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Passend zum vorangegangenen Post sei auf die kommende Woche zum 19. Mitteldeutschen Archäologentag vom @landesmuseumhalle.bsky.social organisierte Tagung "𝗙𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆: 𝗙𝗮̈𝗹𝘀𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗻𝗴, 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴 𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵𝘁𝘀𝗸𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮̈𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲" an @unihalle.bsky.social hingewiesen: 👉 www.lda-lsa.de/mda19

Screenshot der Tagungsgrafik: Ein Menschenaffe blickt auf einen Schädel in seiner Hand, im Hintergrund sind antike Säulen zu sehen. In roter Schrift ist quer über der Mitte des Bildes "Fake!" zu lesen, darunter: "Fake Prehistory: Fälschung, Betrug und Geschichtsklitterung in der Archäologie. 19. Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag in Halle (Saale)".

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 28/09/2026

Puh, schwierige Frage. Für das Projekt #AntikeBefragen der Klass. #Archäologie an der @unibonn.bsky.social durfte ich mir ein paar Gedanken zur Publikumsfrage danach machen, was wir eigentlich aus der Antike für unsere jetzige politische Weltlage lernen können: 🏺 www.iak.uni-bonn.de/de/institut/...

Bildkachel. Weiße und gelbe Schrift auf blauem Grund:

Jens Notroff beantwortet eure Frage:

Was können wir aus der Antike für unsere jetzige politische Weltlage lernen? Vor allem im Hinblick darauf, dass im Moment überall auf der Welt die lauten populistischen und ungebildeten Männer wieder an die Macht kommen...

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 28/09/2026

Eissaison geht auch langsam in den (Jahres-)Endspurt …

Foto kleiner Schildchen, auf denen Eissorten gelistet sind. Hier: Spekulatius mit Cranberrys und Lebkuchen.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 21/09/2026

Timeline Cleanse: Neuer #Sandmännchen-Vorspann mit einem #Naturkundemuseum, das sehr verdächtig nach @mfnberlin.bsky.social aussieht. 😉 📺 www.ardmediathek.de/video/unser-...

Screenshot: Das Sandmännchen in einem Museumsraum mit zwei rekonstruierten Dinosaurierskelleten auf zwei Beinen sowie einer Glasvitrine mit Triceratops-Schädel. Links im Bild zwei Kinder und eine Frau an einer Sandkiste.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 20/09/2026

😂 Ich mag auch den hier von Jim Benton:

Zitrone in einem Kerzenkreis und Pentagram. Daneben ein Zauberer, der verärgert auf eine Schriftrolle schaut, auf der "How to summon a lemon" in Kursivschrift steht, so dass das geschwungene l wie ein d aussieht.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 20/09/2026

Yes, right there on the other side of the road, opposite the Mosaik Museum. 👍

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 19/09/2026

Checking Turkish Airlines' onboard entertainment programme like … 🫣😂

Selfie in front of a monitor showing a portrait of me at an excavation, screen text reads: Jens Notroff, Archaeologist

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 19/09/2026

📖 "And he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulcher and departed." - Matthew 27:60 🪨 Just in case you ever wondered how this might've looked (here the Roman era rock tombs in Urfa's Haleplibahçe neighbourhood).

Photo of a cave entrance cut and carved into the rock. A large circular rock can be seen to the left of the door, partly rollen back into a wall niche and blocked by a smaller stone.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 19/09/2026

How about a new series "Museum pieces and where they're coming from"? 🏛️🏺 This time: The only female depiction from early #Neolithic #Göbeklitepe (so far) in Urfa's archaeological #museum … and the flagstone bench in the so-called Lions Pillar Building at the site.

Photo of a limestone slab with a carved figure depicting an apparently naked women with spread legs.

Photo of an open stone building under a protective shelter. Stonewalls with T-pillars around, a stone bench flanked by to pillars to the right. A woman standing to the left in the room, a man in front of the stone wall, and another woman sitting on the stone bench between the pillars.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 18/09/2026

Must've really been written all over my face (judging by Ulli Lust's notes). 😂

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 18/09/2026

Just added to my collection of, well, rather strange #archaeology souvenirs: crocheted T-pillar. 🤔😄

Photo of a T-pillar crocheted from beige wool, decorated with black yarn figures of arm, belt, and fox.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 17/09/2026

Still feels like coming home after all those years - but also a bit surreal, like returning to your childhood bedroom only to find that your parents have turned it into an office.

