Excavation season has brought our archaeologists back to the Azykh Cave in Azerbaijan! Located in the South Caucasus, Azykh is a promising site for researching the Middle Palaeolithic and possible Neanderthal remains. #archaeology

It is always a great feeling returning to places that shaped your early academic years. Toumba excavation is definitely one of them. A big thank you to Prof. Sevi Triantafyllou from AUTH for hosting LMU students for their internship, creating 3D models of Bronze Age pottery using photogrammetry.

Palaeolithic archaeologists ⬇️

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Owen Boswarva@owenboswarva.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"AI is likely the most significant technology in human history," says Kanishka Narayan MP, the UK's new Minister for Artificial Intelligence, in a Linkedin post www.linkedin.com/posts/kanish... #techpolicy #AIpolicy #PPEOxford #koolaid

🌾 Un estudi de l'ICAC i el Grup d’Humanitats Computacionals del Centre de Supercomputació de Barcelona, publicat a Journal of Archaeological Science, mostra que els models 3D classifiquen grans d'ordi, identificant-ne l'origen i les varietats. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🏆 Top-ranked: LMU Munich is the best German #university in this year’s Center for World University Ranking (CWUR). Within the EU, #LMU ranks 8th and globally 51st among the 21,291 universities assessed. Congratulations! 🙌 🎉 #LMUMunich #CWUR #Ranking

Couldn't be prouder of my former PhD student Danai Theodoraki, who just published her thesis on Neolithic Franchthi and high-res climate variability! 🥳 books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de//propylaeum/... @leizarchaeology.bsky.social @unimainz.bsky.social

Join us! 🤩 arup-cas.github.io/atrium-schoo...

At LMU Munich, the M.A. in Digital Cultural Heritage equips students with the skills to document and analyze past human societies and material culture using digital and computational approaches 🏛️💻 📅Application deadline: June 15. 🎓 Taught in English | No tuition fees www.kw.lmu.de/dch/en/study...

About the Program

Learn more about profile and intended learning outcomes of the Master's program Digital Cultural Heritage.

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Excited to co-organize an amazing training school this September in Brno! 🎉 From 14–18 September 2026, we’re bringing together curious minds to explore how computer vision and machine learning are transforming archaeology. Don’t miss it, apply now and join us ☺️ arup-cas.github.io/atrium-schoo...

It was a pleasure representing @lmu.de at the second EXCALIBUR meeting in Sant'Antioco, Sardinia, Italy. Talking with colleagues in archaeology, cultural heritage, and computer science is always exciting, especially when exploring new ways to advance our field and tackle shared challenges.

🚀 Historic achievement for ICArEHB! We’ve secured €31.5M to launch UAlgTec Heritage, a pioneering European centre for innovation in archaeological heritage. Proud of our team and excited for what comes next! #ICArEHB #UAlgTecHeritage #HeritageTech #UAlg #Portugal

OUT NOW! Advances in Digital Archaeology: Proceedings of the 2023 conference Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology – 50 years of synergy 📚 Read online for free or purchase a printed copy at https://www.sidestone.com/books/advances-in-digital-archaeology

What better way to teach 3D scanning than with lithic artifacts? 😍 Many thanks to @jmarreiros.bsky.social and @tracer-leiza.bsky.social for sharing experimental lithics and helping make this hands-on learning experience possible with the Artec Spider scanner. www.kw.lmu.de/dch/en/news-...

Another fantastic CAA! I had the chance to present the final paper of my PhD, enjoy insightful papers, and reconnect with both new and old colleagues. Huge thanks to @guillermo-bustos.bsky.social for co-chairing Session #13, sparking such an interesting discussion and Q&A. #IDCH #LMU

Finally, I’m attending the #CAA2026Vienna with my team of talented researchers from the @lmu.de Institute for #DigitalCulturalHeritageStudies. Go #DigitalArchaelogy!

