Nicolas Martin
@nclsmartin.bsky.social
Biological anthropologist | PhD candidate at PACEA (Univ. Bordeaux - France)
Studying settlement processes in the Nile Valley (Late Pleistocene - Holocene) | Dental anthropology - Bony labyrinth morphology
Studying settlement processes in the Nile Valley (Late Pleistocene - Holocene) | Dental anthropology - Bony labyrinth morphology
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Nicolas Martin
@nclsmartin.bsky.social
· Mar 31
Enamel–dentine junction morphology reveals population replacement and mobility in the late prehistoric Middle Nile Valley | PNAS
Transitions from foraging to food-production represent a worldwide turning point in
recent human history. In the Middle Nile Valley this cultural s...
www.pnas.org
🚨14.000 years of population history revealed!🚨
What happened to the late prehistoric populations in the Nile Valley?
Our new study uncovers major migrations, population replacement and regional mobility at the Neolithic transition!
1/7🧵 👇
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
What happened to the late prehistoric populations in the Nile Valley?
Our new study uncovers major migrations, population replacement and regional mobility at the Neolithic transition!
1/7🧵 👇
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Open access alert! 📝
Our paper is now free to read. Take a look if you haven't yet: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Our paper is now free to read. Take a look if you haven't yet: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
October 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Open access alert! 📝
Our paper is now free to read. Take a look if you haven't yet: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Our paper is now free to read. Take a look if you haven't yet: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Well... here we are, I guess! Just submitted my PhD and it feels pretty unreal! So proud of this journey!
More exciting data on the Nile Valley is coming, plus some new projects to announce soon.
Stay tuned, this adventure is far from over! 👀
@isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social
More exciting data on the Nile Valley is coming, plus some new projects to announce soon.
Stay tuned, this adventure is far from over! 👀
@isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Well... here we are, I guess! Just submitted my PhD and it feels pretty unreal! So proud of this journey!
More exciting data on the Nile Valley is coming, plus some new projects to announce soon.
Stay tuned, this adventure is far from over! 👀
@isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social
More exciting data on the Nile Valley is coming, plus some new projects to announce soon.
Stay tuned, this adventure is far from over! 👀
@isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social
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⚠️Paper Alert!⚠️
Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion
rdcu.be/eJi3g
Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion
rdcu.be/eJi3g
Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology in Early Holocene Africa
Nature Communications - Several possible points of origin have been proposed for the spread of ceramic technology in Saharan Africa between 11–10,000 years ago. Here, the authors...
rdcu.be
October 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
⚠️Paper Alert!⚠️
Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion
rdcu.be/eJi3g
Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion
rdcu.be/eJi3g
Reposted by Nicolas Martin
#ESHE2025
Super talk by @nclsmartin.bsky.social ‘Bony labyrinth morphology reveals 40,000 years of settlement history and population isolation in NE Africa’
Nile Valley: pop discontinuity in late Up Ple – endogamy?
AHP pop connectivity
Horn: also ~biol isolation, pathologies! huge variation
Super talk by @nclsmartin.bsky.social ‘Bony labyrinth morphology reveals 40,000 years of settlement history and population isolation in NE Africa’
Nile Valley: pop discontinuity in late Up Ple – endogamy?
AHP pop connectivity
Horn: also ~biol isolation, pathologies! huge variation
September 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
#ESHE2025
Super talk by @nclsmartin.bsky.social ‘Bony labyrinth morphology reveals 40,000 years of settlement history and population isolation in NE Africa’
Nile Valley: pop discontinuity in late Up Ple – endogamy?
AHP pop connectivity
Horn: also ~biol isolation, pathologies! huge variation
Super talk by @nclsmartin.bsky.social ‘Bony labyrinth morphology reveals 40,000 years of settlement history and population isolation in NE Africa’
Nile Valley: pop discontinuity in late Up Ple – endogamy?
