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🪓 Stone flakes = ancient tool care? #ICArEHB's David Nora's introduces a module flake approach in his new paper: doi.org/10.1007/s108...
#Lithics #Archaeology
#Lithics #Archaeology
Snakes and Ladders: A technological approach to tool maintenance byproducts using module flake categories - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
The study of retouching, reshaping, and rejuvenation in lithic technology has traditionally focused on finished tools, overlooking the byproducts of these processes, particularly microdebitage. This e...
doi.org
November 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
🪓 Stone flakes = ancient tool care? #ICArEHB's David Nora's introduces a module flake approach in his new paper: doi.org/10.1007/s108...
#Lithics #Archaeology
#Lithics #Archaeology
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New publication alert!‼️ Wrapping up 2025 with my fifth paper of the year in the SAJS!
The paper reviews how stone tools reveal social connections, noting similar patterns can also arise independently and suggesting ways to better distinguish the two. 💫
🔗 doi.org/10.17159/saj...
The paper reviews how stone tools reveal social connections, noting similar patterns can also arise independently and suggesting ways to better distinguish the two. 💫
🔗 doi.org/10.17159/saj...
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
New publication alert!‼️ Wrapping up 2025 with my fifth paper of the year in the SAJS!
The paper reviews how stone tools reveal social connections, noting similar patterns can also arise independently and suggesting ways to better distinguish the two. 💫
🔗 doi.org/10.17159/saj...
The paper reviews how stone tools reveal social connections, noting similar patterns can also arise independently and suggesting ways to better distinguish the two. 💫
🔗 doi.org/10.17159/saj...
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Paper alert! 🚨
New research on the hunting strategies at the Middle Paleolithic site of Nesher Ramla!
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New research on the hunting strategies at the Middle Paleolithic site of Nesher Ramla!
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Archaic humans in the Middle Palaeolithic Levant conducted planned and selective intercepts of aurochs, but not mass hunting - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Archaic humans in the Middle Palaeolithic Levant conducted planned and selective intercepts of aurochs, but not mass hunting
www.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Paper alert! 🚨
New research on the hunting strategies at the Middle Paleolithic site of Nesher Ramla!
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New research on the hunting strategies at the Middle Paleolithic site of Nesher Ramla!
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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About Nesher Ramla hunting strategies
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
About Nesher Ramla hunting strategies
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“Snakes and Ladders” is not a game, but a model for how Stone Age people maintained their tools.
From fresh edges (M0) to full rejuvenation (M4), each flake is a step on the ladder of technological decision-making.
rdcu.be/eRutD
From fresh edges (M0) to full rejuvenation (M4), each flake is a step on the ladder of technological decision-making.
rdcu.be/eRutD
November 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
“Snakes and Ladders” is not a game, but a model for how Stone Age people maintained their tools.
From fresh edges (M0) to full rejuvenation (M4), each flake is a step on the ladder of technological decision-making.
rdcu.be/eRutD
From fresh edges (M0) to full rejuvenation (M4), each flake is a step on the ladder of technological decision-making.
rdcu.be/eRutD
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Posibles diferencias de tradiciones culturales y aprendizaje social entre los grupos neandertales de Amud y Kebara:
Cut from the same cloth? Comparing Neanderthal processing of faunal resources at Amud and Kebara caves (Israel) through cut-marks analyses
Cut from the same cloth? Comparing Neanderthal processing of faunal resources at Amud and Kebara caves (Israel) through cut-marks analyses
Frontiers | Cut from the same cloth? Comparing Neanderthal processing of faunal resources at Amud and Kebara caves (Israel) through cut-marks analyses
Amud and Kebara caves (northern Israel) are two broadly contemporaneous Middle Paleolithic sites dated to ca. 70–50 Ka BP, both located in the Mediterranean ...
www.frontiersin.org
November 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Posibles diferencias de tradiciones culturales y aprendizaje social entre los grupos neandertales de Amud y Kebara:
Cut from the same cloth? Comparing Neanderthal processing of faunal resources at Amud and Kebara caves (Israel) through cut-marks analyses
Cut from the same cloth? Comparing Neanderthal processing of faunal resources at Amud and Kebara caves (Israel) through cut-marks analyses
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Join us for an archaeological field school exploring the Armenian Palaeolithic! Open to students from any university and any major. More info here: app.studyabroad.uconn.edu/index.cfm?Fu...
November 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Join us for an archaeological field school exploring the Armenian Palaeolithic! Open to students from any university and any major. More info here: app.studyabroad.uconn.edu/index.cfm?Fu...
