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Martin Fera

@archaeosphera.bsky.social

Archaeologist | Aerial Archaeology | Archaeological Prospection | Digital Archaeology | My own views, on old things and new ones.

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The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 5d ago

Google rolled out a new feature that let anyone generate AI images and superimpose them onto satellite maps of the real world. Just hours later, Google backtracked on the feature, after people had seized on it to create alarming, realistic fake scenes.

See how Google Earth let people make fake scenes of bombings, riots and destruction

Google put on hold an AI feature in Google Earth just hours after it was introduced. People used it to create AI-manipulated aerial views of horrific scenes.

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Antiquity Journal@antiquity.ac.uk · 3w ago

Read the new research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

The identification and work of an eighth-century Maya mathematician | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

The identification and work of an eighth-century Maya mathematician

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Anthropology.net@anthropology.net · 3w ago

A Maya scribe signed his math homework 1,245 years ago. Buried in a Xultun workroom, a formula tracking Venus and Mars closes with a name: White-chested Fox, the first known Classic Maya mathematician credited by name. #Archaeology #MayaCivilization #AncientAstronomy @antiquity.ac.uk

MOIRES@moires-textiles.bsky.social · 4mo ago

👗🪡 Séminaire/Seminar : "Visualizing garments: From fragments to archaeological reconstructions" 📅 15.04.2026 - 15:00-17:00 (CET) 📍En personne au CTR (Université de Copenhague, DK)/In person at the CTR (University of Copenhagen, DK) + En ligne sur Zoom/Online via Zoom ℹ️ moires.hypotheses.org/8355

Séminaire : “Visualizing garments: From fragments to archaeological reconstructions”

[English version below] Dans le cadre du projet “Fashioning Sudan”, le séminaire “Visualizing garments: From fragments to archaeological reconstructions” aura lieu le mercredi 15 avril 2026 de 15h00 à...

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Martin Fera@archaeosphera.bsky.social · 5mo ago

From LiDAR visualisation to automated detection of archaeological features. Lecture by Žiga Kokalj on ALS/LiDAR, the Relief Visualisation Toolbox (RVT) and machine learning for detecting features such as barrows, ringforts and enclosures. 🗓️ 26 March 2026, 18:00–20:00 📍 Vienna + online Details in🧵↓

Lecture poster showing a stylized robotic head beside a terrain map with highlighted circular features. Text announces “From RVT visualisations to automated detection with ADAF,” a talk by Žiga Kokalj hosted by the Austrian Society for Prehistory and Early History.
Antiquity Journal@antiquity.ac.uk · 5mo ago

Check out the responses 👇 2/2 Christian Isendahl ➡️ doi.org/10.15184/aqy... @sarahkerr.bsky.social ➡️ doi.org/10.15184/aqy... & the authors' final response: doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Four challenges for usable/applied archaeologies

Here, we respond to the useful comments from Kerr and Isendahl by clarifying four core elements of our argument. We frame these as four challenges for the future of usable archaeologies and hope they prove helpful in refining how archaeology might contribute meaningfully to contemporary global issues.

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Tom Higham@tommyhigham.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Kick off your week with the latest #HEASVienna seminar, this time in Ancient Genomics, with Dr Elena Zavala who will be talking about sediment DNA and humans! Can't wait! Tomorrow 1030 am CE time! More information and registration below: 👇 www.heas.at/events/heas-...

HEAS Seminar Series - Ancient Genomics - HEAS

As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Ancient Genomics, Elena Irene Zavala from the University of Copenhagen will give a talk on Human Identification with Sediment DNA on the 23rd February 2026 at 10:...

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Annika Brockschmidt@ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Wenn ihr eine Minute Zeit habt, unterschreibt diese Petition gegen die mittelfristige Schließung des Archäologischen Instituts an der HU Berlin im Rahmen der Sparmaßnahmen:

Schließung des Instituts für Archäologie an der HU-Berlin

Die Archäologie gehört seit fast 200 Jahren zur wissenschaftlichen Tradition der Humboldt-Universität. Ihre Schließung bedeutet den Abbruch einer gewachsenen Forschungstradition und eine dauerhafte Sc...

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Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Saving new Roman era footprints 👣 “The team of archaeologists worked in wind gusts up to 55 mph, racing to document the prints as the site was eroded...They used drones, cameras and, later in the lab, 3D modeling software to record images of the archaeological site.” by Dr. @killgrove.bsky.social

In a 'race against time,' archaeologists uncovered Roman-era footprints from a Scottish beach before the tide washed them away

Archaeologists raced against the tide to record a unique set of footprints made 2,000 years ago on a Scottish beach.

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The New York Times@nytimes.com · 7mo ago

A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her back with a broom, the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows. “Perhaps the absurd thing was not the absurdity of a cow using tools," one researcher said, "but the absurdity of us never thinking that a cow might be intelligent.”

Cows Use Tools, Too, New Study Finds

A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows, researchers say.

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Dr. Maxi Maria Platz@minuseins.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Skeptischer Rückblick auf Erich von Dänikens Tätigkeit. Er hat eine Schar "Jünger" in zweiter und dritter "Generation" herangezogen, die seine Ideen weiter fröhlich in die Welt tragen. Wir werden diesen Schwurbel nicht los...auch wenn der "Meister" im hohen Alter im Kreise seiner Lieben verstarb.

Skeptix@skeptix.org · 7mo ago

📰 | Erich von Däniken: Der „glückliche Fantast“ ist tot Mit Erich von Däniken ist eine in Skeptikerkreisen heiß diskutierte Figur gestorben. Bernd wirft einen Blick zurück auf seine Überzeugungen und die Debatten, die um sie entbrannt sind.

HEAS@heasvienna.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We are looking forward to welcoming @benceviola.bsky.social back to Vienna for the first #HEASSeminar in the 2025-2026 series in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic. @univie.ac.at More information and registration on our website 👇🔗

HEAS Seminar Series - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic - HEAS

As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic Bence Viola from the University of Toronto will give a talk on Teeth, Genes, and Taxonomy – fifteen years of Denisovan discov...

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