Chimps and object play - what’s not to like? But why is it important? Find out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Top notch footage!

Wonderful video by @antiquity.ac.uk summarising our research!

Also covered in National Geographic: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

And now covered in @science.org by the fab @spoke32.bsky.social: www.science.org/content/arti.... Do check it out for yourself - the earliest evidence of mineral-based blue pigment in Palaeolithic Europe!

I, too, am proud to share this quite exciting finding with you: Europe's oldest mineral blue pigment. It's azurite and we found it on a legacy object that had long languished in a storehouse. New analysis bring new insights :) #palaeolithicblues

Check out @felixthehauskat.bsky.social, Kathrine L. D. Andreasen & Peter M. Yaworsky's "Human Impacts of the 8.2 ka Event on Mesolithic Foragers in Western Denmark: A Model-Based Approach Inspired by 'Radical' #Disaster #Risk Reduction Research" in "Under Pressure" at

Job Alerts!🚨 We are looking to fill three Independent Junior Research Group Leader positions in the 'HUMAN ORIGINS' Cluster of Excellence at the University of Tübingen Application deadline: Sept. 10, Starting Jan. 1, 2026 1. Genotype-Phenotype interactions: uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Our knotropology en español with comments by @felixthehauskat.bsky.social and external knot experts. www.elperiodico.com/es/sociedad/...

Two new 3-2-1-Go! Collaborative Theme Groups selected to AIAS. The ‘Tracks and Footprints’ and ‘When Politics Meets Business’ groups bring together researchers across faculties and disciplines to transform perspectives, build bridges and understandings around one theme🎉 aias.au.dk/events/show/...

Off to the field with @ll-herskind.bsky.social and a group of awesome students - four weeks teaching excavation and my @erc.europa.eu project CLIOARCH’s very last field season. And we’re going to excavate the world’s oldest amber art workshop from the Late Pleistocene 🤩

DEADLINE EXTENSION! The deadline for submitting an abstract for the upcoming @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference has been extended to Thursday the 10th of April, 12 pm (GMT+2) Note that online participation will also be an option See more here: conferences.au.dk/sscip-2025/c...

Last day to get your abstracts in for SSCIP 2024!

Coming up this afternoon! 👇

🌟 LAST CHANCE! 🌟 Join us at @econovoau.bsky.social for an incredible opportunity to study human ecology relations across socio-technological configurations! Apply now and be part of something amazing! ⏰ Deadline is TOMORROW at 23:59 CEST! lnkd.in/d4ws3iiK #OpportunityKnocks #JoinUs

Interested in humans from a macro-ecological/macro-archaeological perspective? Here's the right postdoc for you international.au.dk/about/profil... - deadline tomorrow April 1st at 2359 CEST!

Interested in children and childhoods of the past? Come join us at @au.dk - in the fab facilities of @aiasdk.bsky.social - for this year's @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference. Abstract deadline is April 4th! conferences.au.dk/sscip-2025

Wanna read a digest of a fun anthro thing I've been up to lately? Our recent work on knots present and past has just been covered in @pnas.org Journal Club www.pnas.org/post/journal...

The Canis lupus ssp. (Mammalia, Carnivora) of the Baume Traucade (Issirac, Gard, France): A complete skeleton of a “dog-like” individual from the post-LGM www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Discover the Anthropocene from a transdisciplinary perspective! 🌍 Join our new microcredential course at Charles University—seminars, field trips, and hands-on workshops led by top experts. Prague, Czech Republic | www.anthropocene.cz/en/micro-cre... | Program: www.anthropocene.cz/en/programme...

Pleased to see our work published: The Ties That Bind: Computational, Cross-cultural Analyses of Knots Reveal Their Cultural Evolutionary History and Significance We analysed knots across 12,000 years and 82 societies. Time to tie a thread 🧵 about why knots matter. doi.org/10.1017/S095...

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...

I'm on route to Gothenburg to give a seminar on our work exploring the role and relevance of stranded whales in the Late Palaeolithic along the European margins. Preliminary results out here doi.org/10.1080/1556... with @shumon.bsky.social, @sofiefh.bsky.social et al. but we've got more coming :)

Yikes…https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-prisms-extinction/article/this-is-the-way-the-world-ends-not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper-estimating-the-number-and-ongoing-rate-of-extinctions-of-australian-nonmarine-invertebrates/D0DCAA03EBA7ACC25F98F7BF5D87A2A6

Cultural Evolution Postdoc Alert 🚨

Anyone can now freely access the talks from the Cultural Evolution Conference Durham 2024 - perfect for first-time viewing or a rewatch! underline.io/events/456/l...

