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VCWAP 2025: Rosa Alonso Montero wins Best Paleoart Award  - Association for early-career Women Archaeologists and Paleontologists

Learn more about Rosa's works on our website 👇
awap-science.org/en/2025/05/0...

Calling all archaeologists, paleontologists & paleoartists!

Submit your work to the 6th Virtual Conference for Women Archaeologists and Paleontologists (VCWAP) 🎨🦴
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#archaeology #paleontology #paleoart #womeninscience

International Landscape Conference (LAC) 2026 in Bamberg! Vom 18. bis 21. März 2026 findet in Bamberg die nächste LAC statt. Die LAC meetings präsentieren das breite Spektrum der Landschaftsarchäologie und finden unter der Schirmherrschaft der International Association for Landscape Archaeology (IALA) alle zwei Jahre statt. 14 Jahre nach dem Treffen in Berlin (2012) findet die LAC wieder in Deutschland statt. Für Fachleute und Studierende aus verschiedenen Disziplinen ist sie eine (englischsprachige) Diskussionsplattform für neue Forschungen und Methoden zu vergangenen Landschaften. Schwerpunktthemen sind: * River and wetland landscapes * Vertical landscapes * Populations and demography * Economies and resources * Archaeological heritage and valorization of past landscapes * Non-invasive methods and techniques * Geospatial analysis * Big data Bis 11. Juli 2025 läuft erst einmal der Call for Sessions. Ende Juli bis Mitte Oktober folgt der Call for Papers. Nähere Informationen unter: * https://lac2026.com/ Dort kann man sich ganz altmodisch zu einer Mailingliste anmelden, man kann aber auch auf instagram lac_2026_bamberg folgen.

International Landscape Conference (LAC) 2026 in Bamberg! https://archaeologik.blogspot.com/2025/06/international-landscape-conference-lac.html

Mass-kill hunting and Late Quaternary ecology: New insights into the ‘desert kite’ phenomenon in Arabia Over 6,000 ‘desert kites’—mass-kill stone hunting traps constructed at various times over the last 10,000 years—have been identified from northern Ara…

For some Southwest Asian background, see my paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Signals before speech. Bizmoune Cave, Morocco: 33 perforated Tritia (Nassarius) gibbosula shells from MSA Layer 4c, dated ≥142 ka—earliest known beads linked to early H. sapiens. #PaleoPost #HumanOrigins #SymbolicBehavior #MSA doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Emilie Dotte from University of Western Australia opens the second day of the Research Week in Island Archaeobotany @uib.cat Let's talk about Pacific anthracology!

Salvatore Pasta talks about Mediterranean Islands and their plants #islandarchaeobotany

Sandra Garces Pastor from Universitat de Barcelona gives the second talk of the day on SedaDNA #islandarchaeobotany

@miquelcapo.bsky.social gives the first talk of the School on Balearic flora 🌿

Today we start a research week in Island Archaeobotany in Son Servera, Mallorca. The colleagues from @uib.cat organised a great workshop with talks, group work, visits, outreach activities. We have it all! #SILVA #ACBA @iphes-cerca.bsky.social

The 2025 campaign at the Mesolithic cave of Grotta dell'Arco is on! Capo Zafferano, Sicily @iphes-cerca.bsky.social

Bienvenida al equipo de #Atapuerca2025 #1eraquincena #firstSeason welcome

@iphes-cerca.bsky.social @cenieh.bsky.social @csic.es @urv.cat @uahes.bsky.social @ucm.es @universidadburgos.bsky.social @ehu.eus @unizar.es and more

Tanca la sessió l'Ethel Allué de @iphes-cerca.bsky.social amb 'Sense Por: experiències per compartir de la Unitat d'Arqueobotànica de l'IPHESCERCA
#FiraFAIRData @uocuniversitat.bsky.social

3/4 Recommended by @claudiaspecial.bsky.social based on reviews by Claudia Moricca and 1 anonymous reviewer. All editorial work accessible here for full transparency: doi.org/10.24072/pci...

