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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 24/09/2026

It's #WorldMaritimeDay! ⚓️ Land visibility was vital to ancient mariners, who relied on the coast to navigate around the seas. A new map of coastal visibility around the Mediterranean helps explore nuanced questions about past seafaring. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Map of the Mediterranean Sea, coloured with a spectrum of visibility around the coasts based on land elevation over the horizon.

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Serena Lombardo @serena-lombardo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On the way back from #ESHE2026! ✨ Grateful for the opportunity to share our work on the #EarlyAurignacian of Klissoura 1 and for the inspiring exchanges with friends and colleagues! @eshesociety.bsky.social @harvatilab.bsky.social @boneslab.bsky.social @cenieh.bsky.social @fatapuerca.bsky.social

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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 · 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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Oscar Lozada @oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You should be proud of your deformed head! It's a sign of your humanity! Some comforting news here from #ESHE2026 #humanevolution #mutantandproud

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Serena Lombardo @serena-lombardo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Excited to be back at #Apidima for another season of fieldwork 🧡⛏️

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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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Serena Lombardo @serena-lombardo.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Thrilled to see our paper on the #Uluzzian of Klissoura Cave now published! It was a truly wonderful collaborative effort, and I’m grateful to everyone involved! ❤️ @harvatilab.bsky.social @boneslab.bsky.social

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Serena Lombardo @serena-lombardo.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Inspiring ideas for fellow stratigraphy enthusiasts! 🔍🧶🧵😍

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Serena Lombardo @serena-lombardo.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Proud of my friend! Well deserved, Mel! 🥹🌸

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Will Snyder @sahelanthrope.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I am taking art/design commissions (but only 1-2 per month due to the terms of my unemployment). Please feel free to DM if you are interested. Also please share to spread the word. Info about services and rates can be found at my website: sites.google.com/view/wdspale...

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Serena Lombardo @serena-lombardo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Successfully defended my #PhD 🌸🎓 Huge thanks to my supervisors @katharv.bsky.social and Vangelis Tourloukis, and to my committee members @manuelwill.bsky.social @ctennie.bsky.social and Catherine Perlès for their feedback and encouragement. It has been an honor!!

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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 · 12/05/2026

Very happy to announce the publication of our latest article, on the reconstruction and analysis of the Paradolicopithecus cranium from Dafnero, Greece. Congratulations to Stelios Koutalis and the entire team! ✨🎉 #openaccess www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Virtual reconstruction and analysis of the face of DFN3-150 Paradolichopithecus aff. arvernensis specimen from Dafnero, Greece - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Virtual reconstruction and analysis of the face of DFN3-150 Paradolichopithecus aff. arvernensis specimen from Dafnero, Greece

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Serena Lombardo @serena-lombardo.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Grateful for the opportunity to present my work on Apidima lithics and for the many inspiring conversations! 💖

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Harvati Lab @harvatilab.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Hello from Ferrara ✨🇮🇹 Katerina and Serena are attending the Hugo Obermaier Conference and presenting results from Apidima and Marathousa 1 🌍💀🪨🦴⛏️ @katharv.bsky.social @serena-lombardo.bsky.social

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Such a pleasure to share our latest article on the wooden tools from Marathousa 1 (Megalopolis), the oldest known in the world at 430 ka. Congratulations to the team! Evidence for the earliest hominin use of wooden handheld tools found at Marathousa 1 (Greece) | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Evidence for the earliest hominin use of wooden handheld tools found at Marathousa 1 (Greece) | PNAS

The Middle Pleistocene (MP; ca. 774 to 129 ka) marks a critical period of human evolution, characterized by increasing behavioral complexity and th...

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Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I think we moved past this too quickly: researchers can’t remove this Neanderthal from the ground without destroying it, so they sent a camera into the nasal cavity instead. And they found that nose doesn't seem cold-adapted after all. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s... 🏺

Neanderthal skull partially encased in thick, knobby mineral deposits, beige and cream calcite covering much of the bone surface. The eye sockets, nasal opening, and brow ridge remain visible.

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I love these little snapshots into human history. An intimate glimpse of how someone lived tens of thousands of years ago www.zmescience.com/science/arch...

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Archaeologists Found A Rare 30,000-Year-Old Toolkit That Once Belonged To A Stone Age Hunter

An ancient pouch of stone tools brings us face-to-face with one Gravettian hunter.

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Harvati Lab @harvatilab.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

#ESHE2025 featured posters from our team members on Greek sites: Klissoura (Marciani et al.), Megalopoli (Roditi et al.), and Apidima (Lombardo et al.)! 🌍🦴🐵 They couldn’t attend in person, but their work was well represented. 👏

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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

#ESHE2025 Katerina Harvati ‘Middle Pleistocene funerary ritual at Apidima? An examination of evidence’ 2 homs– 2 dates: Ap2: >170 ka (NEA), Ap1 >210 ka (early H sapiens). Could it be mortuary ritual instead (Otte 2020)?! NO. Analysis of tapho, homs in fissure! no pebbles, no pigments 😀

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Harvati Lab @harvatilab.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

The 2025 excavation season is now officially underway at Apidima in Greece! ⛏️✨️ #excavations #fieldseason #Paleoanthropology

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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

There is a job opening (Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 2 years, 100%) in my new VW project on the macro-evolution of Pleistocene technological ecosystems in Europe: ecolithic.uni-koeln.de/opportunitie... Deadline 25.05.2025 Please distribute widely! 🏺🦣

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Serena Lombardo @serena-lombardo.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

A great opportunity to meet so many inspiring colleagues—thanks to the organizers of the 'Variability within the Aurignacian' session for making it possible! @armandofalcucci.bsky.social @julienrs.bsky.social

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PreIStoriA @preistoria.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

On Monday we launched the first PaleolITica meeting, to foster exchange between young researchers in Italian #Palaeolithic lithic technology. It was very productive, thank you to all the participants! shorturl.at/6J9ba @boneslab.bsky.social #archaeology #FlintFriday #FindsFriday🏺

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Harvati Lab @harvatilab.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Excited to be in Ravenna for a #FIRSTSTEPS meeting with many team members! Thank you Bones Lab for having us! 😊 #archeology #teamwork

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Brainstorming, networking, and sharing new ideas! Thrilled to have hosted our friends and colleagues for the ERC FIRSTSTEPS midterm meeting – what an inspiring exchange of knowledge and perspectives! @katharv.bsky.social @harvatilab.bsky.social

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