Enza Spinapolice
@enzaspinapolice.bsky.social
Evolutionary Archaeologist | Palaeolithic Professor in Sapienza, Rome | Lithics nerd
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“Archeaology is the only way to reveal the life and death of the nameless masses”.
F. Simon, student of the “Archeology of Human Diversity” course.
F. Simon, student of the “Archeology of Human Diversity” course.
This sieve is soooo hard!
June 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This sieve is soooo hard!
June 4, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Hello,
Our paper on enamel proteins from Paranthropus robustus has finally been peer reviewed, please have a read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paranthropus robustus has been puzzling scientists since its discovery in 1938 in South Africa, where a high number of fossils have been found.
Our paper on enamel proteins from Paranthropus robustus has finally been peer reviewed, please have a read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paranthropus robustus has been puzzling scientists since its discovery in 1938 in South Africa, where a high number of fossils have been found.
Enamel proteins reveal biological sex and genetic variability in southern African Paranthropus
Paranthropus robustus is a morphologically well-documented Early Pleistocene hominin species from southern Africa with no genetic evidence reported so far. In this work, we describe the mass spectrome...
doi.org
May 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Hello,
Our paper on enamel proteins from Paranthropus robustus has finally been peer reviewed, please have a read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paranthropus robustus has been puzzling scientists since its discovery in 1938 in South Africa, where a high number of fossils have been found.
Our paper on enamel proteins from Paranthropus robustus has finally been peer reviewed, please have a read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paranthropus robustus has been puzzling scientists since its discovery in 1938 in South Africa, where a high number of fossils have been found.
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Yes for example, assuming the dot is actually deliberate, it's an interesting choice *not* to make a larger application of colour on that surface.
On the issue of faces I think we would need a bigger corpus of examples to be more confident that is what they're really doing
On the issue of faces I think we would need a bigger corpus of examples to be more confident that is what they're really doing
May 28, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Yes for example, assuming the dot is actually deliberate, it's an interesting choice *not* to make a larger application of colour on that surface.
On the issue of faces I think we would need a bigger corpus of examples to be more confident that is what they're really doing
On the issue of faces I think we would need a bigger corpus of examples to be more confident that is what they're really doing
Love the fingerprint and strongly doubt that the dot could be a “nose”. I am sincerely intrigued by the mental processes that lead to this interpretation 🤡 - Stephen King could have played a part?
May 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Love the fingerprint and strongly doubt that the dot could be a “nose”. I am sincerely intrigued by the mental processes that lead to this interpretation 🤡 - Stephen King could have played a part?
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Sunday sillies: Cite your sources edition (this from @iamhectordiaz.com)
May 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Sunday sillies: Cite your sources edition (this from @iamhectordiaz.com)
Planning two fields plus two conferences in a row and actually going for them 🙋🏻♀️
May 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Planning two fields plus two conferences in a row and actually going for them 🙋🏻♀️
I absolutely love this! Thanks @vivek123.bsky.social for sharing the interview with Richard Lee about the Men the Hunter book.
osf.io/preprints/os...
osf.io/preprints/os...
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osf.io
May 23, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I absolutely love this! Thanks @vivek123.bsky.social for sharing the interview with Richard Lee about the Men the Hunter book.
osf.io/preprints/os...
osf.io/preprints/os...
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#FossilFriday Not a great picture, but a historic comparison of the Omo Kibish 1 cranium (L) before it was returned to Ethiopia, with Kabwe @NHM. This shows the sapiens shape of Omo 1 in rear view.
May 23, 2025 at 6:55 AM
#FossilFriday Not a great picture, but a historic comparison of the Omo Kibish 1 cranium (L) before it was returned to Ethiopia, with Kabwe @NHM. This shows the sapiens shape of Omo 1 in rear view.
