Gabriele Russo
@gabrieleru1.bsky.social
PhD student in Zooarchaeology at Uni Tübingen - Project REVIVE #Paleolithic #Archaeology #Zooarchaeology #AnimalEcology #Science #Nature
Great to see our new paper out; evidence for Neanderthals in Arabia! Time to stop imagining our hominin cousins as only being found in cold northern forests! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Neanderthals in the desert? Population history best explains Middle Palaeolithic technological heterogeneity in Arabia
Northeast Africa and Southwest Asia present a rich record of hominin occupations between ca. 100 and 50 thousand years ago (ka) at a critical biogeogr…
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It’s official now, I got my #PhD! 🎓 So proud to finally hold this certificate in my hands. I'm very grateful for everyone who supported me through the research, setbacks, and very long days 🥹 More work to come!! 🦣🦴🔬♥️
Excited to co-organize “Old bones, new questions: Rethinking diet as a proxy for paleoecology” at #ICAZ2027 in Vancouver! We welcome papers critically exploring dietary proxies, scale, ambiguity, and human–animal ecologies. Abstract Deadline: 25 Aug 2026! #ICAZ #Zooarchaeology
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This is a truly exciting #zooarchaeology paper! Beyond its major implications for the “Hobbit” debate 🧠, it showcases a brilliant experimental archaeology design and is a major contribution to the zooarchaeology of the Pleistocene tropics and taphonomic research. Really, really cool! 🦣🏺🧪
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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Bigger brains made us human... but did evolution actually select for them? 🧠 This exciting new study challenges one of the classic assumptions about human evolution 🤯 Definitely worth a read. Congrats @katharv.bsky.social!
Evolutionary drivers of encephalization and facial reduction in the genus Homo - Nature Communications
This study tests the evolutionary processes shaping the cranial morphology of the genus Homo. The authors report a limited role of gradual directional selection and underscore the importance of stabil...
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Our late Neandertal paper is officially out! 💀❤️🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... It was years in the making, a tremendous feat spearheaded by our PhD student Alba Bossoms Mesa and co-led by @janetk.bsky.social and @benmpeter.bsky.social
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🏺 🧪 Thoughts on new Naledi info: - if results are correct it doesn't mean all individuals there are female, just sampled teeth - if there is strong female bias it's interesting but cultural burial is not the first thing I'd be thinking about - nobody comments on weirdness when 💀 samples are all ♂️
Kristina Killgrove@killgrove.bsky.social · last mo.This has got to be the weirdest human evolution story I've ever covered. I'm still baffled -- yes, baffled -- by these results. 🏺🧪
When did the hominins separate from our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees/bonobos? Many different age estimates have been suggested. Around eight million years ago seems likely according to this new paper, bringing fossil- and genetic-based estimates into line: doi.org/10.1007/s103...
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What can a 26.5 m² campsite tell us about life 38 ka? Our new study on Friedrichsdorf-Seulberg reveals a short Aurignacian occupation with a hearth 🔥 reindeer processing 🦌 and raw materials 🪨 transported over 170 km A small site with a big story about Ice Age mobility! #Archaeology #Palaeolithic 🦣🧪🏺
The Early Upper Palaeolithic open‐air site of Friedrichsdorf‐Seulberg, Germany, in the context of the northern central European Aurignacian
Our knowledge of the Early Upper Palaeolithic occupation in northern central Europe is very limited, and recent research at the open-air site of Friedrichsdorf-Seulberg in Hesse, Germany, provides im....
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Come join our team in Exeter! We're looking for a Lecturer in Archaeology for a three year teaching post, focusing particularly on practical skills and fieldwork (closing date 30 June): careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/95...
Lecturer in Archaeology (Education and Scholarship) in Exeter | University of Exeter
View details and apply for this Lecturer in Archaeology (Education and Scholarship) vacancy in Exeter. Lecturer in Archaeology (Education and Scholarship) This full-time post is avail...
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New paleogenomic evidence shows that cave lions and modern lions 🦁 interbred during the Late Pleistocene. Just like Modern humans & Neanderthals, wolves & coyotes, polar bears & brown bears. Contact, admixture, and adaptation seem to be recurring themes of the #Pleistocene 🦣🏺🧪
Paleogenomes reveal the evolutionary relationship between modern and cave lions
Paleogenomic analysis of cave lions spanning >100 kya shows that extinct cave lions formed a long-diverged evolutionary lineage from modern lions, with distinct demographic histories and lineage-speci...
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A new paper shows that government control of the media across the world already influences the output of #LLMs via their training data and also shows that LLMs exhibit a stronger pro-government valence in the languages of countries with lower media freedom than in those with higher media freedom! 🧪😵💫
State media control influences large language models
Nature - Government-controlled media influences the output of large language models via their training data, and models queried in the languages of countries with lower media freedom show a...
