Katerina Harvati
@katharv.bsky.social
Paleoanthropologist, human evolution, Neanderthals, modern human origins, S-E Europe and Greece. Dog enthusiast! Professor, University of Tübingen, Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironments. Opinions my own.
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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"Under the rule, destroying an endangered species’ nest or habitat would no longer be considered illegal." nyti.ms/4hch5F3
Trump, Ending Decades of Protection, Opens Wild Habitats to Drilling and Mining (Gift Article)
The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals.
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Exploring Uluzzian Lithic Technology at Klissoura Cave 1, Greece🏺🧪 Giulia Marciani, @katharv.bsky.social et al link.springer.com/article/10.1... Uluzzian technocomplex 43–39 Kya marks one of the earliest dispersals of Homo sapiens into Europe and onset of the Upper Palaeolithic in the Mediterranean
✨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 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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📣 #Forschungsnews: Größeres Gehirn, kleineres Gesicht – statt kontinuierlicher natürlicher Selektion prägten neutrale evolutionäre Prozesse, Stasis sowie biologische und ökologische Einschränkungen die Entwicklung. Kulturelle Innovationen erlaubten größere Evolutionssprünge. 👉 https://sgn.one/ohq
Evolutionary drivers of encephalization and facial reduction in the genus Homo🏺🧪 Mark Hubbe & Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... Highlighting the importance of environmental constraints and possibly cultural behaviors as core drivers of human evolution.
✨Wonderful news from our diamond open access, community owned PaleoAnthropology journal! 🎉
PaleoAnthropology Journal@paleoanthjourn.bsky.social · last mo.The PaleoAnthropology journal is pleased to announce that we have been selected for inclusion in the Directory of Open Access Journals! For more information see here: doaj.org/toc/1545-0031
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/
Happy to finally see this paper published! Thank you to the @dfg.de and all the institutions who supported me and this research! 🎉 @erc.europa.eu @humanorigins.bsky.social Open access, download freely at the link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Harvati Lab@harvatilab.bsky.social · last mo.📢 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
Europe's worst heatwave so far, in terms of heat stress measures and temperatures - brought to you by fossil fuels. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study showing how such deadly heat became possible in only a few decades. www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...
Hello Hello, If you have some downtime and want to read something excitingly odd, read on the enamel proteins of Homo naledi: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Working closely with Alberto, @clairekoenig.bsky.social, @ipatramanis.bsky.social, and the rest of our collaborators was just so wonderful.
Proteomic analysis of dental enamel from 20 Homo naledi individuals shows no male markers
The morphological homogeneity of the middle Pleistocene hominin Homo naledi is reflected in its dental proteome, with no evidence supporting confident identification of male individuals, and the detec...
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🚨First-ever protein study of Homo Naledi teeth led by HERI’s Dr @palaeoprotpalesa.bsky.social finds zero male markers in 23 samples - suggesting all individuals analysed were female. A major step forward in studying sex differences in extinct species. 🔗 www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...
Amazing new paper with 🧬 from walls and cave paintings 🦣🏺🧪https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-74234-2
Investigating ancient human DNA preservation on cave walls and in rock art - Nature Communications
Ancient DNA can be preserved on materials from archaeological floor deposits such as bones, sediments and artifacts. Here, the authors investigate whether Palaeolithic wall art can preserve human DNA ...
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🎉🍾🥂Congratulations to our two most recent PhDs, Dr. G. Russo and Dr. C. Siali 👩🎓 Well done!!! @gabrieleru1.bsky.social
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
✨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
Up to 7km deep. 1200km long. Almost 500 fossil whales, some over 5 million years old. An epic new finding that shows how much unknown natural treasures the sea floor holds 🧪🐋 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone - Nature
Researchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, specialized ecosystems and an extensive fossil record that offers new insi...
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Popped into the British Museum to see my boo: I’ve been visiting the horse head of Selene (inspiration for chess pieces everywhere!) for over 40 years, but the older I get the more sure I am that she should be in Greece…
🚨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/...
If wind-assisted cargo ships chose routes based entirely on where the winds are better, their fuel use could be cut in half or even completely eliminated
Wind-assisted cargo ships could more than halve shipping emissions
If wind-assisted cargo ships chose routes based entirely on where the winds are better, their fuel use could be cut in half or even completely eliminated
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