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aalsgaard.bsky.social @aalsgaard.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Great way to end the second week! First in-situ ostrich eggshell of the season at Klipdrift Cave ~14,000 years ago. 🏺 #archaeology
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aalsgaard.bsky.social @aalsgaard.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
We ended the first week of excavations slowly uncovering Klipdrift Shelter (new sandbags at the ready!) Next week after another day or two we should be ready to begin excavations. I’ll be focusing on Klipdrift Cave where I’m hoping to find evidence of habitation during the Last Glacial Maximum. 🏺
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Alberto Bisin @albertobisin.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Great postodoc opportunities ... economics and archeology .... fascinating project .... please look www.origins-project.com/open-positions
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Open Positions
Postdoc in Archeology of Bronze Age Mesopotamia
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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Excellent! Just registered & looking forward to it. #archaeobirds #zooarchaeology 🏺
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aalsgaard.bsky.social @aalsgaard.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
We had a windy Wednesday (the toilet tents almost made an escape) but Thursday we made it to Klipdrift Cave and Shelter! We spent the day cleaning baboon poop, finding the old sand bags covering the site and testing the new walkway. We just need to watch the tide… #archaeology 🏺
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aalsgaard.bsky.social @aalsgaard.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
First day setting up camp! ⛺️ getting ready for archaeological 🏺excavations at Klipdrift Cave and Shelter in De Hoop nature reserve, South Africa.
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European Association of Archaeologists @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
🏺 We are pleased to inform you that the Call for Contributions deadline for 31st #EAA2025 Annual Meeting in Belgrade has been extended until Monday, 10 February 23:59 CET. We hope this extension provides you with the opportunity to finalize and submit your proposals. Details can be found in link.
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Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
#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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DATA CURATOR (M/F/D) WITH A BACKGROUND IN PALAEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY at Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Tübingen, GERMANY
Jan 28, 2025 | The project "The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans" (ROCEEH) is a research project of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences within the... | NEW JOB
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aalsgaard.bsky.social @aalsgaard.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Just a reminder abstracts due this week for the 2025 EAA archaeology annual meetings! 🏺 Consider submitting to our session below if you focused on hunter gatherers in aquatic environments (coastal, lake, riverine or other wise!)
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aalsgaard.bsky.social @aalsgaard.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Flying to Cape Town for the 2025 field archaeological season at Klipdrift complex starting next week. I’m excited to start prepping for the excavations! 🏺
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Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Happy to announce our new article is out today in JAS:R, led by Dr. Susan Botha of Nelson Mandela U. In the paper we describe our field experiments foraging for fuelwood & burning them to better understand the costs and benefits of fire 🏺🦣🧪 #openaccess www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Fuelwood harvesting rates from the perspective of early hunter-gatherers on the Cape south coast, South Africa
Understanding fuelwood harvesting and burn characteristics of different plant species can contribute to understanding early hunter-gatherer mobility p…
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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Still time to apply. Join @nannonstevens.bsky.social and myself, addressing the record of the last Neanderthals in Britain. Be part of a new era of research, testing assumptions and setting out a new agenda for discovery. 🏺🦣🧪
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Clare Burke @thesherdnerd.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Excited to invite abstract submissions to our EAA session on the development of Neolithic technologies. We really welcome papers on varied materials & approaches be that pots, beads, bones, lithics, basketry etc. Link for submission here shorturl.at/hX4DI See you in Belgrade! 🏺🧪 #Archaeology
Poster advertising a call for abstract submissions. The session is called shaping techno-traditions at the emergence of the Neolithic between SW Asia and Central Europe. Deadline is 6th February 2025.
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Advances in Archaeological Practice @saa-aap.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Do your New Years resolutions include "Become editor for American Antiquity"? Because we can help with that! The Society for American Archaeology is extending its deadline for applications. www.saa.org/quick-nav/sa...
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Call for Editor: American Antiquity (Deadline Extended to Feb. 10)
The SAA invites applications for the editorship of American Antiquity.The editorship is preceded by a one-year transition with the current editor, beginning with the editor-designate’s appointment in ...
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aalsgaard.bsky.social @aalsgaard.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Planning to attend EAA2025? Consider submitting to Session #14: Prehistoric Exploitation of Waterscapes and Aquatic Resources hosted by Mariana Nabais, Anna Rufà, García-Escárzaga, and myself. Abstract deadline Feb 6th. 🏺 www.e-a-a.org/EAA2025
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ICAZ @icaz-news.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Hi there! This is the account for the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ). We are a non-profit 🤓promoting excellent research in #zooarchaeology 🫂fostering an international community. If you are interested in past human-animal relationships, follow us and/or become a member (1/2)
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Mark Grabowski @markgrabowski.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
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.
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aalsgaard.bsky.social @aalsgaard.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Ooo! Just found “The Missing Thread” by Daisy Dunn at the bookstore— excited to add to my “to read list” for the new year! #archaeology🏺 #BookSky
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aalsgaard.bsky.social @aalsgaard.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Ending out the year with submitting a proposal to fund an archaeological project on social complexity in coastal forager during the Later Stone Age in South Africa. Keeping my fingers crossed and holding thumbs. 🏺
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Jeremy Farr @jeremyfarr.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Archaeologists and anthropologists working in Africa and especially if you are from Africa 🏺
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
300 kilo tuna? 🏺
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aalsgaard.bsky.social @aalsgaard.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Final Fun fish fact! 🏺 I will be excavating in 2025 at Klipdrift Cave (14,000-9,000 years ago) as part of SapienCE where fish bones have previously been recovered. This will add to our understanding of coastal foragers. What fish were they fishing? How intensely? Image: Henshilwood et al. 2014
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
We're hiring! Pls RT 🚨 Two Geoarchaeologists needed to join our @uclarchaeology.bsky.social team. 🔸Work for @uclofficial.bsky.social a leading uni 🔸Industry leading pay & conditions. 🔸Diverse projects 🔸Great support Take the next step in your Geoarch career with us Details: shorturl.at/aYDPB 🦣🧪🏺
Two archaeologists in hi vis clothing, crouching excavating in a pit stepped down to 3m below ground level. Small white flags mark the position of artefacts. Beyond is metal fencing and field of green maize leaves.
