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Colin D. Wren
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Assoc. Prof. of Archaeology at UCCS in Colorado, mind usually other places. Agent-based models and quantitative methods usually for the Palaeolithic.
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🚨Tenure-track job posting!!🚨 My department at Uni of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) is seeking applicants for our Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology position! Please share and distribute widely! 🏺 cu.taleo.net/careersectio...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Legit, who wants to work on a women-through-prehistory timeslip computer game with me? I HAVE IDEAS
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November 12, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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I like how the small tools look like Goldfish crackers. 🧪🏺
Ancient DNA reveals mysterious Indigenous lineage that lived in Argentina for nearly 8,500 years — but rarely interacted with others
A previously unknown Indigenous population lived in central Argentina for nearly 8,500 years, a new genetic study finds.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Latest paper: Boxgrove is a key European site dating to 480,000 years ago. At GTP17, hominins knapped handaxes and then butchered an adult female horse. A fragment of the horse's scapula appeared to have evidence of impact from a wooden spear.....
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November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Super excited to use this fabulous ‘Behind the Paper’ article by @petravaiglova.bsky.social and @kjkillackey.bsky.social to teach my undergrad theory students about how good visualisations are well-theorised ones. Such a wonderful piece of sci comm! 🏺🧪

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Making cutting-edge archaeological science accessible to others
Archaeological scientists are constantly pushing the boundaries with regards to increasing the resolution of analyses and decreasing the masses of what can be analysed. But being cutting-edge is not e...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Arrowheads from the 13th-century-BC conflict in the Tollense Valley 🇩🇪
Variation in their forms suggest some of the combatants came from many kilometres away, adding to evidence for a clash between local and incoming groups.

🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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November 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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This is such a great paper. We make endless small steps ahead in archaeology every week. I remember when I was starting out and the number of colleagues who told
me not to waste my time with satellite imagery analysis. Now, it's used by everyone. Tremendous use case here. 🏺
These are chacus: funnel-shaped hunting traps used in the high altitudes of northern Chile to capture vicuña, a wild relative of the alpaca. Even after herding and agropastoralism was adopted, chacus continued to be used by persevering forager groups.

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November 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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As more people in Southwest Asia began living in cities, how did they ensure they had enough food?
#Zooarchaeology shows they were reliant on rural satellite settlements to support increasingly large and diverse urban populations #WorldUrbanismDay

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November 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Deadline approaches for our open professorship here at @au.dk @auarcher.bsky.social. Get in touch if you have q

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Full Professorship(s) in Archaeology - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University
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November 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Heyyyy we desperately need more archaeologists to volunteer to answer questions from students via video chat through @skypeascientist.bsky.social.

We have 80 unmatched teams. We’ve already matched 650 😵‍💫

If you know any archaeologists, please send them here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
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Skype a Scientist gives you the opportunity to connect with students and the public around the world. ​
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October 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Our own Prof Eileen Murphy looking great as well she may!
October 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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The mausoleum of China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, is best-known for the terracotta warriors, but analysis of charred timbers here sheds light on the sophisticated logistical planning and resource mobilisation of the Qin Dynasty.

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October 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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What was everyday life like in ancient West Africa?

Excavation at the c. AD 1456–1661 Yoruba town of Orile-Owu, Nigeria sheds light on diet, food processing, medicinal practices and daily routines during a period of sociopolitical change.

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October 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Revisiting old Liang Bua documentaries and getting a kick out of this scene. 🏺
October 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Paranthropus boisei is a human fossil cousin w/ giant jaws and teeth that lived in East Africa ~2.6 to 1.3 million years ago. Whether it could make & use tools has been a paleoanthropological mystery since the 1960s. Our new paper describes the first firmly associated hand and foot. 1/
New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei - Nature
Analyses of newly discovered hand and foot bones of a Paranthropus boisei specimen provide insight into possible tool use and other palaeobiology characteristics among Plio-Pleistocene hominin species...
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October 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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What human-made structures are visible from space, and what does this mean?
🧪 🏺 #PlanetSci
Things seen from space: the Great Wall of China
I t's quite a claim to make: that such-and-such a 'man-made' thing can be seen from space. The one people are probably most familiar with is...
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October 9, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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📰 What was thought to be a Palaeolithic oil lamp was likely in fact a 13,000-year-old paint pallet, and contains the oldest instance of blue pigment in Europe!

🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @smithsonianmag.bsky.social

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These Archaeologists Set Out in Search of Animal Fat. Instead, They Found the Oldest Blue Pigment Ever Discovered in Europe
Blue residue on a 13,000-year-old stone artifact, long believed to be an oil lamp, may paint a new picture of Paleolithic art and culture
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October 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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📢 Come join us! Penn State Anthropology is hiring *two tenure-track assistant professors*, one in human reproductive ecology and one in archaeology. Here are just a few reasons why working at Penn State is awesome:
October 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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@sriucl.bsky.social is HIRING 2 permanent Lecturers 🚀 in #QuantitativeSocialScience!

It comes with smart and lovely colleagues🌟, a central London office, and many big ideas and questions 🧐

Apply now! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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September 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Don’t be puzzled by the lack of deadline in the ad. This is an imposed HR quirk. Reviews will begin c. November 1st! Happy to field any questions! #archaeology
October 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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"My work takes up the theoretical challenge first posed fifty years ago that reliance on agriculture is responsible for a Neolithic increase in disease"

Brenna is one of the most modest AND most sharp scholars I know - this project will be fantastic!
so... the wellcome trust gave me a £1,000,000? and i didnt even have to hold the world to ransom.

i am super excited, going to be recruiting SOON for a phd and a postdoc, and could not do anything without my amazing collaborators <3

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Archaeology research project receives £1 million grant to better understand how people got sick
University of Lancashire’s Dr Brenna Hassett receives Wellcome funding to understand how the invention of farming, herding, and sedentism changed human disease.
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October 6, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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For more on this site and others in central Tanzania, check out our recent paper in African Archaeological Review 🏺
October 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM