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Emanuele Cancellieri

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Stone Age archaeologist

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New evidence of #MiddleStoneAge occupation near the Third Cataract of the Nile, northern #Sudan. Khaleel, Barbieri, Sánchez-Dehesa, Haws, Carvalho & Bicho co-author this open access study in Quaternary Science Reviews. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.qu... #Archaeology #Africa #Prehistory
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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
🪨 The #Palaeolithic of Jordan — state of the art. #ICArEHB PhD Candidate Osama Samawi co-authors this open access #preprint from the #ICHAJ16 workshop in Athens. 🔗 osf.io/preprints/so... #Archaeology #Jordan #MiddleEast
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Osama Samawi @osamawi.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
@dispersalserc.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social New preprint 📄 Summarising our ICAHJ 16 (Athens, 2025) workshop on the Palaeolithic of Jordan—reviewing current research & setting future priorities. A lot of new work is now underway following these discussions. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
An excellent postdoc opportunity at @cenieh.bsky.social🏺🧪
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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
🪨 How did #LaterStoneAge communities in the #SaveRiverValley organize lithic production and use? #ICArEHB researchers Samawi and Rose co-author this open access study in African Archaeological Review with the Dispersals team. 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s104... #Mozambique #Archaeology
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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
🪨 The Nubian Spectrum at Tweefontein? #ICArEHB researchers Emily Hallinan and Osama Samawi, with M. Shaw and C. Shaw, show Nubian Levallois is one extreme of a broader prepared core reduction spectrum. 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s419... #Levallois #MiddleStoneAge
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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🚀 Historic achievement for ICArEHB! We’ve secured €31.5M to launch UAlgTec Heritage, a pioneering European centre for innovation in archaeological heritage. Proud of our team and excited for what comes next! #ICArEHB #UAlgTecHeritage #HeritageTech #UAlg #Portugal
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Emanuele Cancellieri @emanucanc.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Deadline for abstracts submission extended to March 20th uispp2026.syskonf.pl/abstracts
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Abstract Submission | XXI World Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences
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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
🎉 ICArEHB is joining the party! 30 years of MSCA. 150,000+ researchers. 7 projects that changed how we understand humanity. #MSCA30 #ICArEHB #UAlg #EUResearch #Archaeology
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Emanuele Cancellieri @emanucanc.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Call for papers! #UISPP2026 in Poznan Thematic Session S-12C: Approaches to Early & Middle Stone Age/Palaeolithic open-air contexts in arid landscapes uispp2026.syskonf.pl
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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Celebrating the women at ICArEHB, then and now. From childhood curiosity to careers uncovering the past, we’re proud of the women shaping archaeology at ICArEHB. Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 💜 #WomenInScience #EveryVoiceInScience #11February
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Julien Riel-Salvatore @julienrs.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
... now with pictures instead of random black squares! It has arrived, the day of the superb owl! Here's a 10,000 year-old eagle-owl talon worn as an ornament. My team recovered it from the burial of a newborn girl nicknamed Neve at Arma Veirana, a cave in the Italian Maritime Alps. 🏺🧪 #superbowl
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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
♂️♀️ AI achieves 90% accuracy sex estimation from Ice Age jawbones? #ICArEHB's Ricardo Godinho leads the breakthrough study: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #Bioarchaeology #MachineLearning #Palaeoanthropology
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Coupling geometric morphometrics and machine learning for mandibular sex estimation in Late Pleistocene and Late Modern populations - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Coupling geometric morphometrics and machine learning for mandibular sex estimation in Late Pleistocene and Late Modern populations
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Martina Di Matteo @martinadm.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🦴✨ How do we know if an archaeological bone still preserves collagen — without damaging it? Check it out our new paper on portable ER-FTIR: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Proud team work with @Krista McGrath @Cristina Lemorini @Stella Nunziate Cesaro @Silvia Soncin
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Portable ER-FTIR as a non-destructive method to pre-screen collagen for ZooMS analysis in archaeology
In the last decades, archaeology has witnessed a significant increase in the use of biomolecular analyses to study a variety of materials, including s…
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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
🔥 Earliest cremation evidence in Africa (~9500 yrs ago)! #ICArEHB's Gina Buckley & Flora Schilt co-author Science Advances paper: doi.org/10.1126/scia... #FuneraryPractices #Archaeology
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Earliest evidence for intentional cremation of human remains in Africa
The world’s oldest in situ adult funeral pyre (~9500 years old) shows complex mortuary behaviors among ancient African foragers.
