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Great way to end the second week! First in-situ ostrich eggshell of the season at Klipdrift Cave ~14,000 years ago. 🏺 #archaeology
February 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
We ended the first week of excavations slowly uncovering Klipdrift Shelter (new sandbags at the ready!) Next week after another day or two we should be ready to begin excavations. I’ll be focusing on Klipdrift Cave where I’m hoping to find evidence of habitation during the Last Glacial Maximum. 🏺
February 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Great postodoc opportunities ... economics and archeology .... fascinating project .... please look

www.origins-project.com/open-positions
Open Positions
Postdoc in Archeology of Bronze Age Mesopotamia
www.origins-project.com
February 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Excellent! Just registered & looking forward to it.
#archaeobirds #zooarchaeology 🏺
Join us again on the 4th of March for another @icarehb.bsky.social Experimental Archaeology online seminar. Dr Anna Rufà will be talking about bird exploitation. Register for free here: www.icarehb.com/lexa
February 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
We had a windy Wednesday (the toilet tents almost made an escape) but Thursday we made it to Klipdrift Cave and Shelter! We spent the day cleaning baboon poop, finding the old sand bags covering the site and testing the new walkway. We just need to watch the tide… #archaeology 🏺
February 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
First day setting up camp! ⛺️ getting ready for archaeological 🏺excavations at Klipdrift Cave and Shelter in De Hoop nature reserve, South Africa.
February 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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🏺 We are pleased to inform you that the Call for Contributions deadline for 31st #EAA2025 Annual Meeting in Belgrade has been extended until Monday, 10 February 23:59 CET. We hope this extension provides you with the opportunity to finalize and submit your proposals.
Details can be found in link.
Contributions
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February 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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#Job 2-year postdoc position working on the The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans" (ROCEEH) database in Tübingen 🏺 🧪 🦣www.researchgate.net/job/1018917_Data_Curator_m_f_d_with_a_background_in_Palaeolithic_Archaeology
DATA CURATOR (M/F/D) WITH A BACKGROUND IN PALAEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY at Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Tübingen, GERMANY
Jan 28, 2025 | The project "The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans" (ROCEEH) is a research project of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences within the... | NEW JOB
www.researchgate.net
February 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Just a reminder abstracts due this week for the 2025 EAA archaeology annual meetings! 🏺

Consider submitting to our session below if you focused on hunter gatherers in aquatic environments (coastal, lake, riverine or other wise!)
Planning to attend EAA2025? Consider submitting to Session #14: Prehistoric Exploitation of Waterscapes and Aquatic Resources hosted by Mariana Nabais, Anna Rufà, García-Escárzaga, and myself.

Abstract deadline Feb 6th. 🏺

www.e-a-a.org/EAA2025
February 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Flying to Cape Town for the 2025 field archaeological season at Klipdrift complex starting next week. I’m excited to start prepping for the excavations! 🏺
February 2, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Happy to announce our new article is out today in JAS:R, led by Dr. Susan Botha of Nelson Mandela U. In the paper we describe our field experiments foraging for fuelwood & burning them to better understand the costs and benefits of fire 🏺🦣🧪 #openaccess www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Fuelwood harvesting rates from the perspective of early hunter-gatherers on the Cape south coast, South Africa
Understanding fuelwood harvesting and burn characteristics of different plant species can contribute to understanding early hunter-gatherer mobility p…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Still time to apply. Join @nannonstevens.bsky.social and myself, addressing the record of the last Neanderthals in Britain.
Be part of a new era of research, testing assumptions and setting out a new agenda for discovery.
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Final call !! Apply for this funded PhD at University College London @UCLarchaeology.bsky.social on Establishing limits of Neanderthal presence in Britain.

Deadline 20th Jan 5pm Uk time

www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/est...
January 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Excited to invite abstract submissions to our EAA session on the development of Neolithic technologies. We really welcome papers on varied materials & approaches be that pots, beads, bones, lithics, basketry etc. Link for submission here shorturl.at/hX4DI See you in Belgrade! 🏺🧪 #Archaeology
January 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Do your New Years resolutions include "Become editor for American Antiquity"? Because we can help with that! The Society for American Archaeology is extending its deadline for applications. www.saa.org/quick-nav/sa...
Call for Editor: American Antiquity (Deadline Extended to Feb. 10)
The SAA invites applications for the editorship of American Antiquity.The editorship is preceded by a one-year transition with the current editor, beginning with the editor-designate’s appointment in ...
www.saa.org
January 8, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Planning to attend EAA2025? Consider submitting to Session #14: Prehistoric Exploitation of Waterscapes and Aquatic Resources hosted by Mariana Nabais, Anna Rufà, García-Escárzaga, and myself.

Abstract deadline Feb 6th. 🏺

www.e-a-a.org/EAA2025
January 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Hi there! This is the account for the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ). We are a non-profit

🤓promoting excellent research in #zooarchaeology
🫂fostering an international community.

If you are interested in past human-animal relationships, follow us and/or become a member (1/2)
January 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.
December 26, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Ooo! Just found “The Missing Thread” by Daisy Dunn at the bookstore— excited to add to my “to read list” for the new year! #archaeology🏺 #BookSky
December 26, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Ending out the year with submitting a proposal to fund an archaeological project on social complexity in coastal forager during the Later Stone Age in South Africa.
Keeping my fingers crossed and holding thumbs. 🏺
December 18, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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Archaeologists and anthropologists working in Africa and especially if you are from Africa 🏺
📣 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 🐜🦟🦋 (𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀) 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮:

Join us in 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗹 in late July at the at the Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA 2025) conference.

Submit an abstract to our session -

𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻-𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮: 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲

safa2025.icarehb.com
December 13, 2024 at 2:42 AM
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300 kilo tuna? 🏺
moar on that tuna June 19, 2007...!
December 9, 2024 at 4:44 AM
Final Fun fish fact! 🏺
I will be excavating in 2025 at Klipdrift Cave (14,000-9,000 years ago) as part of SapienCE where fish bones have previously been recovered.
This will add to our understanding of coastal foragers. What fish were they fishing? How intensely? Image: Henshilwood et al. 2014
December 8, 2024 at 4:34 AM
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December 4, 2024 at 11:40 AM
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December 4, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Fun fish fact #4 🐟 #archaeology 🏺
What fishing technologies existed during the Middle Stone Age in South Africa? We don’t have any archaeological examples but based on the species it could be:
-hand fishing
-spear fishing
-hook and line
-nets

Image: black musselcracker from TwoOceans Aquarium
December 4, 2024 at 5:29 AM