**DONATIONS FOR BURSARIES**

TAG over the last few years has been trying to increase the accessibility of the conference by offering bursaries. We are now welcoming donations support these via our website.

tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/

Registration for this year's Theoretical Archaeology Group conference in York is open!

We'll be hosting the famous Antiquity pub quiz as usual, 19.00 on Tuesday 16th December at The Crescent Community Centre. Not one to miss!

I was delighted to join other invited speakers to celebrate 150 years of the Société Jersiaise's commitment to science and culture. My lecture, on the history of their involvement in Palaeolithic research can be see via the link below. 🇯🇪🏺🦣
youtu.be/ZD_jKytjOv0?...

Please join us next week, 9th October 2025, at 13:00 BST, for our next seminar of the semester. We will be joined by @professorlacy.bsky.social, University of Delaware - more details 👇

If you'd like to join, please register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We hope to see you there!

We are thrilled to announce our timetable of seminars for the upcoming semester!

As always, all of our talks will be on Zoom and open to everyone. Our first talk will take place on the 2nd October at 13:00-14:00 BST. The Zoom link will be available closer to the time.

We hope to see you there! 🥳

Fossil footprints at the late Lower Paleolithic site of Schöningen (Germany): A new line of research to reconstruct animal and hominin paleoecology 🏺🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fossil tracks at the 300 ka Paleolithic sites of Schöningen (northern Germany) are described.

Hi Makarius! This paper is great! Are you still interested in presenting at the Lithic Studies Society Conference? I have been trying to contact you. I have sent you a PM on here.

Hi Makarius! This paper is great! Are you still interested in presenting at the Lithic Studies Society Conference? I have been trying to contact you. I have sent you a PM on here.

So excited to announce the lineup of speakers here @heasvienna.bsky.social for the 2025/6 academic year! We have some outstanding speakers for our three seminar series in Archaelogical Science, Ancient Genomics and Human Evolution & the Palaeolithic. All hybrid! Register now at HEAS.at

Looking forward to a building tour of the @britishlibrary.bsky.social

Are you an early career researcher with an interest in our collection? Apply to develop an independent research project funded by AHRC.

Hear more about the opportunity at a virtual town hall event on Monday 6 October: bit.ly/BL-EarlyCare...

I hadn’t realised it was in the shape of a chromosome!

#Homonaledi was announced #OTD in 2015. Here is my commentary, published that day. Human Evolution: The many mysteries of Homo naledi doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Submit an abstract to the dedicated session on use cases of the ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD) at CAA 2025 in Vienna!

S25: How to do ROAD: An Essential Tool for Conducting Multidisciplinary Studies Related to Human Evolution

Deadline: October 26th 2025
2026.caaconference.org/conference-s...

If you are in the UK, BBC4 tonight at 8 pm "The Lost Neanderthals". A doco about the site of Mandrin (Fr) and the work there of Ludovic Slimak and team. You might spot a glimpse of me too - I have been lucky enough to work with them on the site chronology for several years.

tinyurl.com/4uenwr7c

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...

Neanderthals might have eaten maggots along with the meat they stored from hunting.

Neanderthals, hypercarnivores, and maggots:
Insights from stable nitrogen isotopes 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Suggests maggots as a contributor to the high δ15N values observed in Late Pleistocene hominins.

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!

3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution

2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.

Please share and apply!

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

📢 "Material matters: raw material influences stone tool performance in capuchin monkeys" by O’Malley, T.D.R., Reeves, J.S., Slania, N.E., Falótico, T., Proffitt, T., de la Torre, I., & Luncz, L.V., in Animal Behaviour (2025, Vol. 227, Article 123254).
🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

Test audience for these wonderful colouring sheets our new PhD student Tayla has prepared for our event on Sunday 14th at UoA. Tayla is joining PALaEoScot to work on fragmentary bones from late glacial-early Holocene sites in Scotland using molecular approaches - she’s quite the artist too!

#SciArtSeptember 7 - Boreal

Boreal forests are known for their conifers, but a real tree of life for them is the aspen. In Finland, there are over 200 species exclusively living on aspen, and many, many more that benefit from it.

A large aspen is a hub of life that should be treasured.

In search of Denisovans:
Genetic tools identify lost human relatives from fossil records

Candidate Denisovan fossils identified through gene regulatory phenotyping🏺🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Phenotyping and scanning approach based on gene regulatory differences to identify potential Denisovans

Reconstructing Skills and Strategies of Hominins During the Early Acheulean: Behavioral Flexibility in Handaxe Production at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) 🏺🧪
Kumar Akhilesh, Shanti Pappu, et al
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Exploring the impact of flaking quartzites
@sche-archeo.bsky.social

Very excited to receive an ERC Starting Grant to study the earliest archaeological and biomolecular evidence of Homo sapiens in NW Europe

Watch this space for new positions in Bristol in 2026! 🎉

#HorizonEurope #ERCStG