Nicola Scheyhing M.A.

@prehistoryteller

Prehistoric Archaeologist 🏺& Museum 🏛enthusiast. Came for the adventure, stayed for the stories. PrehiStoryteller/VorGeschichtserzählerin. she/her.

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Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· 14d

Would you like to work at a Cluster of Excellence on Human Origins with an office in a medieval castle? Then I have THE job ad for you below! (Oh, and not to mention: it’s a FULL PROFESSORSHIP for Early Prehistory!) 🏺 #paleosky

Foto of a town with lots of greenery, a church tower is peaking trough the trees, and there is a castle on a hill in the background below a wide blue sky

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· 29d

Finding myself moved to a new/old city trying to find a new social circle well into my fourties proves harder than expected. But having the chance to go out and see a live play of Pratchetts “Guards, Guards” on a random Thursday certainly felt nicely warm and nostalgic.

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Jul 15

Send you a bunch of emotional support figurines from the Taş Tepeler exhibition!

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Jul 15

I appreciated to see how much we learned the last twenty years about those sites, and the artistic contextualisation in the back brought back memories of endless nightskies over Göbekli Tepe, where we once spent a night in a van. But the airy-light architecture didn’t do the topic justice imho.

A look into into a room of the exhibition, a display case with a rounded poster begins showing a large female statuette. Other rounded white textile features structure the interior.

A stone head of a leopard showing his teeth

A lovely Halaf style sitting female figurine made from silver in a display, no head preserved.

An artistic image of the Karahantepe cistern, a rock cut structure under a rock terrace, with t-shaped pillars in it. The artwork shows it with water in it under a starry sky.

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Jul 15

Barely more than two weeks before it ends I finally found an opportunity last week to visit the „Building Community“ Exhibition in Berlin, covering the Taş Tepeler sites in Upper Mesopotamia. It was a bittersweet trip down memory lane, meeting old familiar faces. 🏺

Abroad set off concrete stairs is leading up to a cubicluar entrance of the James Simon Galleryin Berlin.
A poster hangs beside if the entrance, showing two stone masks from the Neolithic.

A view into the main room of the exhibition, showing stilized t-pillars made of white textile constructions.

The 3d reconstruction of a stone frieze showing a bull and a leopard with two men. On the right are two display cases, behind the frieze is a large black and white photo of the original.

Me, a white Woman wearing black clothes, glasses and a red updo standing beside a stilized life sized male figurine made from beige stone and with obsidian eyes.

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Mar 27

Nicht zu vergessen: „the forbitten gummy bear“. Ich war doch sehr überrascht, wie groß der ist!

…nicht zu vergessen: the forbitten gummy bear! (Ich war sehr überrascht wie groß der ist!)

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Mar 26

…and also of the many years as curator in training, guide, project staff, and cooperation partner for my favorite museum. It also marks a goodbye for now to Halle and Saxony Anhalt. New adventures to come next month!

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Mar 26

14 years later… tonight’s a wrap. Visiting the opening ceremony of the new special exhibition on the Shaman of Bad Dürrenberg at @museumhalle was my last official duty as coordinator of the Sky Paths after 5 years…

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Mar 5

One of the most iconic photos I took on our current trip to Sri Lanka: a dog apparently contemplating about enigmatic Lions Rock in Sigiriya, a natural formation holding a more than 1500 years old fortress and palace of King Kasyapa, illegitimate son who killed his father to become king himself.

A nice concrete terrace with wooden chairs and tables in front of a tropical lake. In the background a large singular flat top hill. A light brown dog with floppy ears sits on the terrace, back to the viewer.

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Feb 23

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Modern translation of inscription one on a steel plate.

Another view of the 100 m long inscription 1 carved into rock

More of the inscription, shown inbetween fences, trying to catch its full length, but instead catched my finger

Path along the lakeshore towards inscription 2.

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Feb 23

We’re having an interruption of current doom events, as we are currently traveling in Sri Lanka on my everlasting attempt to fit bits of (prehistoric) archaeology into vacation schedules. Two days ago, we made a short stop at the Thonigala Rock Inscriptions on our way to Wilpattu National Park.

