We are delighted to announce our timetable of Evolutionary Anthropology talks for Semester 1 of the new academic year! 🥳🤩 All of our talks will be streamed online via MS Teams. Our first talk this semester will be on the 8th October 2026, from 13:00-14:00 GMT. We hope you will join us!

To mark this weekend’s European Heritage Days and highlight heritage at risk, discover our seminar with ARWA: “Damage as Context: Archaeological Strategies in Altered Sites”. Join us online from November to January! Detailed programme coming soon. 🏛️

Wonderful news ! My dear friend and colleague Latifa Sari has been elected President of the PanAfrican Archaeological Association ! Congrats Latifa ! uispp.net/en/news/2026...

Job alert! Academic Engagement Coordinator, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, @harvard.edu. "The Academic Partnerships department manages the integration of the Museum into the University curriculum | [this is] a teaching and research support role" jobs.smartrecruiters.com/HarvardUnive...

Academic Engagement Coordinator

Company Description: By working at Harvard University, you join a vibrant community that advances Harvard's world-changing mission in meaningful ways, inspires innovation and collaboration, and builds...

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We’re hiring a Research Assistant🚨 Interested in human evolution and African prehistory? We’re looking for someone with excellent organisational skills who will be based in Cambridge, with fieldwork opportunities in Kenya🇰🇪 Deadline: 01.07.2026 🔗 Apply online:
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🏺 Aside from all the obvious aspects of interest, this is yet another piece of evidence disproving the odd idea that #Neanderthals hibernated over winter

Dr Huw Groucutt@huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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And back to the #archaeology 🏺 🦣 Exciting new analysis of MSA shell bead evidence from El Mnasra North Africa: large assemblage likely >100 Ka, inc pigment residue and wear from ?thread, but other wear suggests diverse uses. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Aterian shell beads from the coastal site of El Mnasra Cave (Rabat-Témara, Morocco): Specificities of the north African MSA personal ornaments

The use of Nassariidea shells as personal ornaments is attested to an increasing number of Middle Stone Age (MSA) archaeological sites in northern and southern Africa. The chronological extent of this...

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🚨FULLY FUNDED PHD POSITION!🚨 If you are interested in trying to answer the question of "How did climate shape the movements, interactions, and evolution of hominin populations?" Come join my lab at @humanorigins.bsky.social 🧬🧪 deadline 7th of June ⬇️ uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

The Mossi kingdoms were a group of polities that extended across much of present-day Burkina Faso and northern Ghana. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-mossi-...

The Mossi States: pre-Islamic Kingdoms in Burkina Faso ca. 1300-1897

During the late Middle Ages, a ‘pagan’ power from the interior of West Africa confronted the great empires of Mali and Songhai, and briefly extended its influence over the merchant towns of the Sahel,...

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In Ghana for our excavation season and celebrating two HUGE news! Cheers all !

Le Sahara n’a pas toujours été un désert… mais même sa période humide n’était pas stable. Une nouvelle étude révèle que l’African Humid Period (AHP) (environ 14 800 à 5 500 ans avant aujourd’hui) a été interrompue par au moins 3 sécheresses brutales www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Decadal-scale droughts disrupted the African Humid Period in the Sahara - Nature

Sedimentary time-series data of Lake Yoa in Chad covering the past 10.25 thousand years (kyr) show that the mid-Holocene African Humid Period experienced several decadal-scale droughts, caused by sudd...

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#Communiqué 🗞️ Cette découverte, exceptionnelle par la quantité d’éléments retrouvés et par la diversité des traces de façonnage et d’utilisation observées, permet de comprendre comment nos ancêtres portaient ces premiers « bijoux » de l’humanité 🐚 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/de...

I am immensely proud to announce the publication of our latest article “Aterian shell beads from the coastal site of El Mnasra Cave (Rabat-Témara, Morocco): Specificities of the North African MSA personal ornaments”, led by our beloved Emilie Campmas 🧵 @umr5608traces.bsky.social @mnhn.fr @INSAP

Regional variability in the Acheulian to Middle Stone Age transition in southern Africa 🏺🧪 A. F. Blackwood, @ozarchaeomaglab.bsky.social , et al www.nature.com/articles/s41... Shows that the MSA emerged around 230 ± 18 ka, significantly earlier than previously documented along the southern coast.

There are only a few days left to submit your abstract! #PanAf2026

Eslem Ben Arous (She/Her)@eslembenarous.bsky.social · 9mo ago

CALL FOR PAPERS ALERT 🚨 For the next PanAf2026 in Mozambique, we are organizing the session "Beyond the frontiers in Palaeoscience: renewing chronological, geoarchaeological, palaeolandscape and palaeoenvironmental approches to the African Pleistocene".

