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Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · 10d

A grand place for Lucy to make her European debut.
📍 Národní muzeum

Grand interior of the National Museum in Prague, featuring a sweeping marble staircase lined with red carpets, ornate columns, and golden lamps. Busts of historical figures line the upper level beneath a decorative arched gallery, and the ceiling is made of elaborately patterned glass panels that let in natural light. Visitors walk up and down the staircases, giving a sense of scale to the opulent architecture.

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Gabriele Russo @gabrieleru1.bsky.social · 12d

Great talk @armandofalcucci.bsky.social! Impressive depth of data analysis, and I really appreciated the open science approach. Finally, robust evidence that the Ahmarian and Protoaurignacian aren’t directly linked
#Paleolithic #lithics 🏺🦣🧪

Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 12d

#ESHE2025
Armando Falcucci ‘Convergent technological trajectories in early modern humans across the Mediterranean’
Ahmarian (AH) ancestral to Protoaurignacian (PA)?
Test: quant anal of AH fr Ksar Akil & Al-Ansab 1 & PA: NO evidence of PA ancestry or E-W diffusion signal
Chatelperronian source 😳?

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Eleanor M. Williams @eleanormw.bsky.social · Jul 16

3D scanning these beauties with Ng'ipalajem!
@palaeotrails.bsky.social

#handaxe #turkana

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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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Dr. Roman Garba @romangarba.bsky.social · 11d

Now nice to see talk with data from the namesake Garba site 🥰

Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 11d

#ESHE2025
Sol Sanchez-Dehesa Galan ‘Decoding Acheulean skill’
Focus on diff btn Acheulean x Oldowan – Acheulean reduced to +/- of h/xs – ignoring many innovations!
Garba (Ethiopia, 0.6 Ma) pilot & exp study: breaking-down the LCTs reduction seq
Kinematics & cognitive demands of diff techniques 🤩!!

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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 11d

#ESHE2025
Marc Dickinson ‘Advancing enamel amino acid dating’
Using AA in dental enamel for dating
Does glue affect potential? NO 😊
Can ESR powder by re-used? YES 😊
‘lab-on-a-chip’ (minimise sample size) and no need of lab for pre-processing! 😊

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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 11d

#ESHE2025
Harold Berghuis ‘Madura Strait, the first subsea Homo erectus site in Sundaland (Indonesia)’
Underwater fossils 🌟!
Subsidence in Sundaland: key to biogeography. Submerged river valley-MIS6, w rich fossil record! hunting bovids?
H erectus: frontal & parietal frags– aff Java late erectus
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Dr. Roman Garba @romangarba.bsky.social · 11d

Amazing Gabi! Bravo! 🎉

Gabriele Russo @gabrieleru1.bsky.social · 11d

Thrilled to have won the Student Poster Prize at #ESHE2025! 🏆 Grateful for the opportunity to share my work on Lebanese fauna and for all the inspiring conversations throughout the conference!

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 12d

For #FindsFriday, here are some shell, stone and shark tooth beads and pendants from a Neolithic grave at Wadi Nafūn, Oman.
These materials indicate a symbolic connection to marine themes amongst the people buried here.

Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Several beads and pendants of varying colours and shapes, made from stone, shell and shark teeth.

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James Clark @jclark997.bsky.social · 12d

Great fun at #ESHE2025 presenting on how handaxe shape can inform discussions of African demography in the Early and Middle Pleistocene! While we have very few fossils or genetic data for this period, handaxe shape may carry a signal that can help to constrain biogeographic models - more to come!

Myself standing in front of a poster of research entitled “What can handaxe shape contribute to discussions of hominin demography in Africa in the late Early and early Middle Pleistocene?”

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Gopesh Jha @gopesh.bsky.social · 12d

This non #FlintFriday and #FieldworkFriday, I would like to share this mint-fresh Quartzite handaxe from SE India, likely dating back to Middle Pleistocene.

Yes, it hurts to see that broken tip! Still, one of my best find.

I am field-sick, can't wait to go back.

#Acheulean #India #HumanOrigins

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Dr. Roman Garba @romangarba.bsky.social · 11d

Congrats Gabriele!

Gabriele Russo @gabrieleru1.bsky.social · 11d

Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting my poster on large carnivore 🐆 exploitation in Lebanon at #ESHE2025. Such a great venue for it, with so many interesting posters around! I also got the chance to chat with lots of amazing people! #Paleolithic #zooarcheology 🏺🦣🧪

Harvati Lab @harvatilab.bsky.social · 12d

And finally today, team members Gabriel Russo and Marya Soubra presented their latest work on sites in Lebanon at #ESHE2025 poster session! 🌍🐆🦴🐾 Congratulations to both! 🤗🤗

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Dr. Roman Garba @romangarba.bsky.social · 29d

It is finally OUT! 🎉 My book "HINTERLAND MONUMENTS OF ANCIENT NOMADS: Trilith Stone Structures of Southeastern Arabia" was published by @archaeopress.bsky.social Book is the first dedicated study of these enigmatic 2000-year-old ritual monuments.

www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

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Dr. Roman Garba @romangarba.bsky.social · Aug 16

Very sad news today. Anthony E. Marks has passed away. He conducted pioneering prehistoric research in the Nile Valley, the southern Levant and Arabia, producing seminal works on the Palaeolithic. In 2023, aged 85, he still joined the @arduq.bsky.social excavations in Dhofar, Oman. Rest in peace.

