🚨ONLINE WORKSHOP🚨 We will be hosting a free online workshop “Maximising Data from Palaeolithic Bone" as part of the the COEXIST project on 10th March 2026. Please submit abstract by 23rd January 2026. Further information in the flyer. See you there!

And there it is. Updated with the latest results from work with @thibaut-d.bsky.social & @cartapaniso.bsky.social & the @archaeobears.bsky.social #Boxofficebears , 50 mins of 🐻 from the lateglacial to present in Britain. So much more I could have said! Ta for the invite @geoffreymsmith.bsky.social!

Today the ICAZ-AGPM meeting begins - welcome to Copenhagen everyone, enjoy the sunshine 😊

Turns out #hippos 🦛 lived in Europe much more recently than we thought! Fossil & genetic evidence from Germany shows they roamed 50,000–31,000 years ago, right in the middle of the last #iceage 🥶🌨️ Same species as today’s African hippos, thriving during warmer periods. 🦣🧪🧬

AT ICAZ AGPM (Copenhagen) @wagneranna.bsky.social will give a talk contrasting her current #ZooMS results from Germany and Romania, while @geoffreymsmith.bsky.social will present his #ZooMS results from the British Middle Pleistocene site of Victoria Cave. @icaz-news.bsky.social

Fascinating analysis on grease-rendering at a warm-temperate Neanderthal "fat factory" near German lakes. Animal parts from cervids, equids & bovids were transported from kill sites, and maybe cached, for processing. Lutz Kindler, Sabine G-W, @geoffreymsmith.bsky.social et al. 🏺#zooarchaeology 🦣 🦌

Large-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 years ago 🏺🧪 Lutz Kindler, @geoffreymsmith.bsky.social, et al www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Grease rendering “fat factory” predating the Upper Paleolithic, is an important addition to our knowledge of Neanderthal adaptations

Write up in CNN on our Neumark-Nord 2 work with a quote from me edition.cnn.com/2025/07/04/s...

Really good write up of our work at Neumark-Nord 2. Such a great project to work on during my time @paleomonrepos.bsky.social

Cool! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Nachweise für umfangreiche Fettgewinnung durch Neandertaler vor 125.000 Jahren am Fundplatz Neumark-Nord. #Archäologie in #SachsenAnhalt... weiterlesen

Nachweise für umfangreiche Fettgewinnung durch Neandertaler vor 125.000 Jahren am Fundplatz Neumark-Nord. Ein internationales Forscherteam legt neue Untersuchungen an den im Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt verwahrten Funden vor. Weitere Informationen: idwf.de/-DQszAA

Neanderthals ran "fat factories" 125,000 years ago: Groundbreaking discovery in Germany reveals large-scale fat processing by Neanderthals 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/neanderthals...

#Neanderthals Ran “Fat Factories” 125,000 Years Ago. Groundbreaking discovery by @paleomonrepos.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social @leizarchaeology.bsky.social and the LDA in Saxony reveals large-scale fat processing by Neanderthals: idw-online.de/de/news854632 #archaeology #paleolithic #prehistory

New paper in #ScienceAdvances led by @paleomonrepos.bsky.social and @unileiden.bsky.social on #Neanderthal adaptation 125ka years ago at Neumark-Nord 2, Germany. Our study shows large-scale grease rendering thousands of years earlier than previously thought: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🦣🧪🏺

Spotting her first MALDI plate! Thanks to @archaeoprotein.bsky.social for offering this wonderful training opportunity to @sarahbarakat.bsky.social and helping us further develop our ZooMS capacity in Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social - and for running our first PALaEoScot samples with us!

Lovely publication on #ZooMS, #radiocarbon, and #stableisotopes of Late Palaeolithic whale bone tools! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A nice update on the chronology of Denisova Cave! I wish more sites had this type of resolution 🥹⏳️🏺🦣🧪

This interactive 1.5 hour webinar allows students and researchers from around the world to ask questions from our panel of #ZooMS and #Zooarchaeology experts: @geoffreymsmith.bsky.social, Camilla Speller, @abigaildesmond.bsky.social, Emmanuel Discamps, @mcodlin.bsky.social and Naihui Wang.

We are hosting a free online ‘Ask Us Anything’ event as part of the Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology workshop series. For more info and to submit questions: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 📅 Date: June 30, 2025 🕒 Time: 15:00 CET 📍 Location: Online (link: univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/9775805212...)

