Hannes Rathmann
@hannesrathmann.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher | Osteoarchaeology | Paleoanthropology | Biological Anthropology | Dental Morphology | Burials | Senckenberg | University of Tübingen
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Really cool study looking at how behaviour precedes morphological change across taxa - and implications for human evolution 💀🧪 massive congrats to all the authors, including @vivek123.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution
Dietary shifts and corresponding morphological changes can sometimes evolve in succession, not concurrently—an evolutionary process called behavioral drive. Detecting behavioral drive in the fossil re...
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August 1, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Really cool study looking at how behaviour precedes morphological change across taxa - and implications for human evolution 💀🧪 massive congrats to all the authors, including @vivek123.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Very proud of my Master's student, Kim Hofmann, who was awarded the 500€ Rudolf Virchow Prize for her outstanding thesis! The prize was presented by Prof. Raiko Krauss, chairman of the Berlin Society for #Anthropology, #Ethnology, and #Prehistory. Congratulations, Kim!
July 29, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Very proud of my Master's student, Kim Hofmann, who was awarded the 500€ Rudolf Virchow Prize for her outstanding thesis! The prize was presented by Prof. Raiko Krauss, chairman of the Berlin Society for #Anthropology, #Ethnology, and #Prehistory. Congratulations, Kim!
An amazing study by brilliant colleagues and dear friends. Give it a read!
Published today in @nature.com our new study on the drivers of the successful dispersal of modern humans out of Africa! A huge, interdisciplinary team effort long in the making, headed by @elliescerri.bsky.social . Glad to have contributed! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #archaeology #Evolution
Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal - Nature
Analysis of species distribution models in a pan-African database comprising chronometrically dated archaeological sites over the past 120,000 years shows major expansion in the human niche from 70 ka...
www.nature.com
June 19, 2025 at 10:52 AM
An amazing study by brilliant colleagues and dear friends. Give it a read!
Honoured to serve on the Advisory Committee for the DeMoDa project at @cenieh.bsky.social this week, powered by @hlusko.bsky.social’s ERC project Tied2Teeth – together with eight fellow experts in dental anthropology.
www.cenieh.es/en/press/new...
www.cenieh.es/en/press/new...
June 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Honoured to serve on the Advisory Committee for the DeMoDa project at @cenieh.bsky.social this week, powered by @hlusko.bsky.social’s ERC project Tied2Teeth – together with eight fellow experts in dental anthropology.
www.cenieh.es/en/press/new...
www.cenieh.es/en/press/new...
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I am extremely honored that our Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS' was selected for funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft!! This is incredible news and I look forward to exciting times ahead setting up this new Cluster!
May 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I am extremely honored that our Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS' was selected for funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft!! This is incredible news and I look forward to exciting times ahead setting up this new Cluster!
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🚨NEW PAPER from the @eegcam.bsky.social!🚨I have never been as proud of something as of the work that finally we can share today: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - we show how a climatically driven Pan African meta population model explains our species genetic and morphological diversity 🧬💀
Pan-African metapopulation model explains Homo sapiens genetic and morphological evolution
Emerging evidence has challenged the traditional view of a single-region origin for Homo sapiens, suggesting instead that our species arose and diversified across multiple geographically distinct popu...
www.biorxiv.org
May 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
🚨NEW PAPER from the @eegcam.bsky.social!🚨I have never been as proud of something as of the work that finally we can share today: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - we show how a climatically driven Pan African meta population model explains our species genetic and morphological diversity 🧬💀
Truly honored to have received this award - thank you so much! 🥳 It was a pleasure meeting so many new colleagues and friends at #HumanEvo25 ! @martamlahr.bsky.social @lquintanamurci.bsky.social @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social
Congratulations to our poster and short talk prize winners who presented at this week's Human Evolution conference! 👏#HumanEvo25
We're impressed by the quality of the research presented. Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors!
Thanks to @hpgg-pivot.bsky.social for sponsoring the prizes.
We're impressed by the quality of the research presented. Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors!
Thanks to @hpgg-pivot.bsky.social for sponsoring the prizes.
May 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Truly honored to have received this award - thank you so much! 🥳 It was a pleasure meeting so many new colleagues and friends at #HumanEvo25 ! @martamlahr.bsky.social @lquintanamurci.bsky.social @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social
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@hannesrathmann.bsky.social
Exploring human migrations & demographic change resulting from environ. change.
