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Evolutionary Anthropologist 💀 and Quaternary Archaeologist ⛏️ | Taphonomy of human remains | violence and human cannibalism 🔬📊. #Atapuerca

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Isturitz. Mandible cutmarked. 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘴. Upper Palaeolithic. Magdalenian. France #FossilFriday

Courtesy of Institut de Paléontologie Humaine (IPH), Paris. 

@erc.europa.eu @cenieh.bsky.social #FECYT

03.10.2025 12:11 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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📃Descubierto un episodio de canibalismo en Atapuerca de hace 5.700 años, según un estudio del @iphes-cerca.bsky.social con el #CSIC

Un enfrentamiento entre grupos ganaderos derivó en la eliminación de un grupo familiar completo, cuyos integrantes fueron devorados
 
➡️ http://tiny.cc/7lvq001

07.08.2025 15:00 — 👍 21    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 3
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Nuevo caso de canibalismo humano en Atapuerca: 11 personas fueron descuartizadas, cocinadas y devoradas hace 5.700 años Un grupo en el que había niños, adolescentes y adultos fue canibalizado hace unos 5.700 años en el territorio que hoy ocupa la sierra de Atapuerca. Los 11 individuos...

Nuevo caso de canibalismo humano en Atapuerca: 11 personas fueron descuartizadas, cocinadas y devoradas hace 5.700 años

www.elmundo.es/ciencia-y-sa...

Via @iphes-cerca.bsky.social

07.08.2025 15:10 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 2
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Human bones found in Spanish cave show signs of ancient cannibalism Hundreds of pieces of bone dating from 5700 years ago carry evidence of being processed and eaten by other humans, bolstering the idea that cannibalism was common in the Neolithic period

Human bones found in Spanish cave show signs of ancient cannibalism

www.newscientist.com/article/2491...

07.08.2025 15:46 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Evidence of neolithic cannibalism among farming communities at El Mirador cave, Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Evidence of neolithic cannibalism among farming communities at El Mirador cave, Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain

Cannibalism in Neolithic Atapuerca? 💀🔬
Our latest study reveals clear evidence of a new cannibalistic event among farming communities at El Mirador cave. A fascinating glimpse into prehistoric life... and death. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@palmirasaladie.bsky.social @whiterabbit36.bsky.social

07.08.2025 15:52 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Atapuerca revela nuevas evidencias de canibalismo en los restos de un niño Una vértebra infantil hallada en el yacimiento burgalés de Gran Dolina presenta cortes precisos que indican la separación deliberada de la cabeza del cuerpo. Los científicos ven en esta práctica una estrategia recurrente de aprovechamiento de carne humana entre los primeros homínidos que habitaron la zona.

⚠️ Una vértebra infantil hallada en Gran Dolina muestra cortes precisos que indican decapitación. El hallazgo refuerza la hipótesis de que Homo antecessor practicaba el canibalismo de forma recurrente @fatapuerca.bsky.social @iphes-cerca.bsky.social

www.agenciasinc.es/Noticias/Ata...

28.07.2025 12:52 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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New paper! 👇
#lithictechnology #oldowan #acheulean #lowerpaleolithic #earlypleistocene #humanevolution #humanfossils
@paleoxose.bsky.social
@iphes-cerca.bsky.social @urv.cat

22.07.2025 17:09 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Krapina 3 (Cranium C) partial cranium. 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴. Croatia #FossilFriday

Courtesy of Osteological Collection of Comparative Anatomy (COAC) @cenieh.bsky.social 

@erc.europa.eu #FECYT

06.06.2025 11:02 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

😯 super congrats Laura!!! 👏🎊

28.05.2025 17:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Late Paleolithic whale bone tools reveal human and whale ecology in the Bay of Biscay - Nature Communications Here the authors apply ZooMS, radiocarbon, and stable isotope analyses to whale bones from the Bay of Biscay. They find that humans were utilizing the remains of at least five species of whales from 2...

