🪨 The #Palaeolithic of Jordan — state of the art. #ICArEHB PhD Candidate Osama Samawi co-authors this open access #preprint from the #ICHAJ16 workshop in Athens. 🔗 osf.io/preprints/so... #Archaeology #Jordan #MiddleEast

@dispersalserc.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social New preprint 📄 Summarising our ICAHJ 16 (Athens, 2025) workshop on the Palaeolithic of Jordan—reviewing current research & setting future priorities. A lot of new work is now underway following these discussions. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

An excellent postdoc opportunity at @cenieh.bsky.social🏺🧪

HigherJobz@higherjobz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

MSCA Fellowship at CENIEH, Spain 🇪🇸 in African Acheulean archaeology. Research early human evolution, stone tools & Pleistocene studies. Excellent postdoc opportunity. Apply 👉 higherjobz.com/african-ache... #Archaeology #MSCA #Postdoc #HumanEvolution #ResearchJobs #AcademicJobs @cenieh.bsky.social

🪨 How did #LaterStoneAge communities in the #SaveRiverValley organize lithic production and use? #ICArEHB researchers Samawi and Rose co-author this open access study in African Archaeological Review with the Dispersals team. 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s104... #Mozambique #Archaeology

🪨 The Nubian Spectrum at Tweefontein? #ICArEHB researchers Emily Hallinan and Osama Samawi, with M. Shaw and C. Shaw, show Nubian Levallois is one extreme of a broader prepared core reduction spectrum. 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s419... #Levallois #MiddleStoneAge

🚀 Historic achievement for ICArEHB! We’ve secured €31.5M to launch UAlgTec Heritage, a pioneering European centre for innovation in archaeological heritage. Proud of our team and excited for what comes next! #ICArEHB #UAlgTecHeritage #HeritageTech #UAlg #Portugal

Deadline for abstracts submission extended to March 20th uispp2026.syskonf.pl/abstracts

Emanuele Cancellieri@emanucanc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Call for papers! #UISPP2026 in Poznan Thematic Session S-12C: Approaches to Early & Middle Stone Age/Palaeolithic open-air contexts in arid landscapes uispp2026.syskonf.pl

🎉 ICArEHB is joining the party! 30 years of MSCA. 150,000+ researchers. 7 projects that changed how we understand humanity. #MSCA30 #ICArEHB #UAlg #EUResearch #Archaeology

Call for papers! #UISPP2026 in Poznan Thematic Session S-12C: Approaches to Early & Middle Stone Age/Palaeolithic open-air contexts in arid landscapes uispp2026.syskonf.pl

Celebrating the women at ICArEHB, then and now. From childhood curiosity to careers uncovering the past, we’re proud of the women shaping archaeology at ICArEHB. Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 💜 #WomenInScience #EveryVoiceInScience #11February

... 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

♂️♀️ AI achieves 90% accuracy sex estimation from Ice Age jawbones? #ICArEHB's Ricardo Godinho leads the breakthrough study: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #Bioarchaeology #MachineLearning #Palaeoanthropology

Coupling geometric morphometrics and machine learning for mandibular sex estimation in Late Pleistocene and Late Modern populations - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Coupling geometric morphometrics and machine learning for mandibular sex estimation in Late Pleistocene and Late Modern populations

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🦴✨ How do we know if an archaeological bone still preserves collagen — without damaging it? Check it out our new paper on portable ER-FTIR: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Proud team work with @Krista McGrath @Cristina Lemorini @Stella Nunziate Cesaro @Silvia Soncin

Portable ER-FTIR as a non-destructive method to pre-screen collagen for ZooMS analysis in archaeology

In the last decades, archaeology has witnessed a significant increase in the use of biomolecular analyses to study a variety of materials, including s…

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🔥 Earliest cremation evidence in Africa (~9500 yrs ago)! #ICArEHB's Gina Buckley & Flora Schilt co-author Science Advances paper: doi.org/10.1126/scia... #FuneraryPractices #Archaeology

Earliest evidence for intentional cremation of human remains in Africa

The world’s oldest in situ adult funeral pyre (~9500 years old) shows complex mortuary behaviors among ancient African foragers.

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In Dec 2025, I published a short comment on whether the emergence of AI has been as revolutionary as other moments of innovation in our species' history (e.g., emergence of technology or agriculture). On balance, current evidence suggests to me that it isn't. www.isita-org.com/jass/Content...

