Carli Peters

✨✨Reminder that we are hosting a (virtual and in-person) pre-ISBA conference✨✨ on the 26th of August (13:00-17:00 CET) which will include talks from members of our community and the PAASTA Annual General Meeting. Additional details can be found here: paasta-community.github.io/events/2025/...

Experimental Protocol for Cooking Rabbits and its Archaeological Implications - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Small prey such as rabbits are present in Middle Paleolithic and are abundant in the diet of Upper Paleolithic human groups in southwestern Europe, especially in the Iberian Peninsula. Several archaeo...

🐰🔥 Excited to share our new paper from the #snackormenu project: we have developed an experimental protocol to accurately diagnose rabbit cooking and processing methods. Check it out! doi.org/10.1007/s108... #Zooarchaeology #Taphonomy #Archaeology @icarehb.bsky.social @uv.es

Postdoc in Geochronology / Plio-Pleistocene Geology
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🚨Registration has been opened and a preliminary programme are now available on our website for those of you keen to join us in person or virtually on the 26th of August for the pre-ISBA PAASTA Conference!🍝 paasta-community.github.io/events/2025/...

Happy to see this out and it was a treat to work with the co-authors involved!

It was also my first time publishing via @pciarchaeology.bsky.social and it's a very clear, transparent, collegial process that I would heartily recommend!

And finally, publish your raw data (please!)!!

I'm so incredibly proud to see this one recommended! Thank you to all the wonderful coauthors for a lovely collaborative writing process. I hope this paper can be useful to everyone in #palaeoproteomics.

Figure 2 of the manuscript. Data availability in palaeoproteomics. A) Percentage of ZooMS and shotgun palaeoproteomics studies with available datasets. Preprints and papers that did not produce any data were excluded from this calculation. B) Number of palaeoproteomics datasets in online repositories (since 2010). ´Other´ repositories include Dryad, Figshare, Github, Mendeley Data, and the OSF Framework. The dataset was compiled by manually going through the list of publications compiled for Figure 1 and checking raw data availability. This figure was made in R v.4.4.2. with R Studio v.2024.12.0+ (R Core Team, 2023) using ggplot2 (Wickham, 2016).

1/5 New recommendation: Dekker et al. & @zandraselina.bsky.social‬ (2025) Open science, communication, and collaboration for the future of palaeoproteomics. V4 recommended by @PCI_Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... #Archaeology #opendata #openscience @paastacommunity.bsky.social‬ #Palaeoproteomics

Navigating the PhD journey amid prolonged conflict: Challenges, growth, and resilience Author: Osman Khaleel // Editor: Cherene de Bruyn Cover image from Pexels *Archaeology: The study of past human cultures through the material culture (artefacts) left behind. *Lithics: Archaeologic…

ICArEHB PhD student Osman Khaleel shares a powerful reflection on navigating the PhD journey amid prolonged conflict.

Read it here ➡️ research-hive.com/2025/06/02/n...

#PhDLife #ResilientResearch #ICArEHB #ResearchHive

Scientists find new markers to identify species from fragments of fossilized bone What happened to all the megafauna? From moas to mammoths, many large animals went extinct between 50 and 10,000 years ago. Learning why could provide crucial evidence about prehistoric ecosystems and...

Scientists find new markers to identify species from fragments of fossilized bone phys.org/news/2025-06...

Many thanks to my co-authors Annette Oertle, Richard Gillespie, @nicoleboivin.bsky.social and @katerinad.bsky.social

Frontiers | Collagen peptide markers for three extinct Australian megafauna species Recent advancements in biomolecular archaeology, such as stable isotope and ancient DNA research, have expanded our understanding of megafauna extinction pro...

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 🦴🧪

Enamel proteins reveal biological sex and genetic variability in southern African Paranthropus Paranthropus robustus is a morphologically well-documented Early Pleistocene hominin species from southern Africa with no genetic evidence reported so far. In this work, we describe the mass spectrome...

Hello,

Our paper on enamel proteins from Paranthropus robustus has finally been peer reviewed, please have a read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Paranthropus robustus has been puzzling scientists since its discovery in 1938 in South Africa, where a high number of fossils have been found.

Metabolic profiling reveals first evidence of fumigating drug plant Peganum harmala in Iron Age Arabia - Communications Biology Metabolic profiling of Iron Age residues from the oasis of Qurayyah, Northwest Arabia, reveals the earliest material evidence for the fumigation of the drug plant Peganum harmala, used in domestic con...

