This is a truly exciting #zooarchaeology paper! Beyond its major implications for the “Hobbit” debate 🧠, it showcases a brilliant experimental archaeology design and is a major contribution to the zooarchaeology of the Pleistocene tropics and taphonomic research. Really, really cool! 🦣🏺🧪

Taphonomic analysis at Liang Bua reveals the behavioral and technological capabilities of Homo floresiensis

Homo floresiensis scavenged Stegodon and did not use fire, challenging previous claims of advanced behavior.

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1/7 Our papers may seem to address different themes, but they coalesce around the deep human past as a process of niche expansion and feedbacks, into the transition to human dominated landscapes. A starting point was the pan-African structured theory of human origins: www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Did Our Species Evolve in Subdivided Populations across Africa, and Why Does It Matter?

We challenge the view that our species, Homo sapiens, evolved within a single population and/or region of Africa. The chronology and physical diversity of Pleistocene human fossils suggest that morpho...

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This is weirdly difficult for students at first and speaks to the challenge of spatial reasoning inherent in flint knapping! Even a handaxe was hard on the first try, let alone a levallois

Dr Matt Pope@mattpope.bsky.social · 10y ago

Our #Papa students doing #levalloispotatoes

An archaeologist searching archives found evidence of binary lots going back nearly 13,000 years, suggesting Native Americans were using probability at the end of the last Ice Age - possibly as a way to make strangers into trading partners.🏺🧪

Native Americans invented dice and games of chance more than 12,000 years ago, archaeological study reveals

A new study shows that dice and games of chance date back thousands of years earlier than experts previously thought.

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ACTION ALERT⚠️ Dept. of Interior is trying to rush through a revocation of Biden’s public law protecting lands around Chaco Canyon from new oil/gas leases. They’ve given only 7 day for public comment, during Easter/Passover. Thread 🧵 below on why you should care, but here’s a link to comment! 🏺

OMG, this awful regime wants to drill in CHACO CANYON.

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)@repstansbury.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Chaco Canyon is sacred. As the Trump Admin rushes to push through oil and gas leasing in the greater Chaco Landscape—they announced yesterday that they will give only ONE WEEK for public comment on removing protections for this sacred place. Make your voice heard! NO to drilling in Chaco Canyon! ⬇️

Field folks, any advice on the tradeoffs between EOS Arrow vs Bad Elf Flex and similar #GNSS units? I'd love a version I can just clip to my backpack and ignore while using Field Maps or OnPoz on a tablet or phone. Advice for 1-3m and sub-meter RTK versions would be appreciated #GIS 🏺🧪

🧪🦣 🧬 New #Neanderthal genome just dropped! Denisova cave male, c. 120 Ka, some Denisovan ancestry, and living in very small effective breeding population <50. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

In 1953 archaeologist Robert Braidwood initiated a debate: what began the domestication of cereals in the Ancient Near East? Was it for bread or beer? Malt & malting was discussed briefly by some of the Braidwood Symposium participants but the "Bread or Beer" debate continues unresolved today. 🏺

merryn@merryn02.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The malting industry is big business today. It provides #malt and #maltsugars for brewing, distilling and food production. But how was malt discovered? We wrote about the importance of malt in #prehistory for PAST magazine. @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social www.prehistoricsociety.org/publications...

This is our brilliant (and growing) MSc Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology teaching team. Come to @ucl.ac.uk and study with these experts in human evolution, Palaeolithic archaeology and Quaternary science. 🏺🦣🧪🧬🦴 tinyurl.com/yc22vea3

Earliest evidence for intentional cremation of human remains in Africa 🏺🧪 Jessica Cerezo-Román, Justin Pargeter @justinpargeter.bsky.social et al www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A large cremation feature at Hora 1 in Malawi dates to ~9500 years ago and contains the remains of a small, gracile adult

🦜🏔️ How did vibrant Amazonian parrot feathers end up in a desert tomb on the Pacific coast of Peru 1,000 years ago? Our new paper on @natcomms.nature.com reveals they didn't just trade feathers, pre-Inca societies transported live macaws and parrots across the Andes!👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ancient DNA and spatial modeling reveal a pre-Inca trans-Andean parrot trade - Nature Communications

Here, the authors combine ancient DNA, stable isotopes, and computational modeling to study colorful feathers from a pre-Incan tomb in Peru. They identify four species of parrots, which were likely ca...

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Chuffed to finally see an IRL copy of Vol 91 of PPS, the first produced by the new editorial team of Prof Daniela Hofmann, Dr Courtney Nimura and me! New front cover, new size, new article template.