Entrance situation of the Thonigala Inscriptions: a reddish brown rock TukTuk stands on a sandy court under a large banyan tree. Left and right are small houses visible.

Location of the inscriptions: a beautiful small valley between grey brown boulders with small trees inbetween, and a large visible at the end of the valley.

Position of inscription one, a reddish brown rock formation, with a black fencing before lush green vegetation.

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Dec 16

*sigh* …so, apparently I have to expand my plea for help getting in contact to also more or less all Turkish museums on my list. Still, all help highly appreciated!

A text stating multiple attempts to deliver emails failed to museums in Sanliurfa, Konya, Izmir, Istanbul, gaziantep, Antalya.

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Dec 4

I feel you, sorrowful dog of Arae Flaviae. Almost one year I saw this depressive good boy at Hidden Länd exhibition in Stuttgart. 🏺

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Nov 9

Re:the last image: did you know that those structures have been roofed originally? In Gigantjia the gradient in the walls is very prominent. In the temple of Mnejdra an image of a roofed building is carved into the limestone, and a small stone model of a roofed temple was found in the Mgarr area.

A drawing carved into limestone showing presumably a building with three portals built by large stone slabs covered by horizontal slaps creating a roof.

A very small model of an oval carved building with a stone slab portal, and lines suggesting presumably a building made from stones. The roof is only slightly curved upwards.

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Nov 9

I promised more photos from our vacation to Malta, so for #StandingStoneSunday today: we did a short trip to Gozo to visit Gigantjia. The best known megalithic structure on the smaller island, it’s also the one on the archipelago who is preserved with the highest walls (husband for scale). 🏺

A structure build from roughly worked stone slabs several meters high standing in an agricultural landscape under a dramatic cloudy sky. There is a walkway in the foreground and the sea visible in the far back several kilometres away.

An information display by Heritage Malta held in red and white with three horizontal sections, first text in Maltese, then two images: the left one showing a photo of a niche with an half round layout made by a wall of rough smaller stones, flanked by two large megalithic stealae and with a raised floor. On the right side a drawing of the layout of the whole side, consisting of two different alignment of rooms, both consisting of a clover shaped room connected to an oval second ante room. Text below in English says: in front of you a little raised floor separates the room from the rest of the area creating a distinct space. Early records suggests that here considerable quantities of pottery shirts and animal burns were found in a layer of soil and ash. Could this mean that animals or meat were used in rituals? To your left a table like arrangement of large stone blocks, possibly an altar, decorates a central niche.

In a wall constructed by roughly worked, smaller cal sit stones, one deliberately more yellow coloured sandstone on the lowest level stands out. In front of it, too small upright standing stones seem to flank it. Another explanationary display as possible in the front of it.

Image of the central structure from outside. The construction made from large, car seat slaps is clearly visible, and the upper layers are showing a slight bent that implies a narrowing of the row of stones to create a ceiling construction. A man is standing in the foreground, acting as a scale. The structure is visibly more than double his height.

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Nov 3

What we do for „the art“: got up at 5:50 to wait two hours in line for tickets for the Hypogeum. I tried to get some online ten weeks ago, and they have been sold out, so the pricey last minute ones are my only chance. Fingers crossed, I’m third in line already.

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Nov 3

Surely do! It reminds me of the Italian aperitivo crodino, which is available at supermarkets in Germany. Maybe you can find that in your area, too?

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Nov 2

I‘m currently on a short vacation in Malta, and we visited the National Museum of Archaeology today. While the exhibition about the Neolithic temples is the star of the show, I also loved the comics contextualising the later periods presentation. 🏺

A comic with two panels. The first shows a human with a cart standing inbetween cart lines. The second shows the same situation from above. The figure asks oh no, which way do I go now?

A one panel comic showing a metal and a pottery workshop. A young boy tells his father: Dad, I think I’d rather learn pottery than metal as a trade… there are two fire extinguisher under the image.

