Join us this Thursday for ‘Machine Heritage: Controversies in AI-Generated Meanings and Values of the Past’ with Chiara Bonacchi @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social 📅 Thursday 12 February 2026 ⏰ 4pm 👉 More info and how to join online: talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/1...

This Thursday, at 4pm, I will be talking about Machine Heritage: Controversies in GenAI-generated meanings and values of the past, at @cam-archaeology.bsky.social and on Zoom 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Here's another exciting opportunity to join the ERC FORAGER team! This one is a 3-year postdoc on paleoclimate modelling with the fantastic Matt Osman here in @cam.ac.uk, with opportunity for synergies (pun intended 😜) with other team members in archaeology and zoology www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54411/

Very much looking forward to the upcoming Garrod Seminar Series themed 'Artificial Intelligence & the Past's Future' with some fantastic speakers (see below!). You can attend the seminar series online via Zoom (registration link: talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/1...) - starting this Thursday!

We are looking for a research project manager for the upcoming FORAGER ERC Synergy Project. Based at the University of York, this is an exciting opportunity to work in a team of 37 researchers from the UK, the US, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia and Japan. Join us! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Excited to share the job advert for the 1st of several PostDocs who will join us in the ERC Synergy FORAGER Project! This one is 5 year post at the University of Montana with Prof. Anna Prentiss, focusing on Pacitific Northwest Coast archaeology. apply.interfolio.com/180545

Very excited that our new guidelines for reporting the results of statistical analyses in the Journal of Archaeological Science have now been published online: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour... 🦴📊 @ercrema.bsky.social @benmarwick.bsky.social

😁 Very happy about this and looking forward to working with old and new colleagues!!!

Honored (and surprised!) to receive a Philip Leverhulme Prize, but grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk and @cam-archaeology.bsky.social for their support.

Congratulations to all of the Philip Leverhulme Prize winners - so well deserved!!! 🎉. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2025PLP

Fully-funded 4-year #PhD in Cultural Evolution! Join my @erc.europa.eu project exploring how compression & compositionality drive cultural innovation: hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... Apply by Nov 12! Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏

Please join us online or in person for this term's Garrod Seminar Series 'Consumed by time: Past foodways in practice' @cam-archaeology.bsky.social. We are delighted to have an amazing line up of experts in their field speaking. More details here: talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/1...

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣 Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology in Early Holocene Africa in Nature Communications by Rocco Rotunno & Enrico Crema 👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/statist... 📸 Westend61

We are hiring a Project Co-ordinator! 🚨 Are you extremely organised with great interpersonal skills? Able to multitask efficiently? Interested in African prehistory? Keen to work with an enthusiastic team? We want to hear from you! Closing date: 17 October, 2025

⚠️Paper Alert!⚠️ Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion rdcu.be/eJi3g

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...

The next CAA-UK will be hosted by @cam-archaeology.bsky.social ! Very much looking forward to hearing the latest research from the current and the next generation of computational and quantitative archaeologists (not just from the UK) : uk.caa-international.org/caa-uk-2025-2/ (deadline 29/9/2025)

BTC Call for Action - EAA EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns. Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

I'm pleased to share this new article by @svenkasser.bsky.social, Laura Fortunato @anthrolog.bsky.social, Marc Feldman and myself. The article extends gene-culture coevolution to recognize evolutionary effects of culture arising through drift and migration. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Really cool study looking at how behaviour precedes morphological change across taxa - and implications for human evolution 💀🧪 massive congrats to all the authors, including @vivek123.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Join us!!!

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣 Lipid residue analysis reveals divergent culinary practices in Japan and Korea at the dawn of intensive agriculture in @pnas.org 👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/culinar... @ercrema.bsky.social

Delighted to share the latest paper from the ENCOUNTER project led by Oliver Craig where we examined the divergence of culinary tradition in Japan and Korea around the turn of the 1st millennium BCE, when rice and millet farming were introduced in Japan doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Congratulations to the winners of this year's Antiquity Prize! Their research explored the largest agricultural complex yet found in Africa beyond the Nile, uncovering a previously unknown Neolithic society in Morocco 🏺 #Archaeology www.cnr.it/it/nota-stam...

I'm happy to share this review article, where I attempt to ponder about missed opportunities in archaeological statistical modelling.

👏 Dr @jasminevieri.bsky.social, Research Associate at the McDonald Institute, has received an Honourable Mention for the 2024 Journal of Archaeological Science (JAS) and Society for Archaeological Sciences (SAS) Emerging Investigator Award. www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/jasmine...

