Carli Peters
@carlipeters.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher @ICArEHB interested in all things ancient proteins 🦴👩🏼🔬
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Carli Peters
@carlipeters.bsky.social
· Jun 3
Frontiers | Collagen peptide markers for three extinct Australian megafauna species
Recent advancements in biomolecular archaeology, such as stable isotope and ancient DNA research, have expanded our understanding of megafauna extinction pro...
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Our latest paper is out now in Frontiers in Mammal Science: www.frontiersin.org/journals/mam...
We characterized ZooMS peptide markers for three extinct Australian megafauna species 🦴🧪
We characterized ZooMS peptide markers for three extinct Australian megafauna species 🦴🧪
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I'm hiring!⭐ As part of the DFF Sapere Aude-funded project MiddleEarth, I am looking for 1 postdoctoral researcher and 1 research assistant.
October 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I'm hiring!⭐ As part of the DFF Sapere Aude-funded project MiddleEarth, I am looking for 1 postdoctoral researcher and 1 research assistant.
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New paper is out!
We and welkergroup.bsky.social show that proteins from resin-impregnated sediment blocks can reveal faunal diversity at the microscale.
We thank and congratulate all coauthors!
#paleoproteomics #geoarchaeology
erc.europa.eu
icarehb.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
We and welkergroup.bsky.social show that proteins from resin-impregnated sediment blocks can reveal faunal diversity at the microscale.
We thank and congratulate all coauthors!
#paleoproteomics #geoarchaeology
erc.europa.eu
icarehb.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
New methods on the block: Taxonomic identification of archaeological bones in resin-embedded sediments through paleoproteomics
Abstract. The integration of biomolecular studies of past organisms with geoarchaeological studies can significantly improve our understanding of the relat
academic.oup.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
New paper is out!
We and welkergroup.bsky.social show that proteins from resin-impregnated sediment blocks can reveal faunal diversity at the microscale.
We thank and congratulate all coauthors!
#paleoproteomics #geoarchaeology
erc.europa.eu
icarehb.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
We and welkergroup.bsky.social show that proteins from resin-impregnated sediment blocks can reveal faunal diversity at the microscale.
We thank and congratulate all coauthors!
#paleoproteomics #geoarchaeology
erc.europa.eu
icarehb.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Reposted by Carli Peters
Just out, our new paper "The state of the late Quaternary megafauna extinction debate...". We review the various perspectives, methods, and datasets which have been used to explore the extinction of many large animals. Was it humans, climate, or a mix of both? The debate continues!
Frontiers | The state of the late Quaternary megafauna extinction debate: a systematic review and analysis
With its origins in the late 18th and early 19th century, the question of what drove the late Quaternary megafauna extinctions remains one of science’s most ...
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October 16, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Just out, our new paper "The state of the late Quaternary megafauna extinction debate...". We review the various perspectives, methods, and datasets which have been used to explore the extinction of many large animals. Was it humans, climate, or a mix of both? The debate continues!
Really happy to say that this paper is out now! 🦣🦴
It was a lot of work, but we identified some interesting trends and themes.
It was a lot of work, but we identified some interesting trends and themes.
Just out in @frontiersin.bsky.social our systematic review of the late Quaternary megafauna extinction debate.
We analyzed and coded 360 articles to trace the development of the debate, identify key themes in the literature, and propose a forward-looking research agenda.
We analyzed and coded 360 articles to trace the development of the debate, identify key themes in the literature, and propose a forward-looking research agenda.
Frontiers | The state of the late Quaternary megafauna extinction debate: a systematic review and analysis
With its origins in the late 18th and early 19th century, the question of what drove the late Quaternary megafauna extinctions remains one of science’s most ...
www.frontiersin.org
October 16, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Really happy to say that this paper is out now! 🦣🦴
It was a lot of work, but we identified some interesting trends and themes.
It was a lot of work, but we identified some interesting trends and themes.
