Enrico R. Crema
@ercrema.bsky.social
Quantitative Methods, Prehistoric Demography, Cultural Evolution and random stuff. Professor of Quantitative and Comparative Archaeology @cam-archaeology.bsky.social https://ercrema.github.io/
😁 Very happy about this and looking forward to working with old and new colleagues!!!
We are delighted that three Cambridge Archaeologists have been awarded @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grants; Prof Enrico Crema as co-PI of FORAGER, and Dr Stefania Merlo and Prof Paul Lane as collaborators of the AFRI-CAN Project.
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📸 Xtra Inc. and Rob Marchant
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📸 Xtra Inc. and Rob Marchant
November 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
😁 Very happy about this and looking forward to working with old and new colleagues!!!
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Honored (and surprised!) to receive a Philip Leverhulme Prize, but grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk and @cam-archaeology.bsky.social for their support.
We are delighted to share that Dr John Rowan @jjrowan.bsky.social has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize by the @leverhulme.ac.uk
👉 Find out more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid...
👉 Find out more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid...
October 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Honored (and surprised!) to receive a Philip Leverhulme Prize, but grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk and @cam-archaeology.bsky.social for their support.
Congratulations to all of the Philip Leverhulme Prize winners - so well deserved!!! 🎉. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2025PLP
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October 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Congratulations to all of the Philip Leverhulme Prize winners - so well deserved!!! 🎉. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2025PLP
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Fully-funded 4-year #PhD in Cultural Evolution! Join my @erc.europa.eu project exploring how compression & compositionality drive cultural innovation: hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur...
Apply by Nov 12!
Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏
Apply by Nov 12!
Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏
ERC funded PhD position on Cultural Evolution
ERC funded PhD position on Cultural Evolution
posted on October 16, 2025
We are currently seeking a highly motivated individual for a ful...
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October 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Fully-funded 4-year #PhD in Cultural Evolution! Join my @erc.europa.eu project exploring how compression & compositionality drive cultural innovation: hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur...
Apply by Nov 12!
Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏
Apply by Nov 12!
Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏
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Please join us online or in person for this term's Garrod Seminar Series 'Consumed by time: Past foodways in practice' @cam-archaeology.bsky.social.
We are delighted to have an amazing line up of experts in their field speaking. More details here: talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/1...
We are delighted to have an amazing line up of experts in their field speaking. More details here: talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/1...
October 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Please join us online or in person for this term's Garrod Seminar Series 'Consumed by time: Past foodways in practice' @cam-archaeology.bsky.social.
We are delighted to have an amazing line up of experts in their field speaking. More details here: talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/1...
We are delighted to have an amazing line up of experts in their field speaking. More details here: talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/1...
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Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology in Early Holocene Africa in Nature Communications by Rocco Rotunno & Enrico Crema
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Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology in Early Holocene Africa in Nature Communications by Rocco Rotunno & Enrico Crema
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October 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology in Early Holocene Africa in Nature Communications by Rocco Rotunno & Enrico Crema
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Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology in Early Holocene Africa in Nature Communications by Rocco Rotunno & Enrico Crema
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We are hiring a Project Co-ordinator! 🚨
Are you extremely organised with great interpersonal skills?
Able to multitask efficiently?
Interested in African prehistory?
Keen to work with an enthusiastic team?
We want to hear from you!
Closing date: 17 October, 2025
Are you extremely organised with great interpersonal skills?
Able to multitask efficiently?
Interested in African prehistory?
Keen to work with an enthusiastic team?
We want to hear from you!
Closing date: 17 October, 2025
Project Coordinator (Fixed Term)
Applications are invited for a 12-month Project Co-ordinator position on the NG'IPALAJEM project, funded by the ERC. The project aims at collecting new palaeontological, archaeological and geological
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October 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
We are hiring a Project Co-ordinator! 🚨
Are you extremely organised with great interpersonal skills?
Able to multitask efficiently?
Interested in African prehistory?
Keen to work with an enthusiastic team?
We want to hear from you!
Closing date: 17 October, 2025
Are you extremely organised with great interpersonal skills?
Able to multitask efficiently?
Interested in African prehistory?
Keen to work with an enthusiastic team?
We want to hear from you!
Closing date: 17 October, 2025
⚠️Paper Alert!⚠️
Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion
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Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion
rdcu.be/eJi3g
Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology in Early Holocene Africa
Nature Communications - Several possible points of origin have been proposed for the spread of ceramic technology in Saharan Africa between 11–10,000 years ago. Here, the authors...
