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PaleoAnthropology Journal @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

PaleoAnthropology in the news! 'Dive First, Run Later? The Role of Endurance Diving in Human Evolution' by Josephine Joordens & Erika Schagatay published in Early View. Featured by @discovermag.bsky.social, @sciencex.bsky.social and @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social! paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...

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Early View | PaleoAnthropology

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MPI-EVA Leipzig @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ausdauerlaufen oder Ausdauertauchen – was kam zuerst? 🤿🐟🐚🌊 Neue Studie in @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social von Josephine Joordens & Erika Schagatay betrachtet die #Evolution der außergewöhnlichen menschlichen #Ausdauer aus einer Land-und-Wasser-Perspektive. www.mpg.de/26978145/aus...

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Ausdauerlaufen oder Ausdauertauchen – was kam zuerst?

Neue Studie betrachtet die Evolution der außergewöhnlichen menschlichen Ausdauer aus einer Land-und-Wasser-Perspektive

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

👏Congratulations to our newly elected Vice President of ESHE Ana Marin-Arroyo! I look.forward to working with you! And thank you to my good friend our departing VP @mariesoressi.bsky.social for your leadership over the last 16 years! The society counts on your continuing involvement💐🙏 #ESHE2026

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CENIEH @cenieh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#ESHE2026 in Burgos

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

✨️Excited to present the latest results from our study of the Apidima legacy collections at #ESHE2026! ✨️

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#ESHE2026 Day2 started with a bang! Many fantastic presentations including that of the Marathousa 1 (Megalopolis) handheld wooden tools by @annemiekemilks.bsky.social published in Febr 2026 in the PNAS, the oldest known in the world! @erc.europa.eu @dfg.de @sgn.one

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#ESHE2026 Day 1 - wonderful to spend time with colleagues, students and friends and have vibrant scientific exchanges in such a lovely setting as Burgos!✨️

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Team Tübingen had a strong showing on #ESHE2026 Day 1: @serena-lombardo.bsky.social and M. Soubra on the UP of Greece & Lebanon! Stay tuned!

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#ESHE2026 Burgos is on! Looking forward to an exciting three days ahead!

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CNRS @cnrs.fr · 15/09/2026

Researchers have sorted out and deciphered thousands of letters written in cuneiform script on clay tablets found in Mesopotamia. 📜 These are eerily modern, showing that people four millennia ago shared the same interests and concerns as we do today

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Live from Mesopotamia, 4,000 years ago

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So excited for the upcoming #ESHE2026 meeting in Burgos this week! I look forward to see everyone there!

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Serena Lombardo @serena-lombardo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And that's a wrap on another fantastic season at #Apidima! Until next time 🌊🪨⛏️ @harvatilab.bsky.social @katharv.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was a pleasure to attend the Homo erectus conference in Tbilisi last week to present our work on Megalopolis. What a treat to visit the Dmanisi site, have the chance to look at fossils and connect with colleagues ✨️ Many many thanks to the organizers for flawless organization and hospitality! 🙏🙏

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Apidima excavation update: 📢 This year we focus on Caves C and D, which document the Upper Paleolithic (very rare in Greece): Cave C (left) Protoaurignacian, Cave D (right) (Epi)Gravettian (see: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...) @erc.europa.eu @sgn.one @unituebingen.bsky.social ky.social

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Greetings from Apidima! The 2026 field season is on! ✨🤩💀🔨

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

🙏 Many thanks to the Municipality of Poros and the Mayor Giorgos Koutouzis for the honorary award in recognition of my scientific contributions and my recent Albert Einstein World Award of Science ✨

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Paleoanthropologist Katerina Harvati wins Albert Einstein World Award of Science🏺🧪 www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1310... Dr @katharv.bsky.social is recognized for transforming the study of human evolution through innovative methods, including virtual anthropology and 3D geometric morphometrics.👏

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Paleoanthropologist Katerina Harvati wins Albert Einstein World Award of Science | eKathimerini.com

Katerina Harvati, one of the world’s leading paleoanthropologists, will receive this year’s Albert Einstein World Award of Science from the World Cultural Council in recognition of her groundbreaking ...

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Thank you to my Alma Mater, CUNY GC!

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 06/08/2026

Here's a new kind of virus that scientists have generated with AI. And here's my story about what it means for us to have gotten to this remarkable moment: nyti.ms/4bBhoWB (Gift link) 🧪

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Harvati Lab @harvatilab.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Happy #FossilFriday! 🦴👣 A few moments from our recent fieldwork in Baringo, Kenya 🇰🇪 Exciting things ahead! Many thanks to our team members and to the local partners whose support and assistance were invaluable throughout the fieldwork. 🙏🏼✨️ @humanorigins.bsky.social

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Universität Tübingen @unituebingen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 👏 Katerina Harvati vom Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche #Archäologie und dem #Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment wird mit dem Albert Einstein World Award for Science 2026 des World Cultural Council ausgezeichnet: 👉 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/…

Porträtfoto von Katerina Harvati, Text im Bild: „Katerina Harvati erhält den Albert Einstein World Award for Science“.

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Incredibly honored to be selected as the recipient of the 2026 Albert Einstein World Award of Science! Thank you to the selection committee, team members, partners &institutions supporting me @sgn.one @dfg.de @erc.europa.eu @unituebingen.bsky.social www.consejoculturalmundial.org/news/winner-...