Reposted by Carli Peters
📄 New paper 📣 of @matrixerc.bsky.social & @welkergroup.bsky.social! We show that microstratigraphic-scale #paleoproteomics works in intact sediments - opening new ways to explore ancient ecosystems & hominin behaviour 🌍🦴
@erc.europa.eu @icarehb.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
@erc.europa.eu @icarehb.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
New methods on the block: Taxonomic identification of archaeological bones in resin-embedded sediments through paleoproteomics
Abstract. The integration of biomolecular studies of past organisms with geoarchaeological studies can significantly improve our understanding of the relat
academic.oup.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
📄 New paper 📣 of @matrixerc.bsky.social & @welkergroup.bsky.social! We show that microstratigraphic-scale #paleoproteomics works in intact sediments - opening new ways to explore ancient ecosystems & hominin behaviour 🌍🦴
@erc.europa.eu @icarehb.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
@erc.europa.eu @icarehb.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Reposted by Carli Peters
📣Paper alert📣 Is it possible to use #palaeoproteomics to identify the taxonomy of bone fragments in resin-embedded sediment blocks, enabling study of past faunal community composition at a microstratigraphic scale? 🦴🐮 🦌 We decided to test this, and the results are now out: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
New methods on the block: Taxonomic identification of archaeological bones in resin-embedded sediments through paleoproteomics
Abstract. The integration of biomolecular studies of past organisms with geoarchaeological studies can significantly improve our understanding of the relat
doi.org
October 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM
📣Paper alert📣 Is it possible to use #palaeoproteomics to identify the taxonomy of bone fragments in resin-embedded sediment blocks, enabling study of past faunal community composition at a microstratigraphic scale? 🦴🐮 🦌 We decided to test this, and the results are now out: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
Reposted by Carli Peters
Excited to share our new study in @natcomms.nature.com. It reveals surprising protein variability in birds 🐦, reshaping how we use ancient proteins to reconstruct the past. Curious about the implications? Read the paper here: rdcu.be/eJi3h. With @beademarch.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Excited to share our new study in @natcomms.nature.com. It reveals surprising protein variability in birds 🐦, reshaping how we use ancient proteins to reconstruct the past. Curious about the implications? Read the paper here: rdcu.be/eJi3h. With @beademarch.bsky.social
Reposted by Carli Peters
Our new paper is out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 12,000 year old camel engravings marked water sources in the desert. A great team effort @mdpetraglia.bsky.social @finnstileman.bsky.social @stewiestewart.bsky.social et al!
Monumental rock art illustrates that humans thrived in the Arabian Desert during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition | Nature Communications
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September 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Our new paper is out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 12,000 year old camel engravings marked water sources in the desert. A great team effort @mdpetraglia.bsky.social @finnstileman.bsky.social @stewiestewart.bsky.social et al!
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New discovery! Here @mariaguagnin.bsky.social and our team report on 12,000-year-old life-size camel rock art engravings in the Saudi desert. #GreenArabia @griffith.edu.au www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
New discovery! Here @mariaguagnin.bsky.social and our team report on 12,000-year-old life-size camel rock art engravings in the Saudi desert. #GreenArabia @griffith.edu.au www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A sneak peak of our forthcoming article!
Led by Mathew Stewart and @huwgroucutt.bsky.social.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mam...
Led by Mathew Stewart and @huwgroucutt.bsky.social.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mam...
Frontiers | The state of the late Quaternary megafauna extinction debate: a systematic review and analysis
With its origins in the late 18th and early 19th century, the question of what drove the extinction of the late Quaternary megafauna extinctions remains one ...
www.frontiersin.org
September 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
A sneak peak of our forthcoming article!
Led by Mathew Stewart and @huwgroucutt.bsky.social.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mam...
Led by Mathew Stewart and @huwgroucutt.bsky.social.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mam...
Reposted by Carli Peters
A community-driven project to identify the Big Questions in palaeontology.
See our latest paper in #Paleobiology published last week and led by Jansen Smith. 📖🦖
See our latest paper in #Paleobiology published last week and led by Jansen Smith. 📖🦖
Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project
www.cambridge.org
September 29, 2025 at 9:08 AM
A community-driven project to identify the Big Questions in palaeontology.
See our latest paper in #Paleobiology published last week and led by Jansen Smith. 📖🦖
See our latest paper in #Paleobiology published last week and led by Jansen Smith. 📖🦖
Reposted by Carli Peters
We're recruiting an avian ecologist working with @danc-eco.bsky.social and our AviArch team! More info: archaeobiomics.com/aviarch-avif...
September 27, 2025 at 7:26 AM
We're recruiting an avian ecologist working with @danc-eco.bsky.social and our AviArch team! More info: archaeobiomics.com/aviarch-avif...
Reposted by Carli Peters
👥 Meet the team behind the ERC Matrix Project!
🔬 Today: Vera Aldeias, PI of Matrix and a geoarchaeologist decoding past human behaviour through sediments.
🧬 Vera’s team uses ancient DNA & proteins in soils to trace modern humans’ arrival in Europe & Neanderthals’ disappearance.
