Celebrating the women at ICArEHB, then and now. From childhood curiosity to careers uncovering the past, we’re proud of the women shaping archaeology at ICArEHB. Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 💜 #WomenInScience #EveryVoiceInScience #11February

... now with pictures instead of random black squares! It has arrived, the day of the superb owl! Here's a 10,000 year-old eagle-owl talon worn as an ornament. My team recovered it from the burial of a newborn girl nicknamed Neve at Arma Veirana, a cave in the Italian Maritime Alps. 🏺🧪 #superbowl

♂️♀️ AI achieves 90% accuracy sex estimation from Ice Age jawbones? #ICArEHB's Ricardo Godinho leads the breakthrough study: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #Bioarchaeology #MachineLearning #Palaeoanthropology

🦴✨ How do we know if an archaeological bone still preserves collagen — without damaging it? Check it out our new paper on portable ER-FTIR: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Proud team work with @Krista McGrath @Cristina Lemorini @Stella Nunziate Cesaro @Silvia Soncin

🔥 Earliest cremation evidence in Africa (~9500 yrs ago)! #ICArEHB's Gina Buckley & Flora Schilt co-author Science Advances paper: doi.org/10.1126/scia... #FuneraryPractices #Archaeology

In Dec 2025, I published a short comment on whether the emergence of AI has been as revolutionary as other moments of innovation in our species' history (e.g., emergence of technology or agriculture). On balance, current evidence suggests to me that it isn't. www.isita-org.com/jass/Content...

🥛 When did Iberians start drinking raw milk? #ICArEHB's Maria João Valente, Hugo Oliveira & Maria João Martins trace it w/ archaeogenetics: doi.org/10.51679/oph... #Zooarchaeology #Prehistory

🎓 FCT PhD Fellowships 2026 ICArEHB invites inquisitive and motivated candidates to pursue a PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology or Primatology through the national FCT Program. 📍See our poster & details: www.icarehb.com/fct-phd-fell... #PhD #Archaeology #FCT #ICArEHB

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...

#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 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🔍 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

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...

👣 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

#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...

💡 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

#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/...

Happy and honoured to share this paper with @ercrema.bsky.social about pottery in Early Holocene Africa! Check out more in the thread!

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

🌍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!

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.

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!

#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.

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...

🐰🔥 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

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

Postdoc in Geochronology / Plio-Pleistocene Geology Join the ERC WRAP project at ICArEHB! Apply now 👉 www.icarehb.com/research-pos...

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

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 📚

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.

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.

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

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

📢 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...

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...

📢 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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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

Hot off the press! A bioarchaeological study of medieval burials from northern Tunisia.

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)

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....

Fantastic news from the Libyan Sahara for the prehistory of North Africa!

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

Exciting news from Tunisia!

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.

We've all been there.

Hot off the press, led by @roccoro.bsky.social, an analysis of protohistoric megalithic structures from northern Tunisia ojs.unica.it/index.php/ca...

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...