Sedimentary ancient DNA is seriously shaking up how we study the past, and I'm very happy to be quoted in this Nature feature😅. Cool piece on sedaDNA, what it can do and where things get messy (literally, in the dirt) @erc.europa.eu @matrixerc.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social

30 years of MSCA 🎉 and what a journey for research across Europe and beyond🌍! As supervisor of 3, I've had a front-row seat to researchers pushing the boundaries of knowledge in human prehistory. Here's to the next 30 years of curiosity-driven science🔬 #MSCA30 #ICArEHB #EUResearch #Archaeology

Enjoyed our @icarehb.bsky.social seminar yesterday diving into the exciting work we have been developing @matrixerc.bsky.social on DNA taphonomy! A real proud PI moment seeing this come together and push our understanding of DNA in sediments & soils forward. #DNATaphonomy #aDNA #TeamScience

Proud of spending this year’s Women in Science Day in the heat of the Afar with these amazing Women ! Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 💙💪 #WomenInScience #EveryVoiceInScience #11February @icarehb.bsky.social

MatrixERC StG works across archaeological sites from all over Europe, following the microscopic traces of late Neandertals and the first modern humans. We study intact sediment samples, checking whether the archaeological layers are truly preserved and looking for ancient DNA, proteins, and lipids.

We worked hard in 2025, will be super busy in 2026 and you will hear all about it. For now, we are ready for a break and wish you all the best of holidays! #MatrixERC #ICArEHB #Neanderthal #Paleolithic #HumanEvolution #Prehistory #AncientDNA #Biomolecules #SedimentDNA #Geoarchaeology

Starting soon, join us for this months LEXA seminar on the amazing site of White Sands !

Join us on Nov 4 (14:00 GMT) for the next @icarehb.bsky.social LEXA Seminar! Prof Matthew Bennett explores early human transport tech from White Sands. Were travois-like devices used 22,000 years ago? Free & online: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Meet the team behind the ERC Matrix Project! We introduce Carli Peters, researcher and biomolecular archaeologist at icarehb.bsky.social Carli studies ancient human–animal interactions using palaeoproteomics and ZooMS to extract and identify ancient proteins from bone fragments.

🧪🏺🦣 Hugely exciting area for faunal & hominin ID using tiny fragments of bone within sediment sample blocks, allowing attribution to micro-layers: crucial to advance knowledge in Palaeolithc sites, especially those already excavated. Sites tested: Bacho Kiro Cave, La Ferrassie, and Quinçay

📄 New paper 📣 of @matrixerc.bsky.social & @welkergroup.bsky.social! We show that microstratigraphic-scale #paleoproteomics works in intact sediments - opening new ways to explore ancient ecosystems & hominin behaviour 🌍🦴 @erc.europa.eu @icarehb.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

This is neat science!

👥 Meet the team behind the ERC Matrix Project! We introduce Hussein Kanbar, postdoc researcher and experimental geochemist at @icarehb.bsky.social Hussein explores how DNA moves, binds, and survives in soils and sediments. His work builds bridges between archaeology, geochemistry, and genetics.

Join us for another 🔥 #LEXA @icarehb.bsky.social experimental geoarchaeology talk with Dr. Chase Murphree

👥 Meet the team behind the ERC Matrix Project! 🔬 Today: Vera Aldeias, PI of Matrix and a geoarchaeologist decoding past human behaviour through sediments. 🧬 Vera’s team uses ancient DNA & proteins in soils to trace modern humans’ arrival in Europe & Neanderthals’ disappearance.

The ERC Project MATRIX explores one of the big questions in our past: how Neanderthals disappeared as modern humans spread across Europe. Meet the team behind it and learn more about our research on sediments, ancient DNA, proteins, lipids & human evolution 👉 matrix.icarehb.com

Don’t miss our next ICArEHB Experimental Archaeology Seminar. We will welcome Dr William Chase Murphree to talk about new geoarchaeological experiments investigating Upper Palaeolithic fire use. 14:00 (GMT) on the 7th of October. Free for all, join here icarehb.com/lexa/

🎧 #Podcast: #ICArEHB’s @godefroyy.bsky.social on archaeology, #HumanEvolution & the #HEIRS project. Listen: Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/4mVR... Radio www.radio.pt/podcast/lets...

