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News from the #Paleoanthropology 🦴🦷⚒️ lab at the University of Tübingen 🎓 & Senckenberg 🌍
Happy #FossilFriday! 🦴👣 A few moments from our recent fieldwork in Baringo, Kenya 🇰🇪 Exciting things ahead! Many thanks to our team members and to the local partners whose support and assistance were invaluable throughout the fieldwork. 🙏🏼✨️ @humanorigins.bsky.social
Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 👏 Katerina Harvati vom Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche #Archäologie und dem #Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment wird mit dem Albert Einstein World Award for Science 2026 des World Cultural Council ausgezeichnet: 👉 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/…
Incredibly honored to be selected as the recipient of the 2026 Albert Einstein World Award of Science! Thank you to the selection committee, team members, partners &institutions supporting me @sgn.one @dfg.de @erc.europa.eu @unituebingen.bsky.social www.consejoculturalmundial.org/news/winner-...
Congrats to our speaker @katharv.bsky.social, who was just announced as the winner of the Albert Einstein World Award of Science!
Katerina Harvati erhält den Albert Einstein World Award for Science
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✨Great to see our recent article on evolutionary drivers of encephalization and facial reduction in the genus Homo featured by our local press 😀 www.swp.de/lokales/tueb...
Studie der Universität Tübingen: Wie sich menschliche Schädel wirklich entwickelten
Größeres Gehirn, kleineres Gesicht: Die menschliche Evolution verlief anders als gedacht. Eine neue Studie der Universität Tübingen und der University of Tennessee in Knoxville stellt langjährige Anna...
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Thrilled to see our paper on the #Uluzzian of Klissoura Cave now published! It was a truly wonderful collaborative effort, and I’m grateful to everyone involved! ❤️ @harvatilab.bsky.social @boneslab.bsky.social
Katerina Harvati@katharv.bsky.social · 4w ago✨Our paper on the Uluzzian of Klissoura Cave, Greece, is now published online #openaccess ✨, one of the important studies of the @erc.europa.eu Advanced Project FIRSTSTEPS and a Greek-Italian collaboration! Congratulations to Giulia Marciani, @serena-lombardo.bsky.social and team! 🎉👏 rdcu.be/ftlpN
✨Our paper on the Uluzzian of Klissoura Cave, Greece, is now published online #openaccess ✨, one of the important studies of the @erc.europa.eu Advanced Project FIRSTSTEPS and a Greek-Italian collaboration! Congratulations to Giulia Marciani, @serena-lombardo.bsky.social and team! 🎉👏 rdcu.be/ftlpN
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 new article in the series of papers on the paleoenvironment of the Middle Pleistocene Megalopolis Basin (Greece) is now published! Congratulations to Ines Bludau and team!✨🎉 #openaccess #humanevolution @sgn.one @dfg.de @erc.europa.eu @humanorigins.bsky.social
Drilling the Marathousa palaeo‐lake in Greece (Peloponnese): inferring the environmental context of a Middle Pleistocene archaeological site
The Megalopolis Basin is located in the central Peloponnese (Greece), a region that is situated along one of the primary Pleistocene biogeographical corridors for intracontinental hominin migration. ....
