Last week we attended the UMSAGA Workshop at Florisbad 🇿🇦, organized in collaboration with Dr Viola Schmid and Dr Will Archer to bring together MSA research in the Free State. It was great to see colleagues and learn about the latest results from Rose Cottage Cave!

Winter time is lab time 👩‍🔬 new plant wax biomarker samples for @people-erc-stg.bsky.social project are currently running on the GC - we try to characterise the past environment at donga sites in 🇿🇦

This week we attended #ESHE2025 in Paris 🇨🇵, where we presented results from the Modder and Riet rivers, Baden-Baden 2, and Florisbad. Great to see colleagues and learn about their research! @archeosciences-bordeaux.fr @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

#ESEHE2025 Mailys Richard ‘A revised chronology for the Middle Pleistocene sedimentary sequence of Florisbad, South Africa’ Prev fossil hom (eSapiens): OSL & ESR- 279-228 ka NEW OSL, TT-OSL & pIRIR290: range of dates – most likely MIS6 But only if prov of cran in Unit M

It's crunch time for our PhD student Inèz 😅 #academia #WomenInStem #PhDlife

Check out a new article by project member Dr @benoitlonget.bsky.social about the MSA lithic assemblage of Rhafas Cave, Morocco, which is part of his PhD research 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This week we attended #SAfA2025 in Faro 🇵🇹 to present results from Baden-Baden 2 and the Modder River. It was great to meet colleagues who conduct exciting research in Africa! See you at ESHE in Paris! @erc.europa.eu @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @archeosciences-bordeaux.fr

New paper from our project 📢 Inèz Faul et al. "Dune, outcrop, and pan sediments from the southern Kalahari Basin: A geoarchaeological case study from the Kgalagadi district, Botswana" in Southern African Field Archaeology. #openaccess #Geoarchaeology 🦣🇧🇼 Link 👇 doi.org/10.36615/saf...

And it's a wrap! After 7 weeks of fieldwork filled with discoveries and new encounters, the team has returned to Bordeaux. See you soon at SAfA 2025 in Portugal!

📣 Find out all about funding opportunities, grant budgets, competition schedules, and eligibility rules for ERC research funding in the coming year. The 2026 ERC Work Programme has been adopted! 👉 europa.eu/!qhVTkt New to the ERC? Watch our webinar Thursday 10th July @ 15:00 CEST europa.eu/!3rGdWB

While part of the team works at the Riet River, Dr Benoit Longet conducts the survey of the Vet River to find new archaeological sites. 🔍 @archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Sample collection continues on the Riet River terraces! ⛏️ @archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

This week the team started the collection of samples to establish the chronology of the Riet River terraces. @archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Proudly introduce BREATHE, a project investigating late Quaternary human behavior in the Sahara. Funded by #HorizonEurope - ERA Postdoctoral Fellowships, BREATHE is based at the University of Algarve’s fabulous #ICArEHB and partnered with #Sapienza University of Rome.

Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC? From the next application rounds, expect changes to the: • proposal structure • evaluation process • extra funding you can request • eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027) More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv

This week the team started excavations at a new Acheulean/Fauresmith locality in the Free State together with Dr Darya Presnyakova and Dr Will Archer @archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

📢New publication on the archaeological survey of the Modder River dongas led by Dr Felipe Cuartero, published in Southern African Field Archaeology. Available in open access👇 doi.org/10.36615/saf... @archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social

Only 5 weeks to go until we welcome our team and collaborators to Kiel @uni-kiel.de for our project workshop! Part of the workshop will be a public talk "A perspective on human evolution from the southern Kalahari" by @isotopesrule.bsky.social that can be followed online (see poster for details).

The team is back at Florisbad for the 2025 season! @archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy

It's finally published! My first #biomarker paper combining sediment n-alkane isotopes closely with cultural changes at #WonderwerkCave 🇿🇦 Fantastic work with @ogratsara.bsky.social from @icarehb.bsky.social as well as co-authors from @uni-kiel.de, @uoft.bsky.social & more. Link: rdcu.be/ejq7j

This site has the oldest haematite pigment in the world, from Fauresmith levels probably half a million years old.

Poster collected and it looks great! All ready for the #HugoObermaier meeting next week at @icarehb.bsky.social 🇵🇹. I am excited to present the first biomarker record at a hominin fossil site in #SouthAfrica 🇿🇦, great collaborative work with the @people-erc-stg.bsky.social team.

