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Mareike C Stahlschmidt

@stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social
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geoarchaeolgist interested in human evolution, fire, ancient dna and most of all dirt

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Mareike C Stahlschmidt @stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A HEAS bottle nearing its end. Taphonomic traces and heavy use wear make the researcher consider discarding and/or recycling this item @heasvienna.bsky.social
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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 07/09/2026
Artist Ulli Lust wants to redraw women's role in prehistory. "The 'manosphere' is always referring to the past as a place where men were strong and superior and women were weak and submissive. Archaeological evidence shows us that’s a myth, and I felt I had to deconstruct it," she told @science.org
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This comic is drawing women into prehistory
Comic book artist Ulli Lust counters myths about the roles of ice age women
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Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA) @leizarchaeology.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🎉 ERC Starting Grant for our colleague Tamara Dogandžić! For her new #research project Early ENCOUNTERS, she has been awarded funding from the European Research Council @erc.europa.eu: €1.5 million for five years of research. #Archaeology #LEIZArchaeology #ERCStG @paleomonrepos.bsky.social
View from above of researchers carrying out excavations in an excavation trench. In the background is the massive rock face of the Suhi Dol archaeological site in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence @humanorigins.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
‼️ Fantastic new opportunity within our Cluster HUMAN ORIGINS ‼️ Full Professorship Early Prehistory at the Department of Geosciences of the University of Tübingen! Deadline for applications: 2nd October 2026. More info: uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...
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W3-Professorship in Early Prehistory
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PaleoAnthropology Journal @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The PaleoAnthropology journal is pleased to announce that we have been selected for inclusion in the Directory of Open Access Journals! For more information see here: doaj.org/toc/1545-0031
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Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle (Saale) @landesmuseumhalle.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Seit dem 27. März 2026 zeigt das Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte in Halle (Saale) die Sonderausstellung ›Die Schamanin‹. In den ersten drei Monaten konnten bereits rund 37.000 Besucherinnen und Besucher in der Ausstellung begrüßt werden. Sie wird daher bis zum 7. Februar 2027 verlängert.
Das Bild zeigt das Poster zur Sonderausstellung die Schmanin mit dem Hinweis auf die Verlängerung.
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Mareike C Stahlschmidt @stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Huge congratulations to Viola Schmid on her stand-alone project ROSES!! So excited to contribute to this research on the LSA in the eastern Free State Province in South Africa @oeai.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @heasvienna.bsky.social
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Archaeological Proteomics Lab @archaeoprotein.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
🚨Job alert🚨We are hiring a Laboratory Technician (24 months) to support our research in Archaeological Proteomics (ZooMS) at the University of Reading (UK), including our COEXIST project. More info here: tinyurl.com/bdfvawh8 #palaeoproteomics #ZooMS
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HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The recording from this talk is now available on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky18...
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HEAS Seminar - Diyendo Massilani
YouTube video by HEAS
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Mareike C Stahlschmidt @stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Happy to share our new paper on non-destructive FTIR analysis on silcrete artefacts from Mertenhof and Diepkloof with heating temperature reconstructions. Is the data beautiful and clean? No. But is it still meaningful? Yes! Study led by Will Archer: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Fire, temperature control, and silcrete heat treatment at Diepkloof and Mertenhof Rock Shelters, West Coast, South Africa
Transformative technologies that alter raw material properties, rather than just raw material shape and size, are key proxies for the evolution of hum…
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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 20/05/2026
Unis rufen zu Demos gegen Kürzungen auf‼️ Die Unis befürchten Einsparungen von einer Mrd. Euro im #Budget. Rektorensprecherin Brigitte Hütter sprach bei einer Pressekonferenz von einem "Supergau" für Unis, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Rektor Schütze sprach von enormen Schaden für die Reputation. ⤵️
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Budget - Unis rufen zu Demos gegen Kürzungen auf
Rektor Schütze:
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Katerina Douka @katerinad.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
aDNA lab manager position (maternity cover for ~16 months) at UniVie. Come work with us, several cool projects, new labs and great potential for further future work. Happy to answer questions! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...
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Senior Scientist (Ancient DNA lab)
Senior Scientist (Ancient DNA lab)
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Human childbirth is not uniquely difficult among mammals: Birth complications are widespread across mammalian species, including in the wild www.univie.ac.at/en/news/pres...
