Ana Abrunhosa
@anaabrunhosa.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher @ Last Neanderthals ERC project | Associated Researcher @ ICArEHB | Neanderthals | Lithic Raw Materials | AWAP Board of Directors member | Lithics Co-Editor
I had a great experience this weekend talking with a group of 11-year-old kids through @skypeascientist.bsky.social. They presented their project for the First Lego League competition, and they really did their homework! So happy to see the next generations enthusiastically engaging with our field🦾
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I had a great experience this weekend talking with a group of 11-year-old kids through @skypeascientist.bsky.social. They presented their project for the First Lego League competition, and they really did their homework! So happy to see the next generations enthusiastically engaging with our field🦾
When I get frustrated with academia, I remember that Saramago wrote: “In the end, we always arrive at the place where we are expected.”
Honestly, I hope that place isn’t another “this meeting could have been an email.” Because at this point, all side-quests are leaving me no time for the main quest!
Honestly, I hope that place isn’t another “this meeting could have been an email.” Because at this point, all side-quests are leaving me no time for the main quest!
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
When I get frustrated with academia, I remember that Saramago wrote: “In the end, we always arrive at the place where we are expected.”
Honestly, I hope that place isn’t another “this meeting could have been an email.” Because at this point, all side-quests are leaving me no time for the main quest!
Honestly, I hope that place isn’t another “this meeting could have been an email.” Because at this point, all side-quests are leaving me no time for the main quest!
Just got matched with a classroom through @skypeascientist.bsky.social ! 🙌 Super excited to connect with the teacher and set up our call 💬
November 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Just got matched with a classroom through @skypeascientist.bsky.social ! 🙌 Super excited to connect with the teacher and set up our call 💬
Reposted by Ana Abrunhosa
Calling all archaeologists who can help with this project by skyping into a classroom!
You're never gonna believe this, but we're out of archaeologists again.
We have matched ~650 groups with archaeologists this semester! I am so grateful to the 196 Archaeologist volunteers!
We have 60 unmatched groups rn
Know archaeologists who could do a session? Send them to SkypeAScientist.com
We have matched ~650 groups with archaeologists this semester! I am so grateful to the 196 Archaeologist volunteers!
We have 60 unmatched groups rn
Know archaeologists who could do a session? Send them to SkypeAScientist.com
SKYPE A SCIENTIST
Skype a Scientist matches your classroom, scout troop, or library with scientists for Q&A sessions for free!
SkypeAScientist.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Calling all archaeologists who can help with this project by skyping into a classroom!
Reposted by Ana Abrunhosa
Who can join the #6thVCWAP?
Absolutely everyone!
The VCWAP aims to highlight the work of early-career women scientists and paleoartists.
These are the voices we want to put forward!
But that doesn’t mean others are not welcome: quite the opposite! 👉 We need everyone to make this event meaningful ⬇️
Absolutely everyone!
The VCWAP aims to highlight the work of early-career women scientists and paleoartists.
These are the voices we want to put forward!
But that doesn’t mean others are not welcome: quite the opposite! 👉 We need everyone to make this event meaningful ⬇️
October 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Who can join the #6thVCWAP?
Absolutely everyone!
The VCWAP aims to highlight the work of early-career women scientists and paleoartists.
These are the voices we want to put forward!
But that doesn’t mean others are not welcome: quite the opposite! 👉 We need everyone to make this event meaningful ⬇️
Absolutely everyone!
The VCWAP aims to highlight the work of early-career women scientists and paleoartists.
These are the voices we want to put forward!
But that doesn’t mean others are not welcome: quite the opposite! 👉 We need everyone to make this event meaningful ⬇️
Reposted by Ana Abrunhosa
🏆Awards at the 6th VCWAP:
➡️Best Talk, offered by @tscourses.bsky.social💚, €400 voucher to use on any of their course, consulting service, or coaching session.
➡️Best Poster: €100.
