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Marta Mirazón Lahr is a palaeoanthropologist and director of the Duckworth Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.

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Last week I matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge to start my NERC-funded (CREATES DLA) PhD in Archaeology!

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Do you know anyone with an interest in pursuing a PhD studying the genetics, development, and evolution of skeletal morphology and life history? If so please encourage them to apply to work with me through any of the University of Illinois' EEB or PEEC programs. 1/4 🧪🦷🦴🐭🐒
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Reposted by: Marta Mìrazón Lahr, Matthew J. Collins, Nathan Nunn

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⚠️Paper Alert!⚠️
Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion
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Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology in Early Holocene Africa
Nature Communications - Several possible points of origin have been proposed for the spread of ceramic technology in Saharan Africa between 11–10,000 years ago. Here, the authors...
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Reposted by: Marta Mìrazón Lahr, Katerina Harvati

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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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Like you, I've read so many nice things about Jane Goodall's amazing life and legacy today, but this video of the realease of the chimp called Wounda is beyond words ♥️

If only we could find the will to stop destroying the extraordinary natural world around us...

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Wounda's Journey - Jane Goodall Witnesses Release of Chimpanzee Into New Island Sanctuary Site
YouTube video by Dr. Jane Goodall & the Jane Goodall Institute USA
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by Marta Mìrazón Lahr

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😢❤️
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Jane Goodall, conservationist and chimpanzee expert, dies aged 91
The Jane Goodall Institute says famed primatologist died in California during US speaking tour.
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Extinct megafauna dominated human subsistence in southern South America before 11,600 years ago
The high position of megafauna among the hunting prey of humans in South America reinforces their central role in extinctions.
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JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91
Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
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Reposted by: Marta Mìrazón Lahr, Laia Balcells, Rebecca Sear

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📢 Come join us! Penn State Anthropology is hiring *two tenure-track assistant professors*, one in human reproductive ecology and one in archaeology. Here are just a few reasons why working at Penn State is awesome:
A photo of the Susan Welch Liberal Arts building at sunrise
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by Marta Mìrazón Lahr

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Gracias! Siempre util, pero particularmente el resumen del tercer trimestre, ya que muchos estamos en campo y es dificil mantenerse al dia de lo que se publica 😍
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🔥 Paleoantropología: resumen de novedades publicadas en el tercer trimestre 2025
Paleoantropología: novedades 3er trimestre 2025
Este trimestre que cerramos ha venido cargado de novedades: nada menos que 49 trabajos recopilados, que muestran cómo este campo sigue despertando interés, tanto en la comunidad científica como en …
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by Marta Mìrazón Lahr

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Congratulations @mariaguagnin.bsky.social abd team🥳!!! What a lovely paper
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Our new paper is out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 12,000 year old camel engravings marked water sources in the desert. A great team effort @mdpetraglia.bsky.social @finnstileman.bsky.social @stewiestewart.bsky.social et al!
Monumental rock art illustrates that humans thrived in the Arabian Desert during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition | Nature Communications
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Reposted by: Marta Mìrazón Lahr, Richard J. Butler, Aidan O’Sullivan

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AMAZING JOB ALERT!!! Dorset Council are recruiting a World Heritage Officer to support the management of the Jurassic Coast! Would suit an Earth Science graduate with an interest in digital comms and content: deets here: www.jobs.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/vacancies/32...
World Heritage Officer in Dorchester | Dorset Council
View details and apply for this World Heritage Officer vacancy in Dorchester. Join a passionate and collaborative team at the heart of Dorset's environmental and heritage work. As part of the Dor...
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by Marta Mìrazón Lahr

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No… no discussion of longi/Harbin
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by Marta Mìrazón Lahr

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My understanding is that it was a ‘mush’ of smashed bone, fat & sand!
@sarahpederzani.bsky.social can tellbus more!
Sarah Pederzani (@sarahpederzani.bsky.social)
palaeoclimate | human evolution | proxy system modelling | R & Quarto enthusiast | Postdoc at Dep. Geology & Geophysics, U of Utah | climber | D&D nerd | she/her
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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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It’s a wrap! 🎉 Huge thanks to the organizers, members and everyone involved for making #ESHE2025 a success! 🙌 Special thanks to our Christina Siali for her wonderful work. 😊 And big congrats to Harmony Hill and Gabriel Russo for winning the student prizes! 🏆👏 See you next year in Burgos, Spain! ✨
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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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by Marta Mìrazón Lahr

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#ESHE2025
Amelie Beaudet ‘A century after the Taung child: New insights into the evolutionary history of Australopithecus’
High var at Sterkfontein– signature of adaptive radiation? Brain sulci patterns, arteries, face shape, inner ear, verts– exploring morph disparity!!
Fantastic last talk ♥️!!!
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#ESHE2025
Phil Hopley ‘The age and environment of the Taung child’
Taung geol & spatial outlier within the Cradle
S Afr cave ages controversial!
Problem w U/Pb dating?
235U-207Pb dating: >accurate Taung at border of lake/pond env during Mid-Pliocene warm period 🥰
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#ESHE2025
Clement Zanolli ‘Endostructural investigation of the Middle Pleistocene craniodental remains from Kabwe, Zambia’
Complex tax interpretation!
EDJ & inner ear GMMs: mix of primitive & derived traits! Some ~erectus, some unique
Taxonomy unresolved - unclear African MP evolutionary patterns☹!
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by Marta Mìrazón Lahr

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#ESHE2025
Martin Haeusler ‘Statistical shape modelling (SSM) reveals significant taxonomic variability in early Pleistocene hominin pelves from South Africa’
Diversity at Sterkfontein🤩!
GMM & metaspecies shape modelling: Sts 14 & StW 431 prob taxonomically diff
StW 573: what is preserved is v diff!
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#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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by Marta Mìrazón Lahr

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#ESHE2025
Elizabeth Veatch ‘Behavioural complexity in Homo floresiensis reconsidered’
Did H floresiensis hunt & use fire? NO!
Tapho– Komodo Dragon prey bones fr Atlanta!
3D study of 3200 bones w marks fr Liang Bua: most match Komodo Dragons; a few actual c/m - scavenging.
🔥? ~10K rat bones 😳… NONE
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by Marta Mìrazón Lahr

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#ESHE2025
Julide Kubat ‘Combined paleoproteomics and morphological evidence reveal the evolutionary history of Meganthropus palaeojavanicus’
Very high div in Sangiran homs, but dental morph convergence w Pongo..
1st palaeoprots fr Sangiran 🤩! exclude Pongo ID.
Meganthropus EDJ morph aff to eHoms !
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#ESHE2025
Stephanie Peyregne ‘ A new Denisovan genome sheds light on the peopling of Asian and Oceania’
DNA: single rapid dispersal
Evidence of multiple/diff introgression events
Analyses of DEN3 & DEN25 reveal complex pop dynamics & interactions during sapiens dispersals 🤩!
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by Marta Mìrazón Lahr

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#ESEHE2025
Mailys Richard ‘A revised chronology for the Middle Pleistocene sedimentary sequence of Florisbad, South Africa’
Prev fossil hom (eSapiens): OSL & ESR- 279-228 ka
NEW OSL, TT-OSL & pIRIR290: range of dates – most likely MIS6
But only if prov of cran in Unit M
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#ESHE2025
Sarah Pederzani ‘ Tracing cold-climate adaptations in early Homo sapiens in Europe …Bacho Kiro, Bulgaria’
How did humans disperse to all climate zones?
🔥! mysterious bone sand 😳?
Exciting results from plant/animal LIPID BIOMARKERS- evidence of animal bone fat extraction !
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