🔬 Today: Vera Aldeias, PI of Matrix and a geoarchaeologist decoding past human behaviour through sediments.
🧬 Vera’s team uses ancient DNA & proteins in soils to trace modern humans’ arrival in Europe & Neanderthals’ disappearance.
September 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
👥 Meet the team behind the ERC Matrix Project!
🔬 Today: Vera Aldeias, PI of Matrix and a geoarchaeologist decoding past human behaviour through sediments.
🧬 Vera’s team uses ancient DNA & proteins in soils to trace modern humans’ arrival in Europe & Neanderthals’ disappearance.
🔬 Today: Vera Aldeias, PI of Matrix and a geoarchaeologist decoding past human behaviour through sediments.
🧬 Vera’s team uses ancient DNA & proteins in soils to trace modern humans’ arrival in Europe & Neanderthals’ disappearance.
Reposted by Carli Peters
The MATRIX Project, ERC Starting Grant, led by @veraaldeias.bsky.social and based at @icarehb.bsky.social, explores the replacement of Neanderthals by early modern humans by analyzing intact blocks of sediment as archives of ancient DNA, proteins, and lipids.
Follow us and visit matrix.icarehb.com
Follow us and visit matrix.icarehb.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The MATRIX Project, ERC Starting Grant, led by @veraaldeias.bsky.social and based at @icarehb.bsky.social, explores the replacement of Neanderthals by early modern humans by analyzing intact blocks of sediment as archives of ancient DNA, proteins, and lipids.
Follow us and visit matrix.icarehb.com
Follow us and visit matrix.icarehb.com
Reposted by Carli Peters
The ERC Project MATRIX explores one of the big questions in our past: how Neanderthals disappeared as modern humans spread across Europe. Meet the team behind it and learn more about our research on sediments, ancient DNA, proteins, lipids & human evolution
👉 matrix.icarehb.com
👉 matrix.icarehb.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The ERC Project MATRIX explores one of the big questions in our past: how Neanderthals disappeared as modern humans spread across Europe. Meet the team behind it and learn more about our research on sediments, ancient DNA, proteins, lipids & human evolution
👉 matrix.icarehb.com
👉 matrix.icarehb.com
Reposted by Carli Peters
Still time to self-nominate if you're looking to get more actively involved with the PAASTA Community!
For those not at our General Meeting, we have self-nominations for our next Steering Committee open until the end of the month (30 September)! For more details and to nominate yourself: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
With many thanks to @isma-rgz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy for overseeing this!
With many thanks to @isma-rgz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy for overseeing this!
PAASTA steering committee self-nomination
Hello!
I am Ismael Rodríguez Palomo, a postdoc at the University of Copenhagen. I have volunteered to conduct the formation of the next PAASTA steering committee.
We will try to avoid formal elections...
docs.google.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Still time to self-nominate if you're looking to get more actively involved with the PAASTA Community!
Reposted by Carli Peters
For those not at our General Meeting, we have self-nominations for our next Steering Committee open until the end of the month (30 September)! For more details and to nominate yourself: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
With many thanks to @isma-rgz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy for overseeing this!
With many thanks to @isma-rgz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy for overseeing this!
PAASTA steering committee self-nomination
Hello!
I am Ismael Rodríguez Palomo, a postdoc at the University of Copenhagen. I have volunteered to conduct the formation of the next PAASTA steering committee.
We will try to avoid formal elections...
docs.google.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
For those not at our General Meeting, we have self-nominations for our next Steering Committee open until the end of the month (30 September)! For more details and to nominate yourself: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
With many thanks to @isma-rgz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy for overseeing this!
With many thanks to @isma-rgz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy for overseeing this!
Reposted by Carli Peters
Thanks to @isbarchaeology.bsky.social and @isba11.bsky.social for a great conference.
I mentioned the legacy of Henk Kars of VU who established ISBA
Geoarchaeology closed. Here is the link to the petition to save Earth Sciences @vuamsterdam.bsky.social
www.change.org/p/red-aardwe...
I mentioned the legacy of Henk Kars of VU who established ISBA
Geoarchaeology closed. Here is the link to the petition to save Earth Sciences @vuamsterdam.bsky.social
www.change.org/p/red-aardwe...
September 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Thanks to @isbarchaeology.bsky.social and @isba11.bsky.social for a great conference.
I mentioned the legacy of Henk Kars of VU who established ISBA
Geoarchaeology closed. Here is the link to the petition to save Earth Sciences @vuamsterdam.bsky.social
www.change.org/p/red-aardwe...
