Our PhD candidates did a great job presenting the preliminary results of the project at #SAfA2025. Hope you enjoyed the conference and see you soon 😁

Session #55 on "Mapping African Archaeology" just started at #SAfA2025! Come by to hear about @camp-erc.bsky.social work by PhD candidate Antonios Koutrompas!

This morning, our PI Stefano Biagetti presented an overview of our work in the general session of the #SAfA2025. Come by the presentations by K. Rix (session #33) and A. Koutrompas (session #55) to learn more about our project!

AI “thinks” in the same way a mirror looks at you

Faro contrasts.. #SAfA2025

Just arrived to Faro for #SAfA2025 with the @camp-erc.bsky.social team.and some friends! hope to see you around😁

Windows of Córdoba.

From the creators of double-bagging in Botswana and Oman, let me introduce you to the wonders of Kenya cup preparation! 😁

#Sorghum is cultivated by #Turkana farmers in the banks of Turkwell river. They burn-and-slash to open land for cultivation and use earthen canals to irrigate the fields.

⚠️ #PhD opportunity⚠️ If you are interested in #Archaeology and #Pastoralism, ERC-project CAMP offers a fully-funded PhD position in UPF (Barcelona) to study plant microremains and geochemical signatures in pastoral contexts. Apply by July 10th! More info. below 👇🏼 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/346669

After a few days of #fieldwork, we have already sampled 3 ethnographic sites and 1 abandoned camp. #Turkana people are really amazing! #Ethnoarchaeology #Kenya @camp-erc.bsky.social @sdrecercaupf.bsky.social

📢 New publication: "The genomics of t’ef and finger millet domestication and spread" by Mekonnen D.Z., Gomes A.I., Machado R.S.R. & Oliveira H.R., in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2025, Vol. 380, Issue 1926). 🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

Yeah so... The view from the Turkana Basin Institute right there for you

After about 48h, we are here!! TBI feels like paradise 🤩🤩 @camp-erc.bsky.social @sdrecercaupf.bsky.social

On our way to Lake Turkana! 💥💥

Cute Nairobi couple 🥰

⚠️ @camp-erc.bsky.social fieldwork season starting! ⚠️ We're off to Kenya this time — expect stunning pics on your timeline soon! 🤩

A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it. archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...

I contributed to the special issue of PAGES magazine, "Early Human Traces: Landscape Openness Proxies Across Space and Time," with a short article on the identification of charcoal from archaeological sites to detect human-induced vegetation openings 🪵🔥🌳🌴🌿 1/5 pastglobalchanges.org/publications...

All the soils of the world put together in one image! They are categorized into their main defining traits. Do you have a favourite one?

@amgc-vub.bsky.social @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social

Delighted that this paper came out as part of a PNAS special feature on “The Global Dynamics of Inequality over the Long Term” where together with a team of 27 scientists we collected and analysed a sample of over 53,000 houses from all five continents. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Also out in @nature.com today, our research showing that hunter-gatherers understook substantial Mediterranean sea crossings during the Mesolithic. This research also documents the first evidence of pre-Neolithic peoples in Malta! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Trunks #photography #nature

We are happy to share our pre-print on dating bone using a novel non-destructive protocol we developed. The paper is on the Biorxiv here (Luftensteiner et al. 2025): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Yohannes Haile-Selassie wants to shift the trajectory of palaeoanthropology in fossil-rich Ethiopia away from its long colonial heritage https://go.nature.com/4iEQTkE

New article published in #ScientificReports! 🔥 In this paper, we use random survival forest to model the transition from foraging to plant cultivation globally. Check it out! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In a world of Matts, be a Derek.

Bifaz #Achelense #Prehistoria #Swanscombe, #Inglaterra Tallado sobre un Fosil de un Erizo de Mar del Cretacico. #HomoHeidelbergensis

Time to go home! Goodbye wonderful #Dhofar ! #fieldwork #ethnoarchaeology

Deadline fast approaching! Consider submitting your work to our session on #archaology and #sustainability at #EAA2025. You have until Feb 6th! @archaeorg.bsky.social, Filippo Brandolini and @camp-erc.bsky.social

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

And here they are! Today we found a beautiful #sorghum and #beans field in the mountains of #Dhofar near the Tawi Attair sinkhole....and close by what looks like an abandoned settlement! #FollowTheSorghum Thanks @camp-erc.bsky.social 😊

Last days of sampling in #Dhofar...

A well deserved day off from sampling which we spent exploring the Dhofari mountains around #Salalah, meeting with the locals and learning about traditional #pastoral practices 😁

Fieldwork soundscapes #ethnoarchaeology

Another day of #ethnoarchaeology in south #Oman. We are passed the 1000 samples and the dromedaries came to celebrate with us!!!!! 🐪🐪

Hard day of #fieldwork against the Dhofari wind, but still lots of ethnoarchaeological samples coming home! We are almost at 800 now 😎 Fewer dromedaries today though, so I am using a photo of them crossing the lagoon a couple of days ago 🐪🌊

Ethnoarchaeological sampling started in #Dhofar, south #Oman! Already 300 and counting.. (and some dromedaries)

Although I am more of a #crop girl, I must say that there are some pretty animals to see while doing #fieldwork with CAMP....hopefully ther would be plants though 🤩🌾

Today, we explored the area around the site of #Sumhuram and found some very nice #ethnographic sites that we will start sampling tomorrow! 💥💥 Also, dromedaries 😁 @camp-erc.bsky.social

CAMP #fieldwork in Oman just started! Stay tuned for updates with cool ethnoarchaeological sites and some more pictures of dromedaries 🐪🤩 @camp-erc.bsky.social @cl379.bsky.social

It's time! 👇🏼

From the archaeologist's sketchbook: Fifty Shades of Bronze.

Had not realized that R (>=4.0, per StackOverflow) provides selective function loading. Nice way to avoid naming conflicts. Instead of barfing a package's entire namespace into your environment when you don't need to: library(stringr, include.only = c("str_extract", "str_remove")) #rstats

Call for paper open! 2nd international Congress of Ecological Humanities to be held in #Barcelona at Universitat Pompeu Fabra #UPF on 30/06-01/07/2025 Main focus of this edition is the connection between Ecological Humanities and #PlanetaryWellbeing Send your contribution now! 👉 t.ly/0SzCT

The call for contributions to the 27th #SAfA meeting has opened! This year it will be in Faro, Portugal (21-26 July 2025). Join us at session #11: Quantitative Approaches to African Ethnoarchaeology. You can submit your abstracts via: safa2025.icarehb.com @camp-erc.bsky.social @cl379.bsky.social

Dear archaeobotanists!, On behalf of the initiative “Ethics in Archaeobotany”, I invite you to complete a questionnaire on this topic. 🌾🌱🍇🫒🪵📝 Our objective is to gather first-hand data about ethical issues that arise in our subfield. 1/6

your body is a temple mine is a collapsed Neolithic mudbrick charnel house with centuries of defleshed bones spilling out 🏺 we are not the same