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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 16h

#ICArEHB PhD student Osama Samawi co-organised the “Paleolithic Jordan: The State of the Art” #workshop in Athens during #ICHAJ16, discussing the #Paleolithic record of #Jordan and fostering collaboration in #Archaeology and #HumanEvolution.
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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 4d

#ICArEHB member Rubén Parrilla took part in the European #RockArt Day at the Universidad de Sevilla 🇪🇸, engaging #HighSchool and #University students in talks about #Archaeology and #Heritage.
#Outreach #PublicEngagement

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Virtual Conference For Women Archaeo and Paleo @women-archeopal.bsky.social · 11d

VCWAP is back! 🎉 Join us March 4–6, 2026.
Registration & submissions (abstracts + paleoart) are now open
➡️ awap-science.org/en/vcwap-cur...
Open to ALL, whatever your employment status, gender identity or expression. Everyone’s welcome to participate!

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 11d

From #Ferrara2025 to… #Faro2030! 🎉
We’re excited that #ICArEHB – Univ. Algarve will host the 12th International Conference on the #Mesolithic in Europe. For the 1st time, #MESO comes to Portugal 🇵🇹 Algarve awaits! ☀️

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 11d

🔥 Next #LEXA Seminar!
Dr William Chase Murphree will explore #fire use during the #UpperPalaeolithic, using #geoarchaeology experiments to reveal how humans managed fire in glacial times.
🗓️ 7 Oct, 14:00 GMT | 🌍 Online
🔗 Register: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 13d

📢 Registration open for the ICArEHB #Workshop on Systematic Synthesis in #Archaeology & #HumanEvolution.

Learn to conduct #SystematicReviews & #ResearchSynthesis and develop collaborative projects.

🗓 12, 19, 26 Jan & 2 Feb 2026 | Online
👉 More info: heirs.icarehb.com/calls-traini...

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 18d

🎙️ ICArEHB researcher Cláudia Costa, leading author of a study on #Neolithic subsistence in Iberia, joined the radio programme Antena 2 Ciência.
Listen to the #podcast here 👉 www.rtp.pt/play/p783/e8...
#ICArEHB #Research #Archaeology

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A medula óssea um dos ingredientes do cozido à portuguesa - A medula óssea ou tutano é um dos ingredientes do tradicional cozido à portuguesa...E

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 20d

The ERC Project MATRIX has officially joined Bluesky!
Follow us at @matrixerc.bsky.social for updates, insights, and news about our research.
#MATRIX #ERCResearch #Archaeology #ICArEHB #Research

ERC-StG MATRIX @matrixerc.bsky.social · 21d

The ERC Project MATRIX explores one of the big questions in our past: how Neanderthals disappeared as modern humans spread across Europe. Meet the team behind it and learn more about our research on sediments, ancient DNA, proteins, lipids & human evolution
👉 matrix.icarehb.com

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 21d

📺 The new #Muge Shell Middens Interpretation Centre was featured on #RTP! Showcasing 8,000 years of #Mesolithic history and combines a scientific lab with public outreach. #ICArEHB #Archaeology
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RTP Report: New Interpretation Centre of the Muge Shell Middens

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 25d

🌍A group of #ICArEHB #researchers are at #MESO25 in Ferrara, Italy (15–19 Sept) discussing the latest in #MesolithicArchaeology, from #MaterialCulture to cutting-edge methods. ✨
#Archaeology #Conference #Fieldwork #Heritage

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 25d

🎊⭐ Célia Gonçalves, researcher at #ICArEHB, has secured €49,800 #Funding to protect #ArchaeologicalHeritage from climate change! Part of the #Science4Policy2025 initiative by PLANAPP. Congratulations Célia!! 🥳 #Research

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 29d

The Muge Shell Middens Interpretation Centre has opened! 🎉 Showcasing 8,000 years of history, it stems from over a decade of excavations at Cabeço da Amoreira, carried out by ICArEHB and coordinated by Célia Gonçalves. 🌍✨

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · Sep 10

📢 "Material matters: raw material influences stone tool performance in capuchin monkeys" by O’Malley, T.D.R., Reeves, J.S., Slania, N.E., Falótico, T., Proffitt, T., de la Torre, I., & Luncz, L.V., in Animal Behaviour (2025, Vol. 227, Article 123254).
🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · Sep 9

Following up on the recent publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution about early human occupations at Fordwich Pit and Old Park (Canterbury, UK), the authors share further reflections on what these discoveries reveal about persistence during glacial stages.
👉 preview.shorthand.com/xU89QS8jAV5o...