➡️Best Paleoart: €100.
Looking forward to receiving your abstracts! Join us! ✨
#paleoart #archaeology #paleontology
➡️Best Talk, offered by @tscourses.bsky.social💚, €400 voucher to use on any of their course, consulting service, or coaching session.
➡️Best Poster: €100.
➡️Best Paleoart: €100.
Looking forward to receiving your abstracts! Join us! ✨
#paleoart #archaeology #paleontology
November 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
🏆Awards at the 6th VCWAP:
➡️Best Talk, offered by @tscourses.bsky.social💚, €400 voucher to use on any of their course, consulting service, or coaching session.
➡️Best Poster: €100.
➡️Best Paleoart: €100.
Looking forward to receiving your abstracts! Join us! ✨
#paleoart #archaeology #paleontology
➡️Best Talk, offered by @tscourses.bsky.social💚, €400 voucher to use on any of their course, consulting service, or coaching session.
➡️Best Poster: €100.
➡️Best Paleoart: €100.
Looking forward to receiving your abstracts! Join us! ✨
#paleoart #archaeology #paleontology
I should be writing, but Google dropped the Pac-Man 45th anniversary game, and suddenly, productivity has left the chat.
October 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I should be writing, but Google dropped the Pac-Man 45th anniversary game, and suddenly, productivity has left the chat.
Reposted by Ana Abrunhosa
Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
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CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
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Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications
The Art of Learning from Rejection
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
🧵
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
🧵
Reposted by Ana Abrunhosa
VCWAP is back! 🎉 Join us March 4–6, 2026.
Registration & submissions (abstracts + paleoart) are now open
➡️ awap-science.org/en/vcwap-cur...
Open to ALL, whatever your employment status, gender identity or expression. Everyone’s welcome to participate!
Registration & submissions (abstracts + paleoart) are now open
➡️ awap-science.org/en/vcwap-cur...
Open to ALL, whatever your employment status, gender identity or expression. Everyone’s welcome to participate!
October 3, 2025 at 6:40 AM
VCWAP is back! 🎉 Join us March 4–6, 2026.
Registration & submissions (abstracts + paleoart) are now open
➡️ awap-science.org/en/vcwap-cur...
Open to ALL, whatever your employment status, gender identity or expression. Everyone’s welcome to participate!
Registration & submissions (abstracts + paleoart) are now open
➡️ awap-science.org/en/vcwap-cur...
Open to ALL, whatever your employment status, gender identity or expression. Everyone’s welcome to participate!
Reposted by Ana Abrunhosa
After the disaster of the Annual Meeting #EAA2025Belgrade, the members of the EAA need to regain control of the association. We call on all @archaeologyEAA members to support our petition requesting a Special Meeting to address this matter. Join us!
forms.gle/cTp7BXiUD1qC...
forms.gle/cTp7BXiUD1qC...
Call for a Special Meeting of the EAA
Recent events during the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists* have generated profound discontent and distrust toward the current Executive Board among members of the associati...
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September 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
After the disaster of the Annual Meeting #EAA2025Belgrade, the members of the EAA need to regain control of the association. We call on all @archaeologyEAA members to support our petition requesting a Special Meeting to address this matter. Join us!
forms.gle/cTp7BXiUD1qC...
forms.gle/cTp7BXiUD1qC...
Reposted by Ana Abrunhosa
Does anyone know how many sessions or speakers were cancelled during the EAA?
September 6, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Does anyone know how many sessions or speakers were cancelled during the EAA?
Considering the EAA’s contradictory statements and its position of holding volunteers responsible for limiting free speech, shaming the professional class, I will not present this year, will not renew my membership, and call for the Executive Board’s resignation.
September 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Considering the EAA’s contradictory statements and its position of holding volunteers responsible for limiting free speech, shaming the professional class, I will not present this year, will not renew my membership, and call for the Executive Board’s resignation.