How can Europe become more competitive? 🌍 Join the debate with scientists including Robbert Dijkgraaf, #Nobel laureate Ben Feringa, industry leaders and policymakers. How can frontier science drive innovation? 🗓️10 April 16.30 Livestream & in-person: europa.eu/!WQn96Y 🇪🇺

While our team is wrapping up lithic analysis at University of #Botswana this week we are also getting ready to present at the #KielConference next week organised by @clusterroots.bsky.social at @uni-kiel.de. We have a poster and a talk, stay tuned for details next week! 🏺🦣

#CNRSnews 📰 Researchers have succeeded in developing a model ice floe in order to elucidate the mechanism responsible for the dislocation of the sea ice and predict its behaviour in the current context of climate change.

Have you previously received EU research funding? The Horizon Results Booster offers free, tailor-made services to help you maximise the dissemination and exploitation of your research results 🧪. Next info session 👉 1 April 2024. Register 👉 t.co/zqpj6iaBaZ

#CNRSnews 📰 Increasing solar flare activity and subsequent solar storms have impacted our planet lately, prompting scientists to focus on the emerging discipline of space weather to help predict these events and prevent failure of sensitive facilities.

#EnDirectDesLabos🔎 Nouvelles actualités scientifiques 🔬, création de laboratoires 🧑‍🔬, annonce de prix 🥇... Retrouvez toutes les deux semaines les informations issues des laboratoires du CNRS. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/endirectdesl...

Our 2025 newsletter is here, featuring highlights from 2024 from our incredible student community, exciting archaeology projects, and our amazing sponsors who make it all possible. 📜🏺 Visit our website to read the newsletter www.saassarchaeology.com/newsletters

We are marking #WorldConsumerRightsDay with #EUfunded researchers working to meet consumer demand for more information about the origins, carbon footprint and nutritional value of seafood. Learn more here ➡️ europa.eu/!P3jBRv #ResearchImpactEU#HorizonMagazine

🇪🇺 In an open letter published on March 12, Europe's leading science institutions, including the @cnrs.fr, join forces to call for a strong framework program for research and innovation. www.cnrs.fr/en/update/eu...

We visited Wonderwerk Cave on Friday - there have been large renovations so the whole place looks stunning now, including renovated chalets to stay over and a cafe. Definetly come and visit #wonderwerkcave #McGregorMuseumKimberley #SouthAfrica #NorthernCape www.instagram.com/p/DG6SIa3tRX...

🇪🇺 Dans une lettre ouverte publiée le 12 mars, les principales institutions scientifiques européennes, dont le @cnrs.fr, s’unissent pour demander à la commission européenne un programme-cadre solide pour la recherche et l'innovation. www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite...

We have arrived in #Gaborone for further analysis of #lithics which we excavated at Maralaleng Pan last year. Gabs is welcoming us with thunderstorms and lush summer vegetation, a nice contrast to our usual #fieldwork visits in the dry winter. Picture from 2024 excavation.

Today's tour of archaeological sites took us into the grassland of the Free State Province where @people-erc-stg.bsky.social are working on sites such as the pan Baden-Baden. 🇿🇦🦣🏺

Avec #EnScienceInverse voyagez dans le passé avec les archives du @cnrs.fr pour découvrir des découvertes marquantes ou des travaux insolites... Dans ce premier épisode, direction 1986 avec l'archéologue Jacques Tixier.

ESHE 2025 goes to Paris, France! Join us in person for talks and posters from Sept 25–27, with a public keynote on Sept 24. Excursion details are coming soon. More info on the meetings page this March! #ESHE2025

We are in Kimberley, South Africa, next week for a study week at the McGregor museum. All are welcome to the public talk by @isotopesrule.bsky.social on Tuesday 4th March about the site of Pniel 6 and what we have learned about the past environment in the Northern Cape in recent years. 🇿🇦🦓🦛🐃

How about a solar-powered reactor that could enable cars and planes to run on CO2 drawn from the air (& converted into fuel)? Erwin Reisner's research group @uniofcam.bsky.social develops devices that convert waste, water & air into fuels & chemicals. 🔗 buff.ly/4381yPQ @reisnerlab.bsky.social 🧪

#Communiqué 🗞️ Des scientifiques mettent en évidence la découverte de fragments de granite datant de 4,4 milliards d’années contenus dans la météorite martienne exceptionnelle "Black Beauty". 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/lh...

Great way to end the second week! First in-situ ostrich eggshell of the season at Klipdrift Cave ~14,000 years ago. 🏺 #archaeology

“Without academic freedom there is no competitiveness.” A look back at an important debate on #academic #freedom, with Roberta Metsola, president.europarl.europa.eu, & Prof. Milena Zic Fuchs, ERC Scientific Council member and former Minister in Croatia. Watch the highlights 👉 bit.ly/EP-ESMH