🚨🏺🩸🇱🇧 NEW: "Silence Is Not Neutral: An Archaeological Update from Lebanon" by Nelly P. Abboud: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/s...

A few years ago, using palaeoproteomics, we identified a tiny hominin bone from Denisova Cave and named it Denisova 17 (D17). A rather unremarkable sliver. At the time, I wondered, could it be Denny’s sibling (the Neanderthal/Denisovan hybrid we had just reported)? Well, turns out: no. 🧵1/4

There is still time to apply!💼📝Deadline: April 6, 2026⌛ #jobalert #Humanevolution #academia

I am old enough to remember the vitriol directed at random humanities scholars' work complaining about the totalizing tendencies of capitalism to corrupt, colonize, or co-opt everything. I also lived long enough to read long term coverage of the literal attempt to privatize thinking in the newspaper

"On behalf of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), I am very pleased to inform you that you have been selected as the 2026 recipient of the SAA's Book Award—Popular category for “Native America: The Story of the First Peoples” published by Princeton University Press." Wow! No words.

The artwork that illustrated our PNAS paper on the oldest wooden tools was made by Gleiver Prieto, who has also worked with me on illustrations for previous projects, including the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Marathousa 1. Gleiver's art really brings Pleistocene Megalopolis to life ✨ 🤩

🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS': uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨

We’ve still got a few open places for this brilliant hands-on mosaic making training event next week at @ics.bsky.social in London! Come along to have fun making, while thinking about ancient/modern practice and research with leading experts Ruaidhri Ryan and Will Wootton. @sas-news.bsky.social

Full article: Cradled by architecture: infancy and delayed personhood in Neolithic Anatolia and the Balkans www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

SMBE2026 Symposium L01 | Insights into the past through the lens of palaeoproteomics 📨 Abstract submission smbe2026.org/abstracts 📋 Programme details smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026

New Publication! New Article by #HEASVienna members #AnnetteOertle, @katerinad.bsky.social et al. on 'New collagen peptide markers from New Guinea fauna: identifying archaeological bone in the tropics' #HEASPublications www.heas.at/research/pub...

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out! Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025! ➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh #FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

New paper led by Annette Oertle out today focusing on our work at Castelcivita in Italy. A pleasure to work with our wonderful Italian colleagues. @katerinad.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Biomolecular approaches to Pleistocene bones New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Annette Oertle, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social @katerinad.bsky.social et al

We had a lovely time at ISBA in Torino and almost managed to gather everyone from Vienna in one pic @heasvienna.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social @katerinad.bsky.social

Our latest paper is out now in Frontiers in Mammal Science: www.frontiersin.org/journals/mam... We characterized ZooMS peptide markers for three extinct Australian megafauna species 🦴🧪

🏺🧪🦣 The Neanderthal Museum is KILLING IT with their social media responses to complaints because we created a feminist exhibition centering #Neanderthal women... Well +55,000 people have already visited & it's now extended to 2nd November! www.instagram.com/neanderthalm...

You know what the world absolutely does not need? Yet another definition for domestication. Get over yourselves people. C'mon! Ok, maybe just one more. So much fun working with @elinork.bsky.social, Kathryn and Robin. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Really exciting news from the Ozarks! A bag of seeds dating to the Pre-Contact Period in North America was found and donated to the University of Arkansas museum. Absolutely amazing find and you can read more about it here: www.reddit.com/r/missouri/c...

Current approach at S. #Čuka as new @heasvienna.bsky.social proteomics study: Anstasia is sampling Neolithic bone tools for isotopes, aDNA & radiocarbon w/ new methods 😊 fancy 🥳 @oeai.bsky.social @katerinad.bsky.social

Absolutely blooming stoked to announce that the zooarchaeology resource pack that I wrote with Dr Michelle Feider for YAC has been published! Aimed at kids 8-16yo, four activities for learning about bones in the past with no skeles needed. Except your own. www.yac-uk.org/news/new-zoo...

🏺🧪 Oh this is FASCINATING - and a site that was already in #Matriarcha!

We are excited to launch Archaeology & AI. It is offered as part of our Digital Archaeology and Digital Heritage MScs, students from any of our Master's courses can enrol. 🏺 We will be offering critical, practice-based projects based on real world case studies. www.york.ac.uk/students/stu...

Dissertation season is starting 😬 so we are repeating our researcher training event: An Intro to Essential Resources for #Classics & #Archaeology Research 🏺 🗓️ 23 April, 2pm (London, BST) 📍 Online via Zoom Share, especially w/ UG & PG students! Info+Register: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/intro...

