Well depends on the language. I listened to talks by Daria Stefan and Lee Drake. Interesting stuff!

A 19th-century hall with gigantic staircases leading up to a gallery with a statue. Photo: S. Hageneuer

Back from CAA 2026 in Vienna! 🏛️ I presented the KIŠIB project, co-organised an archaeogaming session, and heard fascinating talks on AI and cuneiform translation. Great organisation, brilliant social events. New blog post with my highlights: itsmoreofacomment.com/2026/04/10/c...

#CAA2026

3D visualisation of room 24 of the palace of Til Barsip, which was the festival room. Walls are decorated with colourful paintings of Neo-Assyrian origin. © artefacts-berlin.de

The palace at Til Barsib (Syria) was richly decorated with wall paintings in the Assyrian fashion ar. 744—631 BCE.

Our visualisation combines black-and-white copies and coloured photographs and situates them in their architectural context.

🔗 www.artefacts-berlin.de/portfolio-it...

The visualisation shows two of the different building phases of the fortification wall in Mari. © artefacts-berlin.de

Mari is one of the most famous sites in West Asia.

A French archaeological investigation focuses on the city’s fortification walls.

We developed reconstructions of the fortification walls, the city gate, and an adjoining residential building.

🔗 www.artefacts-berlin.de/portfolio-it...

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ICYMI: "Does everyone need to… do Digital Humanities now?" where @idhrenil gives her views on what it means to do #DH today. Is all Humanities necessarily digital? In her view, working transdisciplinary is the way to go. Have a read on our blog here:

🔗 archaeoinformatics.net/does-everyon...

Four persons looking on a computer screen and one person working in the back. Photo: S. Hageneuer

The third Archaeogaming Hackathon is done! 🎮⛏️ Four students in Kiel built "Kieler Küstenfische" — a game that connects a present-day rescue excavation with life in the Mesolithic.

🔗 itsmoreofacomment.com/2026/03/13/s... #Archaeogaming #DiKopA

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#280CharAbstracts: Christoph Rinne explores how Markdown & coding practices foster open source, interactivity & accessibility in teaching—especially for Windows users.

🔗https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1572.c23244

#DigitalHumanities #OpenSource

The issue is edited by @archaeobasti.bsky.social , @apolitopoulos.bsky.social, Bärbel Morstadt and @aydinabar.bsky.social and contains also exciting contributions by Rune Rattenborg, Jessie DeGrado, Eric X. Jarrard and @luilog.bsky.social.

A big ziggurat in the middle of the desert. The top is in ruins. Photo by حسن on Unsplash

Our special issue "West Asia in the Center" just dropped in Forum Kritische Archäologie! Eight open access articles on colonialism, heritage, and decolonial perspectives 🎉

🔗 itsmoreofacomment.com/2026/02/20/west-asia-in-the-center-a-new-special-issue-in-forum-kritische-archaologie/

A laptop on a table

#280CharAbstracts: Maria Shinoto emphasizes text literacy as a core skill in archaeology. Digital tools open new possibilities for analyzing and teaching textual sources in innovative ways.

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#Archaeology #TextualStudies

This image shows an empty lecture hall at a university. Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash.

I won the 2025 Teaching Award at Cologne's Faculty of Arts & Humanities! 🎓 New blog post on why good teaching needs time, why practice matters alongside theory, and why recognition for teaching is important.

🔗 itsmoreofacomment.com/2026/02/13/t...

#DigitalArchaeology #AcademicTeaching

Roman town house with the dipinto “Romanes Eunt Domus” (Level “Roman metal extraction and minting”).

#280CharAbstracts: Stefan Krmnicek & Kevin Körner present *Graveler*, a serious game for numismatic teaching. It helps students explore coins interactively, linking play with academic learning.

🔗 doi.org/10.11588/pro... #Numismatics #SeriousGames

Screenshot of the game "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis" (1992).

