Irene M. Petschko
@irenep.bsky.social
archaeologist at @oeai.bsky.social / @oeaw.bsky.social
Coordinator at Digital Archaeology and Classics Unit
Fieldwork in the Balkans and elsewhere
3D documentation, GIS, visualisation, data wrangling and archiving
based in lovely Vienna
(she/her)
Coordinator at Digital Archaeology and Classics Unit
Fieldwork in the Balkans and elsewhere
3D documentation, GIS, visualisation, data wrangling and archiving
based in lovely Vienna
(she/her)
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The study »OCR-Based Field Extraction for Archaeological Pottery Metadata: The CENTURIA Dataset« received the Best Paper Award at the VISART Workshop of the renowned European Conference on Computer Vision 2026! 🏆 tinyurl.com/2m79ajb5
OCR-Based Field Extraction for Archaeological Pottery Metadata: The CENTURIA Dataset
Pottery is a primary source for reconstructing the chronological and economic dimensions of past societies. Archaeologists often document ceramic finds through technical drawings and handwritten metad...
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September 18, 2026 at 6:45 AM
The study »OCR-Based Field Extraction for Archaeological Pottery Metadata: The CENTURIA Dataset« received the Best Paper Award at the VISART Workshop of the renowned European Conference on Computer Vision 2026! 🏆 tinyurl.com/2m79ajb5
A long time ago I was working on the rescue excavation in Unterradlberg and now @hannahvanessa.bsky.social has published it. 👇👇👇👇
This new paper examines the transition from inhumation to cremation during the Middle to Late Bronze Age, using four burial mounds and five cremation graves in Unterradlberg (Lower Austria) as a case study: austriaca.at?arp=0x0041edd3 ☠️⚱️
Archaeologia Austriaca 110/2026
„Archaeologia Austriaca“ ist eine internationale, begutachtete archäologische Zeitschrift, die einmal jährlich im Druck und online (open access) erscheint. Sie wurde 1948 als Zeitschrift zur Paläanthr...
austriaca.at
September 18, 2026 at 12:38 PM
A long time ago I was working on the rescue excavation in Unterradlberg and now @hannahvanessa.bsky.social has published it. 👇👇👇👇
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🔎 Wie Archäolog:innen ehemalige psychiatrische Anstalten als Orte von Kontrolle, Ausgrenzung und vergessenen Lebensgeschichten erforschen, erzählt Pamela Fragnoli im Gastblogbeitrag bei @derstandard.at: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Eine archäologische Annäherung an ehemalige Psychiatrien
Wie Archäolog:innen ehemalige psychiatrische Anstalten als Orte von Kontrolle, Ausgrenzung und vergessenen Lebensgeschichten erforschen
www.derstandard.at
September 1, 2026 at 12:52 PM
🔎 Wie Archäolog:innen ehemalige psychiatrische Anstalten als Orte von Kontrolle, Ausgrenzung und vergessenen Lebensgeschichten erforschen, erzählt Pamela Fragnoli im Gastblogbeitrag bei @derstandard.at: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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Archäologie live erleben: Beim Tag der Offenen Grabung am 11.9. in Kammern-Grubgraben lädt das @oeai.bsky.social der #ÖAW dazu ein, aktuelle Funde aus dem Jungpaläolithikum zu entdecken! Fragen an die Archäolog:innen ausdrücklich erwünscht! 🏺⛏️ Alle Infos hier: www.oeaw.ac.at/oeai/veranst...
September 1, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Archäologie live erleben: Beim Tag der Offenen Grabung am 11.9. in Kammern-Grubgraben lädt das @oeai.bsky.social der #ÖAW dazu ein, aktuelle Funde aus dem Jungpaläolithikum zu entdecken! Fragen an die Archäolog:innen ausdrücklich erwünscht! 🏺⛏️ Alle Infos hier: www.oeaw.ac.at/oeai/veranst...
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CiA2026 - Cremations in Archaeology 2026. The programme is now online: uha.univie.ac.at/news-events/...
