🙏🏻🙏🏻 It was amazing to be part of this wonderful conference among such great researchers! Thankful for being there!

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First lecture is from Ioannis et al. On the stratigraphy of the Late Lower Palaeolithic l, at Dalarik 1 cave, Armenia 🦣🏺 #UTP26

No it's Alfie Bower et al. Early Middle Pleistocene Occupation at Corton. Suffolk. #UTP26

Now is it @meirzooarch.bsky.social on Rethinking Prey Choice in the Middle Palaeolithic of that Southern Levant. #UTP26 🦣🏺

congratulations, to Laura our past post doctoral and friend for another great paper

‼️NEW PUBLICATION: Inferring the role of hominids at Torralba: Spatial analysis of original excavation data. Open-access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This was a fantastic talk from @nannonstevens.bsky.social ; really interesting patterns of human and animal movement after the LGM, and some key differences in time and environment between Britain and Belgian - and reindeer populations who's migration routes might lie offshore

What can a 26.5 m² campsite tell us about life 38 ka? Our new study on Friedrichsdorf-Seulberg reveals a short Aurignacian occupation with a hearth 🔥 reindeer processing 🦌 and raw materials 🪨 transported over 170 km A small site with a big story about Ice Age mobility! #Archaeology #Palaeolithic 🦣🧪🏺

Job alert! A tenure-track position in Prehistoric Archaeology, at the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is now open (archaeology.huji.ac.il)! Outstanding candidates should submit their application by the 12th of August! Further details: @arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social

Come to work with me!!! We are searching for a Paleolithic archeologist, no specific field of specialty. Looking forward to your applications

Decorating my office

If you missed our talk on cross-cultural insights into alcoholic beverages, given by @vaclavhrncir.bsky.social, it’s now available to watch on our YouTube! Watch it here: youtu.be/o_TFqV6H88c?...

🎓 Eligibility: UK-based undergraduate students only (must NOT have graduated before start of placement; NERC rules apply) 📅 Application deadline: Wednesday 17th June, 5:00pm 📩 Questions: [email protected] REPs offer great hands-on research experience in Earth system science 🌍

🚨6-week ACCE+ DTP Research Experience Placement opportunity @University of Liverpool 🌍Study how landscape position influence dust (loess) deposition and preservation, using sedimentological and geochemical data from New Zealand loess sequences. More info: accedtp.ac.uk/research-exp...

Happy to share our new paper on non-destructive FTIR analysis on silcrete artefacts from Mertenhof and Diepkloof with heating temperature reconstructions. Is the data beautiful and clean? No. But is it still meaningful? Yes! Study led by Will Archer: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🔥New paper out now🔥 in collaboration with a colleague from MONREPOS. Congratulations! #palaeolithic #leizarchaeology #paleomonrepos #archaeology #paleolithic #archeology Read now 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Who would have thought - ten years! On my first visit to Geula Cave in the summer of 2016, inspecting the fauna from the test trench and inside the cave together with Talia Abulafia at the end of the excavation. 📢Publication is coming soon! Photos: Prof. R. Yeshurun and A. Peretz #zooarchaeology

Couldn't be prouder of my former PhD student Danai Theodoraki, who just published her thesis on Neolithic Franchthi and high-res climate variability! 🥳 books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de//propylaeum/... @leizarchaeology.bsky.social @unimainz.bsky.social

🚨 Excited to share our new paper on the #MiddlePalaeolithic site of Ras el-Kelb, #Lebanon 🪨🦴 A long overdue study! Using lithic analysis and use-wear approaches, we explore how hominins interacted with the landscape and exploited resources along the Lebanese coast during the MP #Levant 🏺🦣 👇

We’re excited to announce that the first 2026 issue of PaleoAnthropology is now online! A big thank you to everyone who made this issue possible. 📖 Read it here: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph... #PaleoAnthropology #HumanEvolution #Archaeology #OpenAccess

The recording from this talk is now on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel. 👇🎞️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5_Q...

We are looking forward to welcoming #ArianeBurke @burkeam.bsky.social to #HEASVienna for a #HEASSeminar in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic. @philipnigst.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social More information and registration is on our website 👇🔗 www.heas.at/events/heas-...

