Deadline moved to March 20th! Go submit your pyroarchaeology abstract and join us in Poznań to talk fire! #pyroarchaeology #UISPP2026

What a show we got to watch this morning 🌄 #Taranaki being its most gorgeous self 😍 #volcano #NewZealand #landscape #geomorphology #geology #geography #nature

For our recent paper - on naive humans reinventing how to shape early stone tools - we did sth unusual and sth (hopefully) useful: We included an FAQ section in the supplementary material New methods may benefit from such FAQ's being included. [available at ars.els-cdn.com/content/imag... ]

I’m using an ArcGIS StoryMap to document #fieldwork across #Tasmania and #NewZealand for the Southern Dustscapes project. It records sites, field observations, and sampling. Have a look if you’re interested in #Quaternary, #geomorphology, #loess or if you just want to see photos. arcg.is/XnDj10

Extented deadline to March 20th! ✨✨

Interested in maximising data from fragmented bone? Of course you are. Join our free online workshop. Registration closes March 4th. 🦣🧪🏺

It's balmy in Palmy ☀️ And you can't throw a stone without hitting some loess deposits... #Loess #LoessIsMore #Quaternary #Palmy #Geomorphology #Manawatu #river #Aotearoa #NewZealand

Grabados realizados sobre cinco artefactos de cuevas levantinas de entre 54 y 100 ka: Incised stone artefacts from the Levantine Middle Palaeolithic and human behavioural complexity

Our symposium on Middle Pleistocene behavioral variability with special focus on Dalarik-1 Cave (Armenia) is just a day away! Join us at📍Room 520, Mt. Scopus Campus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, or 💻 online (via zoom)! See you all tomorrow @humendylab.bsky.social #TransCausd!

In three days on Thursday, we will tour around the globe during the Middle Pleistocene and wil stop at Dalarik 1 cave Armenia. Please join the ride, drop us an email for a link

I am revisiting sites described in earlier studies but also scanning the landscape for new exposures. This means stopping wherever road cuttings, riverbanks or eroded slopes expose sediments. In this part of the valley aeolian sediments often caps river gravels and alluvial fans.

Register now for our free online workshop hosted by the #COEXIST project and @archaeoprotein.bsky.social: Maximising data from #Palaeolithic bone. Exciting program on chronology, diet, taphonomy and method advancement: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🦣🧪🏺

🌍 Could prehistoric communities have reorganised in response to earthquakes? #ICArEHB researchers Barbieri, Sánchez Martínez, Belmiro, Galfi, Horta, Cascalheira & Bicho find earliest evidence of seismic adaptation at Vale Boi. 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s125... #Palaeolithic #Iberia #HumanAdaptation

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

Interdisciplinary bioarchaeological research (lipid residues analysis of prehistoric pottery, faunal and human remains) document Neolithic consumption of caprine milk 9000 years ago in the Iranian Plateau. @umr-bioarch.bsky.social @cnrs.fr & @mnhn.fr) #LSCE. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A wonderful new Middle Palaeolithic discovery from @inrap.fr, the national French preventative (rescue) archaeology org. In many cases UK archaeology would miss this important record because it simply isnt looked for. A thread: 1/X 🏺🦣 www.inrap.fr/un-nouveau-s...

Less than two weeks until our symposium. Please drop me an email if you would like a zoom link

@humendylab.bsky.social & #TransCause Project invite you to our symposium on Middle Pleistocene behavioral variability with special focus on Dalarik-1 Cave (Armenia)! 📍Room 520, Mt. Scopus Campus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 💻Also online (via zoom)! See you all there!

New paper out! Does fire erase use-wear? Using experimental burning and 3D confocal analysis, we show that heating modifies surfaces but does not erase use-wear signals. @hcelab.bsky.social

🧬SedaDNA Postdoc position💥 2 years Starts 2026, apply by 1st March. Join Aleks Pluskowski at Reading & me at NHM. jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Listen to @mattpope.bsky.social discuss this particular artefact in this BTS video! #UCL200

I'm delighted to have contributed even in a small way to this just-published article in @frontiersin.bsky.social describing a comparative bone surface modification database - with open-source data and code! frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2026.1681814/full

Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2026! Join us for two days of all things Palaeolithic, Pleistocene and Early Human Origins at UCL Institute of Archaeology 19-20th June. Call for papers is now open and tickets are on sale! Check out our website for more information. sites.google.com/view/unravel...

