Lucy Timbrell

We are happy to share the programme of speakers for our global symposium on lithic technology 🪨🔎

There are just a few spaces left for in-person participation! DM for more information.

You can join us online via this Zoom registration link: eu02web.zoom-x.de/webinar/regi...

We are happy to share the programme of speakers for our global symposium on lithic technology 🪨🔎

There are just a few spaces left for in-person participation! DM for more information.

You can join us online via this Zoom registration link: eu02web.zoom-x.de/webinar/regi...

No, it’s free to attend online and in-person 😊

Deadline for in-person registration is tomorrow!

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!

3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution

2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.

Please share and apply!

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Registration for in-person or online participation for our symposium is still open!

Join us at the MPI-GEA or online for a free symposium on Quantifying Complexity in Stone Tools on the 21st of October! 🪨

With a keynote lecture by Charles Perreault. Full speaker list will be released soon!

Secure your spot here: shh-cloud.gnz.mpg.de/index.php/ap...

It was a brilliant talk! Thank you so much 😊

Today! Don’t miss it 😊

Join us on Wednesday for our final webinar of series by @jcsvenning.bsky.social on:

“Deep-time, large-scale perspectives on biodiversity and ecosystems: implications for biosphere stewardship in the Anthropocene.”

More information and link to register here: www.gea.mpg.de/168423/deep-...

Co-organizing a session at #SAA San Francisco with T. Kovach: "Toward an Integration of Quantitative Approaches in #Lithic Analysis." A few spots still open! Abstracts due Sept. 4.

Email me if you’d like to join the conversation: armando.falcucci@nyu.edu

#Archaeology #FlintFriday #FossilFriday 🏺

Thank you @prelights.bsky.social & Alejandra Leffer's group for choosing our preprint on @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social and for this chance to talk about human- #malaria coevolution!🦟
@eegcam.bsky.social @elliescerri.bsky.social @MPI_GEA

We need a feminist palaeoanthropology that finally listens to all of us — HERI - Human Evolution Research Institute Palaeoanthropology asks profound questions: Who are we? What makes us human? Too often, answering these answers has been done by a privileged few. HERi Co-director Prof Rebecca Ackermann calls for tha...

And Palaeolithic archaeology, which remains hugely behind too. 'This is not about political correctness or ticking boxes....Diverse teams deliver better science: they ask different questions, challenge old assumptions, and produce richer, more nuanced insights.'
www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...

Logo with trowel and 'Lessons from the Past'

Archaeologists, historians, classicists: can your research into our past inform our future? The ‘Lessons from the Past’ (March ‘26) conference is looking for papers on tangible sustainability changes informed by human history lessonsfromthepast.info
@livancworlds.bsky.social #AcademicSky

Join us at the MPI-GEA or online for a free symposium on Quantifying Complexity in Stone Tools on the 21st of October! 🪨

With a keynote lecture by Charles Perreault. Full speaker list will be released soon!

Secure your spot here: shh-cloud.gnz.mpg.de/index.php/ap...

Interested in the functional morphology of mammal heads and want to come join us in Liverpool? Apply for this exciting new PhD project with Alana!

A sample from each regional group of simulated mean annual temperature (left), mean July temperature (middle), and total annual precipitation (right) time series, comparing different model outputs (solid lines) and corresponding non-interpolated proxy reconstructions from LegacyClimate 1.0 (Herzschuh et al., 2021) (dashed lines).

Both proxies and models provide key resources

More is not always better:
Delta-downscaling climate model outputs from 30 to 5 min resolution has minimal impact on coherence with Late Quaternary proxies🏺🧪
@lucytimbrell96.bsky.social, @elliescerri.bsky.social , et al
cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...

New paper in collaboration with @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social and @jblinkhorn.bsky.social, with several of us involved (@mikleonardi.bsky.social @margheritac17.bsky.social @andreavpozzi.bsky.social) shows that downscaling palaeoclimate models doesn't necessarily improve coherence with proxy data.

This project ended up taking the best part of 3 years 😅 Thank you very much to @margheritac17.bsky.social, @mikleonardi.bsky.social, @jblinkhorn.bsky.social, @elliescerri.bsky.social, Manuel Chevalier, Matt Grove, Andrea Pozzi and Andrea Manica from @eegcam.bsky.social for your hard work!!

More is not always better: delta-downscaling climate model outputs from 30 to 5 min resolution has minimal impact on coherence with Late Quaternary proxies Abstract. Both proxies and models provide key resources to explore how palaeoenvironmental changes may have impacted diverse biotic communities and cultural processes. While proxies are thought to pro...

Very pleased to see our paper published online at Climate of the Past: cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...

We present model-data comparisons of Late Quaternary climate across the Northern Hemisphere, showing that increasing model resolution has little net effect on coherence with pollen proxies 😊

Humanity's road to dominance began earlier than expected Getting sapient about sapiens...

Last week, Andrea sat down with Dr Chris Smith of Naked Scientists to talk about our paper on the expansion of the human niche 70k year ago: www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/int...

Very pleased to see our paper now out in Communications Biology! 🥳

📢 We’re HIRING!

Are you experienced in 3D imaging and geometric
morphometric analysis? Do you have strong organisational and communication skills?

We want to hear from you! Apply below www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51730/

Join our passionate research team exploring Pleistocene African prehistory! 🦴

Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal - Nature Analysis of species distribution models in a pan-African database comprising chronometrically dated archaeological sites over the past 120,000 years shows major expansion in the human niche from 70 ka...

1/5 Why do all non-Africans descended from a group that left Africa 50k ago? In @nature.com we model 120k years of human niche dynamics. From 70ka, a big expansion of the human niche in Africa likely equipped later OOA dispersals with a unique ecological flexibilty.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Malaria shaped human spatial organisation for the last 74 thousand years The mechanisms driving the spatial organisation of early human societies in Africa are typically addressed through climate variables [1][1]-[3][2]. However, genetic and archaeological studies have als...

🚨 NEW preprint🚨 Our latest study @HPS MPI-GEA @elliescerri.bsky.social & @eegcam.bsky.social models #malaria risk over the past 74,000 years revealing its powerful role in shaping human habitat choice and dispersal since the late Pleistocene in sub-Saharan Africa 🦟🌍 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very much looking forward to chatting with colleagues about some of our latest work 😌

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Happening now 😁

Congratulations Cecilia and all!! 🤩

Pan-African metapopulation model explains Homo sapiens genetic and morphological evolution Emerging evidence has challenged the traditional view of a single-region origin for Homo sapiens, suggesting instead that our species arose and diversified across multiple geographically distinct popu...

🚨NEW PAPER from the @eegcam.bsky.social!🚨I have never been as proud of something as of the work that finally we can share today: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - we show how a climatically driven Pan African meta population model explains our species genetic and morphological diversity 🧬💀

Re-advertising this post as no suitable applicants were found in the first round. If you are interested in an exciting PhD opportunity at the University of Sydney, do get in touch! Deadline 9 July. Updated information and link here:
www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...