🧪 New Research Alert! 🧪

Our latest study, published in @commsbio.nature.com uncovers the earliest known evidence of the medicinal and psychoactive plant Peganum harmala (harmal) in ancient Arabia. 🏺
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

#Metabolomics 🧪 #BiomolecularArchaeology #AncientMedicine

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...

We are hosting a free online ‘Ask Us Anything’ event as part of the Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology workshop series. For more info and to submit questions: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📅 Date: June 30, 2025
🕒 Time: 15:00 CET
📍 Location: Online (link: univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/9775805212...)

🚨ABSTRACTS ARE DUE TOMORROW!!🚨

ICAZ AGPM 2025 - Abstract submission Conference Themes We welcome abstracts addressing, but not limited to: Ancient DNA and proteomics applications in archaeozoology Methodological innovations and challenges Animal domestication and husb...

A couple of abstract deadlines quickly approaching!

1. *25 April deadline* ICAZ-AGPM meeting 14-17 October 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark 🐘🐐🦈🦜: sites.google.com/palaeome.org...

2. *30 April deadline* PAASTA Conference, 26 August in Turin, Italy 🍝
(DM us for a link to this abstract submission form!)

Abstracts are due on 30 April for the @paastacommunity.bsky.social conference happening in Turin (26 August), so still enough time to submit something!

📢Registration is now open for the 15th annual ESHE meeting in Paris! Join us in person or online this September. Details & deadlines: bit.ly/3G9CeiQ #ESHE2025

Outstanding Publication Student Prize The Outstanding Publication Student Prize is awarded by the International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology for an outstanding publication of the highest distinction by a student in a first author ...

Nominations are now open for the ISBA Outstanding Publication Student Prize! ISBA members are encouraged to nominate their own articles for these awards or those of others. Deadline for nominations is 29th June and the winners will be announced at ISBA11 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Distinguished Article Award The Distinguished Article Award is awarded by the International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology for the best research article on the topic of biomolecular archaeology. The award is made to the fi...

Nominations are now open for the ISBA Distinguished Article Award! ISBA members are encouraged to nominate their own articles for these awards or those of others. Deadline for nominations is 29th June and the winners will be announced at ISBA11 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🍝Excited to announce the next PAASTA Conference and our Annual General Meeting will take place on 26 August in Turin, Italy prior to the start of ISBA11 (@isba11.bsky.social)!🍝

Additional details are provided in the attached figure!

✨Our next talk is this week by the brilliant @archaeoalex.bsky.social, see you this Wednesday at 16:00 CET✨

ICAZ AGPM 2025 Exploring the Past, Informing the Future: Two Decades of Interdisciplinary Approaches in Archaeozoology

The next ICAZ-AGPM meeting (Archaeozoology, Genetics, Proteomics and Morphometrics) will take place 14-17 October 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark 🐘🐐🦈🦜

Abstract are due 25 April!
More info: sites.google.com/palaeome.org...

Deadline approaching (March 22nd) to submit to our special issue on Megafauna Extinctions!!!

PhD position in archaeozoology and omics at the University of Vienna! 🤠🦊🐯🦁🐱🐰🐍🦬🐂🦣🐄 The student will be based in Vienna and co-supervised in Santander!

Gippsland coast aerial view

Gippsland coast view of sea and rocks

Looking to start a PhD? Want to work with us on the Gippsland coast of Australia to study how people interacted with marine molluscs over thousands of years? If so, get in touch!

Deadline for applications is 27 March, 2025. #Archaeology #biodiversity #PhD

www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

✨We want to provide all of you with useful resources, one of those being a forthcoming list on our website of palaeoproteomics labs around the world. ✨

If you want to have your lab added, please get in touch with us (DM here or PAASTA gmail account)!

We are very excited about this - a way for everyone to know which #palaeoproteomics groups exist around the world, what their expertise is, and what methods they use! Ideal for forming collaborations both within biomolecular archaeology, and with the wider research community 🏺

My first post on here and it's for a JOB ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣 The University of Tübingen is seeking to find a post-doctoral researcher for a 3-year position, funded through the DFG (13 TV-L, 39,5 h/week). More info here: tinyurl.com/4xbdya5t #archaeology #palaeoproteomics #job #ZooMS