I mentioned the legacy of Henk Kars of VU who established ISBA
Geoarchaeology closed. Here is the link to the petition to save Earth Sciences @vuamsterdam.bsky.social
www.change.org/p/red-aardwe...
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What a week! 🎉 Big thanks to @isba11.bsky.social for hosting an incredible ISBA conference — so well organized and full of great science.
August 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
What a week! 🎉 Big thanks to @isba11.bsky.social for hosting an incredible ISBA conference — so well organized and full of great science.
Reposted by Carli Peters
Looking for a new approach to quantification of #deamidation in your MALDI-TOF data? Then you need to check out our new preprint!!! Fei Yang will be speaking about it at ISBA11_Torino tomorrow in Methods 5 at 16:00! #palaeoproteomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
MALDI Deamidation Score (MDS): A Fast and Flexible Method for Assessing Deamidation in ZooMS Data and Its Application to the Denisova Cave Bone Assemblage
Estimating deamidation from MALDI-TOF MS spectra of bones has most frequently been achieved using the q2e method due to its high-throughput capacity and ease of use. Despite this accessibility, q2e is...
www.biorxiv.org
August 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Looking for a new approach to quantification of #deamidation in your MALDI-TOF data? Then you need to check out our new preprint!!! Fei Yang will be speaking about it at ISBA11_Torino tomorrow in Methods 5 at 16:00! #palaeoproteomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Registration deadline is TOMORROW! 🍝 🏺
✨✨Reminder that we are hosting a (virtual and in-person) pre-ISBA conference✨✨ on the 26th of August (13:00-17:00 CET) which will include talks from members of our community and the PAASTA Annual General Meeting. Additional details can be found here: paasta-community.github.io/events/2025/...
Pre-ISBA PAASTA Conference · PAASTA Community
paasta-community.github.io
August 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Registration deadline is TOMORROW! 🍝 🏺
Reposted by Carli Peters
Delighted to be bringing you the following PAASTA community-led paper outlining our recommendations for best practices and open science in palaeoproteomics! Congratulations to the authors and for anyone keen to read the paper, it can be found #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.24072/pcj...
August 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Delighted to be bringing you the following PAASTA community-led paper outlining our recommendations for best practices and open science in palaeoproteomics! Congratulations to the authors and for anyone keen to read the paper, it can be found #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.24072/pcj...
Reposted by Carli Peters
✨✨Reminder that we are hosting a (virtual and in-person) pre-ISBA conference✨✨ on the 26th of August (13:00-17:00 CET) which will include talks from members of our community and the PAASTA Annual General Meeting. Additional details can be found here: paasta-community.github.io/events/2025/...
Pre-ISBA PAASTA Conference · PAASTA Community
paasta-community.github.io
July 30, 2025 at 7:29 AM
✨✨Reminder that we are hosting a (virtual and in-person) pre-ISBA conference✨✨ on the 26th of August (13:00-17:00 CET) which will include talks from members of our community and the PAASTA Annual General Meeting. Additional details can be found here: paasta-community.github.io/events/2025/...
Reposted by Carli Peters
🐰🔥 Excited to share our new paper from the #snackormenu project: we have developed an experimental protocol to accurately diagnose rabbit cooking and processing methods. Check it out! doi.org/10.1007/s108... #Zooarchaeology #Taphonomy #Archaeology @icarehb.bsky.social @uv.es
Experimental Protocol for Cooking Rabbits and its Archaeological Implications - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
Small prey such as rabbits are present in Middle Paleolithic and are abundant in the diet of Upper Paleolithic human groups in southwestern Europe, especially in the Iberian Peninsula. Several archaeo...
doi.org
July 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
🐰🔥 Excited to share our new paper from the #snackormenu project: we have developed an experimental protocol to accurately diagnose rabbit cooking and processing methods. Check it out! doi.org/10.1007/s108... #Zooarchaeology #Taphonomy #Archaeology @icarehb.bsky.social @uv.es
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Postdoc in Geochronology / Plio-Pleistocene Geology
Join the ERC WRAP project at ICArEHB!
Apply now 👉 www.icarehb.com/research-pos...
Join the ERC WRAP project at ICArEHB!
Apply now 👉 www.icarehb.com/research-pos...
July 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Postdoc in Geochronology / Plio-Pleistocene Geology
Join the ERC WRAP project at ICArEHB!
Apply now 👉 www.icarehb.com/research-pos...
Join the ERC WRAP project at ICArEHB!
Apply now 👉 www.icarehb.com/research-pos...