uges tid på kursus? 😁
April 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Hey @handansken.bsky.social kan Stavanger noget vildt for en stenalderplantearkæolog som skal være der en halv uges tid på kursus? 😁
You can say a lot of good things about my office, but who even knew that the BEST of them is having a Common Kestrel and her chicks as my neighbours! Surely I am smarter when empowered by bird song ❤️
April 1, 2025 at 8:54 AM
You can say a lot of good things about my office, but who even knew that the BEST of them is having a Common Kestrel and her chicks as my neighbours! Surely I am smarter when empowered by bird song ❤️
Next project is also all about plants. Come to Moesgaard next week if you want to support a student run association and would like to hear me wax poetic about archaeobotany!
April 1, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Next project is also all about plants. Come to Moesgaard next week if you want to support a student run association and would like to hear me wax poetic about archaeobotany!