Did Neanderthals and Homo sapiens develop similar technical behaviours independently in Europe and Africa? Our postdoctoral researcher @mariannafusco.bsky.social is currently at CEPAM in Nice to do comparative analyses on stone tools technology to find answers to this question!

This morning at #UISPP 2026, @mariannafusco.bsky.social is presenting on her postdoctoral research within @humanorigins.bsky.social, „The lithic assemblage from the basal MSA deposits at Sibhudu“. 🏺 #paleosky

At conferences, sometimes things happen at the same time. Today before lunch at #UISPP 2026 in Poznan, Human Origins PostDoc Researcher @mariannafusco.bsky.social had her second talk „Living in the Rift: reconstructing mobility patterns in the Ethiopian Late Middle Stone Age“.

Likely no hunters of Elephants nor masters of fire - new paper on taphonomic analysis challenges former assumptions on Homo floresensis. Congratulations to Grace Veatch, who recently started her position as an Independent Junior Research Group Lead at Human Origins! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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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Very proud to be part of this cluster along with all these amazing scientists.

HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence@humanorigins.bsky.social · 6mo ago

‼️ Lecture announcement ‼️ Want to learn more about our new Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS? ▶️ Join us for our introduction lecture on Friday, 8 May 2026, 10:15 a.m., on site at University Tübingen, or join us via Zoom!

🚨 I am hiring! 🚨 Postdoctoral Researcher in Biological Anthropology (1.5 years) at Masaryk University, within the BITE Brno project I lead, funded by the Czech Science Foundation on demographic responses to urbanization. Apply here: www.muni.cz/en/about-us/... Please share!

Postdoctoral Researcher in Biological Anthropology | Masaryk University | MUNI

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I am so happy that the work done by @mariannafusco.bsky.social is now accepted on @pciarchaeology.bsky.social 🌟 We explore potential links between the shape and size of #MSA lithic tools and #climate variability through the year 🌧️🌞🪨 I loved working with Marianna and @enzaspinapolice.bsky.social !❤️

PCI Archaeology@pciarchaeology.bsky.social · 8mo ago

1/3 New recommendation: Fusco, Habte, Leplongeon, Ménard, Manica, Spinapolice, Leonardi (2025). The environmental context of the Middle-to-Late Stone Age Transition in eastern Africa: seasonality as a key factor. v2 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.1101/2024...

📢CALL FOR PAPERS🚨 @martinadm.bsky.social @mariannafusco.bsky.social @Olivier Scancarello and I are running a session (#24) @Panaf26 titled: Archaeology of liminality and transition: eco-cultural strategies in African prehistoric ecotones. More @ panaf2026moz.com/panaf-sessio...

PanAF Sessions

The Local Organizing Committee is excited that almost 70 sessions and workshops will occur at PanAF Moz 2026. Pan-African Association members and non-members are welcome to submit paper abstracts t…

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🔍 What’s it like to be an early-career archaeologist in Africa? Degsew Mekonnen, Osman Khaleel, Humphrey Nyambiya & Nompumelelo Maringa explore challenges from funding gaps to limited mentoring. 🔗 doi.org/10.32028/exn... #Archaeology #Africa #ICArEHB #EarlyCareerResearchers #ExNovoJournal

I officially erased my X account. I hope this place will grow up more and more

New year, new job, new country, new continent. Happy to share that I have started a new job as postdoctoral research assistant at the Department of Anthropology at Emory University in Atlanta. #Academia #Postdoc #Stonetools #Archaeology

Call for abstract open until 31st January for the next SAfA meeting in Faro @icarehb.bsky.social join us to discuss of multidisciplinary perspectives on African transitions. More information below

The environmental context of the Middle-to-Late Stone Age Transition in eastern Africa: Seasonality as a key factor🏺🧪 Marianna Fusco, @enzaspinapolice.bsky.social et al www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Variable blades reflect greater versatility in foraging strategies as adaptation to environments.

