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Stone Age archaeologist
pinned post!
Proudly introduce BREATHE, a project investigating late Quaternary human behavior in the Sahara. Funded by
#HorizonEurope
- ERA Postdoctoral Fellowships, BREATHE is based at the University of Algarve’s fabulous
#ICArEHB
and partnered with
#Sapienza
University of Rome.
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BREATHE
BREATHE aims to contribute a new understanding of cultural and behavioral traits of North African early modern humans through the archaeological record of the central and northern Sahara The project'...
https://sites.google.com/view/breathesahara/home
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Hot off the press! Led by Olivier Scancarello, in collaboration with amazing colleagues and institutions in Tunisia, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Differential Taphonomic Behavior of Flint Types: Experimental Insights and Implications for the Middle Stone Age Assemblages of Wadi Lazalim in the Northern Sahara (Kebili, Tunisia) - Journal of Archa...
Several syn and post-depositional processes are responsible for different degrees of site and assemblage formation and disturbance. Understanding the processes that lead to archaeological site formati...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10816-025-09757-x
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Osama Samawi
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#Oman
#MSA
New paper is OUT! We trace how Dhofar’s MSA shifts from Nubian Levallois cores to the miniaturized Mudayyan industry—highlighting changing technologies along the southern dispersal route out of Africa.
@arduq.bsky.social
@icarehb.bsky.social
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Lithic Miniaturization and Technological Innovation on the Southern Dispersal Route Out of Africa - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology
Over the past fifteen years, the Dhofar Archaeological Project has mapped 272 Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic sites in southern Oman, each exhibiting some extent of Nubian Levallois technology. T...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-025-00235-0
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🔍 What’s it like to be an early-career archaeologist in Africa? Degsew Mekonnen, Osman Khaleel, Humphrey Nyambiya & Nompumelelo Maringa explore challenges from funding gaps to limited mentoring. 🔗
doi.org/10.32028/exn...
#Archaeology
#Africa
#ICArEHB
#EarlyCareerResearchers
#ExNovoJournal
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Against All Odds: An Archaeologist's Journey in Africa | Ex Novo: Journal of Archaeology
https://doi.org/10.32028/exnovo-vol-9-pp.21-36
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Martina Di Matteo
about 1 month ago
Happy to share with you the new paper on taphonomy in arid environments in collaboration with my friend and colleague
@roccoro.bsky.social
. Check it out!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Shelters and bones: Site-specific archaeofaunal taphonomy for identifying formation processes in Saharan Holocene rock shelters - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
This study investigates natural syn- and post-depositional processes affecting terrestrial mammal bones from the Takarkori rock shelter in the hyper-arid Tadrart Acacus massif, south-western Libya. Th...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-025-02329-w?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20251112&utm_content=10.1007/s12520-025-02329-w
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about 2 months ago
👣 What can ancient
#footprints
tell us about
#movement
,
#behaviour
, and
#technology
in
#prehistory
? Join us for the next
#LEXA
seminar, exploring traces and early
#transport
innovations. 🗓️ 4 Nov | 🕑 14:00 GMT | 🌍 Online via
#Zoom
🔗
icarehb.com/lexa
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#ICArEHB
PhD candidate Osama Samawi explores ancient innovation in his new blog post “Stone Tools on Repeat” with @ACORJordan 🪨 Discover how
#Neolithic
communities at Tell Abu Suwwan reused stone flakes as cores — early
#sustainability
in
#Archaeology
! 👉
publications.acorjordan.org/2025/10/17/s...
