2026 is off to a great start 🚀 Some exciting new results on northeastern Africa have just been resubmitted, and a brand-new postdoc project is launching with @nhm-london.bsky.social, supported by the @fondationfyssen.bsky.social. Stay tuned for more soon ✨

Open access alert! 📝 Our paper is now free to read. Take a look if you haven't yet: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Nicolas Martin@nclsmartin.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨14.000 years of population history revealed!🚨 What happened to the late prehistoric populations in the Nile Valley? Our new study uncovers major migrations, population replacement and regional mobility at the Neolithic transition! 1/7🧵 👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Well... here we are, I guess! Just submitted my PhD and it feels pretty unreal! So proud of this journey! More exciting data on the Nile Valley is coming, plus some new projects to announce soon. Stay tuned, this adventure is far from over! 👀 @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social

⚠️Paper Alert!⚠️ Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion rdcu.be/eJi3g

Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology in Early Holocene Africa

Nature Communications - Several possible points of origin have been proposed for the spread of ceramic technology in Saharan Africa between 11–10,000 years ago. Here, the authors...

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#ESHE2025 Super talk by @nclsmartin.bsky.social ‘Bony labyrinth morphology reveals 40,000 years of settlement history and population isolation in NE Africa’ Nile Valley: pop discontinuity in late Up Ple – endogamy? AHP pop connectivity Horn: also ~biol isolation, pathologies! huge variation

Thrilled to be once again at #ESHE2025, this year in Paris! 🇫🇷 Tomorrow afternoon, I’ll be presenting our latest findings on the population history of Northeastern Africa 🌍 — with new data on continuity, isolation, and the inner ear. 👂 Stay tuned!

European Society for the Study of Human Evolution@eshesociety.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The #ESHE2025 meeting in Paris starts tomorrow (please use this hashtag for sharing). If you are interested in the program, you find it here mcusercontent.com/9347aa3598d5... - Members have received an email for accessing the live stream! We hope you all enjoy the conference in person or online. /MW

‼️📣Extremely proud to see this great collaborative work out! Oldest Shell Ornament Workshop in Western Europe at Saint-Césaire: www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1... #Prehistory #Archaeology #Chatelperronian #Shells #Beads #Homosapiens #Neandertal #Ornament Details of discovery & implications ⏬ 🧵 1/20

New paper out! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Cultural, economic, and settlement shifts over the last 9,000 years at Kakapel Rockshelter, Western Kenya

The spread of food production in sub-Saharan Africa involved multi-directional dispersals of domesticated plant and animal species, often associated with major migrations. The Lake Victoria Basin of e...

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It is with deep sadness that the SAP announces the passing of Jaroslav Brůžek, Professor at the Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague and Emeritus Research Director at the CNRS. The scientific community has lost a pillar; the SAP has lost a dear friend.

SAfA 2025 in Faro is starting in 2 days! I will be presenting our preliminary results from Hattab II Cave on Tuesday afternoon at session 43. Come see my presentation if you are interested in the possible late persistence of the Iberomaurusian at this site :) #AncientDNA

Very happy to announce that a new postdoctoral position on the New ERC funded Western Rift Archaeology and Palaeoenvironment Project is open - if you're a geologist or geochronologist come and join us at @icarehb.bsky.social euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/358068 Feel free to share it around.

ANNOUNCEMENT INTERNATIONAL TENDER FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF A POST-DOCTORAL ASSOCIATE RESEARCHER

recruit one (1) ) post-doctoral assistant researcherresearcher to perform duties in the scientific area of Geochronology / Plio-Pleistocene Geology or related areas, under the research project “

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🦷 A common embryological, developmental, and genetic background is shared between dentine and cortical bone. @mathilde-augoyard.bsky.social and team found coordinated variation between their volumes in human limb bones and teeth, suggesting shared factors influencing their postnatal development 🦴

🚨14.000 years of population history revealed!🚨 What happened to the late prehistoric populations in the Nile Valley? Our new study uncovers major migrations, population replacement and regional mobility at the Neolithic transition! 1/7🧵 👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Enamel–dentine junction morphology reveals population replacement and mobility in the late prehistoric Middle Nile Valley | PNAS

Transitions from foraging to food-production represent a worldwide turning point in recent human history. In the Middle Nile Valley this cultural s...