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Human childbirth is not uniquely difficult among mammals
Birth complications are widespread across mammalian species, including in the wild
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PaleoAnthropology Journal @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
We’re excited to announce that the first 2026 issue of PaleoAnthropology is now online! A big thank you to everyone who made this issue possible. 📖 Read it here: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph... #PaleoAnthropology #HumanEvolution #Archaeology #OpenAccess
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Dr Sally Hoare @sallygeoarch.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Looking forward to presenting our new work on evidence for recurrent and increasing control of fire at the Lower Palaeolithic site of Beeches Pit today at the Pathways to Ancient Britain workshop at Queen Mary University 🔥 🔥 🔥. Really exciting results and paper on the way soon 😃
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Pere Gelabert @peregx9.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Experience in Paleogenomics and looking for a senior position with lab responsibilities? This is for you !!! Apply here: 👍🧪🔖 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...
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Senior Scientist (Ancient DNA lab)
Senior Scientist (Ancient DNA lab)
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Mareike C Stahlschmidt @stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Great blog post by my phd student Thomas Beard on our recent visit to the @esrf.fr doing nanoscale mapping of clay minerals on thin sections. What a joy to spend some sleep deprived days on their beamline! (side note: with only very minimal damage to our slides)
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HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
We have a new #HEASBlog on our website! #HEASVienna member Emese Vegh @emesevegh.bsky.social has written about the #langenachtderforschung (Long night of Research) which took place at locations all over Vienna last Friday night. www.heas.at/activities/b...
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Lange Nacht der Forschung 2026 - HEAS
By Dr Emese Végh As a postdoc at the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, I usually spend my days in relatively quiet labs or in front of the computer trying to decipher questions in human evoluti...
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Naturhistorisches Museum Wien @nhmwien.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
#savethedate Das versteckte Welterbe wird sichtbar Mitarbeiter*innen der Prähistorischen Abteilung und des Kuratoriums Pfahlbauten präsentieren Prähistorische Pfahlbauten- und Willendorf-Fundstellen (UNESCO-Welterbe). ⏰ Fr. 17.4. | 10:00-16:00 📌 Saal 11, NHM Wien Mehr: tinyurl.com/mwx35mc3
Das versteckte Welterbe wird sichtbar

Mitarbeiter*innen der Prähistorischen Abteilung und des Kuratoriums Pfahlbauten präsentieren Prähistorische Pfahlbauten- und Willendorf-Fundstellen (UNESCO-Welterbe).
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ERC-StG MATRIX @matrixerc.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The latest issue of Nature features a deep dive into sedimentary ancient DNA, with insights from our Matrix ERC-StG PI, @veraaldeias.bsky.social highlighting some of the big challenges shaping the field right now.
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Mareike C Stahlschmidt @stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Come by the UBB to check out our station on the Puzzle of Human Evolution organized by the various working groups of the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology!
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Ségolène Vandevelde @segovandevelde.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Only 6 days left until the extended deadline for presenting in our #pyroarchaoelogy session at the IUSPP 2026 Congress in Poznan ! ❤️‍🔥 @pyroarchaeology.bsky.social
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Mareike C Stahlschmidt @stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Deadline moved to March 20th! Go submit your pyroarchaeology abstract and join us in Poznań to talk fire! #pyroarchaeology #UISPP2026
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Jenny Tung @jennytung.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11. www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...
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Professorship in population genetics in the field of evolutionary anthropology and medicine (W2)
Faculties & Facilities
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Please support the petition against the planned #closure of #Archaeology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Archaeology has been a part of Humboldt-Universität academic tradition for almost 200 years, so closing it would break a long-standing research tradition weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...
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Schließung des Instituts für Archäologie an der HU-Berlin
Die Archäologie gehört seit fast 200 Jahren zur wissenschaftlichen Tradition der Humboldt-Universität. Ihre Schließung bedeutet den Abbruch einer gewachsenen Forschungstradition und eine dauerhafte Sc...
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Mareike C Stahlschmidt @stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Join us in Poznań for the XXI #UISPP2026 congress: Session S -1F: Multi-method, multi-proxy: promoting multidisciplinary approaches in #pyroarchaeology organized by @segovandevelde.bsky.social Chris Miller and myself. Abstract submission deadline Feb 28th! uispp2026.syskonf.pl
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XXI World Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences
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Vienna Doctoral School of Ecology and Evolution @vdsee-univie.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The University of Vienna has opened its STEM Prae-Doc Call — and the (VDSEE) is participating. 🎉 We invite outstanding candidates in STEM fields to apply and join an international research environment with structured doctoral training. Details & deadlines: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/s...
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Philip R Nigst @philipnigst.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Call for Papers #UISPP 2026 Poznań Join our session - Moving on: updated scales, concepts and approaches to mobility in the Late Pleistocene (Thematic Session 4D) Abstract Deadline: 28 Feb 2026 uispp2026.syskonf.pl @timocanessa.bsky.social @palomadelalasca.bsky.social @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social
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Yannis Oikonomou @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
📢Deadline Extended📢 Final week of abstract submissions for EAA2026 and Session 178 - Cave Sediments as Archives of Human-Environment Dynamics: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Geoarchaeology & Micro-contextual Research! We look forward to seeing you all in Athens!
