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Armando Falcucci @armandofalcucci.bsky.social · Jul 30

🚨New paper alert!🧪 We explore the #Aurignacian at Grotta della Cala (southern Italy), providing robust evidence of human settlement shortly after the #CampanianIgnimbrite eruption (ca. 40 ka). 1/5 🌋
@tommyhigham.bsky.social @lucdoyon.bsky.social @boneslab.bsky.social & the University of Siena

Revisiting the Early Aurignacian in Italy: New insights from Grotta della Cala

Grotta della Cala in southern Italy is a key archaeological site spanning from the Middle Paleolithic to the Bronze Age. In the stratigraphic sequence…

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · Jul 18

Biomolecular approaches to Pleistocene bones

New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Annette Oertle, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social @katerinad.bsky.social et al

Newly identified taxa from originally unidentified fragmented bones. (a) CLC0043 Canid from spit 14, (b) CLC536 Canid from spit 30, (c) CLC372 Ursid from Spit 27, (d) CLC400 Ursid from spit 28, (e) CLC534 Ursid from spit 30, (f) CLC476 Rhino from spit 24, (g) CLC503 Rhino from spit 25.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · Jun 27

I was literally about to submit the edited draft of my new book on prehistory, "Lost Worlds," but now I need to rework the Çatalhöyük section! What a great problem to have, incredibly exciting new research, check it out!

Camilla Mazzucato @camillamazzucato.bsky.social · Jun 26

After many years this is out now, many congratulations to everybody!

Female lineages and changing kinship patterns in Neolithic Çatalhöyük

Combining 131 paleogenomes with bioarchaeological and archaeological data, we studied social organization and gendered practices in Çatalhöyük East Mound (7100 to 5950 BCE), a major Neolithic settleme...

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Jun 18

Neanderthal had a “crush” on fats. Macronutrient estimation in Middle Paleolithic (Late Mousterian) hunter-gatherers of southern Italy
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...

Frontiers | Neanderthal had a “crush” on fats. Macronutrient estimation in Middle Paleolithic (Late Mousterian) hunter-gatherers of southern Italy

During the Late Mousterian period Apulia (southeastern Italy) was characterized by frequent and prolonged aridity that could have caused the scarcity of vege...

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · Jun 7

Two PhD positions open! Deadline end of June! Apply now!

BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · Jun 3

🚨 Two PhD Positions Available!
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠

Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.

www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · Jun 3

🚨 Two PhD Positions Available!
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠

Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.

www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...

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Dr Alessio Veneziano @aveneziano.bsky.social · Jun 10

Two #PhD opportunities in Ravenna, Italy 🇮🇹, in #HumanEvolution within the #ERC project "Last Neanderthals"!

🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth #BioArch #Archaeology #Neanderthal #SciComm

BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · Jun 3

🚨 Two PhD Positions Available!
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠

Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.

www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · Jun 10

A great opportunity, with a great team and a great lab 🏺🧪
Dr Stefano Benazzi's Bones Lab @boneslab.bsky.social

Two PhD positions open!
Deadline end of June!
Apply now!
bsky.app/profile/bone...

BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · Jun 7

Two PhD positions open! Deadline end of June! Apply now!

BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · Jun 3

🚨 Two PhD Positions Available!
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠

Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.

www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · Jun 7

Two PhD positions open! Deadline end of June! Apply now!

BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · Jun 3

🚨 Two PhD Positions Available!
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠

Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.

www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · Jun 3

🚨 Two PhD Positions Available!
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠

Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.

www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · Jun 3

🧬Welcome to the new Palaeoproteomics Lab at the University of Bologna – Department of Cultural Heritage (Ravenna), where we study ancient proteins preserved in archaeological remains such as bones and teeth.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · Apr 18

Grotta della Lea, a new Early Epigravettian site in southern Italy (Uluzzo Bay) 🏺🧪
Giulia Marciani, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social , et al
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Shouldered backed bladelets and points on high-quality chert. Radiocarbon dating between 21,821–18,281 cal. BP

Lithic materials from the Epigravettian occupation (SUs 2, 3, 5, 7) of Grotta della Lea: total backed points (1–2-3–4-12–23); backed bladelets (5–6); shouldered blades (7–8-10); tangled bladelet (9); fragmented backed pieces (11–19); long end scraper (13); unretouched blades (14–15); truncated blade (16); partial backed blade (17); burin (18); marginal backed bladelet (20); elongated side scraper (21); denticulated scraper on blade (22); point (24).

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · Feb 28

🌍 Join us in the ERC Last Neanderthals!

We're hiring:

1️⃣ PhD: Digital approaches for the study of Paleolithic human remains 🖥️

2️⃣ PhD: Taxonomic discrimination of Late Pleistocene bone fragments through paleoproteomics 🦴

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Pontus Skoglund @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social · Mar 17

We have a 4-year PhD-student opening in our lab, deadline on Wednesday noon.