Cremations in Archaeology 2026
Cremations in Archaeology 2026
uha.univie.ac.at
July 21, 2026 at 11:26 AM
CiA2026 - Cremations in Archaeology 2026. The programme is now online: uha.univie.ac.at/news-events/...
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The Upton Lovell findings also give me the perfect excuse to share one of my favourite images of prehistory - a female metalworker
(by the stunning portrait artist of prehistory people, Tom Björklund)
#Archaeology 🏺
(by the stunning portrait artist of prehistory people, Tom Björklund)
#Archaeology 🏺
July 15, 2026 at 7:04 AM
The Upton Lovell findings also give me the perfect excuse to share one of my favourite images of prehistory - a female metalworker
(by the stunning portrait artist of prehistory people, Tom Björklund)
#Archaeology 🏺
(by the stunning portrait artist of prehistory people, Tom Björklund)
#Archaeology 🏺
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I’m so excited to finally be able to share a project I have loved working on. I was asked by @cambridgearch.bsky.social to create some reconstruction illustrations for a series of KS2 educational materials for teachers, based on the Bronze Age settlement site at Must Farm.
July 6, 2026 at 8:53 AM
I’m so excited to finally be able to share a project I have loved working on. I was asked by @cambridgearch.bsky.social to create some reconstruction illustrations for a series of KS2 educational materials for teachers, based on the Bronze Age settlement site at Must Farm.
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The Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) is Austria's largest research institution for archaeology, exploring human history from prehistory to modern times. Find more infos in our annual report: 🔎 epub.oeaw.ac.at?arp=0x0041b158
epub.oeaw.ac.at
June 24, 2026 at 8:46 AM
The Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) is Austria's largest research institution for archaeology, exploring human history from prehistory to modern times. Find more infos in our annual report: 🔎 epub.oeaw.ac.at?arp=0x0041b158
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#HEASVienna members took to the streets of Vienna today along with 21,000 colleagues and students from across the Universities in Austria to protest the proposed budget cuts to University funding. #unisretten
May 27, 2026 at 5:45 PM
#HEASVienna members took to the streets of Vienna today along with 21,000 colleagues and students from across the Universities in Austria to protest the proposed budget cuts to University funding. #unisretten
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Aufgrund der angekündigten Einsparungen bei den Budgets der Universitäten findet eine Protestkundgebung statt.
📆 27.5.2026 ab 13 Uhr
📍 Hauptgebäude der @univie.ac.at und andere Universitätsstandorte
Mehr dazu 👉 www.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/pr...
📆 27.5.2026 ab 13 Uhr
📍 Hauptgebäude der @univie.ac.at und andere Universitätsstandorte
Mehr dazu 👉 www.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/pr...
Budget - Unis rufen zu Demos gegen Kürzungen auf
Rektor Schütze: "Schaden für die Reputation enorm"
www.univie.ac.at
May 23, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Aufgrund der angekündigten Einsparungen bei den Budgets der Universitäten findet eine Protestkundgebung statt.
📆 27.5.2026 ab 13 Uhr
📍 Hauptgebäude der @univie.ac.at und andere Universitätsstandorte
Mehr dazu 👉 www.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/pr...
📆 27.5.2026 ab 13 Uhr
📍 Hauptgebäude der @univie.ac.at und andere Universitätsstandorte
Mehr dazu 👉 www.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/pr...
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The Ancient Greek AI »Apollo«, or an AI method to enable faster archaeological analysis of pottery: The field of generative AI is opening new frontiers
for research in the Humanities. Join our workshop on this topic on May 22.
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for research in the Humanities. Join our workshop on this topic on May 22.
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Digital Frontiers: Artificial Intelligence and the Study of the Ancient World
Hybrid workshop
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May 20, 2026 at 5:01 PM
The Ancient Greek AI »Apollo«, or an AI method to enable faster archaeological analysis of pottery: The field of generative AI is opening new frontiers
for research in the Humanities. Join our workshop on this topic on May 22.
