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Thank you, Rebecca!

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! ✨

A snapshot from Katerina Harvati’s podium presentation at #ESHE2025 earlier today! ✨️ Her talk: “Middle Pleistocene funerary ritual at Apidima? An examination of evidence.” ☠️🌍🪨

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Katerina Harvati ‘Middle Pleistocene funerary ritual at Apidima? An examination of evidence’
2 homs– 2 dates: Ap2: >170 ka (NEA), Ap1 >210 ka (early H sapiens).
Could it be mortuary ritual instead (Otte 2020)?! NO.
Analysis of tapho, homs in fissure! no pebbles, no pigments 😀

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! 🤗🤗

#ESHE2025 featured posters from our team members on Greek sites: Klissoura (Marciani et al.), Megalopoli (Roditi et al.), and Apidima (Lombardo et al.)! 🌍🦴🐵 They couldn’t attend in person, but their work was well represented. 👏

The #ESHE2025 poster session was on fire today! 🔥 Check out the great work from our team members Katerina Harvati, Laura Limmer, David Naumann, and Caroline Röding. 🤗✨ Huge congratulations to all authors and co-authors! 👏👏👏

Team member Melania Ioannidou presented her poster on Ouranopithecus macedoniensis at #ESHE2025! 🐵🐒🦧 Congrats, Melania! 👏✨

Team member Majid Aljaber Abo Fakher kicked off this morning’s Pecha Kucha session at #ESHE2025 in Paris! His talk: “A strictly modern human trait? Tracing hypoconulid absence in first molars and its evolutionary implications.” 🦷🌍 Congrats, Majid! 👏🏻

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Majid Aljaber Abo Fakher ‘A strictly modern human trait? Tracing hypoconulid in first molars and its evolutionary implications’
No LM1s hypoconulid: +% in WEurasia, India
ALL earlier homs have it – except: H floresiensis (but Matamenge has it!); earliest absence in W Eurasia: Ksar Akil

The #ESHE2025 meeting in Paris starts tomorrow (please use this hashtag for sharing). If you are interested in the program, you find it here mcusercontent.com/9347aa3598d5... - Members have received an email for accessing the live stream! We hope you all enjoy the conference in person or online. /MW

Time flies and soon it will be time to close the Apidima excavation, after a very productive season!🔨👲

In the meantime, here's a Field Friday photo of the team in Cave D 😍
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Our new edited volume is finally out! It collects much of the team's work over the last several years in Greece and elsewhere.
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