This sieve is soooo hard!

I have a new game: find the Pleistocene inside a magnificent Roman site 🏺🦴🐟 @andzerb.bsky.social

Hello, Our paper on enamel proteins from Paranthropus robustus has finally been peer reviewed, please have a read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Paranthropus robustus has been puzzling scientists since its discovery in 1938 in South Africa, where a high number of fossils have been found.

Enamel proteins reveal biological sex and genetic variability in southern African Paranthropus

Paranthropus robustus is a morphologically well-documented Early Pleistocene hominin species from southern Africa with no genetic evidence reported so far. In this work, we describe the mass spectrome...

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Yes for example, assuming the dot is actually deliberate, it's an interesting choice *not* to make a larger application of colour on that surface. On the issue of faces I think we would need a bigger corpus of examples to be more confident that is what they're really doing

Love the fingerprint and strongly doubt that the dot could be a “nose”. I am sincerely intrigued by the mental processes that lead to this interpretation 🤡 - Stephen King could have played a part?

Sunday sillies: Cite your sources edition (this from @iamhectordiaz.com)

Planning two fields plus two conferences in a row and actually going for them 🙋🏻‍♀️

I absolutely love this! Thanks @vivek123.bsky.social for sharing the interview with Richard Lee about the Men the Hunter book. osf.io/preprints/os...

#FossilFriday Not a great picture, but a historic comparison of the Omo Kibish 1 cranium (L) before it was returned to Ethiopia, with Kabwe @NHM. This shows the sapiens shape of Omo 1 in rear view.

Archeologists Join Geologists in the Quest to Define the Age of Humans www.resilience.org/stories/2025...

Archeologists Join Geologists in the Quest to Define the Age of Humans

A new archeology is being developed based on evidence of human activity in the Earth’s sedimentary record, and archeologists are helping to define the Anthropocene as a new stage in the geological rec...

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Field season is ON 🤠

Tickets for Porto @ishpssb2025.bsky.social and Faro #Safa2025 booked, see you then my friends!

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The evolution of European cranial morphology: From the Upper Paleolithic to the Late Eneolithic steppe invasions - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

The purpose of this work was a comprehensive overview of the development of cranial morphology in prehistoric Europe, spanning the period from the Upper Paleolithic to the genetic turnovers associated...

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Lovely article and video interview for the exhibition I was involved in with Pietro Ruffo - Italian Artist Of The Year 2024 - that opened back in November : "L'ultimo meraviglioso minuto". butterflyartnews.com/2025/01/12/p... youtu.be/mXT_wy6OOCY

Pietro Ruffo's exhibition in Rome - L'ultimo meraviglioso minuto at Palazzo Esposizioni Roma

YouTube video by Butterfly Art News

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Today, the 25th of April, in Italy 🇮🇹 we celebrate the #Liberation from NaziFascism. We celebrate to remember the people of the resistance, we celebrate to remember that we kicked fascists' asses once and we can do it again.

Charles #Darwin died #OTD in 1882. This is his portrait at the Linnean Society in London.

Did every civilization have inequality? New 10,000-year study reveals a surprising answer. www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Inequality isn't an inevitable aspect of society, 10,000 years of data reveals

A study of 50,000 houses from the late Pleistocene to the onset of European colonialism has revealed that social inequality isn't inevitable, but rather a consequence of political choices.

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In @nature.com we report the presence of the Mesolithic on Malta - upending everything we knew about the seafaring capabilities of late European hunter-gatherers and pushing back Maltese prehistory by 1000 years. Watch the clip, link to open access paper is below. 1/5 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(1/13) A thread on our new paper just published in Nature, ‘Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years’. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years - Nature

A climatic record from desert speleothems shows that the central Arabian interior experienced recurrent humid intervals over the past 8 million years, which likely facilitated mammalian dispersals bet...

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I'm still highly skeptical of #Naledi "engraving" claims. Revisions in this are limited to context/discussion; avoid considering (beyond 1/2 sentence) that the features might be natural. No new documentation or analysis at all. And irrelevant comparison to Blombos painted stone is still there.

Matthew Cobb@matthewcobb.bsky.social · last yr.

Some ppl remain skeptical of the meaning of the H naledi “burials”. These striking engravings are even more enigmatic. Who made them and when?

New Preprint! 🦧 Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials! Summary in 🧵

Our new paper reports a complete Quina technological system in the 60-50 ka assemblage at Longtan, Southwest China Ruan, Q. et al. (2025) Quina lithic technology indicates diverse Late Pleistocene human dynamics in East Asia doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🆓 faculty.washington.edu/bmarwick/PDF...

Interested in the #archaeology of conflict? Check out our #ConflictArchaeology collection, with #OpenAccess content such as: Iraq's most famous early Islamic conquest site Arrowheads from the Tollense Valley Destruction of Ukrainian heritage & more! 🏺 buff.ly/PbuQ20t

More for #LithicsNerd 🤓

Emily Hallinan@eshallinan.bsky.social · last yr.

Our new paper on 3D GM has all the models and script available for others to apply our method. We use it to demonstrate interregional variability of Nubian Levallois cores but it has broader potential for lithic studies #openscience #archaeology #3DGM @icarehb.bsky.social @jmcascalheira.bsky.social

Yohannes Haile-Selassie wants to shift the trajectory of palaeoanthropology in fossil-rich Ethiopia away from its long colonial heritage https://go.nature.com/4iEQTkE

Why Africans should be telling the story of human origins

Yohannes Haile-Selassie wants to shift the trajectory of palaeoanthropology in fossil-rich Ethiopia away from its long colonial heritage.

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The recording from the #HEASSeminar with #MarieSoressi is now available on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel. 🔗👇

HEAS Seminar - Marie Marie Soressi

YouTube video by HEAS

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HEAS@heasvienna.bsky.social · last yr.

@philipnigst.bsky.social introducing #MarieSoressi as part of the #HEASSeminar series in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic taking place now online and in-person in the #UBB in @univie.ac.at

🏺 🐕 New potential late Upper Palaeolithic dog, from southern France (slightly younger than Erralla one); with pathology that may indicate hunting by humans www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Canis lupus ssp. (Mammalia, Carnivora) of the Baume Traucade (Issirac, Gard, France): A complete skeleton of a “dog-like” individual from the post-LGM

Completely preserved canid skeletons dating from the Pleistocene are rare finds. Here, we describe such a unique discovery from Baume Traucade, a cave…

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Good Monday from the person who postponed to Monday all the last emails to reply to.

Truth.

The loss of a legend- Kanzi, the language-competent bonobo, has died age 44. Kanzi was exceptional in so many ways and offered us profound insights into the linguistic & cognitive capacities of great apes. He has taught us so much and will be hugely missed. www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...