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New paper alert! 🎉 #teammember David Naumann’s study on the La Rochette Upper Paleolithic human remains is now out in PaleoAnthropology journal (early view). @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social 🦴💻📊 #openaccess
Link to the paper 🔗 : share.google/MVCG2U9dMFHN...
Congrats, David! 🙌🏻
#archeology
Link to the paper 🔗 : share.google/MVCG2U9dMFHN...
Congrats, David! 🙌🏻
#archeology
November 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
New paper alert! 🎉 #teammember David Naumann’s study on the La Rochette Upper Paleolithic human remains is now out in PaleoAnthropology journal (early view). @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social 🦴💻📊 #openaccess
Link to the paper 🔗 : share.google/MVCG2U9dMFHN...
Congrats, David! 🙌🏻
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Link to the paper 🔗 : share.google/MVCG2U9dMFHN...
Congrats, David! 🙌🏻
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The new issue of PaleoAnthropology is now online! 📢
It includes the Special Issue 'What’s in a Name? Late Middle and Early Late Pleistocene Hominin Systematics'
The cover features the article 'Revisiting the Anatomy of the Florisbad Hominin Cranium' by Balzeau et al.
#humanevolution #openaccess
It includes the Special Issue 'What’s in a Name? Late Middle and Early Late Pleistocene Hominin Systematics'
The cover features the article 'Revisiting the Anatomy of the Florisbad Hominin Cranium' by Balzeau et al.
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The latest issue of PaleoAnthropology is out now!
Volume 2025, Issue 2 #openaccess
📖Read Here: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
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Volume 2025, Issue 2 #openaccess
📖Read Here: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The new issue of PaleoAnthropology is now online! 📢
It includes the Special Issue 'What’s in a Name? Late Middle and Early Late Pleistocene Hominin Systematics'
The cover features the article 'Revisiting the Anatomy of the Florisbad Hominin Cranium' by Balzeau et al.
#humanevolution #openaccess
It includes the Special Issue 'What’s in a Name? Late Middle and Early Late Pleistocene Hominin Systematics'
The cover features the article 'Revisiting the Anatomy of the Florisbad Hominin Cranium' by Balzeau et al.
#humanevolution #openaccess
It’s a wrap! 🎉 Huge thanks to the organizers, members and everyone involved for making #ESHE2025 a success! 🙌 Special thanks to our Christina Siali for her wonderful work. 😊 And big congrats to Harmony Hill and Gabriel Russo for winning the student prizes! 🏆👏 See you next year in Burgos, Spain! ✨
September 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
It’s a wrap! 🎉 Huge thanks to the organizers, members and everyone involved for making #ESHE2025 a success! 🙌 Special thanks to our Christina Siali for her wonderful work. 😊 And big congrats to Harmony Hill and Gabriel Russo for winning the student prizes! 🏆👏 See you next year in Burgos, Spain! ✨
A snapshot from Katerina Harvati’s podium presentation at #ESHE2025 earlier today! ✨️ Her talk: “Middle Pleistocene funerary ritual at Apidima? An examination of evidence.” ☠️🌍🪨
September 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
A snapshot from Katerina Harvati’s podium presentation at #ESHE2025 earlier today! ✨️ Her talk: “Middle Pleistocene funerary ritual at Apidima? An examination of evidence.” ☠️🌍🪨
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Katerina Harvati ‘Middle Pleistocene funerary ritual at Apidima? An examination of evidence’
2 homs– 2 dates: Ap2: >170 ka (NEA), Ap1 >210 ka (early H sapiens).
Could it be mortuary ritual instead (Otte 2020)?! NO.
Analysis of tapho, homs in fissure! no pebbles, no pigments 😀
Katerina Harvati ‘Middle Pleistocene funerary ritual at Apidima? An examination of evidence’
2 homs– 2 dates: Ap2: >170 ka (NEA), Ap1 >210 ka (early H sapiens).
Could it be mortuary ritual instead (Otte 2020)?! NO.
Analysis of tapho, homs in fissure! no pebbles, no pigments 😀
September 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
#ESHE2025
Katerina Harvati ‘Middle Pleistocene funerary ritual at Apidima? An examination of evidence’
2 homs– 2 dates: Ap2: >170 ka (NEA), Ap1 >210 ka (early H sapiens).
Could it be mortuary ritual instead (Otte 2020)?! NO.
Analysis of tapho, homs in fissure! no pebbles, no pigments 😀
Katerina Harvati ‘Middle Pleistocene funerary ritual at Apidima? An examination of evidence’
2 homs– 2 dates: Ap2: >170 ka (NEA), Ap1 >210 ka (early H sapiens).
Could it be mortuary ritual instead (Otte 2020)?! NO.
