🚨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

Biomolecular approaches to Pleistocene bones New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Annette Oertle, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social @katerinad.bsky.social et al

I was literally about to submit the edited draft of my new book on prehistory, "Lost Worlds," but now I need to rework the Çatalhöyük section! What a great problem to have, incredibly exciting new research, check it out!

Neanderthal had a “crush” on fats. Macronutrient estimation in Middle Paleolithic (Late Mousterian) hunter-gatherers of southern Italy www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...

Two PhD positions open! Deadline end of June! Apply now!

🚨 Two PhD Positions Available! Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠 Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history. www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...

Two #PhD opportunities in Ravenna, Italy 🇮🇹, in #HumanEvolution within the #ERC project "Last Neanderthals"! 🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth #BioArch #Archaeology #Neanderthal #SciComm

A great opportunity, with a great team and a great lab 🏺🧪 Dr Stefano Benazzi's Bones Lab @boneslab.bsky.social Two PhD positions open! Deadline end of June! Apply now! bsky.app/profile/bone...

Two PhD positions open! Deadline end of June! Apply now!

🚨 Two PhD Positions Available! Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠 Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history. www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...

🧬Welcome to the new Palaeoproteomics Lab at the University of Bologna – Department of Cultural Heritage (Ravenna), where we study ancient proteins preserved in archaeological remains such as bones and teeth.

Grotta della Lea, a new Early Epigravettian site in southern Italy (Uluzzo Bay) 🏺🧪 Giulia Marciani, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social , et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Shouldered backed bladelets and points on high-quality chert. Radiocarbon dating between 21,821–18,281 cal. BP

🌍 Join us in the ERC Last Neanderthals! We're hiring: 1️⃣ PhD: Digital approaches for the study of Paleolithic human remains 🖥️ 2️⃣ PhD: Taxonomic discrimination of Late Pleistocene bone fragments through paleoproteomics 🦴

We have a 4-year PhD-student opening in our lab, deadline on Wednesday noon. For anyone interested in computational genomics of ancient human, pathogen, or canid genomes. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud... If you are curious, send in an application!

Our latest research presents Grotta della Lea, a newly investigated Palaeolithic site in Uluzzo Bay. Check its Early Epigravettian lithics, faunal remains, and AMS dates! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My #review of Giulia Marciani's monograph on the Late Mousterian of Oscurusciuto (Southern Italy) is on Lithic Technology. I totally recommend it! link to the review shorturl.at/Jotx9 link to the book shorturl.at/wCmcH #archaeology#palaeolithic @barpublishing.bsky.social@tandfresearch.bsky.social

On Monday we launched the first PaleolITica meeting, to foster exchange between young researchers in Italian #Palaeolithic lithic technology. It was very productive, thank you to all the participants! shorturl.at/6J9ba @boneslab.bsky.social #archaeology #FlintFriday #FindsFriday🏺

🌍 Join us in the ERC Last Neanderthals! We're hiring: 1️⃣ PhD: Digital approaches for the study of Paleolithic human remains 🖥️ 2️⃣ PhD: Taxonomic discrimination of Late Pleistocene bone fragments through paleoproteomics 🦴

Time to learn some more about the West African MSA! They were not only in rainforests 150,000 years ago, they were also in mangrove forests! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Uluzzian and Châtelperronian: No Technological Affinity in a Shared Chronological Framework 🏺🧪 Giulia Marciani @boneslab.bsky.social @mariesoressi.bsky.social et al link.springer.com/article/10.1... The distinctiveness highlights the technological behaviours in western Europe 45–40 ka

The Ontogeny of the Human Calcaneus: Insights From Morphological and Trabecular Changes During Postnatal Growth🏺🧪 Carla Figus, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social et al onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Calcaneal plasticity may display mechanical influences and provide precious information

Our new study investigates developmental changes in the human calcaneus linked to the acquisition of mature bipedal locomotion 🦴👣 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Being a woman in science is not just something to celebrate today, but a journey of resilience and determination in a field historically shaped by men. Cheers from the women of Bones Lab!

🌊 Our team just completed an archaeological survey of the most significant sambaqui on Florianópolis Island, kickstarting a new project at one of these sites. The research is supported by a collaboration including BonesLab (Italy), Unochapecó, CEOM, UFPEL, LEIA/UFSC (Brazil), and CONICET (Argentina)

BonesLab is also in the UAE with the Italian Archaeological Mission in Umm al-Quwain on Siniya Island @tetinicolosi @iamuq_uae @uaq_tad

Just arrived and ready to excavate one of the most promising Paleolithic rock shelter in northern Oman! Excited for what discoveries lie ahead!

