Looking forward to returning to Latnija,Malta, in August - and our new modelling paper suggests forager occupations from 8.5-7.5ka were only possible through sustained, long-distance seafaring in the Mesolithic Mediterranean! (Image: (C) Huw Groucutt) academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Permanent lecturer position for a forensic anthropologist at our department!

Baylor Anthropology@bayloranthro.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Department of Anthropology at Baylor University seeks a permanent full-time lecturer to teach four courses per fall/spring semesters in a thriving forensic science minor. For full details, see: apply.interfolio.com/186896

🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 Join @palevoprim.bsky.social as part of the #ReVol project (@cnrs.fr & Wits Joint PhD Programme)! Spend 3 years investigating the southern African fossil cercopithecoids to reconstruct past ecology and behavior through skeletal morphology and dental microwear.

My department has funding for 2-year MByRes studentships (full tuition fees and research allowance) on ecosystem resilience, broadly defined. Apply to do a project with me modelling social-ecological networks. #culturalevolution #socialnetworks ecologyconservation.exeter.ac.uk/masteer-coho...

What a fabulous paper, by Michelle Langley (who doesn't appear to be on bsky) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Bow-and-Arrow along the Southern Arc and Through to Oceania: Earliest Appearances, Archaeological Challenges, and Future Opportunities - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

It has been theorised that the invention of the bow-and-arrow may have been key to the successful dispersal of Homo sapiens, and indeed, archaeological evidence for the use of this technology at early...

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If walking costs you $1, we all pay $0.01. If biking costs you $1, we all pay $0.08. If bussing costs you $1, we all pay $1.50. If driving costs you $1, we all pay $9.20. Via study that still underestimates climate cost. This isn’t about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice. #citymakingmath

Mini but mighty! Exciting new paper from @compevohumang.bsky.social showing that the stapes (the smallest bone in the human skeleton) is one of the best sources of ancient DNA preservation. A promising advance for maximizing DNA recovery while minimizing destructive sampling! doi.org/10.1101/gr.2...

📸 “Photogrammetry in Three Acts” follows #archaeologist Patricia G. Markert’s journey documenting a Texas ruin - revived digitally through photos, 3D models, and #community #collaboration. Read the #blog and #openaccess article now. 🔗 https://cup.org/4c6VOdd @saa-aap.bsky.social #archaeology

It Takes Two to Tango: A Pluralist Account for Building Comprehensive Explanations in Human Evolution - Menéndez - American Anthropologist - Wiley Online Library anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library

The evolutionary study of human dispersal is a key topic in biological anthropology. However, recent research has revealed inconsistencies between molecular and anatomical data across different times....

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I use the case of He Jiankui genetically modifying human embryos in my teaching about the relationship between science and society, but I must admit I haven't followed the entire story, now with a Canadian twist. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

‘There is no way to stop this’: ‘Biotech Barbie’ Cathy Tie on her mission to genetically modify babies

The Canadian entrepreneur has always pushed the boundaries of gene editing, once attempting to turn horses into unicorns. Now she is set on modifying human embryos – something her controversial ex-hus...

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A 430,000 year old digging stick. How cool! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New pub! Part review, part hypothesis presentation. Review: the various process that activate and fuel brown fat. Hypothesis: brown fat relies on aerobic & anaerobic metabolism. This was a fun one to write with current & former mentees. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Burning fast & slow: a review of the differential metabolic routes of brown adipose tissue activity during cold exposure and their implications for populational variation - Lipids in Health and Diseas...

Lipids in Health and Disease - Brown adipose tissue (BAT) has received renewed attention for its ability to increase metabolic rate and heat production, via non-shivering thermogenesis, in response...

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Evidence for more terrestrial locomotion in Australopithecus, and more frequent climbing in Paranthropus from Sterkfontein/Swartkrans. Cool! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Evidence suggests that birth weight may influence how kidneys respond to extreme endurance exercise, with both low and high birth weights linked to greater kidney stress in ultramarathon athletes. doi.org/hbz3pp

An endurance limit that surfaces in punishing races may begin at birth

A new study is raising questions about whether human endurance has biological limits shaped long before adulthood—possibly beginning at birth.

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More new work with awesome colleagues: Birth weight, a marker of maternal investment, correlates with later life kidney function and markers of renal damage incurred during ultra endurance events. LHT is 🔥 for generating predictions of human physiology. www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...

