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Philip R Nigst

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Mareike C Stahlschmidt@stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social · last mo.

Huge congratulations to Viola Schmid on her stand-alone project ROSES!! So excited to contribute to this research on the LSA in the eastern Free State Province in South Africa @oeai.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @heasvienna.bsky.social

Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds FWF@fwf-at.bsky.social · last mo.

174 neue Forschungsprojekte mit einem Gesamtvolumen von 84,3 Millionen Euro erhalten eine #FWF-Förderung. Insgesamt wurden über 780 Förderanträge eingereicht. 📑 Die neu bewilligten Projekte sind ab sofort im Forschungsradar online abrufbar. 👉 www.fwf.ac.at/aktuelles/de...

Palaeotrails@palaeotrails.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We’re hiring a Research Assistant🚨 Interested in human evolution and African prehistory? We’re looking for someone with excellent organisational skills who will be based in Cambridge, with fieldwork opportunities in Kenya🇰🇪 Deadline: 01.07.2026 🔗 Apply online:
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Research Assistant in the Ng'ipalajem Project (Fixed Term)

Applications are invited for a 12-month Research Assistant position on the NG'IPALAJEM project, funded by the ERC. The project aims at collecting new palaeontological, archaeological and geological da...

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@arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Come to work with me!!! We are searching for a Paleolithic archeologist, no specific field of specialty. Looking forward to your applications

@humendylab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Job alert! A tenure-track position in Prehistoric Archaeology, at the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is now open (archaeology.huji.ac.il)! Outstanding candidates should submit their application by the 12th of August! Further details: @arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social

HEAS@heasvienna.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are looking forward to welcoming @lucdoyon.bsky.social to #HEASVienna next week for a #HEASSeminar in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic. More information and registration on our website 👇🔗 www.heas.at/events/heas-...

HEAS Seminar Series - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic - HEAS

As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic Luc Doyon Associate Research Professor, IKERBASQUE Distinguished Researcher, Universidad del País Vasco / Euskaldún Herido Un...

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Mareike C Stahlschmidt@stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy to share our new paper on non-destructive FTIR analysis on silcrete artefacts from Mertenhof and Diepkloof with heating temperature reconstructions. Is the data beautiful and clean? No. But is it still meaningful? Yes! Study led by Will Archer: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fire, temperature control, and silcrete heat treatment at Diepkloof and Mertenhof Rock Shelters, West Coast, South Africa

Transformative technologies that alter raw material properties, rather than just raw material shape and size, are key proxies for the evolution of hum…

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HEAS@heasvienna.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are looking forward to welcoming #ArianeBurke @burkeam.bsky.social to #HEASVienna for a #HEASSeminar in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic. @philipnigst.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social More information and registration is on our website 👇🔗 www.heas.at/events/heas-...

HEAS Seminar Series - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic - HEAS

As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic, Ariana Burke from the Université de Montréal will give a talk on Adapting ecological modelling techniques to investigate the...

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Mareike C Stahlschmidt@stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Great blog post by my phd student Thomas Beard on our recent visit to the @esrf.fr doing nanoscale mapping of clay minerals on thin sections. What a joy to spend some sleep deprived days on their beamline! (side note: with only very minimal damage to our slides)

HEAS@heasvienna.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We have a new #HEASBlog on our website! #HEASVienna member #ThomasBeard writes about the MicroStratDNA Group visit to the ESRF over the Easter break this year. @stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social www.heas.at/activities/b...

HEAS@heasvienna.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We are looking forward to welcoming #JoãoCascalheira to #HEASVienna for a #HEASSeminar in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic. More information and registration on our website 🔗👇

HEAS Seminar Series - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic - HEAS

As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic João Cascalheira from Universidade do Algarve will give a talk on FINISTERRA: New Insights into Southwestern Iberia’s Late Pl...

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HEAS@heasvienna.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New Publication! New Article by #HEASVienna members #LumilaPaulaMenéndez and #AnneLeMaitre et al. on µCT scanning effects on aDNA and a multi-step workflow for archaeological petrous portions. #HEASPublications www.heas.at/research/pub...

µCT scanning effects on aDNA and a multi-step workflow for archaeological petrous portions. - HEAS

Menéndez, L.P., Luisi, P., López-Sosa, M.C., Da Silva, S.M., Buck, L.T., Kuzminsky, S.C., Sánchez, M.Q., Le Maître, A., Chappard, C., Rios, C., 2026. µCT scanning effects on aDNA and a multi-step work...

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James Clark@jclark997.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I am delighted to share our new paper on measuring complexity across the Primatological, Archaeological, and Ethnographic records, with an amazing team of co-authors - including the excellent @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social and @ceciliapad.bsky.social! Short 🧵 below /1 doi.org/10.1007/s108...

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 questions. Researchers in these individual fields have developed a number of innovative ways of approaching this issue that reflect the specific affordances of their data with a known set of limitations. However, comparability between these approaches is often difficult. One such field-specific approach is the techno-unit method of Oswalt et al. (1976), which has had a massive impact on our interpretation of ethnographic technology over the fifty years since its publication. Nevertheless, this method has issues with its compression of variability and the different pathways to “complexity”. Here, we review a number of different ways technological complexity has been measured in non-human primates, the archaeological record, and modern human foragers, in order to identify the relative strengths and weaknesses of each. We suggest that the approach deployed in any given study should continue to follow the data and research questions under consideration, but that we lack an easily-applicable method that allows explicit comparisons between fields of study. In this context, we introduce the Tool Systems Approach as one possible way of doing so, which decomposes tool manufacture into its constituent steps (i.e., Tool Systems Total) and discrete forms of action (i.e., Total Discrete Actions). We apply the approach to a number of different technologies across the three fields, to explore the practicalities of its application, as well as its limitations. Plotting these different technologies with regards to their maximum complexity through time reveals trends that may map onto important changes in cognitive evolution, which are also reflected in ever-growing variability in the complexity of individual artefacts. The ramifications for the study of technological complexity as a whole are discussed.

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