Michael B. Toffolo 🦥
@michaeltoffolo.bsky.social
Archaeologist 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 | Directeur de recherche @cnrs.fr @archeosciences-bordeaux.fr 🇫🇷 | Humboldtian | PI @people-erc-stg.bsky.social | Southern African Stone Age 🇿🇦 🇱🇸 | Microarchaeology⛏️🔬 | Carbonate chemistry ⚗️🧪
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So here it is! I wrote a little handbook about "Infrared Spectroscopy of Archaeological Sediments" published by @cambridgeuparchaeo.bsky.social. The book is in open access and includes the reference spectra of 74 standard materials in transmission and ATR modes. 👇
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📄 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 🌍🦴
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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
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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...
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This week we attended #ESHE2025 in Paris 🇨🇵, where we presented results from the Modder and Riet rivers, Baden-Baden 2, and Florisbad. Great to see colleagues and learn about their research!
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@archeosciences-bordeaux.fr @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
September 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This week we attended #ESHE2025 in Paris 🇨🇵, where we presented results from the Modder and Riet rivers, Baden-Baden 2, and Florisbad. Great to see colleagues and learn about their research!
@archeosciences-bordeaux.fr @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
@archeosciences-bordeaux.fr @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
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#ESEHE2025
Mailys Richard ‘A revised chronology for the Middle Pleistocene sedimentary sequence of Florisbad, South Africa’
Prev fossil hom (eSapiens): OSL & ESR- 279-228 ka
NEW OSL, TT-OSL & pIRIR290: range of dates – most likely MIS6
But only if prov of cran in Unit M
Mailys Richard ‘A revised chronology for the Middle Pleistocene sedimentary sequence of Florisbad, South Africa’
Prev fossil hom (eSapiens): OSL & ESR- 279-228 ka
NEW OSL, TT-OSL & pIRIR290: range of dates – most likely MIS6
But only if prov of cran in Unit M
September 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
#ESEHE2025
Mailys Richard ‘A revised chronology for the Middle Pleistocene sedimentary sequence of Florisbad, South Africa’
Prev fossil hom (eSapiens): OSL & ESR- 279-228 ka
NEW OSL, TT-OSL & pIRIR290: range of dates – most likely MIS6
But only if prov of cran in Unit M
Mailys Richard ‘A revised chronology for the Middle Pleistocene sedimentary sequence of Florisbad, South Africa’
Prev fossil hom (eSapiens): OSL & ESR- 279-228 ka
NEW OSL, TT-OSL & pIRIR290: range of dates – most likely MIS6
But only if prov of cran in Unit M
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Check out a new article by project member Dr @benoitlonget.bsky.social about the MSA lithic assemblage of Rhafas Cave, Morocco, which is part of his PhD research 👇
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Lithic analysis of the north African Middle Stone age from the Rhafas cave sequence
Rhafas Cave provides one of the rare dated sequences from MIS 5 in northern Morocco, showcasing a wide variety of lithic industries. Initially discove…
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July 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Check out a new article by project member Dr @benoitlonget.bsky.social about the MSA lithic assemblage of Rhafas Cave, Morocco, which is part of his PhD research 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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This week we attended #SAfA2025 in Faro 🇵🇹 to present results from Baden-Baden 2 and the Modder River. It was great to meet colleagues who conduct exciting research in Africa!
See you at ESHE in Paris!
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See you at ESHE in Paris!
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July 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This week we attended #SAfA2025 in Faro 🇵🇹 to present results from Baden-Baden 2 and the Modder River. It was great to meet colleagues who conduct exciting research in Africa!
See you at ESHE in Paris!
@erc.europa.eu @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @archeosciences-bordeaux.fr
See you at ESHE in Paris!
@erc.europa.eu @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @archeosciences-bordeaux.fr
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And it's a wrap! After 7 weeks of fieldwork filled with discoveries and new encounters, the team has returned to Bordeaux.
See you soon at SAfA 2025 in Portugal!
See you soon at SAfA 2025 in Portugal!
July 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
And it's a wrap! After 7 weeks of fieldwork filled with discoveries and new encounters, the team has returned to Bordeaux.
See you soon at SAfA 2025 in Portugal!
See you soon at SAfA 2025 in Portugal!
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While part of the team works at the Riet River, Dr Benoit Longet conducts the survey of the Vet River to find new archaeological sites. 🔍
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July 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
While part of the team works at the Riet River, Dr Benoit Longet conducts the survey of the Vet River to find new archaeological sites. 🔍
@archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
@archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
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Sample collection continues on the Riet River terraces! ⛏️
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June 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Sample collection continues on the Riet River terraces! ⛏️
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This week the team started the collection of samples to establish the chronology of the Riet River terraces.
