Wonderful HEAS Road Trip to Willendorf, Nussdorf and Traismauer! - We explored the prehistoric and Roman archaeology of the Traisen and Wachau valleys. @heasvienna.bsky.social @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social @dominikhartmann.bsky.social @uhaunivienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @palarchgroup.bsky.social

HEAS Member @philipnigst.bsky.social has been awarded an FWF grant for the project “Residential Mobility in Upper Palaeolithic Europe” @palarchgroup.bsky.social @uhaunivienna.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social 👇

Cut from the same cloth? Comparing Neanderthal processing of faunal resources at Amud and Kebara caves (Israel) through cut-marks analyses 🏺🧪 www.frontiersin.org/journals/env... Suggests distinctive butchering between Amud and Kebara caves despite comparable occupation, lithics, and resources.

Very excited to receive an ERC Starting Grant to study the earliest archaeological and biomolecular evidence of Homo sapiens in NW Europe Watch this space for new positions in Bristol in 2026! 🎉 #HorizonEurope #ERCStG

Considering the EAA’s contradictory statements and its position of holding volunteers responsible for limiting free speech, shaming the professional class, I will not present this year, will not renew my membership, and call for the Executive Board’s resignation.

#1 New Publication! Kumar Akhilesh, Susana Rubio-Jara, Joaquín Panera, Manuel Santonja, Alfredo Pérez-González, Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Patricia Bello-Alonso & Shanti Pappu. 2025. link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-025-00224-3#citeas Read this thread...

New Publication! Kumar Akhilesh, Susana Rubio-Jara, Joaquín Panera, Manuel Santonja, Alfredo Pérez-González, Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Patricia Bello-Alonso & Shanti Pappu. 2025. link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-025-00224-3#citeas

Animals don’t just live in their environments—they transform them. And in doing so, they may also shape their own evolutionary trajectories. Our new paper in Trends in Ecology & Evolution introduces a framework for zoogeochemical niche construction. A thread 👇

I feel exactly the same! Really enjoying chatting about caves, carnivores and extictions. Looking forward to working together!

We’re delighted to be hosting Dr Meir Orbach (AKA @meirzooarch.bsky.social) on a Rothschild Fellowship this year. Meir is working with Prof Hannah O’Regan on lateglacial faunas and extinction. #archaeology #caves #zooarch 🧪🏺

Carnivores, caves, #fossils and #archaeology. I’m really enjoying chatting with Meir about the Pleistocene and the beasties that inhabited it. Nothing like a bit of #Quaternary #palaeontology to start the #palaeoecological thoughts going again. It’s great to have you join us in Nottingham, Meir!

Mechanical experiments are in progress at TraCEr by @eduardopaixao.bsky.social, testing the impact of different raw materials on the crushing of raw tubers. This study is part of broader research on early human behavior and percussive tool use at the Acheulean site of Melka Wakena, Ethiopia

The first week of excavations and stratigraphic documentation at Dalarik-1 Cave was very successful! The trip to Kalavan village - and the homonymous Palaeolithic sites - was the best treat for a day-off! A stop at Gutanasar volcano was a must! @humendylab.bsky.social #TransCause

Volcanos, glacial lakes, #Kalavan, and new friends #Armenia @humendylab.bsky.social

@arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social @norarch.bsky.social @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social @lausanrom.bsky.social @dr-eva-martellotta.bsky.social

Back to Armenia, back to Dalarik-1 Cave, with a large international team from Armenia, Spain, Israel, Greece, France, Portugal, Italy & beyond! Let the excavation of this unique Middle Pleistocene site start! 🎉 #TransCause @humendylab.bsky.social

Here we are! #TransCause team in Armenia @humendylab.bsky.social

The HEAS Podcast is back! In this episode we meet with @marcel-weiss.bsky.social and @aurelienmounier.bsky.social to talk about Neanderthals, Homo sapiens, Archaeology and Geometric Morphometrics and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vMe...