A new study evaluates the reliability of enamel proteins for reconstructing primate phylogeny through paleoproteomics. By analyzing genomic data from 232 primate species, researchers find that enamel protein sequences can provide robust phylogenetic insights, even with fossil fragmentation:

So pleased to see Charlotte Blacka's first 1st author paper: innovation was to use tims-TOF #MS for rapid sex estimation method based on amelogenin #palaeoproteomics. At <20min per sample (including prep all the way to data processing), this enables far higher sample numbers: doi.org/10.1002/rcm....

(1/6) Happy to present our publication on the potential of palaeoproteomics for phylogenetic applications, which also made it to the cover of GBE’s February issue. In a nutshell…

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...

🧪 4/6 Key finding: You can't just look at diseased bones. Some deadly infections kill so fast they don't leave marks on bones. The team found pathogen DNA in seemingly healthy teeth too!

🔬 5/5 Bottom line: ⏰ This is a wake-up call for the field. Using ancient proteins to study the past is powerful, but we need better reference data and more rigorous methods. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...

An important new paper by @beademarch.bsky.social and her team challenges how we use ancient proteins to study the past. Analysis of 1,832 sequences from waterfowl (ducks & geese) reveals why palaeoproteomics isn't the simple solution we hoped for... 👇🧵 1/4 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...

The HPB-MALDI team dropped an open database of 11,055 mass spec signatures from pathogenic bacteria. #ZooMS folks - could this be a useful roadmap for making our data truly open & accessible? Everything on #Zenodo - a useful template for a #ZooMS DB 💽. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Have/nearly have a PhD? ≤7 years post-doc experience? Working outside UK? Not a UK citizen? BA & Royal Society offering 2-yr Fellowships for early career researchers to come to the UK! 💷 Includes: Research expenses £12k Relocation up to £8k 🗓️ Deadline: Mar 18, 2025 (17:00 GMT) #ResearchFunding

My first post on here and it's for a JOB ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣 The University of Tübingen is seeking to find a post-doctoral researcher for a 3-year position, funded through the DFG (13 TV-L, 39,5 h/week). More info here: tinyurl.com/4xbdya5t #archaeology #palaeoproteomics #job #ZooMS

A high-throughput aDNA extraction method for large-scale sample screening 🦣🦬🧬 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

Potentially significant 1st independent replication of sequenced dinosaur 🦕 collagen. 41 peptides in Edmontosaurus bone, identical sequences in Brachylophosaurus. Minimal PTMs suggest exceptional preservation #teammassspec #ZooMS. Now to explore the data... Data on PRIDE PXD048810 (but not yet)

🧬🎨 The future is interdisciplinary! New paper introduces "biomolecular humanities" - where science meets storytelling. This emerging field combines molecular analysis with humanities research to revolutionize how we understand human history and culture. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... #bioarchaeology #archaeology #southeastasia #SEAsia #prehistory #SEAsiaprehistory

The CfP for SAFA2025 at @icarehb.bsky.social 21-26th July is still open! We are accepting abstracts for Session 42: “Quantitative analysis of the African Middle Stone Age” Information about submission can be found here: safa2025.icarehb.com/poster-and-o...

There's still time to register or submit your abstract for the Vienna Geoarchaeology Conference: Pushing Borders – Expanding Horizons! Deadline extended to January 17th. Registration form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... event funded by: @heasvienna.bsky.social, @dshcs.bsky.social, VDSEE

Great and interesting special issue for Dendrochronologia! And a wonderful long submission time :)

A short 28 second timelapse over 20 minutes of the New Years day aurora taken from my Shropshire garden between 5.40 and 6pm, watch as it develops and explodes in colour ❤️ #aurora #auroraborealis #astronomy #timelapse

Happy 2025 everyone! — here’s the cover of my new book, out on 1 May ✨

This multi-year (well, multi-decade) work on the excavations at the Middle Paleolithic site of Lusakert-1 Cave in central Armenia is finally online (only early view for now) and will be open-access when the final, nicely formatted, PDF version becomes available: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Archaeologists’ Discovery Of Skeleton From 2.7 Years Ago Sheds No New Light On Anything theonion.com/archaeologis...

Much sadness and great respect across Archaeology World today as news spread of the death of Professor John Barrett. Here he is posing some hard questions about whether archaeology has achieved quite as much as it thinks it has to another giant of the discipline we lost in 2024, Lord Renfrew.

The first Belgium’s strontium isoscape is out now! Amanda Sengeløv & the team provide the first 604 plant samples from 220 locations, with more data coming soon! Paper here👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Dataset available on @isoarch.bsky.social 👇https://doi.org/10.48530/ISOARCH.2024.001

I've taken an hour or so to wind down, but nope, I am still furious about this enormously short-sighted decision. There are so few ways to learn about specialist archaeological skills outside of a degree, and this was a demonstration of what COULD be done. 1/2 #RIPshortcourses