2025 was a year with many milestones for us, from the first PhD submitted to our international workshop. We look forward to 2026! Expect more papers, new surveys and student projects, and our special issue! We wish everyone in the Kalahari and beyond happy holidays🎄(Picture of Rappels Pan 2024).

Professor, deep history and archaeology of Africa www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP065/j...

Germany is one of the most popular destinations for students and scholars worldwide, but those pursuing academic careers face significant hurdles to success www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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🎓 Das Würzburger Altertumswissenschaftliche Zentrum/Kolleg Mittelalter & Frühe Neuzeit sucht eine/n Mitarbeiter/in. Im Beschäftigungszeitraum soll ein Förderantrag für ein Promotionsvorhaben entstehen. ✉️ Bewerbung bis 23.1.2026 www.uni-wuerzburg.de/karriere/sin...

A new job for #StableIsotope & #massspectrometer enthusiasts for 6 years in the @clusterroots.bsky.social at @uni-kiel.de: Responsibility for running the machines & for measurements. Science people, do not be put off by the word "Engineer". Deadline 31.12.25. Link: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...

🌙 Save the Date für die #NightOfTheProfs 2025! 📢 Am Freitag, 21. November, geben Wissenschaftler*innen aller Fakultäten Einblicke in ihre Forschung – kostenfrei und allgemeinverständlich. Das Motto in diesem Jahr lautet: „Mut!“

Looking for a PhD or Postdoc position in archaeology? @clusterroots.bsky.social at @uni-kiel.de has currently 14 (!) positions advertised for start in 2026. Feel free to contact me or any of the other PI's for more information. Deadline is 15th December. Link: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/... 🦣🏺👇

A great opportunity for all archaeology students based in southern Africa👇

I am honoured to have been invited to attend the #TDE25 celebrations in #Saarbrücken as part of the Schleswig-Holstein Bürgerdelegation representing @uni-kiel.de, @clusterroots.bsky.social and @khoproject.bsky.social. ... (1/2)

Michaela Ecker leitet die #EmmyNoether-Gruppe @khoproject.bsky.social an der @uni-kiel.de. Sie erforscht die Auswirkungen extremer Klimaveränderungen im Mittel- und Spätpleistozän auf die menschliche Evolution in der südlichen Kalahari. Mehr zur Forschung 👇 🏺 #TagDerDeutschenEinheit

#TDE25 #ZukunftDurchWandel

Conratulations to Inèz Faul for submitting her PhD thesis to @uni-kiel.de today 🥳 🎓 We are proud of you! Inèz studied the formation processes and past environment at pans in the #Kgalagadi #Botswana with geoarchaeological methods - and is our first PhD student to submitt!

It's already the end of this year's #fieldwork but not before we met the German Ambassador in Gaborone and made plans for the future, talking about @khoproject.bsky.social and @clusterroots.bsky.social projects. www.facebook.com/share/1BP1X2...

Beautiful panels decorate the outside of the Botswana National Museum. The renovations are almost finished, we look forward to the opening. We visited some first rooms that are open today. #archaeology 🇧🇼

We had two great days with the years standard 5,6 and 7 of Maleshe and Khisa village this week. We tried to explain our research in interactive stations in small groups - even a song was created! #ScienceCommunication #fieldwork #nextGeneration #archaeology

Save the date for UKAS 2026! The next UK Archaeological Sciences conference will be held at the University of Bristol from 31st March to 2nd April 2026.

The last days we spend a lot of time with these quartzite bedrock outcrops - recording every detail 📷 📐✍️✏️ 🪨 to understand their use as raw material source during the Stone Age #fieldwork #kgalagadi. Inspired by a paper from Matt Lotter et al. 2024 in Southern African Field Archaeology

Submit an abstract to the dedicated session on use cases of the ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD) at CAA 2025 in Vienna! S25: How to do ROAD: An Essential Tool for Conducting Multidisciplinary Studies Related to Human Evolution Deadline: October 26th 2025 2026.caaconference.org/conference-s...

Enjoying office hours during field work! #womeninstem

Our geoarchaeology team led by @geoarchamelie.bsky.social has been very busy the last few days making holes, sampling and refilling them all in a day each time 💪🪏#WomenInStem #girlpower #fieldwork #kglagadi

PhD Studentship alert! I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia. Details in the link below! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

We had a lot of fun excavating a small rock shelter with a stunning view yesterday. Who said there are no rock shelters in the Kalahari? Might have been our leader @isotopesrule.bsky.social ... #kgalagadi #fieldwork 🦣🏺🇧🇼

Am 26. September ist #ScienceDayKiel! Die #UniKiel ist u.a. mit den Exzellenzclustern PMI und @clusterroots.bsky.social, @kielunimarine.bsky.social​ im Erlebnisraum „SEALEVEL” und der Technischen Fakultät dabei.

