David Nora
@norarch.bsky.social
Lithic detective 🧐Time-traveling with stone tools | PhD in organized chaos,
Currently decoding human decisions one flake at a time.
I do experimental archaeology so if you’ve got a rock, I’ve got a experiment design.
It will happen this week at the 7th Congress for Experimental Archaeology. This time organized by @traceolab.bsky.social
I will present how we can use proxies to classify efficiency of Lithic Raw Materials. @humendylab.bsky.social @tracer-leiza.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social
I will present how we can use proxies to classify efficiency of Lithic Raw Materials. @humendylab.bsky.social @tracer-leiza.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 9:36 AM
It will happen this week at the 7th Congress for Experimental Archaeology. This time organized by @traceolab.bsky.social
I will present how we can use proxies to classify efficiency of Lithic Raw Materials. @humendylab.bsky.social @tracer-leiza.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social
I will present how we can use proxies to classify efficiency of Lithic Raw Materials. @humendylab.bsky.social @tracer-leiza.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social
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Back to Armenia, back to Dalarik-1 Cave, with a large international team from Armenia, Spain, Israel, Greece, France, Portugal, Italy & beyond! Let the excavation of this unique Middle Pleistocene site start! 🎉 #TransCause @humendylab.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Back to Armenia, back to Dalarik-1 Cave, with a large international team from Armenia, Spain, Israel, Greece, France, Portugal, Italy & beyond! Let the excavation of this unique Middle Pleistocene site start! 🎉 #TransCause @humendylab.bsky.social
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🪨What have 10 years of stone tool experiments taught us — and what’s still unknown?
Join Dr Alastair Key for the next #LEXA seminar!
📅 5 Aug | 🕑 14:00 WEST | 🌍 Online
🔗 www.icarehb.com/lexa
📢 New Zoom account: all must re-register!
#Archaeology #ICArEHB
Join Dr Alastair Key for the next #LEXA seminar!
📅 5 Aug | 🕑 14:00 WEST | 🌍 Online
🔗 www.icarehb.com/lexa
📢 New Zoom account: all must re-register!
#Archaeology #ICArEHB
July 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
🪨What have 10 years of stone tool experiments taught us — and what’s still unknown?
Join Dr Alastair Key for the next #LEXA seminar!
📅 5 Aug | 🕑 14:00 WEST | 🌍 Online
🔗 www.icarehb.com/lexa
📢 New Zoom account: all must re-register!
#Archaeology #ICArEHB
Join Dr Alastair Key for the next #LEXA seminar!
📅 5 Aug | 🕑 14:00 WEST | 🌍 Online
🔗 www.icarehb.com/lexa
📢 New Zoom account: all must re-register!
#Archaeology #ICArEHB
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📢 New publication: "The dichotomy of human decision-making: An experimental assessment of stone tool efficiency" by Nora, D., Marreiros, J., Gneisinger, W., Pedergnana, A., & Pereira, T., in PLOS ONE (2025).
🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
The dichotomy of human decision-making: An experimental assessment of stone tool efficiency
The physical properties of distinct raw materials, such as hardness, homogeneity, and grain size, have been recurrently suggested as some of the key reasons for human decision-making, namely the selec...
doi.org
July 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
📢 New publication: "The dichotomy of human decision-making: An experimental assessment of stone tool efficiency" by Nora, D., Marreiros, J., Gneisinger, W., Pedergnana, A., & Pereira, T., in PLOS ONE (2025).
🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Did you ever ask why people used so many different rocks in their tasks?
If you had this question in your mind, go and check my new paper with my colleagues. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
If you had this question in your mind, go and check my new paper with my colleagues. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
July 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Did you ever ask why people used so many different rocks in their tasks?
If you had this question in your mind, go and check my new paper with my colleagues. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
If you had this question in your mind, go and check my new paper with my colleagues. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
My first paper of the PhD is out, we talk about Mobility and lithic technology at Ararat-1 Cave in Armenia. We also talk a bit about 👻 tools. Are you curious? Go and check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My first paper of the PhD is out, we talk about Mobility and lithic technology at Ararat-1 Cave in Armenia. We also talk a bit about 👻 tools. Are you curious? Go and check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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New paper out with Radu Iovita in PLOS One modeling potential routes of dispersal for Neanderthals moving from the Caucasus Mountains to the Altai Mountains after MIS 6
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
June 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
New paper out with Radu Iovita in PLOS One modeling potential routes of dispersal for Neanderthals moving from the Caucasus Mountains to the Altai Mountains after MIS 6
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Only 3 days to go! 🗓️
ICArEHB Dialogues returns May 29 at 4PM (GMT+1), live on YouTube 🎥
Join us to explore: What is technology? How did it shape us—and where is it taking us?