Screenshot of the Dateback website which serves as a platform for the exploration and analysis of date palm archaeological remains

1/4 New recommendation: Besseiche et al. (2025). DateBack, an evolving open-access repository of Phoenix archaeobotanical data supporting new perspectives on the history of date palm cultivation. doi.org/10.1101/2025... #Archaeology @francoissabot.bsky.social @murielgrosb.bsky.social

In @nature.com we report the presence of the Mesolithic on Malta - upending everything we knew about the seafaring capabilities of late European hunter-gatherers and pushing back Maltese prehistory by 1000 years. Watch the clip, link to open access paper is below. 1/5
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops.

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View of a city with the text 'Rewriting World Archaeology: Middle East'.

There's less than a week left to submit your application for the #RewritingWorldArchaeology workshop! 🏺

If you're an early career researcher from the Middle East, don't miss out on this opportunity to learn from world leaders in archaeology.

Deadline is Monday 14th April.

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Adding ‘flavour’ to past cuisines: First steps towards a phytolith reference collection of modern Mediterranean herbs Most aromatic herbs belong to plants within the onion subfamily (Allioideae Herb.), the mint family (Lamiaceae Martinov), the parsley family (Apiaceae…

🚨New paper alert🚨

Adding ‘flavour’ to past cuisines: First steps towards a phytolith reference collection of modern Mediterranean herbs🌿

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Routine techniques are destructive. They involve drilling or crushing of bone and teeth. We employed an extraction in hot water at 75-90 C to solublise collagen from archaeological bones without any visible damage.

Non-destructive radiocarbon dating of bone 🏺🧪
K. Luftensteiner, @tommyhigham.bsky.social , @katerinad.bsky.social et al
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Non-destructive collagen extraction, with purification, yields identical radiocarbon ages to those obtained via the routine destructive methods.

Ben ritrovati! ☠️ Ci ripresentiamo: GIGA è per chi studia o fa ricerca in ambito antropologico 🔬 I nostri obiettivi: collaborazione, condivisione di opportunità e uguaglianza di genere in antropologia. Unisciti a noi per eventi e per promuovere l’Open Science!🌎

How Anatolia’s last hunter-gatherers pioneered copper metallurgy 9,000 years ago - Türkiye Today New findings in Anatolia show that hunter-gatherers were experimenting with copper metallurgy 9,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of early technology.

Okay, this is big. Really.

New finds from SE Anatolia suggest that at Gre Fılla, #Diyarbakir, Neolithic hunter-gatherers experimented with copper #metallurgy ... 9,000 years ago!

Yes, that's the Pre-Poettery Neolithic we're talking about:

🏺 www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/how-...

#RecercaUIB | 🌿Un estudi liderat per l' @ifisc.uib-csic.es descobreix un mecanisme de resiliència que permet a les plantes sobreviure en entorns extrems.

➡️La investigació aporta eines per vigilar el declivi dels ecosistemes.

@pnas.org @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

🔗 diari.uib.cat/Hemeroteca/U...

Thank you all for making VCWAP 2025 a success! 🌟
For five years, VCWAP has thrived thanks to you—our audience, contributors, and sponsors. Your support and enthusiasm bring this event to life every year. We’re proud to celebrate women in archaeology, paleontology, and paleoart!

We are very excited about welcoming @livnstutz.bsky.social to the @ucl.ac.uk IoA in May to give the 2025 Gordon Childe Lecture!

📆 14th and 15th May

Ticket links here:
🎟️Lecture - bit.ly/4bAFW0F
🎫Seminar - bit.ly/3DDZViz

#LocalAndGlobal

I love teaching Archaeobotany :)
University of Gothenburg (Sweden) - 3rd y Bachelor - Natural Sciences in Archaeology

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...

The earliest human face of Western Europe

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

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...

@iphes-cerca.bsky.social the cranial bones of a new species retrieved in 2022 in Atapuerca, today presented to the 🌏 @fatapuerca.bsky.social @cenieh.bsky.social