Reposted by Emily HallinanPalaeotrails @palaeotrails.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Today we are celebrating the Living Legacies of David Clarke in contemporary scientific archaeology with an exciting programme of talks. 14205
Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026📣 New paper #2: The SASSI open dataset is a comprehensive spatial, chronological and contextual database of southern African ESA, MSA and LSA sites, providing a FAIR data resource for comparison and synthesis @icarehb.bsky.social openarchaeologydata.metajnl.com/articles/10....openarchaeologydata.metajnl.comThe Southern African Stone Age Site Index (SASSI): A Spatial, Chronological and Contextual Resource for Archaeological Research | Journal of Open Archaeology Data 074
Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026📣 New paper #1: Applying 3DGM to the large prepared core assemblage at the MSA site Tweefontein, we investigate shape variability in Nubian and other Levallois cores, finding Nubian cores to lie at one extreme of preferential core reduction @icarehb.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comThe Nubian Spectrum: 3D Geometric Morphometric Perspectives on Levallois Core Reduction at Tweefontein, South Africa - Journal of Paleolithic ArchaeologyJournal of Paleolithic Archaeology - Prepared core technology is a defining feature of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) in Africa, yet classic preferential Levallois cores are rare in many southern... 000
Reposted by Emily HallinanEmanuele Cancellieri @emanucanc.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Call 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 133
Reposted by Emily HallinanICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Celebrating 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 02110
Reposted by Emily HallinanEmanuele Cancellieri @emanucanc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Hot 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...link.springer.comDifferential 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... 0114
Reposted by Emily HallinanHumanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social · 09/12/2025A celebratory #AcademicAdvent today, as we share the great news of Dr Ceren Kabukcu, an archaeobotanical expert from @livancworlds.bsky.social, and her recent win of a £1.4m European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant. Read about her exciting project here ➡️news.liverpool.ac.ukDouble success: Liverpool academics awarded ERC Consolidator Grants - University of Liverpool NewsDouble success: Liverpool academics awarded ERC Consolidator Grants 0156
Reposted by Emily HallinanICArEHB @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 #ExNovoJournaldoi.org Against All Odds: An Archaeologist's Journey in Africa | Ex Novo: Journal of Archaeology 0104
Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · 22/10/2025We’re losing so many legends in archaeology. Here is a lovely tribute to Tony Marks, who died in August. He was incredibly encouraging to me, and supported our work revisiting the Nubian technology he first characterised. He will be missed. www.icarehb.com/portfolio/in...icarehb.comIn Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Anthony E. Marks (1938-2025) - ICArEHBThe Interdisciplinary Centre for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour (ICArEHB) at the University of Algarve received with profound sadness the news of the passing of Anthony E. Marks on Augus... 141
Reposted by Emily HallinanMarta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Today was the ceremony for new fellows at the #BritishAcademy - it was wonderful 🤩. I am thrilled and so grateful to the colleagues who nominated me, elected me, and the many colleagues, students, friends, our kids & family, & specially Rob 😍 who have so enriched my life and career ❤️ 5516
Reposted by Emily HallinanICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 03/10/2025🔥 Next #LEXA Seminar! Dr William Chase Murphree will explore #fire use during the #UpperPalaeolithic, using #geoarchaeology experiments to reveal how humans managed fire in glacial times. 🗓️ 7 Oct, 14:00 GMT | 🌍 Online 🔗 Register: zoom.us/meeting/regi... 0103
Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Amazing! Please share more if you can. We need to hear more about research reaching local young people ❤️ 020
Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Join us today for Session 8 in room 0.5 for talks on archaeology outreach and education in Africa, with a “show and tell” of outreach materials 4-5pm #SAfA2025 021
Reposted by Emily HallinanKgalagadi Human Origins Project @khoproject.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Thanks to everyone who presented, attended the talks and joined discussions and dinner of our #SAfA2025 session on open air sites. We had a great day of inspiring inputs - there is lots of connections and lots to expect from arid open air archaeology in southern Africa in the next years 💪🇿🇦🇧🇼🇳🇦 031
Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Day 1 of #SAfA and first day in my new permanent role as Principal Researcher in African Stone Age archaeology at ICArEHB. Looking forward to seeing lots of friends and colleagues in Faro this week! 1140
Reposted by Emily HallinanKgalagadi Human Origins Project @khoproject.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Please be aware of the new timing for #SAfA session 28 on Tuesday (tomorrow!) safa2025.icarehb.com/safa_session.... @eshallinan.bsky.social et al. will lead a short tribute to the recently passed Garth Sampson at 10.45. @sallieburrough.bsky.social will then introduce the session (1/2)...safa2025.icarehb.com28. Challenges and opportunities of surface sites: The Kalahari basin and adjoining arid regions – SAfA 2025The Kalahari basin is the largest semi-desert in southern Africa. Despite the lack of caves and rockshelters in most parts, vast amounts of artefacts can be found on the surface in many areas of the… 102
