Martina Di Matteo
@martinadm.bsky.social
Post-Doc Research Fellow @SapienzaRoma.
Prehistoric and African zooarchaeologist.
Taphonomy, proteomics & stable isotopes.
Prehistoric and African zooarchaeologist.
Taphonomy, proteomics & stable isotopes.
Happy to share with you the new paper on taphonomy in arid environments in collaboration with my friend and colleague @roccoro.bsky.social. Check it out!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Shelters and bones: Site-specific archaeofaunal taphonomy for identifying formation processes in Saharan Holocene rock shelters - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
This study investigates natural syn- and post-depositional processes affecting terrestrial mammal bones from the Takarkori rock shelter in the hyper-arid Tadrart Acacus massif, south-western Libya. Th...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Happy to share with you the new paper on taphonomy in arid environments in collaboration with my friend and colleague @roccoro.bsky.social. Check it out!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by Martina Di Matteo
Happy and honoured to share this paper with @ercrema.bsky.social about pottery in Early Holocene Africa! Check out more in the thread!
⚠️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 3:03 PM
Happy and honoured to share this paper with @ercrema.bsky.social about pottery in Early Holocene Africa! Check out more in the thread!
Reposted by Martina Di Matteo
Hot off the press! A bioarchaeological study of medieval burials from northern Tunisia.
The medieval burial assemblage from Koudiet er Rammadiya, Northern Tunisia. An interdisciplinary bioarchaeological investigation - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
The osteological analysis of human skeletal assemblages offers crucial osteobiographical insights into ancient populations, yet remains largely unexplored in past Tunisia. This paper presents the firs...
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April 4, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Hot off the press! A bioarchaeological study of medieval burials from northern Tunisia.
Reposted by Martina Di Matteo