Article alert!!
ZooMS, radiocarbon dating and stable isotope analysis on ancient whale bone tools, check it out. Absolutely thrilled to see our work published in Nature Communications 🙏

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

@natcomms.nature.com

28.05.2025 09:08 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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New insights of cultural cannibalism amongst Magdalenian groups at Maszycka Cave, Poland - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - New insights of cultural cannibalism amongst Magdalenian groups at Maszycka Cave, Poland

Canibalismo hace 18 ka en cueva de Maszycka, Polonia. Posible selección de cráneos en el marco de enfrentamientos intergrupales, causados por la competencia por los recursos.
New insights of cultural cannibalism amongst Magdalenian groups at Maszycka Cave, Poland

15.04.2025 06:26 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Non-destructive radiocarbon dating of bone Since the 1950s, radiocarbon measurements have anchored archaeological chronologies dating back to 50,000 years, with bone collagen being a commonly dated material. Despite advances in collagen extrac...

We are happy to share our pre-print on dating bone using a novel non-destructive protocol we developed. The paper is on the Biorxiv here (Luftensteiner et al. 2025):
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

29.03.2025 15:05 — 👍 124    🔁 30    💬 8    📌 9
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Vamos a celebrar el 25 aniversario del IAM, un centro mixto del CSIC y la Junta de Extremadura dedicado exclusivamente a la arqueología en todas sus vertientes. #IAM25 @csic.es

24.03.2025 08:40 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
Photo taken during the excavations of the mass grave

Photo taken during the excavations of the mass grave

New discovery: In Vienna-Simmering, archaeologists have discovered a Roman mass grave that "indicates a catastrophic event" and may offer new insights into the founding history of the city.

www.vienna.at/sensational-...

and

wien.orf.at/stories/3297...

🏺 #archaeology

19.03.2025 20:16 — 👍 218    🔁 43    💬 0    📌 1
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El estudio liderado por @iphes-cerca.bsky.social, en el que participa @juanmarin.bsky.social miembro del dpto., que atribuye un fragmento facial de 1.4 ma, hallado en la Sima del Elefante de Atapuerca, a la especie "Homo affinis erectus".
Fotografía María D. Guillén/ @iphes-cerca.bsky.social

13.03.2025 12:54 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Bone fragments of oldest known human face in western Europe found in Spain Remains are of an adult member of an extinct species who lived up to 1.4m years ago, researchers say

New #HumanEvolution find from 🇪🇸 🦣🏺🧪Bone fragments of oldest known human face in western Europe found in Spain: www.theguardian.com/science/2025... congratulations to @whiterabbit36.bsky.social and all the other authors.

12.03.2025 21:13 — 👍 16    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Atapuerca reescribe la historia del primer poblamiento europeo

🦴Un estudio del @iphes-cerca.bsky.social, en el que participan dos institutos del #CSIC, atribuye un fragmento facial hallado en #Atapuerca a la especie ‘Homo affinis erectus’

👉http://tiny.cc/vg2d001

🎥 Antonio Rodríguez (#IAM_CSIC)👇

12.03.2025 16:08 — 👍 71    🔁 31    💬 0    📌 2
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The earliest human face of Western Europe - Nature A Homo aff. erectus individual dated to 1.4 million to 1.1 million years ago found at Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain) does not display the modern-human-like aspect of Homo antecess...

Our new paper 🥲 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

12.03.2025 20:19 — 👍 55    🔁 22    💬 2    📌 1
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The Lapedo Child: A 28,000-Year-Old Mystery Reshaped by Science New dating techniques reveal fresh insights into one of the most enigmatic burials in human prehistory

New dating confirms the Lapedo Child as a 28,000-year-old Neanderthal-human hybrid, refining its timeline and burial context. The study highlights interbreeding and advances radiocarbon methods. @science.org

#LapedoChild #Neanderthals #HumanEvolution #Paleoanthropology #AncientDNA #Archaeology

08.03.2025 02:43 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 1
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Come to Sweden! Funded digital heritage PhD alert!

Come and work with us on Gotland. We have two fully funded 4-year PhD projects in Archaeology and Conservation (Heritage Science). Join the team (and me) focussing on Digital Innovations for Sustainable Heritage. Details below...

