Already second week at Boomplaas Cave with @justinpargeter.bsky.social. First week launched the season with introduction to the dig and a rock art tour for the students. @leakeyfoundation.org @umr5608traces.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

🎉 Exciting news from the Cultural Evolution Society 🎉 We're launching the ACE Curricular Awards this spring to boost cultural evolution education! There are two award categories (more below) culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-eve...

Our latest work from the open-air Stone Age landscape of Jojosi on new absolute ages - this is something for the luminescence nerds! 🤓 gchron.copernicus.org/articles/7/5... #archaelogy #SouthAfrica #geology #luminescence #geography #dating

Job alert! @katerinad.bsky.social and I are looking for an archaeologist/archaeological scientist to join us on a 4 year post-doc, helping to manage and participate in field and lab work on 2 ERC grants in our group. We would love to hear from you via the link! 👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct...

There have been at least 20 mass resignations from scientific journals since 2023. What’s going on?

Reach out if interested in reviewing this @barpublishing.bsky.social volume on raw material selection and Clovis fluted points for Lithic Technology www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

A short video by the talented @piepergrantham.bsky.social showcasing the amazing student stories behind the 2024 Boomplaas Cave excavations youtu.be/sK9m0vvNTwA?...

Are you studying technological complexity in #archaeology? If so, here is an open call for a Special Issue on 'Technological Complexity & Archaeological Interpretation in the Deep Past' which I am co-editing in JAMT! More information here or contact me! link.springer.com/collections/... - Pls share!

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🧪 New paper alert! 🏺 Comparing Neanderthal and Modern Human Subsistence at Riparo Bombrini: An Integrated Archaeozoological, Multivariate Taphonomic, and ZooMS Analysis. This is Geneviève Pothier Bouchard's last PhD paper. I'm *thrilled* to see it out and flesh out our work at Bombrini 1/6

Hey everyone! I figured I should do a quick introductory post. I am a PhD candidate in archaeology 🏺 at Arizona State University and a OYO faculty member at Glendale Community College in biological anthropology. I am broadly interested in lithic technology and early Homo sapiens archaeology 1/5

Catch @jwhoopes2.bsky.social on the Elevated Thoughts Podcast as he describes some of the 19th century origins of modern pseudoarchaeology: Atlantis, aliens, and archaeology. open.spotify.com/episode/3SVD...

Keokuk chert handaxe 🏺

Job posting for a 2.5 year postdoc with Dr. Felix Riede in Aarhus on Palaeolithic gene-culture coevolution: international.au.dk/about/profil... 🏺

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 : A multimethod analysis for tracing Gravettian red ochre provenance at Arene Candide Cave (NW Italy)! Ochre was heavily used during the Gravettian period (31-22 ky ago), both in everyday and ritual contexts, so knowing where people acquired it from is important. 1/3

A tale of a climate tipping point, and climate refugees, from southern African pre-history www.biogrip.ac.za/isotopes-con...

Exciting opportunity two African Masters students to investigate the abrasion and percussion of ochre @Boomplaas. Co-supervised by Guilhem Mauran and Tammy Hodgskiss Reynard at Wits Archaeology. safarchaeology.org/resources/Ma... safarchaeology.org/resources/Ma...