Remember you can find information about all the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Community associated sessions on our web page!

Statement from the co-chairs of PaM: Due to the current developments at the annual meeting, we, as the representatives of the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic community, want to underline that we support the democratic right to protest and speak freely,...continued...

There are also some for @eaapam.bsky.social Community! #Palaeolithic #Mesolithic

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Daniel Groß was successful in our recent vote to join the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Community as co-chair. Daniel will replace Annemieke Milks, and join Silje Evjenth Bentsen and Andrej Maczowski.

Welcome to EAA's 2025 virtual meeting! The Palaeolithic and Mesolithic (PaM) Community has put together an online 'flyer' this year of PaM sessions which can be seen below. eaapalaeomesocommunity.wordpress.com/2025/08/28/p...

Reminder that our annual EAA Palaeolithic and Mesolithic community meeting is today, 13:00 CEST on zoom. We'll announce our new co-chair, and discuss community business with our members. Thank you for taking the time to engage with our community!

🚨 Job alert! The new Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS' is looking for a scientific coordinator to start as soon as possible. Please see link for full advertisement text and information. Deadline for applications: September 15 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

🚨 We are hiring!! 🚨 The Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS' is looking for: - a scientific coordinator - a science communication officer 🚨 Deadline: September 15 🚨 See links for the full advertisements: uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Our annual PaM Community meeting will be held online on 29 August at 13 – 14 pm CEST, where we will announce our new co-chair (voting open to all EAA members until August 26th). We hope you can join us! Zoom link via email (or message us here).

The discovery of ancient stone tools on Sulawesi suggests that this Indonesian island was populated by hominins at around the same time as the nearby island of Flores, if not earlier, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/4oq7zzw 🏺 🧪

Evidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel suggests behavioural uniformity across Homo groups in the Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic circa 130,000–80,000 years ago: intentional human burial and the use of ochre in burial contexts www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Paleolithic evidence for artificial cranial deformation in an Epigravettian individual from Arene Candide Cave (Italy), dating to ca. 12.4ky BP. This new study adds to a host of diverse ritual, mortuary and social behaviors documented at the site. 🦣🏺🧪

One of the tough things about selling the Palaeolithic without hyperbole, or not ending up on the cutting room floor, is that fine grained anthropogenic deposits like Cora's square metre of gritty, light reddish-grey wonder are our pyramids, are our hanging gardens, are our pompeiis. 🏺🦣

Our annual PaM Community meeting will be held on 29 August at 13 - 14 pm CEST, where we will announce our new co-chair (also please do vote!). We hope you can join us! All PaM Community members (via EAA membership, or our google mailing list) welcome. Zoom link to come to our members by email.

Attention all EAA members of the PaM Community! Please check your emails for instructions on how to vote in the election for a new PaM Community co-chair. We have two fantastic candidates running, Danica Mihailović and Daniel Groß. You can read their statements here: www.e-a-a.org/EAA/Membersh...

1/5 Why do all non-Africans descended from a group that left Africa 50k ago? In @nature.com we model 120k years of human niche dynamics. From 70ka, a big expansion of the human niche in Africa likely equipped later OOA dispersals with a unique ecological flexibilty. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is wonderful. So now Harbin can be grouped with the Denisovans and we can finally meet this population face to face, what shall we call them? 🏺🦣 arstechnica.com/science/2025...

🚨Archaeo-Science Job Klaxon🚨Please Share! We're hiring an interim Lab Manager here at @uclarchaeology.bsky.social. Would be esp suited to someone with experience of running Archaeobotany, Human Osteology or Zooarchaeology lab. £53-64k in a great department. 🏺🧪🦴🌱🔬🦣 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Win a signed copy of the wonderful new book Stone Lands by Fiona Robertson. To enter please repost and like this post and follow us on here if you haven’t already. More… 1/

Reminder of the call for applications for a new PaM Community co-chair - due by July 1st. Thanks!

PaM Community News! Dr Annemieke Milks will be stepping down after 5 years of acting as a co-chair for the PaM community! We are searching for a new co-chair to join Dr Andrej Maczkowski and Dr Silje Evjenth Bentsen. Thread with more info:

Into the Wild: Re-wilding and the #Historic #Environment Questionnaire for landowners/land managers, #nature managers, #ecologists, #archaeologists and historic land managers around the topic of #rewilding led by @fossilbeetle.bsky.social ‬ intothewildnetwork.glasgow.ac.uk/questionnaire/

New paper klaxon: pre print now available OA: muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti... Thanks to everyone at @ria.ie for their work on this, and most importantly to Chantal for collaboration on the paper. A short 🧵 on what we argue... @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @eaapam.bsky.social

Hi all! A reminder to subscribe to the EAA Palaeolithic and Mesolithic community! You can do this two ways: If you are a current EAA member you can subscribe via the community page on the EAA website, or if you are not a current EAA member see here: eaapalaeomesocommunity.wordpress.com/get-involved/

And because it's bad and wrong to treat people like threats just because they're foreign. We could lead with that occasionally.

ICYMI: due to the political situation in Serbia, EAA 2025 will now be virtual only, with reduced fees and with sessions spread over 5 days, Sept 4-6. The payment deadline for first authors and session organisers is May 26th. You can find further information here: www.e-a-a.org/EAA2025/Home...

The Prehistoric Society's Europa Conference 2025, Landscape Connectivity in Prehistory, is taking place Saturday June 7th in person at University of Reading, and online. Honouring Prof. Martin Bell + fantastic speakers! More info and registration here: www.prehistoricsociety.org/events/2025-...

Today is the final extended deadline to submit papers and posters (you can submit one of each!) to the EAA Belgrade meeting. We've got 22 sessions that are associated with our Palaeolithic and Mesolithic community for you to choose from: eaapalaeomesocommunity.wordpress.com/2025/01/03/e...

Deadline for all submissions now extended to Feb 10th!

Deadline extended to February 10th!

deadline extended to Feb 10th! Still time to get your abstracts in!

The @eaapam.bsky.social deadline has been extended until 10th February. Still time to submit to our session on #Zooarchaeology #ZooMS and subsistence in central and SE Europe. 🦣🧪🏺

📢 Call for papers! #EAABelgrade - Session #229 Join us with the great Viola Schmid to discuss Cores-on-Flakes during the Middle Palaeoltihic and Middle Stone Age! Deadline for submission: *6 February* www.e-a-a.org/eaa2025/ @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @eaapam.bsky.social #UISPP

Please consider submitting an abstract to our PaM community discussion session on Named Stone Tool Industries for the annual meeting in Belgrade Sept 3-6.Abstracts can be submitted until Feb 6th. And, please do help us spread the word!

The PaM community discussion session for #eaa2025 is #250: Sink the NASTIES? Named Stone Tool Industries (NASTIES) as obstacles to archaeological research. Submit your abstract by the 6th of Feb at www.e-a-a.org/EAA2025/Home... and please do share our call for papers!

New Year, New Job?! RT. Last call as applications close at the end of the 5th Jan, Sunday. Come and work with us bringing your Quaternary, Geoarch or Palaeolithic expertise to @uclofficial.bsky.social @archsoutheast.bsky.social team. Up to £41K, industry-leading benefits and exciting projects. 🦣🏺

The only way I was able to build up my research profile again after maternity leave was through my institution's policy of matching periods of maternity leave with equal periods of research leave. This should be standard practice in academia if gender equality is to be taken seriously.

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