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Antiquity Journal@antiquity.ac.uk · 4w ago

How are new methods encouraging us to rethink the monument-building societies of Neolithic Europe? 'Megalithic societies: old questions, new narratives' explores the advances in the last 20 years of research. Reviewed in the latest #NewBookChronicle 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

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The Dead Coexisted With The Living In The Deep Past. Now Scientists Want To Understand Why We Stopped Burying Our Loved Ones At Home

“We found that burying the dead in or near houses was not an unusual practice but a widespread way of keeping ancestors physically connected to everyday life,” said archaeologist Sabina Cveček to IFLS...

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🌟 New Publication! Comparing 60 ethnographic cultures and 49 archaeological cases, we show that residential burial—the placement of the dead within or near houses—was far more common archaeologically (with Tim Earle, Carol Ember, Gary Feinman & Bill Parkinson). @hraf755.bsky.social bit.ly/4c4WRK1

Funerary Placement in the Past and Present: Uses of Ethnographic Analogy for Archaeological Interpretation | American Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Funerary Placement in the Past and Present: Uses of Ethnographic Analogy for Archaeological Interpretation

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🌟Lovely to see our paper as Paper of the Month in Cambridge Archaeologcial Journal! If you have not yet, check it out 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Cambridge University Press - Archaeology@cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org · 4mo ago

April's Paper of the Month from Cambridge Archaeological Journal is "Kinship Trouble: What, When, Where, Why, and How—and So What?" by Sabina Cveček, Maanasa Raghavan and Penny Bickle, available #openaccess! 📚 https://cup.org/494HTCm #PaperOfTheMonth @cam-archaeology.bsky.social

Really excited to see this great collaboration or in the world!!

Engaging with palaeogenomics beyond the lab

As ancient DNA (aDNA) science enters a new phase of computational and institutional power, what should social scientists and humanities scholars focus on? This article identifies questions that exami....

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🚜 "If you still have some budget left, buy a tractor. Tractors work best!" This is the advice @repasi.bsky.social, a member of the @europarl.europa.eu, shared with the members of the Marie Curie Alumni Association at the Annual Conference in Brussels last week. #science

🌸 Kinship Trouble isn’t a crisis—it’s an opportunity: to rethink kinship through collaborative and interdisciplinary research across archaeology, ancient DNA, and socio-cultural anthropology. With @pennybickle.bsky.social & Maanasa Raghavan @genscapelab.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Very happy to see this special issue published! It was lovely working with @genshinimpact-en.bsky.social, @pennybickle.bsky.social on this! 👇

Jennifer Raff@jenniferraff.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our paper is part of a special issue of Cambridge Archaeology Journal, "Kinship Trouble", organized by @pennybickle.bsky.social, @genscapelab.bsky.social (Maanasa Raghavan), and @sabinacvecek.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🌟Kinship Trouble: Virtual Launch🌟 Join us on Tuesday, 14 April at 5pm CET/4pm BST/11am ET. Register below. We will present our special issue in Cambridge Archaeological Journal, co-edited w @pennybickle.bsky.social & @genscapelab.bsky.social #archaeology #anthropology therai.org.uk/events/cambr...

✨Heading to New Orleans next week to deliver a talk within the American Institute of Archaeology (@archaeological.org) National Lecture series at Tulane University (@tulaneu.bsky.social). #archaeology #anthropology events.tulane.edu/content/clas...

Excited to announce that my post doc, Sasha Kaurov, and I are launching reckoningscience.org/launching-re... Please take a look, read, and subscribe! All proceeds will go to supporting the underfed post-doc.

Launching Reckoning Science

We believe in science and its achievements, but also in the need to examine how it is actually made, including its limits and its entanglements with politics, money, and power.

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"The solution to technology is not more technology. The solution to loneliness is each other, a wealth that should be available to most of us most of the time." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in @theguardian.com with a must read www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit

The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collectiv...

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Brown-pigmented hand stencils found on the walls of caves on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and dated to at least 67,800 years ago may be the oldest known examples of rock art in the world. https://scim.ag/45pM61P

These ancient handprints may represent some of the world’s first rock art

Hand stencils from a Southeast Asian cave predate Neanderthal cave art from Europe

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🌟 It was a great honor and pleasure to present my reserach at @arf-ucb.bsky.social at the UC Berkeley in November. Many thanks to everyone for making this happen, a warm welcome, and a great conversation on kinship, archaeology, and thinking beyond genetics. #archaeology #anthropology #ancientDNA

Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley@arf-ucb.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Our November lecture by Sabina Cveček is online www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyhv...

🌟 New publication! Infant burials at Barcın Höyük & Lepenski Vir show age-based, not genetic, patterns—suggesting delayed personhood and kin-making cradled by architecture. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... With Fokke Gerritsen, Yılmaz Erdal, Sofija Stefanović & @aycaaydogan.bsky.social et al.

Cradled by architecture: infancy and delayed personhood in Neolithic Anatolia and the Balkans

Children, especially infants, are integral to human communities, but how they are perceived varies across societies. This study examines infancy at the late seventh millennium Neolithic sites of Ba...

