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    Archaeological Experiments with Greenstone Axes on Tree, Pig and Stone
    16.06.2023
    served as models for the replicas used for the experiments. Laura Dietrich, archaeologist at the Austrian Archaeological Institute (OeAI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) : "Grinded stone axes were invented in the early Neolithic period around 9,600 to 8,000 BC in Southwest Asia. They enabled one of the greatest changes in human history: the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and animal husbandry. With axes, people were able to clear large areas ...
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    AI expert Michael Bronstein: “deep learning is a Nobel-worthy invention”
    14.10.2024
    Bronstein recently took up the post of Director of the new AITHYRA Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . The institute was established with the support of the non-profit Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation, which is contributing 150 million euros to its funding. Bronstein shared his thoughts on the groundbreaking recognition of AI in this year’s Nobel Prizes for Chemistry and Physics. For the first time in history, the Nobel committees awarded achievements related to ...
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    Roman time capsule at the bottom of the sea
    25.04.2019
    ist Horacio González Cesteros calls them, "time capsules" went down with the ship. The Spaniard is a researcher at the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) and is an expert on ancient ceramics. He is currently investigating the amphorae discovered at the bottom of the sea and their history. He talks about the probable destination of the ship and how to examine delicate ancient containers, as well as what fish sauce according to a two ...
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    Europe's constant unrest
    30.07.2020
    Europe that manifested its strength through future-oriented ideas. "It was important to us not to just tick off the famous scholars as in school lessons," explains Christian Gastgeber, historian at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) and initiator of the project. "We wanted to connect formative humanists with modern Europe and show the arduous journey that they had to take to achieve what we take for granted today," says Gastgeber. ...
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    Knight’s glory and fool's cap
    12.11.2018
    worthwhile, says Mario Klarer, head of the project and literary scholar at the University of Innsbruck. The complete transcription of the Book of Heroes has been a central research gap for many years. Thanks to a "go!digital" grant from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), this gap can now be filled. The " Ambraser Heldenbuch " was written by a tollkeeper from Bolzano by order of Maximilian I. Why did the Emperor not hire a professional clerk at Court for this major ...
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    "The virus is an attack on our modern understanding of feasibility"
    15.10.2020
    The sociologist Stephan Moebius, member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), talks in an interview about the dramatic rhetoric surrounding the coronavirus and why the fear of an apocalypse can also be a positive driving force for change. Mr. Moebius, how did the idea of an apocalypse come about? And what semantic change has the term experienced? Stephan Moebius: Ideas of the apocalypse can be found in all of known cultural history and in most known cultural groups. ...
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    Alpine glaciers as climate archives: time is running out
    29.06.2020
    are like history books – thousands of years of climate history can be gleaned from them. They are therefore an important historical source for research on current climate change. But it is precisely this climate change that is threatening them. "An urgent question is how long these archives will be preserved. Especially in the Eastern Alps, these records are rapidly melting away," says Pascal Bohleber, who works at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research of the ...
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    How to deal with the legacy of the colonial era?
    07.06.2021
    our political and scientific responsibility to face this legacy. How does the Phonogrammarchiv deal with this legacy? Klenke: Dealing with the history of one's own institution is part of historical research. It is our political and scientific responsibility to face this legacy, because it is clearly our academic heritage and part of our political history. We are thus permanently linked with people in other parts of the world, because what is archived here with us is of ...
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    “THIS IS ANTISEMITIC VICTIM REVERSAL”
    23.10.2023
    against antisemitism. “We must also manage to convey to young people that oversimplified thinking and a reductionist worldview do not provide the solutions they promise,” Vogel says. She works at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) . RELATIVIZING AND CRITICISM OF ISRAEL After the attacks by the radical Islamist group Hamas on the Israeli population, where thousands of people were tortured, kidnapped, and murdered by ...
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    Creativity in virtual laboratories
    02.04.2020
    the archive is closed? And what archeological insights can be gained if distant excavation sites are inaccessible? Basic researchers are currently faced with several such critical questions. As virtual exchange with researchers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) shows, their answers are as creative as they are cooperative. "Research is open for business!" - Jochen Schieck is sure of that. Nonetheless, given the current circumstances, it is clear to the director of ...