Annoucning two sessions at CAA 2026, Vienna 🎉
📢 Call for papers is open — abstracts due Oct 26, 2025

🧩 S25: How to do ROAD – A Tool for Multidisciplinary Studies in Human Evolution
🗺️ S39: Palaeo-GIS

👉 Details & submission: 2026.caaconference.org/conference-s...

📄📢New article: Bader, Sommer, Linstädter, Masia, Blessing, Forrester, & MacDonald (2025). Decoding hunter-gatherer-knowledge and selective choice of lithic raw materials during the Middle and Later Stone Age in Eswatini. Journal of Archaeological Science, 180, 106302. doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

⏩Fast forward: You can easily create animated maps in R using data from the ROAD database @roceeh.bsky.social. This example shows the appearance (🔴) and deposition (⚫) of ~6000 dated assemblages with stone artifacts between 2,780,000 and 10,000 years BP.
💻 github.com/sommergeo/ro...

I'm very proud that Marie Luise Geisbusch, whose B.Sc. thesis I supervised, has been awarded the Sustainability Prize of the University of Tübingen for her thesis "Restoration Effects on Peatland Vegetation – Integrating Field and Landsat Data" 🌱🛰️

Ok, first bluesky post here: I'm excited to share our introductory paper on joint archaeology + geomorphology work in the Dongas of Jojosi, KwaZulu-Natal 🇿🇦. doi.org/10.36615/saf...