AHP pop connectivity
Horn: also ~biol isolation, pathologies! huge variation
Thrilled to be once again at #ESHE2025, this year in Paris! 🇫🇷
Tomorrow afternoon, I’ll be presenting our latest findings on the population history of Northeastern Africa 🌍 — with new data on continuity, isolation, and the inner ear. 👂
Stay tuned!
Tomorrow afternoon, I’ll be presenting our latest findings on the population history of Northeastern Africa 🌍 — with new data on continuity, isolation, and the inner ear. 👂
Stay tuned!
The #ESHE2025 meeting in Paris starts tomorrow (please use this hashtag for sharing). If you are interested in the program, you find it here mcusercontent.com/9347aa3598d5... - Members have received an email for accessing the live stream! We hope you all enjoy the conference in person or online. /MW
mcusercontent.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Thrilled to be once again at #ESHE2025, this year in Paris! 🇫🇷
Tomorrow afternoon, I’ll be presenting our latest findings on the population history of Northeastern Africa 🌍 — with new data on continuity, isolation, and the inner ear. 👂
Stay tuned!
Tomorrow afternoon, I’ll be presenting our latest findings on the population history of Northeastern Africa 🌍 — with new data on continuity, isolation, and the inner ear. 👂
Stay tuned!
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‼️📣Extremely proud to see this great collaborative work out!
Oldest Shell Ornament Workshop in Western Europe at Saint-Césaire: www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1...
#Prehistory #Archaeology #Chatelperronian #Shells #Beads #Homosapiens #Neandertal #Ornament
Details of discovery & implications ⏬ 🧵 1/20
Oldest Shell Ornament Workshop in Western Europe at Saint-Césaire: www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1...
#Prehistory #Archaeology #Chatelperronian #Shells #Beads #Homosapiens #Neandertal #Ornament
Details of discovery & implications ⏬ 🧵 1/20
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
September 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
‼️📣Extremely proud to see this great collaborative work out!
Oldest Shell Ornament Workshop in Western Europe at Saint-Césaire: www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1...
#Prehistory #Archaeology #Chatelperronian #Shells #Beads #Homosapiens #Neandertal #Ornament
Details of discovery & implications ⏬ 🧵 1/20
Oldest Shell Ornament Workshop in Western Europe at Saint-Césaire: www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1...
#Prehistory #Archaeology #Chatelperronian #Shells #Beads #Homosapiens #Neandertal #Ornament
Details of discovery & implications ⏬ 🧵 1/20
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New paper out! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Cultural, economic, and settlement shifts over the last 9,000 years at Kakapel Rockshelter, Western Kenya
The spread of food production in sub-Saharan Africa involved multi-directional dispersals of domesticated plant and animal species, often associated with major migrations. The Lake Victoria Basin of e...
journals.plos.org
August 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
New paper out! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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It is with deep sadness that the SAP announces the passing of Jaroslav Brůžek, Professor at the Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague and Emeritus Research Director at the CNRS.
The scientific community has lost a pillar; the SAP has lost a dear friend.
The scientific community has lost a pillar; the SAP has lost a dear friend.
July 24, 2025 at 8:15 AM
It is with deep sadness that the SAP announces the passing of Jaroslav Brůžek, Professor at the Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague and Emeritus Research Director at the CNRS.
The scientific community has lost a pillar; the SAP has lost a dear friend.
The scientific community has lost a pillar; the SAP has lost a dear friend.
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SAfA 2025 in Faro is starting in 2 days! I will be presenting our preliminary results from Hattab II Cave on Tuesday afternoon at session 43. Come see my presentation if you are interested in the possible late persistence of the Iberomaurusian at this site :) #AncientDNA
July 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
SAfA 2025 in Faro is starting in 2 days! I will be presenting our preliminary results from Hattab II Cave on Tuesday afternoon at session 43. Come see my presentation if you are interested in the possible late persistence of the Iberomaurusian at this site :) #AncientDNA
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Very happy to announce that a new postdoctoral position on the New ERC funded Western Rift Archaeology and Palaeoenvironment Project is open - if you're a geologist or geochronologist come and join us at @icarehb.bsky.social euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/358068 Feel free to share it around.
