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...

That's a hell of a cave

✨I am so pleased that our latest paper on the Megalopolis basin and its paleoenvironment is published online today in Boreas! 🐘🏔️✨ Many congratulations to Ines Bludau and the entire team! 🎉👏

Looking into a Neanderthal gallery at La Roche-Cotard @johnhawks.net open.substack.com/pub/johnhawk...

We are pleased to share our new paper on the Iberian Aurignacian. We employed a quantitative approach to explore techno-typological variability and test its spatio-temporal dimension. @palomadelalasca.bsky.social Paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Evidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel suggests behavioural uniformity across Homo groups in the Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic circa 130,000–80,000 years ago www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@dispersalserc.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social New preprint 📄 Summarising our ICAHJ 16 (Athens, 2025) workshop on the Palaeolithic of Jordan—reviewing current research & setting future priorities. A lot of new work is now underway following these discussions. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

New Zealand - a country where you can buy a house with your own loess profile on the driveway. This is what dreams are made of 🤩

I finally had time to update my StoryMap with North Island fieldwork from the Rangitīkei and Oroua valleys. River terraces and loess everywhere… and even some marine sediments. We sampled loess on Rātā and Porewa terraces. Both preserve thick Kawakawa Tephra. Check it out 👉 arcg.is/XnDj10

#Sevilla #Photography

I am immensely proud to announce the publication of our latest article “Aterian shell beads from the coastal site of El Mnasra Cave (Rabat-Témara, Morocco): Specificities of the North African MSA personal ornaments”, led by our beloved Emilie Campmas 🧵 @umr5608traces.bsky.social @mnhn.fr @INSAP

🗺️ SASSI: New database of Southern African Stone Age sites! #ICArEHB Emily Hallinan in J Open Archaeology Data: doi.org/10.5334/joad... #StoneAge #OpenScience

I am SO EXCITED to announce that CENIEH in Burgos, Spain will be hosting the third installment of the IZAZ (Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology) Workshop on the 15th – 16th September 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Join the mailing list to stay up-to-date: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Statement by the Senate of Tel Aviv University

Latests open access paper from Amanzi Springs, with the oldest MSA on the southern African coast at ~230 ka & potential evidence for regional variability in the transition from the Acheulian along the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain compared to the Highvelt interior of S. Africa www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our new paper reporting the Acheulian to Middle Stone Age sequence from the Area 7 spring eye at Amanzi Springs. This paper is the culmination my my good friend's (Alex Blackwood) PhD research. share.google/OyoFDFyPBJtk...

#Sevilla #Photography

A la une de Science Advances! Il y a 12 000 ans, dans les premiers villages du Proche-Orient, des enfants modelaient des perles en argile, laissant leurs empreintes digitales pour l’éternité. @inshsh.bsky.social @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social #préhistoire umrtemps.cnrs.fr/modelling-id...

There is still time to submit abstracts to our #UISPP session on Gravettian and Epigravettian! - Join our session: Before, during and after the Big Dry! Deadline: 20 March. @marjolein-bosch.bsky.social @heasvienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

Archaeological evidence shows that children and adults in the Levant shaped clay ornaments 15,000 years ago, highlighting early symbolic traditions predating pottery and agriculture. doi.org/hbs24c

📢🔬New #PaperAlert! on the cover of @ScienceAdvances : Emergence of clay personal ornaments in Southwest Asia A butterfly clay bead from #Natufian Eynan-Mallaha, colored red with ochre and marked with the fingerprints of the child (≈10 y/o) who modeled it 12,000 years ago doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Final leg of the Southern Dustscapes field campaign. After 6–7 weeks of fieldwork in Tasmania and Aotearoa New Zealand I’m back in Christchurch, based at Lincoln University. Next up: exploring #loess across the Canterbury Plains and working with Peter Almond, who knows South Island loess inside out.

Applications are now open to join our 2026 UCL Master's programme in human evolution. Covering the Palaeolithic, Palaeoanthropology & other key disciplines, the course is designed to equip you for a career in the deep human past. #PaPa 🦣📷https://tinyurl.com/5duy6twh

This is how I started out in archaeology - a brilliant program!

These landscapes are just mind blowing. The scale of uplift of the marine sequences and rivers just cutting in redistributing all of the sediments. It feels like standing in a #geomorphology textbook

30 years of MSCA 🎉 and what a journey for research across Europe and beyond🌍! As supervisor of 3, I've had a front-row seat to researchers pushing the boundaries of knowledge in human prehistory. Here's to the next 30 years of curiosity-driven science🔬 #MSCA30 #ICArEHB #EUResearch #Archaeology

Cultural norms of exogamy and mobility shape hunter-gatherer genetic evolution🏺🧪 @ceciliapad.bsky.social et al www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Shows populations flexibly adjust mobility and social norms to demographic constraints to preserve genetic diversity and avoid fitness costs

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! ✨✨