@janfrel.bsky.social
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Very happy to share our new paper in PNAS, revealing a new late Neanderthal discovered through biomolecular techniques, revealing long-distance connections across Eurasia 🦴
@konstantinache.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
@konstantinache.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia | PNAS
The Crimean Peninsula contains several important Middle and Upper Paleolithic sites,
including Starosele, Kabazi II, and Siuren I. The region has b...
doi.org
October 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Very happy to share our new paper in PNAS, revealing a new late Neanderthal discovered through biomolecular techniques, revealing long-distance connections across Eurasia 🦴
@konstantinache.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
@konstantinache.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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⚠️Paper Alert!⚠️
Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion
rdcu.be/eJi3g
Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion
rdcu.be/eJi3g
Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology in Early Holocene Africa
Nature Communications - Several possible points of origin have been proposed for the spread of ceramic technology in Saharan Africa between 11–10,000 years ago. Here, the authors...
rdcu.be
October 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
⚠️Paper Alert!⚠️
Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion
rdcu.be/eJi3g
Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion
rdcu.be/eJi3g
Deborah Barsky and I interview Eudald Carbonell about his framework, the hominization and humanization process.
Utimately, we need larger concepts through which we understand the archaeo record, that also necessarily capture the humanistic motive to learn about them. Carbonell’s offering is potent.
Utimately, we need larger concepts through which we understand the archaeo record, that also necessarily capture the humanistic motive to learn about them. Carbonell’s offering is potent.
Popular Archeology - The Multi-Million-Year Path to Becoming Human—Are We Actually There Yet?
A conversation with the legendary evolutionary thinker and archaeologist, Eudald Carbonell.
popular-archaeology.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Deborah Barsky and I interview Eudald Carbonell about his framework, the hominization and humanization process.
Utimately, we need larger concepts through which we understand the archaeo record, that also necessarily capture the humanistic motive to learn about them. Carbonell’s offering is potent.
Utimately, we need larger concepts through which we understand the archaeo record, that also necessarily capture the humanistic motive to learn about them. Carbonell’s offering is potent.
Here I talk to JP Mallory about the quest to identify the Proto Indo European homeland. It has attracted theorists like moths to a flame for centuries now.
A Scholar’s Quest To Find The Ancestral People Of The Most Influential Language On Earth – Interview
Who and where were the Proto-Indo-Europeans? Almost 450 languages spoken by 4 billion people descend from their tongue—and J.P. Mallory has been on a life-long journey to reconstruct their world. A de...
www.eurasiareview.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Here I talk to JP Mallory about the quest to identify the Proto Indo European homeland. It has attracted theorists like moths to a flame for centuries now.
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Million-year-old skulls in China are adding some big wrinkles to the history of modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans. BBC report: www.bbc.com/news/article... & @johnhawks.net take: www.johnhawks.net/p/the-proble...
The problem skulls from Yunxian
The relationships of fossils from deep time in China may help reveal ancestral connections for the Denisovans
www.johnhawks.net
September 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Million-year-old skulls in China are adding some big wrinkles to the history of modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans. BBC report: www.bbc.com/news/article... & @johnhawks.net take: www.johnhawks.net/p/the-proble...
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First wine, then survival: Bronze Age farmers prioritized irrigating vineyards during times of climate crisis www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/09/f...
First wine, then survival: Bronze Age farmers prioritized irrigating vineyards during times of climate crisis
The agricultural societies of the Bronze and Iron Ages in the Ancient Near East made strategic resource management decisions that unequivocally prioritized viticulture over olive cultivation during pe...
www.labrujulaverde.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
First wine, then survival: Bronze Age farmers prioritized irrigating vineyards during times of climate crisis www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/09/f...
Just released: Robert Sapolsky's 2025 Human Behavioral Biology survey course.
If you're interested in deep-time human and primate behavior as it is recorded in the archaeological record, this is an asset for you - much of the behavior he explains here of course developed long ago.
If you're interested in deep-time human and primate behavior as it is recorded in the archaeological record, this is an asset for you - much of the behavior he explains here of course developed long ago.
Robert Sapolsky's Human Behavioral Biology 1: Introduction
YouTube video by humbiovideos
youtu.be
August 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Just released: Robert Sapolsky's 2025 Human Behavioral Biology survey course.
If you're interested in deep-time human and primate behavior as it is recorded in the archaeological record, this is an asset for you - much of the behavior he explains here of course developed long ago.
If you're interested in deep-time human and primate behavior as it is recorded in the archaeological record, this is an asset for you - much of the behavior he explains here of course developed long ago.
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Ancient beehives from c. 900BC Tel Reḥov in the Jordan Valley for #WorldHoneyBeeDay 🏺
The hollow clay cylinders have a small hole at one end (for the 🐝) and a lid at the other (for the beekeeper).
