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Gabriele Russo @gabrieleru1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🚨 I’m very happy to finally share two papers published together today in Communications Earth & Environment! 🎉 They represent a big part of my #PhD research and tell one connected story about #animals, #environments and #hominin life along the Lebanese coast during the #Paleolithic 🧵 1/9 🦣🧪🏺

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 04/09/2026

Lithics from Epipalaeolithic (c. 12,900–12,000 cal BC) Koskarlı Cave, Türkiye #FlintFriday Showing close parallels with industries in Anatolia and the Levant, they provide an opportunity to explore regional interaction at the end of the Pleistocene. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Ten stone & obsidian tools of different shapes (cores, blades, scrapers etc.) and colours, alongside a grooved antler fragment and perforated animal tooth.

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Archaeology News Online Magazine @archaeologynews.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Natufian people ate snakes and lizards 15,000 years ago, study finds About 15,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers in the southern Levant began living in more fixed settlements. This shift marked a major change in daily life before farming began... More information: archaeologymag.com/2026/08/natu...

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Natufian people ate snakes and lizards 15,000 years ago, study finds | Archaeology News Online Magazine

A study of 15,000-year-old bones in Israel shows Natufian people regularly ate lizards and snakes before farming began.

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Fereidoun Biglari @fbiglari.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A new study on obsidian procurement at the Early Neolithic site of Chogha Golan in western Iran has just been published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. The article is now available online: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Marion Prévost @marionprevost.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Some lithics from Khudji site, Tajikistan, excavated by V. Ranov. A. Donish Institute of History, archaeology and ethnography, Dushanbe Very happy to conduct this comparative study with our site of Soii Havzak, Part of Gerda Henkel research grant :)

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Marc Kissel @marckissel.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

www.nature.com/articles/d41... "We can almost look through the eyes of the Aurignacian people and see how they viewed the environment around them,” says Amy Clark, a palaeolithic archaeologist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts."

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40,000-year-old bird carvings provide clues to how ice age humans flourished

Newly discovered figurines point to skills that might have helped shape early humans’ expansion across Europe.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 28/07/2026

The Romans were among the first societies to extensively exploit fish resources, salting and fermenting them in large-scale plants. Ancient DNA sheds light on the environmental impact still felt to this day. 🏺 A #FestivalOfArchaeology thread on #NatureAndArchaeology 1/12 🧵

Fish remains from the bottom of a salting vat, as they were found (a) and separated into spines (b), vertebrae (c) and scales (d).

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ICAZ @icaz-news.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The call for abstracts for the 15th ICAZ Conference in Vancouver 2027 are now open until the 25th of August! There are 32 great sessions to choose from. Head to the website for more details - sway.cloud.microsoft/BFTVh4FAbfX6... #ICAZ #Zooarch #Vancouver2027

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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

🧪 Fashion is at the heart of economic, social, and environmental issues, several countries are seeking to regulate ultra-fast fashion practices. Yet when did the first fashions emerge? shorturl.at/veUgl with F. d'Errico @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social

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The Origins of Fashion

This paper reconceptualizes fashion as a deep-time system of bodily communication rather than a byproduct of modern consumer societies. We define fashion as a socially transmitted system of bodily di....

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Professor Amy Roberts @profamyroberts.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Our latest research with the River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation is now available!

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

What can the latest fossil discoveries tell us about our origins — and why are we the only human species left? Discussion on some of the greatest mysteries of human evolution The Biggest Mysteries of Human Evolution🏺🧪 with Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmN5...

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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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Fereidoun Biglari @fbiglari.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

A new PNAS study reports an intentionally incised flint flake bearing a cross‑hatched geometric pattern from Üçağızlı II Cave (Hatay, Türkiye), dated to ~59–77 ka. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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

New evidence of sharp-force trauma in Qafzeh-25 A taphonomic reassessment of Qafzeh 25 and its implications for violence, health and funerary practices🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... The taphonomic study conducted here confirms Qafzeh-25 was deliberately buried h/t @qafzeh.bsky.social

Drawing of the Qafzeh 25 skeleton in place and picture of the skull (Qafzeh archives).

