Tobias Richter
Professor @ Uni Copenhagen | Archaeologist & Lithicologist
Exploring old rocks and landscapes in southwest Asia
Off-duty: Dad, runner, hiker, boardgame enthusiast, and motorcycle wrangler.
- Reposted by Tobias Richter3-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...
- Reposted by Tobias RichterMillet 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 🥖 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
- Reposted by Tobias RichterUpdated 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
- Reposted by Tobias RichterInterested 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...
- Reposted by Tobias RichterNot 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.
- 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
- Reposted by Tobias RichterOur 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...
- Reposted by Tobias RichterFeaturing my illustration of party prep!
- Reposted by Tobias Richter(Way too happy with myself for writing this headline.) 🧪🏺
- 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: rdcu.be/euyuO
- Reposted by Tobias RichterThe 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...
- 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...
- Reposted by Tobias RichterUnconventional 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...
- Reposted by Tobias RichterRetraction 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...
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- Reposted by Tobias RichterA micromorphological analysis of non-standard buildings at Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Türkiye) by Aroa García-Suárez🏺 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Tobias RichterIncredibly 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...
- Reposted by Tobias RichterGetting 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/ 1/2
- Reposted by Tobias RichterCool study on the human-made landscape of the Mediterranean olive grove
- Reposted by Tobias RichterYesterday, we had a very special guest at the Centre for Textile Research.
- What was that now with the Three Age System?
- New evidence for copper metallurgy in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B. www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/how-... 🏺
- Reposted by Tobias RichterHow 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/...
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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... - Reposted by Tobias RichterMy thoughts on the Tinshemet discoveries in Israel (Nature Human Behaviour)
- Reposted by Tobias RichterThai archaeologists have found the oldest human skeleton in the country. 🏺🧪
- Reposted by Tobias RichterDonna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️
- Reposted by Tobias RichterCome to Sweden! Funded digital heritage PhD alert! Come and work with us on Gotland. We have two fully funded 4-year PhD projects in Archaeology and Conservation (Heritage Science). Join the team (and me) focussing on Digital Innovations for Sustainable Heritage. Details below...
- I am excited that I've recently joined the editorial board of Hunter Gatherer Research (tinyurl.com/54wnbu6m), the journal of the International Society for Hunter Gatherer Research.
- If you're looking for an alternative publishing venue for your hunter-gatherer themed research outside the major money-grabbing publishing companies, why not submit to HGR? We're a society journal published by a non-profit academic publisher.
- And we practice 'low impact' review of submitted papers, where we try to help authors to tell their story, rather than having them tell another story.
- So, go on, submit your hunter-gatherer themed papers be they archaeology, social or cultural anthropology, genetics, evolutionary anthropology, indigenous rights, linguistics, ethnohistorical, empirical or theoretical!
- I am so please to be part of this amazing, huge project blog.caeg.dk/from-the-pas.... Together with @joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy we will be looking into aeDNA from SW-Asia's earliest agricultural settlements to better understand the evolution of food crops and make future crops more resilient.
- Reposted by Tobias RichterRegistration for the Radiocarbon Short Course will close 28/02. Come along if you would like to learn a bit more about radiocarbon as a dating technique or as a tracer, or you would like some training on OxCal; conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/shor... @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @isotopesuk.bsky.social
- Reposted by Tobias RichterPart 1 of the special issue of Hunter Gatherer Research is here! 'The secret lives of forager children: The implications of intangible culture for an archaeology of childhood': bit.ly/HGR10-2 @sheinalew.bsky.social @vivek123.bsky.social @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social @graemewarren.bsky.social
- Reposted by Tobias RichterI'm running a "project-based" course this semester in which our MA students learn to work with archival material from Diana Kirkbride's archaeological excavations at the Neolithic site of Beidha, Jordan (1958-67 and 1983)🏺
- Reposted by Tobias RichterMy sister Saja, living in Khan Younis, is a trained translator English<>Arabic. Her wish is to (re-)build her life through her own strength and work. She asks me to spread the word that she would be grateful for any translation jobs; she already successfully completed one for a colleague of mine.
- Reposted by Tobias RichterConsider applying for one of our several 2-year postdocs! This year, we encourage applicants to team up with faculty members (including myself) I would love to work with colleagues who are interested in applying, so reach out if you are! archaeology.brown.edu/news/2025-02...
- Reposted by Tobias RichterSyria’s rich archaeological heritage is under threat as looting surges amid ongoing instability. Experts warn of widespread illegal excavations, driven by economic hardship and lack of security. #CulturalHeritage #Syria #Archaeology
- Please to be able to share a new paper that's just come out in Archaeological Research in Asia on Natufian and PPNA architecture at Shubayqa, which I wrote together with Lisa Yeomans and Alexis Pantos: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- We present an overview of the sequence of architecture at Shubayqa 1 and 6 and discuss questions surrounding permanence of construction and settlement, using the concept of 'quick' and 'slow' architecture.
- We argue that just because people used stone for construction, doesn't mean that buildings were meant to be permanent. Natufian and Neolithic architecture tended to be interpreted from a functional and 'built environment' perspective.
- We propose an alternative, more nuanced perspective that takes into account the rythms of inhabitation and the life biographies of buildings.
- Reposted by Tobias RichterMy paper on the entangled relationship between architecture and burial practices at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, Türkiye is finally out! (open access)🏺 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- This is a really neat and cool paper shedding important light on the process of early sheep domestication and human-sheep relations through time. Great work by @gingerhowley.bsky.social and colleagues!