Back to Oxford to calibrate our new gamma probe for ESR and Luminscence dating of African Pleistocene sites !

The Smithsonian will be hosting a free webinar this Sunday, February 22 from 1:30-3:00 EST, The Impact of Human Origins on People's Understanding of the World. Check it out! naturalhistory.si.edu/events/impac... #museums #humanorigins #evosky

The Impact of Human Origins on People's Understanding of the World

Join the National Museum of Natural History’s Human Origins Program for a discussion on how the program developed from the Smithsonian's cutting-edge research, a permanent exhibition, and public engag...

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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

Sorry but...WHAT ?

Dr. Win@paleowin.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Really SVP? You’re just going to ignore decades of sexual and academic misconduct, marrying a student AT one of your conferences, and every report I’ve filed (implying that’s what you do with reports) to defend famous Horner? You’d rather have pedophiles than students is your message?

Reminder: ASAPA abstract deadline 31 Jan ⏰ We invite abstracts for our session on the Pleistocene record of the Kalahari and interior southern Africa, including comparative studies with other regions of southern Africa or Africa. Submit via the ASAPA portal: asapa2026.co.za/submissions....

Depuis le 24 janv, nous sommes à Banjeli, centre Togo. Cette année pas de fouilles paléometallurgiques mais une expérimentation avec les locaux. Le but construire et faire fonctionner un fourneau de réduction de minerai de fer du XVIIIe siècle @umr5608traces.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

📣 Yonatan Sahle and I are delighted to invite abstracts for Session# 18 of the 17th PanAf Congress (July 26–31, 2026, Maputo, Mozambique). The session welcomes interdisciplinary contributions on the Middle and Late Pleistocene archaeology of eastern Africa. Submit your abstract by March 15, 2026.

📣 Work with us! 📣 We are seeking to appoint a part-time, permanent Biomolecular Research Laboratory Technician! Hear a bit more about the role from @matthewcollins.bsky.social 📅 Closing date: 2 February www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/biomole...

Between my various trips to Africa planned for 2026, I am also starting my tour of UK labs. First stop: London for a few weeks!

🏺🧪 Reminder - it's never good #SciComm practice to make inaccurate/misleading gen-AI imagery. Case in point- recent posts here of #Neanderthals with complex engravings, & metallic-looking objects. (they also apparently have 6 fingers, but I guess who tf cares when it's just vibes for the public 🙄)

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS!🚨 @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social and I are running a session (S17) at PanAf2026 in Mozambique, titled: Pan-African Homo sapiens evolution: linking processes with data. More info: panaf2026moz.com/panaf-sessio... & submit an abstract: panaf2026moz.com/paper-submis... deadline March 15th

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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CALL FOR PAPERS ALERT 🚨 For the next PanAf2026 in Mozambique, we are organizing the session "Beyond the frontiers in Palaeoscience: renewing chronological, geoarchaeological, palaeolandscape and palaeoenvironmental approches to the African Pleistocene".

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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In 2026, we are taking back our science. You don’t have to love all our tactics, but please trust me when I say @standupforscience.bsky.social is on the right side of history and we will remain so. The original call out remains: GET IN, DORKS! open.substack.com/pub/sciencef...

Welcome to the Science Fight Club

An uncomfortable but winning plan to take back science in 2026. Written by: Colette Delawalla

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Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 9mo ago

2025 sucked. In 2026, we are taking back our science! We are excited to launch our Substack: The Science Fight Club. Read our first post, written by @cdelawalla.bsky.social, a review of 2025, a preview of 2026, and a big call to action. open.substack.com/pub/sciencef...

Do you hold an EU or Swiss passport and speak English fluently? Your help will be needed at #EGU26! Our conference provider and partner Copernicus is looking for conference assistants. 👉 Apply here by 5 January 2026: egu.eu/4DNZDO 📸 Florian Heine on #imaggeo

People have always moved around, and DNA can now paint a clearer picture of ancient migration #MigrantsDay #IMD DNA analysis at two early-medieval cemeteries in southern Britain found genetic connections all the way to sub-Saharan West Africa. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

West African ancestry in seventh-century England: two individuals from Kent and Dorset

Archaeogenetics, the study of ancient DNA, can reveal powerful insights into kinship and the movement of individuals in (pre)history. Here, the authors report on the identification of two individuals with genetic profiles consistent with recent sub-Saharan African ancestry, both of whom were buried in early-medieval cemeteries in southern Britain. Focusing primarily on a sub-adult female from Updown in Kent, the authors explore the societal and cultural contexts in which these individuals lived and died, and the widening geographic links indicated by their presence, pointing back to the Byzantine reconquest of North Africa in AD 533–534.

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