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News from the
#Paleoanthropology
🦴🦷⚒️ lab at the University of Tübingen 🎓 & Senckenberg 🌍
It’s a wrap! 🎉 Huge thanks to the organizers, members and everyone involved for making
#ESHE2025
a success! 🙌 Special thanks to our Christina Siali for her wonderful work. 😊 And big congrats to Harmony Hill and Gabriel Russo for winning the student prizes! 🏆👏 See you next year in Burgos, Spain! ✨
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A snapshot from Katerina Harvati’s podium presentation at
#ESHE2025
earlier today! ✨️ Her talk: “Middle Pleistocene funerary ritual at Apidima? An examination of evidence.” ☠️🌍🪨
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#ESHE2025
Katerina Harvati ‘Middle Pleistocene funerary ritual at Apidima? An examination of evidence’ 2 homs– 2 dates: Ap2: >170 ka (NEA), Ap1 >210 ka (early H sapiens). Could it be mortuary ritual instead (Otte 2020)?! NO. Analysis of tapho, homs in fissure! no pebbles, no pigments 😀
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And finally today, team members Gabriel Russo and Marya Soubra presented their latest work on sites in Lebanon at
#ESHE2025
poster session! 🌍🐆🦴🐾 Congratulations to both! 🤗🤗
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#ESHE2025
featured posters from our team members on Greek sites: Klissoura (Marciani et al.), Megalopoli (Roditi et al.), and Apidima (Lombardo et al.)! 🌍🦴🐵 They couldn’t attend in person, but their work was well represented. 👏
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The
#ESHE2025
poster session was on fire today! 🔥 Check out the great work from our team members Katerina Harvati, Laura Limmer, David Naumann, and Caroline Röding. 🤗✨ Huge congratulations to all authors and co-authors! 👏👏👏
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Team member Melania Ioannidou presented her poster on Ouranopithecus macedoniensis at
#ESHE2025
! 🐵🐒🦧 Congrats, Melania! 👏✨
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Team member Majid Aljaber Abo Fakher kicked off this morning’s Pecha Kucha session at
#ESHE2025
in Paris! His talk: “A strictly modern human trait? Tracing hypoconulid absence in first molars and its evolutionary implications.” 🦷🌍 Congrats, Majid! 👏🏻
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about 1 month ago
#ESHE2025
Majid Aljaber Abo Fakher ‘A strictly modern human trait? Tracing hypoconulid in first molars and its evolutionary implications’ No LM1s hypoconulid: +% in WEurasia, India ALL earlier homs have it – except: H floresiensis (but Matamenge has it!); earliest absence in W Eurasia: Ksar Akil
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European Society for the Study of Human Evolution
about 1 month ago
The
#ESHE2025
meeting in Paris starts tomorrow (please use this hashtag for sharing). If you are interested in the program, you find it here
mcusercontent.com/9347aa3598d5...
- Members have received an email for accessing the live stream! We hope you all enjoy the conference in person or online. /MW
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about 2 months ago
Time flies and soon it will be time to close the Apidima excavation, after a very productive season!🔨👲 In the meantime, here's a Field Friday photo of the team in Cave D 😍
#fieldfriday
#humanevolution
#ERC
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Last chance to apply! Deadline September 15th! ⬇️⬇️
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📢 We are hiring! 🥳 Applications are open until September 10th! Feel free to circulate! ✨️ Last chance to apply!
