🚨New paper alert!🧪 We explore the #Aurignacian at Grotta della Cala (southern Italy), providing robust evidence of human settlement shortly after the #CampanianIgnimbrite eruption (ca. 40 ka). 1/5 🌋 @tommyhigham.bsky.social @lucdoyon.bsky.social @boneslab.bsky.social & the University of Siena

The first week of excavations and stratigraphic documentation at Dalarik-1 Cave was very successful! The trip to Kalavan village - and the homonymous Palaeolithic sites - was the best treat for a day-off! A stop at Gutanasar volcano was a must! @humendylab.bsky.social #TransCause

Back to Armenia, back to Dalarik-1 Cave, with a large international team from Armenia, Spain, Israel, Greece, France, Portugal, Italy & beyond! Let the excavation of this unique Middle Pleistocene site start! 🎉 #TransCause @humendylab.bsky.social

📢New research paper, led by Theo Karampaglidis & colleagues, integrates geomorphological mapping & sediment analysis & dating (Cosmogenic Nuclides & OSL) to reconstruct environmental history over the past 900,000 years in Ararat Depression! Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Their Old People sang of a place lost beneath the waves. Now it’s found. Another fantastic achievement of the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation collaborating with our Deep History of Sea Country project. Congratulations @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social for leading this. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

My first paper of the PhD is out, we talk about Mobility and lithic technology at Ararat-1 Cave in Armenia. We also talk a bit about 👻 tools. Are you curious? Go and check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Princeton study maps 200,000 years of Human–Neanderthal interbreeding Modern humans and Neanderthals interacted over a 200,000 year period, says geneticist Joshua Akey www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Proudly introduce BREATHE, a project investigating late Quaternary human behavior in the Sahara. Funded by #HorizonEurope - ERA Postdoctoral Fellowships, BREATHE is based at the University of Algarve’s fabulous #ICArEHB and partnered with #Sapienza University of Rome.

Just out! Our first publication on the use-wear analysis of quartzite tools from the MSA sequence at Rhafas Cave, Morocco! @icarehb.bsky.social @leizarchaeology.bsky.social @paleomonrepos.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🛠️ How did early humans make tech choices? Join Dr Eduardo Paixão (ICArEHB) for a #LEXA seminar on Acheulean tools at Melka Wakena, Ethiopia. 📅 3 June | 🕑 14:00 WEST | 🌍 Online 🔗 www.icarehb.com/lexa #Archaeology #ExperimentalArchaeology

‼️NEW PUBLICATION! Happy to share the spatial analysis of Unit A9 of Grotta di Fumane: Intra-site organization of the repeated Neanderthal occupation of Unit A9, Grotta di Fumane (Pre-Alps, Italy). Pull the thread 🧵 1/11

🔥 How did fire shape #HumanEvolution? ICArEHB seeks PhD candidate for #FCTPhDFellowships to study fire-use evidence and quantitative synthesis tools, supervised by Godefroy Devevey. 🔗 More info www.icarehb.com/fct-phd-fell... #PhDOpportunity #Archaeology

Only a few days before Kalavan II Symposium! I will present my new exciting PostDoc project on cutmarks analysis 🔬 Check out the program below 👇🏻 and the amazing work done by my colleagues in the HumEnDyLAB

More on the timing of neanderthal/sapiens admixture www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🔆 Good morning! Kiss me you fool... Nobody knows when kissing emerged among humans. But the practice of plopping one's mouth on another human, whether in friendship or love, is not universal. The evolutionary origin of human kissing 🏺🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

An interesting reflection on AI applications in bone surface modifications analysis journal.caa-international.org/articles/10....

The obsidian bowl was a hit, so here is another special item. This is, to my knowledge, one of only five known Mesopotamian obsidian amulets, inscribed with spells to protect the wearer from Lamaštu, a demon who tormented pregnant women and kidnapped babies. The obsidian came from central Turkey.

We are thrilled to announce the publication of our joint paper on the Bipolar knapping! An experimental-based approach to define the Bipolar as a systematic method in the Uluzzian @boneslab.bsky.social link.springer.com/10.1007/s125...

Spears tipped with a multitude of 🦴 human bone 🦴 bipoints! In the Vanuatu National Cultural Centre

For #FieldworkFriday some memories from #MiddlePalaeolithic Ararat Cave, #Armenia, with the amazing crew of the Lab for the Study of Human-Environment Dynamics - HumEnDyLAB for the #TransCause ERC project

Cognitive demands of stone tools use 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mind the gap. #Archaeologists are excited about #dinosaurs as much as everybody else - but we don't dig them. Not literally. That's where our colleagues in #palaeontology come in - there's a good sixty-four million years of evolutionary history between the Flintstones and their pets. 🏺🦕

Not a coding person, so couldn’t import my old tweets... Guess it’s a good time for a fresh start! Dr. Eva Francesca Martellotta [soon to be] Postdoc Research Fellow (Israel, France, Armenia) Assoc. Lecturer @UniQld Adjunct Research Fellow @GriffithUni Senior Heritage Specialist @4CornersHeritage