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<dusts off the ol' blog> to say something about "celebrating science" in the age of AI & current political context. EVEN THOUGH I HAD OTHER THINGS I WANTED TO DO THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND. mammalssuck.blogspot.com/2025/11/if-y...

If you like milk science...

<dusts off the ol’ blog> On Thanksgiving, a Facebook “human interest story pages” dropped an essay about mother’s milk and me as a milk rese...

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“data show an increase of 10% in submissions & 23% in funded projects from female applicants with the lottery-first approach compared to a previously used procedure. Additionally, the lottery-first approach was estimated to have 68% lower economic costs compared to single-stage peer review approach”

Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced estimated economic cost in a German funding line - Nature Communications

The authors show evidence from a German funding line that a lottery-first approach followed by peer review is accompanied by increased female representation both at the submission stage and among fund...

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🙌 Excited about tomorrow's talk and a round table on "Interpreting Ancient DNA" moderated by Meg Conkey at the Archaeological Research Facility - Berkeley. If you are in the Bay Area, join us! @arf-ucb.bsky.social #archaeology #anthropology #ancientDNA events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/31...

Interpreting Ancient DNA: A Panel Discussion

Ancient DNA studies have been exploding in the last decades and have yielded a large range of provocative and revelatory interpretations, not just ...

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‘Young people can come in and have life-changing moments’: Gus Casely-Hayford on V&A East, a new museum for Gen Z

‘Young people can come in and have life-changing moments’: Gus Casely-Hayford on V&A East, a new museum for Gen Z

The director wants London’s long-awaited institution to ignite creative passion in the Gen Z visitors it’s aimed at. As he unveils the building and its contents, can he pull it off?

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🏃🏾‍♂️🏃‍♀️Chicago Marathon may be famous but today’s Hot Chocolate Run was Delicious! #Chicago #Running #Autumn #HotChocolate

“Care for the dead has long been a way of defining what it means to be human,” @theprofrog.bsky.social writes in Graveyards. Read an excerpt in @literaryhub.bsky.social:

The Ancient Burial Rituals That Have Shaped How We Treat Our Dead

In 1907, Robert Hertz, a French sociologist of religion, published an influential essay called “A Contribution to the Study of the Collective Representation of Death.” He argued that in most human …

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The Paper of the Month from Cambridge Archaeological Journal is "Turning-the-edge, Tranchet, and Social Signalling at Boxgrove" by Ceri Shipton et al., available #openaccess! 📚 https://cup.org/3Wwdk1R #PaperOfTheMonth

1/2 SACNAS 2025 Columbus, Ohio we are in you!! Come talk to the team about anything you see below! Dr. Matt Anderson from UWisconsin, Dr. Krystal Tsosie from ASU, & many more Indigenous Thinkers for #IDSov in our famous "Network of Networks". We have been blazing a trail & not stopping anytime soon!

🌟Delighted to see our collaborative paper integrating ethnography, archaeology, and ancient DNA published! It has been a joy brining such wonderful scholars together in #Vienna last year. Hopefully, the insights prove to be useful accross disciplinary boundaries. @oeaw.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social

Katharina Rebay-Salisbury@rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Happy to announce that reflections on our workshop about non-biological kinship in Vienna last year is already published! @anahcorral.bsky.social @sabinacvecek.bsky.social www.sciepublish.com/article/pii/...

🌎 Coming soon to Chicago! On 6–7 Nov 2025, the Field Museum hosts the first MCAA Regional Meeting in North America 🏛️ Talks, roundtables & career sessions on MSCA & ERC funding. Join us to connect minds across continents! bit.ly/42ZgU8o #MCAA #MSCA #FieldMuseum #Chicago

🌟A powerful call for Writing In Community🌟 Inspired by archaeology, it centers care, joy, & #Collaboration over hierarchy & isolation. A refreshing & necessary vision for how #Anthropology (and academia) can do better producing knowledge together👇 anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library

As anthropology reckons with its past, present, and future, anthropologists increasingly seek to challenge inequities within the discipline and academia more broadly. Anthropology, regardless of subd...

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🌟 Honored that my book Çukuriçi Höyük 4 (ÖAW Press, 2022) was reviewed by Dr. Daniel J. Pullen in Journal of Near Eastern Studies (@uchicagopress.bsky.social ): “Her socio-cultural anthropological perspective is one of the great strengths of this study.” #anthropology 📕 Open access 👉 bit.ly/4nZJJtr

🌟 Excited to hit the road soon as part of the Archaeological Institute of America’s National Lecture Program — honored to be one of this year’s National Lecturers! bit.ly/4n9YrgN I'll speak and meet colleagues in #Milwaukee (WI), #Spokane (WA) & #NewOrleans (LA)! @archaeological.org #archaeology

Sabina Cveček  - Archaeological Institute of America

AIA National Lecture Program Lecturer Sabina Cveček

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🚪 A reminder of the power of open doors! I’ve written a blog about my ASciNA (Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America) mentoring experience. Grateful to @walterscheidel.bsky.social & @univie.ac.at for helping make a difference across continents 🌍 bit.ly/4fJM0Gc

The Power of Open Doors: My Experience with the ASciNA Mentoring Program

Winning the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellowship has been a major milestone in my career, allowing me to pursue research I am passionate about and relocate to Chicago…

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