Vera Aldeias
@veraaldeias.bsky.social
(Geo)Archaeologist into 'dirt' and human behavior-related things.
PI of ERC-StG MATRIX https://matrix.icarehb.com/
PI of ERC-StG MATRIX https://matrix.icarehb.com/
Starting soon, join us for this months LEXA seminar on the amazing site of White Sands !
Join us on Nov 4 (14:00 GMT) for the next
@icarehb.bsky.social LEXA Seminar! Prof Matthew Bennett explores early human transport tech from White Sands. Were travois-like devices used 22,000 years ago?
Free & online: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
@icarehb.bsky.social LEXA Seminar! Prof Matthew Bennett explores early human transport tech from White Sands. Were travois-like devices used 22,000 years ago?
Free & online: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Starting soon, join us for this months LEXA seminar on the amazing site of White Sands !
Reposted by Vera Aldeias
Join us on Nov 4 (14:00 GMT) for the next
@icarehb.bsky.social LEXA Seminar! Prof Matthew Bennett explores early human transport tech from White Sands. Were travois-like devices used 22,000 years ago?
Free & online: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
@icarehb.bsky.social LEXA Seminar! Prof Matthew Bennett explores early human transport tech from White Sands. Were travois-like devices used 22,000 years ago?
Free & online: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Join us on Nov 4 (14:00 GMT) for the next
@icarehb.bsky.social LEXA Seminar! Prof Matthew Bennett explores early human transport tech from White Sands. Were travois-like devices used 22,000 years ago?
Free & online: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
@icarehb.bsky.social LEXA Seminar! Prof Matthew Bennett explores early human transport tech from White Sands. Were travois-like devices used 22,000 years ago?
Free & online: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Reposted by Vera Aldeias
Meet the team behind the ERC Matrix Project!
We introduce Carli Peters, researcher and biomolecular archaeologist at icarehb.bsky.social
Carli studies ancient human–animal interactions using palaeoproteomics and ZooMS to extract and identify ancient proteins from bone fragments.
We introduce Carli Peters, researcher and biomolecular archaeologist at icarehb.bsky.social
Carli studies ancient human–animal interactions using palaeoproteomics and ZooMS to extract and identify ancient proteins from bone fragments.
October 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Meet the team behind the ERC Matrix Project!
We introduce Carli Peters, researcher and biomolecular archaeologist at icarehb.bsky.social
Carli studies ancient human–animal interactions using palaeoproteomics and ZooMS to extract and identify ancient proteins from bone fragments.
We introduce Carli Peters, researcher and biomolecular archaeologist at icarehb.bsky.social
Carli studies ancient human–animal interactions using palaeoproteomics and ZooMS to extract and identify ancient proteins from bone fragments.
Reposted by Vera Aldeias
🧪🏺🦣 Hugely exciting area for faunal & hominin ID using tiny fragments of bone within sediment sample blocks, allowing attribution to micro-layers: crucial to advance knowledge in Palaeolithc sites, especially those already excavated.
Sites tested: Bacho Kiro Cave, La Ferrassie, and Quinçay
Sites tested: Bacho Kiro Cave, La Ferrassie, and Quinçay
📄 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...
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
academic.oup.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
🧪🏺🦣 Hugely exciting area for faunal & hominin ID using tiny fragments of bone within sediment sample blocks, allowing attribution to micro-layers: crucial to advance knowledge in Palaeolithc sites, especially those already excavated.
Sites tested: Bacho Kiro Cave, La Ferrassie, and Quinçay
Sites tested: Bacho Kiro Cave, La Ferrassie, and Quinçay
📄 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...
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
academic.oup.com
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...
This is neat science!
After the Spanish conquest, horses transformed Native American tribes much earlier than historians thought.
Learn more on #IndigenousPeoplesDay: https://scim.ag/3KGvYBs
Learn more on #IndigenousPeoplesDay: https://scim.ag/3KGvYBs
Horse nations: Animal began transforming Native American life startlingly early
Sweeping new study based on archaeological evidence, chemical isotope analysis, and ancient DNA “totally changes the game”
scim.ag
October 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This is neat science!
Reposted by Vera Aldeias
👥 Meet the team behind the ERC Matrix Project!
