Lorena Becerra-Valdivia
@lorenabecval.bsky.social
Leverhulme EC Fellow & Proleptic Lecturer, Bristol • past human-environment-climate dynamics, radiocarbon dating & archaeological science
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Climate influence on the early human occupation of South America during the late Pleistocene
Nature Communications - Here, the author presents a Bayesian chronological model based in 1700 radiocarbon dates that traces human occupation South America in the late Pleistocene and describes the...
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It's Friday so happy news! Excited to share my new
@naturecomms.bsky.social paper, published today!
Thanks to the @leverhulme.bsky.social for funding this work! Grateful also to Linacre College (Oxford) and @bristolantharch.bsky.social for the support.
Click and check it out! 👇
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@naturecomms.bsky.social paper, published today!
Thanks to the @leverhulme.bsky.social for funding this work! Grateful also to Linacre College (Oxford) and @bristolantharch.bsky.social for the support.
Click and check it out! 👇
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Paper alert 🚨 🔊
Super happy to have been part of this new publication, led by the brilliant Zoë Thomas (@climate-zoe.bsky.social).
Click below to read 👇🏽
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Super happy to have been part of this new publication, led by the brilliant Zoë Thomas (@climate-zoe.bsky.social).
Click below to read 👇🏽
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Westerly wind shifts drove Southern Hemisphere mid-latitude peat growth since the last glacial - Nature Geoscience
Coherent patterns in the initial growth of extratropical peatlands throughout the Southern Hemisphere during the last glacial track changes in the latitudinal position of the southern westerly winds, ...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Paper alert 🚨 🔊
Super happy to have been part of this new publication, led by the brilliant Zoë Thomas (@climate-zoe.bsky.social).
Click below to read 👇🏽
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Super happy to have been part of this new publication, led by the brilliant Zoë Thomas (@climate-zoe.bsky.social).
Click below to read 👇🏽
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
In beautiful Coyhaique, Chilean Patagonia, running a workshop on radiocarbon dating and Bayesian chronological modelling.
Not a bad place to talk isotopes 🌲
Thanks to the organisers, in particular Coni Roa & @fransantanas.bsky.social ❤️
Not a bad place to talk isotopes 🌲
Thanks to the organisers, in particular Coni Roa & @fransantanas.bsky.social ❤️
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
In beautiful Coyhaique, Chilean Patagonia, running a workshop on radiocarbon dating and Bayesian chronological modelling.
Not a bad place to talk isotopes 🌲
Thanks to the organisers, in particular Coni Roa & @fransantanas.bsky.social ❤️
Not a bad place to talk isotopes 🌲
Thanks to the organisers, in particular Coni Roa & @fransantanas.bsky.social ❤️
I have some pretty creative & scary colleagues 🧙🏼♀️🧟♂️
Happy Halloween everybody! 🎃 👻
Happy Halloween everybody! 🎃 👻
On Halloween, our staff and graduate students carve Anth & Arch themed pumpkins (& one squash).
Spooky stuff!
Spooky stuff!
October 31, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I have some pretty creative & scary colleagues 🧙🏼♀️🧟♂️
Happy Halloween everybody! 🎃 👻
Happy Halloween everybody! 🎃 👻
Reposted by Lorena Becerra-Valdivia
Looking for a PhD or Postdoc position in archaeology? @clusterroots.bsky.social at @uni-kiel.de has currently 14 (!) positions advertised for start in 2026. Feel free to contact me or any of the other PI's for more information. Deadline is 15th December. Link: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/... 🦣🏺👇
Aktuelle Ausschreibungen
Aktuelle Ausschreibungen
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October 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Looking for a PhD or Postdoc position in archaeology? @clusterroots.bsky.social at @uni-kiel.de has currently 14 (!) positions advertised for start in 2026. Feel free to contact me or any of the other PI's for more information. Deadline is 15th December. Link: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/... 🦣🏺👇
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Here's an opportunity to come and work for us at @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social as a tutor in archaeology on a part-time (0.6FTE) and permanent basis. We're looking for anyone with a background from late Prehistory to the medieval period. Deadline: 10 November 2025
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Job Details
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October 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Here's an opportunity to come and work for us at @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social as a tutor in archaeology on a part-time (0.6FTE) and permanent basis. We're looking for anyone with a background from late Prehistory to the medieval period. Deadline: 10 November 2025
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my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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It's always so great to see our MSc Arch Science student research published. Congratulations McKenzie on your paper 'Redefining SW Amazonian chronologies and pottery use at the Teotônio site'. #archaeologicalscience #graduatestudy @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Redefining SW Amazonian chronologies and pottery use at the Teotônio site
Teotônio is a pre-Columbian riverine archaeological site located in southwestern Amazonia, in a region with diverse cultural traditions and linguistic…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It's always so great to see our MSc Arch Science student research published. Congratulations McKenzie on your paper 'Redefining SW Amazonian chronologies and pottery use at the Teotônio site'. #archaeologicalscience #graduatestudy @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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I'm hiring! 4 year post doc on my Wellcome Trust grant -- come be inventive about isotopes in teeth with me in PPN Turkiye :) www.lancashire.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...