ANNOUNCEMENT INTERNATIONAL TENDER FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF A POST-DOCTORAL ASSOCIATE RESEARCHER
recruit one (1) ) post-doctoral assistant researcherresearcher to perform duties in the scientific area of Geochronology / Plio-Pleistocene Geology or related areas, under the research project “
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
July 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Very happy to announce that a new postdoctoral position on the New ERC funded Western Rift Archaeology and Palaeoenvironment Project is open - if you're a geologist or geochronologist come and join us at @icarehb.bsky.social euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/358068 Feel free to share it around.
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🦷 A common embryological, developmental, and genetic background is shared between dentine and cortical bone. @mathilde-augoyard.bsky.social and team found coordinated variation between their volumes in human limb bones and teeth, suggesting shared factors influencing their postnatal development 🦴
June 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
🦷 A common embryological, developmental, and genetic background is shared between dentine and cortical bone. @mathilde-augoyard.bsky.social and team found coordinated variation between their volumes in human limb bones and teeth, suggesting shared factors influencing their postnatal development 🦴
Reposted by Nicolas Martin
🚨14.000 years of population history revealed!🚨
What happened to the late prehistoric populations in the Nile Valley?
Our new study uncovers major migrations, population replacement and regional mobility at the Neolithic transition!
1/7🧵 👇
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
What happened to the late prehistoric populations in the Nile Valley?
Our new study uncovers major migrations, population replacement and regional mobility at the Neolithic transition!
1/7🧵 👇
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Enamel–dentine junction morphology reveals population replacement and mobility in the late prehistoric Middle Nile Valley | PNAS
Transitions from foraging to food-production represent a worldwide turning point in
recent human history. In the Middle Nile Valley this cultural s...
www.pnas.org
March 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
🚨14.000 years of population history revealed!🚨
What happened to the late prehistoric populations in the Nile Valley?
Our new study uncovers major migrations, population replacement and regional mobility at the Neolithic transition!
1/7🧵 👇
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
What happened to the late prehistoric populations in the Nile Valley?
Our new study uncovers major migrations, population replacement and regional mobility at the Neolithic transition!
1/7🧵 👇
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Nicolas Martin
Read highlights in this week’s issue of PNAS: We uncover the prehistoric population history of the Middle Nile Valley, explore Pacific cupped oysters and hitchhiking invaders, and analyze how an antibody prevents fertilization at the egg-sperm interface. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
April 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Read highlights in this week’s issue of PNAS: We uncover the prehistoric population history of the Middle Nile Valley, explore Pacific cupped oysters and hitchhiking invaders, and analyze how an antibody prevents fertilization at the egg-sperm interface. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Nicolas Martin
A look at the enamel–dentine junctions of the teeth of ancient Egyptians suggests that foraging people were replaced by farmers during the 6th millennium BCE, rather than taking up farming themselves. Some foragers persisted in Sudan. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
April 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A look at the enamel–dentine junctions of the teeth of ancient Egyptians suggests that foraging people were replaced by farmers during the 6th millennium BCE, rather than taking up farming themselves. Some foragers persisted in Sudan. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Ancient genomes from the Green #Sahara. Study led by @nadasalem.bsky.social, @hringbauer.bsky.social & Johannes Krause reveals a long-isolated North African human lineage in the Central Sahara during the African Humid Period over 7,000 years ago. tinyurl.com/43maxc7k & www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Ancient genomes from the Green #Sahara. Study led by @nadasalem.bsky.social, @hringbauer.bsky.social & Johannes Krause reveals a long-isolated North African human lineage in the Central Sahara during the African Humid Period over 7,000 years ago. tinyurl.com/43maxc7k & www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A great summary of our latest article has just been published by our colleagues at the @unikarlova.cuni.cz. Thanks so much for this!
www.ff.cuni.cz/2025/04/food...
