Exploring Uluzzian Lithic Technology at Klissoura Cave 1, Greece🏺🧪 Giulia Marciani, @katharv.bsky.social et al link.springer.com/article/10.1... Uluzzian technocomplex 43–39 Kya marks one of the earliest dispersals of Homo sapiens into Europe and onset of the Upper Palaeolithic in the Mediterranean

Some exciting news on the Uluzzian from Klissoura Cave, Greece! 🌜

Katerina Harvati@katharv.bsky.social · 4w ago

✨Our paper on the Uluzzian of Klissoura Cave, Greece, is now published online #openaccess ✨, one of the important studies of the @erc.europa.eu Advanced Project FIRSTSTEPS and a Greek-Italian collaboration! Congratulations to Giulia Marciani, @serena-lombardo.bsky.social and team! 🎉👏 rdcu.be/ftlpN

In 1928, Dorothy Garrod pioneered excavations at Hazar Merd Cave Renewed investigations are now refining the site's sequence Revisiting Hazar Merd Cave: 100 years after Dorothy Garrod’s excavations🏺🧪 Saman Heydari-Guran, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social et al www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It has been a pleasure working with such a fantastic team❤️ @boneslab.bsky.social @harvatilab.bsky.social

The final session took us to the Italian and Greek records and their connections. Wonderful to see everything coming together and the progress the team has made over the last four years 👏 Thank you to all the team members and collaborators who presented their work! @erc.europa.eu #humanevolution

The afternoon session started with some in-depth comparative analysis of human fossils from Greece and the Balkans, one of the main objectives of FIRSTSTEPS. So nice to see this work slowly coming to fruition! 😀 @erc.europa.eu #humanevolution

Our FISTSTEPS workshop continued with faunal and microfaunal analyses, paleoproteomics and human osteological analyses focusing on the record of the Apidima caves 😀 @erc.europa.eu #humanevolution

The first session of the @erc.europa.eu project FIRSTSTEPS workshop is concluded, with exciting reports on the Apidima excavation, geomorphology and sediment micromorphology! wonderful to see the results coming together ✨ #humanevolution

Our joint workshop on "Big Data and Human Evolution" between ROCEEH and @boneslab.bsky.social, organized by Giulia Marciani in Ravenna, is in full swing! Great talks, good company and Sangiovese🍷

🚨New paper alert!🧪 We explore the #Aurignacian at Grotta della Cala (southern Italy), providing robust evidence of human settlement shortly after the #CampanianIgnimbrite eruption (ca. 40 ka). 1/5 🌋 @tommyhigham.bsky.social @lucdoyon.bsky.social @boneslab.bsky.social & the University of Siena

Revisiting the Early Aurignacian in Italy: New insights from Grotta della Cala

Grotta della Cala in southern Italy is a key archaeological site spanning from the Middle Paleolithic to the Bronze Age. In the stratigraphic sequence…

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Biomolecular approaches to Pleistocene bones New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Annette Oertle, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social @katerinad.bsky.social et al

I was literally about to submit the edited draft of my new book on prehistory, "Lost Worlds," but now I need to rework the Çatalhöyük section! What a great problem to have, incredibly exciting new research, check it out!

Camilla Mazzucato@camillamazzucato.bsky.social · last yr.

After many years this is out now, many congratulations to everybody!

Neanderthal had a “crush” on fats. Macronutrient estimation in Middle Paleolithic (Late Mousterian) hunter-gatherers of southern Italy www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...

Frontiers | Neanderthal had a “crush” on fats. Macronutrient estimation in Middle Paleolithic (Late Mousterian) hunter-gatherers of southern Italy

During the Late Mousterian period Apulia (southeastern Italy) was characterized by frequent and prolonged aridity that could have caused the scarcity of vege...

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Two PhD positions open! Deadline end of June! Apply now!

BonesLab@boneslab.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Two PhD Positions Available! Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠 Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history. www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...

