Check out my new app for quantifying multiple archaeological wealth proxies and inequality! Also calculates "exclusivity" of grave goods/features, category bias, and gives dynamic overviews of all stored atlas results, and you can add your own results! quantwealth.eu Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

Paper of the month! :)

Cambridge University Press - Archaeology@cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org · 9mo ago

The Paper of the Month from @saa-aap.bsky.social is "Gamifying the Past: Embodied LLMs in DIY Archaeological Video Games" by Mikkel Nørtoft, Daniela Hofmann and Rune Iversen, available #openaccess! 📚 https://cup.org/4sKOtWR #Archaeology #AAP #PaperOfTheMonth

So, if you are an @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social (EAA) member from 2025-2026, you received yesterday your email for the per-rollam vote of the past Special Meeting and the documentation attached to it… if you still doubt what to vote, please read all the documents. My short digest:

Following yesterday's EAA Special Meeting, I have submitted a complaint to the EAA Appeal and Anti-Harassment Committee. I post it here, with names redacted, for any members who were not present. Thank you so much to everyone who has reached out with messages of solidarity and support 🙏💓🙏

Our paper about how archaeologists can now create their own 3D video games with research-grounded AI-powered characters is officially published in Advances in Archaeological Practice. doi.org/10.1017/aap.... Demo of our game: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h4K... Thanks to Rune Iversen & Daniela Hofmann

Rebecca Bristow and I had a great experience on Zeenat Haroon's Let's Dig Deeper podcast talking about AI in archaeology recorded in May but out today 🙂 #letsdigdeeper Listen on your favourite podcast app here: rss.com/podcasts/let...

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In this episode of Let's Dig Deeper, we're talking all things AI and archaeology!To help me learn more, I've invited Rebecca Bristow (PhD-student at UCPH) and Mikkel Nørtoft (Postdoc at UCPH) into the...

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Our paper on our new archaeological DIY video game (created by me) with freely conversing characters is accepted for publication in Advances in Archaeological Practice 2025, and they let me share it while they do layout etc. Check it at www.academia.edu/143177364. Big thanks to @saa-aap.bsky.social

Gamifying the past: embodied LLMs in DIY archaeological video games

Accepted for 2025 publication in Advances in Archaeological Practice, please cite as: Nørtoft, Mikkel; Hofmann, Daniela; Iversen, Rune. “Gamifying the past: embodied LLMs in DIY archaeological video g...

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For my DFF project "Unearthing Social Echelons", this weekend in Kiel, I and Martin Furholt held the seminar "Holistic approaches to Prehistoric Wealth and Inequality". 21 presentations from researchers in 7 countries. Thanks to all participants, co-organizers, and DFF for making this happen.

Here's our new preprint about our Emerging Researchers Network (ERN) in the UCPH School of Archaeology fostering a culture of mutual ECR support within and across institutes and faculties, breaking down structural barriers, our deeds, vision, and future plans. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Emerging Researchers Network (ERN) of the University of Copenhagen School of Archaeology

PDF | The Emerging Researchers Network (ERN) was established in 2023 as an extension of the University of Copenhagen's School of Archaeology (SoA),... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

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The Durotriges An Iron Age people with women at the centre of power, kinship and land ownership A great report on our joint @tcddublin.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social research project by @spoke32.bsky.social in @science.org 😊👍 www.science.org/content/arti...

Part of ancient Britain was a woman’s world, burials reveal

2000-year-old graves suggest women wielded as much—and sometimes more—power than men in some Celtic tribes

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This one's a banger www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Sun stones and the darkened sun: Neolithic miniature art from the island of Bornholm, Denmark | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Sun stones and the darkened sun: Neolithic miniature art from the island of Bornholm, Denmark

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