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Rocco Rotunno

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Prehistory, pottery and African archaeology🏺🌍| MSCA Fellow @ McDonald Institute Cambridge Uni| works on @EHSCAN_Project || views are mine (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈

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Rocco Rotunno @roccoro.bsky.social · 7d

Happy and honoured to share this paper with @ercrema.bsky.social about pottery in Early Holocene Africa! Check out more in the thread!

Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 7d

⚠️Paper Alert!⚠️
Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion
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Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology in Early Holocene Africa

Nature Communications - Several possible points of origin have been proposed for the spread of ceramic technology in Saharan Africa between 11–10,000 years ago. Here, the authors...

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Cambridge Archaeology @cam-archaeology.bsky.social · 1d

📣 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...

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Algeria, Tassili n'Ajjer National Park, Sahara desert, broken neolithic pottery

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Rocco Rotunno @roccoro.bsky.social · 7d

Happy and honoured to share this paper with @ercrema.bsky.social about pottery in Early Holocene Africa! Check out more in the thread!

Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 7d

Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology in Early Holocene Africa

Nature Communications - Several possible points of origin have been proposed for the spread of ceramic technology in Saharan Africa between 11–10,000 years ago. Here, the authors...

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Rocco Rotunno @roccoro.bsky.social · Jul 26

#SAFA 25 just ended... amazing week meeting friends and colleagues...thanks to all!

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Dr Alessio Veneziano @aveneziano.bsky.social · Apr 25

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 · Apr 12

🚨 new paper alert: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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 · Apr 9

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 · Apr 3

www.uniroma1.it/it/notizia/d...

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 · Apr 2

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)

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 · Mar 28

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." 🧪

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · Mar 28

Colleagues are cancelling their US work trips. I worry that international colleagues in the US are at risk if they collaborate with us on certain topics.

I've written a new post about the increasing danger of being a foreign scientist in the US.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att...

Trump's attacks on universities get ever darker, with the shadows reaching our shores

The US has become a hostile and authoritarian state to foreign scientists and is choosing ideology over science.

christinapagel.substack.com

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Rocco Rotunno @roccoro.bsky.social · Mar 23

Congrats to all the team! New seeds (!) for plenty of discussions!

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Sara Bernardini @sarabern.bsky.social · Mar 23

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

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 · Mar 16

📣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 · Mar 9

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 · Feb 24

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 · Feb 7

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

Assoc Prof Robyn Pickering @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social · Feb 7

To commemorate the #Taung centenary, a special issue of the SAJS came out today!

We present a collection of articles looking at aspects of the #history, #anatomy, #geology, #community and -#museum curation of the #Taung child in this post colonial era 🙌🏽

Link here 👇🏽👇🏽

sajs.co.za/index

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Julia Aramendi @juliaramendi.bsky.social · Jan 20

📢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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Rocco Rotunno @roccoro.bsky.social · Jan 23

Thanks 😊

Rocco Rotunno @roccoro.bsky.social · Jan 23

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 · Jan 14

Deadline is approaching!but you still have time!👈⏳️

Rocco Rotunno @roccoro.bsky.social · Dec 13

📢🚨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 👥

Rocco Rotunno @roccoro.bsky.social · Dec 13

📢🚨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 · Dec 13

Wow! Well done to all of you!

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Rocco Rotunno @roccoro.bsky.social · Dec 11

Call for papers open...join us for our session at the next SAFA 2025. Hope to see you there

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