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HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence @humanorigins.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Congrats to our speaker @katharv.bsky.social, who was just announced as the winner of the Albert Einstein World Award of Science!

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Katerina Harvati erhält den Albert Einstein World Award for Science

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Exploring Uluzzian Lithic Technology at Klissoura Cave 1, Greece🏺🧪 Giulia Marciani, @katharv.bsky.social et al link.springer.com/article/10.1... Uluzzian technocomplex 43–39 Kya marks one of the earliest dispersals of Homo sapiens into Europe and onset of the Upper Palaeolithic in the Mediterranean

Debitage products showing identifiable traits of bipolar percussion (2–3, 5–6). Cores resulting from bipolar percussion (1, 4). Angular shaped anvil exhibiting traces from use (7). The donut chart illustrates the distribution of percussion techniques, indeterminate blanks are excluded

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

✨Our paper on the Uluzzian of Klissoura Cave, Greece, is now published online #openaccess ✨, one of the important studies of the @erc.europa.eu Advanced Project FIRSTSTEPS and a Greek-Italian collaboration! Congratulations to Giulia Marciani, @serena-lombardo.bsky.social and team! 🎉👏 rdcu.be/ftlpN

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Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung @sgn.one · 06/07/2026

📣 #Forschungsnews: Größeres Gehirn, kleineres Gesicht – statt kontinuierlicher natürlicher Selektion prägten neutrale evolutionäre Prozesse, Stasis sowie biologische und ökologische Einschränkungen die Entwicklung. Kulturelle Innovationen erlaubten größere Evolutionssprünge. 👉 sgn.one/ohq

Nachbildungen eines Schädels von Homo habilis (rechts) sowie eines frühen Homo sapiens (links).

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Evolutionary drivers of encephalization and facial reduction in the genus Homo🏺🧪 Mark Hubbe & Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... Highlighting the importance of environmental constraints and possibly cultural behaviors as core drivers of human evolution.

Neurocranial morphological variation across OTUs in the Homo sapiens lineage showing the morphological trends represented in the first four Principal Components and the centroid size, and their fit to the evolutionary models tested based on Akaike weights.

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

✨Wonderful news from our diamond open access, community owned PaleoAnthropology journal! 🎉

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Harvati Lab @harvatilab.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Nice write-up of the recent paper by Hubbe and Harvati (2026) ✨️💀🧠 #humanevolution

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Happy to finally see this paper published! Thank you to the @dfg.de and all the institutions who supported me and this research! 🎉 @erc.europa.eu @humanorigins.bsky.social Open access, download freely at the link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Europe's worst heatwave so far, in terms of heat stress measures and temperatures - brought to you by fossil fuels. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study showing how such deadly heat became possible in only a few decades. www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...

A map of Europes with dots for all 854 cities analysed, pink dots for the cities that broke humid heat records, grey dots elsewhere. Pink dots conentrated over Southern UK, Germany, Poland and Benelux.

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Palesa @palaeoprotpalesa.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Hello Hello, If you have some downtime and want to read something excitingly odd, read on the enamel proteins of Homo naledi: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Working closely with Alberto, @clairekoenig.bsky.social, @ipatramanis.bsky.social, and the rest of our collaborators was just so wonderful.

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Proteomic analysis of dental enamel from 20 Homo naledi individuals shows no male markers

The morphological homogeneity of the middle Pleistocene hominin Homo naledi is reflected in its dental proteome, with no evidence supporting confident identification of male individuals, and the detec...

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Human Evolution Research Institute at University of Cape Town @heriuct.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🚨First-ever protein study of Homo Naledi teeth led by HERI’s Dr @palaeoprotpalesa.bsky.social finds zero male markers in 23 samples - suggesting all individuals analysed were female. A major step forward in studying sex differences in extinct species. 🔗 www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

🎉🍾🥂Congratulations to our two most recent PhDs, Dr. G. Russo and Dr. C. Siali 👩‍🎓 Well done!!! @gabrieleru1.bsky.social

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The final session took us to the Italian and Greek records and their connections. Wonderful to see everything coming together and the progress the team has made over the last four years 👏 Thank you to all the team members and collaborators who presented their work! @erc.europa.eu #humanevolution

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The afternoon session started with some in-depth comparative analysis of human fossils from Greece and the Balkans, one of the main objectives of FIRSTSTEPS. So nice to see this work slowly coming to fruition! 😀 @erc.europa.eu #humanevolution

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Our FISTSTEPS workshop continued with faunal and microfaunal analyses, paleoproteomics and human osteological analyses focusing on the record of the Apidima caves 😀 @erc.europa.eu #humanevolution

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The first session of the @erc.europa.eu project FIRSTSTEPS workshop is concluded, with exciting reports on the Apidima excavation, geomorphology and sediment micromorphology! wonderful to see the results coming together ✨ #humanevolution

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

✨The @erc.europa.eu project FIRSTSTEPS annual workshop started with a bang with the successful defense of @serena-lombardo.bsky.social this morning, working on the early Upper Paleolithic of Greece and Italy! 🎉 CONGRATULATIONS SERENA on this fantastic work!👏👏

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Just back from the Senckenberg convention in Frankfurt! So nice to spend time with the hundreds of scientists that make up this amazing community of diverse institutes - I always learn something new about this incredible institution that we call home :-) @sgn.one

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