This is figure 2, which shows stone artefacts recovered from Early Pleistocene deposits at Calio.

The discovery of ancient stone tools on Sulawesi suggests that this Indonesian island was populated by hominins at around the same time as the nearby island of Flores, if not earlier, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/4oq7zzw 🏺 🧪

Evidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel suggests behavioural uniformity across Homo groups in the Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic circa 130,000–80,000 years ago - Nature Human Behaviour The Middle Palaeolithic of southwest Asia witnessed interactions and knowledge sharing between archaic and modern humans ~130,000–80,000 years ago. These interactions led to increased behavioural comp...

Evidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel suggests behavioural uniformity across Homo groups in the Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic circa 130,000–80,000 years ago: intentional human burial and the use of ochre in burial contexts
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Early European evidence of artificial cranial modification from the Italian Late Upper Palaeolithic Arene Candide Cave - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Early European evidence of artificial cranial modification from the Italian Late Upper Palaeolithic Arene Candide Cave

Paleolithic evidence for artificial cranial deformation in an Epigravettian individual from Arene Candide Cave (Italy), dating to ca. 12.4ky BP. This new study adds to a host of diverse ritual, mortuary and social behaviors documented at the site. 🦣🏺🧪

One of the tough things about selling the Palaeolithic without hyperbole, or not ending up on the cutting room floor, is that fine grained anthropogenic deposits like Cora's square metre of gritty, light reddish-grey wonder are our pyramids, are our hanging gardens, are our pompeiis. 🏺🦣

Get involved The PaM Community was founded to be a member-led community and we want you to help shape our future directions. This community is very new and our ways of communicating will evolve as we find our f…

Finally, if you have any issues to discuss in the community meeting, or anything you'd like us to discuss with the EAA get in touch (instructions on following page) eaapalaeomesocommunity.wordpress.com/get-involved/

Get involved The PaM Community was founded to be a member-led community and we want you to help shape our future directions. This community is very new and our ways of communicating will evolve as we find our f…

Not a member yet? See here to join us (no costs involved!) eaapalaeomesocommunity.wordpress.com/get-involved/

Our annual PaM Community meeting will be held on 29 August at 13 - 14 pm CEST, where we will announce our new co-chair (also please do vote!). We hope you can join us! All PaM Community members (via EAA membership, or our google mailing list) welcome. Zoom link to come to our members by email.

Attention all EAA members of the PaM Community! Please check your emails for instructions on how to vote in the election for a new PaM Community co-chair. We have two fantastic candidates running, Danica Mihailović and Daniel Groß. You can read their statements here: www.e-a-a.org/EAA/Membersh...

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...

We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s—only nobody knew After years of mystery, we now know what at least one Denisovan looked like.

This is wonderful. So now Harbin can be grouped with the Denisovans and we can finally meet this population face to face, what shall we call them?
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arstechnica.com/science/2025...

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

🚨Archaeo-Science Job Klaxon🚨Please Share!
We're hiring an interim Lab Manager here at @uclarchaeology.bsky.social. Would be esp suited to someone with experience of running Archaeobotany, Human Osteology or Zooarchaeology lab.
£53-64k in a great department.
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www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Win a signed copy of the wonderful new book Stone Lands by Fiona Robertson

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Reminder of the call for applications for a new PaM Community co-chair - due by July 1st. Thanks!

This is a crucial role that requires dedication and a passion for the PaM community. Please get in touch with us by July 1st by email (eaa.palaeomeso@gmail.com) with a short paragraph about yourself if you are interested in standing for election to join the PaM community as a co-chair!

As a co-chair, your shared duties will include seasonal newsletters and short announcements, maintaining our web page and social media presence, coordinate scheduling for PaM-associated sessions, organising a Discussion session and a social event and an annual report.