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aalsgaard.bsky.social @aalsgaard.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Fun fish fact #4 🐟 #archaeology 🏺 What fishing technologies existed during the Middle Stone Age in South Africa? We don’t have any archaeological examples but based on the species it could be: -hand fishing -spear fishing -hook and line -nets Image: black musselcracker from TwoOceans Aquarium
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Dr Geoff M Smith @geoffreymsmith.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I’ve created a starter pack for #zooarchaeology and #biomolecular archaeology for all periods. Let me know if you want to be added go.bsky.app/Nv8XE4r 🦣🧪🏺🦴🦷
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aalsgaard.bsky.social @aalsgaard.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Fun fish fact #3 Many fish harvested during the Middle and Later Stone Ages in South Africa are local species like the white stumpnose (left image). However, the yellowtail amberjack (right), a popular sushi species today, is throughout the southern hemisphere. #archaeology Images: Brian Gratwicke
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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Welcome Homo juluensis!? It's exciting to have a new human species proposed, but can't help thinking that until we can stare Denisovan anatomy more fully in the face, with genes to match, all bets are off. Maybe we should just say new human population for now? 🦣🏺 phys.org/news/2024-11...
An image showing fossil skull fragments and teeth from an ancient human
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Eleanor Scerri @elliescerri.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
This is so true, and really the whole scope of the ERC #IslandLab project is to reconstruct long term ecosystem dynamics with humans - the fundamental question being what is it that humans do, over time, to either reduce or enhance ecosystem resilience?
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Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
"Homo juluensis: Possible new ancient human species uncovered by researchers" ⚱️🧪#paleoanthropology #paleosky
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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Fellowships opportunity for researchers wanting to use UCL's museum collections! 🧪🏺🗃️ #Zoology #Egyptology #Archaeology #Art #Pathology #Science
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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Did you know you can use our site to record your ancient site visits - and log where you would like to go on future trips, with notes. All our maps are interactive and you can record your thoughts for each in a mini blog. AncientBlueSky 🏺 More follows 1/
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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
>>>>NEW 🦣Ice Age🦣 FEED!<<<< I have now made a feed for all things Ice Age: bsky.app/profile/did:... It's your one-stop-shop for the BlueSky Pleisto Scene! This feed displays all posts using: > The 🦣 emoji > #IceAge > #Pleistocene > #Quaternary > #Palaeolithic > #Paleolithic
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Dr Geoff M Smith @geoffreymsmith.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Really happy to have this paper included in the special issue. A great example of 🧪 using #ZooMS to answer #zooarcharological questions.
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Dr. Nina Davtian (she/her/hers) @ninadavtian.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
And now, the Version of Record of my latest co-authored paper led by Juan Ochando is out in Quaternary Science Reviews: doi.org/10.1016/j.qu... 🧪 🏺
Header of the online article by Ochando et al. (2024) QSR (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109025) entitled "A Neanderthal’s specialised burning structure compatible with tar obtention" and published as a gold open access paper in the Elsevier journal Quaternary Science Reviews. Screenshot taken by Nina Davtian (that's me!).
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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep WaterA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof BeatsA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our MoonA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember
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Imran Rahman @imranrahman.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Job alert! Director of Oxford University Museum of Natural History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKV017/d...
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Director of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History at University of Oxford
Recruiting now: Director of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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aalsgaard.bsky.social @aalsgaard.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Fun fish fact #2: Did you know sharks/rays were consumed at the Middle Stone Age site of Klasies River Main Site in South Africa between ~115,000 - 50,000 years ago? (Image of Klasies River from Grine et al. 2017) #archaeology 🏺 #paleoanthropology
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John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
TIL it is possible to identify both modern and archaeological #shark and #ray skeletal tissues using collagen peptide mass fingerprinting. 🐟🧪 #TheMoreYouKnow www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
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Frontiers | Species identification of modern and archaeological shark and ray skeletal tissues using collagen peptide mass fingerprinting
IntroductionElasmobranchs, such as sharks and rays, are among the world’s most endangered vertebrates, with over 70% loss in abundance over the past 50 years...
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aalsgaard.bsky.social @aalsgaard.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I am writing about archaeological fish remains from South Africa which means time for some fun fish facts! One of the most common fish species from the Middle Stone Age is the White Sea catfish. It is scaleless with a venomous spine and very abundant today. A very friendly face too. #archaeology
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aalsgaard.bsky.social @aalsgaard.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
My review of “Birds and Beast of Ancient Mesoamerica” is out with JAR— highly recommended as a reference for zooarchaeologists and anyone interested in animal symbolism. 🏺 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica: Animal Symbolism in the Postclassic Period. Susan Milbrath and Elizabeth Baquedano, eds. Denver: University Press of Colorado, 2023, 440 pp. $113.00, cloth. IS...
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aalsgaard.bsky.social @aalsgaard.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Time for an introduction—I am postdoc in #archaeology currently researching changes in fishing practices during the Middle and Later Stone Age in South Africa. I’ll be posting about #fieldwork at the Klipdrift Complex, zooarchaeology, and archaeology.
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