Last week we attended the UMSAGA Workshop at Florisbad 🇿🇦, organized in collaboration with Dr Viola Schmid and Dr Will Archer to bring together MSA research in the Free State. It was great to see colleagues and learn about the latest results from Rose Cottage Cave!

Winter time is lab time 👩‍🔬 new plant wax biomarker samples for @people-erc-stg.bsky.social project are currently running on the GC - we try to characterise the past environment at donga sites in 🇿🇦

📄 New paper 📣 of @matrixerc.bsky.social & @welkergroup.bsky.social! We show that microstratigraphic-scale #paleoproteomics works in intact sediments - opening new ways to explore ancient ecosystems & hominin behaviour 🌍🦴 @erc.europa.eu @icarehb.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

This week we attended #ESHE2025 in Paris 🇨🇵, where we presented results from the Modder and Riet rivers, Baden-Baden 2, and Florisbad. Great to see colleagues and learn about their research! @archeosciences-bordeaux.fr @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

#ESEHE2025 Mailys Richard ‘A revised chronology for the Middle Pleistocene sedimentary sequence of Florisbad, South Africa’ Prev fossil hom (eSapiens): OSL & ESR- 279-228 ka NEW OSL, TT-OSL & pIRIR290: range of dates – most likely MIS6 But only if prov of cran in Unit M

Check out a new article by project member Dr @benoitlonget.bsky.social about the MSA lithic assemblage of Rhafas Cave, Morocco, which is part of his PhD research 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This week we attended #SAfA2025 in Faro 🇵🇹 to present results from Baden-Baden 2 and the Modder River. It was great to meet colleagues who conduct exciting research in Africa! See you at ESHE in Paris! @erc.europa.eu @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @archeosciences-bordeaux.fr

And it's a wrap! After 7 weeks of fieldwork filled with discoveries and new encounters, the team has returned to Bordeaux. See you soon at SAfA 2025 in Portugal!

While part of the team works at the Riet River, Dr Benoit Longet conducts the survey of the Vet River to find new archaeological sites. 🔍 @archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Sample collection continues on the Riet River terraces! ⛏️ @archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

This week the team started the collection of samples to establish the chronology of the Riet River terraces. @archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Proudly introduce BREATHE, a project investigating late Quaternary human behavior in the Sahara. Funded by #HorizonEurope - ERA Postdoctoral Fellowships, BREATHE is based at the University of Algarve’s fabulous #ICArEHB and partnered with #Sapienza University of Rome.

This week the team started excavations at a new Acheulean/Fauresmith locality in the Free State together with Dr Darya Presnyakova and Dr Will Archer @archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

📢New publication on the archaeological survey of the Modder River dongas led by Dr Felipe Cuartero, published in Southern African Field Archaeology. Available in open access👇 doi.org/10.36615/saf... @archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social

The team is back at Florisbad for the 2025 season! @archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy

It's finally published! My first #biomarker paper combining sediment n-alkane isotopes closely with cultural changes at #WonderwerkCave 🇿🇦 Fantastic work with @ogratsara.bsky.social from @icarehb.bsky.social as well as co-authors from @uni-kiel.de, @uoft.bsky.social & more. Link: rdcu.be/ejq7j

This site has the oldest haematite pigment in the world, from Fauresmith levels probably half a million years old.

🎨 On the #InternationalDayOfMonumentsAndSites we look at an old Etruscan tomb that didn’t just honor the dead but celebrated laughter & life More from Véronique Dasen @uni-freiburg.de 👉 buff.ly/dXp7tLL #CulturalHeritage @rogueclassicist.bsky.social

Poster collected and it looks great! All ready for the #HugoObermaier meeting next week at @icarehb.bsky.social 🇵🇹. I am excited to present the first biomarker record at a hominin fossil site in #SouthAfrica 🇿🇦, great collaborative work with the @people-erc-stg.bsky.social team.

📣 #AAC Dans le cadre de sa politique scientifique, #CNRS Sciences humaines & sociales met l’accent sur les sciences partagées. À cette fin, l’institut lance une 3e campagne de soutien à des dispositifs de soutien. 🗓️ 5 mai 2025 www.inshs.cnrs.fr/fr/dispositi...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... AI always comes with an environmental and human cost.

How can Europe become more competitive? 🌍 Join the debate with scientists including Robbert Dijkgraaf, #Nobel laureate Ben Feringa, industry leaders and policymakers. How can frontier science drive innovation? 🗓️10 April 16.30 Livestream & in-person: europa.eu/!WQn96Y 🇪🇺

#Communiqué 🗞️ Selon un modèle prédictif, les microalgues des tourbières pourraient compenser jusqu’à 14 % des émissions futures de CO2 grâce à la photosynthèse. Un potentiel méconnu qui renforce l'importance de ces écosystèmes pour le climat.🌱 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/le...

