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! ✨

A snapshot from Katerina Harvati’s podium presentation at #ESHE2025 earlier today! ✨️ Her talk: “Middle Pleistocene funerary ritual at Apidima? An examination of evidence.” ☠️🌍🪨

#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 😀

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! 🤗🤗

#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. 👏

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! 👏👏👏

Team member Melania Ioannidou presented her poster on Ouranopithecus macedoniensis at #ESHE2025! 🐵🐒🦧 Congrats, Melania! 👏✨

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! 👏🏻

#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

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

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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The 2025 excavation season is now officially underway at Apidima in Greece! ⛏️✨️ #excavations #fieldseason #Paleoanthropology

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🚨 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... uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

📢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! 🔗 share.google/iIGo4jjQp7Ge... Share this ad! #HumanEvolution #Jobad

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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 🔗 share.google/OVbg1ZLG19yI... Apply now! #AcademicJobs Please share!

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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: uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

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

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

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 ✨🎉 #openaccess

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....

Congratulations to George Konidaris on successfully completing his #habilitation! A major milestone and well-deserved recognition of his academic dedication and expertise. ✨️👏🏻🎉 #PrivatDozent

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

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

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) 😎

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!!

🎉 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...) See you soon! #Palaeontology

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...

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! 👀✨️🦴

So nice to be back in Nairobi with the team working in the Museum after many years!

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 🤩

#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 👇🔗

🎉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!

🚨 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...

Very proud to be part of this extraordinary team! What a time to be working and living in Tübingen ⚒️🐵🦧🦴💀

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!

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 #UniTübingen

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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#ESHE2025 registration is still open! ✍️ Few spots left for the dinner & excursion. The deadline for abstract submission is May 14th: www.eshe.eu/abstract/