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ICArEHB
2 months ago
💡 How to ID archaeological bones in resin?A team of researchers, including ICArEHB members Paul Goldberg, Shannon McPherron, William Chase Murphree, and Vera Aldeias explore new paleoproteomics methods. 🔗
doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
#Archaeology
#Paleoproteomics
#ICArEHB
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ICArEHB
2 months ago
#ICArEHB
PhD student Osama Samawi co-organised the “Paleolithic Jordan: The State of the Art”
#workshop
in Athens during
#ICHAJ16
, discussing the
#Paleolithic
record of
#Jordan
and fostering collaboration in
#Archaeology
and
#HumanEvolution
. 👉
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Rocco Rotunno
3 months ago
Happy and honoured to share this paper with
@ercrema.bsky.social
about pottery in Early Holocene Africa! Check out more in the thread!
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ERC-StG MATRIX
3 months ago
The ERC Project MATRIX explores one of the big questions in our past: how Neanderthals disappeared as modern humans spread across Europe. Meet the team behind it and learn more about our research on sediments, ancient DNA, proteins, lipids & human evolution 👉
matrix.icarehb.com
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Alice Leplongeon
3 months ago
🌍Fieldwork, Communities, and Conflicts in Northestern Africa Join us in the next LPNEA workshop on 29-30 Sept in Bracciano and online! To register, scan the QR code or write an email to neafrica[at]gmail[.]com Very much looking forward to it!
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Past Horizons Archaeology Equipment
4 months ago
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/afri...
Researchers have noticed striking similarities between the Uan Muhuggiag child and Egyptian mummification practices. Both cultures placed their dead in fetal positions, used ostrich eggshell beads as jewelry and removed internal organs to prevent decay.
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Africa's Oldest Mummy Is a Toddler Who Died 5,400 Years Ago, Nearly a Millennium Before the Egyptians Started Mummifying Their Dead
Libya's civil war has placed the Uan Muhuggiag mummy at risk. But negotiations are underway to transport the rare artifact from Libya to Rome, where it will undergo restoration and scientific analysis
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/africas-oldest-mummy-is-a-toddler-who-died-5400-years-ago-nearly-a-millennium-before-the-egyptians-started-mummifying-their-dead-180987227/
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Sarah Marie Foley
5 months ago
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!
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ICArEHB
5 months ago
#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
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Antiquity Journal
5 months ago
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 🏺 🔗
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Scientists could be accidentally damaging fossils with a method we thought was safe
A common scanning method used to create ‘virtual copies’ of precious fossils could be erasing some of the crucial information held within.
https://theconversation.com/scientists-could-be-accidentally-damaging-fossils-with-a-method-we-thought-was-safe-258827?utm_medium=article_native_share&utm_source=theconversation.com
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Anna Rufà
6 months ago
🐰🔥 Excited to share our new paper from the
#snackormenu
project: we have developed an experimental protocol to accurately diagnose rabbit cooking and processing methods. Check it out!
doi.org/10.1007/s108...
#Zooarchaeology
#Taphonomy
#Archaeology
@icarehb.bsky.social
@uv.es
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Experimental Protocol for Cooking Rabbits and its Archaeological Implications - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
Small prey such as rabbits are present in Middle Paleolithic and are abundant in the diet of Upper Paleolithic human groups in southwestern Europe, especially in the Iberian Peninsula. Several archaeo...
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-025-09720-w
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Andressa M. Venturini
6 months ago
Studying or working abroad comes with many challenges but also great opportunities. What can help early-career researchers navigate this journey? Check out my answer (and those of other researchers) in this
@science.org
piece:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#NextGenSci
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Supporting scientists who study and work abroad
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea0626
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ICArEHB
6 months ago
Postdoc in Geochronology / Plio-Pleistocene Geology Join the ERC WRAP project at ICArEHB! Apply now 👉
www.icarehb.com/research-pos...
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Tomos Proffitt
6 months ago
Calling all palaeolithic archaeologists. Come and work with me on a really exciting new survey and excavation project in Uganda:
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/348570
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INTERNATIONAL TENDER FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF A POST-DOCTORAL ASSOCIATE RESEARCHER
International tender to recruit one (1) ) post-doctoral initial level researcher to perform duties in the scientific area of Palaeolithic Archaeology or related areas, under the research project “ERC ...