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October 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
⚠️Paper Alert!⚠️
Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion
rdcu.be/eJi3g
Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion
rdcu.be/eJi3g
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PhD Studentship alert!
I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia.
Details in the link below!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia.
Details in the link below!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
University assistant predoctoral 1
University assistant predoctoral 1
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September 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
PhD Studentship alert!
I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia.
Details in the link below!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia.
Details in the link below!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
The next CAA-UK will be hosted by @cam-archaeology.bsky.social ! Very much looking forward to hearing the latest research from the current and the next generation of computational and quantitative archaeologists (not just from the UK) : uk.caa-international.org/caa-uk-2025-2/ (deadline 29/9/2025)
Extended Call for Papers and Posters – CAA UK 2025 – CAA-UK
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September 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The next CAA-UK will be hosted by @cam-archaeology.bsky.social ! Very much looking forward to hearing the latest research from the current and the next generation of computational and quantitative archaeologists (not just from the UK) : uk.caa-international.org/caa-uk-2025-2/ (deadline 29/9/2025)
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BTC Call for Action - EAA
EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.
Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.
Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
September 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
BTC Call for Action - EAA
EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.
Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.
Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
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I'm pleased to share this new article by @svenkasser.bsky.social, Laura Fortunato @anthrolog.bsky.social, Marc Feldman and myself.
The article extends gene-culture coevolution to recognize evolutionary effects of culture arising through drift and migration.
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The article extends gene-culture coevolution to recognize evolutionary effects of culture arising through drift and migration.
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August 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I'm pleased to share this new article by @svenkasser.bsky.social, Laura Fortunato @anthrolog.bsky.social, Marc Feldman and myself.
The article extends gene-culture coevolution to recognize evolutionary effects of culture arising through drift and migration.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The article extends gene-culture coevolution to recognize evolutionary effects of culture arising through drift and migration.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Really cool study looking at how behaviour precedes morphological change across taxa - and implications for human evolution 💀🧪 massive congrats to all the authors, including @vivek123.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution
Dietary shifts and corresponding morphological changes can sometimes evolve in succession, not concurrently—an evolutionary process called behavioral drive. Detecting behavioral drive in the fossil re...
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August 1, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Really cool study looking at how behaviour precedes morphological change across taxa - and implications for human evolution 💀🧪 massive congrats to all the authors, including @vivek123.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge is looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Zooarchaeology.
📅 Closing date: 15 September
👉 More info and how to apply: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
The Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge is looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Zooarchaeology.
📅 Closing date: 15 September
👉 More info and how to apply: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor in Zooarchaeology (Human and Animal Relations in Prehistory)
The Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge seeks to appoint an Assistant Professor in Zooarchaeology, to start on 1 January 2026 or as soon thereafter as possible. Subject to
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August 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Lipid residue analysis reveals divergent culinary practices in Japan and Korea at the dawn of intensive agriculture in @pnas.org
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Lipid residue analysis reveals divergent culinary practices in Japan and Korea at the dawn of intensive agriculture in @pnas.org
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Bronze Age 'culinary traditions' in Japan and Korea explored through lipid analysis
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July 23, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Lipid residue analysis reveals divergent culinary practices in Japan and Korea at the dawn of intensive agriculture in @pnas.org
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Lipid residue analysis reveals divergent culinary practices in Japan and Korea at the dawn of intensive agriculture in @pnas.org
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Delighted to share the latest paper from the ENCOUNTER project led by Oliver Craig where we examined the divergence of culinary tradition in Japan and Korea around the turn of the 1st millennium BCE, when rice and millet farming were introduced in Japan
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Lipid residue analysis reveals divergent culinary practices in Japan and Korea at the dawn of intensive agriculture | PNAS
The dispersal of millet and rice agriculture from Korea to Japan from around 3,000
y ago has been well documented through radiocarbon analysis of b...
doi.org
July 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Delighted to share the latest paper from the ENCOUNTER project led by Oliver Craig where we examined the divergence of culinary tradition in Japan and Korea around the turn of the 1st millennium BCE, when rice and millet farming were introduced in Japan
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Congratulations to the winners of this year's Antiquity Prize! Their research explored the largest agricultural complex yet found in Africa beyond the Nile, uncovering a previously unknown Neolithic society in Morocco 🏺 #Archaeology
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Antiquity Prize 2025 awarded to the study of the Oued Beht site in Morocco, co-directed by the CNR | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
24/06/2025
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June 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Congratulations to the winners of this year's Antiquity Prize! Their research explored the largest agricultural complex yet found in Africa beyond the Nile, uncovering a previously unknown Neolithic society in Morocco 🏺 #Archaeology
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I'm happy to share this review article, where I attempt to ponder about missed opportunities in archaeological statistical modelling.
