Jens Notroff
@jensnotroff.com
#Archaeologist🏺, got a hat (no whip though). Once known as "Yunus" among Bedouins. Demanding a revival of the venerable profession of the #ExpeditionPainter👨🎨. 🔗 jensnotroff.com 🔗 trowelandpen.com
Heading to the airport now and looking forward to my first time in Berlin and first time at the European PPAs! If you’re a presenter who is interested in media coverage, hit me up! 🧪🏺
DAI@dai-weltweit.bsky.social · last wk.💬 #Conference: Next week our Natural Sciences division is inviting to #ppa26Berlin - the 25th European Paleopathology meeting taking place every two years. 🗓️ 03.-07.08.26 📍Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus, Berlin 🏺 Full programme and further info: www.dainst.org/en/the-25th-...
🏺 Wie sprechen wir über archäologische #Objekte und wie können wir ihre Daten besser vernetzen? Am 12. August, 13 Uhr, stellt Victoria Biesterfeld die AG #Archäologiethesaurus und den Archäologischen Objektbezeichnungsthesaurus (AOT) vor. ℹ️ Alle Informationen: www.nfdi4objects.net/events/n4o_a...
Can confirm (it's OA)
Negotiating Migrations
As a species, we have always been mobile and migration was a habitual feature of prehistoric life. This open-access volume uses archaeological case studies main…
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Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · yesterdayFor millennia migration was just a standard thing for humans.
Smoking gun: "Ancient #DNA [from Chilean mummies] confirms historical accounts of how #smallpox got to the #Americas" (Spoiler: It's exactly who you might've been suspected.) 🏺🧬 www.science.org/content/arti... by @lizziewade.bsky.social via @science.org
Ancient DNA confirms historical accounts of how smallpox got to the Americas
“Landmark” paper finds disease originated with European contact
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⚠️⚠️⚠️ Die Sächsische Denkmalpflege / Landesarchäologie wird durch Umstrukturierung geschwächt und das wunderbare Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz #SMAC von seinem Fundament, der Sammlung, abgetrennt. Bitte unterzeichnen und teilen! petition.landtag.sachsen.de/petitionen/c...
Denkmalpflege in Sachsen sichern – Einheit der Archäologie bewahren
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Really looking forward to meet @killgrove.bsky.social, Sabrina Scholts, anthrofuentes.bsky.social, and Johannes Krause - and to discuss this as well as further questions on the ethics and implications of archaeological and anthropologic research from aDNA to zeitgeist.
DAI@dai-weltweit.bsky.social · last wk.Including an open event on Wednesday, 05.08.26 evening: Join "The Future is Written in Bones", a public roundtable discussion on how #anthropologists can, could, and have reshaped our understanding of what it means to be #human. cfp.dainst.org/25th-europea...
Welche «Wahrheiten» produziert KI? Die höchst sehenswerte Keynote meines hochgeschätzten ZHdK-Kollegen Felix Stalder auf der Tagung «Schreibt KI Geschichte?», die Anfang Juni am Haus der Wannseekonferenz @wannseekonferenz.bsky.social stattfand, ist jetzt online www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXRA...
Analyse und Generierung. Die Wahrheiten der Künstlichen Intelligenz. Prof. Dr. Felix Stalder, Zürich
YouTube video by Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz
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Say what you want about mobile work, but I definitely had worse offices. 😀😉
Important female individuals and "shamans" in past societies is of course neither a surprise nor new and this debate's a good reason to reconsider our perception of more such burials and finds: trowelandpen-com.translate.goog/2025/07/30/v... (automatic English translation, original text in German)
Von wegen blond: Wie anhaltende Forschung andauernd unser Bild der Vergangenheit verändert
Aus einer gewissen Affinität zu Comics, zu solchen mit archäologischen Themen sowieso, habe ich an dieser Stelle ja keinen Hehl gemacht. Da sollte es wenig wundern, dass ich, natürlich, auch an der…
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Jens Notroff@jensnotroff.com · 5d agoThe #BronzeAge #UptonLovellShaman's burial in Wiltshire has long been considered an important religious figure & metalworker. It's been barely questioned someone of such status must be male. But now #aDNA analysis revealed that the body is in fact: a woman. 🏺 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The #BronzeAge #UptonLovellShaman's burial in Wiltshire has long been considered an important religious figure & metalworker. It's been barely questioned someone of such status must be male. But now #aDNA analysis revealed that the body is in fact: a woman. 🏺 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on ancient DNA: a female shaman exposes our flawed assumptions about the past | Editorial
Editorial: Thanks to new technology we are are acquiring insights into earlier times, and realising how little we truly know
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Two birds one stone: Sensationeller Zuwachs in Sachen #Eiszeitkunst auf der #SchwäbischenAlb! 🏺🐦
DER SPIEGEL@spiegel.de · last wk.Auf der Schwäbischen Alb haben Forscher die ältesten figürlichen Kunstwerke der Welt entdeckt. Nun gruben sie zwei filigran gearbeitete Tierfiguren aus. Was verraten sie über das Leben vor 40.000 Jahren?