We introduce Hussein Kanbar, postdoc researcher and experimental geochemist at @icarehb.bsky.social
Hussein explores how DNA moves, binds, and survives in soils and sediments.
His work builds bridges between archaeology, geochemistry, and genetics.
We introduce Hussein Kanbar, postdoc researcher and experimental geochemist at @icarehb.bsky.social
Hussein explores how DNA moves, binds, and survives in soils and sediments.
His work builds bridges between archaeology, geochemistry, and genetics.
October 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
👥 Meet the team behind the ERC Matrix Project!
We introduce Hussein Kanbar, postdoc researcher and experimental geochemist at @icarehb.bsky.social
Hussein explores how DNA moves, binds, and survives in soils and sediments.
His work builds bridges between archaeology, geochemistry, and genetics.
We introduce Hussein Kanbar, postdoc researcher and experimental geochemist at @icarehb.bsky.social
Hussein explores how DNA moves, binds, and survives in soils and sediments.
His work builds bridges between archaeology, geochemistry, and genetics.
Join us for another 🔥 #LEXA @icarehb.bsky.social experimental geoarchaeology talk with Dr. Chase Murphree
Don’t miss the next @ICArEHB Experimental Archaeology Seminar. Dr William Chase Murphree will talk about his geoarchaeological experiments that shed light on fire use during glacial periods in the Upper Palaeolithic. Join us at 14:00 on 7th of October. zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Join us for another 🔥 #LEXA @icarehb.bsky.social experimental geoarchaeology talk with Dr. Chase Murphree
Reposted by Vera Aldeias
👥 Meet the team behind the ERC Matrix Project!
🔬 Today: Vera Aldeias, PI of Matrix and a geoarchaeologist decoding past human behaviour through sediments.
🧬 Vera’s team uses ancient DNA & proteins in soils to trace modern humans’ arrival in Europe & Neanderthals’ disappearance.
🔬 Today: Vera Aldeias, PI of Matrix and a geoarchaeologist decoding past human behaviour through sediments.
🧬 Vera’s team uses ancient DNA & proteins in soils to trace modern humans’ arrival in Europe & Neanderthals’ disappearance.
September 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
👥 Meet the team behind the ERC Matrix Project!
🔬 Today: Vera Aldeias, PI of Matrix and a geoarchaeologist decoding past human behaviour through sediments.
🧬 Vera’s team uses ancient DNA & proteins in soils to trace modern humans’ arrival in Europe & Neanderthals’ disappearance.
🔬 Today: Vera Aldeias, PI of Matrix and a geoarchaeologist decoding past human behaviour through sediments.
🧬 Vera’s team uses ancient DNA & proteins in soils to trace modern humans’ arrival in Europe & Neanderthals’ disappearance.
Reposted by Vera Aldeias
The ERC Project MATRIX explores one of the big questions in our past: how Neanderthals disappeared as modern humans spread across Europe. Meet the team behind it and learn more about our research on sediments, ancient DNA, proteins, lipids & human evolution
👉 matrix.icarehb.com
👉 matrix.icarehb.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The ERC Project MATRIX explores one of the big questions in our past: how Neanderthals disappeared as modern humans spread across Europe. Meet the team behind it and learn more about our research on sediments, ancient DNA, proteins, lipids & human evolution
👉 matrix.icarehb.com
👉 matrix.icarehb.com
Reposted by Vera Aldeias
Don’t miss our next ICArEHB Experimental Archaeology Seminar. We will welcome Dr William Chase Murphree to talk about new geoarchaeological experiments investigating Upper Palaeolithic fire use.
14:00 (GMT) on the 7th of October. Free for all, join here
icarehb.com/lexa/
14:00 (GMT) on the 7th of October. Free for all, join here
icarehb.com/lexa/
September 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Don’t miss our next ICArEHB Experimental Archaeology Seminar. We will welcome Dr William Chase Murphree to talk about new geoarchaeological experiments investigating Upper Palaeolithic fire use.
14:00 (GMT) on the 7th of October. Free for all, join here
icarehb.com/lexa/
14:00 (GMT) on the 7th of October. Free for all, join here
icarehb.com/lexa/
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🎧 #Podcast: #ICArEHB’s @godefroyy.bsky.social on archaeology, #HumanEvolution & the #HEIRS project.
Listen: Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/4mVR...
