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Czech archaeological expedition ARDUQ @arduq.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

New publication from our sister Australian @latrobe.edu.au expedition in Oman 🎉👏 where @arduq.bsky.social is participating. // New insights from the Lahem rock shelter in Dhofar, southern Oman. // sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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Czech archaeological expedition ARDUQ @arduq.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

We have decided to share our new paper on failed OoA human expansion as a preprint, to avoid bias in judgement, and to create an open platform for feedback. Please follow @osamawi.bsky.social post to know more and to download preprint and data/code. @czechacademy.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social

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Osama Samawi @osamawi.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

@arduq.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social What happened to humans who left Africa 100,000 years ago? Here, we bridge genetics and stone tools — Nubian Levallois from Oman dated 109–95 ka, synchronous with gene flow into Neanderthals. Novel stratified evidence. 🔗 doi.org/10.21203/rs....

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A failed human expansion out of Africa 100,000 years ago

Early modern humans expanded out of Africa multiple times before 70,000 years ago, yet none of these populations are ancestral to living non-Africans. What caused these dispersals to fail? Here we inv...

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Czech archaeological expedition ARDUQ @arduq.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Great collection of articles on Arabia! Congratulations to authors 🎉

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Czech archaeological expedition ARDUQ @arduq.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

ARDUQ 5A expedition is in full swing. Our fieldwork in Nejd plateau in southern Oman is focused on collecting samples for paleoenvironmental, micro-morphological, geochemical and OSL dating analyses from the excavated stratified Palaeolithic sites. @czechacademy.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social

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Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

A grand place for Lucy to make her European debut. 📍 Národní muzeum

Grand interior of the National Museum in Prague, featuring a sweeping marble staircase lined with red carpets, ornate columns, and golden lamps. Busts of historical figures line the upper level beneath a decorative arched gallery, and the ceiling is made of elaborately patterned glass panels that let in natural light. Visitors walk up and down the staircases, giving a sense of scale to the opulent architecture.

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Gabriele Russo @gabrieleru1.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Great talk @armandofalcucci.bsky.social! Impressive depth of data analysis, and I really appreciated the open science approach. Finally, robust evidence that the Ahmarian and Protoaurignacian aren’t directly linked #Paleolithic #lithics 🏺🦣🧪

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Eleanor M. Williams @eleanormw.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

3D scanning these beauties with Ng'ipalajem! @palaeotrails.bsky.social #handaxe #turkana

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Rob Foley @robfoley.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Fabulous news that @martamlahr.bsky.social has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy 🍾🍾🍾

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Dr. Roman Garba @romangarba.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Now nice to see talk with data from the namesake Garba site 🥰

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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

#ESHE2025 Marc Dickinson ‘Advancing enamel amino acid dating’ Using AA in dental enamel for dating Does glue affect potential? NO 😊 Can ESR powder by re-used? YES 😊 ‘lab-on-a-chip’ (minimise sample size) and no need of lab for pre-processing! 😊

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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

#ESHE2025 Harold Berghuis ‘Madura Strait, the first subsea Homo erectus site in Sundaland (Indonesia)’ Underwater fossils 🌟! Subsidence in Sundaland: key to biogeography. Submerged river valley-MIS6, w rich fossil record! hunting bovids? H erectus: frontal & parietal frags– aff Java late erectus 😍

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 26/09/2025

For #FindsFriday, here are some shell, stone and shark tooth beads and pendants from a Neolithic grave at Wadi Nafūn, Oman. These materials indicate a symbolic connection to marine themes amongst the people buried here. Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Several beads and pendants of varying colours and shapes, made from stone, shell and shark teeth.

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James Clark @jclark997.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Great fun at #ESHE2025 presenting on how handaxe shape can inform discussions of African demography in the Early and Middle Pleistocene! While we have very few fossils or genetic data for this period, handaxe shape may carry a signal that can help to constrain biogeographic models - more to come!

Myself standing in front of a poster of research entitled “What can handaxe shape contribute to discussions of hominin demography in Africa in the late Early and early Middle Pleistocene?”