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We’re losing so many legends in archaeology. Here is a lovely tribute to Tony Marks, who died in August. He was incredibly encouraging to me, and supported our work revisiting the Nubian technology he first characterised. He will be missed.
www.icarehb.com/portfolio/in...
www.icarehb.com/portfolio/in...
In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Anthony E. Marks (1938-2025) - ICArEHB
The Interdisciplinary Centre for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour (ICArEHB) at the University of Algarve received with profound sadness the news of the passing of Anthony E. Marks on Augus...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
We’re losing so many legends in archaeology. Here is a lovely tribute to Tony Marks, who died in August. He was incredibly encouraging to me, and supported our work revisiting the Nubian technology he first characterised. He will be missed.
www.icarehb.com/portfolio/in...
www.icarehb.com/portfolio/in...
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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.
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It was a fantastic season! Very thankful to @lausanrom.bsky.social and @jorios.bsky.social !!!
Wrapping up another amazing field season in #AmaldaIII with this fantastic team @jorios.bsky.social @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social Antxieta Arkeologi Taldea, Martin Arriolabengoa
October 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
It was a fantastic season! Very thankful to @lausanrom.bsky.social and @jorios.bsky.social !!!
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In another exciting news I am kicking off a new project generously supported by the @royalsociety.org 🙏
The title tells you the whole story: “SOUTHERN DUSTSCAPES – Reconciling scales of past dust fluxes and their impact on climate in the Southern Hemisphere.”
#LoessIsMore #Dust #Quaternary
The title tells you the whole story: “SOUTHERN DUSTSCAPES – Reconciling scales of past dust fluxes and their impact on climate in the Southern Hemisphere.”
#LoessIsMore #Dust #Quaternary
October 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
In another exciting news I am kicking off a new project generously supported by the @royalsociety.org 🙏
The title tells you the whole story: “SOUTHERN DUSTSCAPES – Reconciling scales of past dust fluxes and their impact on climate in the Southern Hemisphere.”
#LoessIsMore #Dust #Quaternary
The title tells you the whole story: “SOUTHERN DUSTSCAPES – Reconciling scales of past dust fluxes and their impact on climate in the Southern Hemisphere.”
#LoessIsMore #Dust #Quaternary
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The MATRIX Project, ERC Starting Grant, led by @veraaldeias.bsky.social and based at @icarehb.bsky.social, explores the replacement of Neanderthals by early modern humans by analyzing intact blocks of sediment as archives of ancient DNA, proteins, and lipids.
Follow us and visit matrix.icarehb.com
Follow us and visit matrix.icarehb.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The MATRIX Project, ERC Starting Grant, led by @veraaldeias.bsky.social and based at @icarehb.bsky.social, explores the replacement of Neanderthals by early modern humans by analyzing intact blocks of sediment as archives of ancient DNA, proteins, and lipids.
Follow us and visit matrix.icarehb.com
Follow us and visit matrix.icarehb.com
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👥 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.
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👥 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.
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🧪🏺🦣 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
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📄 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...
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Hace 45-70 ka los neandertales de El Castillo (España) usaban materia prima local, pero también adquirida a grandes distancias.
Neanderthal mobility over very long distances: The case of El Castillo cave (northern Spain) and the ‘Vasconian’ Mousterian
Neanderthal mobility over very long distances: The case of El Castillo cave (northern Spain) and the ‘Vasconian’ Mousterian
Neanderthal mobility over very long distances: The case of El Castillo cave (northern Spain) and the ‘Vasconian’ Mousterian
This study explores the mobility and raw material circulation of Neanderthals at the El Castillo cave, located in the northern part of the Iberian Pen…
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October 12, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Hace 45-70 ka los neandertales de El Castillo (España) usaban materia prima local, pero también adquirida a grandes distancias.
