Sabina Cveček

✨Heading to New Orleans next week to deliver a talk within the American Institute of Archaeology (@archaeological.org) National Lecture series at Tulane University (@tulaneu.bsky.social). #archaeology #anthropology events.tulane.edu/content/clas...

Launching Reckoning Science We believe in science and its achievements, but also in the need to examine how it is actually made, including its limits and its entanglements with politics, money, and power.

Excited to announce that my post doc, Sasha Kaurov, and I are launching
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Please take a look, read, and subscribe! All proceeds will go to supporting the underfed post-doc.

What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collectiv...

"The solution to technology is not more technology. The solution to loneliness is each other, a wealth that should be available to most of us most of the time." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in @theguardian.com with a must read www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

These ancient handprints may represent some of the world’s first rock art Hand stencils from a Southeast Asian cave predate Neanderthal cave art from Europe

Brown-pigmented hand stencils found on the walls of caves on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and dated to at least 67,800 years ago may be the oldest known examples of rock art in the world. https://scim.ag/45pM61P

🌟 It was a great honor and pleasure to present my reserach at @arf-ucb.bsky.social at the UC Berkeley in November. Many thanks to everyone for making this happen, a warm welcome, and a great conversation on kinship, archaeology, and thinking beyond genetics. #archaeology #anthropology #ancientDNA

Cradled by architecture: infancy and delayed personhood in Neolithic Anatolia and the Balkans Children, especially infants, are integral to human communities, but how they are perceived varies across societies. This study examines infancy at the late seventh millennium Neolithic sites of Ba...

🌟 New publication!

Infant burials at Barcın Höyük & Lepenski Vir show age-based, not genetic, patterns—suggesting delayed personhood and kin-making cradled by architecture. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... With Fokke Gerritsen, Yılmaz Erdal, Sofija Stefanović & @aycaaydogan.bsky.social et al.

If you like milk science... <dusts off the ol’ blog> On Thanksgiving, a Facebook “human interest story pages” dropped an essay about mother’s milk and me as a milk rese...

<dusts off the ol' blog> to say something about "celebrating science" in the age of AI & current political context.

EVEN THOUGH I HAD OTHER THINGS I WANTED TO DO THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND.

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Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced estimated economic cost in a German funding line - Nature Communications The authors show evidence from a German funding line that a lottery-first approach followed by peer review is accompanied by increased female representation both at the submission stage and among fund...

“data show an increase of 10% in submissions & 23% in funded projects from female applicants with the lottery-first approach compared to a previously used procedure. Additionally, the lottery-first approach was estimated to have 68% lower economic costs compared to single-stage peer review approach”

Interpreting Ancient DNA: A Panel Discussion Ancient DNA studies have been exploding in the last decades and have yielded a large range of provocative and revelatory interpretations, not just ...

🙌 Excited about tomorrow's talk and a round table on "Interpreting Ancient DNA" moderated by Meg Conkey at the Archaeological Research Facility - Berkeley. If you are in the Bay Area, join us! @arf-ucb.bsky.social #archaeology #anthropology #ancientDNA

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‘Young people can come in and have life-changing moments’: Gus Casely-Hayford on V&A East, a new museum for Gen Z The director wants London’s long-awaited institution to ignite creative passion in the Gen Z visitors it’s aimed at. As he unveils the building and its contents, can he pull it off?

‘Young people can come in and have life-changing moments’: Gus Casely-Hayford on V&A East, a new museum for Gen Z

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🏃🏾‍♂️🏃‍♀️Chicago Marathon may be famous but today’s Hot Chocolate Run was Delicious! #Chicago #Running #Autumn #HotChocolate

The Ancient Burial Rituals That Have Shaped How We Treat Our Dead In 1907, Robert Hertz, a French sociologist of religion, published an influential essay called “A Contribution to the Study of the Collective Representation of Death.” He argued that in most human …

“Care for the dead has long been a way of defining what it means to be human,” @theprofrog.bsky.social writes in Graveyards. Read an excerpt in @literaryhub.bsky.social:

Text reading "Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Paper of the Month". Next to the text is an issue cover of the Cambridge Archaeological Journal.

The Paper of the Month from Cambridge Archaeological Journal is "Turning-the-edge, Tranchet, and Social Signalling at Boxgrove" by Ceri Shipton et al., available #openaccess!

