Erella Hovers
@ehovers.bsky.social
check out this new issue of PaleoAnthropology including a special issue on late Middle and Late Pleistocene hominin systematics
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November 7, 2025 at 4:09 AM
check out this new issue of PaleoAnthropology including a special issue on late Middle and Late Pleistocene hominin systematics
paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
Just finished the 2025 season at Hayonim Cave. The Acheulo-Yabrudian at the site is not for the faint of heart...
Thanks to the small team of students and volunteers who did an amazing job, working hard and laughing a lot in the deep, deep sounding..
Thanks to the small team of students and volunteers who did an amazing job, working hard and laughing a lot in the deep, deep sounding..
September 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Just finished the 2025 season at Hayonim Cave. The Acheulo-Yabrudian at the site is not for the faint of heart...
Thanks to the small team of students and volunteers who did an amazing job, working hard and laughing a lot in the deep, deep sounding..
Thanks to the small team of students and volunteers who did an amazing job, working hard and laughing a lot in the deep, deep sounding..
Local food processing traditions of late Middle Paleolithic groups in the southern Levant. A project that took 20 years to materialize and is now available as an open-access paper (www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...) led brilliantly by Anaelle Jallon @anispringflower.bsky.social and Lucille Crete
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July 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Local food processing traditions of late Middle Paleolithic groups in the southern Levant. A project that took 20 years to materialize and is now available as an open-access paper (www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...) led brilliantly by Anaelle Jallon @anispringflower.bsky.social and Lucille Crete
End of our 2025 season at #MelkaWakena. Leaving with tons of stone tools, some fossils, some questions answered, many more emerging. Science ay work.
May 22, 2025 at 6:23 AM
End of our 2025 season at #MelkaWakena. Leaving with tons of stone tools, some fossils, some questions answered, many more emerging. Science ay work.
A productive day at NW1… actually, not even the half of it… we will not be out of work anytime soon.
May 10, 2025 at 7:50 AM
A productive day at NW1… actually, not even the half of it… we will not be out of work anytime soon.
Back on the banks of Wabe rover in the Ethiopian highlands, excavating MW1.
May 8, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Back on the banks of Wabe rover in the Ethiopian highlands, excavating MW1.
A new issue of PaleoAnthropology is now availed paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
Vol. 2025 No. 1 (2025): PaleoAnthropology
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May 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
A new issue of PaleoAnthropology is now availed paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
Very proud of Anaelle Jallon, who just published her first paper out of her doctoral research on the archaeofauna of Amud Cave, Israel. It is online and open access!
doi.org/10.1007/s125...
doi.org/10.1007/s125...
Assessing seasonality and mobility from a fragmented faunal assemblage: the case of Amud Cave (Israel) - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
In this paper we investigate the seasonality of site occupation at Amud Cave (Israel). This site presents a long sedimentary sequence featuring two main late Middle Paleolithic occupation phases (70 –...
doi.org
May 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Very proud of Anaelle Jallon, who just published her first paper out of her doctoral research on the archaeofauna of Amud Cave, Israel. It is online and open access!
doi.org/10.1007/s125...
doi.org/10.1007/s125...
Please help spreading the word
April 7, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Please help spreading the word
Marching for Israeli democracy
March 19, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Marching for Israeli democracy
there is a new international program for prehistory at Institute of archaeology in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Check it out !
March 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
there is a new international program for prehistory at Institute of archaeology in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Check it out !
Reposted by Erella Hovers
Middle Paleolithic engravings reveal early symbolic thought in humans, challenging assumptions about when abstract reasoning emerged in evolution. #PaleolithicArt #Symbolism #HumanEvolution
Carving the Mind: Middle Paleolithic Engravings and the Dawn of Symbolic Thought
New Evidence from the Levant Challenges Traditional Views on Early Human Cognition
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February 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Middle Paleolithic engravings reveal early symbolic thought in humans, challenging assumptions about when abstract reasoning emerged in evolution. #PaleolithicArt #Symbolism #HumanEvolution
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and consider submitting your work to PaleoAnthropology
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and consider submitting your work to PaleoAnthropology
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January 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
check us out
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and consider submitting your work to PaleoAnthropology
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and consider submitting your work to PaleoAnthropology
Reposted by Erella Hovers
Another article on the JHE resignations:
www.wired.com/story/editor...
(image from article, emphasis added)
Could not agree more. The PaleoAnthropology journal is peer reviewed, copyedited by humans, open access, community-owned, no publication fees. Time to move forward
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www.wired.com/story/editor...