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Julien Riel-Salvatore @julienrs.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
In Dec 2025, I published a short comment on whether the emergence of AI has been as revolutionary as other moments of innovation in our species' history (e.g., emergence of technology or agriculture). On balance, current evidence suggests to me that it isn't. www.isita-org.com/jass/Content...
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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
🥛 When did Iberians start drinking raw milk? #ICArEHB's Maria João Valente, Hugo Oliveira & Maria João Martins trace it w/ archaeogenetics: doi.org/10.51679/oph... #Zooarchaeology #Prehistory
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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
🎓 FCT PhD Fellowships 2026 ICArEHB invites inquisitive and motivated candidates to pursue a PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology or Primatology through the national FCT Program. 📍See our poster & details: www.icarehb.com/fct-phd-fell... #PhD #Archaeology #FCT #ICArEHB
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Emanuele Cancellieri @emanucanc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Hot off the press! Led by Olivier Scancarello, in collaboration with amazing colleagues and institutions in Tunisia, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Differential Taphonomic Behavior of Flint Types: Experimental Insights and Implications for the Middle Stone Age Assemblages of Wadi Lazalim in the Northern Sahara (Kebili, Tunisia) - Journal of Archa...
Several syn and post-depositional processes are responsible for different degrees of site and assemblage formation and disturbance. Understanding the processes that lead to archaeological site formati...
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Osama Samawi @osamawi.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
#Oman #MSA New paper is OUT! We trace how Dhofar’s MSA shifts from Nubian Levallois cores to the miniaturized Mudayyan industry—highlighting changing technologies along the southern dispersal route out of Africa. @arduq.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Lithic Miniaturization and Technological Innovation on the Southern Dispersal Route Out of Africa - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology
Over the past fifteen years, the Dhofar Archaeological Project has mapped 272 Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic sites in southern Oman, each exhibiting some extent of Nubian Levallois technology. T...
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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
🔍 What’s it like to be an early-career archaeologist in Africa? Degsew Mekonnen, Osman Khaleel, Humphrey Nyambiya & Nompumelelo Maringa explore challenges from funding gaps to limited mentoring. 🔗 doi.org/10.32028/exn... #Archaeology #Africa #ICArEHB #EarlyCareerResearchers #ExNovoJournal
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Against All Odds: An Archaeologist's Journey in Africa | Ex Novo: Journal of Archaeology
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Martina Di Matteo @martinadm.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Happy to share with you the new paper on taphonomy in arid environments in collaboration with my friend and colleague @roccoro.bsky.social. Check it out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Shelters and bones: Site-specific archaeofaunal taphonomy for identifying formation processes in Saharan Holocene rock shelters - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
This study investigates natural syn- and post-depositional processes affecting terrestrial mammal bones from the Takarkori rock shelter in the hyper-arid Tadrart Acacus massif, south-western Libya. Th...
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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
👣 What can ancient #footprints tell us about #movement, #behaviour, and #technology in #prehistory? Join us for the next #LEXA seminar, exploring traces and early #transport innovations. 🗓️ 4 Nov | 🕑 14:00 GMT | 🌍 Online via #Zoom 🔗 icarehb.com/lexa
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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
#ICArEHB PhD candidate Osama Samawi explores ancient innovation in his new blog post “Stone Tools on Repeat” with @ACORJordan 🪨 Discover how #Neolithic communities at Tell Abu Suwwan reused stone flakes as cores — early #sustainability in #Archaeology! 👉 publications.acorjordan.org/2025/10/17/s...
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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
💡 How to ID archaeological bones in resin?A team of researchers, including ICArEHB members Paul Goldberg, Shannon McPherron, William Chase Murphree, and Vera Aldeias explore new paleoproteomics methods. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pnas... #Archaeology #Paleoproteomics #ICArEHB
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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
#ICArEHB PhD student Osama Samawi co-organised the “Paleolithic Jordan: The State of the Art” #workshop in Athens during #ICHAJ16, discussing the #Paleolithic record of #Jordan and fostering collaboration in #Archaeology and #HumanEvolution. 👉 www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Rocco Rotunno @roccoro.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Happy and honoured to share this paper with @ercrema.bsky.social about pottery in Early Holocene Africa! Check out more in the thread!
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ERC-StG MATRIX @matrixerc.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The ERC Project MATRIX explores one of the big questions in our past: how Neanderthals disappeared as modern humans spread across Europe. Meet the team behind it and learn more about our research on sediments, ancient DNA, proteins, lipids & human evolution 👉 matrix.icarehb.com
Imagem with the 6 team members altogether. There is also the name of the porject and its logo and institutional logos. The color is light red.
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Alice Leplongeon @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
🌍Fieldwork, Communities, and Conflicts in Northestern Africa Join us in the next LPNEA workshop on 29-30 Sept in Bracciano and online! To register, scan the QR code or write an email to neafrica[at]gmail[.]com Very much looking forward to it!
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Past Horizons Archaeology Equipment @pasthorizons.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/afri... Researchers have noticed striking similarities between the Uan Muhuggiag child and Egyptian mummification practices. Both cultures placed their dead in fetal positions, used ostrich eggshell beads as jewelry and removed internal organs to prevent decay.
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Africa's Oldest Mummy Is a Toddler Who Died 5,400 Years Ago, Nearly a Millennium Before the Egyptians Started Mummifying Their Dead
Libya's civil war has placed the Uan Muhuggiag mummy at risk. But negotiations are underway to transport the rare artifact from Libya to Rome, where it will undergo restoration and scientific analysis
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Sarah Marie Foley @sarahmariefoley.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Call for Papers!!! We are holding a session for Early Career Researchers-Innovations in Isotope Analysis 👩🏻‍🔬 at 2026 SAA’s. Please feel free to share or reach out for submission details if you are interested in joining our session!
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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
#SAfA2025 kicks off today in #Faro, #Portugal! Hosted by #ICArEHB, we’re ready to welcome the global #AfricanistArchaeology community for a week of connection and knowledge-sharing at the #CrossroadsThroughTime.
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 20/07/2025
The Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA) conference in Faro, Portugal begins tomorrow! To celebrate the occasion, we've put together a collection of articles on #AfricanArchaeology and they will all be *absolutely free* for the duration of the event 🏺 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Rock art relief depicting humans hunting animals such as elephants, with the text 'African Archaeology, Antiquity' overlaid.
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Emanuele Cancellieri @emanucanc.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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Scientists could be accidentally damaging fossils with a method we thought was safe
A common scanning method used to create ‘virtual copies’ of precious fossils could be erasing some of the crucial information held within.
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Anna Rufà @annarb.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
🐰🔥 Excited to share our new paper from the #snackormenu project: we have developed an experimental protocol to accurately diagnose rabbit cooking and processing methods. Check it out! doi.org/10.1007/s108... #Zooarchaeology #Taphonomy #Archaeology @icarehb.bsky.social @uv.es
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Experimental Protocol for Cooking Rabbits and its Archaeological Implications - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
Small prey such as rabbits are present in Middle Paleolithic and are abundant in the diet of Upper Paleolithic human groups in southwestern Europe, especially in the Iberian Peninsula. Several archaeo...
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Andressa M. Venturini @aventurini.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Studying or working abroad comes with many challenges but also great opportunities. What can help early-career researchers navigate this journey? Check out my answer (and those of other researchers) in this @science.org piece: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #NextGenSci
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Supporting scientists who study and work abroad
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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Postdoc in Geochronology / Plio-Pleistocene Geology Join the ERC WRAP project at ICArEHB! Apply now 👉 www.icarehb.com/research-pos...
