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Martina Di Matteo

@martinadm.bsky.social
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Post-Doc Research Fellow Fyssen Foundation. @Musée de l’Homme, UMR 7194, Paris. Prehistoric and African zooarchaeologist. Taphonomy, proteomics & stable isotopes.

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Martina Di Matteo @martinadm.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🦴✨ How do we know if an archaeological bone still preserves collagen — without damaging it? Check it out our new paper on portable ER-FTIR: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Proud team work with @Krista McGrath @Cristina Lemorini @Stella Nunziate Cesaro @Silvia Soncin
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Portable ER-FTIR as a non-destructive method to pre-screen collagen for ZooMS analysis in archaeology
In the last decades, archaeology has witnessed a significant increase in the use of biomolecular analyses to study a variety of materials, including s…
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Rocco Rotunno @roccoro.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
📢CALL FOR PAPERS🚨 @martinadm.bsky.social @mariannafusco.bsky.social @Olivier Scancarello and I are running a session (#24) @Panaf26 titled: Archaeology of liminality and transition: eco-cultural strategies in African prehistoric ecotones. More @ panaf2026moz.com/panaf-sessio...
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PanAF Sessions
The Local Organizing Committee is excited that almost 70 sessions and workshops will occur at PanAF Moz 2026. Pan-African Association members and non-members are welcome to submit paper abstracts t…
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Martina Di Matteo @martinadm.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Happy to share with you the new paper on taphonomy in arid environments in collaboration with my friend and colleague @roccoro.bsky.social. Check it out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Shelters and bones: Site-specific archaeofaunal taphonomy for identifying formation processes in Saharan Holocene rock shelters - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
This study investigates natural syn- and post-depositional processes affecting terrestrial mammal bones from the Takarkori rock shelter in the hyper-arid Tadrart Acacus massif, south-western Libya. Th...
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Rocco Rotunno @roccoro.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Happy and honoured to share this paper with @ercrema.bsky.social about pottery in Early Holocene Africa! Check out more in the thread!
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Emanuele Cancellieri @emanucanc.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Hot off the press! A bioarchaeological study of medieval burials from northern Tunisia.
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The medieval burial assemblage from Koudiet er Rammadiya, Northern Tunisia. An interdisciplinary bioarchaeological investigation - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
The osteological analysis of human skeletal assemblages offers crucial osteobiographical insights into ancient populations, yet remains largely unexplored in past Tunisia. This paper presents the firs...
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Rocco Rotunno @roccoro.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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Decifrati i primi genomi del Sahara verde, risalenti a 7000 anni fa | Sapienza Università di Roma
Lo studio inoltre getta nuova luce sull’ascendenza neandertaliana, mostrando che gli individui di Takarkori possedevano significativamente meno DNA neandertaliano rispetto agli esseri umani fuori dall’Africa, ma più rispetto agli africani sub-sahariani contemporanei.
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