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Iván Ramírez-Pedraza @ivanramirezpedraza.bsky.social · 19d

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Paulo Duñó-Iglesias @paulodunoiglesias.bsky.social · Aug 20

🚨 New work in #OpenAcces! 🚨

Our #dentalmicrowear study on cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) shows they had locally adapted, flexible foraging strategies in SE Europe during late MIS 3. 🐻🌿

Shedding light on their ecology & extinction.

Read it here 👉
doi.org/10.1016/j.pala…

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pala…

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Iván Ramírez-Pedraza @ivanramirezpedraza.bsky.social · Jun 13

🚨🐘🌴 Fossil evidence of proboscidean frugivory and its lasting impact on South American ecosystems 🌴🐘 🚨

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@iphes-cerca.bsky.social @biomarkerslab.bsky.social

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Biomarkers-Lab (IPHES-CERCA) @biomarkerslab.bsky.social · Apr 30

Last week, @paulodunoiglesias.bsky.social and Cristian Micó presented their dental microwear results at the OIKOS and @hugoobermaier.bsky.social conferences

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Biomarkers-Lab (IPHES-CERCA) @biomarkerslab.bsky.social · Apr 30

Hidden tools of the past: identifying and understanding tooth retouchers in the archaeological record

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Leslea Hlusko @hlusko.bsky.social · Mar 24

Want to move to Spain?

Do you study craniodental evolution in human and non-human primate evolution?

Looking for postdoc position?

Interested in working with my @Tied2Teeth group here @CENIEH???

Deadline to apply: 28 March 2025

www.cenieh.es/en/about-cen...

Postdoctoral Researcher (R2) of ERC-2021-ADG TIED2TEETH Project | CENIEH

www.cenieh.es

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · Mar 18

Palaeo-environmental post-doc alert! 2 years, University of Reading: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI153/p...

Palaeoenvironmental Post Doctoral Research Associate at University of Reading

An academic position as a Palaeoenvironmental Post Doctoral Research Associate is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Pontus Skoglund @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social · Mar 17

We have a 4-year PhD-student opening in our lab, deadline on Wednesday noon.

For anyone interested in computational genomics of ancient human, pathogen, or canid genomes. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

If you are curious, send in an application!

Skoglund Lab | Ancient human statistical population genomics

www.crick.ac.uk

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Gabriele Russo @gabrieleru1.bsky.social · Mar 12

The oldest human remains from Western Europe from a species never documented here 🤯 #Atapuerca did it again! 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The earliest human face of Western Europe - Nature

A Homo aff. erectus individual dated to 1.4 million to 1.1 million years ago found at Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain) does not display the modern-human-like aspect of Homo antecess...

www.nature.com

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Mar 12

The earliest human face of Western Europe www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The earliest human face of Western Europe - Nature

A Homo aff. erectus individual dated to 1.4 million to 1.1 million years ago found at Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain) does not display the modern-human-like aspect of Homo antecess...

www.nature.com

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CSIC @csic.es · Mar 12

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Atapuerca reescribe la historia del primer poblamiento europeo

🦴Un estudio del @iphes-cerca.bsky.social, en el que participan dos institutos del #CSIC, atribuye un fragmento facial hallado en #Atapuerca a la especie ‘Homo affinis erectus’

👉http://tiny.cc/vg2d001

🎥 Antonio Rodríguez (#IAM_CSIC)👇

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Bob Patalano @robertpatalano.bsky.social · Feb 26

Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago!

Our paper is now out in @nature.com! ⚱️ 🧪 🌍

Led by @eslembenarous.bsky.social, we used multi-proxies like plant wax biomarkers, pollen, and isotopes to reconstruct the environment of the Anyama locality of Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa!

Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago - Nature

The identification of tools dated to the time of Homo sapiens associated with microfloral evidence of wet tropical forests indicates that West African forests were occupied by humans much earlier...

www.nature.com

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Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo @whiterabbit36.bsky.social · Feb 6

I never imagined I would study a case of prehistoric cannibalism from Poland! #Maszycka🏺🦴 #Archaeology #Prehistory #Cannibalism #Research @csic.es @iphes-cerca.bsky.social

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · Jan 30

ICArEHB is looking for PhD candidates!
We are accepting applicants for the 2025 FCT PhD Fellowships Programme! Swipe through the images to explore potential project themes and supervisors.
For more details, visit: www.icarehb.com/fct-phd-fell...
#FCTPhDFellowships #ICArEHB #ResearchOpportunity

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Dr Geoff M Smith @geoffreymsmith.bsky.social · Jan 17

A fascinating study with direct N isotope data from Australopith fossils from Sterkfonteinat 3.5mya. Amazing results with great figures and visuals: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Great 🧪🦣🏺

Australopithecus at Sterkfontein did not consume substantial mammalian meat

Incorporation of animal-based foods into early hominin diets has been hypothesized to be a major catalyst of many important evolutionary events, including brain expansion. However, direct evidence of ...

www.science.org

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Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo @whiterabbit36.bsky.social · Jan 16

This work reveals the tremendous taxonomic diversity that Western Europe reached during the Pleistocene, and how elusive the fossil record of some species such as the musk ox, the saiga or the snow leopard itself can be.

Panthera uncia in Portuga l!!!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Insights on the evolution and adaptation toward high-altitude and cold environments in the snow leopard lineage

Integrated morphology, fossil records, and SDM reveal the evolution and adaptation in the snow leopard lineage.

www.science.org

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Mark Grabowski @markgrabowski.bsky.social · Dec 26

Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · Dec 19

Job alert! In our department here in Vienna. Postdoctoral Researcher in Evolutionary Genomics! Come and work in the world's most liveable city. Details below 👇
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct...

Postdoctoral Research Position in Evolutionary Genomics at the Pinhasi Lab

jobs.univie.ac.at

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Dr Alessio Veneziano @aveneziano.bsky.social · Dec 13

#SciAdvent Dec13 🦷🎄🦷🎄🦷
When magnified, our teeth show striations because they form in layers. These layers are periodical during growth and their frequency is affected by stress. Birth is such a stressful event that the forming teeth show a clear mark! This is called the neonatal line... (1/2)

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Prof. Rhiannon Stevens @nannonstevens.bsky.social · Dec 11

Double Job Alert!! We are recruiting an archaeobotany technician and an osteology (human & zooarchaeology) technician to help curate and improve access to our collections. Come join us at the Institute for Archaeology, University College London

www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/...

Job Vacancies: Two Laboratory Technician posts on AHRC RICHeS project

The UCL Institute of Archaeology currently has two vacancies for Laboratory Technicians on the AHRC-funded RICHeS project (Refs.: B03-02282 and B03-02283). The deadline for applications is 1 January 2...

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · Dec 10

I will be advertising soon for postdoc positions in geoarchaeology and GIS for my Terraform ERC project, starting at the University of Malta in a few months. More information soon, but message me if interested.

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Adrián Arroyo @adriarroyo.bsky.social · Dec 5

Super happy to see this paper finally published!!! 🙌🙌 How do chimpanzees in the wild find hidden food resorces, like army ants? Check it out to get an answer😉👇

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Wild chimpanzees remember and revisit concealed, underground army ant nest locations throughout multiple years - Communications Biology

Wild chimpanzees revisit hidden, subterraneous army ant nests and inspect them in search of ants through several years, suggesting that they use spatial and episodic-like memory to exploit concealed s...

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Jesús Gamarra @gamarraptor.bsky.social · Nov 29

My reconstruction of the Algerian site of Ain Boucherit (2.1 Ma), a commission of Museé National du Bardo of Alger.

This is possibly the oldest site with human presence in all Northern Africa.

#paleontology #fossilfriday #humanevolution #paleoart

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Julien Riel-Salvatore @julienrs.bsky.social · Nov 28

This is wild!🧪 Two very different hominin species (Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei) potentially coexisting and maybe interacting in eastern Africa, ca. 1.5mya, as suggested by different gaits seized in footprints. This whole thread by the lead author of the study is very informative.

Kevin Hatala @kevinhatala.bsky.social · Nov 28

Excited to share our latest paper, new in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Footprint evidence for locomotor diversity and shared habitats among early Pleistocene hominins

For much of the Pliocene and Pleistocene, multiple hominin species coexisted in the same regions of eastern and southern Africa. Due to the limitations of the skeletal fossil record, questions regardi...

www.science.org

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