Abel Ruiz-Giralt
@archaeorg.bsky.social
Archaeologist interested in human-environment interactions. Archaeobotany, ethnoarchaeology, data science. #archaeology #rstats
Most of my work is available at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Abel-Ruiz-Giralt
Most of my work is available at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Abel-Ruiz-Giralt
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Our PhD candidates did a great job presenting the preliminary results of the project at #SAfA2025. Hope you enjoyed the conference and see you soon 😁
July 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Our PhD candidates did a great job presenting the preliminary results of the project at #SAfA2025. Hope you enjoyed the conference and see you soon 😁
Session #55 on "Mapping African Archaeology" just started at #SAfA2025! Come by to hear about @camp-erc.bsky.social work by PhD candidate Antonios Koutrompas!
July 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Session #55 on "Mapping African Archaeology" just started at #SAfA2025! Come by to hear about @camp-erc.bsky.social work by PhD candidate Antonios Koutrompas!
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This morning, our PI Stefano Biagetti presented an overview of our work in the general session of the #SAfA2025. Come by the presentations by K. Rix (session #33) and A. Koutrompas (session #55) to learn more about our project!
July 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
This morning, our PI Stefano Biagetti presented an overview of our work in the general session of the #SAfA2025. Come by the presentations by K. Rix (session #33) and A. Koutrompas (session #55) to learn more about our project!
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AI “thinks” in the same way a mirror looks at you
July 22, 2025 at 6:27 AM
AI “thinks” in the same way a mirror looks at you
Just arrived to Faro for #SAfA2025 with the @camp-erc.bsky.social team.and some friends! hope to see you around😁
July 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Just arrived to Faro for #SAfA2025 with the @camp-erc.bsky.social team.and some friends! hope to see you around😁
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From the creators of double-bagging in Botswana and Oman, let me introduce you to the wonders of Kenya cup preparation! 😁
June 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
From the creators of double-bagging in Botswana and Oman, let me introduce you to the wonders of Kenya cup preparation! 😁
⚠️ #PhD opportunity⚠️ If you are interested in #Archaeology and #Pastoralism, ERC-project CAMP offers a fully-funded PhD position in UPF (Barcelona) to study plant microremains and geochemical signatures in pastoral contexts. Apply by July 10th! More info. below 👇🏼
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/346669
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/346669
HUM-PIPF-2025-02 ERC-Funded PhD position on (Re)Constructing the Archaeology of Mobile Pastoralism (CAMP) Bringing the site level into long-term pastoral narratives
One ERC-Funded PhD position on (Re)Constructing the Archaeology of Mobile Pastoralism (CAMP) Bringing the site level into long-term pastoral narratives
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
June 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
⚠️ #PhD opportunity⚠️ If you are interested in #Archaeology and #Pastoralism, ERC-project CAMP offers a fully-funded PhD position in UPF (Barcelona) to study plant microremains and geochemical signatures in pastoral contexts. Apply by July 10th! More info. below 👇🏼
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/346669
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/346669
After a few days of #fieldwork, we have already sampled 3 ethnographic sites and 1 abandoned camp. #Turkana people are really amazing! #Ethnoarchaeology #Kenya @camp-erc.bsky.social @sdrecercaupf.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 5:07 AM
After a few days of #fieldwork, we have already sampled 3 ethnographic sites and 1 abandoned camp. #Turkana people are really amazing! #Ethnoarchaeology #Kenya @camp-erc.bsky.social @sdrecercaupf.bsky.social
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📢 New publication: "The genomics of t’ef and finger millet domestication and spread" by Mekonnen D.Z., Gomes A.I., Machado R.S.R. & Oliveira H.R., in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2025, Vol. 380, Issue 1926).
🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
The genomics of t’ef and finger millet domestication and spread | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The Northern Highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea (NHE) were a centre for food production
in Africa, hosting one of the earliest agriculture-based complex societies on the
continent. The NHE’s geographic...
doi.org
May 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
📢 New publication: "The genomics of t’ef and finger millet domestication and spread" by Mekonnen D.Z., Gomes A.I., Machado R.S.R. & Oliveira H.R., in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2025, Vol. 380, Issue 1926).
🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
Yeah so... The view from the Turkana Basin Institute right there for you
May 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Yeah so... The view from the Turkana Basin Institute right there for you
After about 48h, we are here!! TBI feels like paradise 🤩🤩 @camp-erc.bsky.social @sdrecercaupf.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 7:17 AM
After about 48h, we are here!! TBI feels like paradise 🤩🤩 @camp-erc.bsky.social @sdrecercaupf.bsky.social
On our way to Lake Turkana! 💥💥
May 27, 2025 at 3:34 AM
On our way to Lake Turkana! 💥💥
Cute Nairobi couple 🥰
May 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Cute Nairobi couple 🥰
⚠️ @camp-erc.bsky.social fieldwork season starting! ⚠️ We're off to Kenya this time — expect stunning pics on your timeline soon! 🤩
May 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
⚠️ @camp-erc.bsky.social fieldwork season starting! ⚠️ We're off to Kenya this time — expect stunning pics on your timeline soon! 🤩
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A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it.
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
New study reveals wealth inequality was never inevitable
A recent study published in the journal PNAS is overturning traditional wisdom regarding the origins and inevitability of wealth inequality
archaeologymag.com
April 27, 2025 at 1:01 AM
A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it.
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
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I contributed to the special issue of PAGES magazine, "Early Human Traces: Landscape Openness Proxies Across Space and Time," with a short article on the identification of charcoal from archaeological sites to detect human-induced vegetation openings 🪵🔥🌳🌴🌿 1/5
pastglobalchanges.org/publications...
pastglobalchanges.org/publications...
Using archaeological macrocharcoal to detect different degrees of anthropogenic landscape opening and woodland management | PAGES
pastglobalchanges.org
April 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I contributed to the special issue of PAGES magazine, "Early Human Traces: Landscape Openness Proxies Across Space and Time," with a short article on the identification of charcoal from archaeological sites to detect human-induced vegetation openings 🪵🔥🌳🌴🌿 1/5
pastglobalchanges.org/publications...
pastglobalchanges.org/publications...
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All the soils of the world put together in one image! They are categorized into their main defining traits. Do you have a favourite one?
April 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
All the soils of the world put together in one image! They are categorized into their main defining traits. Do you have a favourite one?
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Delighted that this paper came out as part of a PNAS special feature on “The Global Dynamics of Inequality over the Long Term” where together with a team of 27 scientists we collected and analysed a sample of over 53,000 houses from all five continents.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Toward multiscalar measures of inequality in archaeology | PNAS
The Gini coefficient is a statistical measure commonly used to characterize distributions
of socioeconomic quantities. Archaeologists and social sc...
www.pnas.org
April 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Delighted that this paper came out as part of a PNAS special feature on “The Global Dynamics of Inequality over the Long Term” where together with a team of 27 scientists we collected and analysed a sample of over 53,000 houses from all five continents.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Also out in @nature.com today, our research showing that hunter-gatherers understook substantial Mediterranean sea crossings during the Mesolithic. This research also documents the first evidence of pre-Neolithic peoples in Malta!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands - Nature
Archaeological discoveries from Malta suggest that humans were present on the Maltese islands from around 8,500 years ago, providing evidence that Mesolithic hunter-gatherers made sea crossings as lon...
www.nature.com
April 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Also out in @nature.com today, our research showing that hunter-gatherers understook substantial Mediterranean sea crossings during the Mesolithic. This research also documents the first evidence of pre-Neolithic peoples in Malta!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We are happy to share our pre-print on dating bone using a novel non-destructive protocol we developed. The paper is on the Biorxiv here (Luftensteiner et al. 2025):
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Non-destructive radiocarbon dating of bone
Since the 1950s, radiocarbon measurements have anchored archaeological chronologies dating back to 50,000 years, with bone collagen being a commonly dated material. Despite advances in collagen extrac...
www.biorxiv.org
March 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
We are happy to share our pre-print on dating bone using a novel non-destructive protocol we developed. The paper is on the Biorxiv here (Luftensteiner et al. 2025):
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...