(image from article, emphasis added)
Could not agree more. The PaleoAnthropology journal is peer reviewed, copyedited by humans, open access, community-owned, no publication fees. Time to move forward
www.paleoanthropology.org
January 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Another article on the JHE resignations:
www.wired.com/story/editor...
(image from article, emphasis added)
Could not agree more. The PaleoAnthropology journal is peer reviewed, copyedited by humans, open access, community-owned, no publication fees. Time to move forward
www.paleoanthropology.org
www.wired.com/story/editor...
(image from article, emphasis added)
Could not agree more. The PaleoAnthropology journal is peer reviewed, copyedited by humans, open access, community-owned, no publication fees. Time to move forward
www.paleoanthropology.org
www.science.org/content/arti...
Great to see community-owned journal PaleoAnthropology mentioned by colleagues as one of JHE's successors. Shout out to Carol Ward!
PaleoAnthropology is fully peer reviewed, copyedited by humans 🙂, and "diamond" open access.
paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
Great to see community-owned journal PaleoAnthropology mentioned by colleagues as one of JHE's successors. Shout out to Carol Ward!
PaleoAnthropology is fully peer reviewed, copyedited by humans 🙂, and "diamond" open access.
paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
Journal editors’ mass resignation marks ‘sad day for paleoanthropology’
Exodus from the Journal of Human Evolution leaves a flagship journal in crisis
www.science.org
January 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM
www.science.org/content/arti...
Great to see community-owned journal PaleoAnthropology mentioned by colleagues as one of JHE's successors. Shout out to Carol Ward!
PaleoAnthropology is fully peer reviewed, copyedited by humans 🙂, and "diamond" open access.
paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
Great to see community-owned journal PaleoAnthropology mentioned by colleagues as one of JHE's successors. Shout out to Carol Ward!
PaleoAnthropology is fully peer reviewed, copyedited by humans 🙂, and "diamond" open access.
paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
A look into some nitty-gritty details of symbol-making in the late Middle Paleolithic of the Levant, in a paper that just came out doi.org/10.1007/s125...
Incised stone artefacts from the Levantine Middle Palaeolithic and human behavioural complexity - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
In recent years, archaeological research has demonstrated the presence of abstract non-utilitarian behaviour amongst palaeolithic hominins, fuelling discussions concerning the origin and implications ...
doi.org
January 11, 2025 at 6:13 AM
A look into some nitty-gritty details of symbol-making in the late Middle Paleolithic of the Levant, in a paper that just came out doi.org/10.1007/s125...
Reposted by Erella Hovers
Science reporting on the mass resignation of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution, highlighting some of the problems with commercial scientific publishing.
OA PaleoAnthropology journal (www.paleoanthropology.org) highlighted among JHE's successors
#openaccess #humanevolution
OA PaleoAnthropology journal (www.paleoanthropology.org) highlighted among JHE's successors
#openaccess #humanevolution
Journal editors’ mass resignation marks ‘sad day for paleoanthropology’
Exodus from the Journal of Human Evolution leaves a flagship journal in crisis
www.science.org
January 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Science reporting on the mass resignation of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution, highlighting some of the problems with commercial scientific publishing.
OA PaleoAnthropology journal (www.paleoanthropology.org) highlighted among JHE's successors
#openaccess #humanevolution
OA PaleoAnthropology journal (www.paleoanthropology.org) highlighted among JHE's successors
#openaccess #humanevolution
our paper ed by Eduardo Paixao is out, discussing the raw material choices for percussors in the early Acheulian of #MelkaWakena Ethiopia. A first step in long-term project. But hey, even a 1000-mile journey begins with the first step.This is that step.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Exploring early Acheulian technological decision-making: A controlled experimental approach to raw material selection for percussive artifacts in Melka Wakena, Ethiopia
The evolution of human behaviour is marked by key decision-making processes reflected in technological variability in the early archaeological record. As part of the technological system, differences ...
journals.plos.org
January 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
our paper ed by Eduardo Paixao is out, discussing the raw material choices for percussors in the early Acheulian of #MelkaWakena Ethiopia. A first step in long-term project. But hey, even a 1000-mile journey begins with the first step.This is that step.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Congrats to Yotam Ben-Oren for his great talk about his Ph.D. project "Modeling Cultural Evolution in Structured Populations".
January 8, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Congrats to Yotam Ben-Oren for his great talk about his Ph.D. project "Modeling Cultural Evolution in Structured Populations".
check out some pretty amazing papers in the early view page of the journal PaleoAnthropology
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paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
Early View
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December 12, 2024 at 11:04 AM
check out some pretty amazing papers in the early view page of the journal PaleoAnthropology
paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...