Irene M. Petschko

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I am an archaeologist in the Technical Unit of the Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) documenting at excavations, photogrammetry, GIS, among other things.
Vienna, Austria
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#Archaeodon #Archaeology #fieldwork #GIS #Photogrammetry #Mapping #BronzeAge #Balkans #Prehistory

Gute Arbeitskleidung muss nicht nur funktional sein und Schutz bieten, sie darf auch nicht stören oder behindern. Was selbstverständlich klingt, ist leider für viele Frauen in der Feldarchäologie immer noch nicht Alltag. Die Grabungstechnikerin und Archäologin Alexandra Ziesché hat darüber im Rundbrief Grabungstechnik 26 (2025) geschrieben: https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/rbgt/article/view/114805
Nein, es geht nicht um die Optik! | Rundbrief Grabungstechnik

The OeAI now new to the Kulturpool! We provide images, 3D models, and metadata on Roman fibulae and components of historical costumes. This information is accessible through the cfir.science digital research platform, which seeks to make archaeological treasures available to everyone at no cost.
>>> Check out the fascinating world of Roman brooches now

New article about the archaeometric online database oeai.METRIX developed by the Digital Archaeology and Classics unit of the @oeai_oeaw in JAS Reports

👉 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105354 👈

funded by @fwf

There once was a field in Vienna town
Where a Roman-era secret was found
Beneath the football pitch
A grim historical switch
A mass grave from battles long renown

#GuardianLimerick #Austria #Archaeology #Europe #Science

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/03/roman-era-battlefield-mass-grave-discovered-under-vienna-football-pitch

Roman-era battlefield mass grave discovered under Vienna football pitch

Archaeologists say ‘catastrophic military event’ took place at site where 129 bodies have been found so far

The Guardian
That QGIS layer color plugin looks rather useful if you got tons of layers and layer groups.

The January plugin update is here with 36 new plugins 🤩

https://blog.qgis.org/2025/02/11/__trashed/

Plugin Update – January, 2025

January, the first month of 2025, brought us 36 new plugins, published in the QGIS plugin repository. Here follows the quick overview in reverse chronological order. If any of the names or short de…

QGIS.org blog
The day a certain photogrammetry program allows commas as decimal separators, the heart attacks over seemingly wrong GPCs will go down 99%.
I'm looking at my bookmarks of big ambitious Horizon 2020 projects and it's kinda sad to see that the websites are down? All this work and fanfare and expectations and then gone in a couple of years. (e.g. ArchAIDE and GRAVITATE)

I love that the collapse of social media platforms is unearthing the internet I grew up with: blogs, forums, newsletters...

...and webrings! If you have a blog about archaeology or the ancient past, please consider adding it to archaeo.social's new webring:

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Just add the links to your site and send us an email at [email protected].

#MetaArchaeoSocial #Webring #DigitalArchaeology #DigitalHumanities

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Or how about in the style of the lyrics of your favourite band?