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Gopesh Jha @gopesh.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

This non #FlintFriday and #FieldworkFriday, I would like to share this mint-fresh Quartzite handaxe from SE India, likely dating back to Middle Pleistocene. Yes, it hurts to see that broken tip! Still, one of my best find. I am field-sick, can't wait to go back. #Acheulean #India #HumanOrigins

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Dr. Roman Garba @romangarba.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

It is finally OUT! 🎉 My book "HINTERLAND MONUMENTS OF ANCIENT NOMADS: Trilith Stone Structures of Southeastern Arabia" was published by @archaeopress.bsky.social Book is the first dedicated study of these enigmatic 2000-year-old ritual monuments. www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

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Dr. Roman Garba @romangarba.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Very sad news today. Anthony E. Marks has passed away. He conducted pioneering prehistoric research in the Nile Valley, the southern Levant and Arabia, producing seminal works on the Palaeolithic. In 2023, aged 85, he still joined the @arduq.bsky.social excavations in Dhofar, Oman. Rest in peace.

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Dr. Roman Garba @romangarba.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

The 'bone midden' surprised with its age, megalithic features and the number of individuals. It is as impressive as the neighbouring rock art sites, triliths and shell midden. The Nafun cultural landscape comprises 214 archaeological sites! @arduq.bsky.social

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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Such fun & fantastic team 🤩🤩🤩

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Palaeotrails @palaeotrails.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

What does the Ng'ipalajem team do? Ng’ipalajem, meaning Ancestors in Turkana, is an ERC-funded project. Led by @martamlahr.bsky.social, the project investigates how the emergence of Homo sapiens is deeply intertwined with Africa’s long-term environmental and ecological history. #humanevolution

We spend long periods of time in Kenya collecting data in the collections, understanding the landscape and looking for fossils.

Picture credits: Sarah Paris

The rest of the year is spent analysing data, honing skills and preparing for upcoming field work. During this time, we develop new methodologies, attend conferences, write papers and discuss our findings

Picture credits: Sarah Paris, Eleanor Williams

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INASIA_ERC @inasia-erc.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

ERC_INASIA is the first high-mountain archaeological project in Uzbekistan. For the very first time, our research team will reach unstudied caves in order to collect data for multiproxy analyses. #HorizonEU #EUResearch #ERC

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Silke Merchel @silke-merchel.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Yippieh! 2nd try for field-work in Greece starts today🥳 (1st was cancelled due to general strike). With @romangarba.bsky.social and Stephanie Neuhuber. Let's see if we can find some nice samples for cosmogenic nuclide analysis by #AMS for VERA @univie.ac.at

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Dr. Roman Garba @romangarba.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Cool stuff, an appetizer 😉, from Duqm as part of Australian LARiO @latrobeuni.bsky.social expedition in Oman in collaboration with @arduq.bsky.social

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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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Dr. Roman Garba @romangarba.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Don't miss our talk, where Vitalii Usyk and I reveal more details about the unique archaeological site of Korolevo, including some unpublished material about the record of hominin occupation there from 1.4 million years ago to 20,000 years ago! Thank you, @heasvienna.bsky.social for inviting us!

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

@tommyhigham.bsky.social from #HEASVienna introducing @romangarba.bsky.social and #VitalyUsik for the #HEASSeminar taking place now online and in-person in the #UBB @univie.ac.at

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Dr. Roman Garba @romangarba.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Just took an international train from Annaba in #Algeria to Tunis in #Tunisia (reopened Aug 2024). Breathtaking scenery in early May, very green and full of flowers! One of the great train journeys in the world, not to be missed! @seatsixtyone.bsky.social #iloverailwaytrips

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Hannes Rathmann @hannesrathmann.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Truly honored to have received this award - thank you so much! 🥳 It was a pleasure meeting so many new colleagues and friends at #HumanEvo25 ! @martamlahr.bsky.social @lquintanamurci.bsky.social @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social

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UoL EvoAnth Seminar Series @liverpoolevoanth.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Please join us next week, 8th May 2025, at 13:00 BST, for our final talk of the academic year which will be given by Dr John Rowan, University of Cambridge. More details below 👇 If you would like to attend, please register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... We hope to see you there!

