Marion Prévost

Learn more about the INASIA project on its website: inasia.uw.edu.pl

There:
- a list of palaeolithic sites in Central Asia,
- project publications,
- communication & dissemination activities,
- bios of the project team,
- all project related news in the form of blog entries.

Qafzeh 11 is other case that raises fascinating questions about symbolism in Paleolithic #burials

This adolescent, around 12 or 13 years old, was buried about 90,000 years ago in Qafzeh Cave (Galilee, Israel) 

Image: https://doi.org/10.4000/paleo.4848

@erc.europa.eu @cenieh.bsky.social #FECYT

Alaska : une archéologie de l'urgence chez les Yupiit Le site de Nunalleq sur la côte ouest de l’Alaska est un témoin rare de la culture d’un peuple à cheval entre l’Alaska et la Sibérie : les Yupiit. Menacés par la montée des eaux, ces lieux de fouilles...

Archéologie de l’urgence: Le site de Nunalleq sur la côte ouest de l’#Alaska est un témoin rare de la culture du peuple Yupiit. Menacés par la montée des eaux, des fouilles ont permis de révéler plus de 100.000 objets documentant une culture en voie de disparition www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

And still here to study the lithics artifacts :)

The proposed evolutionary history of MUC19. The Denisovan-like haplotype (in orange) was first introgressed from Denisovans into Neanderthals and then introgressed into modern humans.

Modern human genomes contain a small number of archaic variants, the legacy of past interbreeding events with Neanderthals and Denisovans.

The MUC19 gene:
An evolutionary history of recurrent introgression and natural selection 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

For #FossilFriday: Meet CAM 2023-7, a Mesolithic child buried ~8,000 years ago in Portugal.
Their burial is one of the most elaborate ever found in the Muge shell mounds. What made it so special? 🐚🧵
#Mesolithic #Funerary #Paleoanthropology www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Harbin cranium and geographic location of hominin specimens older than 100 ka where human DNA has been retrieved

Denisovan mtDNA is directly connected to the Harbin skull, a nearly complete hominin cranium

Denisovan mitochondrial DNA from dental calculus of the >146,000-year-old Harbin cranium 🏺🧪
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Discovery of a Precursor to Agriculture Early hunter and gatherers harvested wild barley in today’s southern Uzbekistan

www.mpg.de/25243512/082...
Early hunters and gatherers were already engaged in practices that led to agriculture. The research suggests that the domestication of plants may have happened unconsciously.

🪨🌿What can a stone tool tell us about human–plant relationships in prehistory?
Join Dr Andrea Zupancich at the next free @ICArEHB LEXA Seminar to explore groundstone artifacts, food practices & cultural traditions.
2nd of September at 2pm
🔗 Register: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Co-organizing a session at #SAA San Francisco with T. Kovach: "Toward an Integration of Quantitative Approaches in #Lithic Analysis." A few spots still open! Abstracts due Sept. 4.

Email me if you’d like to join the conversation: armando.falcucci@nyu.edu

#Archaeology #FlintFriday #FossilFriday 🏺

Archéologie musicale, c'est le luth final Des flûtes en ivoire de mammouth ou en os de vautour qui remontent à plus de 35.000 ans jusqu’aux innovations d’aujourd’hui en passant par les psaltérions et les lyres de l’époque gauloise, chaque époque a marqué l’histoire de la musique. Comment retracer cette évolution ?

[RDV 16h !] Des flûtes en os de vautour qui remontent à + de 35.000 ans jusqu’aux innovations d’aujourd’hui en passant par les lyres de l’époque gauloise, chaque époque a marqué l’histoire de la musique. Comment retracer cette évolution ? avec Laurent Davin et Julian Cuvilliez

"The results yield a finite age suggesting that the Petralona cranium has a minimum age of 286 ± 9 ka"
New U-series dates on the Petralona cranium, a key fossil in European human evolution www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Back to Armenia, back to Dalarik-1 Cave, with a large international team from Armenia, Spain, Israel, Greece, France, Portugal, Italy & beyond! Let the excavation of this unique Middle Pleistocene site start! 🎉 #TransCause @humendylab.bsky.social

Very sad news today. Anthony E. Marks has passed away. He conducted pioneering prehistoric research in the Nile Valley, the southern Levant and Arabia, producing seminal works on the Palaeolithic. In 2023, aged 85, he still joined the @arduq.bsky.social excavations in Dhofar, Oman. Rest in peace.

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!

Secure your spot here: shh-cloud.gnz.mpg.de/index.php/ap...

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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 ...

Check out my latest paper! 🪨

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! 🦴⛏️💀

youtu.be/etGVHIBDHIw?...

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

Check it out!
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 🌞⛏️

🚨 Join us!
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.

www.science.org/doi/full/10....

The Kiik Kamar (Uzbekistan) excavations

#ERC #archeology #research #HorizonEurope

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