Paloma de la Peña
palomadelalasca.bsky.social
Paloma de la Peña
@palomadelalasca.bsky.social
Aspiring to the Golden Marshaltown
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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/
April 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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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
April 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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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
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Thank you Ricardo for taking the trouble to interview me about my 'Evolution Evolving' book. I hope others enjoy the podcast.

www.thedissenter.net
March 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Mi hermana @palomadelalasca.bsky.social en la radio sobre prehistoria, arqueología, Granada, etc: www.ivoox.com/en/granada-t...
March 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Aquí un sobrevuelo de la necrópolis de los siglos I al V d.C.
February 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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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
January 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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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...
February 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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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 !
February 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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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!
Technological Complexity and Archaeological Interpretation in the Deep Past
Complexity has been both an integral but also heavily debated concept within anthropology and archaeology since the disciplines' professionalization in the ...
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January 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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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
Revisited and Revalorised: Technological and Refitting Studies at the Middle Stone Age Open-Air Knapping Site Jojosi 1 (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology
The Middle Stone Age (MSA) of southern Africa is mainly known from rock shelters and caves. How early modern humans interacted with their landscapes remains comparatively understudied. The site of Joj...
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January 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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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
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January 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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
December 31, 2024 at 9:53 AM
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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.
December 26, 2024 at 4:52 PM
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🏺 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...
December 4, 2024 at 9:07 AM