📢🚨call for papers open @SAfAarchaeology 2025 @ICArEHB ....if you're interested in early POTTERY adoption and diffusion throughout time and space in AFRICA then share your research 👥

Call for abstract open until 31st January for the next SAfA meeting in Faro @icarehb.bsky.social join us to discuss of multidisciplinary perspectives on African transitions. More information below

#MSA - #LSA transition. What drives the changes in #lithics in Eastern Africa? 🌍 Here's our hypothesis ⬇️. Led by @mariannafusco.bsky.social and @mikleonardi.bsky.social, one for you @pciarchaeology.bsky.social! Thanks to @enzaspinapolice.bsky.social @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social and all authors!

The environmental context of the Middle-to-Late Stone Age Transition in eastern Africa: seasonality as a key factor

In the transition between the Middle Stone Age (MSA) and the Late Stone Age (LSA) in eastern Africa, the archaeological record shows a gradual and asynchronous decline in MSA features and an increase ...

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I am so happy and proud to share our preprint on the environmental context of the MSA-LSA transition in Eastern Africa. It was great to work with all these amazing people and to be supervised by @mikleonardi.bsky.social and @eegcam.bsky.social. Also this is the first article from my PhD results🎊🎊

Michela Leonardi@mikleonardi.bsky.social · 2y ago

And... It's out! What's behind the emergence of LSA en eastern Africa? I am very proud of @mariannafusco.bsky.social for this amazing work! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Archeology #paleolithic #lithics Coauthored by @enzaspinapolice.bsky.social @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social @eegcam.bsky.social

We are looking forward to welcoming #ShannonMcPherron to #HEASVienna as part of the #HEASSeminar in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic taking place online and in-person @univie.ac.at. Registration and more information on our website 🔗👇 www.heas.at/events/heas-...

HEAS Seminar Series - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic - HEAS

As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic Shannon McPherron from Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology will give a talk on Digging for Fire. Developing Me...

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First post here and I can’t wait to share our work. It was a great journey. Stay tuned for updates 🤩

Michela Leonardi@mikleonardi.bsky.social · 2y ago

Stay tuned! Can you guess the topic of our incoming preprint from the (partial) list of authors below? @mariannafusco.bsky.social @eegcam.bsky.social @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social @enzaspinapolice.bsky.social soon on @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social...

Dear Archaeology. From January I'll be unemployed. Deadline for my PhD Dissertation is March. The usual thing than would be to submit project proposals. Anyway, if you need additional workforce, I could be yours. Thread 1/4

The paper is part of the Special Issue "Perspectives on Speciation" featuring many great contributions across a variety of fields. Worth checking out!

Perspectives on Speciation

Following the one-day interdisciplinary symposium at the Linnean Society examining how the process of speciation is viewed from a diversity of disciplines, we a

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If you are interested in #modelling in #ecology and #paleoecology, my MEE live! " #tidysdm: tidy Species Distribution Models in R" is now available online! ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=4InG... Paper: doi.org/10.1111/2041... Thanks @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social, @britishecolsoc.bsky.social!

MEE live! tidysdm: tidy Species Distribution Models in R

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The Palestinian 🇵🇸 women achaeologists and fieldworkers who worked at the excavation of - and recognised - the Tabun 1 #Neanderthal skull! I'm an anthropologist, I didn't know! It's crucial to highlight the story of the people behind discoveries! #WomenInSTEM #WomenInPrehistory #PaleoAnth #science

Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes@lemoustier.bsky.social · 2y ago

🏺 The first remains of Tabun 1 were recognised by Yusra, a Palestinian woman who had already dug for years with Garrod. Here is Yusra in 1932 with other young women fieldworkers named as Rashidi and Amui Haj, and in 1934 with Dorothy Garrod.

It’s great that some of the “big names” in paleoanth are finally starting to talk about this, but there are many ECRs who have been trying to decolonize paleoanthropology for a while now.

“Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy, it’s time to ‘decolonise paleoanthropology’ says leading Ethiopian fossil expert – podcast" theconversation.com/fifty-years-...