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Tomos Proffitt @tomosproffitt.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Calling all palaeolithic archaeologists. Come and work with me on a really exciting new survey and excavation project in Uganda: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/348570
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INTERNATIONAL TENDER FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF A POST-DOCTORAL ASSOCIATE RESEARCHER
International tender to recruit one (1) ) post-doctoral initial level researcher to perform duties in the scientific area of Palaeolithic Archaeology or related areas, under the research project “ERC ...
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Emanuele Cancellieri @emanucanc.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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Echoes of Africa's Past. Archaeological explorations in the Anthropocene - All’Insegna del Giglio
Author: Savino di Lernia (ed.) Year of printing: 2025 ISBN: 9788892853591 e-ISBN: 9788892853607
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Tansy Branscombe @tansybranscombe.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Are you a graduate student thinking about career paths outside academia? Come listen to me and @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social talk about working in publishing at the next @icarehb.bsky.social Alt-Ac Paths seminar 📚
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Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
We're excited to announce the next @icarehb.bsky.social Alt-Ac Paths conversation, with Luíseach Nic Eoin @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social and Tansy Branscombe @tansybranscombe.bsky.social, who now work at @natecoevo.nature.com and @barpublishing.bsky.social. Thurs 19th June, 11am (GMT), Zoom link below.
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Emanuele Cancellieri @emanucanc.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Proudly introduce BREATHE, a project investigating late Quaternary human behavior in the Sahara. Funded by #HorizonEurope - ERA Postdoctoral Fellowships, BREATHE is based at the University of Algarve’s fabulous #ICArEHB and partnered with #Sapienza University of Rome.
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BREATHE aims to contribute a new understanding of cultural and behavioral traits of North African early modern humans through the archaeological record of the central and northern Sahara The project'...
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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
ICArEHB PhD student Osman Khaleel shares a powerful reflection on navigating the PhD journey amid prolonged conflict. Read it here ➡️ research-hive.com/2025/06/02/n... #PhDLife #ResilientResearch #ICArEHB #ResearchHive
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Navigating the PhD journey amid prolonged conflict: Challenges, growth, and resilience
Author: Osman Khaleel // Editor: Cherene de Bruyn Cover image from Pexels *Archaeology: The study of past human cultures through the material culture (artefacts) left behind. *Lithics: Archaeologic…
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Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I’m delighted to make my first Recommendation for PCI Archaeology @pciarchaeology.bsky.social of Julien Looten @julienlooten.bsky.social and colleagues’ clear method and potential of RTI for lithic illustration
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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
📢 New publication: "The Role of Environmental Changes in the Development of the Agricultural Economy During Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite Cultures" by Mekonnen, D. Z., Olivera, H. R., & Gomes, A., in African Archaeological Review (2025). 🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1007/s104...
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The Role of Environmental Changes in the Development of the Agricultural Economy During Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite Cultures - African Archaeological Review
The northern highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea (NHE) hosted the earliest agricultural and urban societies in sub-Saharan Africa: the Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite cultures. However, the role of environmen...
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TraceoLab @traceolab.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
We’re deeply concerned about the disappearance of our colleague Pierre Noiret. Please share and help us spread the word. For more information please check: www.police.be/avis-de-rech...
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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
📢 New publication: "Large scale and regional demographic responses to climatic changes in Europe during the Final Palaeolithic" by Schmidt, I., Gehlen, B., Winkler, K., Arrizabalaga, A., Arts, N., Bicho, N., et al. 🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Large scale and regional demographic responses to climatic changes in Europe during the Final Palaeolithic
The European Final Palaeolithic witnessed marked changes in almost all societal domains. Despite a rich body of evidence, our knowledge of human palaeodemographic processes and regional population dyn...
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Dr Lucy H. Timbrell @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Our paper “Climate seasonality and predictability during the middle stone age and implications for technological diversification in early Homo sapiens” has been published in Scientific Reports 🥳 rdcu.be/egqwZ
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Climate seasonality and predictability during the middle stone age and implications for technological diversification in early Homo sapiens
Scientific Reports - Climate seasonality and predictability during the middle stone age and implications for technological diversification in early Homo sapiens
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