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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Exploring Uluzzian Lithic Technology at Klissoura Cave 1, Greece🏺🧪 Giulia Marciani, @katharv.bsky.social et al link.springer.com/article/10.1... Uluzzian technocomplex 43–39 Kya marks one of the earliest dispersals of Homo sapiens into Europe and onset of the Upper Palaeolithic in the Mediterranean

Debitage products showing identifiable traits of bipolar percussion (2–3, 5–6). Cores resulting from bipolar percussion (1, 4). Angular shaped anvil exhibiting traces from use (7). The donut chart illustrates the distribution of percussion techniques, indeterminate blanks are excluded

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Some exciting news on the Uluzzian from Klissoura Cave, Greece! 🌜

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

In 1928, Dorothy Garrod pioneered excavations at Hazar Merd Cave Renewed investigations are now refining the site's sequence Revisiting Hazar Merd Cave: 100 years after Dorothy Garrod’s excavations🏺🧪 Saman Heydari-Guran, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social et al www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Above) interior view of Ashkawty Tarik Cave showing exposed stratigraphy during Dorothy Garrod’s 1928 excavation (after Garrod Reference Garrod1930, fig. 12b); below) present-day surface conditions in the cave; three Kurdish archaeology students stand in approximately the same locations as the individuals in the earlier photograph (photograph by S.H. Guran).

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Serena Lombardo @serena-lombardo.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

It has been a pleasure working with such a fantastic team❤️ @boneslab.bsky.social @harvatilab.bsky.social

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The final session took us to the Italian and Greek records and their connections. Wonderful to see everything coming together and the progress the team has made over the last four years 👏 Thank you to all the team members and collaborators who presented their work! @erc.europa.eu #humanevolution

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The afternoon session started with some in-depth comparative analysis of human fossils from Greece and the Balkans, one of the main objectives of FIRSTSTEPS. So nice to see this work slowly coming to fruition! 😀 @erc.europa.eu #humanevolution

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Our FISTSTEPS workshop continued with faunal and microfaunal analyses, paleoproteomics and human osteological analyses focusing on the record of the Apidima caves 😀 @erc.europa.eu #humanevolution

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The first session of the @erc.europa.eu project FIRSTSTEPS workshop is concluded, with exciting reports on the Apidima excavation, geomorphology and sediment micromorphology! wonderful to see the results coming together ✨ #humanevolution

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ROCEEH Research Center @roceeh.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Our joint workshop on "Big Data and Human Evolution" between ROCEEH and @boneslab.bsky.social, organized by Giulia Marciani in Ravenna, is in full swing! Great talks, good company and Sangiovese🍷

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Biomolecular approaches to Pleistocene bones New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Annette Oertle, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social @katerinad.bsky.social et al

Newly identified taxa from originally unidentified fragmented bones. (a) CLC0043 Canid from spit 14, (b) CLC536 Canid from spit 30, (c) CLC372 Ursid from Spit 27, (d) CLC400 Ursid from spit 28, (e) CLC534 Ursid from spit 30, (f) CLC476 Rhino from spit 24, (g) CLC503 Rhino from spit 25.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I was literally about to submit the edited draft of my new book on prehistory, "Lost Worlds," but now I need to rework the Çatalhöyük section! What a great problem to have, incredibly exciting new research, check it out!

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Two PhD positions open! Deadline end of June! Apply now!

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

🚨 Two PhD Positions Available! Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠 Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history. www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...

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Dr Alessio Veneziano @aveneziano.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Two #PhD opportunities in Ravenna, Italy 🇮🇹, in #HumanEvolution within the #ERC project "Last Neanderthals"! 🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth #BioArch #Archaeology #Neanderthal #SciComm

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

A great opportunity, with a great team and a great lab 🏺🧪 Dr Stefano Benazzi's Bones Lab @boneslab.bsky.social Two PhD positions open! Deadline end of June! Apply now! bsky.app/profile/bone...

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Two PhD positions open! Deadline end of June! Apply now!