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Read highlights in this week’s issue of PNAS: We uncover the prehistoric population history of the Middle Nile Valley, explore Pacific cupped oysters and hitchhiking invaders, and analyze how an antibody prevents fertilization at the egg-sperm interface. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A look at the enamel–dentine junctions of the teeth of ancient Egyptians suggests that foraging people were replaced by farmers during the 6th millennium BCE, rather than taking up farming themselves. Some foragers persisted in Sudan. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Ancient genomes from the Green #Sahara. Study led by @nadasalem.bsky.social, @hringbauer.bsky.social & Johannes Krause reveals a long-isolated North African human lineage in the Central Sahara during the African Humid Period over 7,000 years ago. tinyurl.com/43maxc7k & www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A great summary of our latest article has just been published by our colleagues at the @unikarlova.cuni.cz. Thanks so much for this! www.ff.cuni.cz/2025/04/food... 📃Access to the original paper 📃: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social

#RésultatScientifique🔎 Une étude menée par le laboratoire PACEA révèle des découvertes inédites sur le peuplement de l'Égypte et du Soudan, grâce à l'analyse de dents humaines vieilles de 4 000 à 18 000 ans. ▶️ www.inee.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

We are looking forward to welcoming Matthew Skinner @matthewskinnerphd.bsky.social to Vienna next week for a #HEASSeminar in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic. Registration for online and in-person participation is on our website 🔗👇 www.heas.at/events/heas-...

HEAS Seminar - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic - HEAS

As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic, Matthew Skinner from Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology will give a talk on How hidden structures of bones a...

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🚨14.000 years of population history revealed!🚨 What happened to the late prehistoric populations in the Nile Valley? Our new study uncovers major migrations, population replacement and regional mobility at the Neolithic transition! 1/7🧵 👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Enamel–dentine junction morphology reveals population replacement and mobility in the late prehistoric Middle Nile Valley | PNAS

Transitions from foraging to food-production represent a worldwide turning point in recent human history. In the Middle Nile Valley this cultural s...

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Are you a PGR or ECR working on research to do with Sudan, South Sudan or Egypt? The Sudan Studies Research conference cfp is open for abstract submissions! Deadline is the 31st March www.sudan-conference.com #sudan #southsudan #egypt #law #policy #education #science #heritage #archaeology

🧵 1/2 PhD Opportunity! Join my new HEAR lab @ the University of Zurich (Sept 2025) to research hominin hearing evolution. 4yr contract, SNSF funded. Focus: cochlear anatomy, computational modeling, fossil hearing. shorturl.at/ohH44

ESHE 2025 goes to Paris, France! Join us in person for talks and posters from Sept 25–27, with a public keynote on Sept 24. Excursion details are coming soon. More info on the meetings page this March! #ESHE2025

Last field season at Hara Idé 3 #Djibouti. Great team and PSPCA program led by @jessiecauliez.bsky.social. Lets now focus on publishing our results on this unique Late Pleistocene archaeological site ! #LSA #HornofAfrica #Afar #Prehistory #Paleoanthropology @cnrs.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social

On continue de parler de nous dans la presse !-) Continuez à signer, les membres de l'ESR et à faire signer : on vient de passer les 7500 signataires 👍 www.challenges.fr/politique/de...

« Décision déplorable », « consternation »… le CNRS face à une fronde des chercheurs - Challenges

Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique fait face à une fronde inédite de ses chercheurs. Ils dénoncent la politique élitiste de leur PDG, Antoine Petit, qui veut labelliser et promouvoir une ...

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Another article on the JHE resignations: www.wired.com/story/editor... (image from article, emphasis added) Could not agree more. The PaleoAnthropology journal is peer reviewed, copyedited by humans, open access, community-owned, no publication fees. Time to move forward www.paleoanthropology.org

🚨 This is your New Year reminder to submit an abstract if you're interested in participating to our session at the next #SAfA2025 meetings (session #18). The deadline is on Jan. 31st

Nicolas Martin@nclsmartin.bsky.social · 2y ago

The call for papers for the next #SAfA2025 in Faro is now open! Interested in climate change in Africa and how past populations coped with it? Submit an abstract for our session "Climate change and human responses in past African societies: Lessons for a changing world" !

Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

Job alert! In our department here in Vienna. Postdoctoral Researcher in Evolutionary Genomics! Come and work in the world's most liveable city. Details below 👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct...

The human evolutionary story is full of oddities. The Paranthropus group is particularly fascinating. Today, we present new insights into their inner ear indicating that one species -Paranthropus robustus- may have indeed been doing something different! 1/4🧵 authors.elsevier.com/a/1kGFIAlZXX...