Selfie in front of the excavation site of Göbeklitepe.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 12/09/2026

Ich geb's ja zu, ich bin sehr leicht zu beeindrucken. Packt irgendwo Bud Spencer drauf und ich kaufe Euer Zeug. Selbst wenn's nur gebackene Bohnen sind. Pah, *gerade* wenn's gebackene Bohnen sind! 🤷🏻‍♂️

Foto einer weißen Dose Fagioli alla Bud Spencer, mit dem Gesicht des Schauspielers. Davor, im Vordergrund angedeutet: Gebackene Bohnen und Bratwürstchen auf einem Teller.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 12/09/2026

Kristina's Live Science article here has inspired a lot of "spin-offs" - and while its great of course to see #archaeology news spread, it'll never not puzzle me why some of those sites have to go with absurd #AISlop visuals while perfectly fine photos of the real thing are available. 🤨🙄

Photo of archaeologists excavating a very naturalistic appearing sculpture of a man riding a leopard.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 06/09/2026

One of the observation bunkers at the coast near #Søndervig in #Denmark in its surreal simplicity pictures a particularly shocking dark episode: In 1995 a local artist added these murals in one of the inner chamber - retelling the terrors of the #holocaust with naive stickmen.

Another page from the travel journal documenting image on four walls (southern, western, eastern, and northern wall): the holocaust (invasion, fighting, concentration camps, and mass graved) retold with stickmen.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 06/09/2026

While these concrete #bunkers of course indeed date back to the German occupation of #Denmark during #WWII, in most cases these specific #graffiti are later additions, though

Another page from the travel journal showing the handwritten entry from 17.08.'17 (continued) and a larger sketch of a giant bunker half buried at a beach, coloured with crayons.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 06/09/2026

From the travel journal: An #archaeology of the 20th century; #bunkers and #rockart (Atlantic Wall #bunkers #Denmark).

Glimpse at a page from the travel journal. Handwritten notes accompanied by crayon-colored sketches of a half buried bunker at a beach and some naive drawings of stickmen and tanks on a wall.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 30/08/2026

Mal wieder ein #SketchbookSunday mit Blick ins #NatureJournal: Federn gefunden, was über #Schleiereulen gelernt. 🦉📝

Foto eines aufgeschlagenen Skizzenbuchs. Links die Ansicht einer Schleiereule, gezeichnet mit Tusche und Wasserfarben, auf der rechten Seite drei gezeichnete Federn. Umgeben von handschriftlichen Notizen in unterschiedlichen Farben.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 25/08/2026

The past is a strange place: A newly discovered sculpture from the Pre-Pottery #Neolithic #TasTepeler site of #Karahantepe, depicting a man riding a feline predator, appears like a reversed reflection of another sculpture found earlier at the same site. 🏺😆 www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/1100...

In situ photo of a limestone sculpture showing a human figure apparently sitting on top of an animal, grabbing it by its ears.

Photo of a sculpture of a feline-like animal sitting on top of a human being, on display in a museum.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 22/08/2026

Gentle reminder that #archaeology🏺 is about #people👫. (And before you ask: No, that's not me pulling off the violet-socks-in-sandals look here.)

Photo of a child's left foot in sandals next to a Bronze Age rock carving of a naked right foot.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 20/08/2026

Urlaub mit Archäologen. Symbolbild. 🏺🤷🏻‍♂️

Selfie vor bronzezeitlichen Felsbildern: Mit roter Farbe nachgezeichnete Ritzungen verschiedener Schiffsdarstellungen.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 15/08/2026

And we can be sure there's new insights coming up here rather sooner than later - earlier geophysical surveys of that area already made it a promising hotspot for further investigation: www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-tel...

Map of Göbekli Tepe excavation and surveys by ground penetrating radar showing several circular structures underground.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 12/08/2026

FWIW.

$Photo of the sun during the early stages of a solar eclipse, with a small fraction "missing" in the lower right.$ $Photo of the sun during the early stages of a solar eclipse, with a large fraction "missing" in the lower right.$ Photo of the sun, bright at image's lower half - the upper half of the picture dark with a reflection of the actual solar eclipse and a large part of the sun "missing."

Photo of the sun, bright at image's lower half - the upper half of the picture dark with a reflection of the actual solar eclipse and a large part of the sun "missing."