Applying new Pheno-ABC modelling method to skeletal phenotypes 🦷 Results show significant population migration patterns beginning ~47kya, changing ~28kya and again after ~14kya.
#HumanEvo25
Exploring human migrations & demographic change resulting from environ. change.
Applying new Pheno-ABC modelling method to skeletal phenotypes 🦷 Results show significant population migration patterns beginning ~47kya, changing ~28kya and again after ~14kya.
#HumanEvo25
April 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
@hannesrathmann.bsky.social
Exploring human migrations & demographic change resulting from environ. change.
Applying new Pheno-ABC modelling method to skeletal phenotypes 🦷 Results show significant population migration patterns beginning ~47kya, changing ~28kya and again after ~14kya.
#HumanEvo25
Exploring human migrations & demographic change resulting from environ. change.
Applying new Pheno-ABC modelling method to skeletal phenotypes 🦷 Results show significant population migration patterns beginning ~47kya, changing ~28kya and again after ~14kya.
#HumanEvo25
Ouch! This Celtic warrior took an arrow to the butt 🏹 But thanks to some surprisingly advanced ancient medics, he survived! A peek into healthcare 2,500 years ago: doi.org/10.1002/oa.3...
#Archaeology
#Anthropology
#Archaeology
#Anthropology
April 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Ouch! This Celtic warrior took an arrow to the butt 🏹 But thanks to some surprisingly advanced ancient medics, he survived! A peek into healthcare 2,500 years ago: doi.org/10.1002/oa.3...
#Archaeology
#Anthropology
#Archaeology
#Anthropology
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This week, I presented our research on skeletal trauma prevalence estimation at the Meeting of the Society for Anthropology in Kiel #bioanthropology #skeletaltrauma #paleopathology
Our 2024 OA paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415..., co-authored by @hannesrathmann.bsky.social & @matteosanton.bsky.social
Our 2024 OA paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415..., co-authored by @hannesrathmann.bsky.social & @matteosanton.bsky.social
Estimating trauma prevalence from incomplete human skeletal remains - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Estimating trauma prevalence from incomplete human skeletal remains
doi.org
April 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
This week, I presented our research on skeletal trauma prevalence estimation at the Meeting of the Society for Anthropology in Kiel #bioanthropology #skeletaltrauma #paleopathology
Our 2024 OA paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415..., co-authored by @hannesrathmann.bsky.social & @matteosanton.bsky.social
Our 2024 OA paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415..., co-authored by @hannesrathmann.bsky.social & @matteosanton.bsky.social
Just wrapped up the 15th International Meeting of the Society for Anthropology with a wonderful visit to the #Haithabu Viking Museum. Many thanks to Katharina Fuchs for organizing this interesting conference, where I met many new colleagues and friends.
April 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Just wrapped up the 15th International Meeting of the Society for Anthropology with a wonderful visit to the #Haithabu Viking Museum. Many thanks to Katharina Fuchs for organizing this interesting conference, where I met many new colleagues and friends.
Visited the stunning #HolleyShelter site in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Super interesting tour by the excavator Gregor Bader
March 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Visited the stunning #HolleyShelter site in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Super interesting tour by the excavator Gregor Bader
Know a colleague who has made a novel research contribution to dental anthropology? Nominate them for the 2025 Innovation in Dental Anthropology Award! Deadline is March 10. More info here: www.dentalanthropology.org/innovation
February 21, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Know a colleague who has made a novel research contribution to dental anthropology? Nominate them for the 2025 Innovation in Dental Anthropology Award! Deadline is March 10. More info here: www.dentalanthropology.org/innovation
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🚨Come work with us in charming Tübingen and become a member of our growing Freigeist group! We offer a 2-year postdoc position on the communicative plasticity in wild and captive bonobos, fully funded by @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social. Applications open until March 15th. bit.ly/4gVa5Je
Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)
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February 19, 2025 at 9:04 AM
🚨Come work with us in charming Tübingen and become a member of our growing Freigeist group! We offer a 2-year postdoc position on the communicative plasticity in wild and captive bonobos, fully funded by @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social. Applications open until March 15th. bit.ly/4gVa5Je
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An important new paper by @beademarch.bsky.social and her team challenges how we use ancient proteins to study the past.
Analysis of 1,832 sequences from waterfowl (ducks & geese) reveals why palaeoproteomics isn't the simple solution we hoped for...