ℹ️
for research in the Humanities. Join our workshop on this topic on May 22.
ℹ️
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#考古学のおやつ 2/2
▶ Mario Gavranović, Ajla Sejfuli, Irene M. Petschko, Nicole Mittermair (2026) Begića Glavica, a Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Sanctuary in Central Bosnia. 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘢 𝘈𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘤𝘢 110/2026.
[ÖAW]
austriaca.at?arp=0x00417043
▶ Mario Gavranović, Ajla Sejfuli, Irene M. Petschko, Nicole Mittermair (2026) Begića Glavica, a Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Sanctuary in Central Bosnia. 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘢 𝘈𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘤𝘢 110/2026.
[ÖAW]
austriaca.at?arp=0x00417043
Archaeologia Austriaca 110/2026
„Archaeologia Austriaca“ ist eine internationale, begutachtete archäologische Zeitschrift, die einmal jährlich im Druck und online (open access) erscheint. Sie wurde 1948 als Zeitschrift zur Paläanthr...
austriaca.at
April 26, 2026 at 2:21 PM
#考古学のおやつ 2/2
▶ Mario Gavranović, Ajla Sejfuli, Irene M. Petschko, Nicole Mittermair (2026) Begića Glavica, a Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Sanctuary in Central Bosnia. 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘢 𝘈𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘤𝘢 110/2026.
[ÖAW]
austriaca.at?arp=0x00417043
▶ Mario Gavranović, Ajla Sejfuli, Irene M. Petschko, Nicole Mittermair (2026) Begića Glavica, a Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Sanctuary in Central Bosnia. 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘢 𝘈𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘤𝘢 110/2026.
[ÖAW]
austriaca.at?arp=0x00417043
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Check out our new software CRISP - Cremated Remains Inference of Sex Probabilities. Easy and replicable method for sex estimation in highly fragmented human cremated remains!
Check out our new paper, by Lukas Waltenberger and colleagues! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
CRISP: Cremated remains inference of sex probabilities – A software for Bayesian sex estimation in human cremated remains
Sex assessment in cremation contexts represents a key step for reconstructing funerary rituals and demographic profiles. However, the high degree of fragmentation and thermal alteration of skeletal el...
journals.plos.org
May 7, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Check out our new software CRISP - Cremated Remains Inference of Sex Probabilities. Easy and replicable method for sex estimation in highly fragmented human cremated remains!
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The deadline for submitting an abstract for the Cremations Conference 2026 is coming up! Act fast if you would like to join us in Vienna this October!
April 28, 2026 at 8:53 AM
The deadline for submitting an abstract for the Cremations Conference 2026 is coming up! Act fast if you would like to join us in Vienna this October!
Begića Glavica, a Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Sanctuary in Central Bosnia. The @oeai.bsky.social with Museum Travnik excavation is lead by @mariogavranovic.bsky.social .
One of the highlights besides the burnt building was this anthropomorphic figurine
Read here: austriaca.at?arp=0x00417043
One of the highlights besides the burnt building was this anthropomorphic figurine
Read here: austriaca.at?arp=0x00417043
April 22, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Begića Glavica, a Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Sanctuary in Central Bosnia. The @oeai.bsky.social with Museum Travnik excavation is lead by @mariogavranovic.bsky.social .
One of the highlights besides the burnt building was this anthropomorphic figurine
Read here: austriaca.at?arp=0x00417043
One of the highlights besides the burnt building was this anthropomorphic figurine
Read here: austriaca.at?arp=0x00417043
Reposted by Irene M. Petschko
A Ceremonial Bronze Age Sanctuary Covered by a Strange L-Shaped Wall That Defended Nothing Discovered in Bosnia www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/04/a...
A Ceremonial Bronze Age Sanctuary Covered by a Strange L-Shaped Wall That Defended Nothing Discovered in Bosnia
For decades, the hill of Begića Glavica remained silent. Neither archaeologists nor Bosnian heritage maps registered it as a place of interest. Its modest rise above the Lašva river valley, in the cen...
www.labrujulaverde.com
April 20, 2026 at 11:16 AM
A Ceremonial Bronze Age Sanctuary Covered by a Strange L-Shaped Wall That Defended Nothing Discovered in Bosnia www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/04/a...
