This sieve is soooo hard!

I have a new game: find the Pleistocene inside a magnificent Roman site 🏺🦴🐟 @andzerb.bsky.social

Hello, Our paper on enamel proteins from Paranthropus robustus has finally been peer reviewed, please have a read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Paranthropus robustus has been puzzling scientists since its discovery in 1938 in South Africa, where a high number of fossils have been found.

Yes for example, assuming the dot is actually deliberate, it's an interesting choice *not* to make a larger application of colour on that surface. On the issue of faces I think we would need a bigger corpus of examples to be more confident that is what they're really doing

Love the fingerprint and strongly doubt that the dot could be a “nose”. I am sincerely intrigued by the mental processes that lead to this interpretation 🤡 - Stephen King could have played a part?

Sunday sillies: Cite your sources edition (this from @iamhectordiaz.com)

Planning two fields plus two conferences in a row and actually going for them 🙋🏻‍♀️

I absolutely love this! Thanks @vivek123.bsky.social for sharing the interview with Richard Lee about the Men the Hunter book. osf.io/preprints/os...

#FossilFriday Not a great picture, but a historic comparison of the Omo Kibish 1 cranium (L) before it was returned to Ethiopia, with Kabwe @NHM. This shows the sapiens shape of Omo 1 in rear view.

Archeologists Join Geologists in the Quest to Define the Age of Humans www.resilience.org/stories/2025...

Field season is ON 🤠

Tickets for Porto @ishpssb2025.bsky.social and Faro #Safa2025 booked, see you then my friends!

Lovely article and video interview for the exhibition I was involved in with Pietro Ruffo - Italian Artist Of The Year 2024 - that opened back in November : "L'ultimo meraviglioso minuto". butterflyartnews.com/2025/01/12/p... youtu.be/mXT_wy6OOCY

Today, the 25th of April, in Italy 🇮🇹 we celebrate the #Liberation from NaziFascism. We celebrate to remember the people of the resistance, we celebrate to remember that we kicked fascists' asses once and we can do it again.

Charles #Darwin died #OTD in 1882. This is his portrait at the Linnean Society in London.

Did every civilization have inequality? New 10,000-year study reveals a surprising answer. www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

In @nature.com we report the presence of the Mesolithic on Malta - upending everything we knew about the seafaring capabilities of late European hunter-gatherers and pushing back Maltese prehistory by 1000 years. Watch the clip, link to open access paper is below. 1/5 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(1/13) A thread on our new paper just published in Nature, ‘Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years’. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm still highly skeptical of #Naledi "engraving" claims. Revisions in this are limited to context/discussion; avoid considering (beyond 1/2 sentence) that the features might be natural. No new documentation or analysis at all. And irrelevant comparison to Blombos painted stone is still there.

New Preprint! 🦧 Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials! Summary in 🧵

Our new paper reports a complete Quina technological system in the 60-50 ka assemblage at Longtan, Southwest China Ruan, Q. et al. (2025) Quina lithic technology indicates diverse Late Pleistocene human dynamics in East Asia doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🆓 faculty.washington.edu/bmarwick/PDF...

Interested in the #archaeology of conflict? Check out our #ConflictArchaeology collection, with #OpenAccess content such as: Iraq's most famous early Islamic conquest site Arrowheads from the Tollense Valley Destruction of Ukrainian heritage & more! 🏺 buff.ly/PbuQ20t

More for #LithicsNerd 🤓

Yohannes Haile-Selassie wants to shift the trajectory of palaeoanthropology in fossil-rich Ethiopia away from its long colonial heritage https://go.nature.com/4iEQTkE

The recording from the #HEASSeminar with #MarieSoressi is now available on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel. 🔗👇

🏺 🐕 New potential late Upper Palaeolithic dog, from southern France (slightly younger than Erralla one); with pathology that may indicate hunting by humans www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Good Monday from the person who postponed to Monday all the last emails to reply to.

Truth.

The loss of a legend- Kanzi, the language-competent bonobo, has died age 44. Kanzi was exceptional in so many ways and offered us profound insights into the linguistic & cognitive capacities of great apes. He has taught us so much and will be hugely missed. www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...

It is so sad 🤧🤧🤧

Congratulations to @martamlahr.bsky.social on her News and Views in Nature on Ignacio de la Torre and colleagues' discovery of early bone tools at Olduvai. The site that keeps on giving! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Cuties ❤️‍🔥 for #FossilFriday

Talk by Francesco d’Errico www.blod.gr/lectures/cul...

Hey lithic fellows, I have a question that might seem odd: what method do you use for the marking? #lithicnerd

"Mr Iguanodon is rather out of date, He lived in the Cretaceous Age and had a brainless pate.." A 1938 newspaper advert from Sunderland, that starts with a sad lament to the Iguanodon, and then pivots somewhat incredibly to comparing its extinction with the ancient furniture in your house!

If you see a freshly published paper that is beyond embarrassing - the best is not to talk about it. Am I right?

Cool! ☠️🔪

The beauty of the day a.k.a. I love old museum collections! #MuseoDelleCiviltà #lithics

🏺 The old saying "pots aren't people" echoed in critiques quoted here that DNA isn't language... Would like to hear archaeological takes on this!

I recommend this thread 🧵 with this sole quote 😬

I hope this email finds you, and in the darkness binds you.

Tabun C1- right tibia. 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴. Middle Palaeolithic (122 ka). Mount Carmel, Israel #FossilFriday Courtesy of the Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social @ercresearch.bsky.social @cenieh.bsky.social

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Join us, we have 🍪!

So many firsts: The first first-author paper of my first PhD student is out! Reporting on the first stratified MSA open-air site of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Dug in the 1990s, now re-analyzed & dated, including refits! link.springer.com/article/10.1... #archaeology #anthropology #southafrica

What did we learn about Neanderthals this year? Here are my top 10 discoveries, neatly collected in a year-end countdown! 🏺🧪 www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

#OTD Richard Erskine Leakey was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1944. 🏺🧪 achievement.org/achiever/ric... While he had many titles... paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician, people knew him best for his contribution to the study of human evolution and his conservation efforts in Kenya.