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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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aalsgaard.bsky.social @aalsgaard.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

This is fascinating! The implications of silcrete heat treatment on mobility is quite interesting—thanks for sharing.

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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 · 20/12/2024

Definitely going on my to read list!

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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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aalsgaard.bsky.social @aalsgaard.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Wow. It is crazy how many cemeteries get built over— and that there are likely more interned elsewhere under the school.

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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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aalsgaard.bsky.social @aalsgaard.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Interesting! Definitely going to read!

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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

If those are claw marks by the toes… dog?

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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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aalsgaard.bsky.social @aalsgaard.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Could you add me as well please? Thank you!

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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