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News from the 🇪🇺 @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant project "PalaeoEcology and OPen-LandscapE adaptations of Pleistocene humans in South Africa" (PEOPLE) — PI: @michaeltoffolo.bsky.social
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Southern African Field Archaeology
The semi-arid grasslands of the Free State Province of South Africa have produced the earliest evidence of the presence of Homo sapiens in the subcontinent, together with an extensive Pleistocene pala...
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📢New publication on the archaeological survey of the Modder River dongas led by Dr Felipe Cuartero, published in Southern African Field Archaeology. Available in open access👇
doi.org/10.36615/saf...
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This week we attended #ESHE2025 in Paris 🇨🇵, where we presented results from the Modder and Riet rivers, Baden-Baden 2, and Florisbad. Great to see colleagues and learn about their research!
@archeosciences-bordeaux.fr @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
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September 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This week we attended #ESHE2025 in Paris 🇨🇵, where we presented results from the Modder and Riet rivers, Baden-Baden 2, and Florisbad. Great to see colleagues and learn about their research!
@archeosciences-bordeaux.fr @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
@archeosciences-bordeaux.fr @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
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#ESEHE2025
Mailys Richard ‘A revised chronology for the Middle Pleistocene sedimentary sequence of Florisbad, South Africa’
Prev fossil hom (eSapiens): OSL & ESR- 279-228 ka
NEW OSL, TT-OSL & pIRIR290: range of dates – most likely MIS6
But only if prov of cran in Unit M
Mailys Richard ‘A revised chronology for the Middle Pleistocene sedimentary sequence of Florisbad, South Africa’
Prev fossil hom (eSapiens): OSL & ESR- 279-228 ka
NEW OSL, TT-OSL & pIRIR290: range of dates – most likely MIS6
But only if prov of cran in Unit M
September 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
#ESEHE2025
Mailys Richard ‘A revised chronology for the Middle Pleistocene sedimentary sequence of Florisbad, South Africa’
Prev fossil hom (eSapiens): OSL & ESR- 279-228 ka
NEW OSL, TT-OSL & pIRIR290: range of dates – most likely MIS6
But only if prov of cran in Unit M
Mailys Richard ‘A revised chronology for the Middle Pleistocene sedimentary sequence of Florisbad, South Africa’
Prev fossil hom (eSapiens): OSL & ESR- 279-228 ka
NEW OSL, TT-OSL & pIRIR290: range of dates – most likely MIS6
But only if prov of cran in Unit M
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August 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Check out a new article by project member Dr @benoitlonget.bsky.social about the MSA lithic assemblage of Rhafas Cave, Morocco, which is part of his PhD research 👇
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Lithic analysis of the north African Middle Stone age from the Rhafas cave sequence
Rhafas Cave provides one of the rare dated sequences from MIS 5 in northern Morocco, showcasing a wide variety of lithic industries. Initially discove…
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July 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Check out a new article by project member Dr @benoitlonget.bsky.social about the MSA lithic assemblage of Rhafas Cave, Morocco, which is part of his PhD research 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This week we attended #SAfA2025 in Faro 🇵🇹 to present results from Baden-Baden 2 and the Modder River. It was great to meet colleagues who conduct exciting research in Africa!
See you at ESHE in Paris!
@erc.europa.eu @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @archeosciences-bordeaux.fr
See you at ESHE in Paris!
@erc.europa.eu @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @archeosciences-bordeaux.fr
July 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This week we attended #SAfA2025 in Faro 🇵🇹 to present results from Baden-Baden 2 and the Modder River. It was great to meet colleagues who conduct exciting research in Africa!
See you at ESHE in Paris!
@erc.europa.eu @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @archeosciences-bordeaux.fr
See you at ESHE in Paris!
@erc.europa.eu @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @archeosciences-bordeaux.fr
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New paper from our project 📢
Inèz Faul et al. "Dune, outcrop, and pan sediments from the southern Kalahari Basin: A geoarchaeological case study from the Kgalagadi district, Botswana" in Southern African Field Archaeology. #openaccess #Geoarchaeology 🦣🇧🇼
Link 👇
doi.org/10.36615/saf...
Inèz Faul et al. "Dune, outcrop, and pan sediments from the southern Kalahari Basin: A geoarchaeological case study from the Kgalagadi district, Botswana" in Southern African Field Archaeology. #openaccess #Geoarchaeology 🦣🇧🇼
Link 👇
doi.org/10.36615/saf...