please share!
please share!
Post Doctoral Research Assistant - 1160-25
Thinking of the next step in your career? Take a look at our exciting new role, Post Doctoral Research Assistant based at our Other. Find out more and apply he…
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October 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I'm hiring! 4 year post doc on my Wellcome Trust grant -- come be inventive about isotopes in teeth with me in PPN Turkiye :) www.lancashire.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...
please share!
please share!
Reposted by Lorena Becerra-Valdivia
👋 Hello, Bluesky! We’re Radiocarbon, an international peer-reviewed journal (since 1959) dedicated to advancing radiocarbon research, from calibration and chronology to applications across archaeology, geology, environmental science, and more. We’re glad to be here. #Radiocarbon #Geochronology
October 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
👋 Hello, Bluesky! We’re Radiocarbon, an international peer-reviewed journal (since 1959) dedicated to advancing radiocarbon research, from calibration and chronology to applications across archaeology, geology, environmental science, and more. We’re glad to be here. #Radiocarbon #Geochronology
🔈Happy Friday and pre-weekend news!
Our paper on the chronology and residue analysis of a key Amazonian archaeological site, Teotônio, has just been published in JAS!
Massive congrats to McKenzie and thanks to all the co-authors for their work on this 🙌
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our paper on the chronology and residue analysis of a key Amazonian archaeological site, Teotônio, has just been published in JAS!
Massive congrats to McKenzie and thanks to all the co-authors for their work on this 🙌
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Redefining SW Amazonian chronologies and pottery use at the Teotônio site
Teotônio is a pre-Columbian riverine archaeological site located in southwestern Amazonia, in a region with diverse cultural traditions and linguistic…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🔈Happy Friday and pre-weekend news!
Our paper on the chronology and residue analysis of a key Amazonian archaeological site, Teotônio, has just been published in JAS!
Massive congrats to McKenzie and thanks to all the co-authors for their work on this 🙌
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our paper on the chronology and residue analysis of a key Amazonian archaeological site, Teotônio, has just been published in JAS!
Massive congrats to McKenzie and thanks to all the co-authors for their work on this 🙌
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🚨SAVE THE DATE for two 14C conferences happening in Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱, next year:
4th 14C & Diet: 6-8 July
3rd Latin American 14C: 8-10 July
Plus, the 11th 14C & Archaeology will be in Brazil just before on 30 June-3 July 🇧🇷
Details for 🇨🇱 below👇 Please share widely!
@fransantanas.bsky.social
4th 14C & Diet: 6-8 July
3rd Latin American 14C: 8-10 July
Plus, the 11th 14C & Archaeology will be in Brazil just before on 30 June-3 July 🇧🇷
Details for 🇨🇱 below👇 Please share widely!
@fransantanas.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 9:29 AM
🚨SAVE THE DATE for two 14C conferences happening in Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱, next year:
4th 14C & Diet: 6-8 July
3rd Latin American 14C: 8-10 July
Plus, the 11th 14C & Archaeology will be in Brazil just before on 30 June-3 July 🇧🇷
Details for 🇨🇱 below👇 Please share widely!
@fransantanas.bsky.social
4th 14C & Diet: 6-8 July
3rd Latin American 14C: 8-10 July
Plus, the 11th 14C & Archaeology will be in Brazil just before on 30 June-3 July 🇧🇷
Details for 🇨🇱 below👇 Please share widely!
@fransantanas.bsky.social
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PhD Studentship alert!
I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia.
Details in the link below!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia.