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🔬 ✨️ Forschung zum Mitmachen und Angreifen!
Am 24. April findet von 17 bis 23 Uhr die Lange Nacht der Forschung in ganz Österreich statt. Unsere Station finden Sie in der Aula der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Wir freuen uns über Ihren Besuch!
Am 24. April findet von 17 bis 23 Uhr die Lange Nacht der Forschung in ganz Österreich statt. Unsere Station finden Sie in der Aula der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Wir freuen uns über Ihren Besuch!
April 17, 2026 at 5:01 PM
🔬 ✨️ Forschung zum Mitmachen und Angreifen!
Am 24. April findet von 17 bis 23 Uhr die Lange Nacht der Forschung in ganz Österreich statt. Unsere Station finden Sie in der Aula der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Wir freuen uns über Ihren Besuch!
Am 24. April findet von 17 bis 23 Uhr die Lange Nacht der Forschung in ganz Österreich statt. Unsere Station finden Sie in der Aula der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Wir freuen uns über Ihren Besuch!
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🌸 Kinship Trouble isn’t a crisis—it’s an opportunity: to rethink kinship through collaborative and interdisciplinary research across archaeology, ancient DNA, and socio-cultural anthropology. With @pennybickle.bsky.social & Maanasa Raghavan @genscapelab.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Latest issue | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Archaeological Journal
www.cambridge.org
April 15, 2026 at 12:30 PM
🌸 Kinship Trouble isn’t a crisis—it’s an opportunity: to rethink kinship through collaborative and interdisciplinary research across archaeology, ancient DNA, and socio-cultural anthropology. With @pennybickle.bsky.social & Maanasa Raghavan @genscapelab.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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I am pleased to launch the #ARTHA project, dedicated to developing a network on #archaeothanatology between France and Central European countries 🙂
Many thanks to the French Institute in Vienna, the Hubert Curien Amadeus program, and the Austrian Agency for Education and Internationalisation!
Many thanks to the French Institute in Vienna, the Hubert Curien Amadeus program, and the Austrian Agency for Education and Internationalisation!
🥳It is with great pleasure that we officially inform you that the #ARTHA project will receive funding for 2026 and 2027 through the French Hubert Curien Programme (PHC) Amadeus and the Austrian Agency for Education and Internationalisation! ⏬Check out our website
www.artha.at
www.artha.at
Home
www.artha.at
March 13, 2026 at 12:32 PM
I am pleased to launch the #ARTHA project, dedicated to developing a network on #archaeothanatology between France and Central European countries 🙂
Many thanks to the French Institute in Vienna, the Hubert Curien Amadeus program, and the Austrian Agency for Education and Internationalisation!
Many thanks to the French Institute in Vienna, the Hubert Curien Amadeus program, and the Austrian Agency for Education and Internationalisation!
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This #InternationalWomensDay, join us here at #HEASVienna as we celebrate women through time...and the women who study them.
Here we look at the work of #HEASMember #KarinaGrömer at the @nhmwien.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
#WomenInScience
#WomenInSTEM
#HEASVienna
#MeetTheScientist
#HumanEvolution
Here we look at the work of #HEASMember #KarinaGrömer at the @nhmwien.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
#WomenInScience
#WomenInSTEM
#HEASVienna
#MeetTheScientist
#HumanEvolution
March 4, 2026 at 6:40 PM
This #InternationalWomensDay, join us here at #HEASVienna as we celebrate women through time...and the women who study them.
