Azykh Cave fieldwork (second trip of the year) is my contribution to Fieldwork Friday.

Happy to announce that a book I co-edited with @a-beyin.bsky.social won the best book award at the 2025 Society of Africanist Archaeologists conference in Faro, Portugal. Thanks to all of the contributors to the project. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Fieldwork in Mnaraeka and Kiuleule, Tanzania. Chasing the Early and Middle Stone Ages in alluvial fans dating to >240 to 20 ka.

Fieldwork at Ayzkh Cave, Azerbaijan. The CAUCUS project will be providing absolute ages and environmental context for the occupations there (probably >1 million years).

Gearing up for fieldwork in Ayzkh Cave, Azerbaijan. We are going to focus on geochronology and environmental reconstruction at this amazing site. @loopdlupien.bsky.social

This is from one of my students looking to expand his world. Please contact him at oscarsv@student.iakh.uio.no if you have an opening on one of your projects this year. I would definitely take him if I had any open slots.

The call for contributions to the 27th #SAfA2025 in Faro, Portugal (21-26 July 2025) has opened!
Join us in Session #46: Bridging Intergenerational Research on African Pleistocene Archaeology: Advances and remaining gaps. Submit your abstracts here: safa2025.icarehb.com

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We had a nice little workshop in Uppsala for #THOCA on Thursday December 5. We’re going to be re-writing the Paleolithic history of Central Asia with papers coming very soon. Visit www.thoca.org for more project details and project updates. @zandraselina.bsky.social

Happy to share the news of the previously unreported Middle Stone Age site of #Mnaraeka near #Kilwa, Tanzania. The research was published this week in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (www.sciencedirect.com/science/auth...).