Reposted by Ana Abrunhosa
We have now launched tickets for our 2025 weekends at Butser Ancient Farm on Sat 12th – Sun 13th July 2025 and Sat 16th – Sun 17th August 2025.
Full details and further information can be found on the booking page here www.lithics.org/events/butse...
Full details and further information can be found on the booking page here www.lithics.org/events/butse...
Butser Knapping Weekend
www.lithics.org
June 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
We have now launched tickets for our 2025 weekends at Butser Ancient Farm on Sat 12th – Sun 13th July 2025 and Sat 16th – Sun 17th August 2025.
Full details and further information can be found on the booking page here www.lithics.org/events/butse...
Full details and further information can be found on the booking page here www.lithics.org/events/butse...
Reposted by Ana Abrunhosa
This has turned up where we didn't expect it (But from NW Europe). We cant find an exact typological match but we are sure someone out there must know a good typological match??
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July 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This has turned up where we didn't expect it (But from NW Europe). We cant find an exact typological match but we are sure someone out there must know a good typological match??
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Reposted by Ana Abrunhosa
In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No
Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.
www.forbes.com
July 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
📣 We are accepting submissions to a Special Issue in Quaternary International on "Human Ecodynamics in Valley Ecotones". 🌎
👩💻Feel free to let us know if you have any questions.
🗣️Could you help us spread the word? Share this information with potential interested contacts :)
More info below👇
👩💻Feel free to let us know if you have any questions.
🗣️Could you help us spread the word? Share this information with potential interested contacts :)
More info below👇
🚨 Call for Papers! Special Issue in Quaternary International:
"Human Ecodynamics in Valley Ecotones" 🌍
Topics: niche formation, mobility, dispersal, climate impacts.
🗓 Deadline: Sept 20, 2025 (extension possible)
📩 DM us with questions
🔗 tinyurl.com/494ydwsw
"Human Ecodynamics in Valley Ecotones" 🌍
Topics: niche formation, mobility, dispersal, climate impacts.
🗓 Deadline: Sept 20, 2025 (extension possible)
📩 DM us with questions
🔗 tinyurl.com/494ydwsw
Quaternary International | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Quaternary International | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect
Read the latest articles of Quaternary International at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
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July 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
📣 We are accepting submissions to a Special Issue in Quaternary International on "Human Ecodynamics in Valley Ecotones". 🌎
👩💻Feel free to let us know if you have any questions.
🗣️Could you help us spread the word? Share this information with potential interested contacts :)
More info below👇
👩💻Feel free to let us know if you have any questions.
🗣️Could you help us spread the word? Share this information with potential interested contacts :)
More info below👇
📣 Remember to renew your membership or become a new member of the Association!
Your membership fees help us keep the annual VCWAP free for everyone👩💻✨
🔗More info below
We also welcome donations! Please share if you know someone whose mission and values align with AWAP. Every bit of support helps💜
Your membership fees help us keep the annual VCWAP free for everyone👩💻✨
🔗More info below
We also welcome donations! Please share if you know someone whose mission and values align with AWAP. Every bit of support helps💜
✨ What does VCWAP mean to you? ✨
Was it your first conference? A chance to share your paleoart? An interesting roundtable? ...
We’re gathering short testimonials for our website (anonymous if you prefer!). Share a few words with us! 💜
Was it your first conference? A chance to share your paleoart? An interesting roundtable? ...
We’re gathering short testimonials for our website (anonymous if you prefer!). Share a few words with us! 💜
July 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
📣 Remember to renew your membership or become a new member of the Association!
Your membership fees help us keep the annual VCWAP free for everyone👩💻✨
🔗More info below
We also welcome donations! Please share if you know someone whose mission and values align with AWAP. Every bit of support helps💜
Your membership fees help us keep the annual VCWAP free for everyone👩💻✨
🔗More info below
We also welcome donations! Please share if you know someone whose mission and values align with AWAP. Every bit of support helps💜
📣 New paper out!