#280CharAbstracts: Sebastian Hageneuer argues that video games are not only a source for archaeology but also a medium through which archaeology can be taught. Archaeogaming bridges research, teaching & popular culture.

🔗 doi.org/10.11588/pro... #Archaeogaming #Archaeology

Graphic illustration of an excavation in Syria. Different people doing various jobs are typical for an archaeological excavation. © artefacts-berlin.de

For the Tell Fecheriye exhibition, we presented the results of the ongoing excavation to the general public. We presented an entire archaeological experience and created a colourful illustration of the many tasks involved in an excavation.

🔗 www.artefacts-berlin.de/portfolio-it...

#280CharAbstracts: Stefan Feuser discusses the potential and limits of immersive & browser-based VR for teaching archaeology. While VR can open new perspectives, it faces practical & pedagogical constraints.

🔗 doi.org/10.11588/pro...

Part of larger volume: doi.org/10.11588/pro....
#Archaeology #VR

Ten Questions and a Few More Thoughts - It's more of a comment... Recently, I had the pleasure of being interviewed for the Berliner Antike-Blog, a platform dedicated to research on the ancient world in the Berlin/Brandenburg region. The format – “10 Questions” – is...

✨ New post! Reflecting on my @antike-kolleg.bsky.social interview – the return to Berlin 🏠, honest thoughts on AI in archaeology 🤖, and why someone should finally make an excavation game that's about methodology, not tomb raiding 🎮⛏️

👉 itsmoreofacomment.com/2026/01/16/t...

#DigitalArchaeology

Archaeology and Interdisciplinarity after the Digital Turn - It's more of a comment... New article out in Rethinking History! 🎉"Archaeology and interdisciplinarity after the digital turn" – on RTI, ML & archaeogaming.

New article out! 🎉 "Archaeology and interdisciplinarity after the digital turn" just published in Rethinking History – on RTI, machine learning & archaeogaming as examples for interdisciplinary work.

🔗 itsmoreofacomment.com/2026/01/02/a...

#Archaeology #DigitalHumanities

Museum 3D: View inside the Roman house (desktop version). (Viewport Unreal Engine; 3D visualisation: T. Jung).

#280CharAbstracts: Michaela Stark examines the use of serious games & 3D interaction in museums and teaching. These tools open new ways of engaging with archaeology, but also pose challenges for sustainability and accessibility.

🔗 doi.org/10.11588/pro...

#Archaeology #Museums

The Forum Romanum. Photo by Embla Munk Rynkebjerg on Unsplash.

#280CharAbstracts: Asuman Lätzer-Lasar explores ethical challenges of moving images in immersive learning. Reconstructions may distort understanding if not critically reflected upon. Teachers need to foster visual literacy.

🔗 doi.org/10.11588/pro...

#Archaeology #Ethics

Two New Publications, Two Different Worlds - It's more of a comment... Two new papers this week: 1) Material Traces of Marketplaces in Morocco and 2) Archaeogaming in the Classroom.

📢 Two new publications this week! 📍 Ethnoarchaeology of Moroccan marketplaces (with my SfM models!) 🎮 Archaeogaming as teaching practice (from my Cologne seminar)

Two very different projects — one shared spirit. 👉 itsmoreofacomment.com/2025/11/21/t... #Archaeogaming #Ethnoarchaeology #OpenAccess

Prague, for the First Time - It's more of a comment... Just came back from my first trip to Prague — and fell in love. Art Nouveau façades, roast duck & goulash, a whole day at Prague Castle.

🇨🇿 Just came back from my first trip to Prague — and fell in love. Art Nouveau façades, roast duck & goulash, a whole day at Prague Castle.

Romantic, relaxing & full of charm. New blog post ➡️ itsmoreofacomment.com/2025/10/31/p... #Travel #Prague #Architecture #Food

Beyond Fun and Games? Rethinking Archaeogaming, Play, and DigitalHeritage - It's more of a comment... At #CAA2026, Aris Politopoulos & I are hosting a session on #archaeogaming! We’ll explore inclusivity, ethics, critical limits and much more!