Radio www.radio.pt/podcast/lets...
Listen: Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/4mVR...
Radio www.radio.pt/podcast/lets...
August 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🎧 #Podcast: #ICArEHB’s @godefroyy.bsky.social on archaeology, #HumanEvolution & the #HEIRS project.
Listen: Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/4mVR...
Radio www.radio.pt/podcast/lets...
Listen: Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/4mVR...
Radio www.radio.pt/podcast/lets...
Reposted by Vera Aldeias
Join us on August 5th at 14:00 for another @icarehb.bsky.social LEXA seminar! This month, we're welcoming Dr. Alastair Key from the University of Cambridge to discuss experiments in Lower Palaeolithic technology.
Register here: [https://www.icarehb.com/lexa/](www.icarehb.com/lexa/)
Register here: [https://www.icarehb.com/lexa/](www.icarehb.com/lexa/)
July 19, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Join us on August 5th at 14:00 for another @icarehb.bsky.social LEXA seminar! This month, we're welcoming Dr. Alastair Key from the University of Cambridge to discuss experiments in Lower Palaeolithic technology.
Register here: [https://www.icarehb.com/lexa/](www.icarehb.com/lexa/)
Register here: [https://www.icarehb.com/lexa/](www.icarehb.com/lexa/)
Reposted by Vera Aldeias
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.
Reposted by Vera Aldeias
I had the chance of explaining a little more about HEIRS to Sara Cura in her podcast Let's Rock - Um Podcast da Idade da Pedra. Introduction is in Portuguese, my interview is in English (with a lot of pause for my slow brain). Please let me know your suggestions: open.spotify.com/episode/4mVR...
Evolução Humana e Ciência Integrativa: o HEIRS Hub, com Godefroy Devevey
Let's Rock - Um podcast da Idade da Pedra · Episode
open.spotify.com
July 7, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I had the chance of explaining a little more about HEIRS to Sara Cura in her podcast Let's Rock - Um Podcast da Idade da Pedra. Introduction is in Portuguese, my interview is in English (with a lot of pause for my slow brain). Please let me know your suggestions: open.spotify.com/episode/4mVR...
Fantastic piece by our wonderful @icarehb.bsky.social PhD student Osman Khaleel. Finding ways in difficult times. Osman is quite an inspiration to us all
ICArEHB PhD student Osman Khaleel shares a powerful reflection on navigating the PhD journey amid prolonged conflict.
Read it here ➡️ research-hive.com/2025/06/02/n...
#PhDLife #ResilientResearch #ICArEHB #ResearchHive
Read it here ➡️ research-hive.com/2025/06/02/n...
#PhDLife #ResilientResearch #ICArEHB #ResearchHive
Navigating the PhD journey amid prolonged conflict: Challenges, growth, and resilience
Author: Osman Khaleel // Editor: Cherene de Bruyn Cover image from Pexels *Archaeology: The study of past human cultures through the material culture (artefacts) left behind. *Lithics: Archaeologic…
research-hive.com
June 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Fantastic piece by our wonderful @icarehb.bsky.social PhD student Osman Khaleel. Finding ways in difficult times. Osman is quite an inspiration to us all
Reposted by Vera Aldeias
🌍 New call for #synthesis projects!
#HEIRS & #FRB_CESAB seek proposals on #humanevolution + #biodiversity 🌱
🔹 IdeaShare: interdisciplinary ideas
🔹 DataShare: data harmonisation
🗓️ Deadline: 8 Sept 2025
📩 Apply: www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/en/calls/cal...
#HEIRS & #FRB_CESAB seek proposals on #humanevolution + #biodiversity 🌱
🔹 IdeaShare: interdisciplinary ideas
🔹 DataShare: data harmonisation
🗓️ Deadline: 8 Sept 2025
📩 Apply: www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/en/calls/cal...
May 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🌍 New call for #synthesis projects!
#HEIRS & #FRB_CESAB seek proposals on #humanevolution + #biodiversity 🌱
🔹 IdeaShare: interdisciplinary ideas
🔹 DataShare: data harmonisation
🗓️ Deadline: 8 Sept 2025
📩 Apply: www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/en/calls/cal...
