1,400-year-old ice storage from Baekje Kingdom unearthed beneath Busosanseong Fortress in South Korea

Archaeologists in South Korea have uncovered the first ice storage facility ever recorded from the Baekje Sabi period at the Busosanseong Fortress...

More info: archaeologymag.com/2025/10/1400...

Early Neolithic farmers in Central Europe diversified cereal cultivation earlier than expected, study finds

A new study has revealed that early farming communities in Central Europe began diversifying their cereal crops much earlier than previously thought...

archaeologymag.com/2025/10/neol...

Let's have a little séance so we can thank the dead vultures who saved all these historical artefacts by nicking them for their nests!
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Amazing results!

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Abstract submission is now open for the 1st International Conference on Palaeogenomics!

June 23–26 2026, in Stockholm.

Join researchers from across the field for 4 days and >100 talks (+ poster sessions)!

Submit abstracts here 👉
icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/

Deadline: Nov 30th

The study of Tell Sultana-Malu Roșu (Chalcolithic, Romania), result of the collaboration between Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeoloy (Kiel University) and the ArchaeoSciences Platform (ASp) (University of Bucharest), is now published!🏺 doi.org/10.12766/jna...

I regret to announce that the collection has been cancelled, as STAR will cease publication 😔📚

78,000-year-old footprints from Neanderthal man, child and toddler discovered on beach in Portugal 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

At Monte Clérigo, dated to 78 ± 5 ka, trackways of three individuals demonstrate how Neanderthals navigated dune landscapes.

#EAA2025 Tomorrow at 14:45 (session 169, room 19) I’ll be talking about "Subsistence strategies in Copper Age Southeastern Europe: insights from δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N isotope analysis at Tell Yunatsite (Bulgaria)". See you there!

Essential reading.

Neanderthals, hypercarnivores, and maggots: Insights from stable nitrogen isotopes | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I am pleased to present my new Article Collection, "Stable Isotope Approaches to Human–Aquatic Interactions in Archaeological Contexts.” invt.io/1txbh73aizn