Even a single rock has a story to tell! Botswana's landscape holds so many stories! Enjoying #fieldwork and #geoarchaeology at #Kgalagadi

Our team currently in the field in 🇧🇼 is having a great time #Kgalagadi #archaeology #fieldwork #WomenInSTEM @geoarchamelie.bsky.social @isotopesrule.bsky.social

When you arrive at a new pan to survey and disturb the local birds 🇧🇼 #fieldwork #Kgalagadi video by @geoarchamelie.bsky.social

Can you spot our two geoarchaeologists @geoarchamelie.bsky.social and Hannah at Tswai pan today? #Fieldwork #Botswana #Kgalagadi #SundayWork

Sunrise in Tsabong for our first day of #fieldwork 2025 #Kgalagadi #Kalahari #Botswana #nofilter

After two busy days in Gabs we are hitting the open road into the #Kalahari and are on our way to Tsabong #Kgalagadi 🇧🇼 @geoarchamelie.bsky.social @isotopesrule.bsky.social

I am looking for a multispecies archaeologist with a strong theoretical and interpretive profile to join my group (100%, 3 years): uni.koeln/2E7CR Deadline: 30.09.2025. Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21") @nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social

After 30 hours of travel 🚙🚄✈️✈️✈️🚙 the @uni-kiel.de part of this year's @khoproject.bsky.social field team has arrived in Gaborone 🇧🇼 A cheeky Nandos was in order to recover #NandosBW #SharingIsCaring @isotopesrule.bsky.social @geoarchamelie.bsky.social

We are on our way to #Botswana! On Thursday 4th September we will be at our collaboration partner University of Botswana and @isotopesrule.bsky.social will present a talk "New insights into Stone Age sites from the southern Kgalagadi district" in the History Department Seminar Series.

Last preparations for this year's field season are under way. Starting in one week to Gaborone #Botswana with @geoarchamelie.bsky.social and the rest of the team. Our 5th field season! #archaeology #fieldwork #Kalahari #Kgalagadi

It's crunch time for our PhD student Inèz 😅 #academia #WomenInStem #PhDlife

The week has flown past and it's already the last afternoon at #SAfA2025 in Faro. We immensely enjoyed the sessions, catching up and meeting new people. Live stream of the plenary discussion has just started on @icarehb.bsky.social YouTube channel.

Alma Nankela’s enlivening #keynote here at #SafA2025 talking about Namibia’s Archaeological Heritage,putting operational frameworks in place, and showing us many beautiful sites in Namibia. #archaeology #Namibia #rockart #rockshelters

A really great and inspiring keynote talk to start Day 2 of #SAfA2025 by Sada Mire on archaeology in Somaliland.

And in the afternoon in session 28 #SAfA2025 from Selina Amaral, @matzearch.bsky.social, our work from @pans-river-namib.bsky.social & Heinrich Kurt #archaeology #openair #surfacesites #lithics #kalahari #namib #MSA #ESA

Thanks to everyone who presented, attended the talks and joined discussions and dinner of our #SAfA2025 session on open air sites. We had a great day of inspiring inputs - there is lots of connections and lots to expect from arid open air archaeology in southern Africa in the next years 💪🇿🇦🇧🇼🇳🇦

A fascinating morning so far in session 28 #SAfA2025 hearing about the Kgalagadi District: survey, luminescence dating, duricrust formation & lithics from @khoproject.bsky.social members @isotopesrule.bsky.social @taylorgrandfield.bsky.social Inez Faul & Rowena Winterhalder #lithics #archaeology

#SAfA2025 has started! The largest ever SAfA conference with over 500 presentations expected over the next 4 days @icarehb.bsky.social

We congratulate the Faya Paleolandscape on its inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List! (whc.unesco.org/en/list/1735/). Since its early years, ROCEEH has supported research in Jebel Faya and neighboring sites financially and with personnel. 📷Sharjah Archaeology Authority

A new paper published today including authors from our team 👇👇👇

Please be aware of the new timing for #SAfA session 28 on Tuesday (tomorrow!) safa2025.icarehb.com/safa_session.... @eshallinan.bsky.social et al. will lead a short tribute to the recently passed Garth Sampson at 10.45. @sallieburrough.bsky.social will then introduce the session (1/2)...

Part of our #SAfA session 28 is a poster by @geoarchamelie.bsky.social from @uni-kiel.de with her new project "Geoarchaeological studies on sedimentary sinks and fluvial sediments along the Molopo River, Botswana". Find her in the poster session on Friday morning! 🦣🏺Days to go: 2️⃣

We will close our #SAFA session 28 with Kurt Heinrich Wogau Chong from the Center for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapeinCE) in Bergen, Norway. He'll talk the Little Karroo in South Africa. Afterwards, there is plenty of time for questions and discussions with all presenters of the session🦣🏺Days to go:3️⃣

Next up in our #SAFA session 28 will be @abistone.bsky.social who is introducing us to the @pans-river-namib.bsky.social project that she is running with colleagues in the Namib Sand Sea 🦣 🏺 Days to go: 4️⃣

Please note that our #SAFA session time has changed and we are now earlier on Tuesday 10.45 - 15.45! In the section after lunch, matzearch.bsky.social is introducing his new ARAMIS project in Namibia.🦣 🏺 Days to go:5️⃣

In the 6th talk of our #SAfA session Selina Amaral from @utoronto.ca who will take us to Kathu Pan in the Northern Cape Province of #SouthAfrica. We will hear from her new geoarchaeological auger survey and discuss calcretes, tufas and climate. This will be a live online talk.🦣 🏺 Days to go:6️⃣