New opportunity: fully funded PhD position within the Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS Investigate experimentally the evolutionary significance of transformative Stone Age techniques in this project on cognitive demands, and explore the probability of their success. Deadline: 15 September 2026.

Light as a feather, heavyweight research impact: #HumanOrigins spokesperson Nicholas Conard and Ria Litzenberg presenting two new bird figurines from Hohlefels Cave at the annual press conference at Urmu museum Blaubeuren. (Press report below) 🏺

Informationsdienst Wissenschaft - idw@idw-online.de · last wk.

Two bird figurines found in World Heritage Site of Hohle Fels are declared „Find of the Year” Press release of the Museum of Prehistory and Ice Age Art and the University of Tübingen: Archaeologists from the University of Tübingen identify... weiterlesen

Finding myself moved to a new/old city trying to find a new social circle well into my fourties proves harder than expected. But having the chance to go out and see a live play of Pratchetts “Guards, Guards” on a random Thursday certainly felt nicely warm and nostalgic.

Barely more than two weeks before it ends I finally found an opportunity last week to visit the „Building Community“ Exhibition in Berlin, covering the Taş Tepeler sites in Upper Mesopotamia. It was a bittersweet trip down memory lane, meeting old familiar faces. 🏺

Lecture this week, also on zoom! 🏺 #paleosky

HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence@humanorigins.bsky.social · 3w ago

HUMAN ORIGINS is welcoming Dr. Antoine Souron (University of Bordeaux) for two! Lectures this Thursday, July 16th! Invitation to join via Zoom, links below.

For almost a century, scholars believed there were as few as 200,000 people in #Australia when the first British colonists arrived in 1788. New research suggests that estimate was off by several million. A related study links the devastating arrival of smallpox to the "First Fleet." @science.org 🧪

British ‘First Fleet’ brought smallpox to Australia—and may have killed millions

Two papers pin the deadly disease’s introduction on British colonists and suggest the continent held far more people than previously believed

science.org

Likely no hunters of Elephants nor masters of fire - new paper on taphonomic analysis challenges former assumptions on Homo floresensis. Congratulations to Grace Veatch, who recently started her position as an Independent Junior Research Group Lead at Human Origins! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Taphonomic analysis at Liang Bua reveals the behavioral and technological capabilities of Homo floresiensis

Homo floresiensis scavenged Stegodon and did not use fire, challenging previous claims of advanced behavior.

science.org

Why oh why isn’t doing a PhD at museums a thing in Germany? I‘d be PhDing already so hard!!!😭

Anette Sand-Eriksen@sanderiksen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Museum of Cultural History @uio.no is hiring a PhD candidate in Nordic #Archaeology, linked to the museum’s research on the #VikingAge. As icing on the cake, you’ll be working in the environment of the new Museum of the Viking Age, part of MCH, opening in 2027! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Did you know that you also can take part in the @humanorigins.bsky.social lectures via Zoom? Join us for example this Thursday on the upcoming talk on Open Air Sites of the Keilmessergruppe. 🏺#paleosky

HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence@humanorigins.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣 Lecture announcement 📣 Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology Colloquium, sponsored by HUMAN ORIGINS On June 18th, 10:15 a.m., Prof. Dr. Andrzej Wiśniewski is giving a lecture at the Castle Hohentübingen on "Open-Air Sites of the Keilmessergruppe: The Example of Pietraszyn 49a, Poland".

Lecture Announcement! Dr.Grace Veatch, Independent Junior Research Group Leader at Human Origins, on „An Unexpected Journey: Human Evolution and Island Biogeography on Flores, Indonesia“. Join us this Friday, June 12th, at 10:15 a.m. , live on site or via Zoom: zoom.us/j/9643057107... 🏺 #paleosky

🚨NEW SPECIAL ISSUE SERIES OF HUNTER-GATHERER RESEARCH🚨Celebrating and critically reflecting on the history and methodologies of the field, co-edited by @haneuljang.bsky.social and I. More info, check the submissions page of our website: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr or get in touch!

Hunter Gatherer Research Home

The journal encompasses social and cultural anthropology, applied research, archaeology, ecology, ethnography, ethnohistory, evolutionary anthropology, genetics, indigenous rights, and linguistics, and is an indispensable resource for anyone with a research or activist interest in hunter-gatherers.

liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk

Derzeit hat jedes einzelne Kind mit Behinderung den Rechtsanspruch, durch eine Person in die Schule begleitet zu werden. - "Ist das eigentlich unbedingt notwendig (...)" fragte Merz. live.deutsche-boerse.com/nachrichten/...

