@dispersalserc.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social New preprint 📄 Summarising our ICAHJ 16 (Athens, 2025) workshop on the Palaeolithic of Jordan—reviewing current research & setting future priorities. A lot of new work is now underway following these discussions. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

@arduq.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social What happened to humans who left Africa 100,000 years ago? Here, we bridge genetics and stone tools — Nubian Levallois from Oman dated 109–95 ka, synchronous with gene flow into Neanderthals. Novel stratified evidence. 🔗 doi.org/10.21203/rs....

#Oman #MSA New paper is OUT! We trace how Dhofar’s MSA shifts from Nubian Levallois cores to the miniaturized Mudayyan industry—highlighting changing technologies along the southern dispersal route out of Africa. @arduq.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Lithic Miniaturization and Technological Innovation on the Southern Dispersal Route Out of Africa - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology

Over the past fifteen years, the Dhofar Archaeological Project has mapped 272 Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic sites in southern Oman, each exhibiting some extent of Nubian Levallois technology. T...

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#MSA #levallois #ICHAJ_25 In Athens on 23rd of September, we’re organising a workshop on the Paleolithic in Jordan at ICHAJ — discussing present and future research in the region. I’ll be presenting on Nubian Levallois in Jordan, with AI helping me create illustrations. @icarehb.bsky.social

#Lithics #Refitting #Knapping Excited to present my initial PhD results from Mozambique at SAFA 2025! If you're around, join us this week in Faro, Portugal @icarehb.bsky.social

#Nubian #Levallois #MSA If you haven’t read our article on the spatial distribution of Nubian Levallois cores @eshallinan.bsky.social , check out our recent poster from the Hugo Obermaier Society 2025 conference, hosted by @icarehb.bsky.social in Portugal: osamawi.github.io/Nubian-Leval...

#Lithic #LSA #MSA Refitted sequence of blades and bladelets from our newly discovered site in central Mozambique. Stay tuned for 3D scans of our reffits @icarehb.bsky.social

Hot off the press! A bioarchaeological study of medieval burials from northern Tunisia.

The medieval burial assemblage from Koudiet er Rammadiya, Northern Tunisia. An interdisciplinary bioarchaeological investigation - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

The osteological analysis of human skeletal assemblages offers crucial osteobiographical insights into ancient populations, yet remains largely unexplored in past Tunisia. This paper presents the firs...

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Refitted sequence from our newly discovered site, Chessungalane in Mozambique: Early removals caused the pebble to fracture in half due to natural flaws. Knappers then took advantage of the flat fracture to produce bladelets from the narrow surface @icarehb.bsky.social

Levallois Alert ⚠️ Moving beyond classic metric measurements, @eshallinan.bsky.social and @jmcascalheira.bsky.social applied a geometric morphometric approach to Nubian Levallois cores, offering novel insights into shape variability at an inter-regional scale. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Quantifying Levallois: a 3D geometric morphometric approach to Nubian technology - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Levallois technology, a hallmark of Middle Palaeolithic stone tool manufacture, involves sophisticated core reduction strategies that have major implications for understanding human cognitive and tech...

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🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Led by Joana Belmiro, our study on lithic raw materials at Vale Boi reveals that a significant share of chert came from non-local sources, including central Portugal & Andalucía, using macroscopic & petrographic analyses. @icarehb.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Within and Beyond: Chert Procurement Patterns During The Upper Palaeolithic in Southwesternmost Iberia - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology

Analyses of raw materials and the distinction between local/regional and long-distance sources have proven invaluable for understanding the extensive movements, interactions, and social networks durin...

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#Bladelet #Lithic #MSA #LSA Another refit from our new site, Chessungalane, in Central Mozambique @icarehb.bsky.social. An overshot ridge bladelet from a unidirectional bladelet core on blue jasper.

Fantastic talk by @eshallinan.bsky.social on Day 1 of the HEIRS Symposium at @icarehb.bsky.social. She explored the history & multiregional nature of Nubian Levallois cores from her 1st open-access NLC dataset. sapientia.ualg.pt/entities/pub.... Stay tuned for more NLC studies SOON!

#Archaeology #Outreach #Jordan I learned about archaeology and stone tools at the hands of this incredible woman Prof Maysoon Alnahar. www.usnews.com/education/ar...

#Lithic #MSA #LSA The first refit of 2025 highlights the maintenance strategies of the knappers. Stay tuned for more updates on Mozambique's Stone Age assemblages! @icarehb.bsky.social

#Knapping #Bifacial A small bifacial tool, hafted in coffee wood.

Excited to share our latest paper on the Jordan Valley! It summarizes the project's field campaigns from 2015 to our most recent in 2023, highlighting key findings and insights into Paleolithic occupation in the region. @icarehb.bsky.social @unibas.ch www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Jordan Valley Survey - final report 2024

PDF | On Dec 4, 2024, Reto Jagher and others published Jordan Valley Survey - final report 2024 | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

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#lithic #Knapping Practicing thinning using antler @icarehb.bsky.social

#Knapping #Lithic #Biface Kicking off my first post on Bluesky with a bifacial flake point made from local Lisbona material.