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Archeologists Join Geologists in the Quest to Define the Age of Humans www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
Archeologists Join Geologists in the Quest to Define the Age of Humans
A new archeology is being developed based on evidence of human activity in the Earth’s sedimentary record, and archeologists are helping to define the Anthropocene as a new stage in the geological rec...
www.resilience.org
May 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Archeologists Join Geologists in the Quest to Define the Age of Humans www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
Field season is ON 🤠
May 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Field season is ON 🤠
Tickets for Porto @ishpssb2025.bsky.social and Faro #Safa2025 booked, see you then my friends!
May 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Tickets for Porto @ishpssb2025.bsky.social and Faro #Safa2025 booked, see you then my friends!
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Lovely article and video interview for the exhibition I was involved in with Pietro Ruffo - Italian Artist Of The Year 2024 - that opened back in November : "L'ultimo meraviglioso minuto".
butterflyartnews.com/2025/01/12/p...
youtu.be/mXT_wy6OOCY
butterflyartnews.com/2025/01/12/p...
youtu.be/mXT_wy6OOCY
Pietro Ruffo's exhibition in Rome - L'ultimo meraviglioso minuto at Palazzo Esposizioni Roma
YouTube video by Butterfly Art News
youtu.be
April 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Lovely article and video interview for the exhibition I was involved in with Pietro Ruffo - Italian Artist Of The Year 2024 - that opened back in November : "L'ultimo meraviglioso minuto".
butterflyartnews.com/2025/01/12/p...
youtu.be/mXT_wy6OOCY
butterflyartnews.com/2025/01/12/p...
youtu.be/mXT_wy6OOCY
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Today, the 25th of April, in Italy 🇮🇹 we celebrate the #Liberation from NaziFascism. We celebrate to remember the people of the resistance, we celebrate to remember that we kicked fascists' asses once and we can do it again.
April 25, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Today, the 25th of April, in Italy 🇮🇹 we celebrate the #Liberation from NaziFascism. We celebrate to remember the people of the resistance, we celebrate to remember that we kicked fascists' asses once and we can do it again.
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April 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Did every civilization have inequality? New 10,000-year study reveals a surprising answer. www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Inequality isn't an inevitable aspect of society, 10,000 years of data reveals
A study of 50,000 houses from the late Pleistocene to the onset of European colonialism has revealed that social inequality isn't inevitable, but rather a consequence of political choices.
www.livescience.com
April 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Did every civilization have inequality? New 10,000-year study reveals a surprising answer. www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
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In @nature.com we report the presence of the Mesolithic on Malta - upending everything we knew about the seafaring capabilities of late European hunter-gatherers and pushing back Maltese prehistory by 1000 years. Watch the clip, link to open access paper is below. 1/5
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
In @nature.com we report the presence of the Mesolithic on Malta - upending everything we knew about the seafaring capabilities of late European hunter-gatherers and pushing back Maltese prehistory by 1000 years. Watch the clip, link to open access paper is below. 1/5
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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(1/13) A thread on our new paper just published in Nature, ‘Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years’. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years - Nature
A climatic record from desert speleothems shows that the central Arabian interior experienced recurrent humid intervals over the past 8 million years, which likely facilitated mammalian dispersals bet...
www.nature.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
(1/13) A thread on our new paper just published in Nature, ‘Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years’. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I'm still highly skeptical of #Naledi "engraving" claims.
Revisions in this are limited to context/discussion; avoid considering (beyond 1/2 sentence) that the features might be natural.
No new documentation or analysis at all.
And irrelevant comparison to Blombos painted stone is still there.
Revisions in this are limited to context/discussion; avoid considering (beyond 1/2 sentence) that the features might be natural.
No new documentation or analysis at all.
And irrelevant comparison to Blombos painted stone is still there.
Some ppl remain skeptical of the meaning of the H naledi “burials”. These striking engravings are even more enigmatic. Who made them and when?
Many people have been asking what the status of the Homo naledi engravings paper is. We were waiting for the burial paper to be reviewed before submitting and now the revised version has been submitted to eLife for review but you can read it here www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I'm still highly skeptical of #Naledi "engraving" claims.