New publication! 🎉 Here you can read all about dog drool, bleach, and a probable Central Asian Neanderthal child: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

2025 @nhsf.bsky.social 1st annual conference 10th July 2025 Call for Posters! Deadline 30th April 2025. Excellent opportunity for #palaeoproteomics, #ZooMS researchers. A diverse range of heritage science. Great for PhD students and ECRs. www.heritagescienceforum.org.uk/what-we-do/2...

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Editorial on archaeological science www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our paper on the #palaeoproteomic identification of a male Denisovan mandible from Taiwan is out in @science.org ! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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...

Fascinating new information on Denisovans and exciting #palaeoproteomics. Can’t wait to read the paper in detail. Changing our understanding of human evolution again.

Incredibly proud that our paper on the #palaeoproteomics analysis of the Penghu mandible, led by @tsutatsuta.bsky.social and in collaboration with Chun-Hsiang Chang, Enrico Cappellini and co, is out now in @science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

ESHE 2025 goes to Paris, France! Join us in person for talks and posters from Sept 25–27, with a public keynote on Sept 24. Excursion details are coming soon. More info on the meetings page this March! #ESHE2025

Congratulations on the excellent research. Can’t wait to read the paper fully.

My summary of the exciting new excavations by @elliescerri.bsky.social and her colleagues, showing Mesolithic hunter gatherers arrived to Malta by sea

We’re deeply concerned about the disappearance of our colleague Pierre Noiret. Please share and help us spread the word. For more information please check: www.police.be/avis-de-rech...

🧵 Thread: 1️⃣ Excited to announce the next ICAZ Archaeozoology, Genetics, Proteomics & Morphometrics (AGPM) working group meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, Oct 14-17, 2025! #palaeoproteomics #ZooMS #archaeology sites.google.com/palaeome.org...

Exciting new approach to sexing using proteomics.

🧵 Thread: Comparing mass analyzers for ZooMS on poorly preserved collagen 1/5 Raymond et al. @palaeocdf.bsky.social @archaeoprotein.bsky.social test MALDI-TOF vs MALDI-FTICR for ZooMS analysis on Palaeolithic bone fragments (37-34 ka BP). Paper: doi.org/10.1002/rcm.... #ZooMS

Our new paper 🥲 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New #HumanEvolution find from 🇪🇸 🦣🏺🧪Bone fragments of oldest known human face in western Europe found in Spain: www.theguardian.com/science/2025... congratulations to @whiterabbit36.bsky.social and all the other authors.

In @nature.com we show that humans lived in rainforests ~150,000 years ago – over double the previous oldest estimate. Their presence in West Africa’s rainforests demonstrates the spread of early humans and places ecological diversity at the heart of our species. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really interesting paper on early 🐇exploitation in the #Palaeolithic. 🦣🏺. Great discussion and commentary about broader implications.

I updated the starter pack with some new followers. Enjoy and message me if you want to be added.

Defining medieval raptor diets using isotopy - they were feeding differently, notably by "the incorporation of carrion from large mammals as scavenged prey in settlements, a food resource that is largely lacking from modern-day landscapes in large quantities" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Today it's International Day of #Women and #Girls in #Science! 👩‍🔬 #Zooarchaeology has many pioneering women to thank for its development. Here are some, but please add more in the comments!

The @eaapam.bsky.social deadline has been extended until 10th February. Still time to submit to our session on #Zooarchaeology #ZooMS and subsistence in central and SE Europe. 🦣🧪🏺

I'm hiring two upper-level undergraduates (or recent graduates) this August for a 3 week long PAID Smithsonian internship in Connecticut. We'll be visiting several archaeological collections to measure quahog clam shells! Please share! Apply here by March 1: internships.si.edu/opportunity/...

The first issue of #PaleoAnthropology of 2025 is out 🤩🥳!! paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph... PaleoAnthropology is free to publish & free to read. Published by the Paleoanthropology Society & the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution (ESHE), through the Univ. of Tübingen Library.

As a historian, the scale and sinister brutality of the Holocaust terrifies me. And as a descendent of people who were sent to Auschwitz, hearing this testimony always brings me to tears This is my own family story, which I’m ashamed to say I only learned in 2017 www.gregjenner.com/my-family-an...

Deactivated my Twitter account due to obvious reasons. No 💯 on 🦋. Follow me for 🦣🏺🧪.

PaleoAnthropology Journal has made it to Bluesky! We are a fully externally peer-reviewed, Open Access, online-only journal. We have no publication fees, and are accessible free of charge to all. Find our website above to read our current issue, or if you are interested in submitting to our journal

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