Nature research paper: Lethal plague outbreaks in Lake Baikal hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago go.nature.com/4oFh0eU

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Just saw a great talk by @alnorwood.bsky.social about why you should use her models for your (obviously copious) zebra and other equid d18O data! Also why you should care about enamel histology (and she's done the worrying about it for you)! And to look out for upcoming bovid models #SAA2026SFO

A @nature.com study @ramiro-arqueo.bsky.social coauthored with Huarpe community leaders shows inhabitants of Argentina's Uspallata Valley welcomed migrants even during a crisis, and that people in the region are related to those buried there 2000 years ago. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

Wonderful article by @timvernimmen.bsky.social in Nat Geo on our recent @nature.com paper on the history of farming societies in the Andes

We are looking forward to welcoming #VanesaVillalbaMouco to #HEASVienna for a #HEASSeminar in #AncientGenomics online and in-person in the #UBB at @univie.ac.at More information and registration on our website 👇🔗

Our new paper led by Gwendoline Maurer is out! Seasonality and mobility at the Kura-Araxes site of Maxta I #stableisotopes #zooarchaeology journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

We are pleased to share our new paper on the Iberian Aurignacian. We employed a quantitative approach to explore techno-typological variability and test its spatio-temporal dimension. @palomadelalasca.bsky.social Paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Hoy es el día del Investigador y de la Investigadora Científica y si bien la situación es paupérrima celebro a todxs aquellxs que dedican sus días y sus vidas a la generación y aplicación del conocimiento en pos de la realización personal y del enriquecimiento de la sociedad y de la Nación 🇦🇷

We have extended the deadline for the 4th Radiocarbon and Conference, and CLARa 3 conferences. Please submit your abstracts here: app.oxfordabstracts.com/auth?redirec... @14cjournal.bsky.social @lorenabecval.bsky.social @ramiro-arqueo.bsky.social

Esto es muy cierto!!! ♥️♥️♥️

Our recent paper in @nature How farming emerged in the Southern Andes. What were its consequences? #archaeology #dna #crisis #resilience

1/6 Just out in @Nature ! 🌽 The history of farming in the southern Andes. In a collaboration between archaeologists, geneticists and Huarpe Indigenous communities, we investigate its origins and consequences in the Uspallata Valley. Read: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Avanza el conocimiento y ahora comprendemos mucho más sobre la incorporación de la agricultura del maíz en el sur andino 🌽 Excelente trabajo de @ramiro-arqueo.bsky.social y colegas aportando desde múltiples especialidades. 🧵con el artículo + un hermoso video

Congratulations to my former lab at @pasteuredu.bsky.social @nrascovan.bsky.social lead authors @ramiro-arqueo.bsky.social and #pierreLuisi and last but not least thanks @bitesizedna.bsky.social for hosting me at Copenhagen Uni for hours of drilling, extractions, and preps! 👩‍🔬

Archaeologists, geneticists and Indigenous communities together. How did agriculture spread in the Andes? Migration? Cultural exchange? How did farming affect human lives? Tomorrow we share new archaeological and ancient DNA evidence from the Southern Andes Stay tuned! #archaeology #dna @nature.com

Unos cuantos que les convendría internalizar este mensaje, comenzando por el presiduende estafador. Violento ver palabras como esta replicadas como insultos a diario en las redes

One of our papers included!

From shark skin to dragonfly wings… to the reduction of hospital-acquired infections. A striking example of how basic research can inspire innovative solutions to modern problems. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧬 Two pathogens, one disease. Leprosy cannot be understood as a single-pathogen disease. Understanding this duality is critical for modern case detection, surveillance, and long-term control strategies. A commentary with @nrascovan.bsky.social and @avanzich.bsky.social #Leprosy #OneHealth #aDNA

Sharing the commentary we wrote with @marialopopolo.bsky.social and @avanzich.bsky.social 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... in which we discuss the biomedical implications on Leprosy of our recent article on M. lepromatosis in the Americas: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @pasteur.fr

Did leprosy exist in the Americas before European invasion? Our lab #aDNA study at @institutpasteur.bsky.social supervised by @nrascovan.bsky.social in collab with @avanzich.bsky.social (CSU) finds M.lepromatosis in pre-colonial Ancestors from North and South America www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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...

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...