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PaleoAnthropology Journal @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social · May 7

Paleoanthropology Society Meeting Abstracts, Denver, CO, 22–23 April 2025
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PaleoAnthropology Journal @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social · May 7

Book Review of The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence and Our Obsession with Human Origins
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PaleoAnthropology Journal @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social · May 7

Obituary: Ralph L. Holloway (1935-2025): Scientist, Mentor, and Leader in Paleoneurology
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PaleoAnthropology Journal @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social · May 7

McNulty et al - The Alpha-Taxonomy of Ekembo
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PaleoAnthropology Journal @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social · May 7

Akhilesh et al - Flakes, Feelings, and Finesse: Experiential Studies of Skill Acquisition in Novice Knappers
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PaleoAnthropology Journal @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social · May 7

Foecke et al - No Geoarchaeological Evidence for Deliberate Burial by Homo naledi: On Best Practice for Geochemical Studies in Archaeology and Paleoanthropology
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PaleoAnthropology Journal @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social · May 7

Del Giacco and Schroeder - Does Early Homo Dental Variation Follow a Neutral Pattern of Divergence?
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PaleoAnthropology Journal @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social · May 7

Skinner et al - Microtomographic Archive of Hominin Fossils from the Swartkrans Formation, South Africa (1948-1967)
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PaleoAnthropology Journal @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social · May 7

McPherson - Growing Pains: Opportunities to Adjust Phenotypic Trajectories in Childhood and Adolescence Complicate Studies of Developmental Plasticity in Late Homo
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PaleoAnthropology Journal @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social · May 7

Oron et al - Occupation Duration and Identification of Technological Traditions: Insights from the Late Middle Paleolithic Site of Nahal Dimona 24 in the Negev Desert, Israel
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PaleoAnthropology Journal @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social · May 7

🧵 Table of Contents for our latest issue #openaccess

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PaleoAnthropology Journal @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social · May 6

The latest issue of PaleoAnthropology is out now!
Volume 2025, Issue 1 #openaccess

📖Read Here: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...

#paleoanthropology #humanevolution

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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · May 5

I have now reviewed Geroulanos' important book for PaleoAnthropology and included a detailed summary of its content. I recommend everybody interested in all matters "prehistory" to have a look: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...

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McNulty Lab @mcnultylab.bsky.social · May 5

Excited to share this new #OpenAccess pub. It completely overturns our understanding of...nothing. It won't be in your newsfeed. Sometimes #science advances by basic, gut-it-out research. Would love comments about our approach to fossil alpha-taxonomy.

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View of The Alpha-Taxonomy of Ekembo

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · Mar 4

ESHE 2025 PARIS! 🤩

Registration opening soon

European Society for the Study of Human Evolution @eshesociety.bsky.social · Feb 25

ESHE 2025 goes to Paris, France! Join us in person for talks and posters from Sept 25–27, with a public keynote on Sept 24. Excursion details are coming soon. More info on the meetings page this March! #ESHE2025

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · Mar 13

I enjoyed the opportunity to present the diamond open access, community owned, PaleoAnthropology journal and discuss the situation at the Journal of Human Evolution at the NYCEP seminar, City University of New York last week!

Thank you to Larissa Swedell for the invitation.

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Harvati Lab @harvatilab.bsky.social · Apr 10

📢Job alert!

W3 (Full) Professorship in Human Ecology at the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen.

⛓️‍💥 berufungen.uni-tuebingen.de

Deadline for applications: May 22, 2025 🗓

Please share and repost 🙏🏼 🤩

For questions please contact Prof. Harvati.

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Marie Soressi @mariesoressi.bsky.social · Feb 10

To publish your research, do you look for
✅non profit
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by scientists for scientists✨

Then consider 👇

PaleoAnthropology Journal @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social · Feb 3

Learn more about our Journal at our Insights page!
🔗 paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/JournalInsights

If you're interested in submitting to us you can learn about our publishing timeline, acceptance rate, and more.
Our Journal is #openaccess and has no publication fees

#paleoanthropology

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Sharma Centre for Heritage Education, India @sche-archeo.bsky.social · Jan 29

#1 About us:we are researching the Palaeolithic with wonderful colleagues from India and abroad @cenieh.bsky.social; early agro-pastoral groups in S. India & experimental knapping. Check out our paper on experiential studies of novice knappers
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Welker Group @welkergroup.bsky.social · Feb 5

📣 Paper alert! 📣 In this review, available as early view in @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social, we discuss "Paleoproteomic Contributions, and Current Limitations, to Understanding Middle and Late Pleistocene Human Evolution". Thanks to all coauthors! paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...

Screenshot of the paper title. It's published in the special issue "Special Issue: What’s in a Name? Late Middle and Early Late Pleistocene Hominin Systematics" and the title of the paper is "Paleoproteomic Contributions, and Current Limitations,
to Understanding Middle and Late Pleistocene Human Evolution".

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PaleoAnthropology Journal @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social · Feb 3

Learn more about our Journal at our Insights page!
🔗 paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/JournalInsights

If you're interested in submitting to us you can learn about our publishing timeline, acceptance rate, and more.
Our Journal is #openaccess and has no publication fees

#paleoanthropology

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · Jan 27

In addition to our recent special issue on Integration of ZooMS and Zooarchaeology at Paleolithic Sites (2024:2, paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...) the spring 2025 issue (In progress) is now online, with several exciting contributions!

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PaleoAnthropology Journal @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social · Jan 27

The latest issue of PaleoAnthropology is now out! #openaccess
Volume 2025, Issue 1, In Progress

Read Here: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/issue/view/91

#paleoanthropology #humanevolution #archaeology

Vol. 2025 No. 1 In Progress (2025): PaleoAnthropology | PaleoAnthropology

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · Jan 10

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

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PaleoAnthropology Journal @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social · Jan 23

PaleoAnthropology Journal has made it to Bluesky! We are a fully externally peer-reviewed, Open Access, online-only journal. We have no publication fees, and are accessible free of charge to all. Find our website above to read our current issue, or if you are interested in submitting to our journal

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