📣 New paper #2: The SASSI open dataset is a comprehensive spatial, chronological and contextual database of southern African ESA, MSA and LSA sites, providing a FAIR data resource for comparison and synthesis @icarehb.bsky.social openarchaeologydata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

📣 New paper #1: Applying 3DGM to the large prepared core assemblage at the MSA site Tweefontein, we investigate shape variability in Nubian and other Levallois cores, finding Nubian cores to lie at one extreme of preferential core reduction @icarehb.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Call for papers! #UISPP2026 in Poznan Thematic Session S-12C: Approaches to Early & Middle Stone Age/Palaeolithic open-air contexts in arid landscapes uispp2026.syskonf.pl

Celebrating the women at ICArEHB, then and now. From childhood curiosity to careers uncovering the past, we’re proud of the women shaping archaeology at ICArEHB. Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 💜 #WomenInScience #EveryVoiceInScience #11February

Hot off the press! Led by Olivier Scancarello, in collaboration with amazing colleagues and institutions in Tunisia, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A celebratory #AcademicAdvent today, as we share the great news of Dr Ceren Kabukcu, an archaeobotanical expert from @livancworlds.bsky.social, and her recent win of a £1.4m European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant. Read about her exciting project here ➡️

🔍 What’s it like to be an early-career archaeologist in Africa? Degsew Mekonnen, Osman Khaleel, Humphrey Nyambiya & Nompumelelo Maringa explore challenges from funding gaps to limited mentoring. 🔗 doi.org/10.32028/exn... #Archaeology #Africa #ICArEHB #EarlyCareerResearchers #ExNovoJournal

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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...

Today was the ceremony for new fellows at the #BritishAcademy - it was wonderful 🤩. I am thrilled and so grateful to the colleagues who nominated me, elected me, and the many colleagues, students, friends, our kids & family, & specially Rob 😍 who have so enriched my life and career ❤️

🔥 Next #LEXA Seminar! Dr William Chase Murphree will explore #fire use during the #UpperPalaeolithic, using #geoarchaeology experiments to reveal how humans managed fire in glacial times. 🗓️ 7 Oct, 14:00 GMT | 🌍 Online 🔗 Register: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join us today for Session 8 in room 0.5 for talks on archaeology outreach and education in Africa, with a “show and tell” of outreach materials 4-5pm #SAfA2025

Thanks to everyone who presented, attended the talks and joined discussions and dinner of our #SAfA2025 session on open air sites. We had a great day of inspiring inputs - there is lots of connections and lots to expect from arid open air archaeology in southern Africa in the next years 💪🇿🇦🇧🇼🇳🇦

Day 1 of #SAfA and first day in my new permanent role as Principal Researcher in African Stone Age archaeology at ICArEHB. Looking forward to seeing lots of friends and colleagues in Faro this week!

Please be aware of the new timing for #SAfA session 28 on Tuesday (tomorrow!) safa2025.icarehb.com/safa_session.... @eshallinan.bsky.social et al. will lead a short tribute to the recently passed Garth Sampson at 10.45. @sallieburrough.bsky.social will then introduce the session (1/2)...

Fabulous news that @martamlahr.bsky.social has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy 🍾🍾🍾

Very happy to announce that a new postdoctoral position on the New ERC funded Western Rift Archaeology and Palaeoenvironment Project is open - if you're a geologist or geochronologist come and join us at @icarehb.bsky.social euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/358068 Feel free to share it around.

Postdoc in Geochronology / Plio-Pleistocene Geology Join the ERC WRAP project at ICArEHB! Apply now 👉 www.icarehb.com/research-pos...

Sad to learn that C. Garth Sampson has passed away. He was a kind and encouraging man; as Janette Deacon commented, Garth "made an outstanding contribution to the Stone Age archaeology of the Karoo and southern Africa and will long be remembered." We are standing on the shoulders of these giants

Calling all palaeolithic archaeologists. Come and work with me on a really exciting new survey and excavation project in Uganda: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/348570

Don’t forget to join us tomorrow at 11am (UK/Lisbon time) to hear from @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social and @tansybranscombe.bsky.social in the next @icarehb.bsky.social Alt-Ac Paths videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/9355232390...

Other global conferences should follow this lead - especially to be more accessible to African and Global South students

We're excited to announce the next @icarehb.bsky.social Alt-Ac Paths conversation, with Luíseach Nic Eoin @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social and Tansy Branscombe @tansybranscombe.bsky.social, who now work at @natecoevo.nature.com and @barpublishing.bsky.social. Thurs 19th June, 11am (GMT), Zoom link below.

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.

