"The results yield a finite age suggesting that the Petralona cranium has a minimum age of 286 ± 9 ka" New U-series dates on the Petralona cranium, a key fossil in European human evolution www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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.

Join us at the MPI-GEA or online for a free symposium on Quantifying Complexity in Stone Tools on the 21st of October! 🪨 With a keynote lecture by Charles Perreault. Full speaker list will be released soon! Secure your spot here: shh-cloud.gnz.mpg.de/index.php/ap...

How Women Shaped Human Evolution Through Food Processing 🏺🧪 www.sapiens.org/biology/huma... An anthropologist highlights the revolutionary role of food processing and dietary diversity—practices often led by women—that were just as crucial to humans surviving and thriving as hunting.

Check out my latest paper! 🪨 Occupational Dynamics at Unit III of the Middle Paleolithic Site of Nesher Ramla, Israel | Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology share.google/MmooyB6iFqs6...

We made it to the news this week;) "A 100,000-year-old burial site in Israel " www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/art... #prehistory #archaeology #funerary #paleolithic

A glimpse into our excavation at Tinshemet Cave! Slow process but amazing finds! One more month to go this season with hopefully nice results coming! 🦴⛏️💀 youtu.be/etGVHIBDHIw?...

⛏️The 10th season of excavations at Tinshemet Cave has started !! #fieldworkfriday #MiddlePaleolithic #burial #Levallois

New international Master degree in prehistoric archaeology!

🧵1/5 📢 New paper out in Journal of Archaeological Science! We present a regional analysis of fallow deer in Middle Paleolithic Levant and propose a methodological refinement for aging that has major implications for understanding human hunting behavior. Open Access: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

A filmmaker showcases archaeologists unearthing tiny lithics that evidence the presence of hunters from 13,000 years ago in what is today Michigan www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

Happy to be sharing my 1st PhD paper, result of our group research in the Armenian Highlands #TransCause Project! The article explores the formation processes of Ararat-1 Cave (Armenia) under multiproxy geoarchaeology! It is published on QSR (open-access): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our latest research with the River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation is now available.

Congrats @anispringflower.bsky.social !!

Last day in Denver! Some of our lab members presented their research at the Paleoanthropology Society annual meeting and at the #SAA2025Denver ! @marionprevost.bsky.social @davidofagun.bsky.social #YossiZaidner

Our project “Soii Havzak Rockshelter: A New Middle-Upper Paleolithic Sequence in Central Asia” has been awarded a research grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation! The grant, awarded to Y. Zaidner, J-P. Buylaert, and S. Kurbanov, will support postdoctoral research by M. Prévost.

We’re deeply concerned about the disappearance of our colleague Pierre Noiret. Please share and help us spread the word. For more information please check: www.police.be/avis-de-rech...

📢 New publication: "New Insights on an Old Excavation: Re-visiting the Late Middle Palaeolithic Site of Far’ah II, North-western Negev, Israel" by Goder-Goldberger, M., Gilead, I., Paixão, E., et al., in J Paleo Arch (2025, Vol. 8, Article 13). 🔗 More info: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

‼️Check out our latest publication on the old excavations at the Late Middle Paleolithic open-air site of Far’ah II (northwestern Negev) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@marionprevost.bsky.social postdoc in our lab presented our research on Nesher Ramla and Tinshemet Cave at Texas A&M University !

Our new paper on 3D GM has all the models and script available for others to apply our method. We use it to demonstrate interregional variability of Nubian Levallois cores but it has broader potential for lithic studies #openscience #archaeology #3DGM @icarehb.bsky.social @jmcascalheira.bsky.social

Soii Havzak rockshelter, Tajikistan, is one of the only multilayered, stratified Palaeolithic sites in Central Asia. Excavation provides a rare opportunity to explore the understudied region's prehistoric chronology. 🏺 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

The Middle Palaeolithic of southwest Asia witnessed interactions and knowledge sharing between archaic and modern humans 130,000–80,000 years ago, which led to behavioural uniformity in groups across the region, according to a paper in Nature Human Behaviour. https://go.nature.com/4iqytnj 🏺 🧪

Estem també a l'edició del National Geographic a Espanya! #Tinshemet #ochre #middlePaleolithic #Levallois #culturalEvolution @hcelab.bsky.social historia.nationalgeographic.com.es/a/humanos-y-...

