Much like buses, wait a while for a paper on complexity and two come along at once! You can now see our paper revisiting Oswalt’s original data, with @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social, @sarah-paris.bsky.social, and Gonzalo Linares-Matás! /1 www.isita-org.com/jass/Content...

If you enjoyed reading the blog last week about the ENTANGLED project’s fieldwork in Mozambique, you’ll enjoy reading this new blog from the Ng’ipalajem team about their fieldwork in Kenya @palaeotrails.bsky.social Read their blog here: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/muddlin... 📸 Sarah Paris

A new study published in Antiquity explores how the use of red ochre in prehistoric burials reveals cultural change and identity in Thailand from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. 👉 Read more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/ochre-u... 📸 C. F. W. Higham @sarah-paris.bsky.social

New paper by @sarah-paris.bsky.social 🚨 "The transformation of ochre from a loose pigment used widely in early burials to rare pellet deposits in later interments mirrors broader processes of cultural change, technological development and ideological realignment in Southeast Asia."

Challenging the name! Jesse Martin & colleagues argue Little Foot (StW 573) can’t be called Australopithecus prometheus… …dissent in the fossil world 🦴😅😁 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Thrilled to share that our lovely PI, @martamlahr.bsky.social is now officially Professor Marta Mirazón Lahr FBA. Formally admitted at a ceremony at the British Academy yesterday! Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition and remarkable milestone — here’s to many more!! 🎉

Congratulations @martamlahr.bsky.social 🍾 So well deserved!

We are hiring a Project Co-ordinator! 🚨 Are you extremely organised with great interpersonal skills? Able to multitask efficiently? Interested in African prehistory? Keen to work with an enthusiastic team? We want to hear from you! Closing date: 17 October, 2025

It's a wrap! #ESHE2025 3 days filled with stimulating discussions in the form of 35 podiums, 33 Pecha Kuchas, 169 posters. Congratulations to the winners of the student prize - Harmony Hill & Gabriele Russo! Massive thank you to the organisers for making it all happen. See you in Burgos next year!

Session 9 Podium #ESHE2025 @stephanepeyregne.bsky.social on a new Denisovan genome, J. Kubat uncovers sexing and phylogeny of M. palaeojavanicus, E. Veatch reconsiders fire use and behaviour in H. floresiensis, H. Berghuis on the first subsea H. erectus site in Sundaland

Podium Day 3 #ESHE2025 H. Farrell, R. Sorrentino, C. Ruff, A. Toccacceli, R. Clarke, A. Robles on the architecture of human foot, gait in Dmanisi, dexterous rock climbing in chimps, craniofacial diversity in great apes and so much more!

Poster Session 2 #ESHE2025 83 wonderful posters. 169 in total. Palaeotrails’ Jesse Martin & @martamlahr.bsky.social on detecting microevolutionary trends in fossil hominin populations.

Podium talks Day 2 #ESHE2025 @jingzhang.bsky.social, K. Bretzke, G. Duller, @armandofalcucci.bsky.social, @giuliagallo.bsky.social, @jonathanreeves.bsky.social present exciting research on AI refits for lithics, use of operculum to push the limits of OSL, fire durations in the MP and so much more!

First round of podium presentations at #ESHE2025 Olivia Rivero, Alba Mesa, April Nowell, @aurelienmounier.bsky.social, Chris Hunt explore everything from cognitive complexity, aDNA in cave art to the lives of teens in the #Palaeolithic and the amazing discoveries at #Shanidar! Stay tuned!

Celebrating our wonderful PI @martamlahr.bsky.social for such an incredible achievement 🎉🍾🥂

Fabulous news that @martamlahr.bsky.social has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy 🍾🍾🍾

Justus has shared every adventure in Turkana with us since 2010 - wonderful friend and colleague

Episode 2: Faunal identification with @deadbovids.bsky.social Other than identification, tooth wear pattern can give us exciting insights into faunal diet and palaeoecology.

It's a bit late for #FossilFriday but I have to show this lovely young adult Palaeoloxodon (giant elephant) jaw from the new Middle Pleistocene site I'm working at in Turkana, Kenya!

The joy of sorting LSA lithics from Turkana under the guidance of @robfoley.bsky.social Follow us on Instagram for more www.instagram.com/palaeotrails...