- Thread and open access version to come- Ancient genomics and the origin, dispersal, and development of domestic sheep | Science search.app/gtSKYHF5HqRa... #adna
- Reposted by Tobias RichterPlease sign and share this student-led petition to save Ancient History here at Cardiff University www.change.org/p/save-cardi...
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- Reposted by Tobias RichterA cremation burial from Hama in Syria has been shown to include Baltic amber in the same burial that included an amethyst cylinder seal AND an agate bead with cuneiform, which were included in my 2023 monograph as nos. 15-16 (see necklace)! Link to article at the end of thread and to monograph below
- Reposted by Tobias RichterThe archaeology department at Ghent University is looking to hire a lecturer in prehistoric archaeology of Northwest Europe. Deadline 27/2/2025. jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Pr...
- Reposted by Tobias RichterLet Denmark cook.
- Reposted by Tobias RichterKann man nicht oft genug weiter verbreiten. Ist leider wieder aktuell, oder noch immer aktuell! youtu.be/ekxkveEnE2k
- Really cool new paper out in @antiquityj.bsky.social by our colleagues @nationalmuseet.bsky.social on beads at Iron Age Hama in Syria made from Baltic amber. Highlighting super interesting long-range connections between the Baltic Sea and southwest Asia!
- NEW Analysis of beads from Iron Age Hama, Syria finds they were produced using Baltic amber sourced over 3000km away, highlighting the city’s importance in ancient long-distance exchange networks and indicating a desire for ‘exotic’ goods in Mesopotamia. #AntiquityThread 1/14 🧵
- Reposted by Tobias Richter🏺👩🎓Do you like seals? Interested in a #PhD position in #Germany? Then, the KIŠIB project at the Institute of Near Eastern #Archaeology at LMU Munich has a job offer for you. job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/4...
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- Reposted by Tobias Richter📜I have a new article out on Epidemics in Ancient Mesopotamia! It collects a majority of written sources available for reconstructing epidemics in Mesopotamia, and examine what they reveal about these ancient societies and how they tackled disease through rituals, a form of quarantine, and myths 1/6
- Reposted by Tobias RichterSonderpräsentation "Das KZ vor der Haustür" ab heute bei uns in Konstanz: Welche Spuren haben sich an den ehemaligen Terrororten in Baden-Württemberg erhalten? Was können materiellen Relikte über die NS-Verbrechen aussagen? Wie ist mit der schwierigen Erblast angemessen umzugehen? 🧵1/2 🏺
- Reposted by Tobias RichterI'm very proud to have contributed to this new paper led by Camilla Mazzucato, which combines aDNA and material culture data in order to understand social organisation and kinship systems at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, Türkiye 🏺
- Reposted by Tobias Richter🏺 Free Workshop: Archaeological Textiles & Skins Analysis Copenhagen, March 13-14, 2025! Join leading experts for hands-on training in cutting-edge analytical techniques at the Centre for Textile Research (UCPH). Features lab visits to SMK & CTR, practical demonstrations with study collections.
- Reposted by Tobias RichterPost doc position! #archaeology🏺
- Reposted by Tobias RichterThe next @ucph-soa.bsky.social School of Archaeology retreat will occur on 24-25 March at Comwell Borupgaard, focusing on AI in Archaeology with guest speakers from @ads-update.bsky.social and @lund-university.bsky.social Members of the School can sign up here: archaeology.ku.dk/calendar/202...
- Congratulations to our @ucph-soa.bsky.social colleague Rune Iversen and co-authors omn their new paper out today in @antiquityj.bsky.social about the enigmatic Neolithic engraved sun placques from Bornholm, which may be connected to darkening of the sun due to volcanic activity. tinyurl.com/yvkxmrxv
- New paper out spearheaded by Natalia Petrova and based on our work at Ganj Dareh where we discuss the origins of pottery technology in the Zagros: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Tobias RichterThis kite won't be flying any time soon #InternationalKiteDay Named for their kite shapes, desert kites were hunting traps used to funnel prey. Some of the earliest monumentality in South-West Asia, they may have influenced sites like Göbeklitepe. 🆓 buff.ly/4eFicsU
- Reposted by Tobias RichterFinal call! Apply for this funded PhD at University College London. @uclarchaeology.bsky.social on : Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection. Deadline 20th January 5pm Uk time www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/hum...
- Reposted by Tobias RichterFinal call !! Apply for this funded PhD at University College London @UCLarchaeology.bsky.social on Establishing limits of Neanderthal presence in Britain. Deadline 20th Jan 5pm Uk time www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/est...
- Reposted by Tobias RichterDate for your diary 🇩🇰 Copenhagen from 14th - 17th October 2025 11th International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ) Archaeozoology, Genetics, Proteomics, and Morphometrics (AGPM) Working Group Meeting 🦴🦷🐄🐐🐏🐟🦉🧬 sites.google.com/palaeome.org...
- Interested in pursuing graduate studies in early prehistory of SW-Asia with me @ucph.bsky.social? Our department has three fully funded PhD fellowships available: employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16... You'd be part of the vibrant community of the @ucph-soa.bsky.social. #archaeology #PhD #Prehistory
- Reposted by Tobias RichterI recently stepped down as an AE at a Springer:Nature journal for reasons similar to o the JHE board (where I also once served). Time to stop allowing ourselves to be exploited for corporate profit. We can do everything without them.
- This puts the JHE en masse resignations in contexr retractionwatch.com/the-retracti...
- Reposted by Tobias Richter1) Postdoc job opportunities…join my TerraForm ERC project, at the University of Malta. One position for a geoarchaeologist and one in GIS/spatial analysis. The formal advert and application procedure will be out soon (and shared here), so I am releasing this as an early notice.