The third excavation campaign at the Bronze Age necropolis of Halban, Oman (IAMHAL project) has just come to an end. Another year of thrilling discoveries and an incredible team!

PaleoAnthropology Journal has made it to Bluesky! We are a fully externally peer-reviewed, Open Access, online-only journal. We have no publication fees, and are accessible free of charge to all. Find our website above to read our current issue, or if you are interested in submitting to our journal

Thrilled to announce the release of the Italian translation of The Human Bones Manual by Tim D. White and Pieter A. Folkens! 🎉💀🦷🦴📘 www.piccin.it/en/antropolo... #Anthropology #Osteology #Archaeology #Forensics #TheHumanBonesManual #IlManualeDelleOssaUmane #Translation

Thrilled to announce the publication of the Italian translation of The Human Bones Manual by White and Folkens! This work, translated by Owen Higgins and curated by Stefano Benazzi, is now available in Italian🦴📖 Check it out at www.piccin.it/en/antropolo....

Excited to be in Ravenna for a #FIRSTSTEPS meeting with many team members! Thank you Bones Lab for having us! 😊 #archeology #teamwork

Gene drives development of brain’s emotional centre and its connections [summary] www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Brainstorming, networking, and sharing new ideas! Thrilled to have hosted our friends and colleagues for the ERC FIRSTSTEPS midterm meeting – what an inspiring exchange of knowledge and perspectives! @katharv.bsky.social @harvatilab.bsky.social

Studio and digitisation assistant www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ148/s...

Thrilled to share this paper born from a workshop uniting researchers for hands-on analysis of lithic assemblages Though they share the same stratigraphic and chronological window, the Châtelperronian and Uluzzian are fundamentally distinct link.springer.com/article/10.1... @mariesoressi.bsky.social

As 2025 begins, we're excited to resume our fieldwork, research, and educational activities at BONES Lab. Wishing everyone a productive and enlightening year filled with remarkable experiences! ⭐🌍🔬 #BONESLab #Fieldwork #Archaeology #NewYear

📢The ERC Synergy project Last Neanderthals is hiring a postdoc to join the geoarchaeology team at the University of Siena. Applications close: December 30, 2024. For details, visit euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/300156?...

Greetings from the BonesLab team! 🎄 Wishing everyone a joyful holiday season filled with health, happiness, and discovery🥂

Today on TG Leonardo, Stefano Benazzi comments on the two new papers on DNA analysis, which provide further evidence on the interbreeding between sapiens and Neanderthals. www.rainews.it/tgr/rubriche...

We’re thrilled to announce our latest results from the histological analyses on the first deciduous molars from two Early-Medieval necropolises, now available on PLOS One! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Early human collective practices and symbolism in the Early Upper Paleolithic of Southwest Asia | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

RecERCatori in evidence – The disappearance of the Neanderthals 🏺🧪 Last Neanderthals explores the causes and events that led the disappearance of Neanderthals between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago. Explore causes and events with Prof. by Stefano Benazzi.

Looking for a postdoc in use-wear analysis of Pleistocene expedient osseous tools? Check out this offer from the #ERCStG ExOsTech project at #universitébordeaux euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/296676

Y chromosome introgression between deeply divergent primate species www.nature.com/articles/s41...

First post here to mark a new project funded by the ERC! Super-excited and very thankful to the colleagues who supported the idea in the first place, and those who reviewed it! “RIFT-to-RIM”, at the University of Vienna & @heasvienna.bsky.social, here we go! lifesciences.univie.ac.at/news-events/...

✨ And Then There Were Six! Researcher Tomos Proffitt wins an #ERC grant, for his project "Western Rift Archaeology and Palaeoenvironment Project (WRAP)", marking the 6th ERC-funded project for #ICArEHB🎉 👏 Congratulations Tomos! 🔗 Read more: www.icarehb.com/portfolio/to...

New paper out! Children actively made hand-stencils and flutings in the Upper Palaeolithic, but can we identify children's cave art without anatomical measurements? We present a new framework using universal features of young children's drawings 🏺 www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3...

Our new article led by @eslembenarous.bsky.social on the MSA site of Bargny, where new investigations headed by Dr Khady Niang have yielded samples that show its Middle Pleistocene age. The West African MSA keeps getting older (watch this space!). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to be part of this paper, the result of a collaborative network involving all researchers studying the Uluzzian. It presents converging experimental results on the bipolar knapping #Uluzzian #Paleolithic #ResearchCollaboration