PaM Community News! Dr Annemieke Milks will be stepping down after 5 years of acting as a co-chair for the PaM community! We are searching for a new co-chair to join Dr Andrej Maczkowski and Dr Silje Evjenth Bentsen. Thread with more info:

Into the Wild: Re-wilding and the #Historic #Environment Questionnaire for landowners/land managers, #nature managers, #ecologists, #archaeologists and historic land managers around the topic of #rewilding
led by @fossilbeetle.bsky.social
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intothewildnetwork.glasgow.ac.uk/questionnaire/

New paper klaxon: pre print now available OA: muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti...

Thanks to everyone at @ria.ie for their work on this, and most importantly to Chantal for collaboration on the paper.

A short 🧵 on what we argue...

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Get involved The PaM Community was founded to be a member-led community and we want you to help shape our future directions. This community is very new and our ways of communicating will evolve as we find our f…

Hi all! A reminder to subscribe to the EAA Palaeolithic and Mesolithic community! You can do this two ways: If you are a current EAA member you can subscribe via the community page on the EAA website, or if you are not a current EAA member see here: eaapalaeomesocommunity.wordpress.com/get-involved/

And because it's bad and wrong to treat people like threats just because they're foreign. We could lead with that occasionally.

ICYMI: due to the political situation in Serbia, EAA 2025 will now be virtual only, with reduced fees and with sessions spread over 5 days, Sept 4-6. The payment deadline for first authors and session organisers is May 26th. You can find further information here: www.e-a-a.org/EAA2025/Home...

The Prehistoric Society's Europa Conference 2025, Landscape Connectivity in Prehistory, is taking place Saturday June 7th in person at University of Reading, and online. Honouring Prof. Martin Bell + fantastic speakers! More info and registration here: www.prehistoricsociety.org/events/2025-...

EAA2025: PaM sessions You can submit your abstract for EAA2025 at the EAA2025 website by the 6th of February. The PaM discussion session for EAA2025 is session #250: Sink the NASTIES? Named Stone Tool Industries (NASTIE…

Today is the final extended deadline to submit papers and posters (you can submit one of each!) to the EAA Belgrade meeting. We've got 22 sessions that are associated with our Palaeolithic and Mesolithic community for you to choose from:

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Deadline for all submissions now extended to Feb 10th!

Deadline extended to February 10th!

deadline extended to Feb 10th! Still time to get your abstracts in!

The @eaapam.bsky.social deadline has been extended until 10th February. Still time to submit to our session on #Zooarchaeology #ZooMS and subsistence in central and SE Europe. 🦣🧪🏺

We would like to let you know that we are organizing a dedicated session (#229) on the phenomenon of Cores-on-flakes Flakes (CoFs) in the Middle Palaeolithic and Middle Stone Age at the EAA in Belgrade (https://www.e-a-a.org/eaa2025).   The session title is “Cores-on-Flakes during the Middle Palaeolithic and Middle Stone Age: Technology, Raw materials economy and/or functional purposes”. In this session, we want to discuss and compare the technical choice of using flakes as cores to produce various end-products (including small flakes), through different geographical, temporal and cultural contexts of the Middle Palaeolithic and Middle Stone Age. Specific case studies employing a technological, techno-economic, techno-functional, or functional approach are very welcome. We additionally would be delighted about contributions adding experimental data to this topic and broader reflections on the behavioural significance.

📢 Call for papers! #EAABelgrade - Session #229

Join us with the great Viola Schmid to discuss Cores-on-Flakes during the Middle Palaeoltihic and Middle Stone Age!

Deadline for submission: *6 February*

www.e-a-a.org/eaa2025/

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Please consider submitting an abstract to our PaM community discussion session on Named Stone Tool Industries for the annual meeting in Belgrade Sept 3-6.Abstracts can be submitted until Feb 6th. And, please do help us spread the word!

The PaM community discussion session for #eaa2025 is #250: Sink the NASTIES? Named Stone Tool Industries (NASTIES) as obstacles to archaeological research. Submit your abstract by the 6th of Feb at www.e-a-a.org/EAA2025/Home... and please do share our call for papers!