🔗 from 2008 (£) doi.org/10.1017/S000...
The hollow clay cylinders have a small hole at one end (for the 🐝) and a lid at the other (for the beekeeper).
🔗 from 2008 (£) doi.org/10.1017/S000...
August 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Ancient beehives from c. 900BC Tel Reḥov in the Jordan Valley for #WorldHoneyBeeDay 🏺
The hollow clay cylinders have a small hole at one end (for the 🐝) and a lid at the other (for the beekeeper).
🔗 from 2008 (£) doi.org/10.1017/S000...
The hollow clay cylinders have a small hole at one end (for the 🐝) and a lid at the other (for the beekeeper).
🔗 from 2008 (£) doi.org/10.1017/S000...
There's still so much we don't know about who was where, doing what.
@mu-peter.bsky.social @chrisbstringer.bsky.social
@mu-peter.bsky.social @chrisbstringer.bsky.social
Arrow heads at Obi-Rakhmat (Uzbekistan) 80 ka ago?
Lithic weapon points occasionally found in Middle Palaeolithic Neanderthal sites are large and do not differ in size, shape or type from those used in other activities such as butchering or plant gath...
journals.plos.org
August 16, 2025 at 7:46 AM
There's still so much we don't know about who was where, doing what.
@mu-peter.bsky.social @chrisbstringer.bsky.social
@mu-peter.bsky.social @chrisbstringer.bsky.social
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Markings from 70 kya to see if memory systems were used
Identifying potential palaeolithic artificial memory systems via Spatial statistics:
Implications for the origin of quantification🏺🧪
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Suggests cognitive capabilities for information storage and retrieval
Identifying potential palaeolithic artificial memory systems via Spatial statistics:
Implications for the origin of quantification🏺🧪
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Suggests cognitive capabilities for information storage and retrieval
August 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Markings from 70 kya to see if memory systems were used
Identifying potential palaeolithic artificial memory systems via Spatial statistics:
Implications for the origin of quantification🏺🧪
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Suggests cognitive capabilities for information storage and retrieval
Identifying potential palaeolithic artificial memory systems via Spatial statistics:
Implications for the origin of quantification🏺🧪
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Suggests cognitive capabilities for information storage and retrieval
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It was great fun working as a consultant for Apple TV+/BBC Studios' Prehistoric Planet 3: Ice Age -- reconstructing Ice Age worlds down to the tiniest detail is what really floats my boat, and I cannot wait to see how it has turned out!
Streaming from 26th November:
www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...
Streaming from 26th November:
www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...
Apple TV+ announces “Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age”
Today, Apple TV+ announced “Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age,” narrated by Tom Hiddleston.
www.apple.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:15 AM
It was great fun working as a consultant for Apple TV+/BBC Studios' Prehistoric Planet 3: Ice Age -- reconstructing Ice Age worlds down to the tiniest detail is what really floats my boat, and I cannot wait to see how it has turned out!
Streaming from 26th November:
www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...
Streaming from 26th November:
www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...
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Now-submerged migration routes redraw map of how humans settled beyond Africa phys.org/news/2025-07...
Now-submerged migration routes redraw map of how humans settled beyond Africa
A University of Kansas researcher has spent years studying "aquaterra"—his term for regions around the world once populated by ancient humans that today are submerged under water due to sea-level chan...
phys.org
July 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Now-submerged migration routes redraw map of how humans settled beyond Africa phys.org/news/2025-07...
Wonderful day spent in the hot sun with Mehmet Özdoğan at his base camp.
July 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Wonderful day spent in the hot sun with Mehmet Özdoğan at his base camp.
Amazing primate trip coming to a close in Tanzania / Rwanda - chimps, olive baboons, vervets, blue, colobus, golden monkeys, and gorillas. And got a tour from Jane Goodall of her dream museum in Arusha (stained glass). Jane’s old pal Anthony Collins was no less brilliant and inspiring.
July 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Amazing primate trip coming to a close in Tanzania / Rwanda - chimps, olive baboons, vervets, blue, colobus, golden monkeys, and gorillas. And got a tour from Jane Goodall of her dream museum in Arusha (stained glass). Jane’s old pal Anthony Collins was no less brilliant and inspiring.
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Wonder what archaeology makes headlines? In a new study, we investigated US media coverage for 1,115 arch papers published over 6 years. Seems Chinese archaeology was under-reported.
Regional disparities in US media coverage of archaeology research | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Regional disparities in US media coverage of archaeology research | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Regional disparities in US media coverage of archaeology research
US media coverage of archaeology shows geographic disparities, with archaeology of China/Taiwan less likely to receive coverage.
www.science.org
July 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Wonder what archaeology makes headlines? In a new study, we investigated US media coverage for 1,115 arch papers published over 6 years. Seems Chinese archaeology was under-reported.
