New publication from our sister Australian @latrobe.edu.au expedition in Oman 🎉👏 where @arduq.bsky.social is participating. // New insights from the Lahem rock shelter in Dhofar, southern Oman. // sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We have decided to share our new paper on failed OoA human expansion as a preprint, to avoid bias in judgement, and to create an open platform for feedback. Please follow @osamawi.bsky.social post to know more and to download preprint and data/code. @czechacademy.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social

Osama Samawi@osamawi.bsky.social · 6mo ago

@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....

@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....

🌍 How did miniature #stonetools revolutionized technology on Africa's southern migration route? Jeff Rose leads this study, with fellow #ICArEHB members Nuno Bicho, João Cascalheira, and Osama Samawi. doi.org/10.1007/s419... #Lithics #OutOfAfrica #Paleolithic

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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Great collection of articles on Arabia! Congratulations to authors 🎉

Tara Beuzen-Waller@tarabeuzen.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This collection dedicated to human-environment interaction in Ancient Arabia is nearly completed :) It’s one of the results of the UmWeltWandel project in Oman 🇴🇲 and of an amazing meeting hosted in Tübingen. openquaternary.com/collections/...

ARDUQ 5A expedition is in full swing. Our fieldwork in Nejd plateau in southern Oman is focused on collecting samples for paleoenvironmental, micro-morphological, geochemical and OSL dating analyses from the excavated stratified Palaeolithic sites. @czechacademy.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social

A grand place for Lucy to make her European debut. 📍 Národní muzeum

Great talk @armandofalcucci.bsky.social! Impressive depth of data analysis, and I really appreciated the open science approach. Finally, robust evidence that the Ahmarian and Protoaurignacian aren’t directly linked #Paleolithic #lithics 🏺🦣🧪

Marta Mirazon Lahr@martamlahr.bsky.social · 11mo ago

#ESHE2025 Armando Falcucci ‘Convergent technological trajectories in early modern humans across the Mediterranean’ Ahmarian (AH) ancestral to Protoaurignacian (PA)? Test: quant anal of AH fr Ksar Akil & Al-Ansab 1 & PA: NO evidence of PA ancestry or E-W diffusion signal Chatelperronian source 😳?

3D scanning these beauties with Ng'ipalajem! @palaeotrails.bsky.social #handaxe #turkana

Fabulous news that @martamlahr.bsky.social has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy 🍾🍾🍾

Now nice to see talk with data from the namesake Garba site 🥰

Marta Mirazon Lahr@martamlahr.bsky.social · 11mo ago

#ESHE2025 Sol Sanchez-Dehesa Galan ‘Decoding Acheulean skill’ Focus on diff btn Acheulean x Oldowan – Acheulean reduced to +/- of h/xs – ignoring many innovations! Garba (Ethiopia, 0.6 Ma) pilot & exp study: breaking-down the LCTs reduction seq Kinematics & cognitive demands of diff techniques 🤩!!

#ESHE2025 Marc Dickinson ‘Advancing enamel amino acid dating’ Using AA in dental enamel for dating Does glue affect potential? NO 😊 Can ESR powder by re-used? YES 😊 ‘lab-on-a-chip’ (minimise sample size) and no need of lab for pre-processing! 😊

#ESHE2025 Harold Berghuis ‘Madura Strait, the first subsea Homo erectus site in Sundaland (Indonesia)’ Underwater fossils 🌟! Subsidence in Sundaland: key to biogeography. Submerged river valley-MIS6, w rich fossil record! hunting bovids? H erectus: frontal & parietal frags– aff Java late erectus 😍

Amazing Gabi! Bravo! 🎉

Gabriele Russo@gabrieleru1.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Thrilled to have won the Student Poster Prize at #ESHE2025! 🏆 Grateful for the opportunity to share my work on Lebanese fauna and for all the inspiring conversations throughout the conference!

For #FindsFriday, here are some shell, stone and shark tooth beads and pendants from a Neolithic grave at Wadi Nafūn, Oman. These materials indicate a symbolic connection to marine themes amongst the people buried here. Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Great fun at #ESHE2025 presenting on how handaxe shape can inform discussions of African demography in the Early and Middle Pleistocene! While we have very few fossils or genetic data for this period, handaxe shape may carry a signal that can help to constrain biogeographic models - more to come!

This non #FlintFriday and #FieldworkFriday, I would like to share this mint-fresh Quartzite handaxe from SE India, likely dating back to Middle Pleistocene. Yes, it hurts to see that broken tip! Still, one of my best find. I am field-sick, can't wait to go back. #Acheulean #India #HumanOrigins

Congrats Gabriele!

