We are happy to share the programme of speakers for our global symposium on lithic technology 🪨🔎 There are just a few spaces left for in-person participation! DM for more information. You can join us online via this Zoom registration link: eu02web.zoom-x.de/webinar/regi...

We had two great days with the years standard 5,6 and 7 of Maleshe and Khisa village this week. We tried to explain our research in interactive stations in small groups - even a song was created! #ScienceCommunication #fieldwork #nextGeneration #archaeology

The last days we spend a lot of time with these quartzite bedrock outcrops - recording every detail 📷 📐✍️✏️ 🪨 to understand their use as raw material source during the Stone Age #fieldwork #kgalagadi. Inspired by a paper from Matt Lotter et al. 2024 in Southern African Field Archaeology

PhD Studentship alert! I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia. Details in the link below! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Our geoarchaeology team led by @geoarchamelie.bsky.social has been very busy the last few days making holes, sampling and refilling them all in a day each time 💪🪏#WomenInStem #girlpower #fieldwork #kglagadi

Our team currently in the field in 🇧🇼 is having a great time #Kgalagadi #archaeology #fieldwork #WomenInSTEM @geoarchamelie.bsky.social @isotopesrule.bsky.social

Can you spot our two geoarchaeologists @geoarchamelie.bsky.social and Hannah at Tswai pan today? #Fieldwork #Botswana #Kgalagadi #SundayWork

Sunrise in Tsabong for our first day of #fieldwork 2025 #Kgalagadi #Kalahari #Botswana #nofilter

After two busy days in Gabs we are hitting the open road into the #Kalahari and are on our way to Tsabong #Kgalagadi 🇧🇼 @geoarchamelie.bsky.social @isotopesrule.bsky.social

We are on our way to #Botswana! On Thursday 4th September we will be at our collaboration partner University of Botswana and @isotopesrule.bsky.social will present a talk "New insights into Stone Age sites from the southern Kgalagadi district" in the History Department Seminar Series.

Nachfolgend die online Version des F.A.Z.-Artikels zur Privatdozentur. Sneak preview: "Das derzeit unter dem Claim #PDprekär laufende Aufbegehren habilitierter Wissenschaftler ist nur allzu verständlich." 1/7 👇🧵 #PDprekär #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan www.faz.net/aktuell/karr...

One more chore ticked off before fieldwork! Today I used up a small forest to print all my online available articles and deliver seven copies of my Habilitation to the university 🥂 #academicSky #ichbinHannah

Last preparations for this year's field season are under way. Starting in one week to Gaborone #Botswana with @geoarchamelie.bsky.social and the rest of the team. Our 5th field season! #archaeology #fieldwork #Kalahari #Kgalagadi

🚨 We are hiring!! 🚨 The Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS' is looking for: - a scientific coordinator - a science communication officer 🚨 Deadline: September 15 🚨 See links for the full advertisements: uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Roll up!! REGISTRATION & ABSTRACT SUBMISSION NOW OPEN for the @quaternaryra.bsky.social ADM at Uni of Brighton. An exciting agenda of talks, posters, keynotes, EDI, workshops, JQS 40th Anniversary, AGM, icebreaker, conference dinner, field trip. 5-8 Jan 2026 sites.google.com/view/qraadmb...

Join us at the MPI-GEA or online for a free symposium on Quantifying Complexity in Stone Tools on the 21st of October! 🪨 With a keynote lecture by Charles Perreault. Full speaker list will be released soon! Secure your spot here: shh-cloud.gnz.mpg.de/index.php/ap...

Also - come and get my job! Which I’m still partially doing, but someone needs to take up the slack/ allow me to send them to far flung locations to retrieve mysterious ancient samples. See the World*! *mainly Britain. crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Lost at sea with no land in sight? The Practical Mariner project team uses #archGIS & #Python to work out routes across the Mediterranean which keep land in sight #maritime #archaeology #navigation. Read their #Storymap here: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/e150...

Looking for a postdoc position in quantitative palaeoecology with focus on vegetation? Come to work in my interdisciplinary project in Prague (full-time for 2 years).

📢Position open:Independent junior research group leader:genotype-phenotype interactions🧬🔎 The #HumanOrigins Cluster at Uni Tübingen seeks an expert in genotype-phenotype interactions. 📝Start: Jan 1, 2026 🗓 Apply by Sept 10, 2025 🔗 share.google/OVbg1ZLG19yI... Apply now! #AcademicJobs Please share!

📢Job Opportunity:independent junior research group leader-Experimental Archaeology 🪨🪏The Cluster of Excellence #HumanOrigins at Uni Tübingen seeks a researcher in experimental archaeology! 📝Job starts Jan 1, 2026 🗓 Apply by Sept 10, 2025 Apply now! 🔗 share.google/d9npIiRdhOWq... #Jobad Share it!

📢Now hiring:independent junior research group leader-Biomechanics🦴💻 The #HumanOrigins Cluster at Uni Tübingen invites applications for a leader in biomechanics. 📝Start: Jan 1, 2026 🗓 Deadline: Sept 10, 2025 Interested? Apply now! 🔗 share.google/iIGo4jjQp7Ge... Share this ad! #HumanEvolution #Jobad

Have I been a good influence on my PhD students? 🤔 My caffeine addiction is definetly one bad example...