Details in the link below!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
University assistant predoctoral 1
University assistant predoctoral 1
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September 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
PhD Studentship alert!
I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia.
Details in the link below!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia.
Details in the link below!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
Go Helen!!!!! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
Very excited to receive an ERC Starting Grant to study the earliest archaeological and biomolecular evidence of Homo sapiens in NW Europe
Watch this space for new positions in Bristol in 2026! 🎉
#HorizonEurope #ERCStG
Watch this space for new positions in Bristol in 2026! 🎉
#HorizonEurope #ERCStG
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
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#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
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#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
September 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Go Helen!!!!! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
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Time for you to get to know another of our staff members!
Tune in to hear from Stuart Prior, a Professor of Archaeology 📺 Full interview in our IG account (bristolantharch).
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from
@uobartsmatter.bsky.social
Tune in to hear from Stuart Prior, a Professor of Archaeology 📺 Full interview in our IG account (bristolantharch).
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from
@uobartsmatter.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Time for you to get to know another of our staff members!
Tune in to hear from Stuart Prior, a Professor of Archaeology 📺 Full interview in our IG account (bristolantharch).
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from
@uobartsmatter.bsky.social
Tune in to hear from Stuart Prior, a Professor of Archaeology 📺 Full interview in our IG account (bristolantharch).
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from
@uobartsmatter.bsky.social
🙌🏽 🙏🏽 🤩
Our Special Issue on Archaeological Science in Latin America, with @lorenabecval.bsky.social, is finally out !! Thanks @archaeometry.bsky.social !!
Out now, the special issue on Archaeological Science in Latin America! The eight papers featured in this issue underscore the methodological diversity and interdisciplinary approaches that characterize archaeological science in Latin America.
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July 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🙌🏽 🙏🏽 🤩
Go Dylan!!!!!
What is the importance of the Pacific in understanding human evolution? 🏺 #Archaeology
Dylan Gaffney explores the Pacific's role in out-of-Africa dispersal, human adaptation to new environments and early seafaring.
Read the prize-winning research 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Dylan Gaffney explores the Pacific's role in out-of-Africa dispersal, human adaptation to new environments and early seafaring.
Read the prize-winning research 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
July 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Go Dylan!!!!!
📢 Happy to have this paper published today!
Thank you to Loren Davis and the team for their collaboration. Sampling for this work in Baja California was a highlight 🏖️☀️😎
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Thank you to Loren Davis and the team for their collaboration. Sampling for this work in Baja California was a highlight 🏖️☀️😎
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Geoarchaeology of Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene Occupation at the EL Peregrino and Colina Castor Sites on Cedros Island, Baja California, Mexico
This study presents the geoarchaeological and chronometric analysis of two Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene archaeological sites: El Peregrino (PAIC-88) and Colina Castor (PAIC-91), located on Cedr...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
📢 Happy to have this paper published today!
Thank you to Loren Davis and the team for their collaboration. Sampling for this work in Baja California was a highlight 🏖️☀️😎
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Thank you to Loren Davis and the team for their collaboration. Sampling for this work in Baja California was a highlight 🏖️☀️😎
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Reposted by Lorena Becerra-Valdivia
💥 Job Alert 💥
We’re currently seeking a Heritage Science Technician to join us in the Department of Classics & Archaeology at the University of Nottingham.
Closing date July 24th 2025.
Details here:
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
#archaeology #archaeologicalscience
We’re currently seeking a Heritage Science Technician to join us in the Department of Classics & Archaeology at the University of Nottingham.
Closing date July 24th 2025.
Details here:
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
#archaeology #archaeologicalscience
Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Heritage Science Technician (Fixed term)
Following £1.6 million UKRI-investment in our Archaeological Science Laboratories, we are delighted to offer this exciting opportunity to bring specialist technical expertise to our new AHRC-funded cl...
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk
June 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
💥 Job Alert 💥
We’re currently seeking a Heritage Science Technician to join us in the Department of Classics & Archaeology at the University of Nottingham.
Closing date July 24th 2025.
Details here:
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
#archaeology #archaeologicalscience
We’re currently seeking a Heritage Science Technician to join us in the Department of Classics & Archaeology at the University of Nottingham.
Closing date July 24th 2025.
Details here:
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
#archaeology #archaeologicalscience
Interested in Archaeological Science in Latin America?
@fransantanas.bsky.social and I edited a @archaeometry.bsky.social issue on this topic.