Statistical modelling in archaeology: some recent trends and future perspectives
This paper reviews the application of statistical models in archaeology in the last decade, focusing in particular on multilevel models, statistical t…
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June 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I'm happy to share this review article, where I attempt to ponder about missed opportunities in archaeological statistical modelling.
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👏 Dr @jasminevieri.bsky.social, Research Associate at the McDonald Institute, has received an Honourable Mention for the 2024 Journal of Archaeological Science (JAS) and Society for Archaeological Sciences (SAS) Emerging Investigator Award.
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/jasmine...
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/jasmine...
Dr Jasmine Vieri awarded Honourable Mention for Emerging Investigator Award
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June 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
👏 Dr @jasminevieri.bsky.social, Research Associate at the McDonald Institute, has received an Honourable Mention for the 2024 Journal of Archaeological Science (JAS) and Society for Archaeological Sciences (SAS) Emerging Investigator Award.
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/jasmine...
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Cambridge Archaeology graduate Jonathan R. Goodman has published a book: 'Invisible Rivals: How We Evolved to Compete in a Cooperative World'.
Available to purchase from Yale University Press: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Available to purchase from Yale University Press: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
June 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Cambridge Archaeology graduate Jonathan R. Goodman has published a book: 'Invisible Rivals: How We Evolved to Compete in a Cooperative World'.
Available to purchase from Yale University Press: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Available to purchase from Yale University Press: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
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Economic Inequality Over the Very Long Term: A PNAS Special Feature
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Economic Inequality Over the Very Long Term: A PNAS Special Feature
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Economic Inequality Over the Very Long Term: A PNAS Special Feature
A PNAS Special Feature
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April 22, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Economic Inequality Over the Very Long Term: A PNAS Special Feature
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Economic Inequality Over the Very Long Term: A PNAS Special Feature
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Write-up highlights the long-term social and economic consequences of global trade. Highlights the potential of #archaeology to help us understand linkages between productivity and inequality, and contribute to big #sustainability debates!
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Archeology reveals the long-term economic consequences of global trade
A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America uses archaeology to challenge long-held assumptions about global trade. Many economists think global ...
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April 16, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Write-up highlights the long-term social and economic consequences of global trade. Highlights the potential of #archaeology to help us understand linkages between productivity and inequality, and contribute to big #sustainability debates!
www.york.ac.uk/environment-...
www.york.ac.uk/environment-...
Delighted that this paper came out as part of a PNAS special feature on “The Global Dynamics of Inequality over the Long Term” where together with a team of 27 scientists we collected and analysed a sample of over 53,000 houses from all five continents.
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Toward multiscalar measures of inequality in archaeology | PNAS
The Gini coefficient is a statistical measure commonly used to characterize distributions
of socioeconomic quantities. Archaeologists and social sc...
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April 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Delighted that this paper came out as part of a PNAS special feature on “The Global Dynamics of Inequality over the Long Term” where together with a team of 27 scientists we collected and analysed a sample of over 53,000 houses from all five continents.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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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...
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Ruan, Q. et al. (2025) Quina lithic technology indicates diverse Late Pleistocene human dynamics in East Asia doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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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...
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Modelling the #demography of agricultural #transitions - a new potential standard tool for studying #prehistoric transitional periods. Study by @acortellnicolau.bsky.social, @ercrema.bsky.social, Javier Rivas & colleagues in @pnas.org. More: tinyurl.com/mvxxf65k & www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Modelling the demography of agricultural transitions
Researchers develop a new potential standard tool for studying prehistoric transitional periods
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April 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Modelling the #demography of agricultural #transitions - a new potential standard tool for studying #prehistoric transitional periods. Study by @acortellnicolau.bsky.social, @ercrema.bsky.social, Javier Rivas & colleagues in @pnas.org. More: tinyurl.com/mvxxf65k & www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...