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📢 Job opportunity! Applications are open until September 10th. Apply now! Please circulate. ✨️
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Last chance to apply! Position open! Feel free to circulate ✨️ 📢 Applications are open until September 10th! ⬇️
#jobad
#academicjob
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📢 We are hiring! See below for more information ⬇️
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The 2025 excavation season is now officially underway at Apidima in Greece! ⛏️✨️
#excavations
#fieldseason
#Paleoanthropology
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Position open! Feel free to circulate! 📢 Applications are open until September 10th! ⬇️
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Job opportunity! Applications are open until September 10th. Apply now! Please circulate. ✨️
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We are hiring! 🥳 Applications are open until September 10th! Feel free to circulate! ✨️
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3 months ago
🚨 We are hiring!! 🚨 The Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS' is looking for: - a scientific coordinator - a science communication officer 🚨 Deadline: September 15 🚨 See links for the full advertisements:
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
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Wissenschaftliche/r Geschäftsführer/in (m/w/d, E14 TV-L, 100%)
https://uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/karriere/newsfullview-stellenangebote/article/wissenschaftliche-r-geschaeftsfuehrer-in-m-w-d-e14-tv-l-100/
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📢Now hiring:independent junior research group leader-Biomechanics🦴💻 The
#HumanOrigins
Cluster at Uni Tübingen invites applications for a leader in biomechanics. 📝Start: Jan 1, 2026 🗓 Deadline: Sept 10, 2025 Interested? Apply now! 🔗
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#Jobad
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📢Job Opportunity:independent junior research group leader-Experimental Archaeology 🪨The Cluster of Excellence
#HumanOrigins
at Uni Tübingen seeks a researcher in experimental archaeology! 📝Job starts Jan 1, 2026 🗓 Apply by Sept 10, 2025 Apply now! 🔗
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📢Position open:Independent junior research group leader:genotype-phenotype interactions🧬🔎 The
#HumanOrigins
Cluster at Uni Tübingen seeks an expert in genotype-phenotype interactions. 📝Start: Jan 1, 2026 🗓 Apply by Sept 10, 2025 🔗
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#AcademicJobs
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3 months ago
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3. Experimental archaeology
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Independent Junior Research Group Leader (m/f/d, 100%)
https://uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/karriere/newsfullview-stellenangebote/article/independent-junior-research-group-leader-m-f-d-100-3/
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2. Biomechanics
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Independent Junior Research Group Leader (m/f/d, 100%)
https://uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/karriere/newsfullview-stellenangebote/article/independent-junior-research-group-leader-m-f-d-100-2/
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Job Alerts!🚨 We are looking to fill three Independent Junior Research Group Leader positions in the 'HUMAN ORIGINS' Cluster of Excellence at the University of Tübingen Application deadline: Sept. 10, Starting Jan. 1, 2026 1. Genotype-Phenotype interactions:
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Independent Junior Research Group Leader (m/f/d, 100%)
https://uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/karriere/newsfullview-stellenangebote/article/independent-junior-research-group-leader-m-f-d-100-4/
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Our new edited volume is finally out! It collects much of the team's work over the last several years in Greece and elsewhere. Thank you and congratulations to authors, reviewers, editors and the University of Tübingen Press for this exciting - and beautiful! - work!! 🎉✨
#openaccess
#humanevolution
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We’re excited to share that the
#CROSSROADS
VOLUME is published and also printed!🥳It features 28 contributions from the closing CROSSROADS symposium (Feb. 2022, Tübingen). It took time, but was worth the wait!✨️Edited by K. Harvati & M. Ioannidou. Congrats to all involved!🎉 Link:
tinyurl.com/4s5mwdht
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4 months ago
Our article on Kayaca, a new Miocene locality in Turkey, is now out in the Senckenberg journal Paleodiversity and Paleoenvironments! Congratultions to George Konidaris, Ahmet Aytek and the whole team! The first result from this wonderful collaboration ✨🎉
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Kayaca, a new vertebrate locality from the Upper Miocene of Türkiye and its importance for the Turolian biogeography of the eastern peri-Mediterranean region - Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironment...
We present here a new Upper Miocene vertebrate locality, Kayaca, from the Beyağaç Basin in southwestern Türkiye that was discovered after surface survey and was subsequently systematically excavated. ...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12549-025-00666-1
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The pollen analysis from Marathousa 1, an MIS12 Lower Paleolithic elephant butchering site in Megalopolis basin (Greece) is now published!! Congratulations to Stella Kyrikou and team!!! ✨ 🎉 It's wonderful to see this important work finally out!
#openaccess
#humanevolution
doi.org/10.1017/qua....
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Congratulations to George Konidaris on successfully completing his
#habilitation
! A major milestone and well-deserved recognition of his academic dedication and expertise. ✨️👏🏻🎉
#PrivatDozent
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New Dr. on the block! 👩🎓 Huge congrats to Dr. Stella Kyrikou on successfully defending her PhD on paleoenvironmental research in the Megalopolis Basin! ✨️👏🏻 Well done! 🎉
#PhDDefense
#Paleoenvironment
#MegalopolisBasin
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Melania Ioannidou
4 months ago
What an amazing and packed week! Had an absolute blast at
#EAVP2025
in Krakow. I also had the chance to present my latest updates on the dentition of
#Ouranopithecus
🐵🦧 Huge thanks to all the organizers! ✨🙏🏼
@eavpalaeo.bsky.social
#Paleontology
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Katerina Harvati
4 months ago
It was fun participating in the Science Day of our Faculty yesterday with team members Frini Roditi and Stella Kyrikou! We enjoyed presenting our poster on paleoclimate reconstructions of the Middle Pleistocene Megalopolis Basin (Greece) 😎
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Congratulations to PhD student Dalila DeCaro for the publication of her paper on the Marathousa 1 lithics at PLOS:
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
! Well done Dalila!!