08.03.2025 03:03 — 👍 79    🔁 43    💬 3    📌 8
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We are at full capacity, adding new skeletons to the @iphes-cerca.bsky.social COR collection!
Our latest additions include:
•Equus quagga
•Tapirus terrestris
•Marmota marmota
•Bubo bubo
•Larus michahellis
•Egretta garzetta
•Circus aeruginosus
Stay tuned for more updates!!!

06.03.2025 20:49 — 👍 19    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Moltes felicitats! Gaudeix del dia!! 🎊🎉🍻

02.03.2025 07:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
A close-up photograph of an flint dagger with a chipped, gray stone blade and a weathered wooden handle. The blade is knapped to a sharp point with visible flake scars, while the handle appears aged, the black birch tar, that was used to fasten the blade to the handle, can be seen.

A close-up photograph of an flint dagger with a chipped, gray stone blade and a weathered wooden handle. The blade is knapped to a sharp point with visible flake scars, while the handle appears aged, the black birch tar, that was used to fasten the blade to the handle, can be seen.

This uniquely preserved Late Neolithic flint dagger (2900 BCE) was found in Allensbach at the Lake Constance, southwest #Germany. The blade was made of flint from Monte Baldo, northern #Italy. It was fastened with birch tar in a handle made of elderwood.

📷 @almbawue.bsky.social

🏺 #archaeology

28.02.2025 11:59 — 👍 513    🔁 105    💬 9    📌 11
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Canibalismo en el Paleolítico: un misterio en la cueva de Maszycka Hace 15.000 años, el destino de un grupo de humanos quedó sellado en un episodio de violencia extrema. Hoy, gracias a la ciencia, estamos un paso más cerca de entenderlo

Sobre el histórico y contexto de nuestra última investigación en la cueva de Maszycka (Polonia) un texto para "La cuadratura del círculo" en @eldiario.es @csicandalextrem.bsky.social @csicdivulga.bsky.social
www.eldiario.es/132_b835c7?u...

21.02.2025 10:26 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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⛰️ Nuevos hallazgos indican que el canibalismo era una práctica habitual hace 18.000 años

Un estudio con participación del #CSIC muestra nuevas prácticas de canibalismo cultural durante el periodo magdaleniense tras analizar restos óseos hallados en una cueva de Polonia

👉 http://tiny.cc/5cha001

19.02.2025 10:09 — 👍 24    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 3
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Our paper has reached 10k access in just 10 days!!! rdcu.be/eaePJ

17.02.2025 20:16 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
This is figure 5, which shows human induced modifications on cranial and postcranial remains.

This is figure 5, which shows human induced modifications on cranial and postcranial remains.

A study in Scientific Reports of remains from the Maszycka Cave from 18,000 years ago finds evidence of cannibalism among these Magdalenian groups. https://go.nature.com/4hwUqAQ 🧪 🏺

13.02.2025 23:32 — 👍 42    🔁 10    💬 3    📌 1
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Encuentran evidencias del consumo de cerebros humanos en Polonia hace 18.000 años Un estudio publicado en la revista “Scientific Reports” por un equipo interdisciplinar de investigadores sugiere que las tensiones intergrupales y los conflictos territoriales que tuvieron lugar hace ...

Los colegas de NG se hacen eco de nuestra investigación historia.nationalgeographic.com.es/a/encuentran...

10.02.2025 20:33 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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In a cave in Poland, signs of prehistoric cannibalism Practice may reflect violent competition for new territory 18,000 years ago

Guess who's coming to dinner…

New evidence for #Magdalenian #cannibalism from #MaszyckaCave near Kraków, 18,000 years ago:

🏺 www.science.org/content/arti... by @spoke32.bsky.social via @science.org

💀 CN: Couple gruesome details on, well, human consumption.

11.02.2025 19:07 — 👍 49    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 0
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Ancient Europeans ate the brains of their dead enemies 18,000 years ago, researchers discover A study of skeletons from a cave in Poland has revealed widespread evidence of cut marks and fractures suggestive of cannibalism.

Cannibalism was frequent in the Magdalenian period in Europe. 🧪🏺

10.02.2025 01:35 — 👍 77    🔁 22    💬 7    📌 9

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