Analysing how much meat in the diet by sex as marker of social inequality, last 10,000 years. Not too unequal early Neolithic, but it gets worse! 'This diachronic analysis highlights the complex interactions between diet, social structures, and gender...' academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

BABAO is running a series FREE, ONLINE of talks on Osteology for the general public. The first is April 29 at 19:00. Ever wondered what happens to the skeletons found during building works? Or why looking at skeletons is important for learning about the past? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/speaking-w...

Postdoc Alert! The archaeology department here at Exeter are looking for a Research Fellow for Biocultural HIVE, part of the AHRC RICHeS Infrastructure Portfolio. The role (0.8 FTE for 5 years) involves managing our digital, lab and collections resources: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

A really worthwhile study of what assignments students themselves found to be best for their learning, especially in an AI context. Spoiler alert: it’s NOT take-home essays. It’s all the stuff AI can’t do. And it’s mostly in-person. wonkhe.com/blogs/studen...

Agneta Kallström ja Marika Kataja pohtivat Lähi-itä NYT -blogikirjoituksessa, onko siviileihin ja terveydenhuoltoon kohdistuva piittaamaton väkivalta ajamassa Libanonin yhä syvemmälle humanitaariseen katastrofiin, josta toipuminen voi viedä vuosia.

Today I've been making and decorating this replica Bronze Age beaker from Seahouses in Northumberland. The original is in the collection of the Great North Museum in Newcastle. It's one of the pots that inspired me to do what I do. 🏺 #Archaeology #Pottery potted-history.co.uk

Osteoarchaeologists / Forensic Anthropologists IAC Archaeology Salary: 35,000 - 40,000 Euro (DOE) Closing Date: April 13, 2026 Location: West of Ireland www.bajr.org/job-ad/osteo...

Breaking: A new review paper of the tipping point risk of the Atlantic ocean circulation system known as #AMOC has been published. 🌊 The evidence has broadened over the last years that the present AMOC is in a multi-stable regime, posing a risk of tipping 😨. dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcc....

We don't have enough open access resources for reading about ethics, and there's some really great looking chapters in there. I'm excited to spend some time with this! 🏺🧪https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-10354-3

When collagen fails: Zinc isotopes unlock Sumerian lifeways in southern Mesopotamia phys.org/news/2026-03... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The abstract deadline for the 2026 Connected Past has been extended until March 31!

"Noin viikko sitten minä, kuten moni muukin Libanonissa, heräsi aamuyöstä koviin pamauksiin. Vaikka olin unenpöppörössä, ei kestänyt kauan tajuta, mistä oli kyse." Harjoittelijamme Venla Lehtinen kertoo Paikan päältä -blogissa tapahtumista ja tunnelmista Libanonissa. Linkki biossa.

Latest Treponema genome just dropped: it's 5,500 years old, was found in Colombia, and is a different branch of the evolutionary tree than the strains that cause today's syphilis/yaws/bejel. 🏺🧪

Incredibly useful resource! www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/...

It's happening! Canada launched two programs to recruit international researchers. Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (1 million/yr for 8 yrs +) Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders. I will do my best to facilitate the process for those interested. Hit me up. www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...

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The next Badaro Talks lecture ”Adaptive Communities, Complex Governance: Pastoralism at the Crossroads of Ecology and Rural Politics” by Moustapha Itani takes place on Dec, 11th at 6 pm. More info and RSVP can be found in FIME's website: www.fime.fi/tapahtuma/ba...

Interested in applying for this funded PhD with me at UCL Institute of Archaeology? Get in touch to discuss this project or to develop your own idea! Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/hum...

📣 Thurs 27 Nov 2025 17:15 the Munro Lecture will be given by Dr Ricardo Fernandes @maxplanck.de "Isotopic snapshots: a 15,000-year journey through the human story" 🧪 book your FREE ticket here: https://tinyurl.com/3sx4rspn @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #isotopes #archsci #EdinArch #MunroLecture

FIME's director Susanne Dahlgren is interviewed in the American University of Beirut's podcast Society and Science (العلم والمجتمع) Listen to the podcast here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq0X...

Jane Goodall was a global legend at the forefront of discovery — breaking through barriers for women in primatology, science, and beyond. Her curiosity, strength, and kindness changed the world, bridging countries and cultures in pursuit of a better future.

Come work with us!🏺 Together with my brilliant colleague Georgia Barker we are looking for a project curator to research how childhood is represented in the collections of our two departments at the British Museum, Egypt & Sudan and Greece & Rome. 👇👇👇 bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com//templates/C...

The lecture ”Late Bronze Age System Collapse on the Eastern Mediterranean – Lessons from History” will be given by FIME’s new researcher Joanna Töyräänvuori on Wednesday 17th of September at 6pm at the FIME premises at 30 Badaro Street, Chaoui Building. You can also attend online.

