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CAMP ERC UPF @camp-erc.bsky.social · Jul 25

Our PhD candidates did a great job presenting the preliminary results of the project at #SAfA2025. Hope you enjoyed the conference and see you soon 😁

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Abel Ruiz-Giralt @archaeorg.bsky.social · Jul 25

Session #55 on "Mapping African Archaeology" just started at #SAfA2025! Come by to hear about @camp-erc.bsky.social work by PhD candidate Antonios Koutrompas!

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CAMP ERC UPF @camp-erc.bsky.social · Jul 22

This morning, our PI Stefano Biagetti presented an overview of our work in the general session of the #SAfA2025. Come by the presentations by K. Rix (session #33) and A. Koutrompas (session #55) to learn more about our project!

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · Jul 22

AI “thinks” in the same way a mirror looks at you

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Abel Ruiz-Giralt @archaeorg.bsky.social · Jul 21

Faro contrasts.. #SAfA2025

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Abel Ruiz-Giralt @archaeorg.bsky.social · Jul 20

Just arrived to Faro for #SAfA2025 with the @camp-erc.bsky.social team.and some friends! hope to see you around😁

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · Jun 7

Windows of Córdoba.

Photo of a bright ochre-yellow building front with six windows in two rows (each row: a window with two openings formed by a column in the centre, a window with three openings formed by two columns, and another one with two opening). Each window opening is crowned by a high arch, surrounded by light blue tiles, and framed by grey tiles with floral ornaments.

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Abel Ruiz-Giralt @archaeorg.bsky.social · Jun 5

From the creators of double-bagging in Botswana and Oman, let me introduce you to the wonders of Kenya cup preparation! 😁

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CAMP ERC UPF @camp-erc.bsky.social · Jun 5

#Sorghum is cultivated by #Turkana farmers in the banks of Turkwell river. They burn-and-slash to open land for cultivation and use earthen canals to irrigate the fields.

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Abel Ruiz-Giralt @archaeorg.bsky.social · Jun 4

⚠️ #PhD opportunity⚠️ If you are interested in #Archaeology and #Pastoralism, ERC-project CAMP offers a fully-funded PhD position in UPF (Barcelona) to study plant microremains and geochemical signatures in pastoral contexts. Apply by July 10th! More info. below 👇🏼
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/346669

HUM-PIPF-2025-02 ERC-Funded PhD position on (Re)Constructing the Archaeology of Mobile Pastoralism (CAMP) Bringing the site level into long-term pastoral narratives

One ERC-Funded PhD position on (Re)Constructing the Archaeology of Mobile Pastoralism (CAMP) Bringing the site level into long-term pastoral narratives

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Abel Ruiz-Giralt @archaeorg.bsky.social · Jun 2

After a few days of #fieldwork, we have already sampled 3 ethnographic sites and 1 abandoned camp. #Turkana people are really amazing! #Ethnoarchaeology #Kenya @camp-erc.bsky.social @sdrecercaupf.bsky.social

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · May 27

📢 New publication: "The genomics of t’ef and finger millet domestication and spread" by Mekonnen D.Z., Gomes A.I., Machado R.S.R. & Oliveira H.R., in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2025, Vol. 380, Issue 1926).
🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

The genomics of t’ef and finger millet domestication and spread | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

The Northern Highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea (NHE) were a centre for food production in Africa, hosting one of the earliest agriculture-based complex societies on the continent. The NHE’s geographic...

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Abel Ruiz-Giralt @archaeorg.bsky.social · May 27

Yeah so... The view from the Turkana Basin Institute right there for you

Abel Ruiz-Giralt @archaeorg.bsky.social · May 27

After about 48h, we are here!! TBI feels like paradise 🤩🤩 @camp-erc.bsky.social @sdrecercaupf.bsky.social

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Abel Ruiz-Giralt @archaeorg.bsky.social · May 27

On our way to Lake Turkana! 💥💥

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Abel Ruiz-Giralt @archaeorg.bsky.social · May 26

Cute Nairobi couple 🥰

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Abel Ruiz-Giralt @archaeorg.bsky.social · May 25

⚠️ @camp-erc.bsky.social fieldwork season starting! ⚠️ We're off to Kenya this time — expect stunning pics on your timeline soon! 🤩

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Abel Ruiz-Giralt @archaeorg.bsky.social · Apr 27

This is what I always say: if you see them pass by, you would never believe they are running a marathon

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · Apr 27

A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it.
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...

New study reveals wealth inequality was never inevitable

A recent study published in the journal PNAS is overturning traditional wisdom regarding the origins and inevitability of wealth inequality

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Stéphanie Bodin 🌿🪵🔥🔬 @tifanosaurus.cpesr.fr · Apr 24

I contributed to the special issue of PAGES magazine, "Early Human Traces: Landscape Openness Proxies Across Space and Time," with a short article on the identification of charcoal from archaeological sites to detect human-induced vegetation openings 🪵🔥🌳🌴🌿 1/5
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Using archaeological macrocharcoal to detect different degrees of anthropogenic landscape opening and woodland management | PAGES

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Lewis Fausak @lewisfausak.bsky.social · Apr 19

All the soils of the world put together in one image! They are categorized into their main defining traits. Do you have a favourite one?

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Rosalie Hermans @rosaliehermans.bsky.social · Apr 17

@amgc-vub.bsky.social @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · Apr 15

Delighted that this paper came out as part of a PNAS special feature on “The Global Dynamics of Inequality over the Long Term” where together with a team of 27 scientists we collected and analysed a sample of over 53,000 houses from all five continents.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Toward multiscalar measures of inequality in archaeology | PNAS

The Gini coefficient is a statistical measure commonly used to characterize distributions of socioeconomic quantities. Archaeologists and social sc...

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Stewie Stewart @stewiestewart.bsky.social · Apr 9

Also out in @nature.com today, our research showing that hunter-gatherers understook substantial Mediterranean sea crossings during the Mesolithic. This research also documents the first evidence of pre-Neolithic peoples in Malta!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands - Nature

Archaeological discoveries from Malta suggest that humans were present on the Maltese islands from around 8,500 years ago, providing evidence that Mesolithic hunter-gatherers made sea crossings as lon...

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Laura Sánchez-Romero @lausanrom.bsky.social · Apr 5

Trunks #photography #nature

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