Two new studies of Neanderthal DNA from @massilanilab.bsky.social, @hrougier.bsky.social, @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social and others show our ancient cousins survived for millennia in small, geographically isolated groups. www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org 🧬🏺

#TextileTuesday recreation of activities related to Bronze Age textile work, as documented at 2nd millennium BC Cabezo Redondo, Spain. Preserved remains of a loom here provide an unprecedented glimpse into prehistoric weaving 🏺 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 📷 based on a drawing by J. A. López Padilla

Welcome to TAG 2026, the 47th Annual Meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group! The Department of Archaeology and History at the University of Exeter is thrilled to be hosting the conference this year, 14-16 December. Our call for sessions is now open! tag2026.square.site

Cotton seeds from Kyrgyzstan in the lab today! #archaeology #history #ecology #plants #pbot

Here we are again! The new edition of the Summer School in Island Archaeobotany will take place in Tenerife at the end of September 2026. *Completely Free of Charge* Please send us your cv&motivation letter by the 10th of April and share as much as possible! #Archaeology #islands #archaeobotany

Here we are again! The new edition of the Summer School in Island Archaeobotany will take place in Tenerife at the end of September 2026. *Completely Free of Charge* Please send us your cv&motivation letter by the 10th of April and share as much as possible! #Archaeology #islands #archaeobotany

The 2nd article in my new column explores the possible collapse of a crucial system of Atlantic Ocean currents. I explain why such a collapse has happened before, describe how a collapse would affect us today, and propose a plan of action. #ClimateChange #EnvHist sciencepolitics.org/2026/02/11/o...

Keen on excavating some Neanderthal sites in Spain? Well, today is your lucky day! Call for participants at Roca dels Bous site just opened. Excavations on this unique Neanderthal site will run 1-20th August (both inclusive). For further information and details, contact me!

Advice for my fellow early-career researchers: repeated requests for detailed feedback, methods, or specialist knowledge are contributions. Informal idea exchange is fine, but ideas and expertise deserve credit. Without early ethical authorship discussions, this risks becoming exploitation.

Join us for the next PAASTA Talk Series! Prof. Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social will talk on “ZooMS-3D: a work in progress. Can we think about ZooMS in a 3rd dimension?” 🗓 Wednesday, 4th February 2026 ⏰ 16:00 CET 📍 Zoom DM us for the link.

Tired of excuses and obfuscation from the EAA Executive? Want a collegial and supportive society fit for its members? Read our call for voting and boycotting below! #boycottEAA LINK: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Please consider sending an abstract for our session at @inquaecr.bsky.social INQUA conference in India 2027 Deadline for abstracts 15th Feb

This super accessible book is now free to download 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

People in 2050 would give trillions of dollars just to have the climate that we enjoy today.

Demà comencen #científiques! @fcri.bsky.social i @bist.eu són al capdavant d’aquestes jornades per fomentar la presència de dones en àmbits STEM, que al 2022 a Catalunya seguien sent tan sols el 24% 👩‍🔬👩‍💻 cientifiques.cat

I have added the following to my original complaint. I'm posting this because it feels important that EAA members understand the extent of what is happening as so much of it is behind closed doors. Names redacted (the irony!) because I feel forced to do so while the evidence is being withheld.

Got an eye infection digging for weeks in the bottom of a 13th century, medieval cess pit in Dublin Ear infection diving for 2 months on a 9th century wooden bridge under River Shannon Brink of hypothermia digging a 12th century fish trap on Shannon estuary mudflats in March 1997

🚨 ONLY 9 DAYS LEFT TO APPLY! 🚨 🎓 ACADEMIC POSITION: Full-time Professor in Prehistoric Art & Archaeology 📍 University of Liège, Belgium 📅 Start: Sept 1, 2026 ⏰ DEADLINE: Jan 29, 2026 Tenure-track | Teaching + Research + Fieldwork Apply NOW: my.uliege.be/portail/go_x... 🧵⬇️

🚀 Arrenca la 8a edició de #científiques! El 27/01 ens trobem per analitzar el paper de les investigadores als mitjans de comunicació: reptes, biaixos i visibilitat. Una iniciativa de @fcri.bsky.social i @bist.eu, amb @gencatdigital.bsky.social Consulta el programa. Vine! tuit.cat/8c81E

Missed this when it came out over Christmas - a nice synthesis of current research on #Neanderthal diet (featuring some thoughts from me) in @nautil.us nautil.us/eat-like-a-n...

So, if you are an @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social (EAA) member from 2025-2026, you received yesterday your email for the per-rollam vote of the past Special Meeting and the documentation attached to it… if you still doubt what to vote, please read all the documents. My short digest:

Not a single day in 2025 was cooler than the 1991-2020 average, on a global scale. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

🧪 What's so interesting is that this model doesn't match what we see in late Neanderthal populations we've genetically sampled, where no individuals so far show any recent hybrid ancestry, AND they remain looking like #Neanderthals until the end. It's the H. sapiens who show interbreeding evidence.

