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Mikkel Nørtoft @mikkelnortoft.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

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...

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QuantWealth - Multivariate Wealth Display and Inequality Analysis and Time Atlas

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Jaime Almansa @jaimealmansa.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

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:

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Zena Kamash @zenakamash.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

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 🙏💓🙏

In spite of the Safe Space Policy being clearly stated at the beginning of the meeting, Prof. XXXXX targeted me by name, calling for my resignation from my position as Editor of the society's journal. Furthermore, his misuse of my title, referring to me as "Miss Kamash", felt deliberately demeaning. This intimidating behaviour explicitly contravenes the EAA Safe Space Policy. Although he was muted, for which I was grateful, I experienced a panic attack following his comments and did not feel safe to speak for the remainder of the meeting. This was further compounded by not only Prof. XXXXX being allowed to remain in the online meeting, but also being invited to take the floor again after the break. This gives me strong concerns about the effectiveness of the Safe Space Policy.

On a broader point about the effectiveness of the Safe Space Policy, I also note that members whose position aligned with that of Concerned EAA were repeatedly and persistently accused of anti-Semitism throughout the meeting. This is a serious accusation that should not be levelled without due care and evidentiary support. Its use as a blanket accusation seems to have been designed with the explicit aim of silencing and intimidating members aligned with Concerned EAA, which again contravenes the Safe Space Policy and should have been dealt with more robustly during the meeting.

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Mikkel Nørtoft @mikkelnortoft.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

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

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Gamifying the Past: Embodied LLMs in DIY Archaeological Video Games | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core

Gamifying the Past: Embodied LLMs in DIY Archaeological Video Games

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Mikkel Nørtoft @mikkelnortoft.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

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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AI and Archaeology | Podcast Episode on RSS.com

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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Mikkel Nørtoft @mikkelnortoft.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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

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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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Mikkel Nørtoft @mikkelnortoft.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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.

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Mikkel Nørtoft @mikkelnortoft.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

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/...

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(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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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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...

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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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