📢New research paper, led by Theo Karampaglidis & colleagues, integrates geomorphological mapping & sediment analysis & dating (Cosmogenic Nuclides & OSL) to reconstruct environmental history over the past 900,000 years in Ararat Depression! Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thanks @drloessismore.bsky.social it was a pleasure to get it done together

Our new study lead produced enhanced paleo‑geomorphological mapping of the Ararat Depression to decode how shifting landforms shaped human movement and settlement in the Late Pleistocene doi.org/10.1016/j.qu... @humendylab.bsky.social @arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social

Read the latest from the @flindersuniversity.bsky.social #Archaeology #humanevolution and #dispersal Research Group, @richardjhewitt.bsky.social @mikegeoarch.bsky.social and yours truly, and @Universidad de Alcalá archaeologist @Manuel Alcaraz-Castaño. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Paleolithic hominin occupations and Quaternary geomorphological evolution in the NE Ararat Depression (Armenia) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Middle Palaeolithic Human occupations, cultural behaviours and demogra... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We made it to the news this week;) "A 100,000-year-old burial site in Israel " www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/art... #prehistory #archaeology #funerary #paleolithic

A glimpse into our excavation at Tinshemet Cave! Slow process but amazing finds! One more month to go this season with hopefully nice results coming! 🦴⛏️💀 youtu.be/etGVHIBDHIw?...

If you want to know what I am doing every summer for the past 10 years ;)

📢 New publication: "The role of lithic technology in shaping mobility and decision-making: The case of Ararat-1 Cave" by Nora, D., Frahm, E., et al., in Quaternary Science Reviews (2025). 🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...

🚨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

🚨 New paper landing soon. An invited review for Cambridge Prisms: Drylands (www.cambridge.org/core/journal...) about #Quaternary #dryland dynamics. Some areas of emerging consensus, plus remaining contradictions. A short review (<5,000 words): selective not exhaustive

Fallow deer abundances and age profiles indicate opportunistic hunting in the Middle Paleolithic Levant www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our new #openaccess paper is out: Wetland sulfur isotope signals and dynamic isotope baselines: implications for archaeological research #stableisotopes doi.org/10.3389/fear...

The role of lithic technology in shaping mobility and decision-making: The case of Ararat-1 Cave www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check it out! Congratulations @norarch.bsky.social !🎉🎉🎉

Did you ever ask why people used so many different rocks in their tasks? If you had this question in your mind, go and check my new paper with my colleagues. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Familiar story: You're looking forward to that dinner invitation, but then the neighbours ruin perfecty well gazelle with their weird cooking ideas. Well, turns out #Neanderthals can relate ... 🏺 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Local food processing traditions of late Middle Paleolithic groups in the southern Levant. A project that took 20 years to materialize and is now available as an open-access paper (www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...) led brilliantly by Anaelle Jallon @anispringflower.bsky.social and Lucille Crete

Even Neanderthals had distinct preferences when it came to making dinner, study suggests www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Cut from the same cloth? Comparing Neanderthal processing of faunal resources at Amud and Kebara caves (Israel) through cut-marks analyses www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...

📣 We are accepting submissions to a Special Issue in Quaternary International on "Human Ecodynamics in Valley Ecotones". 🌎 👩‍💻Feel free to let us know if you have any questions. 🗣️Could you help us spread the word? Share this information with potential interested contacts :) More info below👇

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📢More Paper Alert📢 @norarch.bsky.social and colleagues just published a new research article on lithic technology and mobility, at Ararat-1 Cave (Armenia)! It published in the Quaternary Science Reviews (open access)! Massive congratulations 🎉 🎉 🎉

📢 My friend and colleague @norarch.bsky.social just published! Go check it out!! 🎉🥳

My first paper of the PhD is out, we talk about Mobility and lithic technology at Ararat-1 Cave in Armenia. We also talk a bit about 👻 tools. Are you curious? Go and check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢Pre-print alert!📢🎉🎉🎉

Come to learn with us, with projects from all over the world on all parts of the prehistoric record in a dynamic and international environment. A department that is also a home

📢!New paper alert!📢 The study of the microvertebrate assemblages from Ararat-1 Cave (Armenia) has been published in the Quaternary Science Reviews! Massive congratulations to our PhD candidate Dominik Rogall and colleagues! 🎉 @humendylab.bsky.social

#NewPaperAlert: We're delighted to present The Open Aurignacian Project — an open-access 3D database of 2,000+ lithics from four key Italian Paleolithic sites. Paper 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s415... #FlintFriday #FossilFriday #3Darchaeology #OpenScience #DigitalHeritage @julienrs.bsky.social 🦣 🏺 (1/6) 🧵

The Open Aurignacian Project: 3D scanning and the digital preservation of the Italian Paleolithic record www.nature.com/articles/s41...