Thanks to the journal/@chirikure.bsky.social for the opportunity & the amazing authors who contributed!
Check out the intro 👇
doi.org/10.1111/arcm...
@fransantanas.bsky.social and I edited a @archaeometry.bsky.social issue on this topic.
Thanks to the journal/@chirikure.bsky.social for the opportunity & the amazing authors who contributed!
Check out the intro 👇
doi.org/10.1111/arcm...
Archaeological science in Latin America
Click on the article title to read more.
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June 27, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Interested in Archaeological Science in Latin America?
@fransantanas.bsky.social and I edited a @archaeometry.bsky.social issue on this topic.
Thanks to the journal/@chirikure.bsky.social for the opportunity & the amazing authors who contributed!
Check out the intro 👇
doi.org/10.1111/arcm...
@fransantanas.bsky.social and I edited a @archaeometry.bsky.social issue on this topic.
Thanks to the journal/@chirikure.bsky.social for the opportunity & the amazing authors who contributed!
Check out the intro 👇
doi.org/10.1111/arcm...
Feliz de participar y contribuir! 🙌🏽
En este V Taller de Arqueología e Isótopos contaremos con la Dra. Lorena Becerra-Valdivia quién dictará un workshop grautito sobre modelamiento bayesiano y radiocarno en Oxcal! 😃⚛️.
Pronto se abrirán las inscripciones. Ojo que los cupos son limitados !
@lorenabecval.bsky.social
Pronto se abrirán las inscripciones. Ojo que los cupos son limitados !
@lorenabecval.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Feliz de participar y contribuir! 🙌🏽
Reposted by Lorena Becerra-Valdivia
🚨Archaeo-Science Job Klaxon🚨Please Share!
We're hiring an interim Lab Manager here at @uclarchaeology.bsky.social. Would be esp suited to someone with experience of running Archaeobotany, Human Osteology or Zooarchaeology lab.
£53-64k in a great department.
🏺🧪🦴🌱🔬🦣
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
We're hiring an interim Lab Manager here at @uclarchaeology.bsky.social. Would be esp suited to someone with experience of running Archaeobotany, Human Osteology or Zooarchaeology lab.
£53-64k in a great department.
🏺🧪🦴🌱🔬🦣
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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June 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
🚨Archaeo-Science Job Klaxon🚨Please Share!
We're hiring an interim Lab Manager here at @uclarchaeology.bsky.social. Would be esp suited to someone with experience of running Archaeobotany, Human Osteology or Zooarchaeology lab.
£53-64k in a great department.
🏺🧪🦴🌱🔬🦣
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
We're hiring an interim Lab Manager here at @uclarchaeology.bsky.social. Would be esp suited to someone with experience of running Archaeobotany, Human Osteology or Zooarchaeology lab.
£53-64k in a great department.
🏺🧪🦴🌱🔬🦣
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
New paper 🚨
Super happy to have contributed this work on 🦌 expansion during the late Quaternary in Brazil. Thanks to the lead, Alex Hubbe, for the collaboration!
Check it out:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Super happy to have contributed this work on 🦌 expansion during the late Quaternary in Brazil. Thanks to the lead, Alex Hubbe, for the collaboration!
Check it out:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Late Quaternary population expansion in gray brocket deer [Subulo gouazoubira (G. Fisher, 1814), Cervidae, Mammalia] in Brazil
There is little information about the changes in the abundance of mammalian species in South America during the late Quaternary, which is a key parameter to understanding past ecological and evolutio....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
New paper 🚨
Super happy to have contributed this work on 🦌 expansion during the late Quaternary in Brazil. Thanks to the lead, Alex Hubbe, for the collaboration!
Check it out:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Super happy to have contributed this work on 🦌 expansion during the late Quaternary in Brazil. Thanks to the lead, Alex Hubbe, for the collaboration!
Check it out:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Reposted by Lorena Becerra-Valdivia
Teaching fellow in anthropology
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Teaching Fellow in Anthropology at University of Birmingham
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Teaching Fellow in Anthropology on jobs.ac.uk!
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May 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Teaching fellow in anthropology
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www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNB473/t...
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Assistant professor, Roman Archaeology
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Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Roman Archaeology at University of Birmingham
Recruiting now: Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Roman Archaeology on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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May 14, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Assistant professor, Roman Archaeology
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May 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM