@arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social
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Really happy to have joined this study, published in November, that finally sorts out the hunting lesion question at Boxgrove 🐎 and adds much-needed experimental reference data for future studies. A big thank you to @annemiekemilks.bsky.social, @mattpope.bsky.social, and all the other co-authors! 🦣🏺
Latest paper: Boxgrove is a key European site dating to 480,000 years ago. At GTP17, hominins knapped handaxes and then butchered an adult female horse. A fragment of the horse's scapula appeared to have evidence of impact from a wooden spear.....
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December 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Really happy to have joined this study, published in November, that finally sorts out the hunting lesion question at Boxgrove 🐎 and adds much-needed experimental reference data for future studies. A big thank you to @annemiekemilks.bsky.social, @mattpope.bsky.social, and all the other co-authors! 🦣🏺
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Merry Christmas everyone
December 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Merry Christmas everyone
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🔥New paper out now in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports🔥
The team used a combination of innovative methods to analyse various 15,800-year-old engraved stone plaquettes to investigate hand preferences of individual engravers.
Read now 👇
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The team used a combination of innovative methods to analyse various 15,800-year-old engraved stone plaquettes to investigate hand preferences of individual engravers.
Read now 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
🔥New paper out now in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports🔥
The team used a combination of innovative methods to analyse various 15,800-year-old engraved stone plaquettes to investigate hand preferences of individual engravers.
Read now 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The team used a combination of innovative methods to analyse various 15,800-year-old engraved stone plaquettes to investigate hand preferences of individual engravers.
Read now 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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New article from our doctoral researcher @norarch.bsky.social is out! Check it out!!! 🎉🎉🎉
“Snakes and Ladders” is not a game, but a model for how Stone Age people maintained their tools.
From fresh edges (M0) to full rejuvenation (M4), each flake is a step on the ladder of technological decision-making.
rdcu.be/eRutD
From fresh edges (M0) to full rejuvenation (M4), each flake is a step on the ladder of technological decision-making.
rdcu.be/eRutD
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
New article from our doctoral researcher @norarch.bsky.social is out! Check it out!!! 🎉🎉🎉
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🎉New article by our doctoral researcher Dominik Rogall on the paleoenvironment of Kalavan‐2 (MP; 60-35ka) based on small‐vertebrate assemblages! 🎉Published in the Journal of Quaternary Science! Check this out:
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December 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
🎉New article by our doctoral researcher Dominik Rogall on the paleoenvironment of Kalavan‐2 (MP; 60-35ka) based on small‐vertebrate assemblages! 🎉Published in the Journal of Quaternary Science! Check this out:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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📢Do you work on the (micro-) geoarchaeology of cave sediments? Join our Session #178 at the EAA 2026 Annual Meeting in Athens (26–29 August 2026)!
For further details, please scan the QR code below!
Abstract submissions open on 19 December 2025! 📢
For further details, please scan the QR code below!
Abstract submissions open on 19 December 2025! 📢
December 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
📢Do you work on the (micro-) geoarchaeology of cave sediments? Join our Session #178 at the EAA 2026 Annual Meeting in Athens (26–29 August 2026)!
For further details, please scan the QR code below!
Abstract submissions open on 19 December 2025! 📢
For further details, please scan the QR code below!
Abstract submissions open on 19 December 2025! 📢
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Our new article on the latest DNA analysis of Beachy Head Woman. She’s had quite a journey.
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December 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Our new article on the latest DNA analysis of Beachy Head Woman. She’s had quite a journey.
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Hot off the presses! Last year's full-class project by my awesome students in "Introduction to Archaeological Lab Sciences" is now published and freely accessible for the next 50 days via this link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mGK-,rVDB...
December 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Hot off the presses! Last year's full-class project by my awesome students in "Introduction to Archaeological Lab Sciences" is now published and freely accessible for the next 50 days via this link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mGK-,rVDB...
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Labs will be established in Panjakent and Dushanbe 🤠🔬📏🖥️🧬
🚨We are thrilled to have received the VolkswagenStiftung grant for our project "In Search of Paleolithic Hominins in Central Asia". This grant will allow us to establish research labs and facilities in Tajikistan and will strengthen and further develop our collaborations with our Tajik colleagues.
December 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Labs will be established in Panjakent and Dushanbe 🤠🔬📏🖥️🧬
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#Oman #MSA
New paper is OUT!
We trace how Dhofar’s MSA shifts from Nubian Levallois cores to the miniaturized Mudayyan industry—highlighting changing technologies along the southern dispersal route out of Africa. @arduq.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New paper is OUT!