Just out: Recently discovered chimp gene-tool-culture are more likely due to permanent population splitting & expansion (i.e. "demic diffusion") than to female dispersal. *free* pdf link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1n3XqAlZXf... #ces2026 @ces2026.bsky.social #hbes2026 @hbes2026.bsky.social

🌵 How did #HunterGatherers move through arid landscapes at the end of the #MiddlePalaeolithic? #ICArEHB researchers Eduardo Paixão and João Marreiros co-author this open access study in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s125... #Mobility

Excited to see this manuscript from Charles Roseman and Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther out in CA. I'm one of the respondents, but the whole set is an interesting perspective: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

Hi All, please join us next Thursday 7th of May for the final webinar of this semester - given by Dr Marco Vidal-Cordasco from the University of Cambridge, more details on the poster below Please register here, we hope to see you there! events.teams.microsoft.com/event/1498cb...

🚨FULLY FUNDED PHD POSITION!🚨 If you are interested in trying to answer the question of "How did climate shape the movements, interactions, and evolution of hominin populations?" Come join my lab at @humanorigins.bsky.social 🧬🧪 deadline 7th of June ⬇️ uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Great blog post by my phd student Thomas Beard on our recent visit to the @esrf.fr doing nanoscale mapping of clay minerals on thin sections. What a joy to spend some sleep deprived days on their beamline! (side note: with only very minimal damage to our slides)

🌍 Population dynamics in the Southern Caucasus: current progress and future steps. #ICArEHB researcher David Nora co-authors this open access review in Quaternary Science Reviews. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.qu... #QuaternaryScience #Archaeology

New evidence from Iran's Makran coast documents Lower & Middle Paleolithic occupations in a key Pleistocene dispersal corridor. The Makran region bridged Arabia/Levant to South/East Asia, filling a major gap between Pakistan & the Strait of Hormuz. www.academia.edu/165986821/Br...

So excited to be already opening New Zealand loess samples. Here is a photo of me working on them in the luminescence lab 😉🙃

Volunteers wanted for a Palaeolithic Field School in Breitecnbach, Germany (July-October 2026)!

What function did ~100k-year-old engravings from Blombos Cave & Diepkloof serve? Decoration, identity marking, proto-writing? osf.io/preprints/ps... uses transmission chains + cognitive experiments to find out & help answering one of the hardest questions in cognitive archaeology. long thread! 1/

Adeline Le Cabec from our lab participated in this new study on Neanderthal growth! Amud 7, the most complete Neanderthal infant skeleton, reveals unusually rapid early-life growth. This discovery suggests Neanderthals may have followed a unique, fast developmental pattern.🧪🏺 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Gesher Benot Ya'aqov hace 780 ka: aprovechamiento de ramas y troncos en el paleolago Hula a lo largo de decenas de milenios. Paleoenvironmental and behavioral insights into firewood selection by early Middle Pleistocene hominins

No evidence that hominin dispersal across Eurasia was part of a wider turnover in mammal distributions

Congrats Chen Zeigen on publishing the first Ph.D. article. So well done! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

We are looking forward to welcoming #JoãoCascalheira to #HEASVienna for a #HEASSeminar in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic. More information and registration on our website 🔗👇

Amud 7, the Neanderthal baby who shows they developed faster than modern humans english.elpais.com/science-tech...

Ella Been and Alon Barash spearheaded this new study on Neanderthal paleobiology as seen from the Amud 7 skeleton www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Enjoying being in Dushanbe to study the beautiful lithics from the Middle Paleolithic site of Soii Havzak, Tajikistan @hcelab.bsky.social @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de #CentralAsia #Paleolithic #lithics

And just like that sun came out today... Lake Wānaka in it's full glory from Roys Peak. Face hurts from grinning and knees from the lengthy downhill 😍🤩⛰️🏔

I'm hiring! 📢 Fully funded 4-year PhD position in Language Evolution using Communication Games at @mpi-nl.bsky.social. Come work with me on how different social pressures shape the evolution of new communication systems in the lab! Deadline for application is May 18th! share.google/fGTKbFS4v4Gb...

New paper out! ✨ What goes into making and maintaining a grinding stone? This study explores the technological choices behind shaping and sustaining these tools over time. 🔗 Read more: sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Prehistory #Lithics #3DPhotogrammetry

🚨 Publication alert🚨 Early humans in South Africa were quarrying stone as long as 220,000 years ago at the site of Jojosi @natcomms.nature.com - specialized, long-term use of a source of a raw material source in Stone Age Africa: Read the paper #openaccess here www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We will hold two discussion sessions in the next #IZAZ workshop. In past workshops, these discussion sessions have been pivotal in advancing community efforts. So - what do you think the theme of these discussions should be? 🤔💭 Follow this link to make a suggestion: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A huge collaboration moving forward a neglected find and bringing it to the front

Ella Tsahar and colleagues just published this (open access) paper about archaeological ostrich eggshells from Middle Paleolithic sites in the Levant as paleoecological markers. doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...