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Dr. Roman Garba @romangarba.bsky.social · Aug 16

The 'bone midden' surprised with its age, megalithic features and the number of individuals. It is as impressive as the neighbouring rock art sites, triliths and shell midden. The Nafun cultural landscape comprises 214 archaeological sites! @arduq.bsky.social

Czech archaeological expedition ARDUQ @arduq.bsky.social · Aug 16

New publication is out 🎉 from ARDUQ team! Nicknamed as "bone midden" in Nafun north of Duqm revealed incredible finds! Research is led by Betka Danielisova @czechacademy.bsky.social

The first collective Neolithic megalithic tomb in Oman | Antiquity | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/47swNqQ

The first collective Neolithic megalithic tomb in Oman | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

The first collective Neolithic megalithic tomb in Oman

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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · Jul 13

Such fun & fantastic team 🤩🤩🤩

Palaeotrails @palaeotrails.bsky.social · Jul 13

The joy of sorting LSA lithics from Turkana under the guidance of @robfoley.bsky.social

Follow us on Instagram for more www.instagram.com/palaeotrails...

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Palaeotrails @palaeotrails.bsky.social · Jul 11

What does the Ng'ipalajem team do?

Ng’ipalajem, meaning Ancestors in Turkana, is an ERC-funded project.

Led by @martamlahr.bsky.social, the project investigates how the emergence of Homo sapiens is deeply intertwined with Africa’s long-term environmental and ecological history.

#humanevolution

We spend long periods of time in Kenya collecting data in the collections, understanding the landscape and looking for fossils.

Picture credits: Sarah Paris

The rest of the year is spent analysing data, honing skills and preparing for upcoming field work. During this time, we develop new methodologies, attend conferences, write papers and discuss our findings

Picture credits: Sarah Paris, Eleanor Williams

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · Jun 28

From the blog: The #Denisovans got a face! - Turns out, it’s #DragonMan's ...

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The Denisovans got a face! – Turns out, it’s Dragon Man’s

Despite causing so much excitement, the Denisovans have been rather elusive until now. The few dozen small fossil remains have not really provided us with a clear picture of how these Middle Palaeo…

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INASIA_ERC @inasia-erc.bsky.social · Jun 5

ERC_INASIA is the first high-mountain archaeological project in Uzbekistan. For the very first time, our research team will reach unstudied caves in order to collect data for multiproxy analyses.

#HorizonEU #EUResearch #ERC

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Silke Merchel @silke-merchel.bsky.social · May 28

Yippieh! 2nd try for field-work in Greece starts today🥳 (1st was cancelled due to general strike). With @romangarba.bsky.social and Stephanie Neuhuber. Let's see if we can find some nice samples for cosmogenic nuclide analysis by #AMS for VERA @univie.ac.at

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Dr. Roman Garba @romangarba.bsky.social · May 17

Cool stuff, an appetizer 😉, from Duqm as part of Australian LARiO @latrobeuni.bsky.social expedition in Oman in collaboration with @arduq.bsky.social

Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · May 16

#FlintFriday The first evidence for Levallois lithic technology in the Huqf area of south-eastern Arabia 🏺

This extends the record of hominin activity into central Oman during the Middle Palaeolithic, expanding our knowledge of early human dispersal.

Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Four lithics and close-up images of weathering patterns on them.

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Justin Pargeter @justinpargeter.bsky.social · Mar 17

Here, we propose a new perspective on early stone tool technology: emulation of naturally occurring sharp-edged stones (naturaliths) instead of inventing via 'Eureka!' moments. Nature provided the blueprint; hominins took it further.

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/arcm...

#Archaeology #Stonetools

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Dr. Roman Garba @romangarba.bsky.social · May 14

Don't miss our talk, where Vitalii Usyk and I reveal more details about the unique archaeological site of Korolevo, including some unpublished material about the record of hominin occupation there from 1.4 million years ago to 20,000 years ago! Thank you, @heasvienna.bsky.social for inviting us!

HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · May 14

The recording from this talk is now available on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel.

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HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · May 12

@tommyhigham.bsky.social from #HEASVienna introducing @romangarba.bsky.social and #VitalyUsik for the #HEASSeminar taking place now online and in-person in the #UBB @univie.ac.at

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Dr. Roman Garba @romangarba.bsky.social · May 9

Just took an international train from Annaba in #Algeria to Tunis in #Tunisia (reopened Aug 2024). Breathtaking scenery in early May, very green and full of flowers! One of the great train journeys in the world, not to be missed! @seatsixtyone.bsky.social #iloverailwaytrips

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