Here we look at the work of #HEASMember #KarinaGrömer at the @nhmwien.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
#WomenInScience
#WomenInSTEM
#HEASVienna
#MeetTheScientist
#HumanEvolution
Here we look at the work of #HEASMember #KarinaGrömer at the @nhmwien.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
#WomenInScience
#WomenInSTEM
#HEASVienna
#MeetTheScientist
#HumanEvolution
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This #InternationalWomensDay, join us here at #HEASVienna as we celebrate women through time...and the women who study them.
@barbarahorejs.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/5eae0...
#WomenInScience
#WomenInSTEM
#HEASVienna
#MeetTheScientist
#HumanEvolution
@barbarahorejs.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/5eae0...
#WomenInScience
#WomenInSTEM
#HEASVienna
#MeetTheScientist
#HumanEvolution
Celebrating women through time...and the women who study them.
YouTube video by HEAS
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March 2, 2026 at 6:22 PM
This #InternationalWomensDay, join us here at #HEASVienna as we celebrate women through time...and the women who study them.
@barbarahorejs.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/5eae0...
#WomenInScience
#WomenInSTEM
#HEASVienna
#MeetTheScientist
#HumanEvolution
@barbarahorejs.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/5eae0...
#WomenInScience
#WomenInSTEM
#HEASVienna
#MeetTheScientist
#HumanEvolution
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😎 💡 Stay Q-rious!
Das Science Communication Center hat einen neuen Namen: Q. Dein Raum für Wissenschaft.
Wir freuen uns darauf, ab 2027 mit euch Wissen neu zu denken, Forschung greifbar zu machen und gemeinsam Ideen für die Zukunft zu entwickeln!
www.oeaw.ac.at/news/q-wie-q...
Das Science Communication Center hat einen neuen Namen: Q. Dein Raum für Wissenschaft.
Wir freuen uns darauf, ab 2027 mit euch Wissen neu zu denken, Forschung greifbar zu machen und gemeinsam Ideen für die Zukunft zu entwickeln!
www.oeaw.ac.at/news/q-wie-q...
Q wie Question - das Science Communication Center hat jetzt einen Namen
Die neue Einrichtung für Wissenschaftskommunikation im ersten Wiener Gemeindebezirk trägt einen Namen: Q. Dein Raum für Wissenschaft. Q steht für Question, für Neugier und für den Beginn jeder Erkennt...
www.oeaw.ac.at
March 3, 2026 at 8:35 AM
😎 💡 Stay Q-rious!
Das Science Communication Center hat einen neuen Namen: Q. Dein Raum für Wissenschaft.
Wir freuen uns darauf, ab 2027 mit euch Wissen neu zu denken, Forschung greifbar zu machen und gemeinsam Ideen für die Zukunft zu entwickeln!
www.oeaw.ac.at/news/q-wie-q...
Das Science Communication Center hat einen neuen Namen: Q. Dein Raum für Wissenschaft.
Wir freuen uns darauf, ab 2027 mit euch Wissen neu zu denken, Forschung greifbar zu machen und gemeinsam Ideen für die Zukunft zu entwickeln!
www.oeaw.ac.at/news/q-wie-q...
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💎⚙️ New study: The transition from the Middle to the Later Stone Age wasn’t abrupt. Quartz finds from Umhlatuzana in South Africa show step-by-step changes in technology, mobility, and resources—varying across regions.
#Archaeology #StoneAge
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#Archaeology #StoneAge
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No sudden upheaval: Researchers retell the long history of the Stone Age
How did people live 50,000 years ago—and how did their everyday lives change? An international study from South Africa, conducted in collaboration with the Austrian Academy of Sciences, shows that…
www.oeaw.ac.at
March 2, 2026 at 9:20 AM
💎⚙️ New study: The transition from the Middle to the Later Stone Age wasn’t abrupt. Quartz finds from Umhlatuzana in South Africa show step-by-step changes in technology, mobility, and resources—varying across regions.
#Archaeology #StoneAge
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#Archaeology #StoneAge
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A snow day in Vienna.
February 20, 2026 at 10:51 AM
A snow day in Vienna.
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I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:
If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.
If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.
February 16, 2026 at 1:14 AM
I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:
If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.
If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.