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The role of know-how copying in and beyond [Chater & Christiansen's] Social Tinkering - BBS, just out doi.org/10.1017/S014...
The role of know-how copying in and beyond social tinkering | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
The role of know-how copying in and beyond social tinkering - Volume 49
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New evidence of #MiddleStoneAge occupation near the Third Cataract of the Nile, northern #Sudan. Khaleel, Barbieri, Sánchez-Dehesa, Haws, Carvalho & Bicho co-author this open access study in Quaternary Science Reviews. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.qu... #Archaeology #Africa #Prehistory
New paper from my lab, where we use swarm robotics simulations to test the ecological conditions that favor more social agents 🤖🤝🤖 Read: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Frontiers | Pros and cons of sociality across ecological niches: a swarm robotics approach
The evolution of language is closely linked to an increase in human sociality. But when is increased sociality an adaptive strategy? Swarm Robotics, which st...
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🎉 ERC Starting Grant for our colleague Tamara Dogandžić! For her new #research project Early ENCOUNTERS, she has been awarded funding from the European Research Council @erc.europa.eu: €1.5 million for five years of research. #Archaeology #LEIZArchaeology #ERCStG @paleomonrepos.bsky.social
Natufian people ate snakes and lizards 15,000 years ago, study finds About 15,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers in the southern Levant began living in more fixed settlements. This shift marked a major change in daily life before farming began... More information: archaeologymag.com/2026/08/natu...
Natufian people ate snakes and lizards 15,000 years ago, study finds | Archaeology News Online Magazine
A study of 15,000-year-old bones in Israel shows Natufian people regularly ate lizards and snakes before farming began.
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🔥 Can freeze–thaw cycles erase traces of ancient #fire? #ICArEHB researchers Murphree, Devevey & Aldeias explore #combustion residue preservation in a new open access study in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ja... #Geoarchaeology #Archaeology
Many with institutional licenses can now get our book for free! Check here at jstor.org: www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...
Why don’t all animals use tools? Great question. So, we wrote a paper about it. 🐹🛠️🐜📡🐙🧰 If you like archaeology, technology, game theory, cybernetics, behavioral economics, and/or crazy critters great and small, this is the paper for you. www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?...
Why Don't All Animals Use Tools? — Animal Behavior and Cognition
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Every eclipse partial or near total it just blows my mind
Our new theory article may be of interest to those studying technological complexity in archaeology and human evolution. It gives a historical perspective & introduces heterarchy as a 'new' perspective under which this phenomenon may be studied. Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Blowing Leaves in Archaeology—The Multidimensionality of Technological Complexity in Human Origins Research - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
Technological complexity has been a continuous trope in archaeological research from its beginnings in the nineteenth century. Based on a concept of unidirectional cultural evolution, archaeological m...
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Some lithics from Khudji site, Tajikistan, excavated by V. Ranov. A. Donish Institute of History, archaeology and ethnography, Dushanbe Very happy to conduct this comparative study with our site of Soii Havzak, Part of Gerda Henkel research grant :)
15,000 years ago, in one of the the earliest settled communities in the world, a child collected fine clay from the slow-moving river by her home. She then committed an act familiar to all inveterate play-doh enthusiasts; rolling and and pinching the squishy clay into tiny round balls.
if the link above does not work: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Chert procurement for inferring Neanderthal mobility in central western Iberia - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
Lithic raw material sourcing is one of the most effective approaches for inferring exploitation territories during the Palaeolithic, including for Neanderthals. Certain raw materials, particularly che...
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Our paper out! 🎉 This study compares cherts from Gruta Nova da Columbeira, Praia Rei Cortiço and Mira Nascente with geological samples. Procurement by Neanderthal groups was largely restricted to the area between the coast and the western flank of the first mountain ridge. rdcu.be/fw1IYhttps:/...
Chert procurement for inferring Neanderthal mobility in central western Iberia
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New paper out in @pnas.org: Insights into hominin body size, locomotion, and behavior from Early Pleistocene trackways in northern Kenya. Link here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Insights into hominin body size, locomotion, and behavior from Early Pleistocene trackways in northern Kenya | PNAS
The Early Pleistocene fossils of the Koobi Fora Formation, northern Kenya, record two well-documented hominin genera, Homo and Paranthropus, preser...