True comic side-by-side: the first shows a man with a schnauzer, glasses and a hat. He looks at a ceramic vessel, and says: his funerary urns, metal… at all indicates that this was a bronze age cemetery.
The second comic has three panels : the first shows an adult from behind watching a child play. Second panel shows a broken ceramic pot. The third shows the angry face of the adult, saying that was your dad grandfather in the urn. Now what are we going to bury?

A three panel comic, showing in the first image the bird view of a settlement, as well as a person standing on a path leading towards a fortified settlement with a wall made from rough stone. The Second Image shows two people standing in between circular huts. The third image shows several people digging out pits on a plane.

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Oct 8

Me (to The Internet, everybody listening, or just looking my way for more than 5 sec): „Look what we did!“ I received the prints of our #RepresentationMatters publication yesterday evening. It’s not only a collection of papers on the way we reproduce and communicate our knowledge towards audience.

A middle aged white Woman with an red updo and big glasses holding a large book, title says diversity in visual representations of the past. Representation matters.

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Sep 30

The book is part of the series „Themes in Contemporary Archaeology“ by @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social, and there is currently 20% off with the code below.

An info sheet displaying the cover of the book discussed above, title and editors, and some notes by the publisher: demonstrates a mythological approach to archaeological visual representation, focuses on diversity and identities, presents varied case studies that challenge stereotypical images of the past. Part of the book series themes in contemporary archaeology. The book is available on Springer nature, with a deduction of 20%off with the code SPRAUT. There is a QR code that leads to the publication page.

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Sep 30

#RepresentationMatters is published! Jo Zalea Matias, @archaeologiskop.bsky.social and I, together with our fantastic authors, are happy and proud that we finally made it! For more info and to order: link.springer.com/book/9783031... 🏺

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Sep 6

#EAA2025 Anyone able to join the virtual closing ceremony? For me, the join button disappeared, regardless of what device I try.

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Sep 6

I‘m starting slow at least, still recovering from surgery, and my body does „the Sammy“ today.

A pile of a woolplait with blue yellow orange teal block stripes on a dark green velvet sofa. Only a sleepy slightly grumpy looking head of a black cat is poking out.

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Sep 3

New announcement of #EAA just dropped.

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Aug 8

As a drained travel agent and tour guide, I naturally love going on adventures, and spend a lot of time and energy on planning trips to see archaeological sites and museums. I’m a proud mother of two Cat sons, Louis and Sammy. Currently, I’m recovering from a big surgery so it’s a bit silent here.

Me, middle aged white red haired woman wearing glasses, lounging on a green couch snuggling a big, grey black cat lying on my arms.

Same owed me, middle-age white woman with an updo and glasses, wearing a headset, clearly during an obnoxious video meeting, showing off a red and white annoyed looking Cat right beside my face.

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Aug 8

I do a lot of stuff independently, resolving around my research interests, and things i deem important or fun. I work on prehistoric materiality of ritual behaviour in central Europe and Southwest Asia, science communication of archaeology, and especially on representation of diversity.

Cover of a book, the lower half held in monochrome light brown, the upper half showing a drawing of a group of people, held in red and blue. Text is name of editors: Jo Zalea Matias, Nicola Scheyhing, Doris Gutsmiedl Schümann. Title is diversity and visual representations of the past. Representation matters. Published by European Association of archaeologist, Springer press.

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Aug 8

Influx of new followers, welcome! Let’s give you are short introduction, shall we? I‘m Nicola, I’m an archaeologist working in museum and marketing, my job resolves around the object I hold in this photo, and no, it’s not the real one. I also barely write or talk about my dayjob on Social Media.

Photo of me, middle aged white women wearing red updo, large glasses and large hoop earrings. I’m smiling awkwardly, holding a copy of the sky disc of Nebra. It is a green coloured metal disc approximately the size of a dinner plate, showing golden inlays of a circle symbolising the sun, a moon, too long stripes running along both sides on about a quarter of the rim, a bend bow on the underside symbolising a boat, and the number of small dots like stars. Seven of them in between the Sun and the moon our grouped together like a flower. In the background, the creative chaos of a meeting room.

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Aug 1

Home.

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller· Jul 31

Sign of life: I’m still in hospital after surgery, but doing ok. In hope to head home today, tomorrow the latest.