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/348570
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Echoes of Africa's Past. Archaeological explorations in the Anthropocene - All’Insegna del Giglio
Author: Savino di Lernia (ed.) Year of printing: 2025 ISBN: 9788892853591 e-ISBN: 9788892853607
https://www.insegnadelgiglio.it/en/prodotto/echoes-of-africas-past-archaeological-explorations-in-the-anthropocene/
6 months ago
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Tansy Branscombe
7 months ago
Are you a graduate student thinking about career paths outside academia? Come listen to me and
@roinnanluisigh.bsky.social
talk about working in publishing at the next
@icarehb.bsky.social
Alt-Ac Paths seminar 📚
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Emily Hallinan
7 months ago
We're excited to announce the next
@icarehb.bsky.social
Alt-Ac Paths conversation, with Luíseach Nic Eoin
@roinnanluisigh.bsky.social
and Tansy Branscombe
@tansybranscombe.bsky.social
, who now work at
@natecoevo.nature.com
and
@barpublishing.bsky.social
. Thurs 19th June, 11am (GMT), Zoom link below.
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Proudly introduce BREATHE, a project investigating late Quaternary human behavior in the Sahara. Funded by
#HorizonEurope
- ERA Postdoctoral Fellowships, BREATHE is based at the University of Algarve’s fabulous
#ICArEHB
and partnered with
#Sapienza
University of Rome.
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BREATHE
BREATHE aims to contribute a new understanding of cultural and behavioral traits of North African early modern humans through the archaeological record of the central and northern Sahara The project'...
https://sites.google.com/view/breathesahara/home
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ICArEHB
7 months ago
ICArEHB PhD student Osman Khaleel shares a powerful reflection on navigating the PhD journey amid prolonged conflict. Read it here ➡️
research-hive.com/2025/06/02/n...
#PhDLife
#ResilientResearch
#ICArEHB
#ResearchHive
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Navigating the PhD journey amid prolonged conflict: Challenges, growth, and resilience
Author: Osman Khaleel // Editor: Cherene de Bruyn Cover image from Pexels *Archaeology: The study of past human cultures through the material culture (artefacts) left behind. *Lithics: Archaeologic…
https://research-hive.com/2025/06/02/navigating-the-phd-journey-amid-prolonged-conflict-challenges-growth-and-resilience/
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Emily Hallinan
7 months ago
I’m delighted to make my first Recommendation for PCI Archaeology
@pciarchaeology.bsky.social
of Julien Looten
@julienlooten.bsky.social
and colleagues’ clear method and potential of RTI for lithic illustration
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ICArEHB
9 months ago
📢 New publication: "The Role of Environmental Changes in the Development of the Agricultural Economy During Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite Cultures" by Mekonnen, D. Z., Olivera, H. R., & Gomes, A., in African Archaeological Review (2025). 🔗 More info:
doi.org/10.1007/s104...
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The Role of Environmental Changes in the Development of the Agricultural Economy During Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite Cultures - African Archaeological Review
The northern highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea (NHE) hosted the earliest agricultural and urban societies in sub-Saharan Africa: the Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite cultures. However, the role of environmen...
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-025-09618-8
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TraceoLab
9 months ago
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...
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ICArEHB
9 months ago
📢 New publication: "Large scale and regional demographic responses to climatic changes in Europe during the Final Palaeolithic" by Schmidt, I., Gehlen, B., Winkler, K., Arrizabalaga, A., Arts, N., Bicho, N., et al. 🔗 More info:
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Large scale and regional demographic responses to climatic changes in Europe during the Final Palaeolithic
The European Final Palaeolithic witnessed marked changes in almost all societal domains. Despite a rich body of evidence, our knowledge of human palaeodemographic processes and regional population dyn...