Gabriele Russo@gabrieleru1.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting my poster on large carnivore 🐆 exploitation in Lebanon at #ESHE2025. Such a great venue for it, with so many interesting posters around! I also got the chance to chat with lots of amazing people! #Paleolithic #zooarcheology 🏺🦣🧪

It is finally OUT! 🎉 My book "HINTERLAND MONUMENTS OF ANCIENT NOMADS: Trilith Stone Structures of Southeastern Arabia" was published by @archaeopress.bsky.social Book is the first dedicated study of these enigmatic 2000-year-old ritual monuments. www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

Very sad news today. Anthony E. Marks has passed away. He conducted pioneering prehistoric research in the Nile Valley, the southern Levant and Arabia, producing seminal works on the Palaeolithic. In 2023, aged 85, he still joined the @arduq.bsky.social excavations in Dhofar, Oman. Rest in peace.

The 'bone midden' surprised with its age, megalithic features and the number of individuals. It is as impressive as the neighbouring rock art sites, triliths and shell midden. The Nafun cultural landscape comprises 214 archaeological sites! @arduq.bsky.social

Czech archaeological expedition ARDUQ@arduq.bsky.social · last yr.

New publication is out 🎉 from ARDUQ team! Nicknamed as "bone midden" in Nafun north of Duqm revealed incredible finds! Research is led by Betka Danielisova @czechacademy.bsky.social The first collective Neolithic megalithic tomb in Oman | Antiquity | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/47swNqQ

Such fun & fantastic team 🤩🤩🤩

Palaeotrails@palaeotrails.bsky.social · last yr.

The joy of sorting LSA lithics from Turkana under the guidance of @robfoley.bsky.social Follow us on Instagram for more www.instagram.com/palaeotrails...

What does the Ng'ipalajem team do? Ng’ipalajem, meaning Ancestors in Turkana, is an ERC-funded project. Led by @martamlahr.bsky.social, the project investigates how the emergence of Homo sapiens is deeply intertwined with Africa’s long-term environmental and ecological history. #humanevolution

From the blog: The #Denisovans got a face! - Turns out, it’s #DragonMan​'s ... 🏺 trowelandpen.com/2025/06/20/t...

The Denisovans got a face! – Turns out, it’s Dragon Man’s

Despite causing so much excitement, the Denisovans have been rather elusive until now. The few dozen small fossil remains have not really provided us with a clear picture of how these Middle Palaeo…

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ERC_INASIA is the first high-mountain archaeological project in Uzbekistan. For the very first time, our research team will reach unstudied caves in order to collect data for multiproxy analyses. #HorizonEU #EUResearch #ERC

Yippieh! 2nd try for field-work in Greece starts today🥳 (1st was cancelled due to general strike). With @romangarba.bsky.social and Stephanie Neuhuber. Let's see if we can find some nice samples for cosmogenic nuclide analysis by #AMS for VERA @univie.ac.at

Cool stuff, an appetizer 😉, from Duqm as part of Australian LARiO @latrobeuni.bsky.social expedition in Oman in collaboration with @arduq.bsky.social

Antiquity Journal@antiquity.ac.uk · last yr.

#FlintFriday The first evidence for Levallois lithic technology in the Huqf area of south-eastern Arabia 🏺 This extends the record of hominin activity into central Oman during the Middle Palaeolithic, expanding our knowledge of early human dispersal. Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Here, we propose a new perspective on early stone tool technology: emulation of naturally occurring sharp-edged stones (naturaliths) instead of inventing via 'Eureka!' moments. Nature provided the blueprint; hominins took it further. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/arcm... #Archaeology #Stonetools

Don't miss our talk, where Vitalii Usyk and I reveal more details about the unique archaeological site of Korolevo, including some unpublished material about the record of hominin occupation there from 1.4 million years ago to 20,000 years ago! Thank you, @heasvienna.bsky.social for inviting us!

HEAS@heasvienna.bsky.social · last yr.

The recording from this talk is now available on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel.

@tommyhigham.bsky.social from #HEASVienna introducing @romangarba.bsky.social and #VitalyUsik for the #HEASSeminar taking place now online and in-person in the #UBB @univie.ac.at

HEAS@heasvienna.bsky.social · last yr.

We are looking forward to welcoming @romangarba.bsky.social and #VitalyUsik to Vienna next week for the #HEASSeminar in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic. Registration for online and in-person participation is on our website 🔗👇