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Let’s chat about problems with “ancient aliens” 👽 headlines, shall we? Outlets are reporting Ancient Egyptians wore “Alien Jewelry”—after new analysis of iron beads made of meteorites. We’ve known for a long time that Egyptians crafted objects from meteorites. See www.livescience.com/36981-ancien...

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So, after some 3 years of work and the involvement of so many cool kids, this if finally out! This is a joint effort by yours truly, @carigol.bsky.social, Ismael Rodríguez-Palomo, Daniel Hromada, Raphael Kahlenberg, Alexes Mes, Deborah Priss, Peter Yaworsky + www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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I have been waiting to see the results of the ArchaeoRiddle challenge ever since I heard about it at an archaeology conference. Glad to see it's finally published! Also super happy to see an ABM used :) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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(1/27) Humans in rainforests….humans in deserts? A thread!

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📢Job📢 Post-Doc Research Fellow @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social 3 YR F/T £43,878 Leverhulme Trust-funded project: Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution Of Heritage-based Hostility On Social Media 😍 Researching the cultural evolution of archaeological information #archaeology 🏺⛏️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/p...

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Have you ever heard of a travois—one of the simplest prehistoric vehicles, made of two long poles attached in a V-shape? Turns out it’s way older than we thought! www.newscientist.com/article/2469...

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I am very pleased to share that Michigan Technological University is hosting a virtual career fair for job seekers in Cultural Resources Management ( #CRM ) and allied fields in the heritage sector! 1/x mtu.joinhandshake.com/stu/career_f...

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If you're into archaeology, the ancient world, and related fields, here are some starter packs you will like 🧵 1/? go.bsky.app/J2BAdwu

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The #2025MMM Bracket is LIVE!! We have a Player Portal for EVERYONE! We have a Learner Portal w/ pages for College, High School, Middle School, & K-5 students! We have an Educators Portal with those sweet sweet curricula materials! libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM... youtu.be/1QKQN1YC6zw?...

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Thrilled to share my 1st PhD's 1st publication at @liigh-unam.bsky.social. Anecdotally it is also my 1st paper as corresponding author from my group / the "Paloegenomics and Evolutionary Biology". shorturl.at/VumOq Let us know what you think about it.

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The Last Neanderthals 🏺🧪 Tristan Hughes delves into the fate of the last Neanderthals and continues the Ice Age mini-series with Professor Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social from the Natural History Museum @nhm-london.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪👇

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📢 New publication (OA) from our student Valentina Lubrano exploring the challenges of identifying Neanderthal occupation duration. Check it out! 🔍 #Archaeology #Neanderthals #Palaeolithic @icarehb.bsky.social @iphes-cerca.bsky.social #proudsupervisor link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Very proud of the incredible @rhigarthjones.bsky.social on her new book! She’s put so much time, thought and dedication into this - from the proposal to the final version - and it’s a really fresh take on why we’re so obsessed with the Roman Empire! 🏺 (p.s. it’s also available to pre-order now!)

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Obsidian preform with an incipient cone in the middle of it. 🏺🏺

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Skhul Cave is one of the most significant Middle Paleolithic sites in the Levant. But do you know how many human fossils were found there? 🤔 #FossilFriday fig. Skull of Skhul I (McCown and Keith, 1939)

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If you want to keep up with how the Trumpist dissolution of constitutional government is impacting the CRM industry, one source is the regular ACRA "Your Congress in Action" series. It's sort of hidden under the "ACRASPHERE" tab on the website, no account required. 🏺 acra-crm.org/your-congres...

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Exciting news - our first Speaker Series Event of 2025 is coming soon! Join @ldagg.bsky.social, @rdwambold.bsky.social, and @cultarchaeo.bsky.social on Feb 27, 3:30 pm MT, to hear about the different ways they examine landscapes in their research 🏺 Hybrid event, reg. required for online attendees 👇

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New #DNA research examines predecessors of Red Lady of El Mirón. #archeogenomics #sedaDNA #sediments #Pleistocene phys.org/news/2025-02...

