Female researchers: interested in a postdoc at @univienna in #sedaDNA, #metagenomics or #ancientDNA? Apply via the E-STEEM fellowship through my group. Projects are flexible and can be shaped together! careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...

Day two at the @quaternaryra.bsky.social meeting. Kicking off with Merton et al. on possible glacial lineations in the straits of Dover. If proven, it would be quite a turn up for the books. #QRA2026ADM

📣CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!! 📣 The next deadline for the #GodfreyHewitt mobility award is 31st January 2026. Open to ECRS in support of research trips or lab visits. For more information, eligibility and how to apply: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...

#diggingforbritain Series 13 here we come! First episode on BBC2 and iPlayer on Jan 7th 9pm✨

18-month Postdoc in Biomolecular Archaeology at CNRS/CEPAM (Nice). ​Focus: Lipidomics & starch analysis of West African ceramics for the RainForStory project (Congo Basin agriculture). ​📅 Deadline: 12 Jan 2026

We at the Prehistoric Society want to wish all our members and followers all the best for the festive season and we look forward to a fabulously prehistoric 2026! 🎄 (... and if you like the bauble, you can buy one here 🤣: www.english-heritageshop.org.uk/stonehenge-f...)

Boas Festas a todos✨ Que este seja um tempo de descanso, recarregar baterias e bons momentos. Obrigado por nos acompanharem ao longo do ano! Happy holidays to everyone✨ Wishing you time to rest, recharge and enjoy the season. Thank you for being with us throughout the year!

You could check out the articles in the recent special issue of PaleoAnthropology “What’s in a Name? Late Middle and Early Late Pleistocene Hominin Systematics” for some of the, ahem, discussion. paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...

My colleague Ryan McRae and I wrote our annual round up of top discoveries in human evolution from this year for the @plos.org Sci Comm blog - enjoy! scicomm.plos.org/2025/12/19/t...

Top Stories in Human Evolution of 2025. A lot happened this year! 🏺

Imposter syndrome and academic criticism - this is a great article by Roy Porter Prize Winner (2021/22) Martijn van der Meer sshm.org/2024/12/02/f...

The Royal Society's Newton International Fellowship scheme opens to applications Jan 15 with a March 11 deadline. It provides £280K (salary and research expenses) over 2 years to outstanding ECRs from outside the UK. Why not come and work with me (or anyone else) @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social?

New preprint: "Does point size matter? Morphometric arguments in Palaeolithic weaponry models" Our study challenges reliance on TCSA/TCSP for weapon identification. Small points ≠ arrow tips! Experimental data shows these metrics don't reliably predict weapon type. zenodo.org/records/15051934

📣 More NEWS! (it's quite a week...) Thrilled to announce that we're a Landmark Trust Futures 2026 beneficiary - early next year we'll be staying at historic Belmont in Lyme Regis, to begin a new project on the networks of women centring on #MaryAnning! www.landmarktrust.org.uk/get-involved...

Crayon-like ochre tool associated with Neanderthals in Crimea region doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Sometimes I see friends struggling to understand why I’d want to sit in a trench for weeks and “only” find a few fragments of burnt flint. But this explains exactly why Palaeolithic excavation holds such fascination for me. It was a privilege to spend a season there. www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

The Mudumal megalithic menhirs in India have been added to UNESCO’s tentative list for World Heritage Sites in 2025. Mudumal’s menhirs are India's oldest menhirs, dating back 3,500–4,000 BP, and are located near the banks of the Krishna River. #StandingStoneSunday

@tag2025york.bsky.social starts next Monday @york.ac.uk! We'll be there, so make sure to say hello, get your hands on some coveted #Archaeoswag and learn how you can publish your #archaeology research in Antiquity! 🏺

BBC coverage of breaking news announcing the earliest evidence for humanly made fire. From Barnham, UK. Quite probably early Neanderthal people with a late Acheulean culture 🦣🏺🔥 www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Wow! Huge congratulations to @mdpetraglia.bsky.social and everyone else at ARCHE on this massive news, a major Australian Research Council grant to fund the Centre of Excellence for Transforming Human Origins Research. www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...

Just one week to go until @tag2025york.bsky.social 🚨 The Antiquity pub quiz will of course be making a return, so start studying now if you want to win a coveted Antiquity mug! Details: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/

Come work with me! It's the most fun I've had in years - lovely team, and an exceptional opportunity to explore submerged human landscapes Marine Geoarchaeologist | Wessex Archaeology share.google/MbXadGnfgrLB...

🔬 Le lien intestin-cerveau : une piste pour mieux comprendre l’anxiété dans la dépression et l’épilepsie - des travaux menés par Muriel Darnaudéry, professeure à l’université de Bordeaux et chercheuse à NutriNeuro, soutenus par la Fondation pour la recherche sur le cerveau :

I'm really pleased that my first coauthored article of 2026 is out. With some amazing folks @marckissel.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social we think through a synthesis of behavioral ecology, emotional cognition, and archaeology. www.johnhawks.net/p/bringing-e...

Really excited for this later this week! Free to attend - all you need to do is register at the link below!