Regional disparities in US media coverage of archaeology research | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Regional disparities in US media coverage of archaeology research | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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My review of last year's "Legion" exhibition at the BM is now published (free to access).
Spoiler alert: I was not a fan!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Spoiler alert: I was not a fan!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
For Men, About Men: A Review of Legion: Life in the Roman Army Legion: Life in the Roman Army, curated by Richard Abdy. British Museum, London. 1 February–23 June 2024. Legion: Life in the Roman Army,...
The review presents a critical examination of the British Museum’s Legion exhibition from the perspective of a British-Iraqi, female archaeologist. While acknowledging that the exhibition brought toge...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
June 29, 2025 at 10:28 AM
My review of last year's "Legion" exhibition at the BM is now published (free to access).
Spoiler alert: I was not a fan!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Spoiler alert: I was not a fan!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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My colleague Irina Matuzava leads the project that just completed the second country map for The New Grand Tour:
La Belle France
For the full experience, when you click on the link, expand the map and then click view all.
(Thread)
La Belle France
For the full experience, when you click on the link, expand the map and then click view all.
(Thread)
France: The New Grand Tour
observatory.wiki
June 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
My colleague Irina Matuzava leads the project that just completed the second country map for The New Grand Tour:
La Belle France
For the full experience, when you click on the link, expand the map and then click view all.
(Thread)
La Belle France
For the full experience, when you click on the link, expand the map and then click view all.
(Thread)
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#NewPaperAlert: We're delighted to present The Open Aurignacian Project — an open-access 3D database of 2,000+ lithics from four key Italian Paleolithic sites. Paper 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s415... #FlintFriday #FossilFriday #3Darchaeology #OpenScience #DigitalHeritage @julienrs.bsky.social 🦣 🏺
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June 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
#NewPaperAlert: We're delighted to present The Open Aurignacian Project — an open-access 3D database of 2,000+ lithics from four key Italian Paleolithic sites. Paper 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s415... #FlintFriday #FossilFriday #3Darchaeology #OpenScience #DigitalHeritage @julienrs.bsky.social 🦣 🏺
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POSITION: Assistant Professor in Global History of Knowledge, Lund University
Lund University is looking for a promising, academically young, researcher with an international background who can build and lead a research group within the field of Global History of Knowledge.
Lund University is looking for a promising, academically young, researcher with an international background who can build and lead a research group within the field of Global History of Knowledge.
June 17, 2025 at 7:13 AM
POSITION: Assistant Professor in Global History of Knowledge, Lund University
Lund University is looking for a promising, academically young, researcher with an international background who can build and lead a research group within the field of Global History of Knowledge.
Lund University is looking for a promising, academically young, researcher with an international background who can build and lead a research group within the field of Global History of Knowledge.
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George Walker’s "The Costume of Yorkshire" is a delightful and informative read for anyone interested in the county’s history. First published in 1814 and reprinted in a limited edition 71 years later, it offers a vivid glimpse into Yorkshire’s economic and
June 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM
George Walker’s "The Costume of Yorkshire" is a delightful and informative read for anyone interested in the county’s history. First published in 1814 and reprinted in a limited edition 71 years later, it offers a vivid glimpse into Yorkshire’s economic and
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My colleague Irina Matuzava leads the project that just completed the second country map for The New Grand Tour:
La Belle France
For the full experience, when you click on the link, expand the map and then click view all.
(Thread)
La Belle France
For the full experience, when you click on the link, expand the map and then click view all.
(Thread)
France: The New Grand Tour
observatory.wiki
June 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
My colleague Irina Matuzava leads the project that just completed the second country map for The New Grand Tour:
La Belle France
For the full experience, when you click on the link, expand the map and then click view all.
(Thread)
La Belle France
For the full experience, when you click on the link, expand the map and then click view all.
(Thread)
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Animals found to have a 'sixth sense,' changing some evolutionary theories #evolutionsoup #evolution #science #fossils
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is.gd/mkwmR1
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is.gd/mkwmR1
June 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Animals found to have a 'sixth sense,' changing some evolutionary theories #evolutionsoup #evolution #science #fossils
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is.gd/mkwmR1
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is.gd/mkwmR1
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Malaria shaped human spatial organisation for the last 74 thousand years (preprint) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Malaria shaped human spatial organisation for the last 74 thousand years
The mechanisms driving the spatial organisation of early human societies in Africa are typically addressed through climate variables [1][1]-[3][2]. However, genetic and archaeological studies have als...
www.biorxiv.org
June 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Malaria shaped human spatial organisation for the last 74 thousand years (preprint) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...