A new paleo record from Tenerife combines shell middens and agricultural terraces to reveal shellfish gathering strategies and coastal vegetation change over 1000 years of human-environment interaction. doi.org/10.1177/0959... @cienciaull.bsky.social

My new article just published, "A Landscape of the Anthropocene: An Overview of Agricultural Terracing in Malta". doi.org/10.1080/1466...

Meet the 6th VCWAP organisers! ✨ In the first post, we introduce 5 of our 20 dedicated organizers!

🦴🔬 773,000-year-old #fossils from Morocco illuminate the shared ancestry of H. sapiens, Neandertals & Denisovans. Study @nature.com by an intl. team led by J.-J. Hublin, incl. @matthewskinnerphd.bsky.social & P. Gunz @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/yxz4kcff & www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fieldwork in Lampedusa. Flotation in the sea water, November 2025 @iphes-cerca.bsky.social #SILVA

Wonderful to be here for @unistavanger.bsky.social hosting Life on the Edge, the 45th Conference of the Association for Environmental Archaeology - Life on the Edge at the Museum of Archaeology, Stavanger, in Norway Don't forget! Our AGM is tomorrow, check your emails for details 🤠 #archaeology

Just had a really exciting discussion on ethically working with indigenous communities. Environmental Archaeology is for everyone😀 Don't forget!! Our AGM is this afternoon. If you're not at the conference, check your emails for a link. The AGM is scheduled for 2pm UK time (3pm local time). #AEA

@envarch.bsky.social the 45th Conference for AEA - Life on the Edge- has just started at the @unistavanger.bsky.social - Museum of Archaeology, Norway.

Learn more about Rosa's works on our website 👇 awap-science.org/en/2025/05/0...

Calling all archaeologists, paleontologists & paleoartists! Submit your work to the 6th Virtual Conference for Women Archaeologists and Paleontologists (VCWAP) 🎨🦴 ✍️ Register: framaforms.org/virtual-conf... ℹ️ Info: awap-science.org/en/vcwap-cur... #archaeology #paleontology #paleoart #womeninscience

International Landscape Conference (LAC) 2026 in Bamberg! https://archaeologik.blogspot.com/2025/06/international-landscape-conference-lac.html

For some Southwest Asian background, see my paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Signals before speech. Bizmoune Cave, Morocco: 33 perforated Tritia (Nassarius) gibbosula shells from MSA Layer 4c, dated ≥142 ka—earliest known beads linked to early H. sapiens. #PaleoPost #HumanOrigins #SymbolicBehavior #MSA doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Emilie Dotte from University of Western Australia opens the second day of the Research Week in Island Archaeobotany @uib.cat Let's talk about Pacific anthracology!

Salvatore Pasta talks about Mediterranean Islands and their plants #islandarchaeobotany

Sandra Garces Pastor from Universitat de Barcelona gives the second talk of the day on SedaDNA #islandarchaeobotany

@miquelcapo.bsky.social gives the first talk of the School on Balearic flora 🌿

Today we start a research week in Island Archaeobotany in Son Servera, Mallorca. The colleagues from @uib.cat organised a great workshop with talks, group work, visits, outreach activities. We have it all! #SILVA #ACBA @iphes-cerca.bsky.social

The 2025 campaign at the Mesolithic cave of Grotta dell'Arco is on! Capo Zafferano, Sicily @iphes-cerca.bsky.social

Bienvenida al equipo de #Atapuerca2025 #1eraquincena #firstSeason welcome @iphes-cerca.bsky.social @cenieh.bsky.social @csic.es @urv.cat @uahes.bsky.social @ucm.es @universidadburgos.bsky.social @ehu.eus @unizar.es and more

Tanca la sessió l'Ethel Allué de @iphes-cerca.bsky.social amb 'Sense Por: experiències per compartir de la Unitat d'Arqueobotànica de l'IPHESCERCA #FiraFAIRData @uocuniversitat.bsky.social

3/4 Recommended by @claudiaspecial.bsky.social based on reviews by Claudia Moricca and 1 anonymous reviewer. All editorial work accessible here for full transparency: doi.org/10.24072/pci...

1/4 New recommendation: Besseiche et al. (2025). DateBack, an evolving open-access repository of Phoenix archaeobotanical data supporting new perspectives on the history of date palm cultivation. doi.org/10.1101/2025... #Archaeology @francoissabot.bsky.social @murielgrosb.bsky.social

In @nature.com we report the presence of the Mesolithic on Malta - upending everything we knew about the seafaring capabilities of late European hunter-gatherers and pushing back Maltese prehistory by 1000 years. Watch the clip, link to open access paper is below. 1/5 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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