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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

We are looking for someone with experience in Bayesian modelling to develop and apply models to determine where, when, and why we observe episodes of major population booms & busts amongst northern temperate foragers - Come join us!!

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Cambridge Archaeology @cam-archaeology.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

📣 Work with us! 📣 The McDonald Institute invites applications for the fifth annual Fellowship in archaeology (broadly defined) aimed at candidates of Black Identity or Heritage. 📅 Closing date: 25 May 2026 👉 More info here: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

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Cambridge Archaeology @cam-archaeology.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The Department of Archaeology is excited to announce the appointment of Professor Stephanie Wynne-Jones as the second Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professor of the Deep History and Archaeology of Africa at the University of Cambridge. www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/prof-st...

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Professor Stephanie Wynne-Jones appointed as the second Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professor of the Deep History and Archaeology of Africa

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The model is implemented in NIMBLE - and available on GitHub github.com/AlexesMes/IC...

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Overall the model retains high accuracy with improved precision over non spatial phase models particularly when sample sizes are limited

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The method is effectively a combination of ICAR and Bayesian Phase Model - we tested different sampling regimes (size and spatial clustering) and the effects of calibration process using simulated archaeological dataset to determine model performance both in terms of accuracy and precision

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Very proud of my PhD student Alexes Mes for her first archaeology paper where she has developed a novel Bayesian spatiotemporal model for estimating arrival times using 14C dates authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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Cambridge Archaeology @cam-archaeology.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Join us this Thursday for ‘Machine Heritage: Controversies in AI-Generated Meanings and Values of the Past’ with Chiara Bonacchi @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social 📅 Thursday 12 February 2026 ⏰ 4pm 👉 More info and how to join online: talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/1...

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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

This Thursday, at 4pm, I will be talking about Machine Heritage: Controversies in GenAI-generated meanings and values of the past, at @cam-archaeology.bsky.social and on Zoom 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Here's another exciting opportunity to join the ERC FORAGER team! This one is a 3-year postdoc on paleoclimate modelling with the fantastic Matt Osman here in @cam.ac.uk, with opportunity for synergies (pun intended 😜) with other team members in archaeology and zoology www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54411/

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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Paleoclimate Statistics and Dynamics (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Paleoclimate Statistics and Dynamics (Fixed Term) in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge.

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Very much looking forward to the upcoming Garrod Seminar Series themed 'Artificial Intelligence & the Past's Future' with some fantastic speakers (see below!). You can attend the seminar series online via Zoom (registration link: talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/1...) - starting this Thursday!

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

We are looking for a research project manager for the upcoming FORAGER ERC Synergy Project. Based at the University of York, this is an exciting opportunity to work in a team of 37 researchers from the UK, the US, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia and Japan. Join us! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

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Jobs - The University of York

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Excited to share the job advert for the 1st of several PostDocs who will join us in the ERC Synergy FORAGER Project! This one is 5 year post at the University of Montana with Prof. Anna Prentiss, focusing on Pacitific Northwest Coast archaeology. apply.interfolio.com/180545

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

😁 Very happy about this and looking forward to working with old and new colleagues!!!

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John Rowan @jjrowan.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Honored (and surprised!) to receive a Philip Leverhulme Prize, but grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk and @cam-archaeology.bsky.social for their support.

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Congratulations to all of the Philip Leverhulme Prize winners - so well deserved!!! 🎉. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2025PLP

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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Fully-funded 4-year #PhD in Cultural Evolution! Join my @erc.europa.eu project exploring how compression & compositionality drive cultural innovation: hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... Apply by Nov 12! Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏

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ERC funded PhD position on Cultural Evolution

ERC funded PhD position on Cultural Evolution posted on October 16, 2025 We are currently seeking a highly motivated individual for a ful...

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Miranda Evans @mirandaevans.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Please join us online or in person for this term's Garrod Seminar Series 'Consumed by time: Past foodways in practice' @cam-archaeology.bsky.social. We are delighted to have an amazing line up of experts in their field speaking. More details here: talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/1...

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Cambridge Archaeology @cam-archaeology.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣 Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology in Early Holocene Africa in Nature Communications by Rocco Rotunno & Enrico Crema 👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/statist... 📸 Westend61

Algeria, Tassili n'Ajjer National Park, Sahara desert, broken neolithic pottery

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Palaeotrails @palaeotrails.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

We are hiring a Project Co-ordinator! 🚨 Are you extremely organised with great interpersonal skills? Able to multitask efficiently? Interested in African prehistory? Keen to work with an enthusiastic team? We want to hear from you! Closing date: 17 October, 2025

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Project Coordinator (Fixed Term)

Applications are invited for a 12-month Project Co-ordinator position on the NG'IPALAJEM project, funded by the ERC. The project aims at collecting new palaeontological, archaeological and geological

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

There are other interesting findings (such as the different rates of spatial diffusion) but you can find more about it reading the paper and checking the code :) github.com/roccorot/Ori...

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GitHub - roccorot/OriginPotteryNAfrica

Contribute to roccorot/OriginPotteryNAfrica development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Our model accounted for the often large measurement errors and accounts for both the presence and absence of the technology to maximise the available information. The results strongly reject the idea of a single origin and provide the strongest support for a triple origin model.