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

Dating to a period in human evolution about which we have little evidence, Israel cave spared from construction reveals pre-Neanderthal camp life. Rare Prehistoric Cave Dating Back Some 300,000 Years Uncovered near Fureidis, South of Haifa🏺🧪 www.iaa.org.il/en/page_news...

Prehistoric handaxes discovered in the ancient cave. Credit: Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 05/07/2026

Ancient DNA can be preserved on materials from archaeological floor deposits such as bones, sediments and artifacts. A study in Nature Communications investigates whether Palaeolithic wall art can preserve human DNA for study. go.nature.com/44uyl0J 🏺🧬🧪

This is figure 2, which shows palaeolithic rock art figures sampled in this study.

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Marion Prévost @marionprevost.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Snapshots of Qadim Cave excavations, northern Negev. Epipaleolithic and PPNA occupations as well as Early Islamic layers!

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Bernadette Arnaud @narudaaarnaud.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

La compassion, depuis longtemps déjà... Il y a 27 500 ans, nos ancêtres du Paléolithique pleuraient aussi leurs morts. Retour sur le cas de cet adolescent de 15 ans sauvagement attaqué par un ours en Italie. theconversation.com/the-oldest-e...

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The oldest evidence of mourning rituals reveals Palaeolithic communities grieved like we do

Prehistoric humans were emotionally and socially sophisticated in how they handled death, and the archaelogical evidence at Arene Candide proves it.

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ICAZ @icaz-news.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The wonderful 'Archaeological Fish Resource' is back online and available to use again! The digital reference collection hosts more than 90 species of Mediterranean and North Atlantic freshwater and marine fishes. Follow the link to explore. fishbone.nottingham.ac.uk #ICAZ #Zooarch

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Archaeological Fish Resource

A digital reference collection of key skeletal elements for more than 90 species of Mediterranean and North Atlantic freshwater and marine fishes.

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PaleoAnthropology Journal @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

We’re excited to announce that the first 2026 issue of PaleoAnthropology is now online! A big thank you to everyone who made this issue possible. 📖 Read it here: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph... #PaleoAnthropology #HumanEvolution #Archaeology #OpenAccess

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Marion Prévost @marionprevost.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Enjoying being in Dushanbe to study the beautiful lithics from the Middle Paleolithic site of Soii Havzak, Tajikistan @hcelab.bsky.social @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de #CentralAsia #Paleolithic #lithics

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Laurent Davin @laurent-davin.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

📢🔬New #PaperAlert! on the cover of @ScienceAdvances : Emergence of clay personal ornaments in Southwest Asia A butterfly clay bead from #Natufian Eynan-Mallaha, colored red with ochre and marked with the fingerprints of the child (≈10 y/o) who modeled it 12,000 years ago doi.org/10.1126/scia...

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

New 3D method maps Paleolithic engravings at submillimeter resolution To be or not to be an engraving: Testing photogrammetry and DEM for identifying or disproving fine prehistoric engravings 🏺🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Generation of elevation profiles from the DEM of the experimental deer engraving. These profiles are obtained using high-resolution photogrammetry, allowing for the analysis of incision depth and surface morphology associated with the engraving process.

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Yannis Oikonomou @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

📢Deadline Extended📢 Final week of abstract submissions for EAA2026 and Session 178 - Cave Sediments as Archives of Human-Environment Dynamics: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Geoarchaeology & Micro-contextual Research! We look forward to seeing you all in Athens!

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Dr. Oliver Dietrich @oliverdietrich.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Our volume on Stone Age clothing is now online and completely open access: Jöris, O., Dietrich, O., Risch, R., & Meller, H. (Hrsg.). (2026). A Stone Age History of Clothing: Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 26. bis 28. September 2024 in Halle (Saale). doi.org/10.11588/pro...