Join us on August 5th at 14:00 for another @icarehb.bsky.social LEXA seminar! This month, we're welcoming Dr. Alastair Key from the University of Cambridge to discuss experiments in Lower Palaeolithic technology. Register here: [https://www.icarehb.com/lexa/](www.icarehb.com/lexa/)

Very happy to announce that a new postdoctoral position on the New ERC funded Western Rift Archaeology and Palaeoenvironment Project is open - if you're a geologist or geochronologist come and join us at @icarehb.bsky.social euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/358068 Feel free to share it around.

I had the chance of explaining a little more about HEIRS to Sara Cura in her podcast Let's Rock - Um Podcast da Idade da Pedra. Introduction is in Portuguese, my interview is in English (with a lot of pause for my slow brain). Please let me know your suggestions: open.spotify.com/episode/4mVR...

Fantastic piece by our wonderful @icarehb.bsky.social PhD student Osman Khaleel. Finding ways in difficult times. Osman is quite an inspiration to us all

🌍 New call for #synthesis projects! #HEIRS & #FRB_CESAB seek proposals on #humanevolution + #biodiversity 🌱 🔹 IdeaShare: interdisciplinary ideas 🔹 DataShare: data harmonisation 🗓️ Deadline: 8 Sept 2025 📩 Apply: www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/en/calls/cal...

Don't forget tomorrow's @icarehb.bsky.social Experimental Archaeology seminar at 2pm (GMT). Dr Carolina Mallol will be discussing Neanderthal Fire Technology. Register for free here www.icarehb.com/lexa/ and join us online.

Our next LEXA seminar will be a hot one🔥! With the wonderful @caromallol.bsky.social. Join us at 2pm (Lisbon time!) on Tuesday the 6th of May. Register here: www.icarehb.com/lexa/

Tracing the elusive fire use during the LGM: check out our paper lead by @wcmurph.bsky.social on fire features at Korman' 9 in Ukraine. @philipnigst.bsky.social @marjolein-bosch.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social with open access provided by @icarehb.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Cool--or ew?--story by @evoscribe.bsky.social for @science.org!

Proud PhD supervisor moment! @wcmurph.bsky.social successufully defended his PhD thesis on 🔥Pyrotechnology during the Upper Paleolithic in Europe @icarehb.bsky.social

Launch Alert! 🚀 #HEIRS is now accepting submissions for its first-ever call for group synthesis projects focused on #HumanEvolution. If you're passionate about research in human evolution, this is your chance to synthesis! 🌍 heirs.icarehb.com/calls-traini... 💡 What’s in store?

Human Evolution now has a place to do synthesis 🎉 The #heirs opening @icarehb.bsky.social demonstrated how fun, eye-opening and powerfull synthesis can be. Call for funding now open heirs.icarehb.com/2025/01/29/c...

Join a great team! UCL Archaeology South East @archsoutheast.bsky.social are looking for a Geoarchaeologist...…! Deadline 5 January 2025. JD here: Https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?jobId=29558

Looking forward to the #HEIRS opening symposium on Research Synthesis in Human Evolution. Great line up! If you want to attend, more info 👇 @icarehb.bsky.social

Congrats @tomosproffitt.bsky.social ! Great to have you in the @icarehb.bsky.social team !

Looking forward to DIG #geoarchaeology in amazing #Tübingen

Deciphering past human actions through experimental archaeology - it is all in the sediments! Join us for the next hybrid @icarehb.bsky.social LEXA seminar on Dec 3rd. You can register here www.icarehb.com/lexa/

Great to see so many of the archaeology crowd joining bsky!

Proud PI as my PhD students, Chase Murphree, Sofia Kouki and Miguel Ramiseiro have presented their project at @ICArEHB's internal seminar. @ERC_research MATRIX project

Starting in the BlueSky world by sharing our new "toy". The microXRF for my MATRIC-ERC project has arrived and it is running! 😎. Thank you ERC_Research! #Geoarchaeology #mXRF #elementalanalysis