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Felix Riede

@felixthehauskat.bsky.social

Evolutionary archaeologist at-large interested in cultural transmission, environmental/computational archaeology, and novel ecosystems. Professor, papa, pizza-lover. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sfHIPiabSMwC&hl=en

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Murillo Pagnotta@murillopagnotta.bsky.social · last mo.

I prepared a blog post for the Human Behaviour & Evolution Society summarising the three studies examining the possible function of the Blombos and Diepkloof engravings led by Kristian Tylén, @fusaroli.eurosky.social , @felixthehauskat.bsky.social, and others. www.hbes.com/how-function...

How Function Shapes Form - HBES

– by Murillo Pagnotta Symbolic artefacts as tools of the mind In the study of human evolution, evidence of symbolic behaviour is often taken to indicate when the mind of our deep past relatives became...

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Felix Riede@felixthehauskat.bsky.social · 5mo ago

If you are interested in cross-cultural analysis, play and human cognition do yourself a favor and reach this amazing post - and the preprint. I’m so chuffed to be part of this research!

Roope Kaaronen@roopekaaronen.net · 5mo ago

Did you know that the spinning top is one of the most common forms of traditional play worldwide? Our research found tops to be nearly universal across human cultures. Wherever you come from, your ancestors probably spun tops. New preprint: Top of the World osf.io/preprints/so... Thread:

Peter Head@peterheadcbe.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The rate of global sea level rise doubled during the past three decades - Communications Earth & Environment

Global mean sea level rise amounted to 4.5 mm per year as a result of warming oceans and melting land ice, more than twice the rate of 2.1 mm/year observed at the start of satellite data in 1993, base...

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Felix Riede@felixthehauskat.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Hey @andrameneganzin.bsky.social, this is such a great paper on why defining, capturing, and (most of all) analyzing the emergence of 'behavioural modernity' still is such an important topic link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Congrats.

The Fate of Behavioral Modernity - Biological Theory

Biological Theory - Over the past twenty years, empirical and theoretical advances have significantly reshaped the research agenda on “behavioral modernity” and its conceptualization....

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Felix Riede@felixthehauskat.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Europe’s earliest blue mineral pigment? From the Palaeolithic, you ask?? Indeed - read it here first, now even fully paginated 👇

Antiquity Journal@antiquity.ac.uk · 8mo ago

Our December issue is out now! Featuring great #archaeology such as: 🔵 The oldest blue mineral pigment use in Europe ⛰️ Mesoamerican mountain monuments and water worship 🐚 Playing the shell trumpets of Neolithic Catalonia & much more! 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Cover of the December 2025 issue of Antiquity, featuring a photogrammetric image of an ancient quarry, with evidence for the quarrying of stone and a partially complete humanoid statue lying on its back.
Felix Riede@felixthehauskat.bsky.social · 9mo ago

And now also on YouTube courtesy of (the somewhat oddly named) Hidden History youtu.be/ibf62rLFbeY?.... OTT picture but otherwise not a bad summary, really

Palaeolithic age blue pigment find in Germany is first use ever discovered by archaeologists

YouTube video by Hidden History

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Felix Riede@felixthehauskat.bsky.social · 10mo ago

And now covered in @science.org by the fab @spoke32.bsky.social: www.science.org/content/arti.... Do check it out for yourself - the earliest evidence of mineral-based blue pigment in Palaeolithic Europe!

Felix Riede@felixthehauskat.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Also covered in National Geographic: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

This is the oldest blue pigment ever discovered in Europe

The discovery of a stone long overlooked in a German museum suggests that Ice Age communities experimented with vivid hues far earlier than scholars believed.

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Dr Izzy Wisher@izzywisher.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵 Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Close-up image of a sand coloured stone, with a diagonal crack. The sand rock has a textured surface, and small spots of blue can be seen towards the centre of the stone. The background is grey.
Felix Riede@felixthehauskat.bsky.social · 10mo ago

And now covered in @science.org by the fab @spoke32.bsky.social: www.science.org/content/arti.... Do check it out for yourself - the earliest evidence of mineral-based blue pigment in Palaeolithic Europe!

Paleolithic painters had the blues

Two recent studies shine light on the earliest known artistic usages of blue pigment

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Felix Riede@felixthehauskat.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I, too, am proud to share this quite exciting finding with you: Europe's oldest mineral blue pigment. It's azurite and we found it on a legacy object that had long languished in a storehouse. New analysis bring new insights :) #palaeolithicblues

Felix Riede@felixthehauskat.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I, too, am proud to share this quite exciting finding with you: Europe's oldest mineral blue pigment. It's azurite and we found it on a legacy object that had long languished in a storehouse. New analysis bring new insights :) #palaeolithicblues

Dr Izzy Wisher@izzywisher.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵 Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Close-up image of a sand coloured stone, with a diagonal crack. The sand rock has a textured surface, and small spots of blue can be seen towards the centre of the stone. The background is grey.
Risk & Disaster TIG@riskdisastertig.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Check out @felixthehauskat.bsky.social, Kathrine L. D. Andreasen & Peter M. Yaworsky's "Human Impacts of the 8.2 ka Event on Mesolithic Foragers in Western Denmark: A Model-Based Approach Inspired by 'Radical' #Disaster #Risk Reduction Research" in "Under Pressure" at

Human Impacts of the 8.2 ka Event on Mesolithic Foragers in Western De

The 8.2 ka event had a major but regionally variable climatic impact in the Northern Hemisphere. In Denmark, it impacted lakes and rivers, which were essential landscape features for contemporaneous foragers. There is also evidence for a marked increase in sand drift...

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Roope Kaaronen@roopekaaronen.net · last yr.

Our knotropology en español with comments by @felixthehauskat.bsky.social and external knot experts. www.elperiodico.com/es/sociedad/...

Los mismos nudos aparecen a lo largo de 12 milenios

La mayor base de datos de nudos documentados a lo largo de la historia revela que la sociedades más alejadas usaron las mismas ataduras.

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Roope Kaaronen@roopekaaronen.net · last yr.

Pleased to see our work published: The Ties That Bind: Computational, Cross-cultural Analyses of Knots Reveal Their Cultural Evolutionary History and Significance We analysed knots across 12,000 years and 82 societies. Time to tie a thread 🧵 about why knots matter. doi.org/10.1017/S095...

A circular dendrogram (phenetic tree) of knots, made using the ggtree package in R. A text-readable and high-resolution PDF-version of the tree is available as a supplementary material.