We trace how Dhofar’s MSA shifts from Nubian Levallois cores to the miniaturized Mudayyan industry—highlighting changing technologies along the southern dispersal route out of Africa. @arduq.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Lithic Miniaturization and Technological Innovation on the Southern Dispersal Route Out of Africa - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology
Over the past fifteen years, the Dhofar Archaeological Project has mapped 272 Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic sites in southern Oman, each exhibiting some extent of Nubian Levallois technology. T...
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December 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
#Oman #MSA
New paper is OUT!
We trace how Dhofar’s MSA shifts from Nubian Levallois cores to the miniaturized Mudayyan industry—highlighting changing technologies along the southern dispersal route out of Africa. @arduq.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New paper is OUT!
We trace how Dhofar’s MSA shifts from Nubian Levallois cores to the miniaturized Mudayyan industry—highlighting changing technologies along the southern dispersal route out of Africa. @arduq.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Wrapping up the year by highlighting the 2025 publications!
📌 Understanding the Origin of Superficial Bone Changes in the Qafzeh 9 Skull
Micro-CT clarified the origin of frontal bone changes on this well-known fossil and helped discuss variability.
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📌 Understanding the Origin of Superficial Bone Changes in the Qafzeh 9 Skull
Micro-CT clarified the origin of frontal bone changes on this well-known fossil and helped discuss variability.
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Understanding the Origin of Superficial Bone Changes in Qafzeh 9 Skull (Middle Paleolithic, Southwestern Asia): Contribution of Three‐Dimensional Imaging
Micro-CT slices of the Qafzeh 9 frontal bone showing the surface grooves, and the underlying structures (A: osteo-condensation; B vascular and/or nervous canals).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Wrapping up the year by highlighting the 2025 publications!
📌 Understanding the Origin of Superficial Bone Changes in the Qafzeh 9 Skull
Micro-CT clarified the origin of frontal bone changes on this well-known fossil and helped discuss variability.
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
📌 Understanding the Origin of Superficial Bone Changes in the Qafzeh 9 Skull
Micro-CT clarified the origin of frontal bone changes on this well-known fossil and helped discuss variability.
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Interested in applying for this funded PhD with me
at UCL Institute of Archaeology? Get in touch to discuss this project or to develop your own idea!
Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection.
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/hum...
at UCL Institute of Archaeology? Get in touch to discuss this project or to develop your own idea!
Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection.
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/hum...
December 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Interested in applying for this funded PhD with me
at UCL Institute of Archaeology? Get in touch to discuss this project or to develop your own idea!
Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection.
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/hum...
at UCL Institute of Archaeology? Get in touch to discuss this project or to develop your own idea!
Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection.
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/hum...
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I am very happy to see this published! Congratulations 🥳 to Okopi Ade, it was a pleasure to have you in our lab at @tracer-leiza.bsky.social @paleomonrepos.bsky.social @leizarchaeology.bsky.social We all learned a lot
December 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I am very happy to see this published! Congratulations 🥳 to Okopi Ade, it was a pleasure to have you in our lab at @tracer-leiza.bsky.social @paleomonrepos.bsky.social @leizarchaeology.bsky.social We all learned a lot
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🪓 Stone flakes = ancient tool care? #ICArEHB's David Nora's introduces a module flake approach in his new paper: doi.org/10.1007/s108...
#Lithics #Archaeology
#Lithics #Archaeology
Snakes and Ladders: A technological approach to tool maintenance byproducts using module flake categories - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
The study of retouching, reshaping, and rejuvenation in lithic technology has traditionally focused on finished tools, overlooking the byproducts of these processes, particularly microdebitage. This e...
doi.org
November 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
🪓 Stone flakes = ancient tool care? #ICArEHB's David Nora's introduces a module flake approach in his new paper: doi.org/10.1007/s108...
#Lithics #Archaeology
#Lithics #Archaeology
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New publication alert!‼️ Wrapping up 2025 with my fifth paper of the year in the SAJS!
The paper reviews how stone tools reveal social connections, noting similar patterns can also arise independently and suggesting ways to better distinguish the two. 💫
🔗 doi.org/10.17159/saj...
The paper reviews how stone tools reveal social connections, noting similar patterns can also arise independently and suggesting ways to better distinguish the two. 💫
🔗 doi.org/10.17159/saj...
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
New publication alert!‼️ Wrapping up 2025 with my fifth paper of the year in the SAJS!
The paper reviews how stone tools reveal social connections, noting similar patterns can also arise independently and suggesting ways to better distinguish the two. 💫
🔗 doi.org/10.17159/saj...
The paper reviews how stone tools reveal social connections, noting similar patterns can also arise independently and suggesting ways to better distinguish the two. 💫
🔗 doi.org/10.17159/saj...