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Nice write-up of the recent paper by Hubbe and Harvati (2026) ✨️💀🧠 #humanevolution
Michael Marshall@michael-marshall.bsky.social · last mo.We often assume that natural selection favoured intelligence and big brains, but this might not be true at all - @newscientist.com https://www.newscientist.com/article/2532890-human-brains-may-have-got-bigger-for-no-particular-reason/
📢 New #openaccess paper out! Exploring the evolutionary drivers of encephalization and facial reduction in the genus Homo. 🧠💀 Check it out here: rdcu.be/fsgmj Congrats to Mark and Katerina @katharv.bsky.social for this work! ✨️ #humanevolution @humanorigins.bsky.social
Likely no hunters of Elephants nor masters of fire - new paper on taphonomic analysis challenges former assumptions on Homo floresensis. Congratulations to Grace Veatch, who recently started her position as an Independent Junior Research Group Lead at Human Origins! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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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The final session took us to the Italian and Greek records and their connections. Wonderful to see everything coming together and the progress the team has made over the last four years 👏 Thank you to all the team members and collaborators who presented their work! @erc.europa.eu #humanevolution
The afternoon session started with some in-depth comparative analysis of human fossils from Greece and the Balkans, one of the main objectives of FIRSTSTEPS. So nice to see this work slowly coming to fruition! 😀 @erc.europa.eu #humanevolution
Our FISTSTEPS workshop continued with faunal and microfaunal analyses, paleoproteomics and human osteological analyses focusing on the record of the Apidima caves 😀 @erc.europa.eu #humanevolution
The first session of the @erc.europa.eu project FIRSTSTEPS workshop is concluded, with exciting reports on the Apidima excavation, geomorphology and sediment micromorphology! wonderful to see the results coming together ✨ #humanevolution
Congratulations, Serena! ✨️🤗
Katerina Harvati@katharv.bsky.social · 2mo ago✨The @erc.europa.eu project FIRSTSTEPS annual workshop started with a bang with the successful defense of @serena-lombardo.bsky.social this morning, working on the early Upper Paleolithic of Greece and Italy! 🎉 CONGRATULATIONS SERENA on this fantastic work!👏👏
Just back from the Senckenberg convention in Frankfurt! So nice to spend time with the hundreds of scientists that make up this amazing community of diverse institutes - I always learn something new about this incredible institution that we call home :-) @sgn.one
Lecture Announcement! Dr.Grace Veatch, Independent Junior Research Group Leader at Human Origins, on „An Unexpected Journey: Human Evolution and Island Biogeography on Flores, Indonesia“. Join us this Friday, June 12th, at 10:15 a.m. , live on site or via Zoom: zoom.us/j/9643057107... 🏺 #paleosky
✨New opportunity✨ Fully funded PhD position in our Experimental Archaeology Lab lead by @egveatch.bsky.social! Find all necessary information on our website: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/... #HumanOrigins #EarlyCareerArchaeologists
Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS
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🚨Deadline approaching🚨 for this fully funded PhD-position at Uni Tübingen! Want to know more? ➡️ Get in touch!
HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence@humanorigins.bsky.social · 3mo ago🚨Fully funded PhD-position🚨 in our Genotype-Phenotype Evolution in Space (GPS) Lab. Interested in the question on how climate shape the movements, interactions, and evolution of hominin populations? Come work with us in Tübingen! uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...
Very happy to announce the publication of our latest article, on the reconstruction and analysis of the Paradolicopithecus cranium from Dafnero, Greece. Congratulations to Stelios Koutalis and the entire team! ✨🎉 #openaccess www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Virtual reconstruction and analysis of the face of DFN3-150 Paradolichopithecus aff. arvernensis specimen from Dafnero, Greece - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Virtual reconstruction and analysis of the face of DFN3-150 Paradolichopithecus aff. arvernensis specimen from Dafnero, Greece
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🦴 PaleoAnthropology 2026 Issue 1 — Human Evolution 📖 Naumann & Harvati Upper Paleolithic human remains from La Rochette paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph... 📖 Hopkins et al. Middle–Upper Paleolithic transition at Kozarnika Cave paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph... #HumanEvolution
🚨Fully funded PhD-position🚨 in our Genotype-Phenotype Evolution in Space (GPS) Lab. Interested in the question on how climate shape the movements, interactions, and evolution of hominin populations? Come work with us in Tübingen! uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...
Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS
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We’re excited to announce that the first 2026 issue of PaleoAnthropology is now online! A big thank you to everyone who made this issue possible. 📖 Read it here: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph... #PaleoAnthropology #HumanEvolution #Archaeology #OpenAccess
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
Katerina gave a talk yesterday in Leiden as part of the “Experimental Archaeology Days”! ✨ She presented the recently published paper on the oldest handheld tools from Marathousa 1 🪵🔍- truly exciting work! What a wonderful symposium! 🙌🎉 @katharv.bsky.social #Archaeology #academia #science 🏺
New evaluation of the taxonomic affinities of the Late Pleistocene fossil hominin from Kabua, Kenya. Very happy to finally have the chance to finish and publish this work, nearly a decade after a very happy time in Tuebingen working on it with excellent colleagues. doi.org/10.1111/1467...
I am so happy that my article on our research in Greece under my three ERC projects is now published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute ✨😊 @erc.europa.eu @harvatilab.bsky.social @humanorigins.bsky.social #openaccess #humanevolution rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The role of the Eastern Mediterranean in human evolution: recent results from Greece
The Eastern Mediterranean lies directly on the principal migration route for human groups dispersing across Africa, Europe, and Asia. It also encompasses the Balkans, where fauna and flora, as well a...
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