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Small flakes for sharp needs: Technological behaviour in the Lower Palaeolithic site of Marathousa 1, Greece
Marathousa 1 (~430 ka BP), located in the Megalopolis Basin, Greece, represents the earliest documented butchery site in the Southern Balkans, providing clear evidence of a direct association between ...
https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0324958
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🎉 Welcome to
#EAVP2025
! LET THE FOSSIL FUN begin! Check-in (today only): Museum of Natural History ISEA PAS (Św. Sebastiana 9;
maps.app.goo.gl/XA5mPrdVdz6Y...
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#Palaeontology
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Muzeum Przyrodnicze Instytutu Systematyki i Ewolucji Zwierząt PAN w Krakowie · Świętego Sebastiana 9, 31-049 Kraków, Poland
★★★★★ · Museum
https://maps.app.goo.gl/XA5mPrdVdz6Ykqtt7
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Happy
#FossilFriday
from the TSR locality (Greece): a horse calcaneus, a carnivoran metapodial and a long bone shaft fragment, possibly leftovers from a Pachycrocuta brevirostris, the giant
#hyena
of the
#Pleistocene
! 🦴🐾🐺 Curious for more? See Katsagoni et al. (2023)⬇️
doi.org/10.1080/0891...
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Exciting week ahead! 🦴🛠 Paleontological
#excavations
kicked off this Monday at the TSR locality (Lower Pleistocene) in Greece - a joint effort between Uni Tübingen and Uni Thessaloniki. 🙌🏻🙏🏼 Stay tuned for some exciting discoveries! 👀✨️🦴
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So nice to be back in Nairobi with the team working in the Museum after many years!
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5 months ago
It was a pleasure to deliver a lecture on humanity's African origins as part of the special exhibit 'Planet Africa – Eine archäologische Zeitreise' at the Archäologische Staatssammlung Museum in Munich. Wonderful public, a full house and lots of questions! I look forward to the next time 🤩
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HEAS
5 months ago
#JobFairy
#PhD
#Anthropology
A PhD position in the Virtual Anthropology Group at
@univie.ac.at
with
#HEASVienna
member
#GerhardWeber
is now available. More information and details on our website 👇🔗
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PhD position in Virtual Anthropology Group - HEAS
The Virtual Anthropology group at University of Vienna (Prof. Gerhard Weber) is now offering a position as a Ph.D. candidate (PraeDoc) in the area of 3D dental morphology. The position is funded by th...
https://www.heas.at/allgemein/phd-position-in-virtual-anthropology-group/
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Marlen Fröhlich
5 months ago
🎉Exciting times ahead for
@elmanubohn.bsky.social
, Michael Franke, and me! We will soon be advertising 2 PhD positions (linguistics/biology/psychology) for our SFB subproject "Modeling Great Ape Signaling Behaviour" 🧮 🐵 Stay tuned!
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BonesLab
5 months ago
🚨 Two PhD Positions Available! Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠 Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.
www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...
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Marlen Fröhlich
6 months ago
Very proud to be part of this extraordinary team! What a time to be working and living in Tübingen ⚒️🐵🦧🦴💀
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Judith Beier
6 months ago
A great success for archaeology and human origins research in Germany 🥳 Two clusters of excellence to be funded for (another) 7 years. Congratulations to
@clusterroots.bsky.social
,
@uni-kiel.de
,
@unituebingen.bsky.social
,
@harvatilab.bsky.social
,
@marlenfroehlich.bsky.social
@ctennie.bsky.social
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Universität Tübingen
6 months ago
Die Universität Tübingen erhält sechs
#Exzellenzcluster
, die im Rahmen der
#Exzellenzstrategie
vom 01.01.2026 an sieben Jahre lang gefördert werden! Darunter drei Cluster, die bereits etabliert sind und eine erneute Förderung erhalten.
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
#ExStra
#Forschung
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Michaela Ecker
6 months ago
Great news for
#archaeology
and
#HumanEvolution
research in Germany. The Excellence Cluster
@clusterroots.bsky.social
at
@uni-kiel.de
was extended and
@unituebingen.bsky.social
got a new Cluster funded
@harvatilab.bsky.social
. Seven years of 💶, positions, infrastructure building and science ahead.
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European Society for the Study of Human Evolution
6 months ago
#ESHE2025
registration is still open! ✍️ Few spots left for the dinner & excursion. The deadline for abstract submission is May 14th:
www.eshe.eu/abstract/
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European Society for the study of Human Evolution
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