Why is AAR (Amino Acid Racemisation; by implication #palaeoproteomics) so often overlooked for #geochronology? New paper by @neaarlab.bsky.social, using Bithynia snails 🐌 to date the last 1Ma: 4 new reference sets for climate & Quaternary Science 🌍 open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-396

Achelense Melka Wakena 5, Etiopía ~1,36 Ma: planificación para adquisición materia prima y control de propiedades morfométricas. The emergence of large flake-based Acheulian technology: perspective from the highland site-complex of Melka Wakena, Ethiopia link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Interesting stuff!

A journey into the sensory world of ancient Arabia: incense, ritual, trade, memory & scent 🌿🔥🏺🧪 www.dainst.org/en/newsroom/...

🌿 “What the Invisible Dream — Cosmoperceptions of the Forest” Art from residencies in the Amazon, Marajó, Atlantic Forest, Sápmi & Rio Negro/Munich exploring forests, waters & cycles. 📅 Nov 10, 7PM 📍 Galeria Benedito Nunes, Belém (PA) 🆓 Free entry More info: www.goethe.de/ins/br/pt/st... 

[new paper alert!!]. Taking another look at the traditional Out of Africa I model… 😎😎 @courtneymanthey.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The new issue of PaleoAnthropology is now online! 📢 It includes the Special Issue 'What’s in a Name? Late Middle and Early Late Pleistocene Hominin Systematics' The cover features the article 'Revisiting the Anatomy of the Florisbad Hominin Cranium' by Balzeau et al. #humanevolution #openaccess

COMING SOON! We’re delighted to share that our executive report, bringing together experts on regenerative agriculture and resilient food systems will be released soon.

We hosted ‘The Voices of the Global South on the Anthropocene’ Conference in June 2024 at the Max-Planck-Institute of Geoanthropoloy Jena, Germany. You can read more about this event, and the important discussions we engaged in, both below and at the link in our bio!

Our aim is to bring together diverse voices and perspectives, incorporating palaeoecology, archaeology and traditional knowledge, to address pressing challenges relating to climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss.

High-quality Denisovan genome, reconstructed from a molar found at Denisova Cave. Belonged to a man who lived ~200 Kya A high-coverage genome from a 200,000-year-old Denisovan 🏺🧪 S. Peyregne, @benceviola.bsky.social, @elenaessel.bsky.social, @janetk.bsky.social et al www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Paper alert 🎓🌿 I’m excited to share a new publication from my PhD On-site plant-wax biomarkers + compound-specific isotopes show why relying on bulk δ13C of SOM can mislead in the tropics. Case study: Jwalapuram (S. India). Read: www.cell.com/iscience/ful... Huge thanks to all co-authors 🙏

As I wrap up my doctoral research, I find I have even more questions than when I began—and the picture keeps getting more complex. Here’s a mint-fresh Levallois point core from the Baghor Coarse Member (~40–50 ka) in the Middle Son Valley (north-central India). #HumanOrigins #Palaeolithic #India

#newpreprint: "Climate Shaped the Global Population Structure of Leopards and their Extinction in Europe": www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...! Leopards are charming big cats but there are many mysteries around them. Thread 🧵

A lot more is coming about the technological transitions, Toba's impact, and climatic context. Hats off to @ekerdoncuff.bsky.social @priyamoorjani et al.'s outstanding work. Do read the original paper - doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... P.S. A lot to wrap up in so little time, but looking fwd. to 2026.

The genetics of South Asia are coming into focus, helping reveal how fast the avalanche of modern humans got going. This region has more Neanderthal genetic variation than any other, and a unique component of Denisovan ancestry never seen before. www.johnhawks.net/p/deep-histo...

Very sad. One of the world's great human beings. #JaneGoodall www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

So excited to announce the lineup of speakers here @heasvienna.bsky.social for the 2025/6 academic year! We have some outstanding speakers for our three seminar series in Archaelogical Science, Ancient Genomics and Human Evolution & the Palaeolithic. All hybrid! Register now at HEAS.at

Note that @isotopes.bsky.social (with other methods) found that lakes lost hypolimnetic oxygen in three more (far-away) sectors of Greenland around the same time. Oxygen depletion was apparently widespread, in response to a few degrees of summer warming. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

One more conceptual layer of the Bretskyan hierarchy: how organisms map on their range and environments or what is the geometry of their movement (as exemplified by dogs and cats). 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Had some fun with this one! Based on a publication by @mariaguagnin.bsky.social and our terrific team! 🐪 m.youtube.com/shorts/7Pcec...