📃Access to the original paper 📃: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
@isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social
www.ff.cuni.cz/2025/04/food...
📃Access to the original paper 📃: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
@isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social
Food Production Was Brought to the Nile Valley by New Populations. Czech Scientists Help Unravel Migration Events Dating back Eight Thousand Years | Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy
www.ff.cuni.cz
April 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
A great summary of our latest article has just been published by our colleagues at the @unikarlova.cuni.cz. Thanks so much for this!
www.ff.cuni.cz/2025/04/food...
📃Access to the original paper 📃: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
@isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social
www.ff.cuni.cz/2025/04/food...
📃Access to the original paper 📃: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
@isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social
Reposted by Nicolas Martin
#RésultatScientifique🔎
Une étude menée par le laboratoire PACEA révèle des découvertes inédites sur le peuplement de l'Égypte et du Soudan, grâce à l'analyse de dents humaines vieilles de 4 000 à 18 000 ans.
▶️ www.inee.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...
Une étude menée par le laboratoire PACEA révèle des découvertes inédites sur le peuplement de l'Égypte et du Soudan, grâce à l'analyse de dents humaines vieilles de 4 000 à 18 000 ans.
▶️ www.inee.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...
April 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
#RésultatScientifique🔎
Une étude menée par le laboratoire PACEA révèle des découvertes inédites sur le peuplement de l'Égypte et du Soudan, grâce à l'analyse de dents humaines vieilles de 4 000 à 18 000 ans.
▶️ www.inee.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...
Une étude menée par le laboratoire PACEA révèle des découvertes inédites sur le peuplement de l'Égypte et du Soudan, grâce à l'analyse de dents humaines vieilles de 4 000 à 18 000 ans.
▶️ www.inee.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...
Reposted by Nicolas Martin
We are looking forward to welcoming Matthew Skinner @matthewskinnerphd.bsky.social to Vienna next week for a #HEASSeminar in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic. Registration for online and in-person participation is on our website 🔗👇
www.heas.at/events/heas-...
www.heas.at/events/heas-...
HEAS Seminar - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic - HEAS
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic, Matthew Skinner from Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology will give a talk on How hidden structures of bones a...
www.heas.at
April 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
We are looking forward to welcoming Matthew Skinner @matthewskinnerphd.bsky.social to Vienna next week for a #HEASSeminar in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic. Registration for online and in-person participation is on our website 🔗👇
www.heas.at/events/heas-...
www.heas.at/events/heas-...
🚨14.000 years of population history revealed!🚨
What happened to the late prehistoric populations in the Nile Valley?
Our new study uncovers major migrations, population replacement and regional mobility at the Neolithic transition!
1/7🧵 👇
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
What happened to the late prehistoric populations in the Nile Valley?
Our new study uncovers major migrations, population replacement and regional mobility at the Neolithic transition!
1/7🧵 👇
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Enamel–dentine junction morphology reveals population replacement and mobility in the late prehistoric Middle Nile Valley | PNAS
Transitions from foraging to food-production represent a worldwide turning point in
recent human history. In the Middle Nile Valley this cultural s...
www.pnas.org
March 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
🚨14.000 years of population history revealed!🚨
What happened to the late prehistoric populations in the Nile Valley?
Our new study uncovers major migrations, population replacement and regional mobility at the Neolithic transition!
1/7🧵 👇
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
What happened to the late prehistoric populations in the Nile Valley?
Our new study uncovers major migrations, population replacement and regional mobility at the Neolithic transition!
1/7🧵 👇
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Nicolas Martin
Are you a PGR or ECR working on research to do with Sudan, South Sudan or Egypt?
