📢 Long-distance genetic relatedness in megalithic central Europe | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Couldn't be prouder of my former PhD student Danai Theodoraki, who just published her thesis on Neolithic Franchthi and high-res climate variability! 🥳 books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de//propylaeum/... @leizarchaeology.bsky.social @unimainz.bsky.social

Plenty more fish at dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

We are offering two postdoctoral fellowships for conducting high-quality interdisciplinary research as part of the new ARCWorlds research platform. Applications can be submitted until May 15. You can find all the details here: www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-r... #academicjobs #postdocs #scholarship

New #OpenAccess release: Beyond Hunting (eds. L. Kindler & S. Gaudzinski-Windheuser) revisits the “Man the Hunter” paradigm & explores diverse early human lifeways, from subsistence to social roles. doi.org/10.11588/pro... #Archaeology

🔥New paper out now in Science Advances 🔥 News from the straight-tusked elephants from Neumark-Nord! An international team has uncovered spectacular insights into life histories of some elephants by analysing their tooth enamel. Read now 👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #archaeology #palaeolithic

Call for papers for the 2026 Europa, 6th June at Uni of York honouring work of Professor Penny Spikins. The topic will be: What can we learn from Neanderthals? (Please note change in previously advertised title) Further details here: www.prehistoricsociety.org/events/2026-... #Archaeology 🏺

For anyone working on prehistoric hunter-gatherer-fisher pottery - our food-crust plant paper is finally out... journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Our workshop abstract booklet is live! 📘 Check out the upcoming talks and don’t miss your chance to join us online — registration closes this Wednesday, March 4. All info: research.reading.ac.uk/coexist/work...

Excited to announce the launch of the LEIZA Journal of Archaeology (LJA), a new #DiamondOpenAccess, double-blind peer-reviewed online journal of world #archaeology. More Info: www.leiza.de/forschung/pu...

Beautifully done: Enhancing archaeological mobility studies: Bayesian-modelled isoscapes and high-resolution refinement of the bioavailable strontium baseline in southern Scandinavia www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Complex perishable technologies from the North American Great Basin reveal specialized Late Pleistocene adaptations | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

'Patterns of genetic diversity on the X and Y chromosomes suggested that European-farmer ancestry seemed to arrive mostly through females. “We really do think that the bits and pieces of the farming lifestyle that were incorporated by these hunter-gathering groups came in through...women".'

Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2026! Join us for two days of all things Palaeolithic, Pleistocene and Early Human Origins at UCL Institute of Archaeology 19-20th June. Call for papers is now open and tickets are on sale! Check out our website for more information. sites.google.com/view/unravel...

Earliest evidence for intentional cremation of human remains in Africa | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Earliest evidence for intentional cremation of human remains in Africa | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Radiocarbon 25 Proceedings Submission Deadline Extended to Jan 10, 2026 Papers must be based on RC25 presentations. Submit: mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rdc Guidelines: radiocarbon.org/submissions @14cjournal.bsky.social #RC25 #Radiocarbon25

HUMAN ROOTS AWARD 2025 🏆 The Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution @paleomonrepos.bsky.social, part of the LEIZA, proudly honours Professor John D. Speth (University of Michigan, USA) with this year’s international HUMAN ROOTS AWARD! 🌍✨ #researchaward #archaeology

You are an early-career scientist interested in social and environmental processes in the past? For our second phase, we are offering 5 positions for postdocs and 9 positions for doctoral students. Apply now! All the details: www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-r... #earlycareerscientists #jobs

Now with correct link: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Essential reading. Neanderthals, hypercarnivores, and maggots: Insights from stable nitrogen isotopes | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#Neanderthals Ran “Fat Factories” 125,000 Years Ago. Groundbreaking discovery by @paleomonrepos.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social @leizarchaeology.bsky.social and the LDA in Saxony reveals large-scale fat processing by Neanderthals: idw-online.de/de/news854632 #archaeology #paleolithic #prehistory

🍝Our next PAASTA Seminar Series talk will be next week Wednesday 02 July at 15:00 CET! 🍝 @mirandaevans.bsky.social will be presenting "The Proteomics of Pottery: What can dirty dishes tell us about ancient diet and cuisine?" As always, DM us for the Zoom link to join!

Double success for Kiel University: The Clusters of Excellence 'Precision Medicine in Chronic Inflammation' (PMI) and 'ROOTS – Social, Environmental, and Cultural Connectivity in Past Societies' @clusterroots.bsky.social will be funded for another seven years!

Lecturer (Archaeological Science) #archsci #job - deadline 2nd June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND779/l... @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

📢 We're hiring! The Leibniz-Zentrum for Archaeology (LEIZA) is launching a new international, English-language, Diamond Open Access journal—and we're looking for a Managing Editor (m/f/d) to lead the way. 📍#Mainz or #Schleswig 🕒 Full- or part-time 💼 EG 13 TV-L #archaeology #journal #editing 1/4

finally, the Duvensee chronology paper is published: Jos Kleijne, Harald Lübke, Daniel Groß, Klaus Bokelmann, John Meadows, 2025, Temporal patterns in Mesolithic activity at Duvensee, Germany, Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 353, 109230, doi.org/10.1016/j.qu... Thanks to everyone who helped us.😇