Short reminder that we have an #Archaeogaming session at the next #CAA2026 in Vienna! Please join us with a paper, the submission deadline is this Sunday! For more info have a look here: itsmoreofacomment.com/2025/09/26/b... #conference #gaming #archaeology

Beyond Fun and Games? Rethinking Archaeogaming, Play, and DigitalHeritage - It's more of a comment... At #CAA2026, Aris Politopoulos & I are hosting a session on #archaeogaming! We’ll explore inclusivity, ethics, critical limits and much more!

🎮 At #CAA2026 in Vienna, Aris Politopoulos & I are co-hosting a session on archaeology + play!

We’ll explore inclusivity, ethics, critical limits—and how archaeogaming can challenge dominant narratives.

Blog post 👉 itsmoreofacomment.com/2025/09/26/b...

#Archaeogaming #DigitalHeritage

Graphic explaining the research data lifecycle. Source: Martina Trognitz, CC BY 4.0

#280CharAbstracts: 👩‍🏫 Martina Trognitz argues that teaching archaeology must include data literacy. Good data management, FAIR principles & Open Science should be exemplified by instructors and practiced by students.

🇩🇪 🔗 doi.org/10.11588/pro...

#Archaeology #Data

The Interactive Pasts Conference (TIPC) is an event where we get together to celebrate our joint love for video games and the past and share our playful, creative, smart, cool, beautiful ideas with each other.

Come and join: interactivepasts.com/the-interact...

📣 New season of the Digital Classicist Berlin Seminar starts Oct 14!
Hybrid lectures on 3D, cuneiform, digital twins, AI, citizen science & more.
I’m happy to help organize it in my new role at BBAW.
More in my blog post 👉 itsmoreofacomment.com/2025/09/19/a...

#DigitalClassics #DH

Cover of Bolder-Boos, Hageneuer, Pantelidis "Digitale Methoden des Lernens und Lehrens in der Archäologie". Background by Andrey Haimin on Unsplash.

🎓 New edited volume out now: Digital Methods of Learning & Teaching in Archaeology! Packed with chapters on #VR, #archaeogaming & more.

Open Access, CC‑BY‑ND, from a 2024 TU Darmstadt workshop. Read more in the blog post

👉 itsmoreofacomment.com/2025/08/29/a...

#DigitalArchaeology #OpenAccess

A random selection of people listening to a talk at a conference. Photo by Sincerely Media on Unsplash.

ICYMI: I attended a workshop on virtual reality in digital media, where I was the only archaeologist. Nevertheless, I learnt a lot! The workshop, organised by J. Tomann and S. de Jong, was a delight. Read more about it here:

itsmoreofacomment.com/2022/11/04/a...

#VirtualReality #Archaeology

This image shows a visualisation of the Pillared Hall in Uruk. Although it is a small building, it has wonderful decorations of coloured clay cones arranged in different geometric patterns. The walls were covered in egg-yolk yellow clay! © artefacts-berlin.de

🏺 Uruk/Warka is one of the world's earliest cities. Excavations have uncovered a wide range of monumental buildings.

Our focus was on the main buildings: C and B; the 'Pillared Hall' and 'Hallenbau'; the 'Great Courtyard'; and some smaller structures.

🔗 www.artefacts-berlin.de/portfolio-it...

Bamyan, the destroyed site without the buddhas. Photo by Zabihullah Habibi on Unsplash

#280CharAbstracts: S. N. Autenrieth and D. von Boekel investigate why the destruction of architectural monuments and pictorial works occurs during times of change in the UK, Mesoamerica, Germany, Afghanistan and Syria, both in the past and in the present day. #OpenAccess

🔗 doi.org/10.14361/978...