Save the dates! Two South American 14C-related conferences will be held in June–July 2026. Visit radiocarbon.org/meetings-news 30 June–3 July 2026: 11th Radiocarbon & Archaeology Conference in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 6–10 July 2026: 4th 14C & Diet plus CLARa3 Conference in Santiago, Chile

Happy #SnakeDay! This is probably the largest engraving of a snake in the world 🐍 Measuring ~42m long, it would have been visible from a great distance, suggesting it was a prehistoric territorial marker. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

How much exercise do you actually need? go.nature.com/49Mi2ju

Second Circular- Radiocarbon and Diet & CLARa (Santiago - July 2026). Deadline submission: 15th of March 2026. See you in Chile this winter ! @lorenabecval.bsky.social @ramiro-arqueo.bsky.social @14cjournal.bsky.social

@nationalgeographic.bsky.social 1st Explorer Festival in Africa. Landscapes, conservation, languages, communities. It blew my mind

www.nature.com/articles/s41... New paper led by Javier Maravall on a time transect from ancient Argentina.

Original paper: bsky.app/profile/iosi...

Ancient DNA studies usually link changes in lifestyle and language in the past to population movements. But not always! A new study in @nature.com reveals a South American ancestry that stayed steady for 8,500 years, despite major cultural and linguistic shifts. @science.org 🏺 🧬

DNA from 146,00-year-old tooth plaque helped Chinese researchers identify the "Dragon Man" as a Denisovan, an archaic species of human: www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org

📰 Ancient DNA traces how dogs spread across the Americas alongside early farming societies #ArchaeologyNews via ‪@ox.ac.uk‬ @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social‬ www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-06...

A US judge has ordered hundreds of terminated research projects at the US National Institutes of Health to be reinstated, calling the processes that led to their cancellation “bereft of reasoning”. https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy

Just out! we challenge the long-standing tradition of defining Upper Paleolithic cultures primarily through stone tool artefacts. Instead, we turn to personal ornaments to explore cultural identities during the past shorturl.at/8mxKe @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

I'm super proud to share this piece of work, led by @nrascovan.bsky.social, @avanzich.bsky.social and @marialopopolo.bsky.social. See details in Maria's post here:

Ancient DNA reveals a two-clanned matrilineal community in Neolithic China www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Big news in #GlobalHealthHistory today. A species of bacterium that causes leprosy, discovered in 2008 in modern patients, has been proven to have been present in the Americas well before European arrival. More details in 🧵 below: www.science.org/content/arti... #GlobalMiddleAges #histmed #aDNA 🧪

Wonderful research by @marialopopolo.bsky.social @nrascovan.bsky.social and a fantastic team. Congrats!!!

A new Science study shows that the mycobacterium M. lepromatosis infected humans in the Americas before European contact. The findings reshape current views of leprosy in the Americas and provide insights into the long-term interactions between humans and infectious diseases. scim.ag/3HuEjGB

Between 1637 and 1697, people who died at Milan's biggest hospital were dropped into underground vaults. Now their remains (including nearly 3 million bones & preserved brains) are helping archaeologists reconstruct the lives, diet and drug habits of people historians often overlook. @science.org

This is the Löwenmensch (lion person), a ~40,000-year-old mammoth ivory figurine from the cave of Hohlenstein-Stadel. The oldest-known depiction of a being that does not exist, it provides a rare glimpse into the supernatural during the Ice Age. 🏺 📷 Dagmer Hollmann / CC BY-SA 4.0

Happy #WorldDownSyndromeDay. It falls on 3/21, because people with Down syndrome have three copies of the twenty-first chromosome. This is the best Down syndrome PSA ever made and I want you to watch and share it. #WDSD2025

Really important, and useful thread. One thing it shows - scientific community needs to organise

Ypres was one of 13th-century Europe’s economic powerhouses. Bart Lambert’s MOTC project drew on isotopic analyses of human skeletons to reconstruct mobility patterns of its inhabitants. Their new paper discusses evidence of regional, female and children’s mobility. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

First post here to promote a wonderful new paper, which I am happy to be a part of. This work was led by an amazing MPI researcher, Michael Ziegler, who is a joy to work with! Thanks to him and the team for the collaboration. Read up for isotopes in 🇨🇴👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Explosive volcanic eruption may have led to growth of ancient city in Bolivia www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/22/a...