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Carina Schlebusch @cschlebu.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

A popular science feature now available on our recently published Fulani study in The Conversation - Africa!

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Palaeotrails @palaeotrails.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

@romangarba.bsky.social Combining archaeology and nuclear physics! ⚒️🌌 Roman shows how the ‘cosmic clock’ 🕰️ can help us investigate evolutionary timelines. New dating using cosmogenic nuclides places Korolevo, Ukraine 🇺🇦 amongst the earliest hominin occupations in Europe at 1.42mya. #HumanEvo25

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Czech Academy of Sciences @czechacademy.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

✨ This year, our Institute of Archaeology (Prague) is celebrating 100 years of systematic research at Prague Castle – the largest coherent castle complex in the world & one of the most significant historical landmarks in the Czech Republic. Press release (in Czech) ➡️ www.arup.cas.cz/tiskova-zpra...

Photo credit: Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague.

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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Exciting start to 2nd day of #HumanEvo25 - @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social talk on “Beyond out of Africa”, mobility of HGs oc the Nile Valley badin in the late Pleistocene 🥰

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Gabriele Russo @gabrieleru1.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

In Australia for a few weeks as guest researcher, wrapping up analysis on materials from #Oman and teaching a crash course in #Zooarchaeology at @latrobeuni.bsky.social. Today I had the pleasure of giving a talk on Paleolithic human–carnivore interactions, really enjoyed it! Cool stuff in the works

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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Humans only became interesting hosts (from a pathogen 🦠 point of view!) after major demographic growth in the recent past - fascinating talk by Johannes Krause on the history of the #plague !! #HumanEvo25

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Data on ivory micro-artifacts discovered in the MIS 11 horizons of the multilayered Lower Paleolithic site of Medzhibozh A in western Ukraine. The Earliest Evidence of Deliberate Ivory Processing Dates Back to Around 0.4 Million Years Ago 🏺🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Photographs and drawings of mammoth ivory fragments shaped as a "point" (1, 1a), a "core" (2, 2a), and an unmodified ivory fragment (3,3a). Credit: Stepanchuk and Naumenko, 2025

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Dr. Roman Garba @romangarba.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Day 1 of Human Evolution - From fossils to ancient and modern genomics conference. I am delighted to participate. Thank you for inviting @martamlahr.bsky.social @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social #humanevo25

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Dr. Roman Garba @romangarba.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Great talk and I am sure we will hear more from early hominin "East meets West". Exciting conference! #Humanevo25

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 23/04/2025

A paper in Nature suggests that the people of Carthage were not closely related to those from the founding Phoenician culture. The findings shed light on the forces that shaped the origins of the Carthaginians and the acquisition of their culture. go.nature.com/42KBmsG 🏺 🧬 🧪

This is figure 1, which gives a sample overview and principal component analysis

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Dr. Roman Garba @romangarba.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Today, we opened in collaboration with MHT and SEZAD an exhibition in Duqm // Archaeological Heritage of Al-Wusta Governorate // to disseminate our research results with the local community. @ltuarchaeology.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Does Neanderthal DNA put a ceiling on Out of Africa? youtu.be/rXN-KEULia8?...

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Does Neanderthal DNA put a ceiling on Out of Africa?

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Archaeometry @archaeometry.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

This paper will be in our forthcoming #Lithics special issue: What can lithics tell us about hominin technology's ‘primordial soup’? An origin of stone knapping via the emulation of Mother Nature onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #EarlyView #OpenAccess

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Dr. Roman Garba @romangarba.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Congratulations to KATRIN team for new elusive neutrino mass in @science.org . Scientists from our Nuclear Physics Institute were among the founding members and developed the Kr-83m conversion electron source for the experiment. @czechacademy.bsky.social

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