Great way to end the second week! First in-situ ostrich eggshell of the season at Klipdrift Cave ~14,000 years ago. 🏺 #archaeology

We ended the first week of excavations slowly uncovering Klipdrift Shelter (new sandbags at the ready!) Next week after another day or two we should be ready to begin excavations. I’ll be focusing on Klipdrift Cave where I’m hoping to find evidence of habitation during the Last Glacial Maximum. 🏺

Great postodoc opportunities ... economics and archeology .... fascinating project .... please look www.origins-project.com/open-positions

Excellent! Just registered & looking forward to it. #archaeobirds #zooarchaeology 🏺

We had a windy Wednesday (the toilet tents almost made an escape) but Thursday we made it to Klipdrift Cave and Shelter! We spent the day cleaning baboon poop, finding the old sand bags covering the site and testing the new walkway. We just need to watch the tide… #archaeology 🏺

First day setting up camp! ⛺️ getting ready for archaeological 🏺excavations at Klipdrift Cave and Shelter in De Hoop nature reserve, South Africa.

🏺 We are pleased to inform you that the Call for Contributions deadline for 31st #EAA2025 Annual Meeting in Belgrade has been extended until Monday, 10 February 23:59 CET. We hope this extension provides you with the opportunity to finalize and submit your proposals. Details can be found in link.

#Job 2-year postdoc position working on the The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans" (ROCEEH) database in Tübingen 🏺 🧪 🦣www.researchgate.net/job/1018917_Data_Curator_m_f_d_with_a_background_in_Palaeolithic_Archaeology

Just a reminder abstracts due this week for the 2025 EAA archaeology annual meetings! 🏺 Consider submitting to our session below if you focused on hunter gatherers in aquatic environments (coastal, lake, riverine or other wise!)

Flying to Cape Town for the 2025 field archaeological season at Klipdrift complex starting next week. I’m excited to start prepping for the excavations! 🏺

Happy to announce our new article is out today in JAS:R, led by Dr. Susan Botha of Nelson Mandela U. In the paper we describe our field experiments foraging for fuelwood & burning them to better understand the costs and benefits of fire 🏺🦣🧪 #openaccess www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Still time to apply. Join @nannonstevens.bsky.social and myself, addressing the record of the last Neanderthals in Britain. Be part of a new era of research, testing assumptions and setting out a new agenda for discovery. 🏺🦣🧪

Excited to invite abstract submissions to our EAA session on the development of Neolithic technologies. We really welcome papers on varied materials & approaches be that pots, beads, bones, lithics, basketry etc. Link for submission here shorturl.at/hX4DI See you in Belgrade! 🏺🧪 #Archaeology

Do your New Years resolutions include "Become editor for American Antiquity"? Because we can help with that! The Society for American Archaeology is extending its deadline for applications. www.saa.org/quick-nav/sa...

Planning to attend EAA2025? Consider submitting to Session #14: Prehistoric Exploitation of Waterscapes and Aquatic Resources hosted by Mariana Nabais, Anna Rufà, García-Escárzaga, and myself. Abstract deadline Feb 6th. 🏺 www.e-a-a.org/EAA2025

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Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

Ooo! Just found “The Missing Thread” by Daisy Dunn at the bookstore— excited to add to my “to read list” for the new year! #archaeology🏺 #BookSky

Ending out the year with submitting a proposal to fund an archaeological project on social complexity in coastal forager during the Later Stone Age in South Africa. Keeping my fingers crossed and holding thumbs. 🏺

Archaeologists and anthropologists working in Africa and especially if you are from Africa 🏺

300 kilo tuna? 🏺

Final Fun fish fact! 🏺 I will be excavating in 2025 at Klipdrift Cave (14,000-9,000 years ago) as part of SapienCE where fish bones have previously been recovered. This will add to our understanding of coastal foragers. What fish were they fishing? How intensely? Image: Henshilwood et al. 2014

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Fun fish fact #4 🐟 #archaeology 🏺 What fishing technologies existed during the Middle Stone Age in South Africa? We don’t have any archaeological examples but based on the species it could be: -hand fishing -spear fishing -hook and line -nets Image: black musselcracker from TwoOceans Aquarium

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Fun fish fact #3 Many fish harvested during the Middle and Later Stone Ages in South Africa are local species like the white stumpnose (left image). However, the yellowtail amberjack (right), a popular sushi species today, is throughout the southern hemisphere. #archaeology Images: Brian Gratwicke

Welcome Homo juluensis!? It's exciting to have a new human species proposed, but can't help thinking that until we can stare Denisovan anatomy more fully in the face, with genes to match, all bets are off. Maybe we should just say new human population for now? 🦣🏺 phys.org/news/2024-11...

This is so true, and really the whole scope of the ERC #IslandLab project is to reconstruct long term ecosystem dynamics with humans - the fundamental question being what is it that humans do, over time, to either reduce or enhance ecosystem resilience?

"Homo juluensis: Possible new ancient human species uncovered by researchers" ⚱️🧪#paleoanthropology #paleosky

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Really happy to have this paper included in the special issue. A great example of 🧪 using #ZooMS to answer #zooarcharological questions.

And now, the Version of Record of my latest co-authored paper led by Juan Ochando is out in Quaternary Science Reviews: doi.org/10.1016/j.qu... 🧪 🏺

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

Job alert! Director of Oxford University Museum of Natural History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKV017/d...

Fun fish fact #2: Did you know sharks/rays were consumed at the Middle Stone Age site of Klasies River Main Site in South Africa between ~115,000 - 50,000 years ago? (Image of Klasies River from Grine et al. 2017) #archaeology 🏺 #paleoanthropology

TIL it is possible to identify both modern and archaeological #shark and #ray skeletal tissues using collagen peptide mass fingerprinting. 🐟🧪 #TheMoreYouKnow www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

I am writing about archaeological fish remains from South Africa which means time for some fun fish facts! One of the most common fish species from the Middle Stone Age is the White Sea catfish. It is scaleless with a venomous spine and very abundant today. A very friendly face too. #archaeology

My review of “Birds and Beast of Ancient Mesoamerica” is out with JAR— highly recommended as a reference for zooarchaeologists and anyone interested in animal symbolism. 🏺 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Time for an introduction—I am postdoc in #archaeology currently researching changes in fishing practices during the Middle and Later Stone Age in South Africa. I’ll be posting about #fieldwork at the Klipdrift Complex, zooarchaeology, and archaeology.