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June 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This week the team started the collection of samples to establish the chronology of the Riet River terraces.
@archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
@archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
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Proudly introduce BREATHE, a project investigating late Quaternary human behavior in the Sahara. Funded by #HorizonEurope - ERA Postdoctoral Fellowships, BREATHE is based at the University of Algarve’s fabulous #ICArEHB and partnered with #Sapienza University of Rome.
BREATHE
BREATHE aims to contribute a new understanding of cultural and behavioral traits of North African early modern humans through the archaeological record of the central and northern Sahara
The project'...
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June 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Proudly introduce BREATHE, a project investigating late Quaternary human behavior in the Sahara. Funded by #HorizonEurope - ERA Postdoctoral Fellowships, BREATHE is based at the University of Algarve’s fabulous #ICArEHB and partnered with #Sapienza University of Rome.
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This week the team started excavations at a new Acheulean/Fauresmith locality in the Free State together with Dr Darya Presnyakova and Dr Will Archer
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June 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This week the team started excavations at a new Acheulean/Fauresmith locality in the Free State together with Dr Darya Presnyakova and Dr Will Archer
@archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
@archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
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📢New publication on the archaeological survey of the Modder River dongas led by Dr Felipe Cuartero, published in Southern African Field Archaeology. Available in open access👇
doi.org/10.36615/saf...
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Southern African Field Archaeology
The semi-arid grasslands of the Free State Province of South Africa have produced the earliest evidence of the presence of Homo sapiens in the subcontinent, together with an extensive Pleistocene pala...
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May 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
📢New publication on the archaeological survey of the Modder River dongas led by Dr Felipe Cuartero, published in Southern African Field Archaeology. Available in open access👇
doi.org/10.36615/saf...
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The team is back at Florisbad for the 2025 season! @archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy
May 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The team is back at Florisbad for the 2025 season! @archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy
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It's finally published! My first #biomarker paper combining sediment n-alkane isotopes closely with cultural changes at #WonderwerkCave 🇿🇦 Fantastic work with @ogratsara.bsky.social from @icarehb.bsky.social as well as co-authors from @uni-kiel.de, @uoft.bsky.social & more. Link: rdcu.be/ejq7j
A holocene n-alkane stable isotope record from Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa and its implications for the later stone age record
Scientific Reports - A holocene n-alkane stable isotope record from Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa and its implications for the later stone age record
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April 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
It's finally published! My first #biomarker paper combining sediment n-alkane isotopes closely with cultural changes at #WonderwerkCave 🇿🇦 Fantastic work with @ogratsara.bsky.social from @icarehb.bsky.social as well as co-authors from @uni-kiel.de, @uoft.bsky.social & more. Link: rdcu.be/ejq7j
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This site has the oldest haematite pigment in the world, from Fauresmith levels probably half a million years old.
April 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This site has the oldest haematite pigment in the world, from Fauresmith levels probably half a million years old.
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🎨 On the #InternationalDayOfMonumentsAndSites we look at an old Etruscan tomb that didn’t just honor the dead but celebrated laughter & life
More from Véronique Dasen @uni-freiburg.de 👉 buff.ly/dXp7tLL
#CulturalHeritage @rogueclassicist.bsky.social
More from Véronique Dasen @uni-freiburg.de 👉 buff.ly/dXp7tLL
#CulturalHeritage @rogueclassicist.bsky.social
Dance and games offer glimpses of life – and death – in ancient Italy
A 2 500-year-old Etruscan tomb in the Italian city of Tarquinia has walls covered in paintings of brightly coloured dancers and musicians. A 1st-century funerary urn of a woman who died in nearby…
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April 18, 2025 at 7:01 AM
🎨 On the #InternationalDayOfMonumentsAndSites we look at an old Etruscan tomb that didn’t just honor the dead but celebrated laughter & life
More from Véronique Dasen @uni-freiburg.de 👉 buff.ly/dXp7tLL
#CulturalHeritage @rogueclassicist.bsky.social
More from Véronique Dasen @uni-freiburg.de 👉 buff.ly/dXp7tLL
#CulturalHeritage @rogueclassicist.bsky.social
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Poster collected and it looks great! All ready for the #HugoObermaier meeting next week at @icarehb.bsky.social 🇵🇹. I am excited to present the first biomarker record at a hominin fossil site in #SouthAfrica 🇿🇦, great collaborative work with the @people-erc-stg.bsky.social team.