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

🧬Welcome to the new Palaeoproteomics Lab at the University of Bologna – Department of Cultural Heritage (Ravenna), where we study ancient proteins preserved in archaeological remains such as bones and teeth.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Grotta della Lea, a new Early Epigravettian site in southern Italy (Uluzzo Bay) 🏺🧪 Giulia Marciani, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social , et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Shouldered backed bladelets and points on high-quality chert. Radiocarbon dating between 21,821–18,281 cal. BP

Lithic materials from the Epigravettian occupation (SUs 2, 3, 5, 7) of Grotta della Lea: total backed points (1–2-3–4-12–23); backed bladelets (5–6); shouldered blades (7–8-10); tangled bladelet (9); fragmented backed pieces (11–19); long end scraper (13); unretouched blades (14–15); truncated blade (16); partial backed blade (17); burin (18); marginal backed bladelet (20); elongated side scraper (21); denticulated scraper on blade (22); point (24).

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

🌍 Join us in the ERC Last Neanderthals! We're hiring: 1️⃣ PhD: Digital approaches for the study of Paleolithic human remains 🖥️ 2️⃣ PhD: Taxonomic discrimination of Late Pleistocene bone fragments through paleoproteomics 🦴

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Pontus Skoglund @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

We have a 4-year PhD-student opening in our lab, deadline on Wednesday noon. For anyone interested in computational genomics of ancient human, pathogen, or canid genomes. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud... If you are curious, send in an application!

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Skoglund Lab | Ancient human statistical population genomics

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Our latest research presents Grotta della Lea, a newly investigated Palaeolithic site in Uluzzo Bay. Check its Early Epigravettian lithics, faunal remains, and AMS dates! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Jacopo Gennai @gennaijacopo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

My #review of Giulia Marciani's monograph on the Late Mousterian of Oscurusciuto (Southern Italy) is on Lithic Technology. I totally recommend it! link to the review shorturl.at/Jotx9 link to the book shorturl.at/wCmcH #archaeology#palaeolithic @barpublishing.bsky.social@tandfresearch.bsky.social

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PreIStoriA @preistoria.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

On Monday we launched the first PaleolITica meeting, to foster exchange between young researchers in Italian #Palaeolithic lithic technology. It was very productive, thank you to all the participants! shorturl.at/6J9ba @boneslab.bsky.social #archaeology #FlintFriday #FindsFriday🏺

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The Uluzzian and Châtelperronian: No Technological Affinity in a Shared Chronological Framework 🏺🧪 Giulia Marciani @boneslab.bsky.social @mariesoressi.bsky.social et al link.springer.com/article/10.1... The distinctiveness highlights the technological behaviours in western Europe 45–40 ka

Retouched tools from the Châtelperronian of Les Cottés (US6) and Quinçay (En). (1, 2, 11, 12) Wide-fronted end-scrapers produced on ‘laminar rejuvenation flakes’ and wide blades. (3–9, 14, 15) Châtelperronian backed points. (10) Neo-crested blade. (13) Convergent side-scraper. Note the variation in size of the pieces
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Retouched tools from the Uluzzian layer rsa’’ of Castelcivita. (1) Endscraper on flake. (2) Sidescraper with an adjustment of the distal end. (3) Sidescrapers realised on the ventral side of a big flake. (4) Pointed tool realised by adjusting the distal end of an already pointed fragment

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The Ontogeny of the Human Calcaneus: Insights From Morphological and Trabecular Changes During Postnatal Growth🏺🧪 Carla Figus, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social et al onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Calcaneal plasticity may display mechanical influences and provide precious information

Displacement heatmaps showing calcaneal shape differences between age groups means. Green represents the younger age group in each comparison, while magenta represents the older age group in each comparison. Colors mapped to the older age group in each comparison depict vertices that extend beyond (magenta) the mesh (which represents the younger age group in each comparison). The distance is calculated by superimposing the meshes of the two age groups for each comparison. For instance, the magenta color of the calcaneal body in the first comparison (0–1 year vs. 1.1–3 years) means that the 1.1–3 years group extends beyond the calcaneal body of the 0–1 year group. After the onset of independent walking, there is a proximodistal elongation of the calcaneal body and a slight increase in the medial projection of the sustentaculum tali. The cuboid facet angle starts to change in its lateral part. With the achievement of more mature locomotor kinematics, between 3 and 6 years of age, the posterior talar facet changes in orientation and lateral-medial elongation. The calcaneal body and the sustentaculum tali continue to lengthen, which increases in size and morphology. After six years of age, mostly all remaining changes are concentrated on the metaphyseal area, that is, calcaneal tuberosity, and lateral part of the cuboid facet. The posterior talar facet continues to develop, and the anterior talar facet undergoes major developmental changes as the sustentaculum tali develops.