Cambridge Archaeology graduate Jonathan R. Goodman has published a book: 'Invisible Rivals: How We Evolved to Compete in a Cooperative World'. Available to purchase from Yale University Press: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣 Economic Inequality Over the Very Long Term: A PNAS Special Feature 👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/economi... 🧵

Write-up highlights the long-term social and economic consequences of global trade. Highlights the potential of #archaeology to help us understand linkages between productivity and inequality, and contribute to big #sustainability debates! www.york.ac.uk/environment-...

Delighted that this paper came out as part of a PNAS special feature on “The Global Dynamics of Inequality over the Long Term” where together with a team of 27 scientists we collected and analysed a sample of over 53,000 houses from all five continents. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Our new paper reports a complete Quina technological system in the 60-50 ka assemblage at Longtan, Southwest China Ruan, Q. et al. (2025) Quina lithic technology indicates diverse Late Pleistocene human dynamics in East Asia doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🆓 faculty.washington.edu/bmarwick/PDF...

Modelling the #demography of agricultural #transitions - a new potential standard tool for studying #prehistoric transitional periods. Study by @acortellnicolau.bsky.social, @ercrema.bsky.social, Javier Rivas & colleagues in @pnas.org. More: tinyurl.com/mvxxf65k & www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣 New mathematical modelling approach provides insight into the pivotal role of demography on the spread of farming 👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/new-mat... @acortellnicolau.bsky.social @ercrema.bsky.social @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social Images: Oreto García-Puchol

Job offer! 3-year PDRA studying archaeological content on social media from a cultural evolution perspective. Based at Edinburgh, supervised by @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social and myself -project "Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution Of Heritage-based Hostility On Social Media’. Please share! bit.ly/3QCXUFS

📣💥 Grant news! We are delighted to share that the research project *Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution of Heritage-based Hostility on Social media*, was funded by @leverhulme.bsky.social! The project is co-led by myself as PI (@edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social), by CI @acerbialberto.com & CI Zach Horne 📣💥

Negativity and domain-general influencers are not always winning online! In a new paper with @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social and Marta Krzyzanska we analyse social media engagement in the archeological community. rdcu.be/d6kUy

For your academic friends who, exhausted by the system, are trying to figure out what happened to universities 🤣 amzn.eu/d/3xC5O59

(preprint) Biases of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in Physical Anthropology Studies Require a Reevaluation of Evolutionary Insights www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Session S14, Evolution. Session co-organizer @ercrema.bsky.social wondering: if we agree that culture changes through variation and some heredity principle, why aren't we all calling ourselves evolutionary archaeologists?

Delighted to share that this paper (led by the fantastic @jasminevieri.bsky.social) just came out! We applied Bayesian multilevel beta regression using predictors for both variance and central tendency parameters to investigate what drives compositional variation in gold artifacts from Columbia

After the amazing paper by @kevinhatala.bsky.social & colleagues on locomotor variation in early #hominins, an exciting new study led by George Brill on forms of locomotion in #foragers 'Extensive locomotor versatility across a global sample of hunter–gatherer societies' doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

If you are interested in #modelling in #ecology and #paleoecology, my MEE live! " #tidysdm: tidy Species Distribution Models in R" is now available online! ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=4InG... Paper: doi.org/10.1111/2041... Thanks @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social, @britishecolsoc.bsky.social!

Interview with the amazing Emma Pomeroy by @evolutionsoup.bsky.social - Secrets of Shanidar 😍!!! #HumanEvolution #Neanderthal #Shanidar youtu.be/KzD_7QjO6k4?...

Lots of cultural evolution content to read in latest PNAS! www.pnas.org/toc/pnas/121...

Assessment of the role of mobility for archaeological site formation. Hunter-gatherer mobility patterns influence the reconstruction of social networks from archaeological assemblages 🏺🧪 Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @ceciliapad.bsky.social , Robert J. Bischoff www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to say our study into accent mimicry detection was just published in Evolutionary Human Sciences! Thanks so much to coauthors @ercrema.bsky.social, @robfoley.bsky.social, Emma Cohen, and Francis Nolan www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New paper in PNAS with @maximederex.bsky.social , @glupyan.bsky.social & Piers Edmiston: Trade-offs, control conditions, and alternative designs in the experimental study of cultural evolution www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...