April 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Poster collected and it looks great! All ready for the #HugoObermaier meeting next week at @icarehb.bsky.social 🇵🇹. I am excited to present the first biomarker record at a hominin fossil site in #SouthAfrica 🇿🇦, great collaborative work with the @people-erc-stg.bsky.social team.
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📣 #AAC
Dans le cadre de sa politique scientifique, #CNRS Sciences humaines & sociales met l’accent sur les sciences partagées. À cette fin, l’institut lance une 3e campagne de soutien à des dispositifs de soutien.
🗓️ 5 mai 2025
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Dans le cadre de sa politique scientifique, #CNRS Sciences humaines & sociales met l’accent sur les sciences partagées. À cette fin, l’institut lance une 3e campagne de soutien à des dispositifs de soutien.
🗓️ 5 mai 2025
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Dispositif de soutien « science et/en société » 2025
Ce financement peut constituer une première étape pour l’obtention d’autres types de financement relatifs à la science avec et pour la société ou être conçu indépendamment. Les dossiers seront examiné...
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April 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
📣 #AAC
Dans le cadre de sa politique scientifique, #CNRS Sciences humaines & sociales met l’accent sur les sciences partagées. À cette fin, l’institut lance une 3e campagne de soutien à des dispositifs de soutien.
🗓️ 5 mai 2025
www.inshs.cnrs.fr/fr/dispositi...
Dans le cadre de sa politique scientifique, #CNRS Sciences humaines & sociales met l’accent sur les sciences partagées. À cette fin, l’institut lance une 3e campagne de soutien à des dispositifs de soutien.
🗓️ 5 mai 2025
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www.theguardian.com/environment/... AI always comes with an environmental and human cost.
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas
Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents
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April 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
www.theguardian.com/environment/... AI always comes with an environmental and human cost.
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How can Europe become more competitive? 🌍
Join the debate with scientists including Robbert Dijkgraaf, #Nobel laureate Ben Feringa, industry leaders and policymakers. How can frontier science drive innovation?
🗓️10 April 16.30
Livestream & in-person: europa.eu/!WQn96Y 🇪🇺
Join the debate with scientists including Robbert Dijkgraaf, #Nobel laureate Ben Feringa, industry leaders and policymakers. How can frontier science drive innovation?
🗓️10 April 16.30
Livestream & in-person: europa.eu/!WQn96Y 🇪🇺
April 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
How can Europe become more competitive? 🌍
Join the debate with scientists including Robbert Dijkgraaf, #Nobel laureate Ben Feringa, industry leaders and policymakers. How can frontier science drive innovation?
🗓️10 April 16.30
Livestream & in-person: europa.eu/!WQn96Y 🇪🇺
Join the debate with scientists including Robbert Dijkgraaf, #Nobel laureate Ben Feringa, industry leaders and policymakers. How can frontier science drive innovation?
🗓️10 April 16.30
Livestream & in-person: europa.eu/!WQn96Y 🇪🇺
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#Communiqué 🗞️ Selon un modèle prédictif, les microalgues des tourbières pourraient compenser jusqu’à 14 % des émissions futures de CO2 grâce à la photosynthèse. Un potentiel méconnu qui renforce l'importance de ces écosystèmes pour le climat.🌱
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March 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
#Communiqué 🗞️ Selon un modèle prédictif, les microalgues des tourbières pourraient compenser jusqu’à 14 % des émissions futures de CO2 grâce à la photosynthèse. Un potentiel méconnu qui renforce l'importance de ces écosystèmes pour le climat.🌱
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👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/le...
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#EnDirectDesLabos🔎 Nouvelles actualités scientifiques 🔬, création de laboratoires 🧑🔬, annonce de prix 🥇... Retrouvez toutes les deux semaines les informations issues des laboratoires du CNRS.
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March 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
#EnDirectDesLabos🔎 Nouvelles actualités scientifiques 🔬, création de laboratoires 🧑🔬, annonce de prix 🥇... Retrouvez toutes les deux semaines les informations issues des laboratoires du CNRS.
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#CNRSnews 📰 Increasing solar flare activity and subsequent solar storms have impacted our planet lately, prompting scientists to focus on the emerging discipline of space weather to help predict these events and prevent failure of sensitive facilities.
Solar storms ahead
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March 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
#CNRSnews 📰 Increasing solar flare activity and subsequent solar storms have impacted our planet lately, prompting scientists to focus on the emerging discipline of space weather to help predict these events and prevent failure of sensitive facilities.