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The artwork that illustrated our PNAS paper on the oldest wooden tools was made by Gleiver Prieto, who has also worked with me on illustrations for previous projects, including the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Marathousa 1. Gleiver's art really brings Pleistocene Megalopolis to life ✨ 🤩

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Gabriele Russo @gabrieleru1.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Usually, stones and bones get all the attention, but wood was part of the toolkit too, and the evidence is growing! 🪵 A new paper by @annemiekemilks.bsky.social et al. reports the earliest handheld wooden tools (~430 ka) from Marathousa 1 (Greece)! @harvatilab.bsky.social 🦣🧪🏺

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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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Yannis Oikonomou @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

📢Call for Contributions! 📢 If you work on the (micro-) geoarchaeology of cave sediments, using micromorphological, chemical, or biomolecular approaches, this session #178 is for you! There is still time to apply (deadline: 5th of February)!

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humendylab.bsky.social @humendylab.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

@humendylab.bsky.social & #TransCause Project invite you to our symposium on Middle Pleistocene behavioral variability with special focus on Dalarik-1 Cave (Armenia)! 📍Room 520, Mt. Scopus Campus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 💻Also online (via zoom)! See you all there!

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 01/01/2026

Fragments of a wall painting from a Sogdian Royal Palace at Sanjar-Shah, Tajikistan. Reconstruction of the scene found it depicts a procession of priests approaching a large fire altar, offering a rare glimpse into ancient fire worship. 🆓 in our latest issue: doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

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Marion Prévost @marionprevost.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Labs will be established in Panjakent and Dushanbe 🤠🔬📏🖥️🧬

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HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The recording from this talk is now on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8l2...

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HEAS Seminar - Emma Pomeroy

YouTube video by HEAS

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Marion Prévost @marionprevost.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

About Nesher Ramla hunting strategies

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Marion Prévost @marionprevost.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Take a look at this new discovery! 🪿🪶

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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

#Palaeoproteomics of Middle and Late Pleistocene hominin fossils and associated zooarchaeological assemblages from Central Eurasia with @fridowelker.bsky.social! Postdoc: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli... Research Assistant: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

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Postdoc in Paleoproteomics

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INASIA_ERC @inasia-erc.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Learn more about the INASIA project on its website: inasia.uw.edu.pl There: - a list of palaeolithic sites in Central Asia, - project publications, - communication & dissemination activities, - bios of the project team, - all project related news in the form of blog entries.

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deathrevol.bsky.social @deathrevol.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Qafzeh 11 is other case that raises fascinating questions about symbolism in Paleolithic #burials This adolescent, around 12 or 13 years old, was buried about 90,000 years ago in Qafzeh Cave (Galilee, Israel) Image: doi.org/10.4000/paleo.4848 @erc.europa.eu @cenieh.bsky.social #FECYT

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Bernadette Arnaud @narudaaarnaud.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Archéologie de l’urgence: Le site de Nunalleq sur la côte ouest de l’#Alaska est un témoin rare de la culture du peuple Yupiit. Menacés par la montée des eaux, des fouilles ont permis de révéler plus de 100.000 objets documentant une culture en voie de disparition www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

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Alaska : une archéologie de l'urgence chez les Yupiit

Le site de Nunalleq sur la côte ouest de l’Alaska est un témoin rare de la culture d’un peuple à cheval entre l’Alaska et la Sibérie : les Yupiit. Menacés par la montée des eaux, ces lieux de fouilles...

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Marion Prévost @marionprevost.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

And still here to study the lithics artifacts :)

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Modern human genomes contain a small number of archaic variants, the legacy of past interbreeding events with Neanderthals and Denisovans. The MUC19 gene: An evolutionary history of recurrent introgression and natural selection 🏺🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The proposed evolutionary history of MUC19.
The Denisovan-like haplotype (in orange) was first introgressed from Denisovans into Neanderthals and then introgressed into modern humans.

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Dany Coutinho Nogueira @danycnogueira.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

For #FossilFriday: Meet CAM 2023-7, a Mesolithic child buried ~8,000 years ago in Portugal. Their burial is one of the most elaborate ever found in the Muge shell mounds. What made it so special? 🐚🧵 #Mesolithic #Funerary #Paleoanthropology www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Denisovan mtDNA is directly connected to the Harbin skull, a nearly complete hominin cranium Denisovan mitochondrial DNA from dental calculus of the >146,000-year-old Harbin cranium 🏺🧪 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

The Harbin cranium and geographic location of hominin specimens older than 100 ka where human DNA has been retrieved

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