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Enza Spinapolice @enzaspinapolice.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I have a new game: find the Pleistocene inside a magnificent Roman site 🏺🦴🐟 @andzerb.bsky.social

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Palesa @palaeoprotpalesa.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Hello, Our paper on enamel proteins from Paranthropus robustus has finally been peer reviewed, please have a read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Paranthropus robustus has been puzzling scientists since its discovery in 1938 in South Africa, where a high number of fossils have been found.

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Enamel proteins reveal biological sex and genetic variability in southern African Paranthropus

Paranthropus robustus is a morphologically well-documented Early Pleistocene hominin species from southern Africa with no genetic evidence reported so far. In this work, we describe the mass spectrome...

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Yes for example, assuming the dot is actually deliberate, it's an interesting choice *not* to make a larger application of colour on that surface. On the issue of faces I think we would need a bigger corpus of examples to be more confident that is what they're really doing

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Enza Spinapolice @enzaspinapolice.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Love the fingerprint and strongly doubt that the dot could be a “nose”. I am sincerely intrigued by the mental processes that lead to this interpretation 🤡 - Stephen King could have played a part?

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Professor Amanda Sturgill @drsturg.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Sunday sillies: Cite your sources edition (this from @iamhectordiaz.com)

Image of tweet where embedded text reads: A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope.

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Enza Spinapolice @enzaspinapolice.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Planning two fields plus two conferences in a row and actually going for them 🙋🏻‍♀️

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Enza Spinapolice @enzaspinapolice.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I absolutely love this! Thanks @vivek123.bsky.social for sharing the interview with Richard Lee about the Men the Hunter book. osf.io/preprints/os...

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

#FossilFriday Not a great picture, but a historic comparison of the Omo Kibish 1 cranium (L) before it was returned to Ethiopia, with Kabwe @NHM. This shows the sapiens shape of Omo 1 in rear view.

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Enza Spinapolice @enzaspinapolice.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Tickets for Porto @ishpssb2025.bsky.social and Faro #Safa2025 booked, see you then my friends!

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Lovely article and video interview for the exhibition I was involved in with Pietro Ruffo - Italian Artist Of The Year 2024 - that opened back in November : "L'ultimo meraviglioso minuto". butterflyartnews.com/2025/01/12/p... youtu.be/mXT_wy6OOCY

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Pietro Ruffo's exhibition in Rome - L'ultimo meraviglioso minuto at Palazzo Esposizioni Roma

YouTube video by Butterfly Art News

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Dr Alessio Veneziano @aveneziano.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Today, the 25th of April, in Italy 🇮🇹 we celebrate the #Liberation from NaziFascism. We celebrate to remember the people of the resistance, we celebrate to remember that we kicked fascists' asses once and we can do it again.

Partigiani of the resistance movement. Four people (three men and a woman) stand in the front of a crowd of fighters. Image from the book "Noi Partigiani, memoriale della resistenza Italiana".

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Charles #Darwin died #OTD in 1882. This is his portrait at the Linnean Society in London.

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Eleanor Scerri @elliescerri.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

In @nature.com we report the presence of the Mesolithic on Malta - upending everything we knew about the seafaring capabilities of late European hunter-gatherers and pushing back Maltese prehistory by 1000 years. Watch the clip, link to open access paper is below. 1/5 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I'm still highly skeptical of #Naledi "engraving" claims. Revisions in this are limited to context/discussion; avoid considering (beyond 1/2 sentence) that the features might be natural. No new documentation or analysis at all. And irrelevant comparison to Blombos painted stone is still there.

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Ben Marwick @benmarwick.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Our new paper reports a complete Quina technological system in the 60-50 ka assemblage at Longtan, Southwest China Ruan, Q. et al. (2025) Quina lithic technology indicates diverse Late Pleistocene human dynamics in East Asia doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🆓 faculty.washington.edu/bmarwick/PDF...

Figure. 3 from the article showing products of the Quina system at the Longtan site

Figure 4 from the article showing features of Quina products compared to ordinary scrapers.

Figures showing the site location and stratigraphy

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 31/03/2025

Interested in the #archaeology of conflict? Check out our #ConflictArchaeology collection, with #OpenAccess content such as: Iraq's most famous early Islamic conquest site Arrowheads from the Tollense Valley Destruction of Ukrainian heritage & more! 🏺 buff.ly/PbuQ20t

Remains of a First World War dugout in a snowy forest, with the text 'Conflict Archaeology, Antiquity'.

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HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

The recording from the #HEASSeminar with #MarieSoressi is now available on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel. 🔗👇

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HEAS Seminar - Marie Marie Soressi

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Enza Spinapolice @enzaspinapolice.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Good Monday from the person who postponed to Monday all the last emails to reply to.

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Zanna Clay @zannaclay.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The loss of a legend- Kanzi, the language-competent bonobo, has died age 44. Kanzi was exceptional in so many ways and offered us profound insights into the linguistic & cognitive capacities of great apes. He has taught us so much and will be hugely missed. www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...

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Rob Foley @robfoley.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Congratulations to @martamlahr.bsky.social on her News and Views in Nature on Ignacio de la Torre and colleagues' discovery of early bone tools at Olduvai. The site that keeps on giving! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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The early origins of bone-tool manufacturing traditions by hominins 1.5 million years ago

Excavations at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, reveal evidence of the systematic use of animal bones as a raw material for prehistoric tools.

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Enza Spinapolice @enzaspinapolice.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Hey lithic fellows, I have a question that might seem odd: what method do you use for the marking? #lithicnerd

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Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

"Mr Iguanodon is rather out of date, He lived in the Cretaceous Age and had a brainless pate.." A 1938 newspaper advert from Sunderland, that starts with a sad lament to the Iguanodon, and then pivots somewhat incredibly to comparing its extinction with the ancient furniture in your house!

a black and white newspaper advert for a furniture company, that has an illustration of an Iguanodon, followed by a poem: "Mr Iguanodon is rather out of date, He lived in the Cretaceous Age and had a brainless pate. You could hardly call him handsome, and he wasn’t very bright, He found his long prehensile tail quite useful in a fight. He roamed the widespread marshes to find the juicy stem Of prehistoric plantain (or what was grown for them). But Nature in her cycle had lost her joy in him; He perished with the Dinosaur and other creatures grim. You see he wasn’t flexible in body, mind, or weight. And met the usual end of beasts or things grown out of date"

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Enza Spinapolice @enzaspinapolice.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

If you see a freshly published paper that is beyond embarrassing - the best is not to talk about it. Am I right?

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Enza Spinapolice @enzaspinapolice.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The beauty of the day a.k.a. I love old museum collections! #MuseoDelleCiviltà #lithics

Nubian preferential flake on shiny dark flint

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

🏺 The old saying "pots aren't people" echoed in critiques quoted here that DNA isn't language... Would like to hear archaeological takes on this!

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Enza Spinapolice @enzaspinapolice.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I recommend this thread 🧵 with this sole quote 😬

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James D'Amato @oneshotrpg.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I hope this email finds you, and in the darkness binds you.

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deathrevol.bsky.social @deathrevol.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Tabun C1- right tibia. 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴. Middle Palaeolithic (122 ka). Mount Carmel, Israel #FossilFriday Courtesy of the Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social @ercresearch.bsky.social @cenieh.bsky.social

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

#OTD Richard Erskine Leakey was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1944. 🏺🧪 achievement.org/achiever/ric... While he had many titles... paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician, people knew him best for his contribution to the study of human evolution and his conservation efforts in Kenya.

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