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Archaeological Proteomics Lab

@archaeoprotein.bsky.social

Lab at University of Reading using #archsci #Palaeoproteomics #ZooMS and #Zooarchaeology 🦌🦏🦴🐂 to study past human behaviour; home to project COEXIST. PI Karen Ruebens.

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Archaeological Proteomics Lab@archaeoprotein.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our workshop abstract booklet is live! 📘 Check out the upcoming talks and don’t miss your chance to join us online — registration closes this Wednesday, March 4. All info: research.reading.ac.uk/coexist/work...

Workshop - COEXIST

We are organising an online workshop on Tuesday March 10th 2026 on Maximising data from Palaeolithic bone: methods, integration and application. Bone from Palaeolithic excavations is often very fragme...

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Dr Geoff M Smith@geoffreymsmith.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper in #ScienceAdvances led by @paleomonrepos.bsky.social and @unileiden.bsky.social on #Neanderthal adaptation 125ka years ago at Neumark-Nord 2, Germany. Our study shows large-scale grease rendering thousands of years earlier than previously thought: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🦣🧪🏺

Large-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 years ago

Neanderthals intensively processed a minimum of 172 large mammals for grease and marrow fat, 125,000 years ago.

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Dr Geoff M Smith@geoffreymsmith.bsky.social · last yr.

The @eaapam.bsky.social deadline has been extended until 10th February. Still time to submit to our session on #Zooarchaeology #ZooMS and subsistence in central and SE Europe. 🦣🧪🏺

Dr Geoff M Smith@geoffreymsmith.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are organising a session for the #EAA2025 in #Belgrade and are now inviting submissions on Neanderthal-Homo sapiens subsistence differences 60,000 to 40,000 years ago in Central and Southeast Europe @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social #zooarchaeology #ZooMS 🏺🦣🧪

Matthew Collins@matthewcollins.bsky.social · 2y ago

4/5 Key challenge: We need "mediators" - scholars who understand both molecular science AND humanities. Current education systems need updating to bridge this gap. The future demands experts who can speak both languages! 🔬📚

Dr Geoff M Smith@geoffreymsmith.bsky.social · 2y ago

A fascinating study with direct N isotope data from Australopith fossils from Sterkfonteinat 3.5mya. Amazing results with great figures and visuals: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Great 🧪🦣🏺

Australopithecus at Sterkfontein did not consume substantial mammalian meat

Incorporation of animal-based foods into early hominin diets has been hypothesized to be a major catalyst of many important evolutionary events, including brain expansion. However, direct evidence of ...

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Archaeological Proteomics Lab@archaeoprotein.bsky.social · 2y ago

For those of you troubled by the JHE resignations, PaleoAnthropology provides a free #openaccess alternative, one of the reasons we published our #ZooMS Special Issue there.

Dr Geoff M Smith@geoffreymsmith.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our Special Issue is out, fully #openaccess in PaleoAnthropology! 7 studies integrating #ZooMS and #Zooarchaeology, alongside an extensive introduction on challenges/potentials. Guest editors @geoffreymsmith.bsky.social, Karen Ruebens, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot, Frido Welker. 🏺🧪🦴 tinyurl.com/ya9js9xp

Katerina Harvati@katharv.bsky.social · 2y ago

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

Journal editors’ mass resignation marks ‘sad day for paleoanthropology’

Exodus from the Journal of Human Evolution leaves a flagship journal in crisis

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