The talks were outstanding- so much exciting geomorphology research happening around the world. Loved reconnecting with old friends and making new ones. Now heading into the research part of my trip feeling energised and inspired. #Geomorphology #Geoscience #geography

My first International Conference on Geomorphology done and it won’t be my last. A fantastic conference: beautifully organised, great venue, and a wonderful city. Huge thanks to the organising committee for hard work over the past 4 years, and especially for the activities supporting ECR #ICG2026

Here's another exciting opportunity to join the ERC FORAGER team! This one is a 3-year postdoc on paleoclimate modelling with the fantastic Matt Osman here in @cam.ac.uk, with opportunity for synergies (pun intended 😜) with other team members in archaeology and zoology www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54411/

Between 50,000 and 20,000 years ago, South African societies radically reorganised their stone tool technology. Does this reflect cognitive evolution, or something else? Our analysis at Umhlatuzana suggests the latter. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Now Open: SSH Doctoral Recruitment Call 2026 40+ fully funded 4yr PhD positions @univie.ac.at careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p... (Application Deadline 2 Mar 2026) Contact me for #Palaeolithic projects! palaeo.univie.ac.at

Call for Papers #UISPP 2026 Poznań Join our session - Moving on: updated scales, concepts and approaches to mobility in the Late Pleistocene (Thematic Session 4D) Abstract Deadline: 28 Feb 2026 uispp2026.syskonf.pl @timocanessa.bsky.social @palomadelalasca.bsky.social @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social

Call for Papers #UISPP 2026 Poznań Join our session - Before, during and after the Big Dry—Exploring the Gravettian and Epigravettian occupation of Europe (Thematic Session 14A) Abstract Deadline: 28 Feb 2026 uispp2026.syskonf.pl @marjolein-bosch.bsky.social @heasvienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

📢Deadline Extended📢 Final week of abstract submissions for EAA2026 and Session 178 - Cave Sediments as Archives of Human-Environment Dynamics: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Geoarchaeology & Micro-contextual Research! We look forward to seeing you all in Athens!

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.

📢 PhD position in Geoarchaeology (4y) – Ghent University within the ERC project FROST. The PhD combines archaeological dating methods with geoarchaeological analyses of sediments to investigate Late Glacial human–environment interactions. www.ugent.be/en/work/scie... Deadline: 23 February 2026

🚨 New Paper Alert! We investigated the developmental trajectories of intra-ethnic and inter-ethnic social norm acquisition among BaYaka and Bandongo in northern Rep. Congo, a community where inter-ethnic cooperation is common. We found that... journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Jan. 23 international seminar @palevoprim.bsky.social Clara Mielgo @iphes-cerca.bsky.social "Unravelling Pleistocene palimpsests: a taphonomic and spatial reassessment of Buena Pinta Cave (Pinilla del Valle, Madrid, Spain)" palevoprim.labo.univ-poitiers.fr/wp-content/u... @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

🌎📢Join #INQUA2027 Session S_021 "Human–environment interactions and socio-ecological trajectories during the Quaternary from the Mediterranean basin to Central Asia" 📢⏰submit your abstract by 15 Feb 2025 🗓️28 Jan–3 Feb 2027 📍Lucknow, India inquaindia2027.in/s-021

New work by HERI's @drpeechiwara.bsky.social & colleagues reviews Middle Stone Age evidence in #Africa to explore how early humans built complex social networks Looking at context & patterns, the paper sheds light on the deep roots of human cooperation & collaboration. doi.org/10.17159/saj...

Enjoyed seeing the faunal record during MIS5 in Guela Cave from @meirzooarch.bsky.social #QRA2026ADM

Stunning scenes this evening at the Merseyside

Really happy to have joined this study, published in November, that finally sorts out the hunting lesion question at Boxgrove 🐎 and adds much-needed experimental reference data for future studies. A big thank you to @annemiekemilks.bsky.social, @mattpope.bsky.social, and all the other co-authors! 🦣🏺

Merry Christmas everyone

🔥New paper out now in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports🔥 The team used a combination of innovative methods to analyse various 15,800-year-old engraved stone plaquettes to investigate hand preferences of individual engravers. Read now 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New article from our doctoral researcher @norarch.bsky.social is out! Check it out!!! 🎉🎉🎉

🎉New article by our doctoral researcher Dominik Rogall on the paleoenvironment of Kalavan‐2 (MP; 60-35ka) based on small‐vertebrate assemblages! 🎉Published in the Journal of Quaternary Science! Check this out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

📢Do you work on the (micro-) geoarchaeology of cave sediments? Join our Session #178 at the EAA 2026 Annual Meeting in Athens (26–29 August 2026)! For further details, please scan the QR code below! Abstract submissions open on 19 December 2025! 📢

Our new article on the latest DNA analysis of Beachy Head Woman. She’s had quite a journey. www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...

Hot off the presses! Last year's full-class project by my awesome students in "Introduction to Archaeological Lab Sciences" is now published and freely accessible for the next 50 days via this link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mGK-,rVDB...

Labs will be established in Panjakent and Dushanbe 🤠🔬📏🖥️🧬