📢 After many years of hard work at Tinshemet Cave, here is the first general publication discussing the stratigraphy, dates, lithics, fauna, ochre, etc Thanks to all the co-authors and excavators who joined us during the past 9 seasons! 🤩 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fresh from the oven, #PaperAlert ⚠️!! FIRST main PUBLICATION on our TINSHEMET CAVE site! - and my first short contribution to a research paper. #tinshemet #prehistory #archaeology #middlePaleolithic #MP #Levallois #ochre #humanEvolution #evolution @hcelab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My thoughts on the Tinshemet discoveries in Israel (Nature Human Behaviour)

Isotopic insights into mammalian diets and local vegetation cover during the Oldowan-Acheulean transition at Garba IV and Gombore I (Melka Kunture, Upper Awash Valley, Ethiopia) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 A new master degree program in prehistoric archaeology is opening at the Hebrew university! The program will focus on the Levantine Paleolithic and includes fieldwork at amazing sites! #prehistory #master #diploma #university

A new international Master program in prehistoric archaeology at the Institute of archaeology, the Hebrew university of Jerusalem is opening!

Practiced some Levallois while volunteering for ASU’s open door event 🏺 #flintknapping

📣 The next season is on its way! This September we are going back to Tajikistan to excavate the Middle and Upper Paleolithic layers at Soii Havzak rockshelter! We are looking for volunteers! Be in touch with us if you are interested! ⛏️🐾🦴

Last day today to submit your abstract and meet us in Faro to discuss North-Eastern African prehistory and palaeoenvironments (Session #47)! #SAfA2025 #Africa #Archaeology #Geoarchaeology

This month we were honored to Spend time with Prof. April Nowell, at the Department of prehistory @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social She shared with us her ongoing research in Australia, Jordan and about Children in prehistory! Thank you!

Skara Brae is closed thanks to storm Éowyn, so here’s a #FindsFriday object from our museum. It’s an oyster shell in which a Neolithic painter mixed red ochre (from the local sandstone) some 5000 years ago. ca.75mm or 3 inches at its widest. Pots, people, walls, clothing: what did they paint? 🧪🏺🎨

Incised stone artefacts from the Levantine Middle Palaeolithic and human behavioural complexity link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Ethiopian Highlands study examines stone tool decision-making process in early human history phys.org/news/2025-01...

Presenting my masters results on heating of #ochre from #tinshemet, today at the Prehistoric Society meeting #IPS2024 in Haifa as a member of @hcelab.bsky.social

📢 The Scientific Program for the #HEIRS Opening Symposium is out! Early bird registration closing soon. Join us to explore #ResearchSynthesis & collaboration in #HumanEvolution! 👉 heirs.icarehb.com/symposium-ou...

Looking for a postdoc in use-wear analysis of Pleistocene expedient osseous tools? Check out this offer from the #ERCStG ExOsTech project at #universitébordeaux euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/296676

In the beginning of November, I got to see #Göbeklitepe and #Karahantepe - excavations at Karahantepe are still going on, and there are many more amazing sites in the region of Sanliurfa which look truly promising! The cradle of Neolithization is absolutely stunning 😍

Research from our lab 🤠 We will be back in Tajikistan next summer!

Hello to all the new followers who found me over the weekend! If you want to hear about the record of Neanderthal archaeology I and my colleagues work with, here's a podcast I recorded with Tristan Hughes from the brilliant History Hit Ancients series. 500k yrs in 47mins 🦣 🏺 pca.st/episode/7a41...

Fossilized Fish Teeth Could Be Earliest Evidence of Cooking www.the-scientist.com/fossilized-f...

Now over 100 names in this #Palaeolithic list! 🪨🦴🧬🧠 Wonderful to see so many people here to share their research & perspectives. Please talk to your depts/labs/institutions about bringing over 'official' accounts too.