Hello everyone, I’m pleased to share with you my first research article, conducted in collaboration with B. Gravina, X. Muth, M. Villaeys, and J.G. Bordes, and published in @peercomjournal.bsky.social! 🔗 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.... 1/4

I’m delighted to make my first Recommendation for PCI Archaeology @pciarchaeology.bsky.social of Julien Looten @julienlooten.bsky.social and colleagues’ clear method and potential of RTI for lithic illustration

Exciting start to 2nd day of #HumanEvo25 - @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social talk on “Beyond out of Africa”, mobility of HGs oc the Nile Valley badin in the late Pleistocene 🥰

#Nubian #Levallois #MSA If you haven’t read our article on the spatial distribution of Nubian Levallois cores @eshallinan.bsky.social , check out our recent poster from the Hugo Obermaier Society 2025 conference, hosted by @icarehb.bsky.social in Portugal: osamawi.github.io/Nubian-Leval...

What an amazing evening! Thank you to everyone who joined us for Science Sip – it was a fantastic night of archaeology, conversations, and connection 🍻🧠 Here are a few snapshots from the event 📸 Stay tuned for our next one in the Autumn! 🍂 #PublicArchaeology #FaroEvents

How Ice Age Humans Mastered Fire During the Coldest Era in History. Learn more about how a geoarchaeological discovery from 26,000 years ago is rewriting the history of fire. www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences...

📢 Great thread ⬇️ on the fascinating results about population history in the Nile Valley through 3D dental analyse‼️ Congrats @nclsmartin.bsky.social for his impressive work within this great international collaboration ❕️ #Prehistory #Africa #Anthropology @pacea.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

Tracing the elusive fire use during the LGM: check out our paper lead by @wcmurph.bsky.social on fire features at Korman' 9 in Ukraine. @philipnigst.bsky.social @marjolein-bosch.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social with open access provided by @icarehb.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

‼️Check out our latest publication on the old excavations at the Late Middle Paleolithic open-air site of Far’ah II (northwestern Negev) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Demand for Tiny Plants Is Driving a Poaching Crisis in South Africa

Our new paper on 3D GM has all the models and script available for others to apply our method. We use it to demonstrate interregional variability of Nubian Levallois cores but it has broader potential for lithic studies #openscience #archaeology #3DGM @icarehb.bsky.social @jmcascalheira.bsky.social

Starting in 30 minutes! Join our first Alt-Ac Paths conversation with Patricia and Rita, about their move into the commercial archaeology sector. Can’t join us? We’re making a podcast profile of each speaker to share their stories - stay tuned for updates

Join us for the first seminar in ICArEHB's @icarehb.bsky.social new 'Alt-Ac Paths' series, tomorrow at 11am on Zoom, to hear from Rita Dias and Patrícia Monteiro on their move into commercial archaeology videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/9355232390... #AltAcPaths #BeyondAcademia #PhDLife #Archaeology

What career options are there for researchers beyond academia? How can you get there? - These are things we don’t talk about openly but are addressed in our new seminar series. Join us on Tuesday 25th for the first conversation. DM me if you’d like to be a guest! @icarehb.bsky.social

To bring a smile to your face this Monday morning, here’s an ancient Egyptian sketch of a cat serving a mouse! 😄 The artist used a flake of limestone as a sketchpad for this fun scene. 📷 Brooklyn Museum www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti... #Archaeology #Art

Join us again on the 4th of March for another @icarehb.bsky.social Experimental Archaeology online seminar. Dr Anna Rufà will be talking about bird exploitation. Register for free here: www.icarehb.com/lexa

Archaeologists discover first pharaoh’s tomb in Egypt in more than a century

I’m super excited to be part of this amazing team (even if my Palaeolithic rocks are very peripheral to the New Kingdom tomb - although there were some Nubian cores eroded from the top of the cliff in the fill burying C4)

www.un.org/en/observanc... I’m proud (but often frustrated or depressed) to be a woman in science! Let’s all do what we can to make things better - or at least keep doing good science

Open call for an Assistant Professor in Egyptian Archaeology position at Durham University 🏺

New paper in the “Nubian” issue of Journal of Palaeolithic Archaeology from Maya Oron and colleagues on the Negev

Something special for the lithophiles for #FlintFriday and #FieldFriday - two ends of the Levallois spectrum from my survey yesterday in Luxor. I’ve never seen anything quite like either of them 🤩

HEIRS Opening Symposium: A New Chapter in Human Evolution Research The wait is almost over! Join us next week, 28–29 January, for this amazing event. heirs.icarehb.com/2025/01/22/a... #ResearchSynthesis #HumanEvolution #HEIRS

#FlintFriday in Luxor

#Archaeology #Outreach #Jordan I learned about archaeology and stone tools at the hands of this incredible woman Prof Maysoon Alnahar. www.usnews.com/education/ar...

I’m excited to join the PCI initiative!