"On behalf of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), I am very pleased to inform you that you have been selected as the 2026 recipient of the SAA's Book Award—Popular category for “Native America: The Story of the First Peoples” published by Princeton University Press."
Wow! No words.
The artwork that illustrated our PNAS paper on the oldest wooden tools was made by Gleiver Prieto, who has also worked with me on illustrations for previous projects, including the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Marathousa 1.
Gleiver's art really brings Pleistocene Megalopolis to life ✨ 🤩
🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS':
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨
We’ve still got a few open places for this brilliant hands-on mosaic making training event next week at @ics.bsky.social in London!
Come along to have fun making, while thinking about ancient/modern practice and research with leading experts Ruaidhri Ryan and Will Wootton.
@sas-news.bsky.social
Full article: Cradled by architecture: infancy and delayed personhood in Neolithic Anatolia and the Balkans www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
SMBE2026 Symposium L01 | Insights into the past through the lens of palaeoproteomics
📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts
📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
New Publication!
New Article by #HEASVienna members #AnnetteOertle, @katerinad.bsky.social et al. on 'New collagen peptide markers from New Guinea fauna: identifying archaeological bone in the tropics'
#HEASPublications
www.heas.at/research/pub...
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
New paper led by Annette Oertle out today focusing on our work at Castelcivita in Italy. A pleasure to work with our wonderful Italian colleagues.
@katerinad.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Biomolecular approaches to Pleistocene bones
New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Annette Oertle, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social @katerinad.bsky.social et al
We had a lovely time at ISBA in Torino and almost managed to gather everyone from Vienna in one pic @heasvienna.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social @katerinad.bsky.social
Our latest paper is out now in Frontiers in Mammal Science: www.frontiersin.org/journals/mam...
We characterized ZooMS peptide markers for three extinct Australian megafauna species 🦴🧪
🏺🧪🦣 The Neanderthal Museum is KILLING IT with their social media responses to complaints because we created a feminist exhibition centering #Neanderthal women... Well +55,000 people have already visited & it's now extended to 2nd November!
www.instagram.com/neanderthalm...
You know what the world absolutely does not need? Yet another definition for domestication. Get over yourselves people. C'mon!
Ok, maybe just one more. So much fun working with @elinork.bsky.social, Kathryn and Robin. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Really exciting news from the Ozarks! A bag of seeds dating to the Pre-Contact Period in North America was found and donated to the University of Arkansas museum. Absolutely amazing find and you can read more about it here:
www.reddit.com/r/missouri/c...
Current approach at S. #Čuka as new @heasvienna.bsky.social proteomics study: Anstasia is sampling Neolithic bone tools for isotopes, aDNA & radiocarbon w/ new methods 😊 fancy 🥳
@oeai.bsky.social @katerinad.bsky.social
Absolutely blooming stoked to announce that the zooarchaeology resource pack that I wrote with Dr Michelle Feider for YAC has been published! Aimed at kids 8-16yo, four activities for learning about bones in the past with no skeles needed. Except your own.
www.yac-uk.org/news/new-zoo...
🏺🧪 Oh this is FASCINATING - and a site that was already in #Matriarcha!
Mammoth soup anyone? 🦣🍜🦣 it is pretty amazing 😍
We are excited to launch Archaeology & AI. It is offered as part of our Digital Archaeology and Digital Heritage MScs, students from any of our Master's courses can enrol. 🏺
We will be offering critical, practice-based projects based on real world case studies.
www.york.ac.uk/students/stu...
Dissertation season is starting 😬 so we are repeating our researcher training event:
An Intro to Essential Resources for #Classics & #Archaeology Research 🏺
🗓️ 23 April, 2pm (London, BST)
📍 Online via Zoom
Share, especially w/ UG & PG students!
Info+Register: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/intro...
A new study evaluates the reliability of enamel proteins for reconstructing primate phylogeny through paleoproteomics. By analyzing genomic data from 232 primate species, researchers find that enamel protein sequences can provide robust phylogenetic insights, even with fossil fragmentation:
So pleased to see Charlotte Blacka's first 1st author paper: innovation was to use tims-TOF #MS for rapid sex estimation method based on amelogenin #palaeoproteomics. At <20min per sample (including prep all the way to data processing), this enables far higher sample numbers: doi.org/10.1002/rcm....
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Happy to present our publication on the potential of palaeoproteomics for phylogenetic applications, which also made it to the cover of GBE’s February issue.
In a nutshell…
Job alert!
@katerinad.bsky.social and I are looking for an archaeologist/archaeological scientist to join us on a 4 year post-doc, helping to manage and participate in field and lab work on 2 ERC grants in our group. We would love to hear from you via the link! 👇
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct...
🧪 4/6 Key finding: You can't just look at diseased bones. Some deadly infections kill so fast they don't leave marks on bones.
The team found pathogen DNA in seemingly healthy teeth too!
🔬 5/5 Bottom line:
⏰ This is a wake-up call for the field.
Using ancient proteins to study the past is powerful, but we need better reference data and more rigorous methods.
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
An important new paper by @beademarch.bsky.social and her team challenges how we use ancient proteins to study the past.
Analysis of 1,832 sequences from waterfowl (ducks & geese) reveals why palaeoproteomics isn't the simple solution we hoped for...
👇🧵 1/4
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
The HPB-MALDI team dropped an open database of 11,055 mass spec signatures from pathogenic bacteria.
#ZooMS folks - could this be a useful roadmap for making our data truly open & accessible?
Everything on #Zenodo - a useful template for a #ZooMS DB 💽.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Have/nearly have a PhD?
≤7 years post-doc experience?
Working outside UK?
Not a UK citizen?
BA & Royal Society offering 2-yr Fellowships for early career researchers to come to the UK!
💷 Includes:
Research expenses £12k
Relocation up to £8k
🗓️ Deadline: Mar 18, 2025 (17:00 GMT)
#ResearchFunding
