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In @nature.com we show that humans lived in rainforests ~150,000 years ago – over double the previous oldest estimate. Their presence in West Africa’s rainforests demonstrates the spread of early humans and places ecological diversity at the heart of our species. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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(1/9) I’m hiring! Join my ‘Terraform’ ERC project at the University of Malta, looking at the origin, evolution, and impacts of agricultural terracing in the Maltese Islands. Please circulate to anyone you think could be interested. Starting in the summer.

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Great to have @hcadd.bsky.social visit GNS this past week! 🧪 We've converted the code we developed for Cadd et al. (2021) into an R package. doi.org/10.1017/qua.... Conduct monte-carlo changepoint analysis on paleoclimate data, with age uncertainty! github.com/h-cadd/MCCPT

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Dr. Carl Heron, Director of Scientific Research at the British Museum, will give this year's Archaeometry Lecture at the HB Allen Centre, Oxford. 5pm.13th March

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Research Fellow at UCL - From correlations to explanations: towards a new European prehistory www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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For those of you not on the 14C mailing list, click on the link to find out more about this Royal Society event on 'Radiocarbon and cosmic radiation events'. 27-28 May in Edinburgh. Organised by the lovely Mike Dee, Margot Kuitems & company👇 royalsociety.org/science-even...

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M'colleague Mark Thomas has a new position in our lab, in European pre-history evolution, exploring patterns of co-variation in genetic, archaeological and environmental data using a range of statistical method. Come and join us. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Want to know how we use radiocarbon dating to tell how old buildings are? Tune into BBC Radio Bristol today during lunchtime to hear our own, @lorenabecval.bsky.social, a radiocarbon specialist and archaeological scientist, explain it all! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Looking to start a PhD? Want to work with us on the Gippsland coast of Australia to study how people interacted with marine molluscs over thousands of years? If so, get in touch! Deadline for applications is 27 March, 2025. #Archaeology #biodiversity #PhD www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

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Registration for the Radiocarbon Short Course will close 28/02. Come along if you would like to learn a bit more about radiocarbon as a dating technique or as a tracer, or you would like some training on OxCal; conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/shor... @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @isotopesuk.bsky.social

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🌍 How did #Afrotheria evolve and spread across Southeastern Africa? ICArEHB seeks a PhD candidate for #FCTPhDFellowships to study the evolution and #biogeography of these mammals, supervised by René Bobe. 🔗 More info www.icarehb.com/fct-phd-fell... #PhDOpportunity #Archaeology

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🌍 How did #LatePleistocene caves shape #humanevolution in Southeast Africa? ICArEHB seeks a PhD candidate for #FCTPhDFellowships to study caves and #paleoenvironments in the region, supervised by Frederico Tátá Regala. 🔗 www.icarehb.com/fct-phd-fell... #PhDOpportunity #Archaeology

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JOB! A brilliant looking post doc in the SCAPES project www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... #archaeology 🧪🏺

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Check out our new Departmental video! It's been an absolute pleasure working with two Film & TV students to create content and show off our department, staff, students and degrees! More clips to come. It's time to get to know the staff... 🤔🙂

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A new opportunity to work with our expanding #eDNA and #biodiversity lab as a postdoc looking at human impacts across space and time with terrestrial airborne eDNA. UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship funded opportunity based at the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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📢 We're hiring! Join the CBA as our Youth Engagement Officer and support the Young Archaeologists’ Club and wider youth programmes. 📍 Remote (occasional travel) 💰 £27,000 FTE ⏳ Full-time, 2-year contract 📅 Apply by 5th March 2025 Find out more 👉 https://buff.ly/3X2Gbvs

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New round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for tenure track group leaders in @maxplanck.de institutes opened today -- please consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. Because diversity increases excellence! www.mpg.de/lise-meitner...

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📢 Job running the MICADAS and other IonPlus equipment for 14C dating at Yale 👇🏽 sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

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Research Fellow in Archaeobotany at @uclarchaeology.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Congrats, Beth! 🙌🙌🙌

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Nominations are now open for the Trust’s Philip Leverhulme Prizes, which are awarded in six broad subject areas and worth £100,000 each for two to three years. Deadline Wednesday 14 May 2025, 4pm. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/philip-lever...

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Job Opportunity! We’re looking for an Archaeologist Project Manager to project manage the testing and development of an Archaeological Research Centre concept – on the Attingham estate: careers.nationaltrust.org.uk/OA_HTML/a/?_...

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Working with two amazing Film & TV 3rd-year undergrad students from @bristoluni.bsky.social to create social media content for our department, @bristolantharch.bsky.social. Today they filmed staff members and flint knapping outside. Great content coming soon! 🎥 📺

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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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ICArEHB is looking for PhD candidates! We are accepting applicants for the 2025 FCT PhD Fellowships Programme! Swipe through the images to explore potential project themes and supervisors. For more details, visit: www.icarehb.com/fct-phd-fell... #FCTPhDFellowships #ICArEHB #ResearchOpportunity

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Job alert! We seek to appoint a new Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology in the School of Biological Sciences, find out more at the link below! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

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Attention to this video by @umbamoxos.bsky.social explaining today's article in Nature providing hard evidence that the pre-Columbian Amazonia was populated by advanced agricultural societies managing the landscape for monocultures of corn with two harvests per year.🤯 youtu.be/NdV-C_t_SV0?...

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Does your project need some 14C dates? The next deadline for NEIF is 26th March. Please get in contact if you are thinking of applying. Open to PIs, post-docs and students. 1-99 dates. You can even come to the lab to work on your own samples if you'd like. www.isotopesuk.org/apply.html

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A few more days to apply! Together with @jcsvenning.bsky.social and as part of @econovoau.bsky.social we're offering this fab 2-yr postdoc position: international.au.dk/about/profil...

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First post here to promote a wonderful new paper, which I am happy to be a part of. This work was led by an amazing MPI researcher, Michael Ziegler, who is a joy to work with! Thanks to him and the team for the collaboration. Read up for isotopes in 🇨🇴👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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