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David Wright @davidkwright.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Eco-archaeological research at Kalemba, eastern Zambia by #EcoArch - an #ERCSYN project.

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David Wright @davidkwright.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Azykh Cave fieldwork (second trip of the year) is my contribution to Fieldwork Friday.

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David Wright @davidkwright.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Happy to announce that a book I co-edited with @a-beyin.bsky.social won the best book award at the 2025 Society of Africanist Archaeologists conference in Faro, Portugal. Thanks to all of the contributors to the project. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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David Wright @davidkwright.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Fieldwork in Mnaraeka and Kiuleule, Tanzania. Chasing the Early and Middle Stone Ages in alluvial fans dating to >240 to 20 ka.

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David Wright @davidkwright.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Fieldwork at Ayzkh Cave, Azerbaijan. The CAUCUS project will be providing absolute ages and environmental context for the occupations there (probably >1 million years).

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David Wright @davidkwright.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Gearing up for fieldwork in Ayzkh Cave, Azerbaijan. We are going to focus on geochronology and environmental reconstruction at this amazing site. @loopdlupien.bsky.social

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David Wright @davidkwright.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This is from one of my students looking to expand his world. Please contact him at oscarsv@student.iakh.uio.no if you have an opening on one of your projects this year. I would definitely take him if I had any open slots.

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David Wright @davidkwright.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The call for contributions to the 27th #SAfA2025 in Faro, Portugal (21-26 July 2025) has opened! Join us in Session #46: Bridging Intergenerational Research on African Pleistocene Archaeology: Advances and remaining gaps. Submit your abstracts here: safa2025.icarehb.com @a-beyin.bsky.social

Call for presentations
Bridging Intergenerational Research on African Pleistocene Archaeology:
Advances and remaining gaps
Organizers:Amanuel Beyin*, David K. Wright, Deborah Olszewski, Sarah Wurz
* amanuel.beyin@louisville.edu
Current understandings of human evolutionary history remain anchored in Africa’s Pleistocene fossil and archaeological records. These records owe much to the generations of committed researchers whose field expeditions to various corners of Africa produced seminal finds that have illuminated our understanding of hominin lifeways in diverse ecosystems and laid the foundations for successful field projects. However, while research into Africa’s Pleistocene archaeology is accelerating, many gaps remain regarding the chronological, behavioral, and ecological contexts of hominin settlement histories in different regions of the continent. These gaps emanate from varying colonial experiences, highly variable preservation conditions, mismatches in data recovery and analytic methods across generations, and variable research infrastructure in the host countries. Driven by lessons we learned from editing the Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa (Springer, 2023), this session aims to probe the current advances and remaining gaps in African Pleistocene archaeology. The goal is to provide a forum for Africanist paleo-scientists from different generations to discuss key aspects of their research activities, stimulate collaboration, identify common issues, and celebrate past and ongoing efforts to promote the Pleistocene archaeology of Africa at regional and local levels. Presentations may synthesize site records or be focused on case studies that showcase methodological advances.
Submission deadline: 31 January 2025
https://safa2025.icarehb.com/

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David Wright @davidkwright.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

We had a nice little workshop in Uppsala for #THOCA on Thursday December 5. We’re going to be re-writing the Paleolithic history of Central Asia with papers coming very soon. Visit www.thoca.org for more project details and project updates. @zandraselina.bsky.social

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David Wright @davidkwright.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Happy to share the news of the previously unreported Middle Stone Age site of #Mnaraeka near #Kilwa, Tanzania. The research was published this week in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (www.sciencedirect.com/science/auth...).

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