#HEIRS & #FRB_CESAB seek proposals on #humanevolution + #biodiversity 🌱
🔹 IdeaShare: interdisciplinary ideas
🔹 DataShare: data harmonisation
🗓️ Deadline: 8 Sept 2025
📩 Apply: www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/en/calls/cal...
Reposted by Vera Aldeias
Don't forget tomorrow's @icarehb.bsky.social Experimental Archaeology seminar at 2pm (GMT). Dr Carolina Mallol will be discussing Neanderthal Fire Technology. Register for free here www.icarehb.com/lexa/ and join us online.
May 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Don't forget tomorrow's @icarehb.bsky.social Experimental Archaeology seminar at 2pm (GMT). Dr Carolina Mallol will be discussing Neanderthal Fire Technology. Register for free here www.icarehb.com/lexa/ and join us online.
Our next LEXA seminar will be a hot one🔥! With the wonderful @caromallol.bsky.social. Join us at 2pm (Lisbon time!) on Tuesday the 6th of May. Register here: www.icarehb.com/lexa/
April 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Our next LEXA seminar will be a hot one🔥! With the wonderful @caromallol.bsky.social. Join us at 2pm (Lisbon time!) on Tuesday the 6th of May. Register here: www.icarehb.com/lexa/
Tracing the elusive fire use during the LGM: check out our paper lead by @wcmurph.bsky.social on fire features at Korman' 9 in Ukraine. @philipnigst.bsky.social @marjolein-bosch.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social with open access provided by @icarehb.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Fire Use During the Last Glacial Maximum: Evidence From the Epigravettian at Korman' 9, Middle Dniester Valley, Ukraine
The Last Glacial maximum (LGM), spanning from 26.5 to 19 thousand years before present (ka bp), is a period of extreme climatic degradation associated with reduced biomass production and resource str...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 2, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Tracing the elusive fire use during the LGM: check out our paper lead by @wcmurph.bsky.social on fire features at Korman' 9 in Ukraine. @philipnigst.bsky.social @marjolein-bosch.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social with open access provided by @icarehb.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Cool--or ew?--story by @evoscribe.bsky.social for @science.org!
Neanderthals may have eaten maggots as part of their diet
High nitrogen in Neanderthal bones doesn’t mean they were uber-carnivores
www.science.org
March 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Cool--or ew?--story by @evoscribe.bsky.social for @science.org!
Proud PhD supervisor moment! @wcmurph.bsky.social successufully defended his PhD thesis on 🔥Pyrotechnology during the Upper Paleolithic in Europe @icarehb.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Proud PhD supervisor moment! @wcmurph.bsky.social successufully defended his PhD thesis on 🔥Pyrotechnology during the Upper Paleolithic in Europe @icarehb.bsky.social
Reposted by Vera Aldeias
Launch Alert! 🚀
#HEIRS is now accepting submissions for its first-ever call for group synthesis projects focused on #HumanEvolution. If you're passionate about research in human evolution, this is your chance to synthesis! 🌍
heirs.icarehb.com/calls-traini...
💡 What’s in store?
#HEIRS is now accepting submissions for its first-ever call for group synthesis projects focused on #HumanEvolution. If you're passionate about research in human evolution, this is your chance to synthesis! 🌍
heirs.icarehb.com/calls-traini...
💡 What’s in store?
February 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Launch Alert! 🚀
#HEIRS is now accepting submissions for its first-ever call for group synthesis projects focused on #HumanEvolution. If you're passionate about research in human evolution, this is your chance to synthesis! 🌍
heirs.icarehb.com/calls-traini...
💡 What’s in store?
#HEIRS is now accepting submissions for its first-ever call for group synthesis projects focused on #HumanEvolution. If you're passionate about research in human evolution, this is your chance to synthesis! 🌍
heirs.icarehb.com/calls-traini...
💡 What’s in store?
Reposted by Vera Aldeias
Human Evolution now has a place to do synthesis 🎉 The #heirs opening @icarehb.bsky.social demonstrated how fun, eye-opening and powerfull synthesis can be. Call for funding now open heirs.icarehb.com/2025/01/29/c...
January 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Human Evolution now has a place to do synthesis 🎉 The #heirs opening @icarehb.bsky.social demonstrated how fun, eye-opening and powerfull synthesis can be. Call for funding now open heirs.icarehb.com/2025/01/29/c...