🥛 When did Iberians start drinking raw milk? #ICArEHB's Maria João Valente, Hugo Oliveira & Maria João Martins trace it w/ archaeogenetics: doi.org/10.51679/oph... #Zooarchaeology #Prehistory

🎓 FCT PhD Fellowships 2026 ICArEHB invites inquisitive and motivated candidates to pursue a PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology or Primatology through the national FCT Program. 📍See our poster & details: www.icarehb.com/fct-phd-fell... #PhD #Archaeology #FCT #ICArEHB

Hot off the press! Led by Olivier Scancarello, in collaboration with amazing colleagues and institutions in Tunisia, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Differential Taphonomic Behavior of Flint Types: Experimental Insights and Implications for the Middle Stone Age Assemblages of Wadi Lazalim in the Northern Sahara (Kebili, Tunisia) - Journal of Archa...

Several syn and post-depositional processes are responsible for different degrees of site and assemblage formation and disturbance. Understanding the processes that lead to archaeological site formati...

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#Oman #MSA New paper is OUT! We trace how Dhofar’s MSA shifts from Nubian Levallois cores to the miniaturized Mudayyan industry—highlighting changing technologies along the southern dispersal route out of Africa. @arduq.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Lithic Miniaturization and Technological Innovation on the Southern Dispersal Route Out of Africa - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology

Over the past fifteen years, the Dhofar Archaeological Project has mapped 272 Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic sites in southern Oman, each exhibiting some extent of Nubian Levallois technology. 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

Happy to share with you the new paper on taphonomy in arid environments in collaboration with my friend and colleague @roccoro.bsky.social. Check it out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Shelters and bones: Site-specific archaeofaunal taphonomy for identifying formation processes in Saharan Holocene rock shelters - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

This study investigates natural syn- and post-depositional processes affecting terrestrial mammal bones from the Takarkori rock shelter in the hyper-arid Tadrart Acacus massif, south-western Libya. Th...

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👣 What can ancient #footprints tell us about #movement, #behaviour, and #technology in #prehistory? Join us for the next #LEXA seminar, exploring traces and early #transport innovations. 🗓️ 4 Nov | 🕑 14:00 GMT | 🌍 Online via #Zoom 🔗 icarehb.com/lexa

#ICArEHB PhD candidate Osama Samawi explores ancient innovation in his new blog post “Stone Tools on Repeat” with @ACORJordan 🪨 Discover how #Neolithic communities at Tell Abu Suwwan reused stone flakes as cores — early #sustainability in #Archaeology! 👉 publications.acorjordan.org/2025/10/17/s...

💡 How to ID archaeological bones in resin?A team of researchers, including ICArEHB members Paul Goldberg, Shannon McPherron, William Chase Murphree, and Vera Aldeias explore new paleoproteomics methods. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pnas... #Archaeology #Paleoproteomics #ICArEHB

#ICArEHB PhD student Osama Samawi co-organised the “Paleolithic Jordan: The State of the Art” #workshop in Athens during #ICHAJ16, discussing the #Paleolithic record of #Jordan and fostering collaboration in #Archaeology and #HumanEvolution. 👉 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Happy and honoured to share this paper with @ercrema.bsky.social about pottery in Early Holocene Africa! Check out more in the thread!

Enrico R. Crema@ercrema.bsky.social · 10mo ago

⚠️Paper Alert!⚠️ Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion rdcu.be/eJi3g

The ERC Project MATRIX explores one of the big questions in our past: how Neanderthals disappeared as modern humans spread across Europe. Meet the team behind it and learn more about our research on sediments, ancient DNA, proteins, lipids & human evolution 👉 matrix.icarehb.com

🌍Fieldwork, Communities, and Conflicts in Northestern Africa Join us in the next LPNEA workshop on 29-30 Sept in Bracciano and online! To register, scan the QR code or write an email to neafrica[at]gmail[.]com Very much looking forward to it!

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/afri... Researchers have noticed striking similarities between the Uan Muhuggiag child and Egyptian mummification practices. Both cultures placed their dead in fetal positions, used ostrich eggshell beads as jewelry and removed internal organs to prevent decay.

Africa's Oldest Mummy Is a Toddler Who Died 5,400 Years Ago, Nearly a Millennium Before the Egyptians Started Mummifying Their Dead

Libya's civil war has placed the Uan Muhuggiag mummy at risk. But negotiations are underway to transport the rare artifact from Libya to Rome, where it will undergo restoration and scientific analysis

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Call for Papers!!! We are holding a session for Early Career Researchers-Innovations in Isotope Analysis 👩🏻‍🔬 at 2026 SAA’s. Please feel free to share or reach out for submission details if you are interested in joining our session!