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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!

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High-resolution near-infrared data reveal Pazyryk tattooing methods | Antiquity | Cambridge Core The tattoos of the Pazyryk ice mummies are of paramount importance for the archaeology of Iron Age Siberia and are often discussed from a broad stylistic and symbolic perspective. However, deeper investigations into this cultural practice were hindered by the inaccessibility of quality data. Here, the authors use high-resolution, near-infrared data in conjunction with experimental evidence to re-examine the tools and techniques employed in Early Iron Age tattooing. The high-quality data allow for the previously unfeasible distinction of artist hands and enable us to put the individual back into the picture of a widespread but rarely preserved prehistoric practice.

Read the original research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Middle Palaeolithic Human occupations, cultural behaviours and demographic dynamics during MIS 5a to late 3 in the Bawa Yawan Rockshelter, Kermanshah, West-Central Zagros Mountains Despite many years of research into the Middle Palaeolithic in the Zagros Mountains, numerous aspects of this period have not yet been sufficiently in…

Middle Palaeolithic Human occupations, cultural behaviours and demogra... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Occupational Dynamics at Unit III of the Middle Paleolithic Site of Nesher Ramla, Israel - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology This paper presents the results of spatial analyses of Unit III in Nesher Ramla, Israel, an open-air mid-Middle Paleolithic site. Featuring numerous anthropogenic features (e.g., hearths and artifact ...

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Occupational Dynamics at Unit III of the Middle Paleolithic Site of Nesher Ramla, Israel | Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology share.google/MmooyB6iFqs6...

Paleolithic hominin occupations and Quaternary geomorphological evolution in the NE Ararat Depression (Armenia) The Ararat Depression, at the crossroads of Africa and Eurasia, spans Armenia, Turkey and Iran, providing a unique natural laboratory for studying lan…

Paleolithic hominin occupations and Quaternary geomorphological evolution in the NE Ararat Depression (Armenia) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

YouTube video by AP Archive Human bones from 100,000 years ago in Israel offer clues about the origins of burial rites

A glimpse into our excavation at Tinshemet Cave!
Slow process but amazing finds!
One more month to go this season with hopefully nice results coming! 🦴⛏️💀

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If you want to know what I am doing every summer for the past 10 years ;)

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Congratulations @norarch.bsky.social !🎉🎉🎉

Did you ever ask why people used so many different rocks in their tasks?
If you had this question in your mind, go and check my new paper with my colleagues. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

I spent my last ten summers in this cave!
Ready for the next two months 🌞⛏️

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International Master degree in Prehistory!

When you uncover new archaeological horizons with bones, combustion structures and MP blades the only thing you can do is… dance!

#ERCResearch #HorizonEU #ERC #Archaeology #Uzbekistan #HumanHistory #InterdisciplinaryResearch #Fieldwork

Unveiling the multifunctional use of ochre in the Middle Stone Age: Specialized ochre retouchers from Blombos Cave Seven ochre artifacts from Blombos Cave show evidence of lithic retouching and pressure flaking, revealing specialized MSA tools.

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The Kiik Kamar (Uzbekistan) excavations

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📢 New paper out in Journal of Archaeological Science!
We present a regional analysis of fallow deer in Middle Paleolithic Levant and propose a methodological refinement for aging that has major implications for understanding human hunting behavior.
Open Access: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

At a prehistoric pigment mine, researchers glimpse our earliest moments in the Americas | Aeon Videos In the ghost mine town of Sunrise, Wyoming, archaeologists uncover fragments of humanity’s earliest presence in the Americas

Discover Powars II—the Americas’ oldest red ochre quarry—where archaeologists have been unearthing 16,000-year-old pigment pits and ancient tools since 2017. A new Aeon documentary, “Ochre Sunrise,” shows how patience, grit, and cutting-edge tech can bring our past to life.
#PowarsII #OchreSunrise

A new analysis of the neurocranium and mandible of the Skhūl I child: Taxonomic conclusions and cultural implications The first individual discovered at Skhūl Cave in 1931 on Mount Carmel in Israel was a child aged between 3 and 5 years, intentionally buried ca. 140 k…

A new analysis of the neurocranium and mandible of the Skhūl I child: Taxonomic conclusions and cultural implications www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A crossroads between the Mediterranean and the Alps: Lithic technology, raw material procurement, and mobility in the Aurignacian of Riparo Bombrini Riparo Bombrini is a collapsed rockshelter within the Balzi Rossi site complex, located at the intersection of the Maritime Alps, Northern Apennines, …

#NewPaperAlert: Our latest research at Riparo Bombrini shows how internal variability in the Protoaurignacian reflects shifting mobility and site-use strategies. 🏺

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Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

ERC_INASIA is the first high-mountain archaeological project in Uzbekistan. For the very first time, our research team will reach unstudied caves in order to collect data for multiproxy analyses.

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Excavating the Traces of Ice Age Foragers A filmmaker showcases archaeologists unearthing tiny lithics that evidence hunters from 13,000 years ago in what is today Michigan.

A filmmaker showcases archaeologists unearthing tiny lithics that evidence the presence of hunters from 13,000 years ago in what is today Michigan www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

Unravelling the formation processes and depositional histories of the Middle Palaeolithic Ararat-1 Cave, Armenia: A multiscalar and multiproxy geoarchaeological approach The sedimentary sequence of Ararat-1 Cave encapsulates an intricate depositional archive (Marine Isotope Stage 3), crucial for our understanding of th…

Happy to be sharing my 1st PhD paper, result of our group research in the Armenian Highlands #TransCause Project! The article explores the formation processes of Ararat-1 Cave (Armenia) under multiproxy geoarchaeology! It is published on QSR (open-access): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Back on the banks of Wabe rover in the Ethiopian highlands, excavating MW1.

Assessing seasonality and mobility from a fragmented faunal assemblage: the case of Amud Cave (Israel) - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences In this paper we investigate the seasonality of site occupation at Amud Cave (Israel). This site presents a long sedimentary sequence featuring two main late Middle Paleolithic occupation phases (70 –...

Very proud of Anaelle Jallon, who just published her first paper out of her doctoral research on the archaeofauna of Amud Cave, Israel. It is online and open access!
doi.org/10.1007/s125...

Our latest research with the River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation is now available.

Congrats @anispringflower.bsky.social !!

The Archaeology Wars: A Call-To-Action to Support Public Education & Science Communication Archaeology with Flint Dibble · Episode

The video is an adaption of my lecture about pseudoarchaeology from the #SAA2025 meetings and a workshop on public engagement (co-organized with Milo Rossi aka @miniminuteman.bsky.social )

Available on YouTube (link above) and Spotify (link here)

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Controlling Levallois: the effect of hammer angle of blow on Levallois flake morphology and fracture trajectory - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Discussions of the Levallois method typically focus on the preparation of the core surface geometry as the primary factor in determining the characteristics of Levallois products. While some studies h...

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On the Mousterian origin of bone-tipped hunting weapons in Europe: Evidence from Mezmaiskaya Cave, North Caucasus This paper presents a detailed analysis of a unique pointy bone artefact produced by Neanderthals, which was found in 2003 in a Middle Paleolithic lay…

This is awesome! A newly studied #Neanderthal hunting weapon, beautifully preserved, has been found in Eastern Europe. A rare glimpse into bone-tipped hunting projectiles!
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