This week, www.thoca.org celebrates years of new research in Central Asia, with researchers convening in Copenhagen to discuss the state-of-art and new questions to address next! Exciting days, and exciting science ahead!

And that was it, the 11th @icaz-news.bsky.social AGPM meeting here in Copenhagen is over! Lots of interesting talks and posters on genetics, proteomics and morphometrics in zooarchaeological reseeach, with attendees from 5 different continents! Thanks to everyone for such an enjoyable meeting :).

Paris and @welkergroup.bsky.social are ready for #ESHE2025!

Last week we had a celebration, with @dorotheamylop.bsky.social defending her PhD @unileiden.bsky.social! Big congratulations to Dora🎉

As a hemimandible with various teeth, the morphology of the Penghu mandible together with the morphology of the previously described teeth from Denisova Cave and the mandible from Baishiya Karst Cave provides some further clarity on Denisovan mandibular morphology.

Its revealing as a Denisovan provides fossil evidence that Denisovans ranged all the way to the eastern end of East Asia, far removed from the only two places from which Denisovan fossils with molecular evidence have been recovered before (Denisova Cave, Russia, and Baishiya Karst Cave, China).

What a way to end the month! Last week I had the opportunity to talk all things Denisovans at the Vin&Videnskab public lecture series. Thanks to SNM and @mogenstrolle.bsky.social for the invite, @lauritsskov.bsky.social for talking about Neanderthals, and the fun audience to come and listen!