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Mette Lovschal

@lovschal.bsky.social
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Landscape archaeology, commons, fences and deep time trajectories. Professor in Archaeology at Aarhus University/Moesgaard. PI in #ERC_ANTHEA.

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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
3-year postdoc fellowship in #Archaeology @uio.no as part of an interdisciplinary project to investigate societal, economic, and climatic effects of major 6th-10th-century volcanic eruptions through a comparative interdisciplinary lens on regional #resilience. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Postdoctoral Fellow (290375) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow (290375), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, January 20, 2026
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Associated professor in Cultural Heritage at Gothenburg University. Deadline January 15th. web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
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Universitetslektor i kulturarv
Institutionen för historiska studier utgör en del av Humanistiska fakulteten. Vid institutionen bedrivs forskning inom
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Interesting session at the World #Biodiversity Forum in 2026, on the importance of imagining and narrating alternative environmental futures meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess...
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
News from the #peatlands in @antiquity.ac.uk www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Last chance to see? The ‘Crisis of Preservation’ and pathways to a sustainable future for Europe’s peatland archaeology | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Last chance to see? The ‘Crisis of Preservation’ and pathways to a sustainable future for Europe’s peatland archaeology
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Anwen Cooper & Tina Roushannafas @ox.ac.uk have just published a beautiful piece in Archaeological Dialogues @universitypress.cambridge.org on how archaeological work can realign to meet the needs of pressing environmental agendas and be part of #nature #recovery projects. doi.org/10.1017/S138...
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People and time in nature: Positioning archaeology in an ecoclimate crisis | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core
People and time in nature: Positioning archaeology in an ecoclimate crisis
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Here's an interesting #heathland #restoration project relying not only on grazing and burning but also "cutting scrub and gorse by hand, forestry work, bracken control, foraging heather and creating bare ground by scraping". #ERC_ANTHEA @nationaltrust.org.uk www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/hampsh...
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Restoring heathland on Ludshott Common
Find out how we're restoring heathland habitats and protecting wildlife at Ludshott Common, including the reintroduction of grazing cattle.
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
New Master in Public Environmental Humanities - @greenhouseuis.net 2-year masters program for students who want to study today’s environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history Info sessions on November 11 & 21 niche-canada.org/2025/11/01/n... #envhum #envhist #envstudies
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New Master in Public Environmental Humanities
2-year masters program for students who want to study today’s environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history
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EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
#LandscapeArchaeology 🏺 | projektwald.hypotheses.org/527
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Call for Papers: Forests es Archives. Interdisciplinary approaches to explore the woodland geoarchaeological record
LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY CONFERENCE 202618.03. – 20.03.2026 at Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg Forest areas are key elements of cultural landscapes and often preserve valuable but underexplored geoarch...
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HigherJobz @higherjobz.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
#PhD in #Palaeoecology – University of Bern, Switzerland Fully funded position under SNF project CIVES Eligibility: MSc in #Ecology, Environmental Sciences, or Geography Deadline: 28 Nov 2025 Details: higherjobz.com/phd-palaeoec... #PhDPosition #EuropeJobs #AcademicJobs @izb-unibern.bsky.social
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Fully Funded PhD in Palaeoecology at University of Bern | HigherJobz
Apply for a fully funded PhD in Palaeoecology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Explore climate, land use, and vegetation history.
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
News from the Fens: @antiquity.ac.uk www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Fenscapes: archaeology, natural heritage and environmental change in the Fens of eastern England | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Fenscapes: archaeology, natural heritage and environmental change in the Fens of eastern England
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The journal Environmental Humanities is still looking for midcareer/senior #envhum scholars interested in becoming a co-editor-in-chief from January 2026. You can apply as an individual and we'll find an appropriate co-editor match for you. See environmentalhumanities.org
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Environmental Humanities – A journal published by Duke University Press
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
This one looks attractive and I'd be curious to know who gets the position #palynology #palaeoecology higherjobz.com/postdoctoral...
