🌍 How did miniature #stonetools revolutionized technology on Africa's southern migration route? Jeff Rose leads this study, with fellow #ICArEHB members Nuno Bicho, João Cascalheira, and Osama Samawi. doi.org/10.1007/s419... #Lithics #OutOfAfrica #Paleolithic

Great collection of articles on Arabia! Congratulations to authors 🎉

ARDUQ 5A expedition is in full swing. Our fieldwork in Nejd plateau in southern Oman is focused on collecting samples for paleoenvironmental, micro-morphological, geochemical and OSL dating analyses from the excavated stratified Palaeolithic sites. @czechacademy.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social

A grand place for Lucy to make her European debut. 📍 Národní muzeum

Great talk @armandofalcucci.bsky.social! Impressive depth of data analysis, and I really appreciated the open science approach. Finally, robust evidence that the Ahmarian and Protoaurignacian aren’t directly linked #Paleolithic #lithics 🏺🦣🧪

3D scanning these beauties with Ng'ipalajem! @palaeotrails.bsky.social #handaxe #turkana

Fabulous news that @martamlahr.bsky.social has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy 🍾🍾🍾

Now nice to see talk with data from the namesake Garba site 🥰

#ESHE2025 Marc Dickinson ‘Advancing enamel amino acid dating’ Using AA in dental enamel for dating Does glue affect potential? NO 😊 Can ESR powder by re-used? YES 😊 ‘lab-on-a-chip’ (minimise sample size) and no need of lab for pre-processing! 😊

#ESHE2025 Harold Berghuis ‘Madura Strait, the first subsea Homo erectus site in Sundaland (Indonesia)’ Underwater fossils 🌟! Subsidence in Sundaland: key to biogeography. Submerged river valley-MIS6, w rich fossil record! hunting bovids? H erectus: frontal & parietal frags– aff Java late erectus 😍

Amazing Gabi! Bravo! 🎉

For #FindsFriday, here are some shell, stone and shark tooth beads and pendants from a Neolithic grave at Wadi Nafūn, Oman. These materials indicate a symbolic connection to marine themes amongst the people buried here. Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Great fun at #ESHE2025 presenting on how handaxe shape can inform discussions of African demography in the Early and Middle Pleistocene! While we have very few fossils or genetic data for this period, handaxe shape may carry a signal that can help to constrain biogeographic models - more to come!

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

Congrats Gabriele!

It is finally OUT! 🎉 My book "HINTERLAND MONUMENTS OF ANCIENT NOMADS: Trilith Stone Structures of Southeastern Arabia" was published by @archaeopress.bsky.social Book is the first dedicated study of these enigmatic 2000-year-old ritual monuments. www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

Very sad news today. Anthony E. Marks has passed away. He conducted pioneering prehistoric research in the Nile Valley, the southern Levant and Arabia, producing seminal works on the Palaeolithic. In 2023, aged 85, he still joined the @arduq.bsky.social excavations in Dhofar, Oman. Rest in peace.

The 'bone midden' surprised with its age, megalithic features and the number of individuals. It is as impressive as the neighbouring rock art sites, triliths and shell midden. The Nafun cultural landscape comprises 214 archaeological sites! @arduq.bsky.social

Such fun & fantastic team 🤩🤩🤩

What does the Ng'ipalajem team do? Ng’ipalajem, meaning Ancestors in Turkana, is an ERC-funded project. Led by @martamlahr.bsky.social, the project investigates how the emergence of Homo sapiens is deeply intertwined with Africa’s long-term environmental and ecological history. #humanevolution

From the blog: The #Denisovans got a face! - Turns out, it’s #DragonMan​'s ... 🏺 trowelandpen.com/2025/06/20/t...

ERC_INASIA is the first high-mountain archaeological project in Uzbekistan. For the very first time, our research team will reach unstudied caves in order to collect data for multiproxy analyses. #HorizonEU #EUResearch #ERC

Yippieh! 2nd try for field-work in Greece starts today🥳 (1st was cancelled due to general strike). With @romangarba.bsky.social and Stephanie Neuhuber. Let's see if we can find some nice samples for cosmogenic nuclide analysis by #AMS for VERA @univie.ac.at

Cool stuff, an appetizer 😉, from Duqm as part of Australian LARiO @latrobeuni.bsky.social expedition in Oman in collaboration with @arduq.bsky.social

Here, we propose a new perspective on early stone tool technology: emulation of naturally occurring sharp-edged stones (naturaliths) instead of inventing via 'Eureka!' moments. Nature provided the blueprint; hominins took it further. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/arcm... #Archaeology #Stonetools

Don't miss our talk, where Vitalii Usyk and I reveal more details about the unique archaeological site of Korolevo, including some unpublished material about the record of hominin occupation there from 1.4 million years ago to 20,000 years ago! Thank you, @heasvienna.bsky.social for inviting us!

