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🦴 💀 🧬🦠🩺🩻🏺🕵🏼 My dear colleagues from @dai-weltweit.bsky.social have put together an outstanding program for the #PPAberlin2026 @paleopathology.bsky.social European Meeting 3-7 August! Check out events & speakers: www.dainst.org/en/the-25th-... #paleopathology #evolutionarymedicine #bonesinternational

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I taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbio

Since the #Vráble #skeletons have arrived from Nitra, there has been some progress in the #bone department 💀🦴🧹💧📷📐👀 cleaning routine, #photogrammetry & #3Dmodelling are being established! #humanosteology #osteoarchaeology #neolithic #LBK #vrableneolithicbodies @clusterroots.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de

Ancient genomes from southern Africa reveal a long-isolated population that shaped the evolution of Homo sapiens. Their DNA preserves lost diversity, unique adaptations, and a deep history of local innovation. #HumanEvolution #Anthropology #AncientDNA #Africa www.anthropology.net/p/roots-bene...

Congratulations to all Current Archaeology Award Nominees this year! archaeology.co.uk/category/awa... From @ucl.ac.uk IoA & @archsoutheast.bsky.social we have the following nominees: Dr Kris Lockyear for Archaeologist of the Year archaeology.co.uk/awards/archa... @welwynarchsoc.bsky.social

A recently published illustration by @kjkillackey.bsky.social . screw AI, hire an artist.

Lovely to work with @blevinske.bsky.social, @paleogenomics.bsky.social & Verena Schuenemann on " Ancient DNA insights into diverse pathogens and their hosts"! Read it at rdcu.be/eSVPN

Nature research paper: Evolution of taste processing shifts dietary preference go.nature.com/3XRWaMD

I guess @science.org readers are really interested in why Europe's first farmers vanished! That, or headless bodies.

Germany is one of the most popular destinations for students and scholars worldwide, but those pursuing academic careers face significant hurdles to success www.nature.com/articles/d41...

And earlier than that too. There are few things more human than travelling, with our without a crisis to motivate you. In fact crisis-only models of migration are historically quite recent. People journey for all sorts of reasons and always have

🚨 Last chance – applications close TODAY! Guided Workshop: Conducting a Systematic Synthesis in Archaeology & Human Evolution 🖥️ Format: Online, interactive sessions in January–February 2026 👉 Apply now: heirs.icarehb.com

How can Neolithic waste help us understand how Europe's first farmers adapted to a more sedentary lifestyle? Our new joint project with the University of York, "RENEW: From Refuse to Resource: Ceramic and Bone Wastescapes in the Early Neolithic of Europe" hopes to shed light on this. bit.ly/3Xgcnez

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Natural and artificial variations of the standard genetic code Great new review by Julius Lukes & colleagues 👇 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Ancient Chinchorro mummies show that modern Chileans are taller and have larger cranial volumes because of recent improvements in nutrition and health, not ancient lifestyle shifts. Bodies change fast when environments do. #bioarchaeology #anthropology #Chile #humanvariation

I've written a few, mostly scholarly, but this is probably the most publicly accessible. A short book written to introduce readers to how archaeologists get stories out of dirt, bones, and broken things

News from the #peatlands in @antiquity.ac.uk www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🤝📢 New publication announcement! EAZ 59 (3) starts with a contribution on collaborative #archaeology in #TierraDelFuego: an archaeological team and co-authors from #Fuegian Communities share the results of years of work and mutual learning doi.org/10.54799/JUV... #anthropology #Indigenous #heritage

I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.

Im Juni stellte Cynthia Bruhn, #KlassischeAltertumskunde @uni-kiel.de, das Thema ihrer Dissertation bei #kielerunilive vor. Jetzt hat sie ihre Promotion erfolgreich abgeschlossen. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 👏 Mehr zu ihrem Projekt im Blog des @antike-kolleg.bsky.social bab.hypotheses.org/14923

#Settlement area, economy, and #headlessbodies in the ditch – #Vráble is undoubtedly one of the most exceptional #LBK sites. However, without our partners, the specialists at the #SlovakAcademyOfSciences, it would have remained hidden forever… 🇸🇰 archeol.sav.sk/index.php/en/ #researchacrossboarders

...and another blog post featuring the ' #Vráble mystery' from Serbia 🇷🇸 sveoarheologiji.com/masovna-grob...

A fascinating article by @andrewcurry.com @science.org! 🔬....we hope to find out soon whether 'killings/massacres' actually happened in Vráble or whether ritual practices took place here–skull removal and decapitation are different procedures... 💀👀 stay tuned! @uni-kiel.de @clusterroots.bsky.social

In 2022, archaeologists at @uni-kiel.de's @neolithicbodies.bsky.social found 34 decapitated skeletons piled in a space the size of a parking spot. In the 3 years since, they’ve found 50 more. The mass grave is evidence for the collapse of the 1st pan-European culture 7,000 years ago. @science.org 🏺💀

🎓 How to Support early-career researchers This excellent @nathumbehav.nature.com article offers practical tips for senior academics to better support post-PhD researchers facing high stress, career uncertainty, and life transitions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... #HigherEd #SciComm 🧪

2nd week of excavations in Vráble is over! We've found the first bones of more -headless?- skeletons & look forward to bringing them to light! Here you see our experts discussing more archaeological finds... #neolithic #LBK #archaeologistslife #humanremains @uni-kiel.de @clusterroots.bsky.social

Projekt »Junge Archäologen Prignitz« gewinnt Deutschen Preis für Denkmalschutz 2025: Die Leidenschaft für die eigene Geschichte und der Wunsch, junge Menschen für das kulturelle Erbe ihrer Heimat zu begeistern, haben in der Prignitz ein außergewöhnliches Projekt hervorgebracht: Das… #archäologie

Essential reading. Neanderthals, hypercarnivores, and maggots: Insights from stable nitrogen isotopes | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Welcome to the official Blusky account of the #Vráble #Neolithic Bodies project! #Excavations at the mysterious #LBK site in search of dozens more headless skeletons (& perhaps skulls!) start today in Slovakia–stay tuned! @uni-kiel.de @dfg.de #slovakadacemyofsciences #archaeology #humanosteology