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

We collated over 300 radiocarbon dates distinguishing contexts with and without ceramics and fitted a series of custom spatio-temporal diffusion models to determine which hypotheses better supported our data.

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

PhD Studentship alert! I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia. Details in the link below! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The next CAA-UK will be hosted by @cam-archaeology.bsky.social ! Very much looking forward to hearing the latest research from the current and the next generation of computational and quantitative archaeologists (not just from the UK) : uk.caa-international.org/caa-uk-2025-2/ (deadline 29/9/2025)

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Extended Call for Papers and Posters – CAA UK 2025 – CAA-UK

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The Black Trowel Collective @blacktrowel.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

BTC Call for Action - EAA EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns. Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

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Kevin Lala @kevinlala.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I'm pleased to share this new article by @svenkasser.bsky.social, Laura Fortunato @anthrolog.bsky.social, Marc Feldman and myself. The article extends gene-culture coevolution to recognize evolutionary effects of culture arising through drift and migration. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @ceciliapad.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Really cool study looking at how behaviour precedes morphological change across taxa - and implications for human evolution 💀🧪 massive congrats to all the authors, including @vivek123.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution

Dietary shifts and corresponding morphological changes can sometimes evolve in succession, not concurrently—an evolutionary process called behavioral drive. Detecting behavioral drive in the fossil re...

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Cambridge Archaeology @cam-archaeology.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣 Lipid residue analysis reveals divergent culinary practices in Japan and Korea at the dawn of intensive agriculture in @pnas.org 👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/culinar... @ercrema.bsky.social

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Bronze Age 'culinary traditions' in Japan and Korea explored through lipid analysis

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

For example, we found no evidence of millet in the residues from Japanese ceramics, in stark contrast to those from Korea (see image below; the brown-coloured dots indicate vessels with millet biomarkers, the blue ones are aquatic biomarkers).

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

We examined organic residues from pottery in both regions and found substantial differences, with Japanese vessels retaining most of their characteristics even after the introduction of farming.

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

The diffusion of rice and millet in this region has an interesting story - Millet arrived in the Korean peninsula towards the end of the 5k BCE, but it was not transmitted to the Japanese islands until the 1k BCE, soon after the introduction of rice in Korea and the resulting demographic expansion.

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Delighted to share the latest paper from the ENCOUNTER project led by Oliver Craig where we examined the divergence of culinary tradition in Japan and Korea around the turn of the 1st millennium BCE, when rice and millet farming were introduced in Japan doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Lipid residue analysis reveals divergent culinary practices in Japan and Korea at the dawn of intensive agriculture | PNAS

The dispersal of millet and rice agriculture from Korea to Japan from around 3,000 y ago has been well documented through radiocarbon analysis of b...

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 25/06/2025

Congratulations to the winners of this year's Antiquity Prize! Their research explored the largest agricultural complex yet found in Africa beyond the Nile, uncovering a previously unknown Neolithic society in Morocco 🏺 #Archaeology www.cnr.it/it/nota-stam...

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Antiquity Prize 2025 awarded to the study of the Oued Beht site in Morocco, co-directed by the CNR | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The paper is published for the special issue ‘Next Generation Archaeological Science’ in the Journal of Archaeological Science; some thought-provoking review articles there, so check it out!

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I cover methods that are becoming increasingly common, such as hierarchical models, but also slightly more obscure approaches, such as error-in-variables models and generative inference.

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I argue that the field of statistics is perfectly aware of the many problems we lament about, and that solutions have been developed and are being used by some (too few) archaeologists.

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I rant about how we often fail to account for sample independence properly, ignore measurement error and missing data, and invoke ‘correlation is not causation’ whilst increasingly detaching our theory from empirical data.

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Cambridge Archaeology @cam-archaeology.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

👏 Dr @jasminevieri.bsky.social, Research Associate at the McDonald Institute, has received an Honourable Mention for the 2024 Journal of Archaeological Science (JAS) and Society for Archaeological Sciences (SAS) Emerging Investigator Award. www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/jasmine...

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Dr Jasmine Vieri awarded Honourable Mention for Emerging Investigator Award

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Cambridge Archaeology @cam-archaeology.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Cambridge Archaeology graduate Jonathan R. Goodman has published a book: 'Invisible Rivals: How We Evolved to Compete in a Cooperative World'. Available to purchase from Yale University Press: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

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Cambridge Archaeology @cam-archaeology.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣 Economic Inequality Over the Very Long Term: A PNAS Special Feature 👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/economi... 🧵

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Economic Inequality Over the Very Long Term: A PNAS Special Feature

A PNAS Special Feature

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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Write-up highlights the long-term social and economic consequences of global trade. Highlights the potential of #archaeology to help us understand linkages between productivity and inequality, and contribute to big #sustainability debates! www.york.ac.uk/environment-...

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Archeology reveals the long-term economic consequences of global trade

A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America uses archaeology to challenge long-held assumptions about global trade. Many economists think global ...

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

There are (many) other coefficients and we review and use them in the paper… and no reason to call it ‘Gini’ either, we refer to it as alpha inequality drawing some analogy to diversity indices in ecology.

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