Led by the one and only @acortellnicolau.bsky.social, the summary paper from the funky Archaeo-riddle project (theia.arch.cam.ac.uk/archaeoriddle) - possibly the first specifically archaeological tactical simulation competition - is now out in J Archaeological Science.

New, colourful perforated discs, their waste, and use at amazing Pincevent: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... - were they spinning top parts, @roope.bsky.social? 🤩🌀

Defining medieval raptor diets using isotopy - they were feeding differently, notably by "the incorporation of carrion from large mammals as scavenged prey in settlements, a food resource that is largely lacking from modern-day landscapes in large quantities" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Please share in your networks: @histchild.bsky.social and @shcy.bsky.social 🙏🙂 I'm organising together with @felixthehauskat.bsky.social & @mathildevm.bsky.social who has booked the wonderful location on campus @aiasdk.bsky.social

I'm on route home from the absolutely amazing @icarehb.bsky.social #HEIRS opening symposium heirs.icarehb.com. HEIRS is the hub for Human Evolution Research Synthesis - IMO a truly visionary and timely science initiative.

I'm excited to be part of this new initiative that seeks to leverage the incoming palaeogenomic data to better understand kinship and population relatedness across temporal and spatial scales. www.archsynth.org/2026-design-...

A few more days to apply! Together with @jcsvenning.bsky.social and as part of @econovoau.bsky.social we're offering this fab 2-yr postdoc position: international.au.dk/about/profil...

Check out this interesting postdoc opportunity! 🧪🏺💀

🎉Fresh off the press! Ever wondered what to do if a catastrophe hits? If so, read on!

Tagging the feeds on our new paper announcement! 🏺🧪🦣

It's Friday eve here, I've had pizza and wine but let me share our latest paper anyway, out in @science.org lil'sis SciAdv: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...! Lead by @cdwren.bsky.social we model how the fabled 'resilience' emerges as a function of different behavioural strategies.

This is a great and awesome study - from what we understand of ecosystem dynamics and what losing megafauna does to system function this makes 💯 sense www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Come and do an exciting palaeo-PhD with my great colleague @loopdlupien.bsky.social here at @aarhusuni.bsky.social phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...

Slight update - the conference will take place from June 25-27 instead! Hope to see you all on Aarhus this summer for some white nights and awesome papers!

Well, alright, Neanderthals (or some groups of Neanderthals) could make and 'interpret' cave art. This makes it all the more pertinent to ask why they, on the whole, didn't engage in this activity.

Did a distant volcanic eruption affect Neolithic societies in Denmark - economically, demographically, politically, and culturally? It seems so www.cambridge.org/core/journal... published in @antiquityj.bsky.social

Bis Ende Jänner könnt Ihr Euch noch an unserer "Sexismus in der Archäologie" Umfrage beteiligen! Wir sammeln Fallbeispiele und Stimmen aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum. www.umfrageonline.com/c/quruyhze

Important and quite scary climate science. In a palaeo-perspective, the 8.2ka event is the closest analogue and it created widespread if also regionally variable demographic and cultural change in Europe and elsewhere #tippingpoints

#meetECONOVO – core group member michaelmhansen.bsky.social is Prof. in conservation & population genomics 🌍🧬. Focusing on conservation genetic status, genome-environment associations and #climatechange adaptability of #megafauna 🐘🌿 – comparing systems with indigenous vs introduced feral spp🦘🐗

Eek.

Amen! And I really hope the Captain's Wednesday post will make it to BlueSky before long!

Melting #ice reveals almost 6000 y/o #forest buried in the #RockyMountains - offering a "time capsule" from the past: 🏺 www.newscientist.com/article/2463... by @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social via @newscientist.bsky.social

We're hiring! Are you a cultural evolutionary modeller who wants to understand how and why children's peer cultures evolve? Here's a postdoc position for you! @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @durhampsych.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social @eslr.bsky.social Apply here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...