Our next LEXA seminar will be a hot one🔥! With the wonderful @caromallol.bsky.social. Join us at 2pm (Lisbon time!) on Tuesday the 6th of May. Register here: www.icarehb.com/lexa/

JOB OPPORTUNITY at Tubingen🌟 !
Senior professorship in Human Ecology at Inst. Arch. Sciences & Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment. Will include additional scientific & technical staff members & an annual budget for the working group.
DEADLINE: 22nd May 2025

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/...

Thank you Ricardo for taking the trouble to interview me about my 'Evolution Evolving' book. I hope others enjoy the podcast.

www.thedissenter.net

Mi hermana @palomadelalasca.bsky.social en la radio sobre prehistoria, arqueología, Granada, etc: www.ivoox.com/en/granada-t...

Aquí un sobrevuelo de la necrópolis de los siglos I al V d.C.

Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies...
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

Scientists, given more time and flexibility, often stumble upon unexpected discoveries—like Alexander Fleming, who saw a mould had killed the bacteria he was growing, paving the way for antibiotics.

Recent study analysed such findings—more of them than you'd expect.
👉 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In a bit of personal news, today I join the @cnrs.bsky.social as Directeur de recherche at @archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy, @ubmontaigne.bsky.social. C'est parti !

Are you studying technological complexity in #archaeology? If so, here is an open call for a Special Issue on 'Technological Complexity & Archaeological Interpretation in the Deep Past' which I am co-editing in JAMT! More information here or contact me! link.springer.com/collections/... - Pls share!

So many firsts: The first first-author paper of my first PhD student is out! Reporting on the first stratified MSA open-air site of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Dug in the 1990s, now re-analyzed & dated, including refits! link.springer.com/article/10.1... #archaeology #anthropology #southafrica

The Society for American Archaeology has developed a Citation Style Language (CSL) to help authors format their references. This file works seamlessly with reference management software like Zotero or Mendeley. The SAA's CSL file can be accessed here or from github.com/citation-sty.... #publication

Ahora que la mayor parte del equipo editorial de Journal of Human Evolution ha dimitido, por la falta de buenas prácticas y el sometimiento a la empresa e intereses económicos, sería bueno recordar que el CSIC tiene Trabajos de Prehistoria

Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

🏺 Out today, a new #HumanOrigins podcast co-produced by the The Australian Museum, University of Sydney (@amymosigway.bsky.social ), and BreakThru productions, which I was happy to contribute to!
Available on your normal pod platforms
open.spotify.com/show/7w0YSkP...