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🚨 Excited to share our new paper on the #MiddlePalaeolithic site of Ras el-Kelb, #Lebanon 🪨🦴 A long overdue study! Using lithic analysis and use-wear approaches, we explore how hominins interacted with the landscape and exploited resources along the Lebanese coast during the MP #Levant 🏺🦣 👇
New perspectives on lithic technology and subsistence strategies at the middle palaeolithic site of Ras el-Kelb, Lebanon
The Middle Palaeolithic of the Central Levant remains a topic of ongoing debates concerning cultural variability, technological traditions, and homini…
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Dear Archaeologists, as you know, we are trying to explore whether the EAA can be rescued and given back to its members. Please, have a look at our statement: drive.google.com/file/d/1ehzn.... To sign it: ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/xZZjy6le @archagainstaparth.bsky.social @blacktrowel.bsky.social
"History has taught us countless times that hiding behind ambiguous language and silencing critical voices only serves to aid the aggressor and perpetuate further isolation and violence against the colonised" Read the statement #Archeology #Paleoanthropology 👇
Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide@archagainstaparth.bsky.social · 3mo agoRead our response to recent statements by the EAA European Association of Archaeologists. Cancel attendance at EAA2026 Athens with a full refund before this Friday, May 15th. #boycottEAA drive.google.com/file/d/1lE-1...
Last week, #REVIVE PhD student Gabriel Russo @gabrieleru1.bsky.social, presented his main PhD results at SAA in San Francisco which he will defend this June!🦌🦴Congrats! ✨️ #SAA2026SFO @zig-saa.bsky.social
Whales' vocalizations might be closer to human "speaking” than we thought! A new study finds that sperm whale clicks show vowel-like structure and phonological patterns, one of the closest parallels to human language in the animal kingdom 🤯 Can't wait to speak to a #whale🐋
We’re one step closer to understanding the sperm whale ‘alphabet’
Scientists are learning that sperm whales communicate in ways that may mirror human language.
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🚨 #PaperAlert! So excited for our new study on Laheem (Oman), revealing one of the oldest Neolithic faunal assemblages in the region 🐄🐐 This collaborative work integrates chronology, #zooarchaeology, and use-wear to reconstruct early pastoral lifeways, mobility, and subsistence in southern #Arabia
Tracing prehistoric pastoral occupation in Dhofar: New Chronological, archaeological and faunal insights from Laheem, southern Oman
The prehistoric occupation of Dhofar, Southern Oman, was facilitated by the Indian Summer Monsoon, which engulfs the Dhofar Mountains and the Salalah …
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🚨🧪NEW PAPER!🚨 Led by the great @jclark997.bsky.social - We present the Tool Systems Approach: A method to calculate cultural complexity in a way that allows comparisons between the archaeological, ethnographic and primatological records, hence tackling big Qs in CE link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Tool Systems Approach: Measuring Complexity in the Primatological, Archaeological, and Ethnographic Records - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
Measuring technological complexity across species, as well as across temporal and spatial scales, is an ongoing challenge among authors who work on primatological, archaeological, and/or ethnographic ...
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Yamandú Hilbert & Gabriele Russo @gabrieleru1.bsky.social presented the latest results of their work on the Middle East at the International Conference of the Archeological Association of the Wear & Residue Analysts (AWRANA) in Pisa, Italy.✨️ Another great conference contribution-congrats to both!🙌🏻
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Manuel Will@manuelwill.bsky.social · 4mo ago🚨 Publication alert🚨 Early humans in South Africa were quarrying stone as long as 220,000 years ago at the site of Jojosi @natcomms.nature.com - specialized, long-term use of a source of a raw material source in Stone Age Africa: Read the paper #openaccess here www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Out today is our paper 'Genomic history of early dogs in Europe', in which we uncover the identity of the dogs that lived in Europe before agriculture—during the Paleolithic & Mesolithic periods: doi.org/10.1038/s415.... A thread ⬇️ (10) @biouea.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social
A fitting memory to Emilie. doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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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🚨 #PaperAlert! #Neanderthals were elephant gourmets, but also not picky eaters! Our new study at Lehringen (~125 ka) shows evidence of elephant butchery associated with a wooden spear, alongside the exploitation of bears, beavers, and ungulates. Flexible hunters with everything on the menu 🐘🍽️ 🦣🏺🧪
Faunal exploitation at the elephant hunting site of Lehringen, Germany, 125,000 years ago - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Faunal exploitation at the elephant hunting site of Lehringen, Germany, 125,000 years ago
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Beavers doing more to combat climate change than many humans.
Beavers can convert stream corridors to persistent carbon sinks - Communications Earth & Environment
Beaver-induced hydrological change turned wetland into a net carbon sink with an approximate carbon storage of 100 tons per year, according to a comprehensive carbon budget analysis from a beaver wetl...
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We often link symbolic complexity to the Neolithic, but it starts earlier. Between ~15–11.6 ka, the first sedentary societies in the #Levant were already making clay ornaments, experimenting with identity and social expression, and even involving children in craft production 🏺🧪 👇
Modeling identities among the first-sedentary communities: Emergence of clay personal ornaments in Epipaleolithic Southwest Asia
The discovery of the earliest clay ornaments in Southwest Asia (15,000 years ago) made by children and adults is reported.
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#Neanderthals at Neumark-Nord (~125 ka) clearly had a taste for #elephant 🐘 But where did these giants come from? A new study reveals the life histories and mobility of straight-tusked elephants! Some individuals may have roamed hundreds of km before ending up at this famous hunting site 🦣🧪🏺
Elefantes gigantes abatidos por neandertales habían recorrido más de 300 kilómetros por el centro de Europa hasta el lugar donde fueron cazados
El análisis de los molares fosilizados de cuatro ejemplares de Palaeoloxodon antiquus, el mayor mamífero terrestre del Pleistoceno europeo, ha permitido a un equipo internacional de investigadores rec...
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