@tommyhigham.bsky.social from #HEASVienna introducing @romangarba.bsky.social and #VitalyUsik for the #HEASSeminar taking place now online and in-person in the #UBB @univie.ac.at

Just took an international train from Annaba in #Algeria to Tunis in #Tunisia (reopened Aug 2024). Breathtaking scenery in early May, very green and full of flowers! One of the great train journeys in the world, not to be missed! @seatsixtyone.bsky.social #iloverailwaytrips

We are looking forward to welcoming @romangarba.bsky.social and #VitalyUsik to Vienna next week for the #HEASSeminar in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic. Registration for online and in-person participation is on our website 🔗👇

Truly honored to have received this award - thank you so much! 🥳 It was a pleasure meeting so many new colleagues and friends at #HumanEvo25 ! @martamlahr.bsky.social @lquintanamurci.bsky.social @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social

Please join us next week, 8th May 2025, at 13:00 BST, for our final talk of the academic year which will be given by Dr John Rowan, University of Cambridge. More details below 👇 If you would like to attend, please register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... We hope to see you there!

🏺🧪📃New paper is out from the HERDS project! 🪨🐑🥬🇴🇲 @pi-hisoka.bsky.social @tarabeuzen.bsky.social @archbot44.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A popular science feature now available on our recently published Fulani study in The Conversation - Africa!

@romangarba.bsky.social Combining archaeology and nuclear physics! ⚒️🌌 Roman shows how the ‘cosmic clock’ 🕰️ can help us investigate evolutionary timelines. New dating using cosmogenic nuclides places Korolevo, Ukraine 🇺🇦 amongst the earliest hominin occupations in Europe at 1.42mya. #HumanEvo25

✨ This year, our Institute of Archaeology (Prague) is celebrating 100 years of systematic research at Prague Castle – the largest coherent castle complex in the world & one of the most significant historical landmarks in the Czech Republic. Press release (in Czech) ➡️ www.arup.cas.cz/tiskova-zpra...

Exciting start to 2nd day of #HumanEvo25 - @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social talk on “Beyond out of Africa”, mobility of HGs oc the Nile Valley badin in the late Pleistocene 🥰

In Australia for a few weeks as guest researcher, wrapping up analysis on materials from #Oman and teaching a crash course in #Zooarchaeology at @latrobeuni.bsky.social. Today I had the pleasure of giving a talk on Paleolithic human–carnivore interactions, really enjoyed it! Cool stuff in the works

Humans only became interesting hosts (from a pathogen 🦠 point of view!) after major demographic growth in the recent past - fascinating talk by Johannes Krause on the history of the #plague !! #HumanEvo25

Data on ivory micro-artifacts discovered in the MIS 11 horizons of the multilayered Lower Paleolithic site of Medzhibozh A in western Ukraine. The Earliest Evidence of Deliberate Ivory Processing Dates Back to Around 0.4 Million Years Ago 🏺🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Day 1 of Human Evolution - From fossils to ancient and modern genomics conference. I am delighted to participate. Thank you for inviting @martamlahr.bsky.social @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social #humanevo25

Great talk and I am sure we will hear more from early hominin "East meets West". Exciting conference! #Humanevo25

A paper in Nature suggests that the people of Carthage were not closely related to those from the founding Phoenician culture. The findings shed light on the forces that shaped the origins of the Carthaginians and the acquisition of their culture. go.nature.com/42KBmsG 🏺 🧬 🧪

Today, we opened in collaboration with MHT and SEZAD an exhibition in Duqm // Archaeological Heritage of Al-Wusta Governorate // to disseminate our research results with the local community. @ltuarchaeology.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

Does Neanderthal DNA put a ceiling on Out of Africa? youtu.be/rXN-KEULia8?...

This paper will be in our forthcoming #Lithics special issue: What can lithics tell us about hominin technology's ‘primordial soup’? An origin of stone knapping via the emulation of Mother Nature onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #EarlyView #OpenAccess

Congratulations to KATRIN team for new elusive neutrino mass in @science.org . Scientists from our Nuclear Physics Institute were among the founding members and developed the Kr-83m conversion electron source for the experiment. @czechacademy.bsky.social

(1/13) A thread on our new paper just published in Nature, ‘Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years’. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to all authors 🎉...a very interesting research ...

The desert that we see today in Arabia was once a region that repeatedly underwent 'green' periods in the past, as a result of periods of high rainfall, resulting in the formation of lakes and rivers around 9,000 years ago. www.miragenews.com/unearthing-l...