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Postdoctoral Research in Palynology – Bern | HigherJobz
Apply for a Postdoctoral Research position in Palynology and Palaeoecology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Deadline: 28 Nov 2025
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 22/10/2025
In the Nordic Bronze Age, bronze acquisition networks and the the sun's movement were tied together in cosmology, with barrows often aligned with the sun and wheels, wagons, ships and sun symbols often associated with each other in rock art 5/6 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Map of Neolithic barrows in Jutland, Denmark parallel to a historical road.
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Are you going to be our new colleague at @au.dk @auarcher.bsky.social? Full professorship in #archaeology, deadline November 9. international.au.dk/about/profil...
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Full Professorship(s) in Archaeology - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Today was the opening day of The #Celtic World - Europe's Lost Legacy on display at Moesgaard, Aarhus, Denmark. With loans from 24 European museums, the exhibition is beyond spectacular. Go see it! www.moesgaardmuseum.dk/kommende-uds...
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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I am looking for a multispecies archaeologist with a strong theoretical and interpretive profile to join my group (100%, 3 years): uni.koeln/2E7CR Deadline: 30.09.2025. Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21") @nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social
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EASLCE @easlce.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
#CFP: "Climate, arts, and activism: Critical inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives" for ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies (ed. Y. Schmidt, S. Thieme, M. Winkel) Deadline: 15th of October 2025 Info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ... #ecolit #ecocriticism #envhum #envhist
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Call - Special Issue - Climate, arts, and activism | H-Net
We wish to draw your attention to a new special issue we are guest editing in the fully open access (and no author fees) journal ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies on the topic of...
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 27/08/2025
This #PhilTransB issue brings together the major elements of a theory of human #evolution and #sustainability on Earth. It shows how diverse theories and approaches help to understand the past, present and future evolution of the #Anthropocene. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Paper out by Shumon Hussain and Monika Stobiecka on conviviality thinking in archaeology and heritage landscapes. Anthropogenic #heathlands, modified for millennia by wildlife and livestock & fire regimes could be another example of a deep past ecology of #multispecies co-existence, co-shaping.
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Convivial Heritage: A Disruptive Archaeology Of Species Coexistence | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core
Convivial Heritage: A Disruptive Archaeology Of Species Coexistence
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Interesting finding on #heathland #conservation in Biological Conservation, concluding that conservation efforts and actions "cannot substitute for traditional agricultural practices that have lasted for centuries... to ensure the long-term conservation of heathlands”.
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Fifty years of regional-scale vegetation change on Atlantic heathlands
Heathlands are semi-natural habitats of high conservation interest in Europe. The Armorican Massif (north-west of France) is a prime area for heathlan…
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This symposium looks interesting!
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Climate Havens: Humanistic Perspectives on Resilience, Migration, and Resources Symposium | H-Net
CALL FOR PAPERSClimate Havens: Humanistic Perspectives on Resilience, Migration, and Resources SymposiumUniversity of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology, April 16-17, 2026We invite papers...
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Toad comeback in recent heathland conservation project
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Natterjack toad makes 'wonderful' comeback at national park
It is the first time natterjack toads have been recorded breeding at the Blackmoor site in 50 years.
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Check out this special issue on "plant humanities". Deadline August 1 2025. #envhum #planthumanities #envhist #ecolit #ecocriticism
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
No#fence collars are becoming increasingly popular as a new grazing management technology, making the use of traditional fences redundant. Will this also be the end of traditional forms of human-livestock and -landscape management practices such as herding?
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New technology to enhance landscape management
Lancashire Wildlife Trust has started a new research initiative that will change how landscapes are managed.
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
250 ha #heathland restoration in The New Forest National Park as part of creating mosaics of varied and interconnected ecosystems: www.countryfile.com/wildlife/res...
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Smooth snakes, adders and sand lizards: UK national park to create huge haven for rare reptiles | Countryfile.com
Conservationists are enhancing 250 hectares of heathland – an area roughly the size of 350 football pitches.