Neanderthal mobility over very long distances: The case of El Castillo cave (northern Spain) and the ‘Vasconian’ Mousterian
Neanderthal mobility over very long distances: The case of El Castillo cave (northern Spain) and the ‘Vasconian’ Mousterian
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Wrapping up another amazing field season in #AmaldaIII with this fantastic team @jorios.bsky.social @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social Antxieta Arkeologi Taldea, Martin Arriolabengoa
October 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Wrapping up another amazing field season in #AmaldaIII with this fantastic team @jorios.bsky.social @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social Antxieta Arkeologi Taldea, Martin Arriolabengoa
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Here we are #AmaldaIII with @jorios.bsky.social @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social and Antxieta Arkeologi Taldea group
📷 from the cave by @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social
📷 from the cave by @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Here we are #AmaldaIII with @jorios.bsky.social @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social and Antxieta Arkeologi Taldea group
📷 from the cave by @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social
📷 from the cave by @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social
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📣Our new paper presents new a high-resolution luminescence and radiocarbon chronology for the Naisiusiu Beds at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. This site is crucial for understanding the cultural and biological evolution of Homo sapiens in the Late Pleistocene.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 6, 2025 at 10:04 AM
📣Our new paper presents new a high-resolution luminescence and radiocarbon chronology for the Naisiusiu Beds at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. This site is crucial for understanding the cultural and biological evolution of Homo sapiens in the Late Pleistocene.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Wonderful HEAS Road Trip to Willendorf, Nussdorf and Traismauer! - We explored the prehistoric and Roman archaeology of the Traisen and Wachau valleys.
@heasvienna.bsky.social @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social @dominikhartmann.bsky.social @uhaunivienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @palarchgroup.bsky.social
@heasvienna.bsky.social @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social @dominikhartmann.bsky.social @uhaunivienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @palarchgroup.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Wonderful HEAS Road Trip to Willendorf, Nussdorf and Traismauer! - We explored the prehistoric and Roman archaeology of the Traisen and Wachau valleys.
@heasvienna.bsky.social @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social @dominikhartmann.bsky.social @uhaunivienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @palarchgroup.bsky.social
@heasvienna.bsky.social @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social @dominikhartmann.bsky.social @uhaunivienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @palarchgroup.bsky.social
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HEAS Member @philipnigst.bsky.social has been awarded an FWF grant for the project “Residential Mobility in Upper Palaeolithic Europe”
@palarchgroup.bsky.social
@uhaunivienna.bsky.social
@fwf-at.bsky.social
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HEAS Member awarded FWF grant for project “Residential Mobility in Upper Palaeolithic Europe” - HEAS
HEAS Team Leader Philip R. Nigst has been awarded an FWF Principal Investigator grant for his project REMO (Residential Mobility in Upper Palaeolithic Europe) along with collaborators Marjolein D. Bos...
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September 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
HEAS Member @philipnigst.bsky.social has been awarded an FWF grant for the project “Residential Mobility in Upper Palaeolithic Europe”
@palarchgroup.bsky.social
@uhaunivienna.bsky.social
@fwf-at.bsky.social
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@palarchgroup.bsky.social
@uhaunivienna.bsky.social
@fwf-at.bsky.social
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Cut from the same cloth?
Comparing Neanderthal processing of faunal resources at Amud and Kebara caves (Israel) through cut-marks analyses 🏺🧪
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
Suggests distinctive butchering between Amud and Kebara caves despite comparable occupation, lithics, and resources.
Comparing Neanderthal processing of faunal resources at Amud and Kebara caves (Israel) through cut-marks analyses 🏺🧪
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
Suggests distinctive butchering between Amud and Kebara caves despite comparable occupation, lithics, and resources.
September 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Cut from the same cloth?
Comparing Neanderthal processing of faunal resources at Amud and Kebara caves (Israel) through cut-marks analyses 🏺🧪
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
Suggests distinctive butchering between Amud and Kebara caves despite comparable occupation, lithics, and resources.
Comparing Neanderthal processing of faunal resources at Amud and Kebara caves (Israel) through cut-marks analyses 🏺🧪
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
Suggests distinctive butchering between Amud and Kebara caves despite comparable occupation, lithics, and resources.
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Very excited to receive an ERC Starting Grant to study the earliest archaeological and biomolecular evidence of Homo sapiens in NW Europe
Watch this space for new positions in Bristol in 2026! 🎉
#HorizonEurope #ERCStG
Watch this space for new positions in Bristol in 2026! 🎉
#HorizonEurope #ERCStG
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
September 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Very excited to receive an ERC Starting Grant to study the earliest archaeological and biomolecular evidence of Homo sapiens in NW Europe
Watch this space for new positions in Bristol in 2026! 🎉
#HorizonEurope #ERCStG
Watch this space for new positions in Bristol in 2026! 🎉
#HorizonEurope #ERCStG
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Considering the EAA’s contradictory statements and its position of holding volunteers responsible for limiting free speech, shaming the professional class, I will not present this year, will not renew my membership, and call for the Executive Board’s resignation.
September 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Considering the EAA’s contradictory statements and its position of holding volunteers responsible for limiting free speech, shaming the professional class, I will not present this year, will not renew my membership, and call for the Executive Board’s resignation.