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@joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy and I recently joined brilliant KU archaeology student Zeenat Haroon on her Let's Dig Deeper podcast to talk about the archaeology of agricultural origins. Check it out here: open.spotify.com/show/53AYvYh...
Let's Dig Deeper
Podcast · Let's Dig Deeper · Let's Dig Deeper is a podcast hosted by archaeology student Zeenat Haroon (@zee_archaeology on IG).Through thought-provoking interviews with researchers and experts, we wi...
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Really delighted to be able to share the news I start as Prof. of Palaeolithic Archaeology at the @uclarchaeology.bsky.social in the autumn. Really lucky to have such great support from colleagues at Bloomsbury, @archsoutheast.bsky.social and beyond. Really excited for this next chapter.
UCL Institute of Archaeology@uclarchaeology.bsky.social · 2mo agoHuge congratulations to @mattpope.bsky.social, who has been promoted to Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology 🎉 Matt's new appointment recognises decades of research, teaching and fieldwork, as well as his longstanding commitment to the @ucl.ac.uk Institute of Archaeology community. #Archaeology
The PDF of The Acheulean and Bifacial Industry in Africa and Asia: The Levant, Arabia, Iran, India, Vietnam, and Southeast Asia Island is freely available. Download it here: old.archaeology.nsc.ru/glob_human_m...
Prehistoric Sites of the Khorramabad Valley and Iran’s deep past on UNESCO World Heritage List www.tehrantimes.com/news/528173/...
🧪 Fashion is at the heart of economic, social, and environmental issues, several countries are seeking to regulate ultra-fast fashion practices. Yet when did the first fashions emerge? shorturl.at/veUgl with F. d'Errico @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social
The Origins of Fashion
This paper reconceptualizes fashion as a deep-time system of bodily communication rather than a byproduct of modern consumer societies. We define fashion as a socially transmitted system of bodily di....
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A fantastic 10 days field campaign in Campania (Italy) sampling soils for far travelled dust is coming to an end. Great work with great team; thanks @katfitzsimmons.bsky.social, Ettore Valente, Carlo Scirocco, and Vittoria Scorpio. All possible thanks to #INQUA International network fund 🙏
" Our findings suggest shared behaviors between Neanderthals and modern humans that extended beyond subsistence to include nonutilitarian behaviors within the specific geographic and temporal context studied here." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Long-term cultural continuity across the Neanderthal–modern human sequence at Üçağızlı II Cave, northern Levant | PNAS
We present evidence from Üçağızlı II Cave in the northern Levant, Türkiye, documenting the sequential occupation by Neanderthals (Homo neanderthale...
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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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Check out Jersey's programme for the @archaeologyuk.bsky.socia #FestivalOfArchaeology, brilliantly put together by the Société Jersiaise. Get some dates in your diaries.🏺 societe.je/council-for-...
Council for British Archaeology Festival – Société Jersiaise Programme 2026 - Société Jersiaise
Join Société Jersiaise as part of the CBA Festival of Archaeology, taking place across Jersey from 18 July to 2 August 2026. Enjoy guided walks, expert talks, hands-on activities and exclusive behind-...
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I am giving away a free copy of the #BayesianWorkflow book by @statmodeling.bsky.social, @avehtari.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social et al!! Please like, repost, and follow to enter. I will randomly draw the winner next Weds July 8. 😀 routledge.com/9780367490140 #RStats #DataScience #Bayesian
🪨 New #Palaeolithic findspots at Jurf ed-Darawish, southern #Jordan — implications for movement between the Levant and Arabia. #ICArEHB researcher Osama Samawi co-authors this open access #preprint. 🔗 doi.org/10.21203/rs.... #Archaeology #Prehistory
🙏🏻🙏🏻 It was amazing to be part of this wonderful conference among such great researchers! Thankful for being there!
Dr Matt Pope@mattpope.bsky.social · 3mo agoThere weregenuine gasps at the quality, clarity and detail of the sections and fence diagrams in this presentation. Setting a new bar in presenting geoarchaeological context. #UTP26
First lecture is from Ioannis et al. On the stratigraphy of the Late Lower Palaeolithic l, at Dalarik 1 cave, Armenia 🦣🏺 #UTP26