👇🧵 1/4
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
Analysis of 1,832 sequences from waterfowl (ducks & geese) reveals why palaeoproteomics isn't the simple solution we hoped for...
👇🧵 1/4
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
February 16, 2025 at 8:24 AM
An important new paper by @beademarch.bsky.social and her team challenges how we use ancient proteins to study the past.
Analysis of 1,832 sequences from waterfowl (ducks & geese) reveals why palaeoproteomics isn't the simple solution we hoped for...
👇🧵 1/4
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
Analysis of 1,832 sequences from waterfowl (ducks & geese) reveals why palaeoproteomics isn't the simple solution we hoped for...
👇🧵 1/4
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
Had such an amazing and inspiring time at the HEIRS Opening Symposium at ICArEHB in Faro (@icarehb.bsky.social). Don’t miss out on their new exciting funding opportunities for synthesis projects in human evolution:[
heirs.icarehb.com/calls-traini...
heirs.icarehb.com/calls-traini...
February 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Had such an amazing and inspiring time at the HEIRS Opening Symposium at ICArEHB in Faro (@icarehb.bsky.social). Don’t miss out on their new exciting funding opportunities for synthesis projects in human evolution:[
heirs.icarehb.com/calls-traini...
heirs.icarehb.com/calls-traini...
Interesting read: The skeleton from the Octagon at Ephesos isn't Cleopatra's sister Arsinoë after all. It's a Roman boy with growth disorders.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
The cranium from the Octagon in Ephesos - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - The cranium from the Octagon in Ephesos
doi.org
January 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Interesting read: The skeleton from the Octagon at Ephesos isn't Cleopatra's sister Arsinoë after all. It's a Roman boy with growth disorders.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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1/ #NewPaperAlert: Thrilled to finally share our new paper on #Fumane Cave after a long and time-consuming research process! 🏺
#Archaeology #Anthropology #Paleolithic #StoneTools #HumanEvolution #FlintFriday #FossilFriday
Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#Archaeology #Anthropology #Paleolithic #StoneTools #HumanEvolution #FlintFriday #FossilFriday
Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Refitting the Context: A Reconsideration of Cultural Change among Early Homo sapiens at Fumane Cave through Blade Break Connections, Spatial Taphonomy, and Lithic Technology - Journal of Paleolithic A...
High-resolution stratigraphic frameworks are crucial for unraveling the biocultural processes behind the dispersals of Homo sapiens across Europe. Detailed technological studies of lithic assemblages ...
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January 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
1/ #NewPaperAlert: Thrilled to finally share our new paper on #Fumane Cave after a long and time-consuming research process! 🏺
#Archaeology #Anthropology #Paleolithic #StoneTools #HumanEvolution #FlintFriday #FossilFriday
Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#Archaeology #Anthropology #Paleolithic #StoneTools #HumanEvolution #FlintFriday #FossilFriday
Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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This is the exciting paper drop. New aDNA science out of Dublin.
Matrilineal descent systems demonstrated for Late Iron Age Dorset.
Building on the work of Mel Giles (2012) who first spotted the potential for it in the archaeology of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Matrilineal descent systems demonstrated for Late Iron Age Dorset.
Building on the work of Mel Giles (2012) who first spotted the potential for it in the archaeology of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain - Nature
An analysis of ancient mitochondrial and nuclear DNA shows evidence of matrilocal communities in Iron Age Britain.
www.nature.com
January 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is the exciting paper drop. New aDNA science out of Dublin.
Matrilineal descent systems demonstrated for Late Iron Age Dorset.
Building on the work of Mel Giles (2012) who first spotted the potential for it in the archaeology of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Matrilineal descent systems demonstrated for Late Iron Age Dorset.
Building on the work of Mel Giles (2012) who first spotted the potential for it in the archaeology of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Happy to share my latest work with archaeologist @manuelwill.bsky.social on lithic flake variability at the Middle Stone Age site of Sibhudu, South Africa. As a bioanthropologist, this was my first non-bone paper, and I loved the interdisciplinary journey!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Exploring the utility of unretouched lithic flakes as markers of cultural change - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Exploring the utility of unretouched lithic flakes as markers of cultural change
www.nature.com
January 12, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Happy to share my latest work with archaeologist @manuelwill.bsky.social on lithic flake variability at the Middle Stone Age site of Sibhudu, South Africa. As a bioanthropologist, this was my first non-bone paper, and I loved the interdisciplinary journey!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Science reporting on the mass resignation of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution, highlighting some of the problems with commercial scientific publishing.
