Tobias Richter

Just heard of another major British Palaeolithic site falling through the planning & protection net and being green-lit for development. That's 3 confirmed in 3 years, with 2 others I'm investigating. The failure to schedule Palaeolithic sites & the erosion of planning protections are to blame. 🚨🦣🏺

Funny, I took the exact same photo just a few days ago.

Postdoctoral Fellow (290375) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow (290375), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, January 20, 2026

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...

Diagrams showing variation in millet processing techniques. Left: grinding stone and oven for baking, from the Inner Asian mountain Corridor. Right: tripodal cooking pot over a fire for steaming/boiling, from Monsoonal China.

Millet was domesticated in China, where it was boiled and steamed. This changed as it moved west, with Central Asian communities adapting millet to their bread-baking traditions instead of adopting East Asian cooking practices #NationalHomemadeBreadDay 🥖

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🏺 #Archaeology

Updated thread on The Lost King film:
I’m digging over old ground but I have to challenge Steve Coogan's line. He claims it’s all true (as has Philippa Langley): Langley will be celebrated for her achievement, Richard Taylor & his personal gripes will be forgotten
So what’s the real story? 1/15

Interested in #palaeoproteomics, #ZooMS and human evolution? We currently have a postdoctoral position and a research position open.

Postdoc: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Research assistant: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Not a place I expected to publish, but great to see the summary of our geology-archaeology collaboration is so popular. Open Access summary paper linked below. Thanks to the IRC, now @researchireland.ie, for supporting this work.

Postdoctoral position in Archaeology: Understanding Epidemics in Ancient Mesopotamia

My colleague @panktroels.bsky.social is currently looking for a postdoc to work with him on his new project "Understanding Epidemics in Ancient Mesopotamia". Please spread the word!
employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...

#archaeology #assyriology #Mesopotamia

Many congratulations!

The palaeoenvironmental potential of bioarchaeological isotope data - Communications Earth & Environment Bioarchaeological isotope data that provide information on the migratory and feeding behaviors of ancient species and their interactions with humans can improve understanding of past ecological and cl...

Our new paper explores how we can use large bodies of stable isotope data from paleoenvironmental and bioarchaeological in wider cross-discipline studies.

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Featuring my illustration of party prep!

Archaeologists discover that parties 11,000 years ago were BYOB — bring your own boar Humans have feasted since the dawn of agriculture — but a new find suggests the practice of bringing exotic food to a communal gathering is even older.

(Way too happy with myself for writing this headline.) 🧪🏺

Transport of animals underpinned ritual feasting at the onset of the Neolithic in southwestern Asia Communications Earth & Environment - Ceremonial feasting in Early Neolithic Asiab, western Iran, involved transport of animals over substantial distances to celebrate far-flung social networks,...

New paper out spearheaded by the fabulous Petra Vaiglova in which we present evidence for long-distance transport of wild boar used in feasts at early Neolithic Asiab:
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Let's hope Graham Hancock won't be a consultant!

Support Needed for SAPIENS Magazine and its Staff Union! We, SAPIENS staff, write to our supporters with an urgent request for support. We were informed this week that our funder, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, may choose to close SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine...

The Wenner Green is considering closing SAPIENS Magazine. This would be a huge loss to Anthropology! Please write the board in support of this dynamic and vital publication! actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

Support Needed for SAPIENS Magazine and its Staff Union! We, SAPIENS staff, write to our supporters with an urgent request for support. We were informed this week that our funder, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, may choose to close SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine...

The Wenner-Gren Foundation's board of trustees is apparently considering pulling the plug on SAPIENS magazine. SAPIENS magazine is an amazing platform doing crucial science communication across all of anthropology. Please support them and send a letter to the board
actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

Its outrageous. Letter sent.

Aerial photograph of the remains of five similarly-sized oval pit houses, with destruction pits on two sides.

Unconventional doorways for #AdoorableThursday 🚪 🏺

Semi-subterranean houses at Neolithic Balıklı 🇹🇷 had no doors. They were entered through the roof!

This style of house is relatively unique for the region despite contact between nearby communities.

Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Sodom comet paper to be retracted two years after editor’s note acknowledging concerns The authors’ reconstruction of what the blast’s impact area may have been. Source Scientific Reports will retract a controversial paper claiming to present evidence an ancient city in t…

Retraction Watch just announced the pending retraction of the Comet Research Group's Sodom & Gomorrah pseudoarchaeology paper. The authors are not taking it well. retractionwatch.com/2025/04/23/s...

Home, annex or pied-à-terre? Assessing the socioeconomic dimension of small-sized built environments at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Central Anatolia Built environments provide valuable information on domestic and group activities, the development of household identities, and the changing use of spa…

A micromorphological analysis of non-standard buildings at Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Türkiye) by Aroa García-Suárez🏺
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A male Denisovan mandible from Pleistocene Taiwan Denisovans are an extinct hominin group defined by ancient genomes of Middle to Late Pleistocene fossils from southern Siberia. Although genomic evidence suggests their widespread distribution through...

Incredibly proud that our paper on the #palaeoproteomics analysis of the Penghu mandible, led by @tsutatsuta.bsky.social and in collaboration with Chun-Hsiang Chang, Enrico Cappellini and co, is out now in
@science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Getting there: we've almost got the entire Danish Original 1 series of 1:4000 mapping georeferenced, cropped and tiled.

This is a culmination of many years of hard work by many people.

You can get a preview of our work here:

www.museumsgis.dk/kort/

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The olive landscape: A nearly 4,000-year-old legacy of human-nature interaction in the Central Mediterranean The olive tree is one of the most iconic symbols of the Mediterranean basin, deeply intertwined with the region's history, economy, and culture. But how did this tree, originally a wild species, come ...

Cool study on the human-made landscape of the Mediterranean olive grove

H.M. Dronning Margrethe besøgte Center for Tekstilforskning ved Københavns Universitet H.M. Dronning Margrethe besøgte Center for Tekstilforskning ved Københavns Universitet

Yesterday, we had a very special guest at the Centre for Textile Research.

What was that now with the Three Age System?

That's pretty damn cool!

Archaeogenomic insights into commensalism and regional variation in pig management in Neolithic northwest Europe | PNAS The relationship between humans and pigs has changed dramatically since their domestication in southwest Asia and subsequent human-induced introduc...

How did Europe's first farmers interact with their pigs and local wild boar? @jolijnerven.bsky.social has a new paper addressing just that using 11 ancient suis genomes!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the Faculty of Life Sciences, Vienna seeks to appoint a post-doctoral researcher with expertise in archaeology/archaeological science and project management of archaeological fieldwork jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct...

My thoughts on the Tinshemet discoveries in Israel (Nature Human Behaviour)