Heide Wrobel Nørgaard

From Athens to Poznań an easy task. But the transition from the EAA annual meeting to the World Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP) is a major change. Fortunately, my colleagues at both conferences enjoy discussing metals in prehistory. 🏺

#FindsFriday from the #EAA2026 in Athens It’s something old, well known, and yet every time it’s astonishing and a little different from the last time. The Pantheon

Its #EAA2026 opening reception. The hot air of Athens does not hold us back from enjoying to meet friends and colleagues. Looking forward to 3 days of #knowledge exchange!🏺

The summer break is over, and this means that the exciting #archaeology projects are starting up again. Since yesterday, I am in Lund at Arkeologerna, examining the #bronzeage jewellery from Dalköpinge.🏺🧪

Enjoying life with a glas of wine and salmon on the #neolithic site of Saint-Martin-de-Corléans, Aosta. Invited by the #MegaMuseo we had a very privilged visit with the #ISA2026Torino.

Sightseeing in a fascinating city! Attending the #ISA2026 in #Turin allows us to experience the city's past as we move from location to location — here, the #Roman Gate.

#FindsFriday a late #Bronzeage #sword from Kostryzyn with a very interesting crown-like ribbon around the hilt. I know this crown shaped pattern from early #ironage neckrings in Denmagk, but this sword is much earlier.

Oh yes, this is with no doubt a masterpiece! When you are interested where it was made and if there are others from the same workshop here is an educated guess... #bronzeage www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

Lost Bronze Age Mines Unearthed in Spain Transform Bronze Age History #Science #Archaeology #Other #BronzeAge #Spain https://scitechdaily.com/lost-bronze-age-mines-unearthed-in-spain-transform-bronze-age-history/

I often find myself in situations where I'm really glad I had such a long and varied #education. Some of the habits from my apprenticeship as #goldsmith still are part of my movements. I don't think about holding my little finger as a stabiliser for the drill; I just do it. #archaeology #bronzeage

It was exciting to present the #research behind the picture that I entered into the competition! The real fascination of metallography 🧪 only becomes apparent when you see the original artefact. #archaeology 🏺 #bronzeage

I had the most incredible #time-travelling experience working in the storage facilities at the National Museum in #Stettin. I always imagined #archaeologists 🏺 would spend a lot of time in mysterious, dusty rooms – at least, that's what Indiana Jones taught us, right? Here, it is true! #Bronzeage

That sounds like a good holiday book! Thanks for sharing.

Super exciting!

Would you like to know why I take #pictures of #ancient #metal objects and what makes the bronze medal picture from the 2025 DNRF🧪 #photocompetition so special? Mark 20 February in your calendar. Here, I will give a short talk in Aarhus on the #craft secrets revealed by my picture. #bronzeage

Interview with my dear colleague Daniel Berger about our latest #article on metal #provenance studies of Sardinian #Bronzeage figurines. 🧪🏺

My colleagues, Anna Tornberg and Kristian Brink, invited me to #Lund to see a #Bronzeage belt plate. They didn't just ask me to come and look at it. My specialty is not looking at #things, but imagining how they were #crafted while spending hours examining them. And this we did! 🧪🏺 #archaeology

Enjoying the latest series of #DiggingForBritain? Antiquity authors appear in an upcoming episode, exploring the Bronze Age tin trade that connected Britain to the East Mediterranean! They wrote about it in the latest #AntiquityBlog, available to read 🆓 www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20... 🏺

The first #trip this year with my christmas present! A suitcase made for stickers. I already added the collected #stickers from the last two years trips. And soon I can add a new sticker, this time from Lund.

🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS': uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨

In #Copenhagen. This time, I focused on the #lures and #shields! Before the #Viksø #helmets can #gopublic, there is one issue that needs to be resolved. I have been working on describing the #crafting of the helmets when I noticed something new that I had not paid attention to before. #bronzeage

With a group of female researchers, all alumni of the Academy of Science Communication #RoyalDanishAcademyofSciences, I visited the Danish no.1 Radio programme #P1. We were invited to say hi and pitch our research to get more female experts in radio! #expert in #archaeoligy #bronzeage #metals #craft

It is very good for research when pictures taken during investigations for scientific reasons are seen as special. 🧪 While trying to understand how 3,500-year-old jewellery was made, a beautiful picture came to life. #archaeology #bronzeage #art #moesgaard

Yeah! Congrats to all the other scientists with their great pictures I have seen today!