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Our new study investigates developmental changes in the human calcaneus linked to the acquisition of mature bipedal locomotion 🦴👣 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Being a woman in science is not just something to celebrate today, but a journey of resilience and determination in a field historically shaped by men. Cheers from the women of Bones Lab!

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

🌊 Our team just completed an archaeological survey of the most significant sambaqui on Florianópolis Island, kickstarting a new project at one of these sites. The research is supported by a collaboration including BonesLab (Italy), Unochapecó, CEOM, UFPEL, LEIA/UFSC (Brazil), and CONICET (Argentina)

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

BonesLab is also in the UAE with the Italian Archaeological Mission in Umm al-Quwain on Siniya Island @tetinicolosi @iamuq_uae @uaq_tad

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Just arrived and ready to excavate one of the most promising Paleolithic rock shelter in northern Oman! Excited for what discoveries lie ahead!

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The third excavation campaign at the Bronze Age necropolis of Halban, Oman (IAMHAL project) has just come to an end. Another year of thrilling discoveries and an incredible team!

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PaleoAnthropology Journal @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

PaleoAnthropology Journal has made it to Bluesky! We are a fully externally peer-reviewed, Open Access, online-only journal. We have no publication fees, and are accessible free of charge to all. Find our website above to read our current issue, or if you are interested in submitting to our journal

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Owen A Higgins @owenhiggins.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Thrilled to announce the release of the Italian translation of The Human Bones Manual by Tim D. White and Pieter A. Folkens! 🎉💀🦷🦴📘 www.piccin.it/en/antropolo... #Anthropology #Osteology #Archaeology #Forensics #TheHumanBonesManual #IlManualeDelleOssaUmane #Translation

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Il Manuale delle Ossa Umane - PICCIN Nuova Libraria S.P.A.

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Thrilled to announce the publication of the Italian translation of The Human Bones Manual by White and Folkens! This work, translated by Owen Higgins and curated by Stefano Benazzi, is now available in Italian🦴📖 Check it out at www.piccin.it/en/antropolo....

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Harvati Lab @harvatilab.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Excited to be in Ravenna for a #FIRSTSTEPS meeting with many team members! Thank you Bones Lab for having us! 😊 #archeology #teamwork

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Brainstorming, networking, and sharing new ideas! Thrilled to have hosted our friends and colleagues for the ERC FIRSTSTEPS midterm meeting – what an inspiring exchange of knowledge and perspectives! @katharv.bsky.social @harvatilab.bsky.social

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Thrilled to share this paper born from a workshop uniting researchers for hands-on analysis of lithic assemblages Though they share the same stratigraphic and chronological window, the Châtelperronian and Uluzzian are fundamentally distinct link.springer.com/article/10.1... @mariesoressi.bsky.social

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

As 2025 begins, we're excited to resume our fieldwork, research, and educational activities at BONES Lab. Wishing everyone a productive and enlightening year filled with remarkable experiences! ⭐🌍🔬 #BONESLab #Fieldwork #Archaeology #NewYear

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Greetings from the BonesLab team! 🎄 Wishing everyone a joyful holiday season filled with health, happiness, and discovery🥂

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Today on TG Leonardo, Stefano Benazzi comments on the two new papers on DNA analysis, which provide further evidence on the interbreeding between sapiens and Neanderthals. www.rainews.it/tgr/rubriche...

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

We’re thrilled to announce our latest results from the histological analyses on the first deciduous molars from two Early-Medieval necropolises, now available on PLOS One! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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