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 11/08/2026

Archaeologists don't dig dinosaurs. But, apparently, their kids, do. 🤷‍♂️ And hey, standing next to them, watching ... er, supervising, definitely felt very familiar. 😂

Foto of two kids sitting in a sandy spot, digging. A sign to their right reads, in Danish: Excavation. Help with the excavation of dinosaur fossils. Be careful not to damage anything! Use only your hands, a brush, and a trowel! Behind some red-and-white wooden barrier a man in vest and baseball cap (me) stands, watching.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 10/08/2026

☀️ Am 12.08. findet eine (hierzulande partielle zu beobachtende) #Sonnenfinsternis statt. 🏺 Schöner Anlass für eine kleine Plauderei mit Stefan Gödde für den #GalileoPodcast darüber, wie eigentliche frühere Kulturen solche Phänomene erklärt haben: 🎧 galileopodcast.podigee.io/54-sonnenfin...

Screenshot der Galileo Podcast-Seite: Oben Foto von Stefan Gödde vor verfinsterter Sonne, darunter "Episode abspielen"-Button und Episodeninformationen zu "Sonnenfinsternis-Mythen der Antike".

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 07/08/2026

If you recognise (or have even flown) one of these ships, you're officially old. 🤷🏻‍♂️ But not too old to spent an evening or two with Lego, it seems. 😉 So glad I stumbled upon @tomassobuilds.bsky.social's brilliant MOCs, which brought back great memories of a really ling time ago in a galaxy far away.

Photo of two Star Wars starships (the Outrider from "Shadows of the Empire" and the Otana from the "X-Wing Alliance" video game) built from Lego, presented in front of some Star Wars books.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 06/08/2026

A pleasure moderating the public roundtable about what's "human" (from an anthro-/archaeological perspective) at yesterday's #ppa26Berlin meeting - really enjoyed & learned a lot from this fantastic panel! Special thanks to Benjamin Felis for graphic recording the whole event! 👌

Graphic recording showing little portraits of the participants in the upper part and summarising key points of the discussion below.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 05/08/2026

Oh, you stumbled upon Bernd. Well, let's just say he might be the honestly German thing you're going to meet here. Like: honestly honest without hesitation. 😉

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 04/08/2026

NiCHT iN DiE AUGEN SCHAUEN!!! 😳🫣 🏺 www.derstandard.de/story/300000...

Screenshot einer Schlagzeile: "Grabungserfolg: Gorgonenköpfe in etruskisch-römischem Heiligtum entdeckt"

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 31/07/2026

Say what you want about mobile work, but I definitely had worse offices. 😀😉

Selfie, sitting with an Olsenbanden T-Shirt and a Starfield cap outside in front of a timber-framed clay wall behind my Macbook.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 24/07/2026

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-...

Photo of a hand holding an open book, the page showing a watercolor illustration of a large t-shaped pillar with arms and hands and an only hinted face - as well as crane just about to start its flight.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 20/07/2026

Took the whole crew out to a little @starfield.bethesdastudios.com detour to celebrate #MoonDay. Obviously. 👋😉

Video game screenshot: Selfie of a Starfield player character in full spacesuit, standing in front of the Lunar Module descent stage left by Apollo 11 on the moon.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 17/07/2026

Although technically, the foundations for that crossover have been already laid ... starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Into_th...

Page from a Star Wars comic showing how Indiana Jones and Short Round are discovering an overgrown Millennium Falcon with Han Solo's skeleton inside the cockpit after following a legend about some Bigfoot-like creature in the woods. The last panel shows Chewbacca on a tree.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 17/07/2026

I mean, what Luke says. Both of 'em. 🤷‍♂️

Panel from a "Doctor Aphra" comic showing Luke Skywalker in the rain, saying: "She's a rogue archaeologist -- but she's an archaeologist. And not all rogues are bad people."

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 17/07/2026

Crossover idea: Sending all the archaeologists from George-Lucas-created franchises on the adventure of their lives. Treasure, aliens, interdimensional beings ... you name it! 😉

Photo of a Doctor Aphra and an Indiana Jones action figure in a bookshelf full of archaeology books.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 12/06/2026

Nicht dass der Rest der Tagung zu #ArchäologieImDialog des #NetzwerkArchäologieSchweiz nicht auch spannend gewesen wäre (war er!), aber Workshop und Diskussion zur (Selbst-)Wahrnehmung des Berufs #Archäologie zum Schluß waren dann doch besonders interessant! Archaeologists, tag yourselves. 🏺🤠

Foto verschiedener Archäologenbilder: Winckelmann, Lara Croft, Archäologe mit Pinsel im Grabungsschnitt, Archäologe mit Schaufel neben Bagger, Archäologen in einer Vermittlungssituation mit Funden und Publikum, Indiana Jones, Schliemann.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 12/06/2026

See, mountains! I told ya. 🗻🤩

Selfie in front of lake with mountains in background.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 12/06/2026

Und noch eine Runde #Archäologie und #Wisskomm - zur Abwechslung einmal mit Bergpanorama. 🗻🏺😉 archaeologie-schweiz.ch/archaeologie...