📚 https://cup.org/3Wwdk1R

#PaperOfTheMonth

1/2 SACNAS 2025 Columbus, Ohio we are in you!! Come talk to the team about anything you see below! Dr. Matt Anderson from UWisconsin, Dr. Krystal Tsosie from ASU, & many more Indigenous Thinkers for #IDSov in our famous "Network of Networks". We have been blazing a trail & not stopping anytime soon!

Thanks a lot for generously sharing this article with your community, @bjking.bsky.social! :)

🌟Delighted to see our collaborative paper integrating ethnography, archaeology, and ancient DNA published! It has been a joy brining such wonderful scholars together in #Vienna last year. Hopefully, the insights prove to be useful accross disciplinary boundaries. @oeaw.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social

🌎 Coming soon to Chicago!
On 6–7 Nov 2025, the Field Museum hosts the first MCAA Regional Meeting in North America 🏛️
Talks, roundtables & career sessions on MSCA & ERC funding.
Join us to connect minds across continents! bit.ly/42ZgU8o
#MCAA #MSCA #FieldMuseum #Chicago

<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library As anthropology reckons with its past, present, and future, anthropologists increasingly seek to challenge inequities within the discipline and academia more broadly. Anthropology, regardless of subd...

🌟A powerful call for Writing In Community🌟 Inspired by archaeology, it centers care, joy, & #Collaboration over hierarchy & isolation. A refreshing & necessary vision for how #Anthropology (and academia) can do better producing knowledge together👇 anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌟 Honored that my book Çukuriçi Höyük 4 (ÖAW Press, 2022) was reviewed by Dr. Daniel J. Pullen in Journal of Near Eastern Studies (@uchicagopress.bsky.social ): “Her socio-cultural anthropological perspective is one of the great strengths of this study.” #anthropology
📕 Open access 👉 bit.ly/4nZJJtr

Sabina Cveček  - Archaeological Institute of America AIA National Lecture Program Lecturer Sabina Cveček

🌟 Excited to hit the road soon as part of the Archaeological Institute of America’s National Lecture Program — honored to be one of this year’s National Lecturers! bit.ly/4n9YrgN I'll speak and meet colleagues in #Milwaukee (WI), #Spokane (WA) & #NewOrleans (LA)! @archaeological.org #archaeology

The Power of Open Doors: My Experience with the ASciNA Mentoring Program Winning the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellowship has been a major milestone in my career, allowing me to pursue research I am passionate about and relocate to Chicago…

🚪 A reminder of the power of open doors! I’ve written a blog about my ASciNA (Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America) mentoring experience. Grateful to @walterscheidel.bsky.social & @univie.ac.at for helping make a difference across continents 🌍 bit.ly/4fJM0Gc

Starting the day with a 3D printed Platia Magoula Zarkou house model, soon talking to the Field Museum Teen Volunteers about how I started in science and my current research projects. Working in a museum can be so fun! @oeaw.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social #Anthropology #Archaeology #Kinship #Family

🙌 Exciting new study from #Anatolia published by @compevohumang.bsky.social in @science.org today! Anthropologists have long argued that kinship and family do not need to be genetically oriented. The study from Çatalhöyük wonderfully highlights this point also for Neolithic in Anatolia. Congrats!

Thanks, Václav!

Thank you, Jenny!

I’m happy to share that I've been appointed to the position of Research Associate in the Division of #Anthropology at the @amnh.org / American Museum of Natural History in New York until June 2028! I am extremely grateful for this wonderful opportunity while remaining to work out of Chicago!

I am delighted to see my debate article “Enthrone, Dethrone, Rethrone: The Multiple Lives of Matrilineal Kinship in Aegean Prehistory” appear in Archaeological Dialogues. Thanks to many for helping me developing this piece! It was fantastic 3 months as a fellow at @oeai.bsky.social in #Athens 2021!

Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) at the University of #Chicago is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a fantastic lineup of speakers, including a lecture by Judith Butler. What a pleasure and privilege to learn about the many ways of theorizing the present!

Lunch Club Series | From kinship to household and back? Why kinship still needs anthropologists in the 21st century

✨Excited about heading to the Bay Area soon. ✨

I'll be giving a talk at Stanford Archaeology Center on Wednesday, 16 April at 12:00 about my #X-KIN project, meeting with the #ASCINA mentor Walter Scheidel (@walterscheidel.bsky.social) and fellow #MSCA fellows. events.stanford.edu/event/lunch-...