🔗 Join us at: www.youtube.com/live/RAO_pxR...
#ICArEHBDialogues #TechnologyPastFuture #Archaeology #DigitalHumanities
ICArEHB Dialogues returns May 29 at 4PM (GMT+1), live on YouTube 🎥
Join us to explore: What is technology? How did it shape us—and where is it taking us?
🔗 Join us at: www.youtube.com/live/RAO_pxR...
#ICArEHBDialogues #TechnologyPastFuture #Archaeology #DigitalHumanities
May 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Only 3 days to go! 🗓️
ICArEHB Dialogues returns May 29 at 4PM (GMT+1), live on YouTube 🎥
Join us to explore: What is technology? How did it shape us—and where is it taking us?
🔗 Join us at: www.youtube.com/live/RAO_pxR...
#ICArEHBDialogues #TechnologyPastFuture #Archaeology #DigitalHumanities
ICArEHB Dialogues returns May 29 at 4PM (GMT+1), live on YouTube 🎥
Join us to explore: What is technology? How did it shape us—and where is it taking us?
🔗 Join us at: www.youtube.com/live/RAO_pxR...
#ICArEHBDialogues #TechnologyPastFuture #Archaeology #DigitalHumanities
PRE-PRINT OUT! 🚨
My first paper of the PhD is out as a pre-print go there and comment 😁. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
My first paper of the PhD is out as a pre-print go there and comment 😁. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
May 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
PRE-PRINT OUT! 🚨
My first paper of the PhD is out as a pre-print go there and comment 😁. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
My first paper of the PhD is out as a pre-print go there and comment 😁. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
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This research would not have been possible without my amazing calleagues & co-authors: @arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social @norarch.bsky.social @lausanrom.bsky.social @drloessismore.bsky.social Teo, Shira, Dominik, Delphine, Artur & Boris! MASSIVE THANKS to @humendylab.bsky.social & Netanel for the support!
May 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This research would not have been possible without my amazing calleagues & co-authors: @arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social @norarch.bsky.social @lausanrom.bsky.social @drloessismore.bsky.social Teo, Shira, Dominik, Delphine, Artur & Boris! MASSIVE THANKS to @humendylab.bsky.social & Netanel for the support!
My friend and colleague @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social just published this amazing multi-proxy work about Ararat-1 Cave. Congratulations 🎉 @humendylab.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
My friend and colleague @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social just published this amazing multi-proxy work about Ararat-1 Cave. Congratulations 🎉 @humendylab.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Wrapping up the amazing #SAA2025Denver conference with the participation of some of the @humendylab.bsky.social team members @norarch.bsky.social
@yannismicrooikon.bsky.social #MaeGoder-goldberger
@yannismicrooikon.bsky.social #MaeGoder-goldberger
April 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Wrapping up the amazing #SAA2025Denver conference with the participation of some of the @humendylab.bsky.social team members @norarch.bsky.social
@yannismicrooikon.bsky.social #MaeGoder-goldberger
@yannismicrooikon.bsky.social #MaeGoder-goldberger
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Great times in the Annual Meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society, at Denver, Colorado (US). HUMENDY LAB was there with talks by @arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social, @norarch.bsky.social and a poster by @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social!
See you in the next one!
#TransCauseProject
See you in the next one!
#TransCauseProject
April 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Great times in the Annual Meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society, at Denver, Colorado (US). HUMENDY LAB was there with talks by @arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social, @norarch.bsky.social and a poster by @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social!
See you in the next one!
#TransCauseProject
See you in the next one!
#TransCauseProject
At the conference of the Society for American Archaeology, presenting part of my PhD thesis.
April 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
At the conference of the Society for American Archaeology, presenting part of my PhD thesis.
At Denver on the Paleo Meeting, talking about Virtual Experiments using FEA simulations.
April 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
At Denver on the Paleo Meeting, talking about Virtual Experiments using FEA simulations.