Tagungs-Flyer "Archäologie im Dialog. Neue Wege der Kommunikation. Tagung Netzwerk Archäologie Schweiz. Generalversammlung und Exkursion, Archäologie Schweiz, 11.-13. Juni 2026, Luzern", der auf einem Programmheft der Veranstaltung liegt. Aufgeschlagen ist die Seite zur Session "Indiana Jones" mit dem Abstract zum Input-Vortrag "Sensationen und Schätze … und Forschungsergebnisse? - Archäologische Wissenschaftskommunikation und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Jens Notroff (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Berlin)". Obenauf liegt mein Namensschild.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 11/06/2026

Now that's what I'd call an inspiring keynote!🏺 In his "Wicked Perspectives on #Heritage Futures" keynote at the #ArchäologieImDialog conference in Lucerne, @johnschofyork.bsky.social made a fantastic point what #archaeology really is (or should be) about: humility, community, belonging. People.

Photo of a conference stage. The large screen shows the title page of a presentation called "Archaeology in Dialogue, But with Whom, and Why? Some Wicked Perspectives on Heritage Futures" by Professor John Schofield with Schofield standing next to it at a podium. In the upper part of the photo the backs of the heads of part of the audience can be seen.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 01/06/2026

Ach, #BAföG-Reform. Sollen sie doch neben dem Studium jobben gehen ... (aus den Ländergemeinsamen Strukturvorgaben für die Akkreditierung von Bachelor- und Masterstudiengängen, Beschluss der Kultusministerkonferenz vom 10.10.2003 i.d.F. vom 04.02.2010, www.kmk.org/fileadmin/Da...)

Screenshot einer Textseite mit farblichen Hervorhebungen:

1.3 Vergabe von Leistungspunkten

Leistungspunkte sind ein quantitatives Maß für die Gesamtbelastung des Studierenden. Sie umfassen sowohl den unmittelbaren Unterricht als auch die Zeit für die Vor- und Nachbereitung des Lehrstoffes (Präsenz- und Selbststudium), den Prüfungsaufwand und die Prüfungsvorbereitungen einschließlich Abschluss- und Studienarbeiten sowie gegebenenfalls Praktika.

In der Regel werden pro Studienjahr 60 Leistungspunkte vergeben, d.h. 30 pro Semester. Dabei wird für einen Leistungspunkt eine Arbeitsbelastung (work load) des Studierenden im Präsenz- und Selbststudium von 25 - max. 30 Stunden angenommen, sodass die Arbeitsbelastung im Vollzeitstudium pro Semester in der Vorlesungs- und der vorlesungsfreien Zeit insgesamt 750 - 900 Stunden beträgt. Dies entspricht 32 - 39 Stunden pro Woche bei 46 Wochen pro Jahr. Die Hochschulen haben die Studierbarkeit des Studiums unter Berücksichtigung der Arbeitsbelastung der Studierenden im Akkreditierungsverfahren nachvollziehbar darzulegen.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 29/05/2026

Finally! Almost feels like some kind of initiation ritual. 🥹

Photo of a lid sitting in front of a TV screen showing "Es war einmal vor langer Zeit in einer weit, weit entfernten Galaxis …" (A long time ago in a galaxy far far away …).

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 27/05/2026

Now, that looks (and feels) like a much more comfortable way of travelling by train (and one much more appropriate for my age 😜😉).

Selfie in train's sleeping car bunk, thumbs up.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 27/05/2026

Windows of Koper, Slovenia.

Six windows in two rows of three above each other. All have blue window shutters; one open and two closed in the upper line, all open in the lower. The house facade is a creme beige.

Six windows with closed brown window shutters in two rows above each other, three windows each row. The house facade is yellow. Two half arc are hinted at in the center of the wall among the windows.

A window in with closed brown shutters in a stone wall.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 26/05/2026

Oh, it's actually well living up to the expectations created! Nice little Venetian old town right at the Adriatic Sea. 😉👍

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 26/05/2026

After 18 hours on the train (note to self: next time book your ticket way in advance to make sure you get a bunk on a sleeping coach), it's about time to kick off some #ScienceCommunication, isn't it. 💪

Photo of a conference programme titled "From Research to the Public: Science Communication in the Humanities and Social Science" and my name tag laying right on top of it.

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