Including an open event on Wednesday, 05.08.26 evening: Join "The Future is Written in Bones", a public roundtable discussion on how #anthropologists can, could, and have reshaped our understanding of what it means to be #human. cfp.dainst.org/25th-europea...
If you’ve seen this article, you may be sitting with anger, pain, or just exhaustion at dealing with another helping of colonial nonsense. We feel a responsibility to speak back when these colonizing narratives show up, yet again, in such a prominent venue. endangeredlanguages.com/story/respon...
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 2w agoThe idea that we have a special duty to prevent the death of languages is instantly compelling to anyone who loves languages. But is it true? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
A tornado of archaeology #scicomm awesomeness!! 🔥🔥
Jens Notroff@jensnotroff.com · last wk.Really looking forward to meet @killgrove.bsky.social, Sabrina Scholts, anthrofuentes.bsky.social, and Johannes Krause - and to discuss this as well as further questions on the ethics and implications of archaeological and anthropologic research from aDNA to zeitgeist.
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Huge congratulations, @katharv.bsky.social; very well earned! 👏👏👏
Katerina Harvati@katharv.bsky.social · last wk.Incredibly honored to be selected as the recipient of the 2026 Albert Einstein World Award of Science! Thank you to the selection committee, team members, partners &institutions supporting me @sgn.one @dfg.de @erc.europa.eu @unituebingen.bsky.social www.consejoculturalmundial.org/news/winner-...
Really looking forward to meet @killgrove.bsky.social, Sabrina Scholts, anthrofuentes.bsky.social, and Johannes Krause - and to discuss this as well as further questions on the ethics and implications of archaeological and anthropologic research from aDNA to zeitgeist.
DAI@dai-weltweit.bsky.social · last wk.Including an open event on Wednesday, 05.08.26 evening: Join "The Future is Written in Bones", a public roundtable discussion on how #anthropologists can, could, and have reshaped our understanding of what it means to be #human. cfp.dainst.org/25th-europea...
Explore the past through sketching with artist Janet Swailes ✏️ Book Here: tr.ee/NxQGEX A half day session exploring archaeology, local history and the Eden Valley Landscape. Materials provided | A gentle 1.2 km route | No experience needed @cotswoldarch.bsky.social
Archaeologists in #Mexico have identified two #Indigenous settlements that remained inhabited after the #SpanishConquest, shedding new light on the survival of native communities during the early colonial period: 🏺 www.heritagedaily.com/2026/07/two-...
Two indigenous communities that survived the Spanish conquest discovered in Mexico
Archaeologists in Mexico have identified two Indigenous settlements that remained inhabited after the Spanish conquest, shedding new light on the survival of native communities during the early coloni...
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Always and again happily overwhelmed by the sheer creativity our excavation work and research sparked - like this wonderful little picture book by illustrator Ayşe İnan, sent to me by a dear friend from Türkiye. 🤩 www.yapikrediyayinlari.com.tr/gobeklitepe-...
Ab Donnerstag können rund 350 Millionen EU-Bürger:innen mitentscheiden, wie ihre Geldscheine künftig aussehen sollen. Auf der Webseite der Europäischen Zentralbank (EZB) sind die Motivvorschläge veröffentlicht worden. Bis zum 21. September kann die Umfrage ausgefüllt werden. rbburl.de/geldscheineneu
Read the new research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
The anonymous protagonist? Agency and abstraction in Kyushu decorated tombs of the Japanese Late Kofun period | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
The anonymous protagonist? Agency and abstraction in Kyushu decorated tombs of the Japanese Late Kofun period
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Anthropology.net@anthropology.net · 2w agoIn Kyushu’s 6th-7th century tombs, horses are painted with sex, detail, and individuality. The humans riding them? Faceless stick figures. A new @antiquity.ac.uk study argues this wasn’t a lack of skill, it was the point. #Archaeology #Kofun www.anthropology.net/p/in-kyushus...
For International Moon Day: the Declaration of the Rights of the Moon. #IMD2026
Declaration of the Rights of the Moon – Australian Earth Laws Alliance
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Listen in to Alan chat with @jensnotroff.com all about the iconography at the site of Göbekli Tepe!
Took the whole crew out to a little @starfield.bethesdastudios.com detour to celebrate #MoonDay. Obviously. 👋😉
⚖️This week, the world’s highest court’s historic ruling clarifying States’ responsibility on climate change turns 1️⃣ year old. Together with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights opinion, the ICJ climate ruling marked a significant moment for climate justice & #IndigenousPeoples' rights. A 🧵