Climate change isn’t a future problem - it’s a present reality. But even without increasing climate chaos, research shows human health is weather-dependent.🌡️ A new paper for @pnas.org by Nick Obradovich, @emlawrance.bsky.social and @keltonminor.bsky.social: ow.ly/SApH50WHnGW #Climate #Health

This paper was a long time coming - includes data gathered over many years via support from multiple #NSF and #WennerGren grants. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Really cool study looking at how behaviour precedes morphological change across taxa - and implications for human evolution 💀🧪 massive congrats to all the authors, including @vivek123.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨 JOB APPLICATION 🚨 The University of Western Australia is looking for an Associate Professor in Biological Anthropology Deadline for applying: August 22nd More information on the link below 👇 external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/52090...

"Indiana Jones and the curse of the Eduroam login"

We also published a second paper on the spread of farming from Anatolia into SE Europe. Our results challenge the assumption that cultural entities frequently correspond to genetically homogeneous populations. Pots don’t equal people! 🏺 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Since our big Science paper on female lineages at Çatalhöyük is out now, it seems like a good time to repost our related paper that we published earlier this year on material and biological ties🙂🌼

After many years this is out now, many congratulations to everybody!

Great opportunity to work at NVIC in Cairo with lovely people! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

The archaeology of climate change: a blueprint for integrating environmental and cultural systems www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Big changes to the ERC funding schemes! Note the new eligibility criteria from 2027 on: 📌 Starting Grant: 0-10 y post-PhD 📌 Consolidator Grant: 5-15 y post-PhD erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Suomen Lähi-idän instituutin säätiön tutkija YTM Antti Tarvainen väittelee Helsingin yliopistossa tänä perjantaina 6.6.2025. Väitöstä voi seurata paikan päällä Helsingin yliopistolla tai etäyhteydellä.

This is the uncropped version of the famous “tank man” photo from June 4, 1989. Almost half of the Chinese population was born after this event. Later that year, Austria permitted East Germans holidaying in Hungary to drive over its border. The Berlin Wall fell in October. Quite a year.

Things are about to get a bit ancient. I baked these biscuity sherds on a hemisphere cake tin in an attempt to recreate Ancient Greek pottery fragments in all three dimensions. The originals, dating from c.1600-435 BCE, can be found in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum.

A method for sex determination using peptides in enamel Raman Spectroscopy Dataset of Permanent Human Teeth from a Historical Swiss Medical Collection🏺🧪 figshare.com/s/a861c0d74d... Measurements of permanent teeth from an anonymized medical collection at the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine

3D virtual soundscape brings ancient Turkish underground city to life. phys.org/news/2025-05...

📣 Join us in Coimbra, Portugal 🇵🇹 for the 2025 Connected Past Conference — Sept 16–19! Explore network analysis, digital methods in the study of the past. 🏛️🌐 ✅ Registration open now: shorturl.at/ZY21T Or use the QR code below! #archaeology #networks #theconnectedpast

Registration for the @theconnectedpast.bsky.social Coimbra is now OPEN! Register using the QR below or this link! shorturl.at/qp2MT . We hope to see you there! #networks #archaeology #academic

Matkaa muinaiseen Mesopotamiaan FIMEn uudella, kaikille avoimella verkkokurssilla Nuolenpäiden aika: tutustu muinaiseen Lähi-itään! Tiedätkö, miten kirjoitustaito kehittyi? Minkälaista kirjallisuutta he lukivat? Kurssi on kaikille avoin ja maksuton. Löydät kurssin osoitteesta: www.lahi-itakurssit.fi

JOB ALERT 1 wk left to apply for this fantastic Tenure Track at Oulu Uni (at Assistant or Associate Prof). 5 years of (mainly) research, generous starting package, and a growing team of wonderful environmental social scientists and humanists. oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Uusi podcast kuunneltavissa NYT! Tutkija Tiina Hyyppä tarkastelee omassa tutkimuksessaan sisällissodan aikaisia paikallishallintoja, erityisesti siviilien roolia niissä. Jaksossa käydään myös läpi Syyrian nykytilannetta joulukuun 2024 vallankumouksen jälkeen.

FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY The 2026 British Council 90th Anniversary Research Fellowship is now open for applications! Two 13-month Fellowships are available, Jan-Dec 2026 at £2,500 per month. www.iash.ed.ac.uk/news/british...

"This Special Feature represents a collective effort to accelerate archaeological assessment of economic inequality. Archaeological data allow us to explore fundamental drivers of economic inequality, test ideas about inequality from recent history & offer novel perspectives from broad perspective"

UUSI VERKKOKURSSI JULKAISTU! Matkaa muinaiseen Mesopotamiaan FIMEn uudella, kaikille avoimella verkkokurssilla Nuolenpäiden aika: tutustu muinaiseen Lähi-itään! tinyurl.com/ys36ba73 #FIME #lähi-itä #mesopotamia #kurssi #tiede #arkeologia #historia

Lukuviikon hengessä suosittelen, että viette itsenne ja mahdolliset perillisenne kirjastoon ja etsitte sieltä Simonsuuren aikoinaan kansan keskuudesta keräilemän Myytillisiä tarinoita. Saa sen ostaakin SKS:ltä. Painajaisia ja kunnon kansanperinnettä ties monennessako polvessa. #kirjataivas