Interested to know how widespread eating limpets was- on our cold fringe of the north Atlantic they're regarded as a famine food more commonly used for baiting longlines, but I've tried a few & they're not that bad. Maybe they're just harder to harvest than the usual mussels and whelks?

Jean-François Cudennec@limpetnerd.eurosky.social · 5mo ago

9/ Archaeological twist: as humans exploited limpets for thousands of years, they disrupted these dynamics, indirectly shaping coastal ecosystems. The shell middens I'm working on therefore constitute an archive of ancient, underestimated and highly complex socio-eco-system !

An adorable #Roman shoe, made for a #baby too young to walk. The shoe imitates the footwear of Roman soldiers (caligae). The cut-out design would have shown off the kid’s socks! From Bordeaux, dating 1st/2nd AD. 📷 Bordeaux, Musée d’Aquitaine 🏺 #archaeology

Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2026! Join us for two days of all things Palaeolithic, Pleistocene and Early Human Origins at UCL Institute of Archaeology 19-20th June. Call for papers is now open and tickets are on sale! Check out our website for more information. sites.google.com/view/unravel...

Humans 40,000 y ago developed a system of conventional signs 🏺🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Suggests the first hunter-gatherers arriving in Europe already developed a system of intentional and conventional signs on mobile artifacts.

Fancy a swim? 🏊️ Check out our collection of maritime and underwater #archaeology, with exciting research on everything from Mediterranean shipwrecks to Maya salt production! 🏺 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our release date is still seven months away, but my book is now up on the Yale website. Grateful to so many people who helped make this possible. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

The Central Fire of the Iroquois

A comprehensive history of the Native American community at the heart of the HaudenosauneeThe people of the Onondaga Nation have lived in central New York St...

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So yeah, I went back. To that #TasTepeler exhibition here in Berlin - and down memory lane. 🏺👉 www.smb.museum/ausstellunge...

The Bronze Age vs The AI Age 1/ Can archaeology predict the future of Big Tech? Economists usually look back 50-150 years; archaeologists look back further. When you look at the Bronze Age Collapse (c. 1200 BCE), are there any parallels to our current AI trajectory? #AI #TechHistory #Archaeology

"On behalf of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), I am very pleased to inform you that you have been selected as the 2026 recipient of the SAA's Book Award—Popular category for “Native America: The Story of the First Peoples” published by Princeton University Press." Wow! No words.

A short, round, furrowed horn core inserting into the skull diagonally from Northern Kenya 750,000 years ago: a Kob #FossilFriday

By the marvellous Dr Katie Meheux, who has been researching, writing and presenting on Gordon Childe's political history for years!

The Society of Antiquaries of London@antiquaries.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Join us tomorrow to hear about political entanglements of prehistorian Vere Gordon Childe and world famous writer George Orwell, beginning with Childe's inclusion by Orwell on a secret government list of suspected crypto-Communists and Communist sympathisers. www.sal.org.uk/event/orwell...

... now with pictures instead of random black squares! It has arrived, the day of the superb owl! Here's a 10,000 year-old eagle-owl talon worn as an ornament. My team recovered it from the burial of a newborn girl nicknamed Neve at Arma Veirana, a cave in the Italian Maritime Alps. 🏺🧪 #superbowl

Julien Riel-Salvatore@julienrs.bsky.social · 6mo ago

It has arrived, the day of the superb owl! Here's a 10,000 year-old eagle-owl talon, incised to be used an ornament. My team recovered it in a pit next to the burial of a newborn girl nicknamed 'Neve' at Arma Veirana, a cave in the Italian Maritime Alps. 🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-02804-z

Demographic shifts, inter-group contact and environmental conditions drive language extinction and diversification. #linguistics

Job alert! 3 year post doc in my research group at University College London working on Roman Leather via biomolecular archaeology. #ZooMS #stableisotopes www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ187/r...

Research Fellow in Biomolecular Archaeology at UCL

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Fellow in Biomolecular Archaeology opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

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Job alert in Malta on my ERC funded IslandLab Project for a post excavation research assistant. A bachalor's degree in Archaeology, or related fields is required, ideally with experience working on faunal assemblages and handling bones/fossils, and curating finds. www.um.edu.mt/media/um/doc...

1/2 Two different limpet shells, belonging to the same species (P. vulgata). The flat one comes from low shore (large foot + reduced shell surface to resist strong waves and currents) while the pointed one comes from high shore (ribs + high shell help resist dessication by creating shadowed area)

A mammoth drawings from Arcy-sur-Cure cave,France. Outlined in red-ochre, this rotund, tuskless mammoth looks like a juvenile. At 28,000 years old, a product of the Gravettian culture, one of the oldest examples of cave art in Europe. The saddest mammoth from the Ice Age. 🦣😢🏺 #MammothMonday