OA PaleoAnthropology journal (www.paleoanthropology.org) highlighted among JHE's successors
#openaccess #humanevolution
OA PaleoAnthropology journal (www.paleoanthropology.org) highlighted among JHE's successors
#openaccess #humanevolution
Journal editors’ mass resignation marks ‘sad day for paleoanthropology’
Exodus from the Journal of Human Evolution leaves a flagship journal in crisis
www.science.org
January 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Science reporting on the mass resignation of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution, highlighting some of the problems with commercial scientific publishing.
OA PaleoAnthropology journal (www.paleoanthropology.org) highlighted among JHE's successors
#openaccess #humanevolution
OA PaleoAnthropology journal (www.paleoanthropology.org) highlighted among JHE's successors
#openaccess #humanevolution
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Can we use mere stone flakes to track cultural change?
@hannesrathmann.bsky.social and I test this with simple flake attributes & a newly developed statistical method! All data, methods and code are #openaccess
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#archaeology #statistics #openscience
Feedback welcome!
Can we use mere stone flakes to track cultural change?
@hannesrathmann.bsky.social and I test this with simple flake attributes & a newly developed statistical method! All data, methods and code are #openaccess
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#archaeology #statistics #openscience
Feedback welcome!
Exploring the utility of unretouched lithic flakes as markers of cultural change - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Exploring the utility of unretouched lithic flakes as markers of cultural change
www.nature.com
January 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Can we use mere stone flakes to track cultural change?
@hannesrathmann.bsky.social and I test this with simple flake attributes & a newly developed statistical method! All data, methods and code are #openaccess
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#archaeology #statistics #openscience
Feedback welcome!
Can we use mere stone flakes to track cultural change?
@hannesrathmann.bsky.social and I test this with simple flake attributes & a newly developed statistical method! All data, methods and code are #openaccess
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#archaeology #statistics #openscience
Feedback welcome!
Let’s make 'thinking time' for scientists a year-round habit, not just a luxury of the Christmas holiday season. 🧠🎄
December 29, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Let’s make 'thinking time' for scientists a year-round habit, not just a luxury of the Christmas holiday season. 🧠🎄
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Our new paper announcing a freely available database of 3D scans of primate skeletal material--a major effort led by Sergio Almécija & his team at the American Museum of Natural History.
🧪 🏺 #paleosky #anatomy #primates #anthropology #morphology #zoology #paleoanthropology #openscience
🧪 🏺 #paleosky #anatomy #primates #anthropology #morphology #zoology #paleoanthropology #openscience
Primate Phenotypes: A Multi-Institution Collection of 3D Morphological Data Housed in MorphoSource - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Primate Phenotypes: A Multi-Institution Collection of 3D Morphological Data Housed in MorphoSource
www.nature.com
December 18, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Our new paper announcing a freely available database of 3D scans of primate skeletal material--a major effort led by Sergio Almécija & his team at the American Museum of Natural History.
🧪 🏺 #paleosky #anatomy #primates #anthropology #morphology #zoology #paleoanthropology #openscience
🧪 🏺 #paleosky #anatomy #primates #anthropology #morphology #zoology #paleoanthropology #openscience
A great new #anthropology read in @currentbiology.bsky.social for anyone interested in human dental morphology and variation: 🦷
www.cell.com/current-biol...
The study identifies novel genetic variants influencing tooth crown dimensions, some of which were introgressed from Neanderthals.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
The study identifies novel genetic variants influencing tooth crown dimensions, some of which were introgressed from Neanderthals.
PITX2 expression and Neanderthal introgression in HS3ST3A1 contribute to variation in tooth dimensions in modern humans
Tooth morphology varies through evolution and in modern human populations, but little is known about the genetics of this variation. Li et al. identify genes associated with tooth crown dimensions and expressed during dental development. Variants in one gene stem from Neanderthal, suggesting their role in human dental evolution.
www.cell.com
December 17, 2024 at 8:33 AM
A great new #anthropology read in @currentbiology.bsky.social for anyone interested in human dental morphology and variation: 🦷
www.cell.com/current-biol...
The study identifies novel genetic variants influencing tooth crown dimensions, some of which were introgressed from Neanderthals.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
The study identifies novel genetic variants influencing tooth crown dimensions, some of which were introgressed from Neanderthals.