My BBC podcast, YOU’RE DEAD TO ME, is heading out on tour soon (London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Manchester) Here’s a little filmed interview I did with South Wales Live about the podcast and why I love history youtu.be/5xHxs6I3e3o?...

Extented deadline to March 20th! ✨✨

Interested in maximising data from fragmented bone? Of course you are. Join our free online workshop. Registration closes March 4th. 🦣🧪🏺

"Readers who are still not interested in the technical issues which we identify around the interpretation of genetic data, but wanting to impress colleagues at the pub or in a bar, can ignore most of Sect. 10.3, and start reading again from the last paragraph of Sect. 10.3.7, or from Sect. 10.3.8" 🤣

🐂 Fascinated by the symbolic role of animals in the Neolithic world? Develop your #PhD with #ICArEHB through the #FCT #PhD #Fellowships 2026. 🔗 More info: www.icarehb.com/fct-phd-fell... #Archaeology #Neolithic #HumanEvolution #ScienceCareers #PhDLife

🧪🏺 Recent 30 min New Sci doc on #RisingStar & #HomoNaledi, gives c. 5 mins to expert critique. Re burial claims: "Berger's team have managed to convince many experts" 🤔 Trusted #scicomm on disputed scientific questions is crucial; not sure this gets balance right... www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQj6...

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some Zen to the feed

Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2026! Join us for two days of all things Palaeolithic, Pleistocene and Early Human Origins at UCL Institute of Archaeology 19-20th June. Call for papers is now open and tickets are on sale! Check out our website for more information. sites.google.com/view/unravel...

⛰️Drawn to the landscapes where human evolution unfolded in Eastern Africa? Develop your #PhD with #ICArEHB through the #FCT #PhD #Fellowships 2026. 🔗 More info: www.icarehb.com/fct-phd-fell... #Geoarchaeology #HumanEvolution #Paleoecology #ScienceCareers #PhDLife

🌏 A new study places China at the center of human evolution debates With CENIEH’s participation, the review of 2 million years of fossil & archaeological evidence highlights East Asia as a dynamic epicenter in the evolution of Homo +info: www.cenieh.es #HumanEvolution #CENIEH #ICTSNews

We are looking forward to welcoming #ElenaIreneZavala to #HEASVienna next week for a #HEASSeminar in #AncientGenomics. More information and registration on our website 👇🔗

Huge congratulations to Stephanie Lismann on defending her PhD - well deserved! 🎉

Hi All, Please join us next Thursday, 26th February at 13:00 GMT, for our next talk of the semester! This talk will be given by Dr Rosa Huguet. If you would like to attend, please register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/3195e0... More details below 👇 We hope to see you there!

Over the last 2 weeks, we’ve been given the fantastic opportunity of holding a hedgelaying course thanks to funding from East Hampshire District Council. But what is hedgelaying, and why is this traditional craft still relevant today? Read more here: www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/blog/2026/2/...

🪨 What made Anthony Marks one of the most influential Palaeolithic archaeologists of the 20th century? #ICArEHB researchers Jeff Rose & Nuno Bicho (w/ Usyk & Winchell) pay tribute in Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology. 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s419... #Palaeolithic #Archaeology

How do you raise a roundhouse frame without power tools? 🧐 During the second session of our Operation Nightingale project in 2021, we prepared the timber posts that would form the uprights to support the roof of our building. Watch & subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDEn...

Homo heidelbergensis and The Origins of The Middle Stone Age: The Kabwe (Broken Hill) Lithic Assemblage link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🧪🏺🦣 I agree with April Nowell's comments, and funnily enough, for #Matriarcha I've been reading 2017 paper by same 1st author on an Upper Palaeolithic female burial, which similarly presents no actual evidence for the claim, and includes a v. odd figure 🤔 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🦷 Curious about what prehistoric teeth can reveal about diet and daily life in Meso-Neolithic Iberia? Develop your #PhD with #ICArEHB through the #FCT #PhD #Fellowships 2026. 🔗 More info: www.icarehb.com/fct-phd-fell... #Archaeology #Research #Prehistory #ScienceCareers #PhDLife

HERI Co-Directors Rebecca Ackermann and Robyn Pickering invite contributions to the symposium “New Directions in Palaeoanthropological Research in Southern Africa” at IPC7. To submit an abstract, please email the convenors. Details and information on all 29 symposia are available at: www.ipc7.site

A wonderful new Middle Palaeolithic discovery from @inrap.fr, the national French preventative (rescue) archaeology org. In many cases UK archaeology would miss this important record because it simply isnt looked for. A thread: 1/X 🏺🦣 www.inrap.fr/un-nouveau-s...

I am absolutely thrilled to announce that I have accepted the position of Independent Group Leader in Experimental Archaeology at the University of Tübingen! The program will focus on establishing a reference collection for taphonomic phenomena specific to Island Southeast Asia 😁 🐘🏝️🇮🇩🦴

Ramadan Mubarak! Students who are observing Ramadan and have signed up to the Catered service on campus can collect breakfast packs alongside their evening meals to support their fasting. Find out more about this and other Ramadan arrangements: https://tinyurl.com/ramadan-26

I love it when new archaeological research is coupled with beautiful photographs of the artifacts. Exciting work on the exceptional Younger Dryas-age organic technologies of some of North America’s first peoples. www.johnhawks.net/p/complex-fi...

