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Palaeotrails @palaeotrails.bsky.social · 5d

We are hiring a Project Co-ordinator! 🚨

Are you extremely organised with great interpersonal skills?
Able to multitask efficiently?
Interested in African prehistory?
Keen to work with an enthusiastic team?
We want to hear from you!

Closing date: 17 October, 2025

Project Coordinator (Fixed Term)

Applications are invited for a 12-month Project Co-ordinator position on the NG'IPALAJEM project, funded by the ERC. The project aims at collecting new palaeontological, archaeological and geological

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 5d

There are other interesting findings (such as the different rates of spatial diffusion) but you can find more about it reading the paper and checking the code :)
github.com/roccorot/Ori...

GitHub - roccorot/OriginPotteryNAfrica

Contribute to roccorot/OriginPotteryNAfrica development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 5d

Our model accounted for the often large measurement errors and accounts for both the presence and absence of the technology to maximise the available information. The results strongly reject the idea of a single origin and provide the strongest support for a triple origin model.

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 5d

We collated over 300 radiocarbon dates distinguishing contexts with and without ceramics and fitted a series of custom spatio-temporal diffusion models to determine which hypotheses better supported our data.

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 5d

⚠️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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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 23d

PhD Studentship alert!
I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia.
Details in the link below!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

University assistant predoctoral 1

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 22d

The next CAA-UK will be hosted by @cam-archaeology.bsky.social ! Very much looking forward to hearing the latest research from the current and the next generation of computational and quantitative archaeologists (not just from the UK) : uk.caa-international.org/caa-uk-2025-2/ (deadline 29/9/2025)

Extended Call for Papers and Posters – CAA UK 2025 – CAA-UK

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The Black Trowel Collective @blacktrowel.bsky.social · Sep 2

BTC Call for Action - EAA

EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.

Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

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Kevin Lala @kevinlala.bsky.social · Aug 13

I'm pleased to share this new article by @svenkasser.bsky.social, Laura Fortunato @anthrolog.bsky.social, Marc Feldman and myself.

The article extends gene-culture coevolution to recognize evolutionary effects of culture arising through drift and migration.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @ceciliapad.bsky.social · Aug 1

Really cool study looking at how behaviour precedes morphological change across taxa - and implications for human evolution 💀🧪 massive congrats to all the authors, including @vivek123.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution

Dietary shifts and corresponding morphological changes can sometimes evolve in succession, not concurrently—an evolutionary process called behavioral drive. Detecting behavioral drive in the fossil re...

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · Aug 1

Join us!!!

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

📣 Work with us! 📣

The Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge is looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Zooarchaeology.

📅 Closing date: 15 September
👉 More info and how to apply: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor in Zooarchaeology (Human and Animal Relations in Prehistory)

The Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge seeks to appoint an Assistant Professor in Zooarchaeology, to start on 1 January 2026 or as soon thereafter as possible. Subject to

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Cambridge Archaeology @cam-archaeology.bsky.social · Jul 23

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣

Lipid residue analysis reveals divergent culinary practices in Japan and Korea at the dawn of intensive agriculture in @pnas.org

👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/culinar...

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Bronze Age 'culinary traditions' in Japan and Korea explored through lipid analysis

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · Jul 22

This research was funded by the ERC and JSPS - you can find more papers from our project on the link 👇
www.encounterproject.info

ERC-Stg Encounter Project

ENCOUNTER is an ERC-funded research project that investigates the patterns and processes that transformed the society of incumbent complex hunter-gatherers of prehistoric Japan about 3000 years ago as...

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · Jul 22

For example, we found no evidence of millet in the residues from Japanese ceramics, in stark contrast to those from Korea (see image below; the brown-coloured dots indicate vessels with millet biomarkers, the blue ones are aquatic biomarkers).

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · Jul 22

We examined organic residues from pottery in both regions and found substantial differences, with Japanese vessels retaining most of their characteristics even after the introduction of farming.

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · Jul 22

The diffusion of rice and millet in this region has an interesting story - Millet arrived in the Korean peninsula towards the end of the 5k BCE, but it was not transmitted to the Japanese islands until the 1k BCE, soon after the introduction of rice in Korea and the resulting demographic expansion.

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · Jul 22

Delighted to share the latest paper from the ENCOUNTER project led by Oliver Craig where we examined the divergence of culinary tradition in Japan and Korea around the turn of the 1st millennium BCE, when rice and millet farming were introduced in Japan
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Lipid residue analysis reveals divergent culinary practices in Japan and Korea at the dawn of intensive agriculture | PNAS

The dispersal of millet and rice agriculture from Korea to Japan from around 3,000 y ago has been well documented through radiocarbon analysis of b...

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Jun 25

Congratulations to the winners of this year's Antiquity Prize! Their research explored the largest agricultural complex yet found in Africa beyond the Nile, uncovering a previously unknown Neolithic society in Morocco 🏺 #Archaeology

www.cnr.it/it/nota-stam...

Antiquity Prize 2025 awarded to the study of the Oued Beht site in Morocco, co-directed by the CNR | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

24/06/2025

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