Reposted by Emily HallinanRob Foley @robfoley.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Fabulous news that @martamlahr.bsky.social has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy 🍾🍾🍾 1313524
Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Memories of this time last year - some of the most fun I’ve had discussing rocks. An opportunity I will treasure. Have a fab field season, your lithics there are so interesting and what a great team 0102
Reposted by Emily HallinanTomos Proffitt @tomosproffitt.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Very happy to announce that a new postdoctoral position on the New ERC funded Western Rift Archaeology and Palaeoenvironment Project is open - if you're a geologist or geochronologist come and join us at @icarehb.bsky.social euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/358068 Feel free to share it around.euraxess.ec.europa.euANNOUNCEMENT INTERNATIONAL TENDER FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF A POST-DOCTORAL ASSOCIATE RESEARCHERrecruit one (1) ) post-doctoral assistant researcherresearcher to perform duties in the scientific area of Geochronology / Plio-Pleistocene Geology or related areas, under the research project “ 01512
Reposted by Emily HallinanICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Postdoc in Geochronology / Plio-Pleistocene Geology Join the ERC WRAP project at ICArEHB! Apply now 👉 www.icarehb.com/research-pos... 01718
Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025If anyone would like to share memories, photos or tributes to Garth, we have arranged a slot for this at the upcoming SAfA meeting in Faro - please let me know 010
Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Sad to learn that C. Garth Sampson has passed away. He was a kind and encouraging man; as Janette Deacon commented, Garth "made an outstanding contribution to the Stone Age archaeology of the Karoo and southern Africa and will long be remembered." We are standing on the shoulders of these giants 181
Reposted by Emily HallinanTomos Proffitt @tomosproffitt.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Calling all palaeolithic archaeologists. Come and work with me on a really exciting new survey and excavation project in Uganda: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/348570euraxess.ec.europa.euINTERNATIONAL TENDER FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF A POST-DOCTORAL ASSOCIATE RESEARCHERInternational 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 ... 0108
Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Don’t forget to join us tomorrow at 11am (UK/Lisbon time) to hear from @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social and @tansybranscombe.bsky.social in the next @icarehb.bsky.social Alt-Ac Paths videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/9355232390...videoconf-colibri.zoom.usJoin our Cloud HD Video MeetingZoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications. 064
Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Other global conferences should follow this lead - especially to be more accessible to African and Global South students 050
Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Zoom link here! videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/9355232390...videoconf-colibri.zoom.usJoin our Cloud HD Video MeetingZoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications. 000
Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/9355232390...videoconf-colibri.zoom.usJoin our Cloud HD Video MeetingZoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications. 010
Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025We'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. 1148
Reposted by Emily HallinanEmanuele Cancellieri @emanucanc.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Proudly 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.sites.google.comBREATHEBREATHE 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'... 4408
Reposted by Emily HallinanJulien Looten @julienlooten.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Hello everyone, I’m pleased to share with you my first research article, conducted in collaboration with B. Gravina, X. Muth, M. Villaeys, and J.G. Bordes, and published in @peercomjournal.bsky.social! 🔗 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.... 1/4 241
Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · 15/05/2025I’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 2137
Reposted by Emily HallinanMarta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Exciting start to 2nd day of #HumanEvo25 - @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social talk on “Beyond out of Africa”, mobility of HGs oc the Nile Valley badin in the late Pleistocene 🥰 0175
Reposted by Emily HallinanOsama Samawi @osamawi.bsky.social · 24/04/2025#Nubian #Levallois #MSA If you haven’t read our article on the spatial distribution of Nubian Levallois cores @eshallinan.bsky.social , check out our recent poster from the Hugo Obermaier Society 2025 conference, hosted by @icarehb.bsky.social in Portugal: osamawi.github.io/Nubian-Leval...osamawi.github.ioNubian LevalloisCan spatial analyses capture Middle Palaeolithic environmental adaptation? A case study of Nubian Levallois cores. 081