#EnDirectDesLabos🔎 Nouvelles actualités scientifiques 🔬, création de laboratoires 🧑‍🔬, annonce de prix 🥇... Retrouvez toutes les deux semaines les informations issues des laboratoires du CNRS. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/endirectdesl...

#CNRSnews 📰 Increasing solar flare activity and subsequent solar storms have impacted our planet lately, prompting scientists to focus on the emerging discipline of space weather to help predict these events and prevent failure of sensitive facilities.

We have arrived in #Gaborone for further analysis of #lithics which we excavated at Maralaleng Pan last year. Gabs is welcoming us with thunderstorms and lush summer vegetation, a nice contrast to our usual #fieldwork visits in the dry winter. Picture from 2024 excavation.

We are marking #WorldConsumerRightsDay with #EUfunded researchers working to meet consumer demand for more information about the origins, carbon footprint and nutritional value of seafood. Learn more here ➡️ europa.eu/!P3jBRv #ResearchImpactEU#HorizonMagazine

Our 2025 newsletter is here, featuring highlights from 2024 from our incredible student community, exciting archaeology projects, and our amazing sponsors who make it all possible. 📜🏺 Visit our website to read the newsletter www.saassarchaeology.com/newsletters

We visited Wonderwerk Cave on Friday - there have been large renovations so the whole place looks stunning now, including renovated chalets to stay over and a cafe. Definetly come and visit #wonderwerkcave #McGregorMuseumKimberley #SouthAfrica #NorthernCape www.instagram.com/p/DG6SIa3tRX...

🇪🇺 Dans une lettre ouverte publiée le 12 mars, les principales institutions scientifiques européennes, dont le @cnrs.fr, s’unissent pour demander à la commission européenne un programme-cadre solide pour la recherche et l'innovation. www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite...

Today's tour of archaeological sites took us into the grassland of the Free State Province where @people-erc-stg.bsky.social are working on sites such as the pan Baden-Baden. 🇿🇦🦣🏺

Brussels' first #NobelPrize Dialogue gathered Nobel laureates, ERC grantees and thought leaders - and a full house at Bozar - to debate the future of democracy with a focus on AI. Now, one year on, it couldn’t be more relevant. Watch the event. 🎥 youtu.be/qeOzHxOmCCc?... @nobelprize.bsky.social

✊ L’Université Bordeaux Montaigne apporte son soutien à la journée de mobilisation @standupforscience.bsky.social vendredi 7 mars 2025 dans toutes les villes universitaires parmi lesquelles Bordeaux. www.u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr/fr/actualite...

Avec #EnScienceInverse voyagez dans le passé avec les archives du @cnrs.fr pour découvrir des découvertes marquantes ou des travaux insolites... Dans ce premier épisode, direction 1986 avec l'archéologue Jacques Tixier.

We are in Kimberley, South Africa, next week for a study week at the McGregor museum. All are welcome to the public talk by @isotopesrule.bsky.social on Tuesday 4th March about the site of Pniel 6 and what we have learned about the past environment in the Northern Cape in recent years. 🇿🇦🦓🦛🐃

ESHE 2025 goes to Paris, France! Join us in person for talks and posters from Sept 25–27, with a public keynote on Sept 24. Excursion details are coming soon. More info on the meetings page this March! #ESHE2025

How about a solar-powered reactor that could enable cars and planes to run on CO2 drawn from the air (& converted into fuel)? Erwin Reisner's research group @uniofcam.bsky.social develops devices that convert waste, water & air into fuels & chemicals. 🔗 buff.ly/4381yPQ @reisnerlab.bsky.social 🧪

“Without academic freedom there is no competitiveness.” A look back at an important debate on #academic #freedom, with Roberta Metsola, president.europarl.europa.eu, & Prof. Milena Zic Fuchs, ERC Scientific Council member and former Minister in Croatia. Watch the highlights 👉 bit.ly/EP-ESMH

Great way to end the second week! First in-situ ostrich eggshell of the season at Klipdrift Cave ~14,000 years ago. 🏺 #archaeology

#Communiqué 🗞️ Des scientifiques mettent en évidence la découverte de fragments de granite datant de 4,4 milliards d’années contenus dans la météorite martienne exceptionnelle "Black Beauty". 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/lh...

We are very happy to have received 11 excellent abstracts for our #SAfA2025 conference session, covering the Karoo, Namib, Northern Cape and Kalahari, spanning the ESA to Holocene. Stay tuned for July 🦣🏺

📢 Happening next week! How do you valorise your research while keeping it open & secure in a changing world? Join us on Feb 25 for expert insights on turning knowledge into innovation - without losing control. 🔗 Register now: europa.eu/!xNy8rw

“ERC succeeds because it’s different. Its simple, tailored procedures allow Europe’s best researchers to thrive. Bureaucratic processes designed for other programmes should not be imposed on it.” @marialep.bsky.social spoke up for an independent ERC with a doubled budget today @europarl.europa.eu