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Check out this position at Lyngheisenteret in Norway. A fantastic place that has played a key role in disseminating human-heathland relations and ancient culture-historical landscape practices. Deadline May 4th www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still... #HumanDimension #EnvHis #sustainability #nature
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Fagansvarlig Kystlynghei (277638) | Museumssenteret i Hordaland
Stillingstittel: Fagansvarlig Kystlynghei (277638), Arbeidsgiver: Museumssenteret i Hordaland, Søknadsfrist: søndag 4. mai 2025
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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Interested in humans from a macro-ecological/macro-archaeological perspective? Here's the right postdoc for you international.au.dk/about/profil... - deadline tomorrow April 1st at 2359 CEST!
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2-yr postdoc on human macroecology in a functional trait perspective Aarhus University (re-advertisement) - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
This paper just landed on my desk, dealing with the #historical dynamics of socioecological 'traps': link.springer.com/article/10.1... - a really neat parallel to our writings on deep-time trajectories of entrapment: rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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The logics of enclosure: deep‐time trajectories in the spread of land tenure boundaries in late prehistoric northern Europe
Invasive schemes involving the erection of land tenure boundaries are currently spreading quickly across vast areas throughout the globe, turning former unfenced forests and grasslands into closed-of...
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This week, I am featuring in a podcast on a deep-time perspective on #heathlands, fences and landscape-based communities by Mads Flinterup, Hedeselskabet. You can listen to it here (in Danish): www.spreaker.com/podcast/hede...
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Super interesting discussion format - extended dialogues - at Arkitektskolen, Aarhus, DK organised by Heidi Merrild & Lotte Bjerregaard Jensen: aarch.dk/acrb-extende.... Check it out! Today on #regenerative #nature and resource use with panel speakers Rasmus Ejrnæs, Uffe Jørgensen and myself.
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Extended Dialogues - Arkitektskolen Aarhus
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
f you're looking for a postdoc position in #archaeology this seems to be the perfect place to land: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Extremely interesting, kind and competent team @uio.no funded by the Norwegian Research Council.
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Prehistoric Archaeology (274478) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Prehistoric Archaeology (274478), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Thursday, March 20, 2025
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Fresh from the press: "Agropastoral possibilism and the trajectorial affordances of Danish inland heaths" in @JRAI by sharp Zac Caple and myself. About #deep-time #entrapment in the relationship between pastoralism, swidden agriculture and manuring: rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Agropastoral possibilism and the trajectorial affordances of Danish inland heaths: a study of deep‐time entrapment
History does not unfold along a single trajectory, and yet the socioecological configuration of landscapes may narrow the directions history can take. This article develops a framework for assessing ...
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Our conference A place for the heathlands? ended on Friday with a happy crowd. Discussions will continue on heathland.place projects.au.dk/anthropogeni... and #ERC_ANTHEA
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
New sharp and inspiring study out from @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social on #collective governance and #landscapes.
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Yesterday was packed with studies of human #heathland entanglements, keynote speakers Doyle McKey & Kari Hjelle. Today's the last day of the conf with yet an impressive line of speakers on #landscape conservation & the panel 'Future of the heathlands?', led by wonderful @dreimear.bsky.social
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Eimear Mc Loughlin @dreimear.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
A soft landing into the Place for the #Heathlands conference by the wonderful @lovschal.bsky.social who presented the emerging insights of the #ERC_Anthea project.
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Opening lecture by professor Kenneth Olwig on the extensive practices and infrastructures enabling grazing ecologies in DK and GB. events.au.dk/heathland/co... The lecture will be followed by our opening reception and book launch. Everything taking place at Aarhus University & Moesgaard, Denmark.
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Preparing the exhibition for our heathland conference tomorrow (5 Feb 25) "A Place for the Heathlands?" with artists Helle Bovbjerg, Lise Frost, Martine Heuser & Birgitte Munk. events.au.dk/heathland/ar...
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The final program for our #ERC_ANTHEA conference 'A Place for the Heathlands?' is now out on events.au.dk/heathland/pr... with keynote speakers Kenneth Olwig, Kari Hjelle and Doyle McKey. Still a few days to sign up. @au.dk @cc.au.dk
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