It is official now: Signed all the papers today and said "Hello!" to the new colleagues. So from tomorrow on, I'll replace Caroline Posch for a year as curator for #StoneAge #archaeology at @nhmwien.bsky.social Wien. Quite looking forward to the time but I also have huge respect for the position. 🏛

🦣⚱️Hooray! A celebration of *Berit Valentin Eriksen* & her work in Late #Palaeolithic, #Mesolithic, #Neolithic & #BronzeAge #Archaeology. She is not only a great researcher basically in anything with a #flint #technology but also one of archaeology's best mentors to whom many are grateful. #PaleoSky

Sidestone Press@sidestone.bsky.social · 5mo ago

OUT NOW! Between Thy and Tübingen edited by Sascha Krüger and Daniel Groß 📚 Read online for free or purchase a printed copy at www.sidestone.com/books/betwee... #lithic #burials #Scandinavia

Oh hey. Look at that! So many fabulous ancient doggies! We love our dogs and so did our palaeolithic ancestors. Huge congrats to the amazing people who contributed to the sister studies revealing the deep time of fuzzy tummies. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dogs were widely distributed across western Eurasia during the Palaeolithic - Nature

Analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial genomes from archaeological canid remains found across Europe and Anatolia shows that a genetically homogeneous dog population was already widely distributed acro...

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Domesticated dogs were already widely distributed in western Eurasia at least 14,200 years ago, according to two studies published in Nature. The papers report the oldest known dog genomes to date. go.nature.com/4lWrxBe go.nature.com/3NPY9zE 🧬 🏺 🧪

Ja... und halt auch so absehbar. Klar wird eine so bekannte Größe wie Sarah Engels gegen die ganzen unbekannteren Acts gewinnen. Echt enttäuschend - mit so nem generischen Lied. German Vorentscheid: Zero Points. #ESC #Eurovision #Vorentscheid

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14,000-year-old ivory tools found in Alaska hint at how Clovis ancestors first arrived in the New World

Ancient artifacts unearthed in Alaska revealed migrants from Asia might have come to the Americas via an inland route, and not a coastal path.

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Projectile points from the highland wetlands (bofedales) and salt flats of the Dry Puna of northern Chile. Vital sources of food and raw materials for both hunter-gatherers and pastoralists, the wetlands were occupied over 12,000 years ago. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

We've enjoyed reading the first few abstracts submitted to us over the last week - if you have something you'd like to present follow the link for our call for papers! sites.google.com/view/unravel...

Together with Krist Vaesen, I have written some words of caution about #replication in lithic analysis. We fear that the way the issue has been taken up in #Palaeolithic #archaeology can narrow the scope of disciplinary inquiry 🏺🧪🦣 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚩Post-doctorat "biologie et taphonomie des fossiles humains du Paléolithique récent et du Mésolithique du Sud-Ouest de la France" "Biology and taphonomy of Mesolithic and Upper Palaeolithic human fossils from the South-West of France" contact bruno.maureille@u-bordeaux.fr

Now Open: SSH Doctoral Recruitment Call 2026 40+ fully funded 4yr PhD positions @univie.ac.at careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p... (Application Deadline 2 Mar 2026) Contact me for #Palaeolithic projects! palaeo.univie.ac.at

Our volume on Stone Age clothing is now online and completely open access: Jöris, O., Dietrich, O., Risch, R., & Meller, H. (Hrsg.). (2026). A Stone Age History of Clothing: Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 26. bis 28. September 2024 in Halle (Saale). doi.org/10.11588/pro...

The authors conclude by providing recommendations on how we can all contribute to helping women reach representation at proportions that reflect their growing numbers in the field of archaeology.

Data suggest that women continue to face personal & systemic barriers to participation; they're underrepresented in participation related to their representation in the field of archaeology overall; & they may not be invited into prestigious roles by their colleagues as often as their male peers.

OPEN ACCESS in @saa-aap.bsky.social: This team analyzed 22 years of data from the annual meeting of the SAA to examine how women's participation has changed over time. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Theory, Culture & Society. 6ICYMI: Rakesh Sengupta, 'Towards a Decolonial Media Archaeology: The Absent Archive of Screenwriting History and the Obsolete Munshi'. (Open Access). Much has been written about how Foucault's archaeology of the modern episteme, emerging from early 19th-century Europe,

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ICYMI: Rakesh Sengupta, 'Towards a Decolonial Media Archaeology: The Absent Archive of Screenwriting History and the Obsolete Munshi'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🗄️ Digital Archives Assistant Position 📍 University of York, United Kingdom Work on digital preservation, archaeological data, & heritage archives 🎓 GCSE education + digital literacy (degree desirable) 📅 Deadline: 15 February 2026 🔗 higherjobz.com/digital-arch... #Archaeology #HigherJobz @york.ac.uk

Digital Archives Assistant Position at York UK | HigherJobz

Apply for the Digital Archives Assistant role at University of York. Entry-level heritage data and digital archiving job. Deadline 15 Feb 2026

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Hi everyone! I am researching how AI and the 'vibe coding' phenomenon are redefining archaeological work in 2026. Could you help me by filling out this brief survey? It only takes a few minutes: forms.gle/i8dVRWAXs168... Please feel free to share this with your colleagues #archaeology #digital

Survey: AI and Software Development in Archaeology and Humanities

Investigate the adoption and perception of AI in archaeological and humanistic disciplines.

