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Matthias Blessing

@matzearch.bsky.social

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Archaeologist, African Stone Age, Lithicist, currently postdoc at University of Connecticut | all things fantasy, especially DnD and MTG | views are my own | he/him

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Matthias Blessing @matzearch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today I started my new position as Emmy Noether Research Group Leader funded by the @dfg.de at the Department for Prehistoric Archaeology @unicologne.bsky.social. Very happy to open this chapter and still a bit dazzled about the opportunity! Updates of our work in Namibia will follow in due time

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Manuel Will @manuelwill.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Our new theory article may be of interest to those studying technological complexity in archaeology and human evolution. It gives a historical perspective & introduces heterarchy as a 'new' perspective under which this phenomenon may be studied. Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Blowing Leaves in Archaeology—The Multidimensionality of Technological Complexity in Human Origins Research - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

Technological complexity has been a continuous trope in archaeological research from its beginnings in the nineteenth century. Based on a concept of unidirectional cultural evolution, archaeological m...

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Matthias Blessing @matzearch.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The Chiefs could have made history today. They could have become the first team to not score in the Super Bowl. They even blew that. Fucking losers

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Matthias Blessing @matzearch.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

A long time in the making, but it is going to happen now! A cross-disciplinary workshop on how fieldwork can be made more inclusive. Fantastic list of panelists and surely interesting group sessions. Check out the link and share widely, please! tinyurl.com/tdt3cwp3

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An Inclusive Future for Scientific Fieldwork | Yale Peabody Museum

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Matthias Blessing @matzearch.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

The last paper from my PhD time is finally out 🥳 Cultural Developments Between the Final MSA and the Robberg at Umbeli Belli, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa doi.org/10.1007/s41982… It was a piece of work for sure, but I think the final product is one to be proud of.

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