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Palaeotrails @palaeotrails.bsky.social · 6d

We are hiring a Project Co-ordinator! 🚨

Are you extremely organised with great interpersonal skills?
Able to multitask efficiently?
Interested in African prehistory?
Keen to work with an enthusiastic team?
We want to hear from you!

Closing date: 17 October, 2025

Project Coordinator (Fixed Term)

Applications are invited for a 12-month Project Co-ordinator position on the NG'IPALAJEM project, funded by the ERC. The project aims at collecting new palaeontological, archaeological and geological

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Palaeotrails @palaeotrails.bsky.social · 10d

It's a wrap! #ESHE2025
3 days filled with stimulating discussions in the form of 35 podiums, 33 Pecha Kuchas, 169 posters.
Congratulations to the winners of the student prize - Harmony Hill & Gabriele Russo!
Massive thank you to the organisers for making it all happen.

See you in Burgos next year!

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Palaeotrails @palaeotrails.bsky.social · 11d

Session 9 Podium #ESHE2025

@stephanepeyregne.bsky.social on a new Denisovan genome,
J. Kubat uncovers sexing and phylogeny of M. palaeojavanicus,
E. Veatch reconsiders fire use and behaviour in H. floresiensis,
H. Berghuis on the first subsea H. erectus site in Sundaland

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Palaeotrails @palaeotrails.bsky.social · 12d

Podium Day 3 #ESHE2025

H. Farrell, R. Sorrentino, C. Ruff, A. Toccacceli, R. Clarke, A. Robles on the architecture of human foot, gait in Dmanisi, dexterous rock climbing in chimps, craniofacial diversity in great apes and so much more!

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Palaeotrails @palaeotrails.bsky.social · 12d

Poster Session 2 #ESHE2025

83 wonderful posters. 169 in total.

Palaeotrails’ Jesse Martin & @martamlahr.bsky.social on detecting microevolutionary trends in fossil hominin populations.

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Palaeotrails @palaeotrails.bsky.social · 13d

Podium talks Day 2 #ESHE2025

@jingzhang.bsky.social, K. Bretzke, G. Duller, @armandofalcucci.bsky.social, @giuliagallo.bsky.social, @jonathanreeves.bsky.social present exciting research on AI refits for lithics, use of operculum to push the limits of OSL, fire durations in the MP and so much more!

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Palaeotrails @palaeotrails.bsky.social · 14d

First round of podium presentations at #ESHE2025

Olivia Rivero, Alba Mesa, April Nowell,
@aurelienmounier.bsky.social, Chris Hunt explore everything from cognitive complexity, aDNA in cave art to the lives of teens in the #Palaeolithic and the amazing discoveries at #Shanidar!

Stay tuned!

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Palaeotrails @palaeotrails.bsky.social · Jul 19

Celebrating our wonderful PI @martamlahr.bsky.social for such an incredible achievement 🎉🍾🥂

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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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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · Jul 17

Justus has shared every adventure in Turkana with us since 2010 - wonderful friend and colleague

Palaeotrails @palaeotrails.bsky.social · Jul 17

Justus Erus Edung was only 25 years old when he discovered Kenyanthropus platyops in a team led by Prof. Meave Leakey in 1999.

This 3.5 million year old “flat-faced” skull quickly grabbed international headlines and changed the course of human evolution.

#fossils #turkana #humanevolution

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Palaeotrails @palaeotrails.bsky.social · Jul 15

Episode 2: Faunal identification with @deadbovids.bsky.social

Other than identification, tooth wear pattern can give us exciting insights into faunal diet and palaeoecology.

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Kaedan O'Brien, Ph.D. @deadbovids.bsky.social · Jul 12

It's a bit late for #FossilFriday but I have to show this lovely young adult Palaeoloxodon (giant elephant) jaw from the new Middle Pleistocene site I'm working at in Turkana, Kenya!

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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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Rob Foley @robfoley.bsky.social · Jul 10

Breaking the barriers! Important new paper by Daniel Green and others discovering 18 million years of proteins of East African mammals!

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

Eighteen million years of diverse enamel proteomes from the East African Rift - Nature

The isolation of dental proteins from fossils deposited 1.5 million to 18 million years ago in the Turkana Basin in Kenya, a tropical region, demonstrate the promise of dental enamel for palaeoproteom...

www.nature.com

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Jun 30

Why is the Pacific important to our understanding of human dispersal out of Africa? 🏺

Ben Cullen Prize-winner Dylan Gaffney discusses the Homo sapiens who left the Afro-Eurasian landmass for the first time.

Read the prize-winning research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · Jun 30

📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground!

🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome.
🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13
🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq

Please share!
@elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social

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Cambridge Archaeology @cam-archaeology.bsky.social · Jun 20

Cambridge Archaeology graduate Jonathan R. Goodman has published a book: 'Invisible Rivals: How We Evolved to Compete in a Cooperative World'.

Available to purchase from Yale University Press: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

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Palaeotrails @palaeotrails.bsky.social · Jun 9

🚨 New research by Palaeotrails' @sarah-paris.bsky.social
beautifully connects Neolithic infant burials in Thailand with today’s evolving conversations around perinatal loss.

"This isn't just about pigment—it's about belonging."

From ancient ochre to Ronaldo's 7th-minute tribute—grief unites. 🕊️

What Ancient Burials Can Teach Us About Grief: New Study Links Prehistoric Thai Cemetery to Today’s Perinatal Loss Conversations

www.arch.cam.ac.uk

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Dr Sarah Paris @sarah-paris.bsky.social · Jun 9

‘Ochre and Identity: An Exploration of Perinatal Mortality, Personhood and Social Acknowledgement at Khok Phanom Di, Central Thailand’ in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org ‬

👉 doi.org/10.1017/S095...

Ochre and Identity: An Exploration of Perinatal Mortality, Personhood and Social Acknowledgement at Khok Phanom Di, Central Thailand | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge Core

Ochre and Identity: An Exploration of Perinatal Mortality, Personhood and Social Acknowledgement at Khok Phanom Di, Central Thailand

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Dr Sarah Paris @sarah-paris.bsky.social · Jun 9

🚨New paper alert!

Cambridge Archaeology @cam-archaeology.bsky.social · Jun 9

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣

What Ancient Burials Can Teach Us About Grief: New Study Links Prehistoric Thai Cemetery to Today’s Perinatal Loss Conversations

👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/what-an...

What Ancient Burials Can Teach Us About Grief: New Study Links Prehistoric Thai Cemetery to Today’s Perinatal Loss Conversations

www.arch.cam.ac.uk

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Palaeotrails @palaeotrails.bsky.social · May 2

🎉 Members of the Palaeotrails team were recently awarded bursaries to attend this years #HumanEvo25 🧬💀

The team were delighted to participate in the dynamic interdisciplinary programme ranging from genetic 👻 🏜️ 🦠 🧫 to evolutionary 🤰👣⚔️🌍

Thank you @eventswcs.bsky.social

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Dr Sarah Paris @sarah-paris.bsky.social · May 2

Fantastic poster & fab chat with Phumrapee Boonklang on genomic profiles in Thailand 🧬 at #HumanEvo25 this week.

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Dr Sarah Paris @sarah-paris.bsky.social · Apr 30

Congratulations 🙌 @avantikab.bsky.social

Palaeotrails @palaeotrails.bsky.social · Apr 30

A huge congratulations to all the #HumanEvo25 prize winners 👏

🎉 including Palaeotrails’s @avantikab.bsky.social who won a a prize for her poster Tracing Ancient Footsteps using sulphur isotopes 🏆

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