Deadline is aporoaching for this offer for for a PhD position in the exicting new Geno-Phenotype Lab, but there’s still time to apply! 🏺 #EarlyCareerArchaeologists

HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence@humanorigins.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨Deadline approaching🚨 for this fully funded PhD-position at Uni Tübingen! Want to know more? ➡️ Get in touch!

…aaaaand there is another one: Another very cool opportunity to work with us in Tübingen! 🏺

HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence@humanorigins.bsky.social · 2mo ago

✨New opportunity✨ Fully funded PhD position in our Experimental Archaeology Lab lead by @egveatch.bsky.social! Find all necessary information on our website: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/... #HumanOrigins #EarlyCareerArchaeologists

Solidarity with uk (and global) trans folk. Archaeology says gender is and always has been complicated, contested, dynamic and definitely not binary. None of us is free until all of us are. Trans liberation now!

Archaeologists for Trans Liberation | anthro{dendum}

By The Black Trowel Collective To be an archaeologist is to revel in the diversity of human expression through time. Trans perspectives and voices add necessary further dimensions to our…

anthrodendum.org

Absolutely horrendous. Textbook example of archaeology being used to enact state violence.

Andy Brockman@andybrockman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Guardian on the Palestinian families in the al-Bustan district of occupied East Jerusalem, who are being forced to demish their own homes, or pay ten times as much if the municipality does the work. All for the "Disneyfied nonsense" of an archaeological theme park based on a historical fantasy.

Tübingen already had an exceptional standing in Archaeology when I was a student, about 15 years ago. Since my return last month I am constantly blown away by the massive development and diversification our disciplines underwent since then. And this ranking underlines that perfectly! 🏺

Katerina Harvati@katharv.bsky.social · 3mo ago

World University Rankings 2026 in Archaeology: University of Tübingen at Nr. 14 worldwide!! ✨👏 A wonderful success! Well done👏 @unituebingen.bsky.social @humanorigins.bsky.social www.topuniversities.com/university-s...

📣 Lecture announcement 📣 The next lecture in our series ASHE meets HUMAN ORIGINS is already this Friday! Meet our new Independent Junior Research Group Leader Dr. Jaap Saers, and learn about his work. Attendance is open for everyone, via Zoom: lnkd.in/dU58FCvr, Passcode: 386251.

In case you wonder where I ended up: Here’s an Introduction lecture THIS FRIDAY, introducing the new Cluster of Excellence @humanorigins.bsky.social, also via Zoom. (And yeah, that’s where I ended up as a Science Communication Officer now.)

HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence@humanorigins.bsky.social · 3mo ago

‼️ Lecture announcement ‼️ Want to learn more about our new Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS? ▶️ Join us for our introduction lecture on Friday, 8 May 2026, 10:15 a.m., on site at University Tübingen, or join us via Zoom!

🚨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/...

Are we still doing lists? Are those still a thing? I profited very much in the early days of Bluesky, but is it still work for new accounts?

🚨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! 🔄

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

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

📢 Another #jobalert from the new Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS, University of Tübingen. 💼 Independent Junior Group Leader in Ethics Laboratory. 📅Deadline: April 6th, 2026 🔗 Link: shorturl.fm/EXRxc Please forward to interested potential candidates!🔄

14 years later… tonight’s a wrap. Visiting the opening ceremony of the new special exhibition on the Shaman of Bad Dürrenberg at @museumhalle was my last official duty as coordinator of the Sky Paths after 5 years…

One of the most iconic photos I took on our current trip to Sri Lanka: a dog apparently contemplating about enigmatic Lions Rock in Sigiriya, a natural formation holding a more than 1500 years old fortress and palace of King Kasyapa, illegitimate son who killed his father to become king himself.

New study: Europe had MUCH LESS dark dense forests vs today! 🚫🌲🌳🌳🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌲🌳 "For over 20 million years, the landscape of Europe has been a tree-rich mosaic of grasslands, scrubs and more or less open woodlands with an abundance of wildflowers" 👇 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Terrible headline (this is NOT what the new research - link below - shows!), terrible AI image! Argh! Here’s the actual research: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Where do I start?! 1/4

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Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We’re having an interruption of current doom events, as we are currently traveling in Sri Lanka on my everlasting attempt to fit bits of (prehistoric) archaeology into vacation schedules. Two days ago, we made a short stop at the Thonigala Rock Inscriptions on our way to Wilpattu National Park.

We’re having an interruption of current doom events, as we are currently traveling in Sri Lanka on my everlasting attempt to fit bits of (prehistoric) archaeology into vacation schedules. Two days ago, we made a short stop at the Thonigala Rock Inscriptions on our way to Wilpattu National Park.

🚨 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 🚨