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News from the #Paleoanthropology 🦴🦷⚒️ lab at the University of Tübingen 🎓 & Senckenberg 🌍
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
November 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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
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
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
#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
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
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
The 2025 excavation season is now officially underway at Apidima in Greece! ⛏️✨️
#excavations #fieldseason #Paleoanthropology
August 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
📢Now hiring:independent junior research group leader-Biomechanics🦴💻
The #HumanOrigins Cluster at Uni Tübingen invites applications for a leader in biomechanics.
📝Start: Jan 1, 2026
🗓 Deadline: Sept 10, 2025
Interested? Apply now!
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August 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
📢Job Opportunity:independent junior research group leader-Experimental Archaeology 🪨🪏The Cluster of Excellence #HumanOrigins at Uni Tübingen seeks a researcher in experimental archaeology!
📝Job starts Jan 1, 2026
🗓 Apply by Sept 10, 2025
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August 8, 2025 at 7:43 AM
📢Position open:Independent
junior research group leader:genotype-phenotype interactions🧬🔎
The #HumanOrigins Cluster at Uni Tübingen seeks an expert in genotype-phenotype interactions.
📝Start: Jan 1, 2026
🗓 Apply by Sept 10, 2025
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August 8, 2025 at 7:37 AM
We’re excited to share that the #CROSSROADS VOLUME is published and also printed!🥳It features 28 contributions from the closing CROSSROADS symposium (Feb. 2022, Tübingen).
It took time, but was worth the wait!✨️Edited by K. Harvati & M. Ioannidou.
Congrats to all involved!🎉
Link: tinyurl.com/4s5mwdht
August 4, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Congratulations to George Konidaris on successfully completing his #habilitation! A major milestone and well-deserved recognition of his academic dedication and expertise. ✨️👏🏻🎉
#PrivatDozent
July 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
New Dr. on the block! 👩‍🎓 Huge congrats to Dr. Stella Kyrikou on successfully defending her PhD on paleoenvironmental research in the Megalopolis Basin! ✨️👏🏻 Well done! 🎉

#PhDDefense #Paleoenvironment #MegalopolisBasin
July 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Happy #FossilFriday from the TSR locality (Greece): a horse calcaneus, a carnivoran metapodial and a long bone shaft fragment, possibly leftovers from a Pachycrocuta brevirostris, the giant #hyena of the #Pleistocene! 🦴🐾🐺

Curious for more? See Katsagoni et al. (2023)⬇️
doi.org/10.1080/0891...
June 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Exciting week ahead! 🦴🛠 Paleontological #excavations kicked off this Monday at the TSR locality (Lower Pleistocene) in Greece - a joint effort between Uni Tübingen and Uni Thessaloniki. 🙌🏻🙏🏼 Stay tuned for some exciting discoveries! 👀✨️🦴
June 18, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Great to see our PhD student Serena Lombardo presenting at the SAA meeting in Denver! Her talk, “Early Upper Paleolithic Technical Behavior at Apidima (Peloponnese, Greece): Technological Analysis of the Lithic Assemblage from Cave C,” highlighted our exciting ongoing research at Apidima! Congrats!🤩
April 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
📢Job alert!

W3 (Full) Professorship in Human Ecology at the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen.

⛓️‍💥 berufungen.uni-tuebingen.de

Deadline for applications: May 22, 2025 🗓

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For questions please contact Prof. Harvati.
April 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
New #openaccess paper by our PhD student, Stephanie Lismann, and other colleagues on the reconstruction of the demographic profile of Final Neolithic and Early Bronze populations in Baden-Württemberg, Germany! Congrats! 🎉
⛓️‍💥 Link to the paper ⬇️
journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ak...
April 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
New #openaccess paper by Carolin Röding et al.
"Dentition of the Mugharet El'Aliya Fossil Human Maxilla, Morocco". 🦷🔎

Congrats to all authors!👏🏻🎉 @chrisbstringer.bsky.social

Check it here ⬇️
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
February 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
Excited to share a new #openaccess paper by Salazar-Fernández et al. on shape changes in humeral metaphyses and their usefulness for estimating age in skeletal individuals. ☠️ Congratulations to all authors! 😊🥳
Check it out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
January 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Excited to be in Ravenna for a #FIRSTSTEPS meeting with many team members! Thank you Bones Lab for having us! 😊

#archeology #teamwork
January 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Christmas lab meeting 🎄✨️
We had to use a wide angle lens to fit all the team in one photo. 🤭🤩
December 17, 2024 at 1:11 PM
New Dr.rer.nat in the team! 😉 Many congratulations to Frini Roditi for successfully defending her PhD! 🥳 Great work! ✨️
December 17, 2024 at 9:26 AM
Excited to participate in the upcoming FITCH conference later this week in the British School at Athens, celebrating 50 years of archeological science in Greece! Here is the link to the website where you can find the schedule. 👀😎Looking forward to it 🤩
www.bsa.ac.uk/events/fitch...
November 27, 2024 at 9:14 AM