aDNA lab manager position (maternity cover for ~16 months) at UniVie. Come work with us, several cool projects, new labs and great potential for further future work. Happy to answer questions! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...

🧪🏺🦣 New paper on Amud 7 #Neanderthal baby, finding accelerated growth and development (Amud 7 is the one with the intriguing deer upper jaw on its pelvis, a rare apparent object placed with the dead) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Rapid growth in a Neandertal infant from Amud Cave in Israel

Neandertal infants are rarely found, with only a few individuals documented in the literature. Therefore, their growth and development remain poorly u…

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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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Folks - we hope to see many of you next week at our session ‼️ 👇 We have some exciting and diverse topics and speakers that wait for your questions! @egu.eu @swinnyy.bsky.social @scitobias.bsky.social @katerinad.bsky.social @pik-potsdam.bsky.social

Ola Kwiecien@olakwiecien3.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hey continental proxy people attending #EGU26! Keep in mind our unconventional CL5.2 session (with great science and the best Austrian fair-trade chocolate!). Join us on Tuesday the 5th of May at 8:30 for talks and at 14:00 for posters! @egu.eu @egu-cl.bsky.social

🚨🏺🩸🇱🇧 NEW: "Silence Is Not Neutral: An Archaeological Update from Lebanon" by Nelly P. Abboud: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/s...

Silence Is Not Neutral: An Archaeological Update from Lebanon

by Nelly P. Abboud On April 1, 2026, in the context of Israel’s illegal invasion of Lebanon and criminal targeting of the country’s civilian populations and heritage sites, the UNESCO c…

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A few years ago, using palaeoproteomics, we identified a tiny hominin bone from Denisova Cave and named it Denisova 17 (D17). A rather unremarkable sliver. At the time, I wondered, could it be Denny’s sibling (the Neanderthal/Denisovan hybrid we had just reported)? Well, turns out: no. 🧵1/4

There is still time to apply!💼📝Deadline: April 6, 2026⌛ #jobalert #Humanevolution #academia

HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence@humanorigins.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨Job alert!🚨 The Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS announces 2 junior Professor (W1) positions: A W1 Tenure track Professorship in Evolutionary Modelling (shorturl.at/FN102) and a W1 Professorship (non Tenure-track) in Primatology (shorturl.at/sH0Mk) Deadline: April 6 2026! Please share! 🔄

I am old enough to remember the vitriol directed at random humanities scholars' work complaining about the totalizing tendencies of capitalism to corrupt, colonize, or co-opt everything. I also lived long enough to read long term coverage of the literal attempt to privatize thinking in the newspaper

Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 5mo ago

ChatGPT boss Sam Altman on AI "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter"

"On behalf of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), I am very pleased to inform you that you have been selected as the 2026 recipient of the SAA's Book Award—Popular category for “Native America: The Story of the First Peoples” published by Princeton University Press." Wow! No words.

The artwork that illustrated our PNAS paper on the oldest wooden tools was made by Gleiver Prieto, who has also worked with me on illustrations for previous projects, including the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Marathousa 1. Gleiver's art really brings Pleistocene Megalopolis to life ✨ 🤩

🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS': uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨

We’ve still got a few open places for this brilliant hands-on mosaic making training event next week at @ics.bsky.social in London! Come along to have fun making, while thinking about ancient/modern practice and research with leading experts Ruaidhri Ryan and Will Wootton. @sas-news.bsky.social

Hands-on thinking through ancient and historical mosaic practice

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Full article: Cradled by architecture: infancy and delayed personhood in Neolithic Anatolia and the Balkans www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Cradled by architecture: infancy and delayed personhood in Neolithic Anatolia and the Balkans

Children, especially infants, are integral to human communities, but how they are perceived varies across societies. This study examines infancy at the late seventh millennium Neolithic sites of Ba...

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SMBE2026 Symposium L01 | Insights into the past through the lens of palaeoproteomics 📨 Abstract submission smbe2026.org/abstracts 📋 Programme details smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026

New Publication! New Article by #HEASVienna members #AnnetteOertle, @katerinad.bsky.social et al. on 'New collagen peptide markers from New Guinea fauna: identifying archaeological bone in the tropics' #HEASPublications www.heas.at/research/pub...