What does the Ng'ipalajem team do? Ng’ipalajem, meaning Ancestors in Turkana, is an ERC-funded project. Led by @martamlahr.bsky.social, the project investigates how the emergence of Homo sapiens is deeply intertwined with Africa’s long-term environmental and ecological history. #humanevolution

Breaking the barriers! Important new paper by Daniel Green and others discovering 18 million years of proteins of East African mammals! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why is the Pacific important to our understanding of human dispersal out of Africa? 🏺 Ben Cullen Prize-winner Dylan Gaffney discusses the Homo sapiens who left the Afro-Eurasian landmass for the first time. Read the prize-winning research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground! 🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13 🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq Please share! @elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social

Cambridge Archaeology graduate Jonathan R. Goodman has published a book: 'Invisible Rivals: How We Evolved to Compete in a Cooperative World'. Available to purchase from Yale University Press: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

🚨 New research by Palaeotrails' @sarah-paris.bsky.social beautifully connects Neolithic infant burials in Thailand with today’s evolving conversations around perinatal loss. "This isn't just about pigment—it's about belonging." From ancient ochre to Ronaldo's 7th-minute tribute—grief unites. 🕊️

🚨New paper alert!

🎉 Members of the Palaeotrails team were recently awarded bursaries to attend this years #HumanEvo25 🧬💀 The team were delighted to participate in the dynamic interdisciplinary programme ranging from genetic 👻 🏜️ 🦠 🧫 to evolutionary 🤰👣⚔️🌍 Thank you @eventswcs.bsky.social

Fantastic poster & fab chat with Phumrapee Boonklang on genomic profiles in Thailand 🧬 at #HumanEvo25 this week.

Congratulations 🙌 @avantikab.bsky.social

A huge congratulations to all the #HumanEvo25 prize winners 👏 🎉 including Palaeotrails’s @avantikab.bsky.social who won a a prize for her poster Tracing Ancient Footsteps using sulphur isotopes 🏆

A fab few days listening to great research and catching up with old friends @jonathanrgoodman.bsky.social @judithbeier.bsky.social and prize winner 🏆@hannesrathmann.bsky.social at #HumanEvo25

Thank you @eventswcs.bsky.social It's been a great event and a fabulous programme!

Round 2 of the poster pitch talks! 🚨 Including Palaeotrails' @sarah-paris.bsky.social Otto Geissier and Tom Van Parys From reconstructing populations to Ronaldo, come and see the wide range of fascinating research on display! #HumanEvo25

#HumanEvo25 features 26 posters showcasing fabulous evolutionary science - vying for your attention and 🏆 This evening we’ve heard the first half of poster pitches including Palaeotrails’s @jclark997.bsky.social P9 and Avantika Binani P5! Let the poster session begin!

A reel of our recent field season in Turkana - a privilege & a joy to work with such fantastic people in an amazing place! @cam-archaeology.bsky.social

Join us to explore the latest #evolutionary research tracing our roots from fossils to modern #genomes. 🗓️#HumanEvo25: 28–30 April 2025 Bursary support available for anyone facing financial barriers to attending #ResearchMeetings. 📎 More info: bit.ly/3ZbZgNJ #HumanEvolution #Genetics #Genomics

Job alert! @katerinad.bsky.social and I are looking for an archaeologist/archaeological scientist to join us on a 4 year post-doc, helping to manage and participate in field and lab work on 2 ERC grants in our group. We would love to hear from you via the link! 👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct...

ESHE 2025 PARIS! 🤩 Registration opening soon

New paper out with @cedricboeckx.bsky.social and @ctennie.bsky.social: We discuss the role of explore-exploit tensions in shaping primate communication systems 🐵👶, integrating individual and social learning processes. Such a fun paper to write! bit.ly/40I7j4R

Christmas lab meeting 🎄✨️ We had to use a wide angle lens to fit all the team in one photo. 🤭🤩

For your academic friends who, exhausted by the system, are trying to figure out what happened to universities 🤣 amzn.eu/d/3xC5O59

Very excited (and a bit nervous) to announce that I will be hiring two Postdocs for my new group(!) in Copenhagen to study the Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA which survives in present-day humans. Retweet will be much appreciated :) Link for application: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Important ethical issues surrounding the trade and sale of human remains were raised at PMQs today by Bell Ribeiro-Addy following discussions with BABAO: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Made the jump 🥳 late to the party as always - this is super handy - Thank you!