🏆 Top-ranked: LMU Munich is the best German #university in this year’s Center for World University Ranking (CWUR). Within the EU, #LMU ranks 8th and globally 51st among the 21,291 universities assessed. Congratulations! 🙌 🎉 #LMUMunich #CWUR #Ranking

Couldn't be prouder of my former PhD student Danai Theodoraki, who just published her thesis on Neolithic Franchthi and high-res climate variability! 🥳 books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de//propylaeum/... @leizarchaeology.bsky.social @unimainz.bsky.social

Join us! 🤩 arup-cas.github.io/atrium-schoo...

At LMU Munich, the M.A. in Digital Cultural Heritage equips students with the skills to document and analyze past human societies and material culture using digital and computational approaches 🏛️💻 📅Application deadline: June 15. 🎓 Taught in English | No tuition fees www.kw.lmu.de/dch/en/study...

Excited to co-organize an amazing training school this September in Brno! 🎉 From 14–18 September 2026, we’re bringing together curious minds to explore how computer vision and machine learning are transforming archaeology. Don’t miss it, apply now and join us ☺️ arup-cas.github.io/atrium-schoo...

It was a pleasure representing @lmu.de at the second EXCALIBUR meeting in Sant'Antioco, Sardinia, Italy. Talking with colleagues in archaeology, cultural heritage, and computer science is always exciting, especially when exploring new ways to advance our field and tackle shared challenges.

🚀 Historic achievement for ICArEHB! We’ve secured €31.5M to launch UAlgTec Heritage, a pioneering European centre for innovation in archaeological heritage. Proud of our team and excited for what comes next! #ICArEHB #UAlgTecHeritage #HeritageTech #UAlg #Portugal

OUT NOW! Advances in Digital Archaeology: Proceedings of the 2023 conference Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology – 50 years of synergy 📚 Read online for free or purchase a printed copy at https://www.sidestone.com/books/advances-in-digital-archaeology

What better way to teach 3D scanning than with lithic artifacts? 😍 Many thanks to @jmarreiros.bsky.social and @tracer-leiza.bsky.social for sharing experimental lithics and helping make this hands-on learning experience possible with the Artec Spider scanner. www.kw.lmu.de/dch/en/news-...

Another fantastic CAA! I had the chance to present the final paper of my PhD, enjoy insightful papers, and reconnect with both new and old colleagues. Huge thanks to @guillermo-bustos.bsky.social for co-chairing Session #13, sparking such an interesting discussion and Q&A. #IDCH #LMU

Finally, I’m attending the #CAA2026Vienna with my team of talented researchers from the @lmu.de Institute for #DigitalCulturalHeritageStudies. Go #DigitalArchaelogy!

Sedimentary ancient DNA is seriously shaking up how we study the past, and I'm very happy to be quoted in this Nature feature😅. Cool piece on sedaDNA, what it can do and where things get messy (literally, in the dirt) @erc.europa.eu @matrixerc.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social

Digitizing the Past: 3D Scanning Egyptian Artifacts in Munich www.kw.lmu.de/dch/en/news-...

🏆 LMU Munich remains at the forefront: Status as #UniversityofExcellence confirmed – as decided by an international jury within the framework of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments. Read more here:

The #caa2026 program, schedule, and abstract booklet have all been published! You can access them all here: https://2026.caaconference.org/program/

1/4 New recommendation: Courtenay et al. (2026). Computational simulations of potential Pachycrocuta bite damage based on a ~1.2 Ma ravaged hippopotamus femur from Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Granada, Spain). V2 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI #Archaeology doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🏺🧪🦣

3/4 Recommended by Anastasia Eleftheriadou based on reviews by Sebastián Yrarrázaval, Mathieu Quenu, and @jamesmulqueeney.bsky.social. All editorial work accessible here: doi.org/10.24072/pci...

I was recently interviewed by @opensciencenl.bsky.social about my work on interoperability in the social sciences and humanities, and why it matters: www.openscience.nl/en/news/soci...

PhD defence ✅️ a big thank you to my awesome supervisors, @jmarreiros.bsky.social and Dr. Shannon McPherron, for all their support, guidance and trust!

I will give a workshop at this event, where you can build stuff with Lego to learn about interoperability! So if you want to learn more about the I in FAIR (or just want an excuse to play with Lego), go pre-register below ⬇️

Working with Open Source 12 February 2026, 2:00 pm–3:30 pm Discover how open-source tools can transform your research. A roundtable for PhD students and Early Career Researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-huma...

👾🏺 This week we are hosting a week-long #digitalarchaeology #maintainathon, an opportunity to clean, document and revise older code together! If you’re a #ComputationalArchaeology *st take this time to update your README, add code comments, write a unit tests or consolidate your project roadmap […]

I am so excited being part of the LMU team led by @nicolalercari.bsky.social in the EXCALIBUR Horizon Project ( excalibur-eccch.eu ), where we develop open-source, cost-effective digital tools powered by AI/ML collaboratively with archaeologists, bioanthropologists, and conservators.

Happy to share the new virtual collection of comparative anatomy, SKELETONS ONLINE (cor.iphes.cat). The specimens come from the comparative anatomy collection of @iphes-cerca.bsky.social , in Tarragona (Spain). Please, use it and share!!!