A new study based on extensive data and recent excavations uses the example of SE-Europe to challenge widely held theories about the emergence of social hierarchies in prehistory. It has been published now at @aaas.org's #ScienceAdvances. Read more 👇 🏺 #inequality #Neolithic #BronzeAge

Call for Papers!!! We are holding a session for Early Career Researchers-Innovations in Isotope Analysis 👩🏻‍🔬 at 2026 SAA’s. Please feel free to share or reach out for submission details if you are interested in joining our session!

Ich halte es für unumgänglich, bes. in den Kultur- und Geisteswissenschaften mit Kolleg_innen über Nutzen, Gefahren, eth. Probleme u. Perspektiven im Umgang mit gen. KI in Lehre, Forschung u. Veröffentlichung ins Gespräch zu kommen. Ich sammle in diesem Thread Links u. hoffe, das nutzt auch anderen.

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

📣 Work with us! 📣 The Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge is looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Zooarchaeology. 📅 Closing date: 15 September 👉 More info and how to apply: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Some places will have to start rationing water - to enable AI slop. "A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day. New data centers [will] require millions of gallons of water a day" Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...

The pollen analysis from Marathousa 1, an MIS12 Lower Paleolithic elephant butchering site in Megalopolis basin (Greece) is now published!! Congratulations to Stella Kyrikou and team!!! ✨ 🎉 It's wonderful to see this important work finally out! #openaccess #humanevolution doi.org/10.1017/qua....

#Job Alert! The Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy @univie.ac.at invites applications for tenure-track #Professor in #EarthSciences, with an emphasis on #sedimentology. Apply by 17 September 2025! For more info - jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

We’re hiring for a major role in the US, an investigative journalist to cover what’s happening with science in the US and beyond. This is extremely important territory for us. 🧪 workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/795 The Guardian :: Senior Science Investigative Reporter

And in the afternoon in session 28 #SAfA2025 from Selina Amaral, @matzearch.bsky.social, our work from @pans-river-namib.bsky.social & Heinrich Kurt #archaeology #openair #surfacesites #lithics #kalahari #namib #MSA #ESA

A really great and inspiring keynote talk to start Day 2 of #SAfA2025 by Sada Mire on archaeology in Somaliland.

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

So proud of my former MA students Sophia & Helena for publishing their 1st paper-combining #zooarchaeology, #stableIsotopes and #IcP dating by @marcdickinson.bsky.social to analyse the fauna from Pniel 6 🇿🇦 @neaarlab.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de #ExtinctMammals 🦣🏺👉http://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.70002

#SAfA2025 kicks off today in #Faro, #Portugal! Hosted by #ICArEHB, we’re ready to welcome the global #AfricanistArchaeology community for a week of connection and knowledge-sharing at the #CrossroadsThroughTime.

Leaving Kiel's grey sky behind for Faro's sunshine - 2nd trip this year to the city 🇵🇹. On my way to the Society of Africanist Archaeologists #SAfA2025 conference, looking forward to catching up with lots of friends and colleagues - and to all the delicious Portuguese food and cafe ☕

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)...

The Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA) conference in Faro, Portugal begins tomorrow! To celebrate the occasion, we've put together a collection of articles on #AfricanArchaeology and they will all be *absolutely free* for the duration of the event 🏺 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Part of our #SAfA session 28 is a poster by @geoarchamelie.bsky.social from @uni-kiel.de with her new project "Geoarchaeological studies on sedimentary sinks and fluvial sediments along the Molopo River, Botswana". Find her in the poster session on Friday morning! 🦣🏺Days to go: 2️⃣

Saturday evening with live opera streaming for free in your neighborhood #Kiel #NordicSummer

🏺Es ist wieder Vortrags-Zeit 😀! Am 17.07. spreche ich an der Uni Freiburg über „Leben und Sterben im 3. Jahrtausend – Archäologische Forschungen im Sultanat Oman🇴🇲“. Ich freue mich auf alle Interessierten! 🕡 18:15 Uhr, HS 1199 (KG I) 🔗 www.iaw.uni-freiburg.de/institut/gas...

A strong statement of resistance to the relentless marketing of "AI" in education spaces. I encourage all educators to have a look and consider signing on: openletter.earth/an-open-lett...

We look forward to our upcoming Session (number 28) at this years #SAFA conference in Faro hosted by @isotopesrule.bsky.social, @sallieburrough.bsky.social and Inèz Faul. We have a very interesting lineup that we will introduce over the next days as we count down to the conference 🦣🏺🌍Days to go:1️⃣2️⃣

What we know and do not know after the first decade of Homo naledi www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Out now – The newest issue of Archaeometry full of fantastic articles! buff.ly/wEGFdSc

So proud of my PhD student Inèz Faul's 1st first-author paper! An important contribution from the geoarchaeological side of our @khoproject.bsky.social project in Botswana. Check it out for free online 👇

Exciting new finds from China provide a rare glimpse into the plant-based technology of ancient humans!

Do not miss it!! 📣 Second call to participate in the international congress “Small prey, big insights: Unraveling their role in Archaeology,” dedicated to the study of small prey in archaeological, ethnographic and taphonomic contexts. October 29th – 31st, 2025 in Valencia