What a day! 3rd place in the science foto competition with a metallography of a #Bronzeage beltplate and an invitation to the @dg.dk annual meeting. Uahhh

One of my metallographies of #Bronzeage artefacts also impressed a jury panel. Third place in the Danish National Research Foundation's photo competition.

Need to share this...the #nuraghe from Santa Cristina on #Sardinia dating some 3200 years ago. A #Bronzeage monument of emense beauty. #archaeology 🏺

These corner stones of the #Bronzeage wall structure around the #settlement at Santa Cristina on Sardinia are part of the #nuraghe culture and date to 1000isch BC. Here pictured for #standingstonesunday. 🏺

I am on Sardinia looking for #Bronzeage connection between the #nuraghe culture and the #Nordic Bronze Age. Might it be in #Nuoro I can find evidence? This guy looks familiar... #archaeology 🏺 #MoesgaardMuseum

When the assumed 20 cm of colluvium (?) turned out to be 75 cm! To understand the #environmental changes at the #sacredwell in Matzanni, #Sardinia, we dug test pits 🏺– this one was deep! #archaeology #Bronzeage #ironage #moesgaard #augustinusfoundation

On #FindsFriday I present a question! This #metallography of a late iron age #slag has an inclusion I cannot identify! The slag contains fayalite and wustite indicating iron #smelting, but what is this layering around the cavity? #archaeology #metallurgy #geoscience #Ironage #science 🧪🏺

#fieldwork season on #Sardinia has started! This time in focus #environmental changes on a local scale. That means test pits in clay on bedrock. Yeah, who says #archaeology is boring? 🏺

Modern challenges in copying #ancient #craft techniques. At #FindsFriday the bead made by Murano glas is an attempt to copy the technique, quality and design of the 2000 year old #Millefiori glas fragments from #roman Murina bowls. #tübingenmuseum #archaeology #ironage #romans

I just gave my lecture on #craft traces and #workshop organisation in #Bronzeage at the 6th NAHM workshop. It's amazing to present this to such a qualified audience. Seeing a #goldsmith nod when you present the #technological traces on the #bronze work is a very good feeling. #archaeology 🏺

Tracespotting! What do traces of prehistoric #metalworking look like, where can we find them, and what can they tell us about ancient #craftsmanship? 🏺 This is the topic of the 6th workshop of the Network for Archaeological and Historical Metalworking held in Tübingen this year.

Totally focused on a weekend? Yes, it's playtime in the #smithy, and I need to produce some #videos showing the different types of #blacksmithing residue from an archaeological perspective. There are hardly any. #archaeology #ironage #metallurgy #hammerscale

#StandingStoneSunday a tour through the Nature National Park #MolsBjerge, Jutland, Denmark. The Porskær #Megalith has a roofstone that was splittet in the middle and is one of the largest constructions in DK with in all 35 stones. 🏺 #stoneage #archaeology #bronzeage

Have a look at the article, we are happy the first results are published now...https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0328268

Absolutely great results to the extend of mobility in #Bronzeage.

In our Augustinus fundet project #MetalsandGiants, we published first results 🧪 in @plosone.org The #article describes a multi-proxy method that allows distinguishing between Sardinian, Iberian, and Levantine copper using osmium isotopes. We aim to understand metal trade in #bronzeage #Sardinia. 🏺

Extreme nerding! The #ARCMET #EAA community on #archaeometallurgy 🧪 is trying something new this time at the #EAA2025. We met to join our session #146 multi-disciplinarian metalwork as a group. Our #AarhusUni Hub hopefully shows that online conferences can be social too. 🏺#Bronzeage

Great new book on #Bronzeage water deposits....I am looking forward to get my hands on it.

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