Exciting finds from Abri du Maras (Layer 6): fire use, bone breakage, tool-making & raw material strategies from MIS 7, shedding light on early Neanderthals.
Proud to be part of this work!
🔗 rdcu.be/etHMN
#archaeology #palaeolithic
Exciting finds from Abri du Maras (Layer 6): fire use, bone breakage, tool-making & raw material strategies from MIS 7, shedding light on early Neanderthals.
Proud to be part of this work!
🔗 rdcu.be/etHMN
#archaeology #palaeolithic
Early Middle Palaeolithic Occupations Dated to MIS 7 at the Abri du Maras (Ardèche, Southeast France)
rdcu.be
June 27, 2025 at 8:13 AM
📣 New paper out!
Exciting finds from Abri du Maras (Layer 6): fire use, bone breakage, tool-making & raw material strategies from MIS 7, shedding light on early Neanderthals.
Proud to be part of this work!
🔗 rdcu.be/etHMN
#archaeology #palaeolithic
Exciting finds from Abri du Maras (Layer 6): fire use, bone breakage, tool-making & raw material strategies from MIS 7, shedding light on early Neanderthals.
Proud to be part of this work!
🔗 rdcu.be/etHMN
#archaeology #palaeolithic
Reposted by Ana Abrunhosa
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La période des chantiers estivaux va bientôt commencer ! Nous vous partageons le travail nécessaire et indispensable de collègues archéologues et de diverses disciplines de SHS de l'université Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès.
La période des chantiers estivaux va bientôt commencer ! Nous vous partageons le travail nécessaire et indispensable de collègues archéologues et de diverses disciplines de SHS de l'université Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès.
June 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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La période des chantiers estivaux va bientôt commencer ! Nous vous partageons le travail nécessaire et indispensable de collègues archéologues et de diverses disciplines de SHS de l'université Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès.
La période des chantiers estivaux va bientôt commencer ! Nous vous partageons le travail nécessaire et indispensable de collègues archéologues et de diverses disciplines de SHS de l'université Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès.
🚨 Call for Papers! Special Issue in Quaternary International:
"Human Ecodynamics in Valley Ecotones" 🌍
Topics: niche formation, mobility, dispersal, climate impacts.
🗓 Deadline: Sept 20, 2025 (extension possible)
📩 DM us with questions
🔗 tinyurl.com/494ydwsw
"Human Ecodynamics in Valley Ecotones" 🌍
Topics: niche formation, mobility, dispersal, climate impacts.
🗓 Deadline: Sept 20, 2025 (extension possible)
📩 DM us with questions
🔗 tinyurl.com/494ydwsw
Quaternary International | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Quaternary International | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect
Read the latest articles of Quaternary International at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
tinyurl.com
June 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
🚨 Call for Papers! Special Issue in Quaternary International:
"Human Ecodynamics in Valley Ecotones" 🌍
Topics: niche formation, mobility, dispersal, climate impacts.
🗓 Deadline: Sept 20, 2025 (extension possible)
📩 DM us with questions
🔗 tinyurl.com/494ydwsw
"Human Ecodynamics in Valley Ecotones" 🌍
Topics: niche formation, mobility, dispersal, climate impacts.
🗓 Deadline: Sept 20, 2025 (extension possible)
📩 DM us with questions
🔗 tinyurl.com/494ydwsw
The #vcwap is 100% free for all participants — made possible by the support of our sponsors, donors, and AWAP members.
If you believe in creating inclusive spaces for early career women from all over the world, please consider becoming an AWAP member!
If you believe in creating inclusive spaces for early career women from all over the world, please consider becoming an AWAP member!
