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 🤠🔬📏🖥️🧬

#Oman #MSA New paper is OUT! We trace how Dhofar’s MSA shifts from Nubian Levallois cores to the miniaturized Mudayyan industry—highlighting changing technologies along the southern dispersal route out of Africa. @arduq.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Wrapping up the year by highlighting the 2025 publications! 📌 Understanding the Origin of Superficial Bone Changes in the Qafzeh 9 Skull Micro-CT clarified the origin of frontal bone changes on this well-known fossil and helped discuss variability. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Interested in applying for this funded PhD with me at UCL Institute of Archaeology? Get in touch to discuss this project or to develop your own idea! Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/hum...

I am very happy to see this published! Congratulations 🥳 to Okopi Ade, it was a pleasure to have you in our lab at @tracer-leiza.bsky.social @paleomonrepos.bsky.social @leizarchaeology.bsky.social We all learned a lot

🪓 Stone flakes = ancient tool care? #ICArEHB's David Nora's introduces a module flake approach in his new paper: doi.org/10.1007/s108... #Lithics #Archaeology

New publication alert!‼️ Wrapping up 2025 with my fifth paper of the year in the SAJS! The paper reviews how stone tools reveal social connections, noting similar patterns can also arise independently and suggesting ways to better distinguish the two. 💫 🔗 doi.org/10.17159/saj...

Paper alert! 🚨 New research on the hunting strategies at the Middle Paleolithic site of Nesher Ramla! 🐂🦴 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

About Nesher Ramla hunting strategies

“Snakes and Ladders” is not a game, but a model for how Stone Age people maintained their tools. From fresh edges (M0) to full rejuvenation (M4), each flake is a step on the ladder of technological decision-making. rdcu.be/eRutD

Posibles diferencias de tradiciones culturales y aprendizaje social entre los grupos neandertales de Amud y Kebara: Cut from the same cloth? Comparing Neanderthal processing of faunal resources at Amud and Kebara caves (Israel) through cut-marks analyses

Join us for an archaeological field school exploring the Armenian Palaeolithic! Open to students from any university and any major. More info here: app.studyabroad.uconn.edu/index.cfm?Fu...

We’re losing so many legends in archaeology. Here is a lovely tribute to Tony Marks, who died in August. He was incredibly encouraging to me, and supported our work revisiting the Nubian technology he first characterised. He will be missed. www.icarehb.com/portfolio/in...

Meet the team behind the ERC Matrix Project! We introduce Carli Peters, researcher and biomolecular archaeologist at icarehb.bsky.social Carli studies ancient human–animal interactions using palaeoproteomics and ZooMS to extract and identify ancient proteins from bone fragments.

It was a fantastic season! Very thankful to @lausanrom.bsky.social and @jorios.bsky.social !!!

In another exciting news I am kicking off a new project generously supported by the @royalsociety.org 🙏 The title tells you the whole story: “SOUTHERN DUSTSCAPES – Reconciling scales of past dust fluxes and their impact on climate in the Southern Hemisphere.” #LoessIsMore #Dust #Quaternary

The MATRIX Project, ERC Starting Grant, led by @veraaldeias.bsky.social and based at @icarehb.bsky.social, explores the replacement of Neanderthals by early modern humans by analyzing intact blocks of sediment as archives of ancient DNA, proteins, and lipids. Follow us and visit matrix.icarehb.com

👥 Meet the team behind the ERC Matrix Project! 🔬 Today: Vera Aldeias, PI of Matrix and a geoarchaeologist decoding past human behaviour through sediments. 🧬 Vera’s team uses ancient DNA & proteins in soils to trace modern humans’ arrival in Europe & Neanderthals’ disappearance.

👥 Meet the team behind the ERC Matrix Project! We introduce Hussein Kanbar, postdoc researcher and experimental geochemist at @icarehb.bsky.social Hussein explores how DNA moves, binds, and survives in soils and sediments. His work builds bridges between archaeology, geochemistry, and genetics.

🧪🏺🦣 Hugely exciting area for faunal & hominin ID using tiny fragments of bone within sediment sample blocks, allowing attribution to micro-layers: crucial to advance knowledge in Palaeolithc sites, especially those already excavated. Sites tested: Bacho Kiro Cave, La Ferrassie, and Quinçay

📄 New paper 📣 of @matrixerc.bsky.social & @welkergroup.bsky.social! We show that microstratigraphic-scale #paleoproteomics works in intact sediments - opening new ways to explore ancient ecosystems & hominin behaviour 🌍🦴 @erc.europa.eu @icarehb.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Hace 45-70 ka los neandertales de El Castillo (España) usaban materia prima local, pero también adquirida a grandes distancias. Neanderthal mobility over very long distances: The case of El Castillo cave (northern Spain) and the ‘Vasconian’ Mousterian

Wrapping up another amazing field season in #AmaldaIII with this fantastic team @jorios.bsky.social @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social Antxieta Arkeologi Taldea, Martin Arriolabengoa

Here we are #AmaldaIII with @jorios.bsky.social @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social and Antxieta Arkeologi Taldea group 📷 from the cave by @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social

📣Our new paper presents new a high-resolution luminescence and radiocarbon chronology for the Naisiusiu Beds at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. This site is crucial for understanding the cultural and biological evolution of Homo sapiens in the Late Pleistocene. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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!