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Extremely interesting site currently being investigated in the Sturgeon Lake First Nation near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, suggests Indigenous people settled down there 11kya. 🏺🧪

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We are officially coming off of X and focusing our efforts on fostering our archaeology community here! Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!🏺 #ancientbluesky #archaeology #classicsbluesky

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Who's ready for another round of identify the artefact? This time it's a curved metal bar of some kind found in an #archaeology site in southern Colorado. 🏺 Tagging a couple people below but feel free to reply-tag some more! @hknorton.bsky.social @folsom8k.bsky.social

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Where economic modeling meets mass extinction paleoecology, with implications for survival and disaster mitigation strategies. TL;DR: mobility is generally best except in the most extreme events, where prior investment in infrastructure is the only good option (but also most expensive).

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#Job 2-year postdoc position working on the The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans" (ROCEEH) database in Tübingen 🏺 🧪 🦣www.researchgate.net/job/1018917_Data_Curator_m_f_d_with_a_background_in_Palaeolithic_Archaeology

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I wrote a brief article on the challenge that AI presents to archaeological visualisation. Check it out here: theconversation.com/how-ai-image... Though I have done a lot of scicomm, it was the first time I'd written for The Conversation. 🏺 +

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Nice write-up in Popular Science on our recent article in SciAm! "In a global crisis, working harder isn’t the best solution" 🏺🧪 @felixthehauskat.bsky.social & Iza Romanowska www.popsci.com/science/work... Original paper is here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Interesting new review paper on reconstructing ancient genomes from sediment aka sedaDNA or eDNA. Appreciating the review given how fast this method is growing and changing 🏺 🧪 doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

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My first post on here and it's for a JOB ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣 The University of Tübingen is seeking to find a post-doctoral researcher for a 3-year position, funded through the DFG (13 TV-L, 39,5 h/week). More info here: tinyurl.com/4xbdya5t #archaeology #palaeoproteomics #job #ZooMS

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Here's my EXARC article that discusses a range of mashing in techniques for ancient and traditional farmhouse style ales. Understanding the processes enables us to interpret and recognise archaeological evidence for ale and beer brewing. 🏺 #archaeology of #ale www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Immersive tour of a Neolithic passage tomb from 5000 years ago! 🏺 #archaeology4kids

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One hundred years ago today, the incredible Taung Child was announced to the world. Surprisingly, the news of a new human ancestor didn't come from a journal but instead from a local newspaper. How Nature got scooped: 🧪 🏺 https://fossilhistory.wordpress.com/2016/02/03/taung-child/

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Citation is a timeless habit 🗺️. Just look at cartographical sources cited by famed Ottoman mapmaker Piri Reis in his 1513 atlas, which has a map of South America, where he puts in the margins he used around 20 sources, including 8 Ptolemaic maps u.osu.edu/wagner.19/ma... Also it’s on gazelle skin 🦌

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🏰 PhD position on computational modelling | collective dynamics | cultural evolution 🏰 Get in touch with any questions you might have and join me in beautiful Marburg! stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/c... (Deutsch) stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/3... (English)

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Huge, huge congratulations to my PhD student Benjamin Albouy (co-advised with A. Burke) for successfully defending his PhD thesis "Paléogéographie et dynamiques de peuplement des derniers Néandertaliens d'Europe (Stade isotopique marin 3; 60000 à 40000 ans avant le présent)." Bravo Dr. Albouy!!

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🏺🚨 New paper alert! 🚨🧪 Early Upper Palaeolithic marine mollusc exploitation at Riparo Bombrini (Balzi Rossi, Italy): shellfish consumption and ornament production. Interested in early Homo sapiens ornamentation and subsistence?... 1/n link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Perhaps a contributing factor to the decline of Neanderthals Rapid change in red cell blood group systems after the main Out of Africa of Homo sapiens🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... This likely led to hemolytic disease in offspring if a H. sapiens or Denisova male mated with a Neanderthal female

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Wake up, babe -- new footprints from the Avellino eruption just dropped! 🏺🧪👣

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