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out! Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025! ➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh #FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

New paper led by Annette Oertle out today focusing on our work at Castelcivita in Italy. A pleasure to work with our wonderful Italian colleagues. @katerinad.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy

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Biomolecular approaches to Pleistocene bones New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Annette Oertle, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social @katerinad.bsky.social et al

We had a lovely time at ISBA in Torino and almost managed to gather everyone from Vienna in one pic @heasvienna.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social @katerinad.bsky.social

Our latest paper is out now in Frontiers in Mammal Science: www.frontiersin.org/journals/mam... We characterized ZooMS peptide markers for three extinct Australian megafauna species 🦴🧪

Frontiers | Collagen peptide markers for three extinct Australian megafauna species

Recent advancements in biomolecular archaeology, such as stable isotope and ancient DNA research, have expanded our understanding of megafauna extinction pro...

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🏺🧪🦣 The Neanderthal Museum is KILLING IT with their social media responses to complaints because we created a feminist exhibition centering #Neanderthal women... Well +55,000 people have already visited & it's now extended to 2nd November! www.instagram.com/neanderthalm...

You know what the world absolutely does not need? Yet another definition for domestication. Get over yourselves people. C'mon! Ok, maybe just one more. So much fun working with @elinork.bsky.social, Kathryn and Robin. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Really exciting news from the Ozarks! A bag of seeds dating to the Pre-Contact Period in North America was found and donated to the University of Arkansas museum. Absolutely amazing find and you can read more about it here: www.reddit.com/r/missouri/c...

Current approach at S. #Čuka as new @heasvienna.bsky.social proteomics study: Anstasia is sampling Neolithic bone tools for isotopes, aDNA & radiocarbon w/ new methods 😊 fancy 🥳 @oeai.bsky.social @katerinad.bsky.social

Absolutely blooming stoked to announce that the zooarchaeology resource pack that I wrote with Dr Michelle Feider for YAC has been published! Aimed at kids 8-16yo, four activities for learning about bones in the past with no skeles needed. Except your own. www.yac-uk.org/news/new-zoo...

New Zooarchaeology Resource Pack - Archaeology for you

Zooarchaeologist, Clare Rainsford, and Michelle Feider from the University of York, have created a bumper resource pack of activity ideas based on zooarchaeology on behalf of the Young Archaeologistsr...

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🏺🧪 Oh this is FASCINATING - and a site that was already in #Matriarcha!

Magdalena Skipper@magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · last yr.

DNA rarely preserves well in the Sahara, limiting knowledge of this region’s genetic history & demographic past but now we have genomic data from the Central Sahara, obtained from 2 approx 7,000-year-old Pastoral Neolithic female individuals 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are excited to launch Archaeology & AI. It is offered as part of our Digital Archaeology and Digital Heritage MScs, students from any of our Master's courses can enrol. 🏺 We will be offering critical, practice-based projects based on real world case studies. www.york.ac.uk/students/stu...

Dissertation season is starting 😬 so we are repeating our researcher training event: An Intro to Essential Resources for #Classics & #Archaeology Research 🏺 🗓️ 23 April, 2pm (London, BST) 📍 Online via Zoom Share, especially w/ UG & PG students! Info+Register: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/intro...

An introduction to essential resources for Classics and Archaeology research

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A new study evaluates the reliability of enamel proteins for reconstructing primate phylogeny through paleoproteomics. By analyzing genomic data from 232 primate species, researchers find that enamel protein sequences can provide robust phylogenetic insights, even with fossil fragmentation:

Phylogenetic signal in primate tooth enamel proteins and its relevance for paleoproteomics

Abstract. Ancient tooth enamel, and to some extent dentin and bone, contain characteristic peptides that persist for long periods of time. In particular, p

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So pleased to see Charlotte Blacka's first 1st author paper: innovation was to use tims-TOF #MS for rapid sex estimation method based on amelogenin #palaeoproteomics. At <20min per sample (including prep all the way to data processing), this enables far higher sample numbers: doi.org/10.1002/rcm....