3D reconstruction of the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa's 'Cradle of Humankind'. High-accuracy digital models allow people to explore the richest Australopithecus-bearing site in the world without damaging its vulnerable #archaeology 🏺 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

My lifelong association with #India and its #archaeology. www.csp.indica.in/a-deep-histo...

Happy Year of the Horse! Wishing a year of health, happiness and good fortune to our staff, students, alumni and friends around the world.

Professor Shadreck Chirikure & Muchen Zhou (current DPhil) with friends at @cam-archaeology.bsky.social & @uclarchaeology.bsky.social have organised this one day workshop on Weds 25 Feb @sthughscollege.bsky.social on #archaeologicalscience and the #African past. @chirikure.bsky.social

Day 5 of 200 Vere Gordon Childe's Sack-backed Windsor Chair, from his time as Director of the IoA 1946-56, still in the current Director's office! Prof. V. Gordon Childe (1892-1957) was an Australian archaeologist known for his theories about the development of prehistoric civilisations. #UCL200

New Publication! New Article by #HEASVienna members #ElmiraMohandesan and #SiavashSalekArdestani #HEASPublications www.heas.at/activities/n...

Salary £54,931-£64,644. UCL Institute of Archaeology.

Hollow ways are shallow linear depressions that stretch across Mesopotamia: traces of ancient route systems that facilitated trade and connections between settlements. Analysis of these networks shows how societies changed and adapted over time. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

"On behalf of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), I am very pleased to inform you that you have been selected as the 2026 recipient of the SAA's Book Award—Popular category for “Native America: The Story of the First Peoples” published by Princeton University Press." Wow! No words.

Hey UK archaeology. Let's all just cash in our years of knowledge, understanding, professionalism, trust, integrity, stakeholder partnerships, land owner networks, Professorial privilege, university accreditation. Buy a metal detector and make some (more) money. 🏺

This is what happens when 'treasure' can't be bought by a museum - the hoard has been broken up into individual auction lots & will disappear into many different hands, some overseas. When do we start saying enough is enough?? www.noonans.co.uk/auctions/cal... #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺

🧪 🦣Thinking about ancient population sizes and noting in passing that the extreme small effective pop size seen in Altai #Neanderthals of <100 , even as low as 60, is echoed in Sicilian Epigravettian population (estimate of 70 based on ROH). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tomorrow is #LibraryLoversDay 💚 🧪 📚️ 🌱 On February 14, we’re inviting our global community to show their love for the Biodiversity Heritage Library. 63+ million pages of biodiversity knowledge. Free. Open. For everyone. ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLDona... #LoveLibraries #OpenAccess #ILoveBHL

Article w/ @mfhansen.bsky.social out and open access. In it we outline key historical patterns and the changes in primatology and the behavioural sciences regarding the concepts of primate culture. Interested in primatology and culture (and history)? check it out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Let's not forget our optional fully-funded intensive module in field primatology in Tanzania. And from next year a new module in human evolutionary genetics co-taught with staff at UCL Genetics, Evolution and Environment. Come and study with us, and get in touch with me if you have questions!

Quick promotion post for our fantastic Master's programme in Human Evolution and Behaviour at UCL. Taught by a great team of evolutionary anthropologists and covering human evolution, human behavioural ecology, primatology, evolutionary medicine and more. www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Just seen this and am horrified. I know that @archsoton50.bsky.social will write and express views.

An opportunity in Orkney for any human osteo postdocs out there. Come and work on Groovy Newark! East Mainland Needs YOU! www.uhi.ac.uk/en/staff/vac...

Resharing for #FindsFriday and #FlintFriday, its a massive overstruck flake that took most of the core with it. An ancient Neanderthal accident and so a brilliant part of our teaching collection. #PaPa🦣🏺

Direct evidence for poison use on microlithic arrowheads in Southern Africa at 60,000 years ago | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Job alert in Malta on my ERC funded IslandLab Project for a post excavation research assistant. A bachalor's degree in Archaeology, or related fields is required, ideally with experience working on faunal assemblages and handling bones/fossils, and curating finds. www.um.edu.mt/media/um/doc...

Here's another exciting opportunity to join the ERC FORAGER team! This one is a 3-year postdoc on paleoclimate modelling with the fantastic Matt Osman here in @cam.ac.uk, with opportunity for synergies (pun intended 😜) with other team members in archaeology and zoology www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54411/

Professor Penny Spikins, Prof of Archaeology of Human Origins at University of York, will be honoured with Europa prize for her contributions to European prehistory & conference will explore issues salient to Professor Spikins’ work, focusing on how prehistory contributes to our understanding of:

My paper on 🌱🦧 ANIMAL MEDICINE 🐜🍄, written with Cristian Saborido (office mate and tip-top philosopher of biology and medicine), is finally out in Philosophy of Science. We offer a cool new framework for understanding medicine in different species, including our own. And it's ✨ OPEN ACCESS ✨

Women belong in Science, and our inclusion fosters and drives innovation! Cheers to my female colleagues at @icarehb.bsky.social for #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience #IDWGS #WomenInScience #Archaeololgy 🦣🏺