Check out our new publication on the challenges faced by African scholars, especially early-career researchers. *Against All Odds: An Archaeologist's Journey in Africa* Ethiopia, Sudan, Zimbabwe and South Africa collaboration #EX NOVO Journal archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.php/…

Today, we’re launching our new #DigitalHeritage guest speaker series @lmumuenchen.bsky.social #AcademicSky with my talk on investigating invisible ancient cities with #remotesensing and #AI www.kw.lmu.de/dch/en/news-...

A paper in Nature Communications presents archaeology of the Namorotukunan site in Kenya’s Turkana Basin, and the study’s findings suggests continuity in tool-making practices over 300,000 years, with evidence of systematic selection of rock types. go.nature.com/3WJnBrK 🏺 🧪

I talked to Nature Methods about fieldwork and @trowelblazers.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... -- never say no to two many chandeliers, hey

Excited to share our new publication, led by the amazing Anastasia and @youssefdjellal.bsky.social! We show that CNNs can help not only with classifying traces of use, but also on how to acquire imaging data 🔬 @icarehb.bsky.social @leizarchaeology.bsky.social

#ICArEHB PhD student Anastasia Eleftheriadou & researcher João Marreiros co-organise CAA2026 Session 13: “If I Had a Hammer, I’d 3D-Scan It: Computational Approaches for Tool Analysis.” 🛠️ 2026.caaconference.org 📝 Submission deadline extended: 9 Nov 2025 #ICArEHB #CAA2026 #ComputationalArchaeology

Hello, everyone! 📣 If you are planning to submit a paper or poster for the CAA 2026 conference in Vienna (31 March – 4 April 2026), we have great news for you — the deadline for submissions has been extended to 9 November 2025! Submit via CAA portal by Nov 9

New paper out! 🎉 We explore how deep learning (CNNs) can classify polish on experimental flint tools based on contact material and use intensity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This Thursday (30/10), I will present “Microscopy Image Collections in Archaeology (MICA)” within the MAIA COST Action, an initiative to document and centralize existing microscopy image datasets for archaeology 🔬 If you are interested in contributing, join our community! maiacost.eu

Just a few days left! 😃 The call for papers and posters closes on October 26th 📆 We’re excited to receive your contributions for Session 13: “If I Had a Hammer, I’d 3D-Scan It: Computational Approaches for the Analysis of Tool Artifacts.”

📣 Are you a BA student or graduate in Archaeology or Cultural Heritage interested in gaining hands-on experience with photogrammetry and laser scanning? Don’t miss the Winter School organized by the Institute of Digital Cultural Heritage at LMU! 👉 www.mdh-misu.de/en/content/m...

Call for Papers 🔔 S13: If I Had a Hammer, I’d 3D-Scan It (CAA2026, Vienna) Bring your hammers, datasets, and code 🤓 we look forward to your contributions.

I'll be attending, and co-organising the session "Exploring Interoperability Objectives and Opportunities with the TDCCs" Please say hi if you see me, and join the session if you're into interoperability!

Exciting implications for these #AI tools developed by our colleagues in the Classics Faculty #Ithaca and #Aeneus predictingthepast.com generative AI models designed to assist historians in the study of ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions. Time to play!

Coming soon: Advances in Digital Archaeology. Proceedings of the 2023 conference Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology – 50 years of synergy www.sidestone.com/books/advanc...

If you weren’t able to make it to our "Demystifying Digital Field Recording", it’s now uploaded to our YouTube channel: youtu.be/X_-M2KAhYug?...

What an exciting year 2024 was, with the wrap-up of the Emporios Hinterland Project in Chios, Greece! Special thanks to Dr. Bevan and @brennawalks.bsky.social for coordinating such a systematic surface survey, enriched with computational approaches 🚶‍♂️⛰️

Mechanical experiments are in progress at TraCEr by @eduardopaixao.bsky.social, testing the impact of different raw materials on the crushing of raw tubers. This study is part of broader research on early human behavior and percussive tool use at the Acheulean site of Melka Wakena, Ethiopia

Are you passionate about making science more reproducible and ethical? The Turing Way handbook is a must-read! 💡 If you haven’t explored it yet, it is highly recommend giving it a look! 🌟 book.the-turing-way.org

Here is my checklist summarising a small set of some of the simplest tasks you can do that have high potential to improve the reproducibility of your analysis code. This is based on my year of reproducibility reviews for the J. of Archaeological Science: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM... 🧪🏺

I'm happy to share this review article, where I attempt to ponder about missed opportunities in archaeological statistical modelling.

We were thrilled to organize the seminar Traceology II: Introduction to Theory and Methods in Archaeological Research. The sessions combined theory with hands-on lithic analysis, offering an overview of traceological methods and relevance to archaeological research. Many thanks to all participants!

New paper out with Radu Iovita in PLOS One modeling potential routes of dispersal for Neanderthals moving from the Caucasus Mountains to the Altai Mountains after MIS 6 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

🥳 I'm very happy to share the first paper of my PhD on the application of machine learning in use-wear analysis. ✨This work wouldn't have been possible without the support of @icarehb.bsky.social and my excellent supervisors @jmarreiros.bsky.social and Shannon McPherron. bsky.app/profile/jmar...

Thrilled to share the latest publication from our lab — huge congratulations to the amazing @aeleftheriadou.bsky.social on her first paper! 🎉 Stay tuned for her exciting work applying machine learning to study wear patterns on stone tools. 🔬

Great news! The detailed conference program for the upcoming @caaint.bsky.social meeting in Athens is now available! Looking forward to seeing you all there! 😊✨ #CAA2025 #icarehb 2025.caaconference.org/wp-content/u...