After two days of reading, thinking, and reading again, I think there are two possible ways to interpret the Yunxian cranium (note that @johnhawks.net and others have already shared some great, and often overlapping ideas): (1/4) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This non #FlintFriday and #FieldworkFriday, I would like to share this mint-fresh Quartzite handaxe from SE India, likely dating back to Middle Pleistocene. Yes, it hurts to see that broken tip! Still, one of my best find. I am field-sick, can't wait to go back. #Acheulean #India #HumanOrigins

‼️📣Extremely proud to see this great collaborative work out! Oldest Shell Ornament Workshop in Western Europe at Saint-Césaire: www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1... #Prehistory #Archaeology #Chatelperronian #Shells #Beads #Homosapiens #Neandertal #Ornament Details of discovery & implications ⏬ 🧵 1/20

Thanks to @isbarchaeology.bsky.social and @isba11.bsky.social for a great conference. I mentioned the legacy of Henk Kars of VU who established ISBA Geoarchaeology closed. Here is the link to the petition to save Earth Sciences @vuamsterdam.bsky.social www.change.org/p/red-aardwe...

What a week! 🎉 Big thanks to @isba11.bsky.social for hosting an incredible ISBA conference — so well organized and full of great science.

Interested in #Maya history, #climate change, #stalagmites and #drought, and the #SYP autosampler? Read the latest in our detailed work on a sample from #Tzabnah cave! 😎 kudos to all our collaborators in #Mexico! @andy-baker.bsky.social @mwclimatesci.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Job Alerts!🚨 We are looking to fill three Independent Junior Research Group Leader positions in the 'HUMAN ORIGINS' Cluster of Excellence at the University of Tübingen Application deadline: Sept. 10, Starting Jan. 1, 2026 1. Genotype-Phenotype interactions: uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Stone tools from Sulawesi at least a million years old may be even more ancient than those found on Flores, suggesting an even earlier presence of hominins on Wallacea www.nature.com/articles/s41...

From the archives: Climate co-benefits of tiger conservation: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Ancient DNA reveals genetic admixture in China during tiger evolution: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Paper alert 📄 Led by Dr. Anil Devara. That ~75,000-year-old Toba ash layer (YTT) in India? Our research shows it is not necessary if YTT is isochron! We found YTT at MVP (site) is significantly (40,000 years) younger than ~74ka mark. Glad to be part of this work! doi.org/10.1002/jqs....

A 150,000-year lacustrine record of the Indo-Australian monsoon from northern Australia www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I love the title - cool paper!

So much to think about after "Not all that glitters is green" by Verónica Zuccarelli Freire. A powerful reminder that the costs of the energy transition are not shared equally, especially in the #Andes. True climate action requires environmental justice. #ClimateJustice #IndigenousKnowledge

My inner self whispers, "Incredible! This could be a living example of a 'primal throwback,' a manifestation of our ancient, arboreal instincts!" I need a vacation! Probably after PhD🤔

Rethinking how #agriculture evolved. A new "We in #Evolution" podcast explores the sophisticated tech of #Amazonian gardens— a system of #exchange, #culture & #biodiversity, not machines. A fascinating listen. Podcast features our very own, Laura Pereira Furquim open.spotify.com/episode/0w2E...

We published a new paper on enamel paleoproteomics from teeth up to 18 million years old from the Turkana Basin in Kenya. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper alert! Led by @jblinkhorn.bsky.social, we look at refugia for baboons in the Pleistocene and Holocene, offering a potential analogue for early hominins where climatic tolerances are shared. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China 300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Interested in how ancient genomes are providing insights into the our evolutionary past? @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social and I are excited about the great program coming together for this meeting in London in November! Register now to join us!

Perspectives from the Global South on the Anthropocene" poster at SB 62 in Bonn was all about decolonising climate narratives and raising the Global South perspective. Here is a copy of our poster👉 unfccc.int/sites/defaul... Here is an exclusive snippet from the ACE gallery, hats off to Veronica👏

Exciting news! 🌿 Dr. Verónica Zuccarelli Freire is attending the 13th Facilitative Working Group meeting (LCIPP—UNFCCC) as an observer, nominated by RINGO. Next up: she’s heading to SB62 @ the Bonn Climate Conference to share our project at the UN Campus! ✨🌍 #ClimateJustice #IndigenousRights

Thrilled to share that our very own Veronica Zuccarelli Freire represented the @maxplanck.de as an observer at the 13th Facilitative Working Group (FWG) of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP) from June 10-13! 🌍 Here are meeting highlights: lcipp.unfccc.int/sites/defaul...

Human Evolution 2025 Keynote lecture by María Martinón-Torres youtube.com/playlist?lis...

🚨NEW PAPER from the @eegcam.bsky.social!🚨I have never been as proud of something as of the work that finally we can share today: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - we show how a climatically driven Pan African meta population model explains our species genetic and morphological diversity 🧬💀

📣Calling all #PhD students everywhere in all #STEM fields, please take our @nature.com 2025 Survey (in 15 min or less)! 🔬🩺🧬🦠💡💻🧪 🧫🔭🪐🐭🪱🦋🦎 🐠🌲🪴🍄❄️🤿🌊 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I like it: Cultural Mosaic Model. Intriguing term "Non-Handaxe assemblage" Such assemblages are big part of mid Pleistocene enigma. Southern Asia is filled with such variants that are significantly different from Classic Acheulian or levalloisian assemblages.

More news coverage on our work! #TobaTuesday #HumanOrigins #SouthAsia www.archaeologie-online.de/nachrichten/...