Southern African Field Archaeology
Research from the southern Kalahari Basin (previously considered to be of limited Pleistocene archaeological significance) has provided evidence of human occupation. Surveys and excavations conducted ...
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July 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
New paper from our project 📢
Inèz Faul et al. "Dune, outcrop, and pan sediments from the southern Kalahari Basin: A geoarchaeological case study from the Kgalagadi district, Botswana" in Southern African Field Archaeology. #openaccess #Geoarchaeology 🦣🇧🇼
Link 👇
doi.org/10.36615/saf...
Inèz Faul et al. "Dune, outcrop, and pan sediments from the southern Kalahari Basin: A geoarchaeological case study from the Kgalagadi district, Botswana" in Southern African Field Archaeology. #openaccess #Geoarchaeology 🦣🇧🇼
Link 👇
doi.org/10.36615/saf...
And it's a wrap! After 7 weeks of fieldwork filled with discoveries and new encounters, the team has returned to Bordeaux.
See you soon at SAfA 2025 in Portugal!
See you soon at SAfA 2025 in Portugal!
July 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
And it's a wrap! After 7 weeks of fieldwork filled with discoveries and new encounters, the team has returned to Bordeaux.
See you soon at SAfA 2025 in Portugal!
See you soon at SAfA 2025 in Portugal!
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📣 Find out all about funding opportunities, grant budgets, competition schedules, and eligibility rules for ERC research funding in the coming year. The 2026 ERC Work Programme has been adopted!
👉 europa.eu/!qhVTkt
New to the ERC? Watch our webinar Thursday 10th July @ 15:00 CEST europa.eu/!3rGdWB
👉 europa.eu/!qhVTkt
New to the ERC? Watch our webinar Thursday 10th July @ 15:00 CEST europa.eu/!3rGdWB
July 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
📣 Find out all about funding opportunities, grant budgets, competition schedules, and eligibility rules for ERC research funding in the coming year. The 2026 ERC Work Programme has been adopted!
👉 europa.eu/!qhVTkt
New to the ERC? Watch our webinar Thursday 10th July @ 15:00 CEST europa.eu/!3rGdWB
👉 europa.eu/!qhVTkt
New to the ERC? Watch our webinar Thursday 10th July @ 15:00 CEST europa.eu/!3rGdWB
While part of the team works at the Riet River, Dr Benoit Longet conducts the survey of the Vet River to find new archaeological sites. 🔍
@archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
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July 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
While part of the team works at the Riet River, Dr Benoit Longet conducts the survey of the Vet River to find new archaeological sites. 🔍
@archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
@archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
Sample collection continues on the Riet River terraces! ⛏️
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June 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Sample collection continues on the Riet River terraces! ⛏️
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This week the team started the collection of samples to establish the chronology of the Riet River terraces.
@archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
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June 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This week the team started the collection of samples to establish the chronology of the Riet River terraces.
@archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
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Proudly introduce BREATHE, a project investigating late Quaternary human behavior in the Sahara. Funded by #HorizonEurope - ERA Postdoctoral Fellowships, BREATHE is based at the University of Algarve’s fabulous #ICArEHB and partnered with #Sapienza University of Rome.
BREATHE
BREATHE aims to contribute a new understanding of cultural and behavioral traits of North African early modern humans through the archaeological record of the central and northern Sahara
The project'...
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June 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Proudly introduce BREATHE, a project investigating late Quaternary human behavior in the Sahara. Funded by #HorizonEurope - ERA Postdoctoral Fellowships, BREATHE is based at the University of Algarve’s fabulous #ICArEHB and partnered with #Sapienza University of Rome.
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Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC?
From the next application rounds, expect changes to the:
• proposal structure
• evaluation process
• extra funding you can request
• eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027)
More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv
From the next application rounds, expect changes to the:
• proposal structure
• evaluation process
• extra funding you can request
• eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027)
More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv
Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes
With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...
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June 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC?
From the next application rounds, expect changes to the:
• proposal structure
• evaluation process
• extra funding you can request
• eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027)
More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv
From the next application rounds, expect changes to the:
• proposal structure
• evaluation process
• extra funding you can request
• eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027)
More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv
This week the team started excavations at a new Acheulean/Fauresmith locality in the Free State together with Dr Darya Presnyakova and Dr Will Archer
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June 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This week the team started excavations at a new Acheulean/Fauresmith locality in the Free State together with Dr Darya Presnyakova and Dr Will Archer
@archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
@archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
📢New publication on the archaeological survey of the Modder River dongas led by Dr Felipe Cuartero, published in Southern African Field Archaeology. Available in open access👇
doi.org/10.36615/saf...
@archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social
doi.org/10.36615/saf...
@archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social
Southern African Field Archaeology
The semi-arid grasslands of the Free State Province of South Africa have produced the earliest evidence of the presence of Homo sapiens in the subcontinent, together with an extensive Pleistocene pala...
doi.org
May 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
📢New publication on the archaeological survey of the Modder River dongas led by Dr Felipe Cuartero, published in Southern African Field Archaeology. Available in open access👇
doi.org/10.36615/saf...
@archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social
doi.org/10.36615/saf...
@archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social
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Only 5 weeks to go until we welcome our team and collaborators to Kiel @uni-kiel.de for our project workshop! Part of the workshop will be a public talk "A perspective on human evolution from the southern Kalahari" by @isotopesrule.bsky.social that can be followed online (see poster for details).
May 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Only 5 weeks to go until we welcome our team and collaborators to Kiel @uni-kiel.de for our project workshop! Part of the workshop will be a public talk "A perspective on human evolution from the southern Kalahari" by @isotopesrule.bsky.social that can be followed online (see poster for details).
The team is back at Florisbad for the 2025 season! @archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy
May 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The team is back at Florisbad for the 2025 season! @archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy
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It's finally published! My first #biomarker paper combining sediment n-alkane isotopes closely with cultural changes at #WonderwerkCave 🇿🇦 Fantastic work with @ogratsara.bsky.social from @icarehb.bsky.social as well as co-authors from @uni-kiel.de, @uoft.bsky.social & more. Link: rdcu.be/ejq7j
A holocene n-alkane stable isotope record from Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa and its implications for the later stone age record
Scientific Reports - A holocene n-alkane stable isotope record from Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa and its implications for the later stone age record
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April 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
It's finally published! My first #biomarker paper combining sediment n-alkane isotopes closely with cultural changes at #WonderwerkCave 🇿🇦 Fantastic work with @ogratsara.bsky.social from @icarehb.bsky.social as well as co-authors from @uni-kiel.de, @uoft.bsky.social & more. Link: rdcu.be/ejq7j
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This site has the oldest haematite pigment in the world, from Fauresmith levels probably half a million years old.
April 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This site has the oldest haematite pigment in the world, from Fauresmith levels probably half a million years old.
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Poster collected and it looks great! All ready for the #HugoObermaier meeting next week at @icarehb.bsky.social 🇵🇹. I am excited to present the first biomarker record at a hominin fossil site in #SouthAfrica 🇿🇦, great collaborative work with the @people-erc-stg.bsky.social team.
April 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Poster collected and it looks great! All ready for the #HugoObermaier meeting next week at @icarehb.bsky.social 🇵🇹. I am excited to present the first biomarker record at a hominin fossil site in #SouthAfrica 🇿🇦, great collaborative work with the @people-erc-stg.bsky.social team.
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How can Europe become more competitive? 🌍
Join the debate with scientists including Robbert Dijkgraaf, #Nobel laureate Ben Feringa, industry leaders and policymakers. How can frontier science drive innovation?
🗓️10 April 16.30
Livestream & in-person: europa.eu/!WQn96Y 🇪🇺
Join the debate with scientists including Robbert Dijkgraaf, #Nobel laureate Ben Feringa, industry leaders and policymakers. How can frontier science drive innovation?
🗓️10 April 16.30
Livestream & in-person: europa.eu/!WQn96Y 🇪🇺
April 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
How can Europe become more competitive? 🌍
Join the debate with scientists including Robbert Dijkgraaf, #Nobel laureate Ben Feringa, industry leaders and policymakers. How can frontier science drive innovation?
🗓️10 April 16.30
Livestream & in-person: europa.eu/!WQn96Y 🇪🇺
Join the debate with scientists including Robbert Dijkgraaf, #Nobel laureate Ben Feringa, industry leaders and policymakers. How can frontier science drive innovation?
🗓️10 April 16.30
Livestream & in-person: europa.eu/!WQn96Y 🇪🇺
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While our team is wrapping up lithic analysis at University of #Botswana this week we are also getting ready to present at the #KielConference next week organised by @clusterroots.bsky.social at @uni-kiel.de. We have a poster and a talk, stay tuned for details next week! 🏺🦣
March 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
While our team is wrapping up lithic analysis at University of #Botswana this week we are also getting ready to present at the #KielConference next week organised by @clusterroots.bsky.social at @uni-kiel.de. We have a poster and a talk, stay tuned for details next week! 🏺🦣