Erella Hovers
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Just finished the 2025 season at Hayonim Cave. The Acheulo-Yabrudian at the site is not for the faint of heart...
Thanks to the small team of students and volunteers who did an amazing job, working hard and laughing a lot in the deep, deep sounding..
Local food processing traditions of late Middle Paleolithic groups in the southern Levant. A project that took 20 years to materialize and is now available as an open-access paper (www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...) led brilliantly by Anaelle Jallon @anispringflower.bsky.social and Lucille Crete
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End of our 2025 season at #MelkaWakena. Leaving with tons of stone tools, some fossils, some questions answered, many more emerging. Science ay work.
A productive day at NW1… actually, not even the half of it… we will not be out of work anytime soon.
Back on the banks of Wabe rover in the Ethiopian highlands, excavating MW1.
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Marching for Israeli democracy
there is a new international program for prehistory at Institute of archaeology in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Check it out !
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Middle Paleolithic engravings reveal early symbolic thought in humans, challenging assumptions about when abstract reasoning emerged in evolution. #PaleolithicArt #Symbolism #HumanEvolution
Carving the Mind: Middle Paleolithic Engravings and the Dawn of Symbolic Thought
New Evidence from the Levant Challenges Traditional Views on Early Human Cognition
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check us out
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and consider submitting your work to PaleoAnthropology
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Another article on the JHE resignations:
www.wired.com/story/editor...
(image from article, emphasis added)
Could not agree more. The PaleoAnthropology journal is peer reviewed, copyedited by humans, open access, community-owned, no publication fees. Time to move forward
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Great to see community-owned journal PaleoAnthropology mentioned by colleagues as one of JHE's successors. Shout out to Carol Ward!
PaleoAnthropology is fully peer reviewed, copyedited by humans 🙂, and "diamond" open access.
paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
Journal editors’ mass resignation marks ‘sad day for paleoanthropology’
Exodus from the Journal of Human Evolution leaves a flagship journal in crisis
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Science reporting on the mass resignation of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution, highlighting some of the problems with commercial scientific publishing.
OA PaleoAnthropology journal (www.paleoanthropology.org) highlighted among JHE's successors
#openaccess #humanevolution
Journal editors’ mass resignation marks ‘sad day for paleoanthropology’
Exodus from the Journal of Human Evolution leaves a flagship journal in crisis
www.science.org
Congrats to Yotam Ben-Oren for his great talk about his Ph.D. project "Modeling Cultural Evolution in Structured Populations".
check out some pretty amazing papers in the early view page of the journal PaleoAnthropology
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Early View | PaleoAnthropology
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