🚨 Two PhD Positions Available! Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠 Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history. www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...

Two #PhD opportunities in Ravenna, Italy 🇮🇹, in #HumanEvolution within the #ERC project "Last Neanderthals"! 🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth #BioArch #Archaeology #Neanderthal #SciComm

BonesLab@boneslab.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Two PhD Positions Available! Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠 Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history. www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...

A great opportunity, with a great team and a great lab 🏺🧪 Dr Stefano Benazzi's Bones Lab @boneslab.bsky.social Two PhD positions open! Deadline end of June! Apply now! bsky.app/profile/bone...

BonesLab@boneslab.bsky.social · last yr.

Two PhD positions open! Deadline end of June! Apply now!

Two PhD positions open! Deadline end of June! Apply now!

BonesLab@boneslab.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Two PhD Positions Available! Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠 Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history. www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...

🚨 Two PhD Positions Available! Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠 Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history. www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...

🧬Welcome to the new Palaeoproteomics Lab at the University of Bologna – Department of Cultural Heritage (Ravenna), where we study ancient proteins preserved in archaeological remains such as bones and teeth.

Grotta della Lea, a new Early Epigravettian site in southern Italy (Uluzzo Bay) 🏺🧪 Giulia Marciani, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social , et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Shouldered backed bladelets and points on high-quality chert. Radiocarbon dating between 21,821–18,281 cal. BP

🌍 Join us in the ERC Last Neanderthals! We're hiring: 1️⃣ PhD: Digital approaches for the study of Paleolithic human remains 🖥️ 2️⃣ PhD: Taxonomic discrimination of Late Pleistocene bone fragments through paleoproteomics 🦴

We have a 4-year PhD-student opening in our lab, deadline on Wednesday noon. For anyone interested in computational genomics of ancient human, pathogen, or canid genomes. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud... If you are curious, send in an application!

Our latest research presents Grotta della Lea, a newly investigated Palaeolithic site in Uluzzo Bay. Check its Early Epigravettian lithics, faunal remains, and AMS dates! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My #review of Giulia Marciani's monograph on the Late Mousterian of Oscurusciuto (Southern Italy) is on Lithic Technology. I totally recommend it! link to the review shorturl.at/Jotx9 link to the book shorturl.at/wCmcH #archaeology#palaeolithic @barpublishing.bsky.social@tandfresearch.bsky.social

On Monday we launched the first PaleolITica meeting, to foster exchange between young researchers in Italian #Palaeolithic lithic technology. It was very productive, thank you to all the participants! shorturl.at/6J9ba @boneslab.bsky.social #archaeology #FlintFriday #FindsFriday🏺

🌍 Join us in the ERC Last Neanderthals! We're hiring: 1️⃣ PhD: Digital approaches for the study of Paleolithic human remains 🖥️ 2️⃣ PhD: Taxonomic discrimination of Late Pleistocene bone fragments through paleoproteomics 🦴

Time to learn some more about the West African MSA! They were not only in rainforests 150,000 years ago, they were also in mangrove forests! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Longstanding behavioural stability in West Africa extends to the Middle Pleistocene at Bargny, coastal Senegal - Nature Ecology & Evolution

The late Middle Pleistocene site of Bargny, Senegal, documents stone tool trends seen across contemporary sites in Africa but which, in West Africa, remain uniquely stable into the Holocene. Palaeoenv...

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The Uluzzian and Châtelperronian: No Technological Affinity in a Shared Chronological Framework 🏺🧪 Giulia Marciani @boneslab.bsky.social @mariesoressi.bsky.social et al link.springer.com/article/10.1... The distinctiveness highlights the technological behaviours in western Europe 45–40 ka

The Ontogeny of the Human Calcaneus: Insights From Morphological and Trabecular Changes During Postnatal Growth🏺🧪 Carla Figus, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social et al onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Calcaneal plasticity may display mechanical influences and provide precious information