Analysis of tapho, homs in fissure! no pebbles, no pigments 😀
And finally today, team members Gabriel Russo and Marya Soubra presented their latest work on sites in Lebanon at #ESHE2025 poster session! 🌍🐆🦴🐾 Congratulations to both! 🤗🤗
September 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
And finally today, team members Gabriel Russo and Marya Soubra presented their latest work on sites in Lebanon at #ESHE2025 poster session! 🌍🐆🦴🐾 Congratulations to both! 🤗🤗
#ESHE2025 featured posters from our team members on Greek sites: Klissoura (Marciani et al.), Megalopoli (Roditi et al.), and Apidima (Lombardo et al.)! 🌍🦴🐵 They couldn’t attend in person, but their work was well represented. 👏
September 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
#ESHE2025 featured posters from our team members on Greek sites: Klissoura (Marciani et al.), Megalopoli (Roditi et al.), and Apidima (Lombardo et al.)! 🌍🦴🐵 They couldn’t attend in person, but their work was well represented. 👏
The #ESHE2025 poster session was on fire today! 🔥 Check out the great work from our team members Katerina Harvati, Laura Limmer, David Naumann, and Caroline Röding. 🤗✨ Huge congratulations to all authors and co-authors! 👏👏👏
September 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The #ESHE2025 poster session was on fire today! 🔥 Check out the great work from our team members Katerina Harvati, Laura Limmer, David Naumann, and Caroline Röding. 🤗✨ Huge congratulations to all authors and co-authors! 👏👏👏
Team member Melania Ioannidou presented her poster on Ouranopithecus macedoniensis at #ESHE2025! 🐵🐒🦧 Congrats, Melania! 👏✨
September 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Team member Melania Ioannidou presented her poster on Ouranopithecus macedoniensis at #ESHE2025! 🐵🐒🦧 Congrats, Melania! 👏✨
Team member Majid Aljaber Abo Fakher kicked off this morning’s Pecha Kucha session at #ESHE2025 in Paris! His talk: “A strictly modern human trait? Tracing hypoconulid absence in first molars and its evolutionary implications.” 🦷🌍 Congrats, Majid! 👏🏻
September 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Team member Majid Aljaber Abo Fakher kicked off this morning’s Pecha Kucha session at #ESHE2025 in Paris! His talk: “A strictly modern human trait? Tracing hypoconulid absence in first molars and its evolutionary implications.” 🦷🌍 Congrats, Majid! 👏🏻
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Majid Aljaber Abo Fakher ‘A strictly modern human trait? Tracing hypoconulid in first molars and its evolutionary implications’
No LM1s hypoconulid: +% in WEurasia, India
ALL earlier homs have it – except: H floresiensis (but Matamenge has it!); earliest absence in W Eurasia: Ksar Akil
Majid Aljaber Abo Fakher ‘A strictly modern human trait? Tracing hypoconulid in first molars and its evolutionary implications’
No LM1s hypoconulid: +% in WEurasia, India
ALL earlier homs have it – except: H floresiensis (but Matamenge has it!); earliest absence in W Eurasia: Ksar Akil
September 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
#ESHE2025
Majid Aljaber Abo Fakher ‘A strictly modern human trait? Tracing hypoconulid in first molars and its evolutionary implications’
No LM1s hypoconulid: +% in WEurasia, India
ALL earlier homs have it – except: H floresiensis (but Matamenge has it!); earliest absence in W Eurasia: Ksar Akil
Majid Aljaber Abo Fakher ‘A strictly modern human trait? Tracing hypoconulid in first molars and its evolutionary implications’
No LM1s hypoconulid: +% in WEurasia, India
ALL earlier homs have it – except: H floresiensis (but Matamenge has it!); earliest absence in W Eurasia: Ksar Akil
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The #ESHE2025 meeting in Paris starts tomorrow (please use this hashtag for sharing). If you are interested in the program, you find it here mcusercontent.com/9347aa3598d5... - Members have received an email for accessing the live stream! We hope you all enjoy the conference in person or online. /MW
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September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The #ESHE2025 meeting in Paris starts tomorrow (please use this hashtag for sharing). If you are interested in the program, you find it here mcusercontent.com/9347aa3598d5... - Members have received an email for accessing the live stream! We hope you all enjoy the conference in person or online. /MW
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Time flies and soon it will be time to close the Apidima excavation, after a very productive season!🔨👲
In the meantime, here's a Field Friday photo of the team in Cave D 😍
#fieldfriday #humanevolution #ERC
In the meantime, here's a Field Friday photo of the team in Cave D 😍
#fieldfriday #humanevolution #ERC
September 19, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Time flies and soon it will be time to close the Apidima excavation, after a very productive season!🔨👲
In the meantime, here's a Field Friday photo of the team in Cave D 😍
#fieldfriday #humanevolution #ERC
In the meantime, here's a Field Friday photo of the team in Cave D 😍
#fieldfriday #humanevolution #ERC
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August 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The 2025 excavation season is now officially underway at Apidima in Greece! ⛏️✨️
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