Revisions in this are limited to context/discussion; avoid considering (beyond 1/2 sentence) that the features might be natural.
No new documentation or analysis at all.
And irrelevant comparison to Blombos painted stone is still there.
Revisions in this are limited to context/discussion; avoid considering (beyond 1/2 sentence) that the features might be natural.
No new documentation or analysis at all.
And irrelevant comparison to Blombos painted stone is still there.
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New Preprint! 🦧 Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials! Summary in 🧵
Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials
Humans accumulate extensive repertoires of culturally-transmitted information, reaching breadths exceeding any individual’s innovation capacity (culturally-dependent repertoires). It is unclear whethe...
www.researchsquare.com
April 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
New Preprint! 🦧 Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials! Summary in 🧵
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Our new paper reports a complete Quina technological system in the 60-50 ka assemblage at Longtan, Southwest China
Ruan, Q. et al. (2025) Quina lithic technology indicates diverse Late Pleistocene human dynamics in East Asia doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
🆓 faculty.washington.edu/bmarwick/PDF...
Ruan, Q. et al. (2025) Quina lithic technology indicates diverse Late Pleistocene human dynamics in East Asia doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
🆓 faculty.washington.edu/bmarwick/PDF...
March 31, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Our new paper reports a complete Quina technological system in the 60-50 ka assemblage at Longtan, Southwest China
Ruan, Q. et al. (2025) Quina lithic technology indicates diverse Late Pleistocene human dynamics in East Asia doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
🆓 faculty.washington.edu/bmarwick/PDF...
Ruan, Q. et al. (2025) Quina lithic technology indicates diverse Late Pleistocene human dynamics in East Asia doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
🆓 faculty.washington.edu/bmarwick/PDF...
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Interested in the #archaeology of conflict? Check out our #ConflictArchaeology collection, with #OpenAccess content such as:
Iraq's most famous early Islamic conquest site
Arrowheads from the Tollense Valley
Destruction of Ukrainian heritage
& more! 🏺
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Iraq's most famous early Islamic conquest site
Arrowheads from the Tollense Valley
Destruction of Ukrainian heritage
& more! 🏺
buff.ly/PbuQ20t
March 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Interested in the #archaeology of conflict? Check out our #ConflictArchaeology collection, with #OpenAccess content such as:
Iraq's most famous early Islamic conquest site
Arrowheads from the Tollense Valley
Destruction of Ukrainian heritage
& more! 🏺
buff.ly/PbuQ20t
Iraq's most famous early Islamic conquest site
Arrowheads from the Tollense Valley
Destruction of Ukrainian heritage
& more! 🏺
buff.ly/PbuQ20t
More for #LithicsNerd 🤓
Our new paper on 3D GM has all the models and script available for others to apply our method. We use it to demonstrate interregional variability of Nubian Levallois cores but it has broader potential for lithic studies #openscience #archaeology #3DGM @icarehb.bsky.social @jmcascalheira.bsky.social
📢 We have a new paper out!! Led by the incredible @eshallinan.bsky.social we introduce a novel application of three-dimensional geometric morphometrics (GM) to quantify the shape variability of Nubian Levallois cores. #archaeology #openscience @icarehb.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
March 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
More for #LithicsNerd 🤓
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Yohannes Haile-Selassie wants to shift the trajectory of palaeoanthropology in fossil-rich Ethiopia away from its long colonial heritage
https://go.nature.com/4iEQTkE
https://go.nature.com/4iEQTkE
Why Africans should be telling the story of human origins
Yohannes Haile-Selassie wants to shift the trajectory of palaeoanthropology in fossil-rich Ethiopia away from its long colonial heritage.
go.nature.com
March 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Yohannes Haile-Selassie wants to shift the trajectory of palaeoanthropology in fossil-rich Ethiopia away from its long colonial heritage
https://go.nature.com/4iEQTkE
https://go.nature.com/4iEQTkE