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310942
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Lucy Timbrell
9 months ago
Our paper “Climate seasonality and predictability during the middle stone age and implications for technological diversification in early Homo sapiens” has been published in Scientific Reports 🥳
rdcu.be/egqwZ
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Climate seasonality and predictability during the middle stone age and implications for technological diversification in early Homo sapiens
Scientific Reports - Climate seasonality and predictability during the middle stone age and implications for technological diversification in early Homo sapiens
https://rdcu.be/egqwZ
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Hot off the press! A bioarchaeological study of medieval burials from northern Tunisia.
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The medieval burial assemblage from Koudiet er Rammadiya, Northern Tunisia. An interdisciplinary bioarchaeological investigation - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
The osteological analysis of human skeletal assemblages offers crucial osteobiographical insights into ancient populations, yet remains largely unexplored in past Tunisia. This paper presents the firs...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-025-02209-3
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Nada Salem
9 months ago
I'm beyond excited to share our new paper in Nature! We sequenced the first ancient human autosomal genomes from the Central Sahara, two ~7,000-year-old individuals from Takarkori in Libya, revealing a long-isolated North African lineage:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here's a short thread: (1/n)
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Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage - Nature
Pastoralism spread through cultural diffusion into the Green Sahara, where an isolated, distinct North African ancestry persisted.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08793-7
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Vera Aldeias
9 months ago
Tracing the elusive fire use during the LGM: check out our paper lead by
@wcmurph.bsky.social
on fire features at Korman' 9 in Ukraine.
@philipnigst.bsky.social
@marjolein-bosch.bsky.social
@oeai.bsky.social
with open access provided by
@icarehb.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Fire Use During the Last Glacial Maximum: Evidence From the Epigravettian at Korman' 9, Middle Dniester Valley, Ukraine
The Last Glacial maximum (LGM), spanning from 26.5 to 19 thousand years before present (ka bp), is a period of extreme climatic degradation associated with reduced biomass production and resource str...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/gea.70006
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Fantastic news from the Libyan Sahara for the prehistory of North Africa!
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Skeletons from ‘green Sahara’ offer genetic peek at a lost human population
Ancient DNA sheds light on a fleeting, lush interlude of North African prehistory
https://www.science.org/content/article/skeletons-green-sahara-offer-genetic-peek-lost-human-population
9 months ago
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Emily Hallinan
9 months ago
Our new paper on 3D GM has all the models and script available for others to apply our method. We use it to demonstrate interregional variability of Nubian Levallois cores but it has broader potential for lithic studies
#openscience
#archaeology
#3DGM
@icarehb.bsky.social
@jmcascalheira.bsky.social
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Exciting news from Tunisia!
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10 months ago
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Dr Huw Groucutt
about 1 year ago
1) Postdoc job opportunities…join my TerraForm ERC project, at the University of Malta. One position for a geoarchaeologist and one in GIS/spatial analysis. The formal advert and application procedure will be out soon (and shared here), so I am releasing this as an early notice.
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Jess Bradley
over 2 years ago
We've all been there.
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Hot off the press, led by
@roccoro.bsky.social
, an analysis of protohistoric megalithic structures from northern Tunisia
ojs.unica.it/index.php/ca...
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The necropolis of Jebel Zebouzi (El Kef): integrated and multiscale archaeological analysis of protohistoric megalithic structures from Northern Tunisia | Cartagine. Studi e Ricerche
https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/caster/article/view/6332
about 1 year ago
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Flint Dibble
about 1 year ago
Or maybe you're into the cutting edge of stone tools? (get it? it's a pun) This list of lithicists by
@jacopocerasoni.bsky.social
is a must follow. And my name's Flint, so I know. It's got knappers and analysts and archaeologists galore. Be sure to follow Jacopo too!
bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Flint Dibble
about 1 year ago
There's also some subject area deep dives A great starter pack of Paleolithic 🪨 & Human Origins researchers created by
@lemoustier.bsky.social
. Yes, go follow Rebecca right now! This is the list if you want to know about stone tools, early humanity, or the real Paleodiet
bsky.app/starter-pack...
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