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Justin Pargeter

@justinpargeter.bsky.social
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Africanist archaeologist, Assistant Professor @ NYU, Cultural Evolution, Lithic Analysis, rstats, papers @ nyu.academia.edu/JustinPargeter

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Guilhem Mauran @guilhemmauran.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Already second week at Boomplaas Cave with @justinpargeter.bsky.social. First week launched the season with introduction to the dig and a rock art tour for the students. @leakeyfoundation.org @umr5608traces.bsky.social
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Erella Hovers @ehovers.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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Justin Pargeter @justinpargeter.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Here, we propose a new perspective on early stone tool technology: emulation of naturally occurring sharp-edged stones (naturaliths) instead of inventing via 'Eureka!' moments. Nature provided the blueprint; hominins took it further. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/arcm... #Archaeology #Stonetools
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
🎉 Exciting news from the Cultural Evolution Society 🎉 We're launching the ACE Curricular Awards this spring to boost cultural evolution education! There are two award categories (more below) culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-eve...
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2025 ACE Curricular Grants Announced - Cultural Evolution Society
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Manuel Will @manuelwill.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Our latest work from the open-air Stone Age landscape of Jojosi on new absolute ages - this is something for the luminescence nerds! 🤓 gchron.copernicus.org/articles/7/5... #archaelogy #SouthAfrica #geology #luminescence #geography #dating
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A direct comparison of single-grain and multi-grain aliquot luminescence dating of feldspars from colluvial deposits in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Abstract. The erosional landscape of the Jojosi dongas in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, exposes accretionary slope deposits that preserve important geological and archaeological information. This lands...
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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Job alert! @katerinad.bsky.social and I are looking for an archaeologist/archaeological scientist to join us on a 4 year post-doc, helping to manage and participate in field and lab work on 2 ERC grants in our group. We would love to hear from you via the link! 👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct...
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
There have been at least 20 mass resignations from scientific journals since 2023. What’s going on?
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Why Editors At Scientific Journals Are Resigning En Masse
Publishers want to put out more papers with less editorial staff, all while charging scientists more to publish. Editors have had enough.
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Justin Pargeter @justinpargeter.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Reach out if interested in reviewing this @barpublishing.bsky.social volume on raw material selection and Clovis fluted points for Lithic Technology www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
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The Influence of Lithic Raw Material Selection on Regional Morphological Variability of Clovis Fluted Points
Clovis was once considered to be the first universal lithic technology to evolve in North America, occurring between 11,050 to 10,800 radiocarbon years before present (14C yr BP). These early hunter-g...
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Justin Pargeter @justinpargeter.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
A short video by the talented @piepergrantham.bsky.social showcasing the amazing student stories behind the 2024 Boomplaas Cave excavations youtu.be/sK9m0vvNTwA?...
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Boomplaas Excavation and Student Stories 2024
YouTube video by Justin Pargeter
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Manuel Will @manuelwill.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Are you studying technological complexity in #archaeology? If so, here is an open call for a Special Issue on 'Technological Complexity & Archaeological Interpretation in the Deep Past' which I am co-editing in JAMT! More information here or contact me! link.springer.com/collections/... - Pls share!
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Technological Complexity and Archaeological Interpretation in the Deep Past
Complexity has been both an integral but also heavily debated concept within anthropology and archaeology since the disciplines' professionalization in the ...
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Justin Pargeter @justinpargeter.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Top of the 2025 reading list
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Julien Riel-Salvatore @julienrs.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
🧪 New paper alert! 🏺 Comparing Neanderthal and Modern Human Subsistence at Riparo Bombrini: An Integrated Archaeozoological, Multivariate Taphonomic, and ZooMS Analysis. This is Geneviève Pothier Bouchard's last PhD paper. I'm *thrilled* to see it out and flesh out our work at Bombrini 1/6
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View of Comparing Neanderthal and Modern Human Subsistence at Riparo Bombrini: An Integrated Archaeozoological, Multivariate Taphonomic, and ZooMS Analysis
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John Murray @kabweordie.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Hey everyone! I figured I should do a quick introductory post. I am a PhD candidate in archaeology 🏺 at Arizona State University and a OYO faculty member at Glendale Community College in biological anthropology. I am broadly interested in lithic technology and early Homo sapiens archaeology 1/5
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Justin Pargeter @justinpargeter.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture
Although cumulative culture is a hallmark of hominin evolution, its origins can be traced back to our common ancestor with chimpanzees. Here, we investigated the evolutionary origins of chimpanzee cum...
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Catch @jwhoopes2.bsky.social on the Elevated Thoughts Podcast as he describes some of the 19th century origins of modern pseudoarchaeology: Atlantis, aliens, and archaeology. open.spotify.com/episode/3SVD...
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Atlantis, Aliens & Archaeology: John Hoopes Takes on Pseudoscience & Misinformation | Ep. 39
Elevated Thoughts · Episode
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John Murray @kabweordie.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Keokuk chert handaxe 🏺
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Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Job posting for a 2.5 year postdoc with Dr. Felix Riede in Aarhus on Palaeolithic gene-culture coevolution: international.au.dk/about/profil... 🏺
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Postdoctoral position in Palaeolithic gene-culture coevolution, Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University
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Julien Riel-Salvatore @julienrs.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
🚨 New paper alert 🚨 : A multimethod analysis for tracing Gravettian red ochre provenance at Arene Candide Cave (NW Italy)! Ochre was heavily used during the Gravettian period (31-22 ky ago), both in everyday and ritual contexts, so knowing where people acquired it from is important. 1/3
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A multimethod analysis for tracing Gravettian red ochre provenance at Arene Candide Cave (NW Italy)
Arene Candide Cave, a key site for Western Mediterranean prehistory, is famous for the discovery of the richly adorned Mid–Upper Palaeolithic burial of the ‘Young Prince’ and for its use as a burial ...
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Justin Pargeter @justinpargeter.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
A tale of a climate tipping point, and climate refugees, from southern African pre-history www.biogrip.ac.za/isotopes-con...
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A tale of a climate tipping point, and climate refugees, from southern African pre-history  — BIOGRIP
The entrance to a nondescript cave on a south-facing slope of the Swartberg Mountains, overlooking the Little Karoo, holds in its earthen floor a history of dramatic climatic change, and hunter-commun...
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Justin Pargeter @justinpargeter.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
Exciting opportunity two African Masters students to investigate the abrasion and percussion of ochre @Boomplaas. Co-supervised by Guilhem Mauran and Tammy Hodgskiss Reynard at Wits Archaeology. safarchaeology.org/resources/Ma... safarchaeology.org/resources/Ma...
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