The Sudan Studies Research conference cfp is open for abstract submissions!
Deadline is the 31st March
www.sudan-conference.com
#sudan #southsudan #egypt #law #policy #education #science #heritage #archaeology
The Sudan Studies Research conference cfp is open for abstract submissions!
Deadline is the 31st March
www.sudan-conference.com
#sudan #southsudan #egypt #law #policy #education #science #heritage #archaeology
March 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Are you a PGR or ECR working on research to do with Sudan, South Sudan or Egypt?
The Sudan Studies Research conference cfp is open for abstract submissions!
Deadline is the 31st March
www.sudan-conference.com
#sudan #southsudan #egypt #law #policy #education #science #heritage #archaeology
The Sudan Studies Research conference cfp is open for abstract submissions!
Deadline is the 31st March
www.sudan-conference.com
#sudan #southsudan #egypt #law #policy #education #science #heritage #archaeology
Reposted by Nicolas Martin
🧵 1/2 PhD Opportunity! Join my new HEAR lab
@ the University of Zurich (Sept 2025) to research hominin hearing evolution. 4yr contract, SNSF funded. Focus: cochlear anatomy, computational modeling, fossil hearing. shorturl.at/ohH44
@ the University of Zurich (Sept 2025) to research hominin hearing evolution. 4yr contract, SNSF funded. Focus: cochlear anatomy, computational modeling, fossil hearing. shorturl.at/ohH44
Open PhD position on Biomechanics and Anatomy of the Ape and Hominin Organ of Hearing
shorturl.at
March 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
🧵 1/2 PhD Opportunity! Join my new HEAR lab
@ the University of Zurich (Sept 2025) to research hominin hearing evolution. 4yr contract, SNSF funded. Focus: cochlear anatomy, computational modeling, fossil hearing. shorturl.at/ohH44
@ the University of Zurich (Sept 2025) to research hominin hearing evolution. 4yr contract, SNSF funded. Focus: cochlear anatomy, computational modeling, fossil hearing. shorturl.at/ohH44
Reposted by Nicolas Martin
ESHE 2025 goes to Paris, France! Join us in person for talks and posters from Sept 25–27, with a public keynote on Sept 24. Excursion details are coming soon. More info on the meetings page this March! #ESHE2025
February 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
ESHE 2025 goes to Paris, France! Join us in person for talks and posters from Sept 25–27, with a public keynote on Sept 24. Excursion details are coming soon. More info on the meetings page this March! #ESHE2025
Reposted by Nicolas Martin
Last field season at Hara Idé 3 #Djibouti. Great team and PSPCA program led by @jessiecauliez.bsky.social. Lets now focus on publishing our results on this unique Late Pleistocene archaeological site ! #LSA #HornofAfrica #Afar #Prehistory #Paleoanthropology @cnrs.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social
February 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Last field season at Hara Idé 3 #Djibouti. Great team and PSPCA program led by @jessiecauliez.bsky.social. Lets now focus on publishing our results on this unique Late Pleistocene archaeological site ! #LSA #HornofAfrica #Afar #Prehistory #Paleoanthropology @cnrs.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social
Reposted by Nicolas Martin
On continue de parler de nous dans la presse !-) Continuez à signer, les membres de l'ESR et à faire signer : on vient de passer les 7500 signataires 👍
www.challenges.fr/politique/de...
www.challenges.fr/politique/de...
« Décision déplorable », « consternation »… le CNRS face à une fronde des chercheurs - Challenges
Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique fait face à une fronde inédite de ses chercheurs. Ils dénoncent la politique élitiste de leur PDG, Antoine Petit, qui veut labelliser et promouvoir une ...
www.challenges.fr
January 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
On continue de parler de nous dans la presse !-) Continuez à signer, les membres de l'ESR et à faire signer : on vient de passer les 7500 signataires 👍
www.challenges.fr/politique/de...
www.challenges.fr/politique/de...
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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
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