Sedimentary ancient DNA is seriously shaking up how we study the past, and I'm very happy to be quoted in this Nature feature😅. Cool piece on sedaDNA, what it can do and where things get messy (literally, in the dirt) @erc.europa.eu @matrixerc.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social

ERC-StG MATRIX@matrixerc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The latest issue of Nature features a deep dive into sedimentary ancient DNA, with insights from our Matrix ERC-StG PI, @veraaldeias.bsky.social highlighting some of the big challenges shaping the field right now.

Digitizing the Past: 3D Scanning Egyptian Artifacts in Munich www.kw.lmu.de/dch/en/news-...

Digitizing the Past: 3D Scanning Egyptian Artifacts in Munich

Students at the 2026 Winter School digitally captured ancient Egyptian artifacts, transforming history into high-precision 3D models.

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🏆 LMU Munich remains at the forefront: Status as #UniversityofExcellence confirmed – as decided by an international jury within the framework of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments. Read more here:

LMU Munich remains at the forefront: Status as University of Excellence confirmed

Within the framework of the nationwide Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments, LMU has once again successfully asserted itself, further consolidating its status as one of Euro...

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The #CAA2026 program, schedule, and abstract booklet have all been published! You can access them all here: https://2026.caaconference.org/program/

1/4 New recommendation: Courtenay et al. (2026). Computational simulations of potential Pachycrocuta bite damage based on a ~1.2 Ma ravaged hippopotamus femur from Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Granada, Spain). V2 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI #Archaeology doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🏺🧪🦣

3/4 Recommended by Anastasia Eleftheriadou based on reviews by Sebastián Yrarrázaval, Mathieu Quenu, and @jamesmulqueeney.bsky.social. All editorial work accessible here: doi.org/10.24072/pci...

I was recently interviewed by @opensciencenl.bsky.social about my work on interoperability in the social sciences and humanities, and why it matters: www.openscience.nl/en/news/soci...

PhD defence ✅️ a big thank you to my awesome supervisors, @jmarreiros.bsky.social and Dr. Shannon McPherron, for all their support, guidance and trust!

I will give a workshop at this event, where you can build stuff with Lego to learn about interoperability! So if you want to learn more about the I in FAIR (or just want an excuse to play with Lego), go pre-register below ⬇️

DANS@dans-knaw-nwo.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The DANS Open Day is happening again on 11 June 2026! Explore open science, FAIR data, sensitive data and more. Visit the info market and meet our experts. Pre-register now for early programme updates: edu.nl/aanc7

Working with Open Source 12 February 2026, 2:00 pm–3:30 pm Discover how open-source tools can transform your research. A roundtable for PhD students and Early Career Researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Working with Open Source

Discover how open-source tools can transform your research. A roundtable for PhD students and Early Career Researchers.

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👾🏺 This week we are hosting a week-long #DigitalArchaeology #maintainathon, an opportunity to clean, document and revise older code together! If you’re a #ComputationalArchaeology *st take this time to update your README, add code comments, write a unit tests or consolidate your project roadmap […]

I am so excited being part of the LMU team led by @nicolalercari.bsky.social in the EXCALIBUR Horizon Project ( excalibur-eccch.eu ), where we develop open-source, cost-effective digital tools powered by AI/ML collaboratively with archaeologists, bioanthropologists, and conservators.

Happy to share the new virtual collection of comparative anatomy, SKELETONS ONLINE (cor.iphes.cat). The specimens come from the comparative anatomy collection of @iphes-cerca.bsky.social , in Tarragona (Spain). Please, use it and share!!!

Check out our new publication on the challenges faced by African scholars, especially early-career researchers. *Against All Odds: An Archaeologist's Journey in Africa* Ethiopia, Sudan, Zimbabwe and South Africa collaboration #EX NOVO Journal archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.php/…

Today, we’re launching our new #DigitalHeritage guest speaker series @lmumuenchen.bsky.social #AcademicSky with my talk on investigating invisible ancient cities with #remotesensing and #AI www.kw.lmu.de/dch/en/news-...

Remote Sensing and AI Approaches for Investigating the Invisible Poleis of Heloros and Kamarina, Sicily

Within the LMU Munich’s Digital Heritage Research Colloquium Public Lectures Series

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