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Paper alert! 🚨
New research on the hunting strategies at the Middle Paleolithic site of Nesher Ramla!
🐂🦴
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New research on the hunting strategies at the Middle Paleolithic site of Nesher Ramla!
🐂🦴
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Archaic humans in the Middle Palaeolithic Levant conducted planned and selective intercepts of aurochs, but not mass hunting - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Archaic humans in the Middle Palaeolithic Levant conducted planned and selective intercepts of aurochs, but not mass hunting
www.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Paper alert! 🚨
New research on the hunting strategies at the Middle Paleolithic site of Nesher Ramla!
🐂🦴
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New research on the hunting strategies at the Middle Paleolithic site of Nesher Ramla!
🐂🦴
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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About Nesher Ramla hunting strategies
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
About Nesher Ramla hunting strategies
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“Snakes and Ladders” is not a game, but a model for how Stone Age people maintained their tools.
From fresh edges (M0) to full rejuvenation (M4), each flake is a step on the ladder of technological decision-making.
rdcu.be/eRutD
From fresh edges (M0) to full rejuvenation (M4), each flake is a step on the ladder of technological decision-making.
rdcu.be/eRutD
November 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
“Snakes and Ladders” is not a game, but a model for how Stone Age people maintained their tools.
From fresh edges (M0) to full rejuvenation (M4), each flake is a step on the ladder of technological decision-making.
rdcu.be/eRutD
From fresh edges (M0) to full rejuvenation (M4), each flake is a step on the ladder of technological decision-making.
rdcu.be/eRutD
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Posibles diferencias de tradiciones culturales y aprendizaje social entre los grupos neandertales de Amud y Kebara:
Cut from the same cloth? Comparing Neanderthal processing of faunal resources at Amud and Kebara caves (Israel) through cut-marks analyses
Cut from the same cloth? Comparing Neanderthal processing of faunal resources at Amud and Kebara caves (Israel) through cut-marks analyses
Frontiers | Cut from the same cloth? Comparing Neanderthal processing of faunal resources at Amud and Kebara caves (Israel) through cut-marks analyses
Amud and Kebara caves (northern Israel) are two broadly contemporaneous Middle Paleolithic sites dated to ca. 70–50 Ka BP, both located in the Mediterranean ...
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November 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Posibles diferencias de tradiciones culturales y aprendizaje social entre los grupos neandertales de Amud y Kebara:
Cut from the same cloth? Comparing Neanderthal processing of faunal resources at Amud and Kebara caves (Israel) through cut-marks analyses
Cut from the same cloth? Comparing Neanderthal processing of faunal resources at Amud and Kebara caves (Israel) through cut-marks analyses
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Join us for an archaeological field school exploring the Armenian Palaeolithic! Open to students from any university and any major. More info here: app.studyabroad.uconn.edu/index.cfm?Fu...
November 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Join us for an archaeological field school exploring the Armenian Palaeolithic! Open to students from any university and any major. More info here: app.studyabroad.uconn.edu/index.cfm?Fu...
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We’re losing so many legends in archaeology. Here is a lovely tribute to Tony Marks, who died in August. He was incredibly encouraging to me, and supported our work revisiting the Nubian technology he first characterised. He will be missed.
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In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Anthony E. Marks (1938-2025) - ICArEHB
The Interdisciplinary Centre for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour (ICArEHB) at the University of Algarve received with profound sadness the news of the passing of Anthony E. Marks on Augus...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
We’re losing so many legends in archaeology. Here is a lovely tribute to Tony Marks, who died in August. He was incredibly encouraging to me, and supported our work revisiting the Nubian technology he first characterised. He will be missed.
www.icarehb.com/portfolio/in...
www.icarehb.com/portfolio/in...
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Meet the team behind the ERC Matrix Project!
We introduce Carli Peters, researcher and biomolecular archaeologist at icarehb.bsky.social
Carli studies ancient human–animal interactions using palaeoproteomics and ZooMS to extract and identify ancient proteins from bone fragments.
We introduce Carli Peters, researcher and biomolecular archaeologist at icarehb.bsky.social
Carli studies ancient human–animal interactions using palaeoproteomics and ZooMS to extract and identify ancient proteins from bone fragments.
October 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Meet the team behind the ERC Matrix Project!
We introduce Carli Peters, researcher and biomolecular archaeologist at icarehb.bsky.social
Carli studies ancient human–animal interactions using palaeoproteomics and ZooMS to extract and identify ancient proteins from bone fragments.
We introduce Carli Peters, researcher and biomolecular archaeologist at icarehb.bsky.social
Carli studies ancient human–animal interactions using palaeoproteomics and ZooMS to extract and identify ancient proteins from bone fragments.