“Snakes and Ladders” is not a game, but a model for how Stone Age people maintained their tools. From fresh edges (M0) to full rejuvenation (M4), each flake is a step on the ladder of technological decision-making. rdcu.be/eRutD

It will happen this week at the 7th Congress for Experimental Archaeology. This time organized by @traceolab.bsky.social I will present how we can use proxies to classify efficiency of Lithic Raw Materials. @humendylab.bsky.social @tracer-leiza.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social

Back to Armenia, back to Dalarik-1 Cave, with a large international team from Armenia, Spain, Israel, Greece, France, Portugal, Italy & beyond! Let the excavation of this unique Middle Pleistocene site start! 🎉 #TransCause @humendylab.bsky.social

🪨What have 10 years of stone tool experiments taught us — and what’s still unknown? Join Dr Alastair Key for the next #LEXA seminar! 📅 5 Aug | 🕑 14:00 WEST | 🌍 Online 🔗 www.icarehb.com/lexa 📢 New Zoom account: all must re-register! #Archaeology #ICArEHB

📢 New publication: "The dichotomy of human decision-making: An experimental assessment of stone tool efficiency" by Nora, D., Marreiros, J., Gneisinger, W., Pedergnana, A., & Pereira, T., in PLOS ONE (2025). 🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Did you ever ask why people used so many different rocks in their tasks? If you had this question in your mind, go and check my new paper with my colleagues. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

My first paper of the PhD is out, we talk about Mobility and lithic technology at Ararat-1 Cave in Armenia. We also talk a bit about 👻 tools. Are you curious? Go and check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper out with Radu Iovita in PLOS One modeling potential routes of dispersal for Neanderthals moving from the Caucasus Mountains to the Altai Mountains after MIS 6 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Only 3 days to go! 🗓️ ICArEHB Dialogues returns May 29 at 4PM (GMT+1), live on YouTube 🎥 Join us to explore: What is technology? How did it shape us—and where is it taking us? 🔗 Join us at: www.youtube.com/live/RAO_pxR... #ICArEHBDialogues #TechnologyPastFuture #Archaeology #DigitalHumanities

PRE-PRINT OUT! 🚨 My first paper of the PhD is out as a pre-print go there and comment 😁. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

This research would not have been possible without my amazing calleagues & co-authors: @arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social @norarch.bsky.social @lausanrom.bsky.social @drloessismore.bsky.social Teo, Shira, Dominik, Delphine, Artur & Boris! MASSIVE THANKS to @humendylab.bsky.social & Netanel for the support!

My friend and colleague @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social just published this amazing multi-proxy work about Ararat-1 Cave. Congratulations 🎉 @humendylab.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wrapping up the amazing #SAA2025Denver conference with the participation of some of the @humendylab.bsky.social team members @norarch.bsky.social @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social #MaeGoder-goldberger

Great times in the Annual Meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society, at Denver, Colorado (US). HUMENDY LAB was there with talks by @arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social, @norarch.bsky.social and a poster by @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social! See you in the next one! #TransCauseProject

At the conference of the Society for American Archaeology, presenting part of my PhD thesis.

At Denver on the Paleo Meeting, talking about Virtual Experiments using FEA simulations.