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Rocco Rotunno

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Prehistory, pottery and African archaeology🏺🌍|The Archaeological Mission in the Sahara @ Sapienza Uni Rome|| views are mine (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈

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UCL Institute of Archaeology @uclarchaeology.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
⌛There's still time to apply! The postholder will be employed on the Mapping Africa’s Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments (MAEASaM) project. Full time | Hybrid | Fixed-term | Deadline: 26 July 2026 Find out more: tinyurl.com/2myczpv8 #Jobs #hiring #Archaeology #GIS #UCL
In the background is a satellite image of the Niger River in Mali. Overlayed text reads: WE ARE HIRING: Research Fellow in African Heritage, Remote Sensing and GIS. The UCL Institute of Archaeology logo is in the bottom-right corner.
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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Very proud of my PhD student Alexes Mes for her first archaeology paper where she has developed a novel Bayesian spatiotemporal model for estimating arrival times using 14C dates authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/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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Emanuele Cancellieri @emanucanc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Hot off the press! Led by Olivier Scancarello, in collaboration with amazing colleagues and institutions in Tunisia, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Differential Taphonomic Behavior of Flint Types: Experimental Insights and Implications for the Middle Stone Age Assemblages of Wadi Lazalim in the Northern Sahara (Kebili, Tunisia) - Journal of Archa...
Several syn and post-depositional processes are responsible for different degrees of site and assemblage formation and disturbance. Understanding the processes that lead to archaeological site formati...
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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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Julia Aramendi @juliaramendi.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
🚨 New paper out! This work combines 3D geometric morphometrics, multivariate statistics, and machine learning to assess sexual dimorphism in great ape long bones — aiming to classify unsexed skeletal remains and reveal patterns relevant to human evolution. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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External Long Bone Morphology as a Tool for Sex Identification in Great Apes: The Case of the Humerus and Femur
Objectives Sexual dimorphism in primates reflects evolutionary, ecological, and social pressures and varies widely across species, complicating its analysis. This study builds on previous research t.....
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Cambridge Archaeology @cam-archaeology.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣 Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology in Early Holocene Africa in Nature Communications by Rocco Rotunno & Enrico Crema 👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/statist... 📸 Westend61
Algeria, Tassili n'Ajjer National Park, Sahara desert, broken neolithic pottery
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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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Rocco Rotunno @roccoro.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
#SAFA 25 just ended... amazing week meeting friends and colleagues...thanks to all!
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Dr Alessio Veneziano @aveneziano.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Today, the 25th of April, in Italy 🇮🇹 we celebrate the #Liberation from NaziFascism. We celebrate to remember the people of the resistance, we celebrate to remember that we kicked fascists' asses once and we can do it again.
Partigiani of the resistance movement. Four people (three men and a woman) stand in the front of a crowd of fighters. Image from the book "Noi Partigiani, memoriale della resistenza Italiana".
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Andrea Zerboni @andzerb.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
🚨 new paper alert: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The precision land knowledge of the past enables tailor-made environment therapy and empathy for nature - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - The precision land knowledge of the past enables tailor-made environment therapy and empathy for nature
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Eleanor Scerri @elliescerri.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
In @nature.com we report the presence of the Mesolithic on Malta - upending everything we knew about the seafaring capabilities of late European hunter-gatherers and pushing back Maltese prehistory by 1000 years. Watch the clip, link to open access paper is below. 1/5 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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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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Nada Salem @nadasalem.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I'm beyond excited to share our new paper in Nature! We sequenced the first ancient human autosomal genomes from the Central Sahara, two ~7,000-year-old individuals from Takarkori in Libya, revealing a long-isolated North African lineage: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here's a short thread: (1/n)
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Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage - Nature
Pastoralism spread through cultural diffusion into the Green Sahara, where an isolated, distinct North African ancestry persisted.
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
All this ⬇️ "It sounds ridiculous to say such things. It sounds unbelievable even to me. But it is where we are and the sooner we accept it, the sooner we can organise to change it." 🧪
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Sara Bernardini @sarabern.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
I'm very happy to share with you our latest work on stable isotope analysis on dessicated wild cereals from Takarkori rock shelter 🌱🌾 What a challenge! Do not hesitate to contact us for a free copy ✨ #prehistory #archaeology
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Exploring the use of Wild Cereals at Takarkori (Central Sahara, Southwestern Libya) Through Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis of Prehistoric Desiccated Seeds
Stable isotope analyses of archaeological plant material have increased in the last few decades with questions arising about climate, environment, and subsistence strategies. While the available st...
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Rocco Rotunno @roccoro.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
📣Don't miss our CAAG's last talk this term... Saharan prehistory and pastoralism with @martinadm.bsky.social . Tuesday 18th, 1pm, McDonald Inst. @cam-archaeology.bsky.social
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Rocco Rotunno @roccoro.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Join us tomorrow for Prof. Amanuel Beyin's talk at CAAG Seminar Series...@McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research @cam-archaeology.bsky.social
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Rocco Rotunno @roccoro.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Join us tomorrow for the 2nd talk of Cambridge African Archaeology Group Seminar series...with @edwindejager.bsky.social at @cam-archaeology.bsky.social
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Edwin de Jager @edwindejager.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Hot off the press! 📢 Honoured to have contributed to this special issue with @ameliebeaudet.bsky.social and team celebrating the iconic #Taung child for this centenary event. Stay tuned for more! #Palaeoanthropology #FossilFriday
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Julia Aramendi @juliaramendi.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
📢Less than two weeks to the SAfA deadline! Submit your abstract to our session on Digital Pathways (#56) and join us in Faro for an open discussion on the use of digital technologies to advance our understanding of the past. @edwindejager.bsky.social safa2025.icarehb.com/poster-and-o...
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Poster and Oral Presentation Submissions – SAfA 2025
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Rocco Rotunno @roccoro.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
All set for the new term!here the line-up for the next African Archaeology Seminar Series... save the dates🗓👈join us the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at UniCambridge
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Rocco Rotunno @roccoro.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Deadline is approaching!but you still have time!👈⏳️
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Rocco Rotunno @roccoro.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
📢🚨call for papers open @SAfAarchaeology 2025 @ICArEHB ....if you're interested in early POTTERY adoption and diffusion throughout time and space in AFRICA then share your research 👥
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Rocco Rotunno @roccoro.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Call for papers open...join us for our session at the next SAFA 2025. Hope to see you there
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