Reposted by Emily HallinanICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 17/04/2025What an amazing evening! Thank you to everyone who joined us for Science Sip – it was a fantastic night of archaeology, conversations, and connection 🍻🧠 Here are a few snapshots from the event 📸 Stay tuned for our next one in the Autumn! 🍂 #PublicArchaeology #FaroEvents 021
Reposted by Emily HallinanChris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025How Ice Age Humans Mastered Fire During the Coldest Era in History. Learn more about how a geoarchaeological discovery from 26,000 years ago is rewriting the history of fire. www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences...discovermagazine.comHow Ice Age Humans Mastered Fire During the Coldest Era in HistoryLearn more about how a geoarchaeological discovery from 26,000 years ago is rewriting the history of fire. 0409
Reposted by Emily HallinanIsabelle Crevecoeur @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social · 01/04/2025📢 Great thread ⬇️ on the fascinating results about population history in the Nile Valley through 3D dental analyse‼️ Congrats @nclsmartin.bsky.social for his impressive work within this great international collaboration ❕️ #Prehistory #Africa #Anthropology @pacea.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social 0262
Reposted by Emily HallinanVera Aldeias @veraaldeias.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Tracing the elusive fire use during the LGM: check out our paper lead by @wcmurph.bsky.social on fire features at Korman' 9 in Ukraine. @philipnigst.bsky.social @marjolein-bosch.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social with open access provided by @icarehb.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....onlinelibrary.wiley.comFire Use During the Last Glacial Maximum: Evidence From the Epigravettian at Korman' 9, Middle Dniester Valley, UkraineThe Last Glacial maximum (LGM), spanning from 26.5 to 19 thousand years before present (ka bp), is a period of extreme climatic degradation associated with reduced biomass production and resource str... 1198
Reposted by Emily HallinanLaura Sánchez-Romero @lausanrom.bsky.social · 29/03/2025‼️Check out our latest publication on the old excavations at the Late Middle Paleolithic open-air site of Far’ah II (northwestern Negev) link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comNew Insights on an Old Excavation: Re-visiting the Late Middle Palaeolithic Site of Far’ah II, North-western Negev, Israel - Journal of Paleolithic ArchaeologyRevisiting collections from old excavations with new research objectives and analytical tools brings them to life and integrates them into evolving models of human-landscape interactions. This paper e... 075
Reposted by Emily HallinanTeddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Demand for Tiny Plants Is Driving a Poaching Crisis in South Africaatlasobscura.comDemand for Tiny Plants Is Driving a Poaching Crisis in South AfricaThe Succulent Karoo is home to desert plant species found nowhere else on the planet—criminal networks have been digging them up by the millions. 0236
Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Not sure I follow - those aren’t Levallois, and Nubian isn’t all things distal 100
Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Our new paper on 3D GM has all the models and script available for others to apply our method. We use it to demonstrate interregional variability of Nubian Levallois cores but it has broader potential for lithic studies #openscience #archaeology #3DGM @icarehb.bsky.social @jmcascalheira.bsky.social 02712
Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Starting in 30 minutes! Join our first Alt-Ac Paths conversation with Patricia and Rita, about their move into the commercial archaeology sector. Can’t join us? We’re making a podcast profile of each speaker to share their stories - stay tuned for updates 010
Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Join us for the first seminar in ICArEHB's @icarehb.bsky.social new 'Alt-Ac Paths' series, tomorrow at 11am on Zoom, to hear from Rita Dias and Patrícia Monteiro on their move into commercial archaeology videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/9355232390... #AltAcPaths #BeyondAcademia #PhDLife #Archaeology 063
Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025What career options are there for researchers beyond academia? How can you get there? - These are things we don’t talk about openly but are addressed in our new seminar series. Join us on Tuesday 25th for the first conversation. DM me if you’d like to be a guest! @icarehb.bsky.social 010
Reposted by Emily HallinanAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 24/02/2025To bring a smile to your face this Monday morning, here’s an ancient Egyptian sketch of a cat serving a mouse! 😄 The artist used a flake of limestone as a sketchpad for this fun scene. 📷 Brooklyn Museum www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti... #Archaeology #Art 5520104
Reposted by Emily HallinanTomos Proffitt @tomosproffitt.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Join us again on the 4th of March for another @icarehb.bsky.social Experimental Archaeology online seminar. Dr Anna Rufà will be talking about bird exploitation. Register for free here: www.icarehb.com/lexa 22310
Reposted by Emily HallinanThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 20/02/2025Archaeologists discover first pharaoh’s tomb in Egypt in more than a centurytheguardian.comArchaeologists discover first pharaoh’s tomb in Egypt in more than a centuryUncovering tomb of Thutmose II hailed as most significant discovery since Tutankhamun in 1922 It was when British archaeologist Dr Piers Litherland saw that the ceiling of the burial chamber was painted blue with yellow stars that he realised he had just… 430253