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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 5d

🔥 Next #LEXA Seminar!
Dr William Chase Murphree will explore #fire use during the #UpperPalaeolithic, using #geoarchaeology experiments to reveal how humans managed fire in glacial times.
🗓️ 7 Oct, 14:00 GMT | 🌍 Online
🔗 Register: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · 19d

Amazing! Please share more if you can. We need to hear more about research reaching local young people ❤️

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Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · Jul 23

Join us today for Session 8 in room 0.5 for talks on archaeology outreach and education in Africa, with a “show and tell” of outreach materials 4-5pm #SAfA2025

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Kgalagadi Human Origins Project @khoproject.bsky.social · Jul 22

Thanks to everyone who presented, attended the talks and joined discussions and dinner of our #SAfA2025 session on open air sites. We had a great day of inspiring inputs - there is lots of connections and lots to expect from arid open air archaeology in southern Africa in the next years 💪🇿🇦🇧🇼🇳🇦

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Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · Jul 21

Day 1 of #SAfA and first day in my new permanent role as Principal Researcher in African Stone Age archaeology at ICArEHB.
Looking forward to seeing lots of friends and colleagues in Faro this week!

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Kgalagadi Human Origins Project @khoproject.bsky.social · Jul 21

Please be aware of the new timing for #SAfA session 28 on Tuesday (tomorrow!) safa2025.icarehb.com/safa_session....
@eshallinan.bsky.social et al. will lead a short tribute to the recently passed Garth Sampson at 10.45. @sallieburrough.bsky.social will then introduce the session (1/2)...

28. Challenges and opportunities of surface sites: The Kalahari basin and adjoining arid regions – SAfA 2025

The Kalahari basin is the largest semi-desert in southern Africa. Despite the lack of caves and rockshelters in most parts, vast amounts of artefacts can be found on the surface in many areas of the…

safa2025.icarehb.com

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Rob Foley @robfoley.bsky.social · Jul 18

Fabulous news that @martamlahr.bsky.social has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy 🍾🍾🍾

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Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · Jul 13

Memories of this time last year - some of the most fun I’ve had discussing rocks. An opportunity I will treasure. Have a fab field season, your lithics there are so interesting and what a great team

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Tomos Proffitt @tomosproffitt.bsky.social · Jul 10

Very happy to announce that a new postdoctoral position on the New ERC funded Western Rift Archaeology and Palaeoenvironment Project is open - if you're a geologist or geochronologist come and join us at @icarehb.bsky.social euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/358068 Feel free to share it around.

ANNOUNCEMENT INTERNATIONAL TENDER FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF A POST-DOCTORAL ASSOCIATE RESEARCHER

recruit one (1) ) post-doctoral assistant researcherresearcher to perform duties in the scientific area of Geochronology / Plio-Pleistocene Geology or related areas, under the research project “

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · Jul 7

Postdoc in Geochronology / Plio-Pleistocene Geology
Join the ERC WRAP project at ICArEHB!
Apply now 👉 www.icarehb.com/research-pos...

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Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · Jul 2

If anyone would like to share memories, photos or tributes to Garth, we have arranged a slot for this at the upcoming SAfA meeting in Faro - please let me know

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Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · Jul 2

Sad to learn that C. Garth Sampson has passed away. He was a kind and encouraging man; as Janette Deacon commented, Garth "made an outstanding contribution to the Stone Age archaeology of the Karoo and southern Africa and will long be remembered." We are standing on the shoulders of these giants

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Tomos Proffitt @tomosproffitt.bsky.social · Jun 18

Calling all palaeolithic archaeologists. Come and work with me on a really exciting new survey and excavation project in Uganda: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/348570

INTERNATIONAL TENDER FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF A POST-DOCTORAL ASSOCIATE RESEARCHER

International tender to recruit one (1) ) post-doctoral initial level researcher to perform duties in the scientific area of Palaeolithic Archaeology or related areas, under the research project “ERC ...

euraxess.ec.europa.eu

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Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · Jun 18

Don’t forget to join us tomorrow at 11am (UK/Lisbon time) to hear from @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social and @tansybranscombe.bsky.social in the next @icarehb.bsky.social Alt-Ac Paths
videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/9355232390...

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Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · Jun 16

Other global conferences should follow this lead - especially to be more accessible to African and Global South students

Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · Jun 16

Did you know that WAC-10 World Archaeology Congress (next week) is free for students to attend online? Register here: worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/

WAC-10 – Darwin 22-28 June 2025

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Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · Jun 10

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Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · Jun 10

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Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · Jun 10

We're excited to announce the next @icarehb.bsky.social Alt-Ac Paths conversation, with Luíseach Nic Eoin @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social and Tansy Branscombe @tansybranscombe.bsky.social, who now work at @natecoevo.nature.com and @barpublishing.bsky.social.
Thurs 19th June, 11am (GMT), Zoom link below.

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Emanuele Cancellieri @emanucanc.bsky.social · Jun 8

Proudly introduce BREATHE, a project investigating late Quaternary human behavior in the Sahara. Funded by #HorizonEurope - ERA Postdoctoral Fellowships, BREATHE is based at the University of Algarve’s fabulous #ICArEHB and partnered with #Sapienza University of Rome.

BREATHE

BREATHE aims to contribute a new understanding of cultural and behavioral traits of North African early modern humans through the archaeological record of the central and northern Sahara The project'...

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Julien Looten @julienlooten.bsky.social · May 22

Hello everyone,

I’m pleased to share with you my first research article, conducted in collaboration with B. Gravina, X. Muth, M. Villaeys, and J.G. Bordes, and published in @peercomjournal.bsky.social!

🔗 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

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Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · May 16

Gorgeous! 😍

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Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · May 15

I’m delighted to make my first Recommendation for PCI Archaeology @pciarchaeology.bsky.social of Julien Looten @julienlooten.bsky.social and colleagues’ clear method and potential of RTI for lithic illustration

PCI Archaeology @pciarchaeology.bsky.social · May 14

1/3 New recommendation: J. Looten, B. Gravina, X. Muth, M. Villaeys, J.G. Bordes (2025) Towards a more robust representation of lithic industries in archaeology: a critical review of traditional approaches and modern techniques. v4 recommended by @PCI_Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... 🏺🧪

Figure 9 of the preprint - Different RTI visualization modes and comparison with standard photography. Experimental handaxe - captured using a Canon 6D Mark II DSLR with a Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens - settings: f/14, 1/10 sec, ISO 100.

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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · Apr 29

Exciting start to 2nd day of #HumanEvo25 - @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social talk on “Beyond out of Africa”, mobility of HGs oc the Nile Valley badin in the late Pleistocene 🥰

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Osama Samawi @osamawi.bsky.social · Apr 24

#Nubian #Levallois #MSA
If you haven’t read our article on the spatial distribution of Nubian Levallois cores @eshallinan.bsky.social , check out our recent poster from the Hugo Obermaier Society 2025 conference, hosted by @icarehb.bsky.social in Portugal:

osamawi.github.io/Nubian-Leval...

Nubian Levallois

Can spatial analyses capture Middle Palaeolithic environmental adaptation? A case study of Nubian Levallois cores.

osamawi.github.io

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · Apr 17

What an amazing evening!
Thank you to everyone who joined us for Science Sip – it was a fantastic night of archaeology, conversations, and connection 🍻🧠
Here are a few snapshots from the event 📸
Stay tuned for our next one in the Autumn! 🍂
#PublicArchaeology #FaroEvents

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