Sad news from SHA: Mark Leone, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, has passed away. A founding voice in US Marxist archaeology, director of the long-running Annapolis archaeology project.

Final call !! Apply for this funded PhD at University College London @UCLarchaeology.bsky.social on Establishing limits of Neanderthal presence in Britain. Deadline 20th Jan 5pm Uk time www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/est...

Thread: John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was an American society portraitist, impressionist & bravura painter. He was the most successful portraitist of his time. Nowadays his astounding brush skills, subject matter & style have granted him renewed fame. He was born OTD.

A sedimentary ancient DNA perspective on human and carnivore persistence through the Late Pleistocene in El Mirón Cave, Spain www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Postdoc stable isotope analysis www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLH400/p...

Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

🦠🧬🪅10 days and few hours to the early bird deadline ! Register soon to get a spot ! 🏃🏽‍♀️⌛️ See you April 2025 in Queretaro, Mexico for the Ancient Pathogen Genomics meeting 📅 🇲🇽 Plz share and RT 🫶

Saxon decoration - an animal head label stop from St. Mary’s Priory Church at Deerhurst in Gloucestershire. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #SundayStonework

Job alert! In our department here in Vienna. Postdoctoral Researcher in Evolutionary Genomics! Come and work in the world's most liveable city. Details below 👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct...

Excellent work by Rick Schulting and collaborators 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

📢 Award Announcement! The Charles C. Kolb award for Archaeological Ceramics submissions window is now open! The Society for Archaeological Sciences (SAS) offers one award per year to the best published paper on science-based archaeological ceramics research. More info here bit.ly/4fmIX51 Pls RT!

The first Belgium’s strontium isoscape is out now! Amanda Sengeløv & the team provide the first 604 plant samples from 220 locations, with more data coming soon! Paper here👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Dataset available on @isoarch.bsky.social 👇https://doi.org/10.48530/ISOARCH.2024.001

Entre las lecturas pendientes en mi larga lista, me topé con este obituario a la gran Patty Jo Watson quien se fue de campaña hace pocos meses. Cuánto que subió mi cachet de alumna cuando conseguí su libro "Explanation in archaeology" recién salido en los '70s🤯 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This Friday, December 13th at 16:15 the next talk of #debatesinArchaeosciences will be by Dr. Shinya Shoda (Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties Japan, University of York, University of Turin) on “Millet Eastwards and Westwards: Penetration into culinary traditions”.

Working on site reports today and reflecting on some unfortunate ancient person's cooking fails. These confusing looking lumps are aggregates of foxtail and broomcorn millet grains recovered from my Iron Age village site in Mongolia. Through work by folks such as Valamoti et al. (2021) and more

Amazing archaeological and human experience and the beginning of something! “Isoscapes and Proveniencing in Archaeology: Latin American Examples and Perspectives in Japan”. Kyoto, Japan 2024 #strontium #archaeology #isotopes @nationalgeographic.bsky.social

🚨 New paper out in Population and Development Review by Dr Mary Shenk and colleagues! “Intensive Kinship, Development, and Demography: Why Pakistan has the Highest Rates of Cousin Marriage in the World.” 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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🚨 New paper by Drs. @parnajarlpa.bsky.social, @dwbird.bsky.social, and colleagues in Nature Communciations! “Seed dispersal by Martu peoples promotes the distribution of native plants in arid Australia” 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Se va acabando el XXIII Congreso Nacional de Arqueología Chilena y hoy presentamos nuestro trabajo sobre soberanía de datos indígenas. Un simposio variado y estimulante! @iarqueouba.bsky.social presente con 2 equipos presentando 🙌🏽