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Ghent Archaeology Department / Archeologie Ugent @archeougent.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
📢 PhD position in Geoarchaeology (4y) – Ghent University within the ERC project FROST. The PhD combines archaeological dating methods with geoarchaeological analyses of sediments to investigate Late Glacial human–environment interactions. www.ugent.be/en/work/scie... Deadline: 23 February 2026
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Doctoraatsbursaal
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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS': uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨
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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Fully funded PhD studentship here with @katerinad.bsky.social on palaeoproteomics. Apply below! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/PhD-Stud...
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Emma Caton @emmacaton.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
The earliest confirmed evidence of an adult cremation pyre has been discovered in Malawi! 🔥 theconversation.com/oldest-known...
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Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age hunter-gatherers
An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What was behind this unexpected funeral ritual?
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John Hawks @johnhawks.net · 19/12/2025
“GenAI for Africa, a funding call from the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme…Out of 215 submissions, only two projects are expected to be funded, giving a success rate of under 1%” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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Mareike C Stahlschmidt @stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Upgraded micromorphology toolbox for the last sampling day of the year @heasvienna.bsky.social
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Yannis Oikonomou @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
📢Do you work on the (micro-) geoarchaeology of cave sediments? Join our Session #178 at the EAA 2026 Annual Meeting in Athens (26–29 August 2026)! For further details, please scan the QR code below! Abstract submissions open on 19 December 2025! 📢
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Mareike C Stahlschmidt @stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I am sat!
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Mareike C Stahlschmidt @stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Beautiful text, we cannot wait to see Lucy next week on our HEAS trip from Vienna @heasvienna.bsky.social !
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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
#ESHE2025 Giulia Gallo ‘ Estimating fire duration through bioapatite crystallite growth in Middle Palaeolithic contexts’ Bioapatite crystals: XRD/point of calcination. Nice experiment! Roc de Marsa (~90Ka) & Le Moustier (~55Ka): 10-20 hrs fire duration, at Le Moustier assoc w burning megafauna
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Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut @oeai.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Morgen noch nichts vor? Dann schauen Sie beim Tag der Offenen Grabung in Grubgraben bei Kammern vorbei. Unsere Archäolog:innen führen von 9 bis 14 Uhr durch die Ausgrabung und beantworten Ihre Fragen! #TagderOffenenGrabung #KulturNiederoesterreich
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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
PhD Studentship alert! I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia. Details in the link below! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
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University assistant predoctoral 1
University assistant predoctoral 1
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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Great job opportunity here in Vienna at the Natural History Museum. @nhmwien.bsky.social jobs.nhm.at/Curator-for-...
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Stellenangebot Curator for the osteological collection of human remains (m/f/d) bei Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
Forschung, wissenschaftliche Tätigkeit in Wien
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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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Mareike C Stahlschmidt @stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
We had a lovely time at ISBA in Torino and almost managed to gather everyone from Vienna in one pic @heasvienna.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social @katerinad.bsky.social
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...
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Which Kind of Science Reform
What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.
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Naturhistorisches Museum Wien @nhmwien.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
#wearehiring Das NHM Wien sucht Vermittler*innen in den Bereichen: - 🐛 Biologie - 🪨 Erdwissenschaften - 🦴 Archäologie / Anthropologie 👉 Zu den Ausschreibungen: jobs.nhm.at Bewerbungsmöglichkeit bis 03.07.2025. #nhmwien #nhmvienna #jobs #jobseekers #jobalert #Jobsuche #chancenergreifen
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Naturhistorisches Museum Wien @nhmwien.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
#savethedate Archäologie am Berg | Metallkunst in der Eisenzeit Erlebe aktuelle archäologische Bergbau- und Gräberfeldforschung des NHM Wien mit zahlreichen Partnern am und im Salzberg. ⏰ Sa, 14./So, 15.6. | ab 10:00 Uhr 📌 "Alte Schmiede" am Salzberg in Hallstatt 👉 Programm: tinyurl.com/mpnj9vt6
Dokumentation einst – Michaela Almstätter malt einen nachgestellten Grabbefund ©NHM Wien, J.RudorferGeorg Tiefengraber präsentiert stolz das rekonstruierte Prunkschwert eines wohl mächtigen Kriegers ©NHM Wien, Karina GrömerGergana Almstätter zeigt wie man heute prunkvolle Keramik restauriert ©NHM Wien, Karina GrömerDas mehrköpfige Team vermittelt Aktuelles rund um die Obertaggrabungen des NHM Wien ©NHM Wien, J.Rudorfer
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Mareike C Stahlschmidt @stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Great to have you here!!
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