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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Why is AAR (Amino Acid Racemisation; by implication #palaeoproteomics) so often overlooked for #geochronology? New paper by @neaarlab.bsky.social, using Bithynia snails 🐌 to date the last 1Ma: 4 new reference sets for climate & Quaternary Science 🌍 open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-396

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Roberto Sáez @robertosaezm.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Achelense Melka Wakena 5, Etiopía ~1,36 Ma: planificación para adquisición materia prima y control de propiedades morfométricas. The emergence of large flake-based Acheulian technology: perspective from the highland site-complex of Melka Wakena, Ethiopia link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Gopesh Jha @gopesh.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Wiped out humanity! Not really 😁

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Bara Huber @barahuber.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

A journey into the sensory world of ancient Arabia: incense, ritual, trade, memory & scent 🌿🔥🏺🧪 www.dainst.org/en/newsroom/...

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DAI - Scents of Arabia

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Archglobalsouth @archglosouth.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

🌿 “What the Invisible Dream — Cosmoperceptions of the Forest” Art from residencies in the Amazon, Marajó, Atlantic Forest, Sápmi & Rio Negro/Munich exploring forests, waters & cycles. 📅 Nov 10, 7PM 📍 Galeria Benedito Nunes, Belém (PA) 🆓 Free entry More info: www.goethe.de/ins/br/pt/st...

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Christopher J. Bae @paleobae.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

[new paper alert!!]. Taking another look at the traditional Out of Africa I model… 😎😎 @courtneymanthey.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

The new issue of PaleoAnthropology is now online! 📢 It includes the Special Issue 'What’s in a Name? Late Middle and Early Late Pleistocene Hominin Systematics' The cover features the article 'Revisiting the Anatomy of the Florisbad Hominin Cranium' by Balzeau et al. #humanevolution #openaccess

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Archglobalsouth @archglosouth.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

COMING SOON! We’re delighted to share that our executive report, bringing together experts on regenerative agriculture and resilient food systems will be released soon.

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Archglobalsouth @archglosouth.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

We hosted ‘The Voices of the Global South on the Anthropocene’ Conference in June 2024 at the Max-Planck-Institute of Geoanthropoloy Jena, Germany. You can read more about this event, and the important discussions we engaged in, both below and at the link in our bio!

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Archglobalsouth @archglosouth.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Our aim is to bring together diverse voices and perspectives, incorporating palaeoecology, archaeology and traditional knowledge, to address pressing challenges relating to climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

High-quality Denisovan genome, reconstructed from a molar found at Denisova Cave. Belonged to a man who lived ~200 Kya A high-coverage genome from a 200,000-year-old Denisovan 🏺🧪 S. Peyregne, @benceviola.bsky.social, @elenaessel.bsky.social, @janetk.bsky.social et al www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Relationships of Denisova 25 to archaic and modern humans.

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Gopesh Jha @gopesh.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Paper alert 🎓🌿 I’m excited to share a new publication from my PhD On-site plant-wax biomarkers + compound-specific isotopes show why relying on bulk δ13C of SOM can mislead in the tropics. Case study: Jwalapuram (S. India). Read: www.cell.com/iscience/ful... Huge thanks to all co-authors 🙏

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On-site plant-wax biomarker analysis for assessing soil-organic-microbial degradation in archaeological contexts: A case study from Southern India

Archeology; Biochemistry; Ecological biochemistry; Paleobiochemistry

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Gopesh Jha @gopesh.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

As I wrap up my doctoral research, I find I have even more questions than when I began—and the picture keeps getting more complex. Here’s a mint-fresh Levallois point core from the Baghor Coarse Member (~40–50 ka) in the Middle Son Valley (north-central India). #HumanOrigins #Palaeolithic #India

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Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @eegcam.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

#newpreprint: "Climate Shaped the Global Population Structure of Leopards and their Extinction in Europe": www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...! Leopards are charming big cats but there are many mysteries around them. Thread 🧵

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Gopesh Jha @gopesh.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

A lot more is coming about the technological transitions, Toba's impact, and climatic context. Hats off to @ekerdoncuff.bsky.social @priyamoorjani et al.'s outstanding work. Do read the original paper - doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... P.S. A lot to wrap up in so little time, but looking fwd. to 2026.

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John Hawks @johnhawks.net · 02/10/2025

The genetics of South Asia are coming into focus, helping reveal how fast the avalanche of modern humans got going. This region has more Neanderthal genetic variation than any other, and a unique component of Denisovan ancestry never seen before. www.johnhawks.net/p/deep-histo...

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Deep history from the genomes of India

People carrying Neanderthal mixture entered the subcontinent after 50,000 years ago, meeting Denisovans

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

So excited to announce the lineup of speakers here @heasvienna.bsky.social for the 2025/6 academic year! We have some outstanding speakers for our three seminar series in Archaelogical Science, Ancient Genomics and Human Evolution & the Palaeolithic. All hybrid! Register now at HEAS.at

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Yarrow Axford @yarrowaxford.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Note that @isotopes.bsky.social (with other methods) found that lakes lost hypolimnetic oxygen in three more (far-away) sectors of Greenland around the same time. Oxygen depletion was apparently widespread, in response to a few degrees of summer warming. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Aquatic plant wax hydrogen and carbon isotopes in Greenland lakes record shifts in methane cycling during past Holocene warming

δ2H values of aquatic plant wax reveal past Holocene warming led to expanded CH4 cycling in lakes across Greenland.

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

One more conceptual layer of the Bretskyan hierarchy: how organisms map on their range and environments or what is the geometry of their movement (as exemplified by dogs and cats). 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Ridge densities for canids and felids for the nine landscapes in which at least one species from each clade was tracked together.