Frontiers | Birth weight shapes renal damage from prolonged endurance activity later in life

IntroductionEndurance activity is considered a hallmark of human evolution, but there is limited understanding of what constrains this capacity. The renal de...

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I'm so pleased to have this paper out, with work led by @dannylongman.bsky.social and a team of outstanding collaborators. Experimental evidence of life history trade-offs during ultra-endurance physical activity | Evolutionary Human Sciences | www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Experimental evidence of life history trade-offs during ultra-endurance physical activity | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

Experimental evidence of life history trade-offs during ultra-endurance physical activity - Volume 8

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Awesome paper alert!

@tdcapellini.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Modular genetic architecture underlies human hand and foot evolution | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Just out: Recently discovered chimp gene-tool-culture are more likely due to permanent population splitting & expansion (i.e. "demic diffusion") than to female dispersal. *free* pdf link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1n3XqAlZXf... #ces2026 @ces2026.bsky.social #hbes2026 @hbes2026.bsky.social

A new exhibition at Bata Shoe Museum showcases decades of research and many of the Roman leather shoes discovered by #WesternU prof Elizabeth Greene at #Vindolanda, a #UNESCO World Heritage Site, where she has been uncovering artifacts for decades.

Couple of scholarships for Palestinian nationals available at the University of Malta, to do masters in 1) heritage management, and 2) artificial intelligence. www.um.edu.mt/study/feesfu...

Scholarships for Palestinian nationals to study at the UM - L-Università ta' Malta

Scholarships for Palestinian nationals to study at the UM

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📸 “Photogrammetry in Three Acts” follows #archaeologist Patricia G. Markert’s journey documenting a Texas ruin - revived digitally through photos, 3D models, and #community #collaboration. Read the #blog and #openaccess article now. 🔗 https://cup.org/4c6VOdd @saa-aap.bsky.social #archaeology

Fantastic new paper from @elliescerri.bsky.social 's group and colleagues, led by @margheritac17.bsky.social: "Malaria shaped human spatial organization for the past 74 thousand years"

Eleanor Scerri@elliescerri.bsky.social · 4mo ago

1/5 Well over three years of work and I’m thrilled to see it out today in Science Advances: the cover feature no less! Using an innovative pipeline, we show that malaria shaped the spatial organization of human groups in sub-Saharan Africa over the last 74,000 years. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A nice News piece in @science.org on our recent article about Jojosi with comments by some colleagues (featuring @huwgroucutt.bsky.social among others!). www.science.org/content/arti...

Early humans turned favored rock sites into toolmaking assembly lines

Such prescient planning started 50,000 years earlier than thought, study finds

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What a great paper. Functional morphology has come a long way in the past 30 years! royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Integration of distal tibial shape and internal trabecular bone structure among catarrhine primates

Abstract. Primates display a wide range of locomotor behaviours, each resulting in distinct mechanical demands on the ankle joint. This study examines how

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Our new paper exploring the measurement of complexity in tools - the result of significant and ongoing work, including that which emerged from our Complexity in Lithics Conference! 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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✨Thinking about a career beyond academia?✨ 📢 Join us for #AltAc Paths on 11 May 16:00 GMT 🎤 Sarah-Louise Decrausaz – research strategy & funding 🎤 Alice Novello – project management & outreach 💬 Career stories + live Q&A 🔗 Join via Zoom | zoom.us/j/9429649076...

Nice article about our @CIHR_IRSC funded research in the New York Times today @westernu.ca www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/m...

Vegetative Patients May Be More Aware Than We Knew

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Awhile back I meet the brilliant Jenni French & and now been lucky to collab on a project w/ her for the last ~3 yrs. Along with Somaye Khaksar & @anthrofuentes.bsky.social our 1st project paper is out, on origins & development of mobile containers (1/n) 🧪 🧺 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The origins and development of mobile containers: Biocultural perspectives on Pleistocene containment

Containers are ubiquitous and universal across all present-day societies. The substantial increase in the quantity and diversity of containers in the …

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🚨 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...

Specialised and persistent raw material procurement by humans in the Middle Pleistocene - Nature Communications

The authors here demonstrate that hominins were consistently and specifically procuring a single kind of raw material to make stone tools at the South African site of Jojosi between 220 and 110 thousa...

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We don't have enough open access resources for reading about ethics, and there's some really great looking chapters in there. I'm excited to spend some time with this! 🏺🧪https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-10354-3

Bioarchaeology, Activism and Social Justice

This is an open access book. This volume is the first dedicated to action within bioarchaeology that can bring about social and political change.

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