For anyone interested in computational genomics of ancient human, pathogen, or canid genomes. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

If you are curious, send in an application!

Skoglund Lab | Ancient human statistical population genomics

www.crick.ac.uk

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · Mar 11

Our latest research presents Grotta della Lea, a newly investigated Palaeolithic site in Uluzzo Bay. Check its Early Epigravettian lithics, faunal remains, and AMS dates!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Jacopo Gennai @gennaijacopo.bsky.social · Dec 10

My #review of Giulia Marciani's monograph on the Late Mousterian of Oscurusciuto (Southern Italy) is on Lithic Technology. I totally recommend it!
link to the review shorturl.at/Jotx9
link to the book shorturl.at/wCmcH
#archaeology#palaeolithic @barpublishing.bsky.social@tandfresearch.bsky.social

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PreIStoriA @preistoria.bsky.social · Feb 28

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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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · Feb 28

www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...

BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · Feb 28

🌍 Join us in the ERC Last Neanderthals!

We're hiring:

1️⃣ PhD: Digital approaches for the study of Paleolithic human remains 🖥️

2️⃣ PhD: Taxonomic discrimination of Late Pleistocene bone fragments through paleoproteomics 🦴

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Eleanor Scerri @elliescerri.bsky.social · Feb 27

Time to learn some more about the West African MSA! They were not only in rainforests 150,000 years ago, they were also in mangrove forests!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Longstanding behavioural stability in West Africa extends to the Middle Pleistocene at Bargny, coastal Senegal - Nature Ecology & Evolution

The late Middle Pleistocene site of Bargny, Senegal, documents stone tool trends seen across contemporary sites in Africa but which, in West Africa, remain uniquely stable into the Holocene. Palaeoenv...

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · Feb 18

The Uluzzian and Châtelperronian:
No Technological Affinity in a Shared Chronological Framework 🏺🧪
Giulia Marciani @boneslab.bsky.social @mariesoressi.bsky.social et al
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The distinctiveness highlights the technological behaviours in western Europe 45–40 ka

Retouched tools from the Châtelperronian of Les Cottés (US6) and Quinçay (En). (1, 2, 11, 12) Wide-fronted end-scrapers produced on ‘laminar rejuvenation flakes’ and wide blades. (3–9, 14, 15) Châtelperronian backed points. (10) Neo-crested blade. (13) Convergent side-scraper. Note the variation in size of the pieces
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Retouched tools from the Uluzzian layer rsa’’ of Castelcivita. (1) Endscraper on flake. (2) Sidescraper with an adjustment of the distal end. (3) Sidescrapers realised on the ventral side of a big flake. (4) Pointed tool realised by adjusting the distal end of an already pointed fragment

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · Feb 18

The Ontogeny of the Human Calcaneus:
Insights From Morphological and Trabecular Changes During Postnatal Growth🏺🧪
Carla Figus, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social et al
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Calcaneal plasticity may display mechanical influences and provide precious information

Displacement heatmaps showing calcaneal shape differences between age groups means. Green represents the younger age group in each comparison, while magenta represents the older age group in each comparison. Colors mapped to the older age group in each comparison depict vertices that extend beyond (magenta) the mesh (which represents the younger age group in each comparison). The distance is calculated by superimposing the meshes of the two age groups for each comparison. For instance, the magenta color of the calcaneal body in the first comparison (0–1 year vs. 1.1–3 years) means that the 1.1–3 years group extends beyond the calcaneal body of the 0–1 year group. After the onset of independent walking, there is a proximodistal elongation of the calcaneal body and a slight increase in the medial projection of the sustentaculum tali. The cuboid facet angle starts to change in its lateral part. With the achievement of more mature locomotor kinematics, between 3 and 6 years of age, the posterior talar facet changes in orientation and lateral-medial elongation. The calcaneal body and the sustentaculum tali continue to lengthen, which increases in size and morphology. After six years of age, mostly all remaining changes are concentrated on the metaphyseal area, that is, calcaneal tuberosity, and lateral part of the cuboid facet. The posterior talar facet continues to develop, and the anterior talar facet undergoes major developmental changes as the sustentaculum tali develops.

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · Feb 15

Our new study investigates developmental changes in the human calcaneus linked to the acquisition of mature bipedal locomotion 🦴👣
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · Feb 11

Being a woman in science is not just something to celebrate today, but a journey of resilience and determination in a field historically shaped by men. Cheers from the women of Bones Lab!

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · Feb 10

🌊 Our team just completed an archaeological survey of the most significant sambaqui on Florianópolis Island, kickstarting a new project at one of these sites.
The research is supported by a collaboration including BonesLab (Italy), Unochapecó, CEOM, UFPEL, LEIA/UFSC (Brazil), and CONICET (Argentina)

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