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Michael Petraglia @mdpetraglia.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Had some fun with this one! Based on a publication by @mariaguagnin.bsky.social and our terrific team! 🐪 m.youtube.com/shorts/7Pcec...

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12,000-year-old road signs

YouTube video by Griffith University

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Kaedan O'Brien, Ph.D. @deadbovids.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

After two days of reading, thinking, and reading again, I think there are two possible ways to interpret the Yunxian cranium (note that @johnhawks.net and others have already shared some great, and often overlapping ideas): (1/4) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans

Diverse forms of Homo coexisted during the Middle Pleistocene. Whether these fossil humans represent different species or clades is debated. The ~1-million-year-old Yunxian 2 fossil from China is impo...

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Gopesh Jha @gopesh.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

This non #FlintFriday and #FieldworkFriday, I would like to share this mint-fresh Quartzite handaxe from SE India, likely dating back to Middle Pleistocene. Yes, it hurts to see that broken tip! Still, one of my best find. I am field-sick, can't wait to go back. #Acheulean #India #HumanOrigins

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Isabelle Crevecoeur @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

‼️📣Extremely proud to see this great collaborative work out! Oldest Shell Ornament Workshop in Western Europe at Saint-Césaire: www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1... #Prehistory #Archaeology #Chatelperronian #Shells #Beads #Homosapiens #Neandertal #Ornament Details of discovery & implications ⏬ 🧵 1/20

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Thanks to @isbarchaeology.bsky.social and @isba11.bsky.social for a great conference. I mentioned the legacy of Henk Kars of VU who established ISBA Geoarchaeology closed. Here is the link to the petition to save Earth Sciences @vuamsterdam.bsky.social www.change.org/p/red-aardwe...

More than 500 international scholars attended ISBA 11. Here are many of them looking up at the camera in a large group shot

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ISBA - Intl. Soc. for Biomolecular Archaeology @isbarchaeology.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

What a week! 🎉 Big thanks to @isba11.bsky.social for hosting an incredible ISBA conference — so well organized and full of great science.

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Job Alerts!🚨 We are looking to fill three Independent Junior Research Group Leader positions in the 'HUMAN ORIGINS' Cluster of Excellence at the University of Tübingen Application deadline: Sept. 10, Starting Jan. 1, 2026 1. Genotype-Phenotype interactions: uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

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Independent Junior Research Group Leader (m/f/d, 100%)

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Henry Gee 亨利·纪 @endofthepier.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Stone tools from Sulawesi at least a million years old may be even more ancient than those found on Flores, suggesting an even earlier presence of hominins on Wallacea www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Hominins on Sulawesi during the Early Pleistocene - Nature

Early Pleistocene artefacts at Calio suggest that Sulawesi was populated by hominins at around the same time as Flores, if not earlier.

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Gopesh Jha @gopesh.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Paper alert 📄 Led by Dr. Anil Devara. That ~75,000-year-old Toba ash layer (YTT) in India? Our research shows it is not necessary if YTT is isochron! We found YTT at MVP (site) is significantly (40,000 years) younger than ~74ka mark. Glad to be part of this work! doi.org/10.1002/jqs....

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Youngest Toba Tuff (YTT) beds as a Late Pleistocene isochron in the Indian subcontinent? New geochronological and sedimentological insights

The ~75 ka Young Toba super-eruption was a catastrophic extreme event that spewed vast quantities of volcanic ash and aerosols and is argued to have caused a drastic volcanic winter, climatic upheava....

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Gopesh Jha @gopesh.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I love the title - cool paper!

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Archglobalsouth @archglosouth.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

So much to think about after "Not all that glitters is green" by Verónica Zuccarelli Freire. A powerful reminder that the costs of the energy transition are not shared equally, especially in the #Andes. True climate action requires environmental justice. #ClimateJustice #IndigenousKnowledge

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Gopesh Jha @gopesh.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

My inner self whispers, "Incredible! This could be a living example of a 'primal throwback,' a manifestation of our ancient, arboreal instincts!" I need a vacation! Probably after PhD🤔

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Archglobalsouth @archglosouth.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Rethinking how #agriculture evolved. A new "We in #Evolution" podcast explores the sophisticated tech of #Amazonian gardens— a system of #exchange, #culture & #biodiversity, not machines. A fascinating listen. Podcast features our very own, Laura Pereira Furquim open.spotify.com/episode/0w2E...

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Nós na Evolução | 5. Germinando a Amazônia

Alô, Ciência? · Episode

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Janet Kelso @janetk.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Interested in how ancient genomes are providing insights into the our evolutionary past? @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social and I are excited about the great program coming together for this meeting in London in November! Register now to join us!

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Archglobalsouth @archglosouth.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Perspectives from the Global South on the Anthropocene" poster at SB 62 in Bonn was all about decolonising climate narratives and raising the Global South perspective. Here is a copy of our poster👉 unfccc.int/sites/defaul... Here is an exclusive snippet from the ACE gallery, hats off to Veronica👏

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Archglobalsouth @archglosouth.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Exciting news! 🌿 Dr. Verónica Zuccarelli Freire is attending the 13th Facilitative Working Group meeting (LCIPP—UNFCCC) as an observer, nominated by RINGO. Next up: she’s heading to SB62 @ the Bonn Climate Conference to share our project at the UN Campus! ✨🌍 #ClimateJustice #IndigenousRights

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Archglobalsouth @archglosouth.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Thrilled to share that our very own Veronica Zuccarelli Freire represented the @maxplanck.de as an observer at the 13th Facilitative Working Group (FWG) of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP) from June 10-13! 🌍 Here are meeting highlights: lcipp.unfccc.int/sites/defaul...

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