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Cluster of Excellence ROOTS @clusterroots.bsky.social · 10d

Michaela Ecker leitet die #EmmyNoether-Gruppe @khoproject.bsky.social an der @uni-kiel.de. Sie erforscht die Auswirkungen extremer Klimaveränderungen im Mittel- und Spätpleistozän auf die menschliche Evolution in der südlichen Kalahari. Mehr zur Forschung 👇
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Über das Projekt Die Emmy Noether-Gruppe “Kgalagadi Human Origins” startete im Juni 2021. Das auf sechs Jahre angelegte Projekt erforscht die Auswirkungen der extremen Klimaveränderungen im Mittel-…

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Kgalagadi Human Origins Project @khoproject.bsky.social · 10d

#TDE25 #ZukunftDurchWandel

Cluster of Excellence ROOTS @clusterroots.bsky.social · 10d

Heute finden die offiziellen Feiern zum Tag der deutschen Einheit in Saarbrücken statt. Mittendrin ist ROOTS-PI Michaela Ecker (2. v. re). Sie ist eine von acht Schleswig-Holsteiner*innen, die die Landesregierung SH als Bürger*innendelegation zu den Feiern ins Saarland eingeladen hat (1/2)

Gruppenbild mit festlich gekleideten Menschen auf einem gepflasterten Platz vor einer barocken Kirche

Kgalagadi Human Origins Project @khoproject.bsky.social · 13d

Inèz will stay with us for another 6 month in Kiel and she has several papers in review, so watch this space! #WomenInStem #PhDlife #Postdoclife #academia

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Kgalagadi Human Origins Project @khoproject.bsky.social · 13d

Conratulations to Inèz Faul for submitting her PhD thesis to @uni-kiel.de today 🥳 🎓 We are proud of you! Inèz studied the formation processes and past environment at pans in the #Kgalagadi #Botswana with geoarchaeological methods - and is our first PhD student to submitt!

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Kgalagadi Human Origins Project @khoproject.bsky.social · 19d

It's already the end of this year's #fieldwork but not before we met the German Ambassador in Gaborone and made plans for the future, talking about @khoproject.bsky.social and @clusterroots.bsky.social projects.

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Kgalagadi Human Origins Project @khoproject.bsky.social · 21d

Beautiful panels decorate the outside of the Botswana National Museum. The renovations are almost finished, we look forward to the opening. We visited some first rooms that are open today. #archaeology 🇧🇼

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Kgalagadi Human Origins Project @khoproject.bsky.social · 24d

We had two great days with the years standard 5,6 and 7 of Maleshe and Khisa village this week. We tried to explain our research in interactive stations in small groups - even a song was created! #ScienceCommunication #fieldwork #nextGeneration #archaeology

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Kgalagadi Human Origins Project @khoproject.bsky.social · 24d

For us, there needs to be a choice of at least two flavours, one with chocolate of course, each day. We had people announcing strikes when biscuits were forgotten.

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OGU Bristol @ogu-bristol.bsky.social · 24d

Save the date for UKAS 2026! The next UK Archaeological Sciences conference will be held at the University of Bristol from 31st March to 2nd April 2026.

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Kgalagadi Human Origins Project @khoproject.bsky.social · 25d

We talked at SAfA and he couldn't come out this time, but there is a potential collaboration in planning.

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Kgalagadi Human Origins Project @khoproject.bsky.social · 25d

Yes! We were very happy about that. I owe Matt an email in the next few days 😁

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Kgalagadi Human Origins Project @khoproject.bsky.social · 25d

The last days we spend a lot of time with these quartzite bedrock outcrops - recording every detail 📷 📐✍️✏️ 🪨 to understand their use as raw material source during the Stone Age #fieldwork #kgalagadi. Inspired by a paper from Matt Lotter et al. 2024 in Southern African Field Archaeology

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ROCEEH Research Center @roceeh.bsky.social · 26d

Submit an abstract to the dedicated session on use cases of the ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD) at CAA 2025 in Vienna!

S25: How to do ROAD: An Essential Tool for Conducting Multidisciplinary Studies Related to Human Evolution

Deadline: October 26th 2025
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Elena A Hensel-Karamalakidou @geoarchamelie.bsky.social · 27d

Enjoying office hours during field work!
#womeninstem

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Kgalagadi Human Origins Project @khoproject.bsky.social · 28d

Our geoarchaeology team led by @geoarchamelie.bsky.social has been very busy the last few days making holes, sampling and refilling them all in a day each time 💪🪏#WomenInStem #girlpower #fieldwork #kglagadi

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 28d

PhD Studentship alert!
I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia.
Details in the link below!
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Kgalagadi Human Origins Project @khoproject.bsky.social · Sep 13

We had a lot of fun excavating a small rock shelter with a stunning view yesterday. Who said there are no rock shelters in the Kalahari? Might have been our leader @isotopesrule.bsky.social ... #kgalagadi #fieldwork 🦣🏺🇧🇼

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Universität Kiel (CAU) @uni-kiel.de · Sep 12

Am 26. September ist #ScienceDayKiel! Die #UniKiel ist u.a. mit den Exzellenzclustern PMI und @clusterroots.bsky.social, @kielunimarine.bsky.social im Erlebnisraum „SEALEVEL” und der Technischen Fakultät dabei.

KielRegion: Science Day am 26. September

Am 26. September 2025 dreht sich europaweit wieder alles um die Wissenschaft. Auch in diesem Jahr laden die wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen der KielRegion zum Science Day im Rahmen des Science Summers ein – und bieten spannende Einblicke in die Welt von Forschung und Innovation.

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Elena A Hensel-Karamalakidou @geoarchamelie.bsky.social · Sep 11

Even a single rock has a story to tell! Botswana's landscape holds so many stories!

Enjoying #fieldwork and #geoarchaeology at
#Kgalagadi

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Kgalagadi Human Origins Project @khoproject.bsky.social · Sep 10

Our team currently in the field in 🇧🇼 is having a great time #Kgalagadi #archaeology #fieldwork #WomenInSTEM @geoarchamelie.bsky.social @isotopesrule.bsky.social

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Kgalagadi Human Origins Project @khoproject.bsky.social · Sep 9

When you arrive at a new pan to survey and disturb the local birds 🇧🇼 #fieldwork #Kgalagadi video by @geoarchamelie.bsky.social

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Kgalagadi Human Origins Project @khoproject.bsky.social · Sep 7

Can you spot our two geoarchaeologists @geoarchamelie.bsky.social and Hannah at Tswai pan today? #Fieldwork #Botswana #Kgalagadi #SundayWork

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Kgalagadi Human Origins Project @khoproject.bsky.social · Sep 6

Sunrise in Tsabong for our first day of #fieldwork 2025 #Kgalagadi #Kalahari #Botswana #nofilter

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Kgalagadi Human Origins Project @khoproject.bsky.social · Sep 5

After two busy days in Gabs we are hitting the open road into the #Kalahari and are on our way to Tsabong #Kgalagadi 🇧🇼 @geoarchamelie.bsky.social @isotopesrule.bsky.social

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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · Sep 3

I am looking for a multispecies archaeologist with a strong theoretical and interpretive profile to join my group (100%, 3 years): uni.koeln/2E7CR

Deadline: 30.09.2025.
Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21")

@nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social

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