Thank you so much to @liverpoolevoanth.bsky.social for the chance to come and give a talk to the Evo Anth seminar series this afternoon! It was great fun to try and pull several threads of research together 😊

Research Assistant, Indian collection www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP631/r...

PhD studentship, archaeology www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP800/p...

If you’re in London on Tuesday December 2 & free at lunchtime, why not come to the Society of Antiquaries in Burlington House on Piccadilly to hear me talk about Easter Island (& see my photos), & the origin of the delusional ecocide theory? Free & open to all, details: www.sal.org.uk/event/rapa-nui

Project Coordinator – University of Cambridge, UK ERC-funded STEPS project in #HumanEvolution Research Deadline: 2 Jan 2026 🔗 Details: higherjobz.com/project-coor... #UKJobs #AcademicJobs #PartTimeJobs #ResearchOpportunities #ERCFunded @universitypress.cambridge.org @mcdonaldinstitute.bsky.social

Hi! You can now watch me and archaeologist Professor Nicky Milner doing our Stone Age & Star Carr double act at York University last week And you can get signed copies of my Stone Age book, cowritten with @brennawalks.bsky.social, from the ace @foxlanebooks.bsky.social youtu.be/OzjiSlOWWug?...

TODAY! Really looking forward to this later. It's all free, link in post, and I'm talking about three fabulous, related, torcs at 3pm. #Archaeology 🏺 #Torcs #Gold

We are looking for 8 people to help us with the final testing phase of the online version of our CIfA Approved training course Making the Most of Lidar. In return for a 50% discount on the normal course price of £200 www.pushingthesensors.com/mmol-online-...

🚨 Registrations closing soon! Join our guided, hands-on workshop on #systematic #synthesis in #archaeology & #humanevolution. 🗓️ Jan 12, 19, 26 & Feb 2 ⏰ 09:00–13:00 WET | Online Apply by Nov 27 👉 heirs.icarehb.com #HEIRS

Applications are now open to join our 2026 Master's programme in human evolution. Covering the Palaeolithic, Palaeoanthropology & other key disciplines, the course is taught by experts from UCL and designed to equip you for a career in the deep human past. #PaPa 🦣🧪🏺 tinyurl.com/5duy6twh

#Vacancies: we are looking for not just one but three #postdoctoral researchers interested in bridging #genetics, #archaeology and #linguistics in exploring the #humanpast. shorturl.at/B3Qdd @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social

🏺 🧪 Research and publications like this really matter, since even when one theory is not supported by later evidence, it opens up interesting new perspectives and scenarios for #humanevolution.

A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

⚠️Just a quick reminder, there are a few days left to apply for these two positions in #palaeoproteomics.

New research on wild chimpanzees shows juvenile innovation is not play but a cultural engine. Young chimps invent tools, refine adult techniques, and introduce novelty. What if childhood experimentation drove early human cultural evolution too? #Primatology #Anthropology #Archaeology #HumanOrigins

👣 What can ancient #footprints tell us about #movement, #behaviour, and #technology in #prehistory? Join us for the next #LEXA seminar, exploring traces and early #transport innovations. 🗓️ 4 Nov | 🕑 14:00 GMT | 🌍 Online via #Zoom 🔗 icarehb.com/lexa

New purchase from my local Oxfam 📖 It is very far outside my period of study, but I'm fascinated by prehistory, and how our modern viewpoint shapes studies of the ancient past. Should be an insightful read!

Here is the abstract for another session speaker. If this tickles your fancy come along either in person or online to further your lithic knowledge!!!!! Voluntary Action Leicester (VAL) 7th and 8th November Grab your tickets here www.tickettailor.com/events/lithi...

Here is the abstract for another speaker. If this tickles your fancy come along either in person or online to further your lithic knowledge!!!!! Voluntary Action Leicester (VAL) 7th and 8th November Grab your tickets here www.tickettailor.com/events/lithi...

We have an exciting line-up of speakers already confirmed for our Ancient Genomes meeting in November. If you want to be one of the speakers or present a poster, submit your abstract by 31 July! genetics.org.uk/events/ancie...

📕 #BookReview How did prehistoric people settle islands? Did the first humans have the cognitive and behavioural traits to develop seafaring? Explore John F. Cherry & Thomas P. Leppard's 'Human dispersal, human evolution, and the sea' in Antiquity: (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

To ease you into the weekend, here's a lovely film by Guy Schofield, one of two winners of this year's President’s Award. The film is about an interactive mural commissioned by York Museums Trust for the exhibition Star Carr: Life After The Ice. Enjoy! 😊 #Archaeology 🏺 youtu.be/xv_0yjWpK0s?...

Thank you to the Kiernan Experimental Archaeology Award, sponsored by EXARC member John Kiernan, for the micro-grant of 500 euros to fund my experimental archaeology project testing Neanderthal technology!

There’s still time to sign up for this week’s talk from Dr Natasha Reynolds, Université de Bordeaux! Sign up here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

NEW EPISODE: Who are our ancestors and why does it matter? Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about ancient DNA. Listen on your favourite podcast platform: lnk.to/AQOSAncientD...