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · Sep 3

📢 Hominin glacial-stage occupation 712,000 to 424,000 years ago at Fordwich Pit, Old Park (Canterbury, UK) by Key, A., (...) & Proffitt, T. in Nature Ecology & Evolution.
🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Hominin glacial-stage occupation 712,000 to 424,000 years ago at Fordwich Pit, Old Park (Canterbury, UK) - Nature Ecology & Evolution

The authors report Acheulean hominin occupation of eastern Britain during glacial marine isotope stages 17–16 and again in glacial marine isotope stage 12 via stone tools in sediments dated to 712,000...

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · Sep 2

📢 Assessing Neanderthal occupation duration: Faunal evidence from sub-unit IIIb of Teixoneres Cave (Barcelona, Spain) by Lubrano, V., Rufà, A., Blasco, R., Rivals, F., & Rosell, J. in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · Sep 2

📢 Don't forget today at 14:00 the next #LEXA seminar with Dr Andrea Zupancich (IPHES-CERCA) on groundstone artefacts and the deep relationship between humans and plants in #Prehistory.
🔗 Join us here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#Archaeology #ExperimentalArchaeology #ICArEHB

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · Aug 28

⏰ Reminder!
🌍 Call for synthesis projects still open! HEIRS and @FRB-CESAB invite interdisciplinary proposals at the crossroads of human evolution and biodiversity.
🗓️ Deadline: 8 September 2025
#HumanEvolution #Biodiversity #HEIRS #FRBCESAB #ResearchSynthesis

ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · May 13

🌍 New call for #synthesis projects!
#HEIRS & #FRB_CESAB seek proposals on #humanevolution + #biodiversity 🌱
🔹 IdeaShare: interdisciplinary ideas
🔹 DataShare: data harmonisation
🗓️ Deadline: 8 Sept 2025
📩 Apply: www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/en/calls/cal...

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · Aug 27

🎧 #Podcast: #ICArEHB’s @godefroyy.bsky.social on archaeology, #HumanEvolution & the #HEIRS project.
Listen: Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/4mVR...
Radio www.radio.pt/podcast/lets...

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · Aug 22

Introduction to Systematic Synthesis in Archaeology & Anthropology
More info at heirs.icarehb.com
#archaeology#anthropology #humanevolution #systematicreview #openresearch

ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · Jul 29

Why skip protocols in literature reviews? Join our hands-on course for rigorous synthesis in archaeology & anthropology, 29–31 Oct 2025, Faro 🇵🇹 Register👇
heirs.icarehb.com/calls-traini...
#archaeology #openscience #researchsynthesis #anthropology #HEIRS #ICArEHB

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · Aug 22

In the next #LEXA seminar, Dr Andrea Zupancich will explore #groundstone artefacts as powerful proxies for food practices, daily life, and cultural traditions in #prehistory.
📢Don't forget to re-register!
#Archaeology #ExperimentalArchaeology #ICArEHB

Tomos Proffitt @tomosproffitt.bsky.social · Aug 22

🪨🌿What can a stone tool tell us about human–plant relationships in prehistory?
Join Dr Andrea Zupancich at the next free @ICArEHB LEXA Seminar to explore groundstone artifacts, food practices & cultural traditions.
2nd of September at 2pm
🔗 Register: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · Aug 21

🎙️ ICArEHB Researcher Vera Aldeias featured in CNN Innovation at Encontro Ciência in Lisbon, sharing research with a global audience. Watch here: vimeo.com/1101598301/2...
#Archaeology #Outreach #ScienceCommunication #PublicEngagement #ICArEHB

CNN INOVAÇAO - FCT_OFF_V3

This is "CNN INOVAÇAO - FCT_OFF_V3" by BUBBLE CREATIVE STUDIO on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · Aug 20

📢 Open science, communication, and collaboration for the future of palaeoproteomics by Dekker, J.A.A., Peters, C., et al., in Peer Community Journal.
🔗 More info: doi.org/10.24072/pci...

Emerging standards, challenges and opportunities within palaeopr...

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · Aug 19

Javier Sánchez Martínez from ICArEHB and #CEPAPUAB gave a public talk at Camarasa Visitor Center (Lleida, Spain) sharing recent Pyrenees findings with local residents & visitors. We’re proud to bring science closer to the community!
#ScienceCommunication #Outreach #Pyrenees

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · Aug 18

📢 “The Non-Adult Burials of Cabeço da Amoreira, Muge (PT): Recent Discoveries and New Insights into Mesolithic Funerary Practices” by Coutinho-Nogueira, D., Godinho, R. M., André, L., Bicho, N., Cascalheira, J., Gonçalves, C., et al, in Child Past
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1758...

The Non-Adult Burials of Cabeço da Amoreira, Muge (Portugal): Recent Discoveries and New Insights into Mesolithic Funerary Practices

Cabeço da Amoreira, a key Mesolithic shell mound in the Muge region (central Portugal) provides critical insights into the funerary and socio-cultural practices of Western Europe’s last hunter-gath...

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