The talks recorded during the 5th VCWAP are available on our YouTube channel! 👩🔬
Come discover them or listen to them again ▶️
🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y_tgCS5GDQ&list=PLTpfy4XWYk0zh_QvzumStjNyfATWyrUNN&pp=gAQB
Come discover them or listen to them again ▶️
🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y_tgCS5GDQ&list=PLTpfy4XWYk0zh_QvzumStjNyfATWyrUNN&pp=gAQB
June 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The #vcwap is 100% free for all participants — made possible by the support of our sponsors, donors, and AWAP members.
If you believe in creating inclusive spaces for early career women from all over the world, please consider becoming an AWAP member!
If you believe in creating inclusive spaces for early career women from all over the world, please consider becoming an AWAP member!
Had the pleasure of joining the II Workshop of the MULTIPALEOIBERIA ERC Project at Univ. of Alcalá. Great to finally meet colleagues I only knew through their work & socials.
👩💻Thanks to Manuel Alcaraz Castaño for the kind invitation and such a rich exchange of ideas!
👩💻Thanks to Manuel Alcaraz Castaño for the kind invitation and such a rich exchange of ideas!
June 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Had the pleasure of joining the II Workshop of the MULTIPALEOIBERIA ERC Project at Univ. of Alcalá. Great to finally meet colleagues I only knew through their work & socials.
👩💻Thanks to Manuel Alcaraz Castaño for the kind invitation and such a rich exchange of ideas!
👩💻Thanks to Manuel Alcaraz Castaño for the kind invitation and such a rich exchange of ideas!
2 days of field survey and my body is dead… clearly I am not in my 20’s anymore… it doesn’t matter how great your skin can look like, how young people perceive you (sometimes a course.. condescending much…), your back will always bring some humility back to you.
March 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
2 days of field survey and my body is dead… clearly I am not in my 20’s anymore… it doesn’t matter how great your skin can look like, how young people perceive you (sometimes a course.. condescending much…), your back will always bring some humility back to you.
The press release of #Pink @iphes-cerca.bsky.social was an emotional and profound moment for all of us privileged to watch it from the front line. We were living a historical moment in the study of human evolution. Elena’s restoration work was crucial, valued and deserves all the recognition 🫶👏
🗣️ Nuestro pequeño homenaje a l@s profesionales de la #restauración y la #conservación, que son capaces de hacer magia para que la ciencia pueda avanzar y el mundo conocer y disfrutar 🔝
Enhorabuena @elenaMorRib & Co.!! 😍
🎥 Maria D. Guillén/G. Campeny/IPHES-CERCA
Enhorabuena @elenaMorRib & Co.!! 😍
🎥 Maria D. Guillén/G. Campeny/IPHES-CERCA
March 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The press release of #Pink @iphes-cerca.bsky.social was an emotional and profound moment for all of us privileged to watch it from the front line. We were living a historical moment in the study of human evolution. Elena’s restoration work was crucial, valued and deserves all the recognition 🫶👏
New paper lead by @iphes-cerca.bsky.social researchers presenting the Homo aff. erectus.
It is a great privilege and a source of motivation to work so close to the best of the best! Congratulations to the team! We are all so proud and glad to celebrate you and your work.
Welcome to the family Pink!
It is a great privilege and a source of motivation to work so close to the best of the best! Congratulations to the team! We are all so proud and glad to celebrate you and your work.
Welcome to the family Pink!
Our new paper 🥲 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The earliest human face of Western Europe - Nature
A Homo aff. erectus individual dated to 1.4 million to 1.1 million years ago found at Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain) does not display the modern-human-like aspect of Homo antecess...
www.nature.com
March 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
New paper lead by @iphes-cerca.bsky.social researchers presenting the Homo aff. erectus.
It is a great privilege and a source of motivation to work so close to the best of the best! Congratulations to the team! We are all so proud and glad to celebrate you and your work.
Welcome to the family Pink!
It is a great privilege and a source of motivation to work so close to the best of the best! Congratulations to the team! We are all so proud and glad to celebrate you and your work.
Welcome to the family Pink!