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Job alert! 3 year post doc in my research group at University College London working on Roman Leather via biomolecular archaeology. #ZooMS #stableisotopes www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ187/r...

Research Fellow in Biomolecular Archaeology at UCL

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Fellow in Biomolecular Archaeology opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

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📺 Streaming tip: Coastal #archaeology & the future of the oceans. What can sunken settlements and ancient coastlines teach us about climate change? Watch @niklashausmann.bsky.social talk, now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/x82KOsN... #VoicesForClimate #LEIZArchaeology

Küstenarchäologie und die Zukunft der Ozeane | #voicesforclimate mit Dr. Niklas Hausmann

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‼️#thread about an analysis of Turkish #archaeology as an example about the remaining #exclusiveness of that discipline: no #decolonisation, no #equity, a truly dreadful picture that certainly not just applies to archaeology in Turkey. Read! Reconsider! Reframe!

sera yelozer@serayelozer.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The article grew out of a sense of unease we had while reading debates over decolonisation in archaeology, especially about where the conversation is being shaped. I’m really glad to finally see it out in the world. 🧵 I highlight in this thread some of our core arguments.

💡📢New publication! The editorial for the special issue of #EAZ 59(2) addresses the issue of 'turns' in #archaeology as trends, inviting critical discussion on whether they are passing fads or productive shifts in archaeological #theory doi.org/10.54799/YTR... #anthropology #research #ontology

It was such a privilege to get to work on this amazing material from an incredible site and team - now the earliest handheld wooden tools in the archaeological record, taking evidence back to 430,000 years! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Evidence for the earliest hominin use of wooden handheld tools found at Marathousa 1 (Greece) | PNAS

The Middle Pleistocene (MP; ca. 774 to 129 ka) marks a critical period of human evolution, characterized by increasing behavioral complexity and th...

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Indigenous People, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Climate Change: The Iconic Underwater Cultural Heritage of Stone Tidal Weirs Project Group. #oceanspast #OceanAction46159 #maritimeheritage #IndigenousPeoples #oceandecadeheritage oceandecadechfp.org/.../indigeno... 8/8

Indigenous People, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Climate Change: The Iconic Underwater Cultural Heritage of Stone Tidal Weirs - The Cultural Heritage Framework Programme

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Delighted to launch a new Research Topic with Dr Mariana Nabais! Pushing the Boundaries: Coastal Adaptation during the Palaeolithic is now open for submissions in Frontiers in Environmental Science. Submit your article by the 30th of September 2026: www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

Frontiers | Pushing the Boundaries: Coastal Adaptation during the Palaeolithic

Coastal environments have emerged as pivotal zones for human evolution. The dynamic and resource-rich coastlines offered vital ecological and cognitive oppor...

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Call for Session - UISPP 2026 - Poznan (Poland) Deadline extented until November 30! Please consider submit something in the scope of the Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age Commision 🌟 ► uispp2026.syskonf.pl #UISPP2026

Applications are now open to join our 2026 Master's programme in human evolution. Covering the Palaeolithic, Palaeoanthropology & other key disciplines, the course is taught by experts from UCL and designed to equip you for a career in the deep human past. #PaPa 🦣🧪🏺 tinyurl.com/5duy6twh

At Upper Palaeolithic Helong Dadong 🇨🇳 they loved their obsidian tools! From over 800 27,300-24,100-year-old microblades, 94.7% were made from obsidian, indicating close ties to the obsidian-rich environment of the Changbaishan Mountains. 🔗 from 2024 (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

I hope that you will all find the result equally inspiring and enriching for yourself and the fields of palaeoanthropology, human evolutionary studies, and Palaeolithic archaeology. www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Abadia...

Alterity and Human Evolution: Deep-Time and Multispecies Perspectives on Difference and Variation | Berghahn Books

Independent Publishing since 1994

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#FindsFriday Researchers found traces of blue pigment on this 13,000-year-old artefact from Mühlheim-Dietesheim, Germany. It questions the idea that Palaeolithic artists only used red or black, painting a picture of a more vibrant Ice Age world than previously imagined. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...