Tara Beuzen-Waller

Presentation of our results from the UmWeltWandel project at Golden Jubilee of the Journal of Oman Studies.
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First talk of the first international conference on the archaeology of the Oman peninsula is about geomorphology 🌎☺️
Thank you Mohammed al-Kindi 👌

The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered - BBC News Archaeologists in the UK have discovered the world's oldest evidence of humans lighting fires

BBC coverage of breaking news announcing the earliest evidence for humanly made fire. From Barnham, UK.
Quite probably early Neanderthal people with a late Acheulean culture 🦣🏺🔥
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Crazy hot nights and December Hot nights records allover North Africa with Minimums up to 27C.
Records fell in Algeria,Niger,Chad,Nigeria,Burkina,Ivory Coast,Ghana,Togo,Benin etc

In particular,Burkina Faso and Algeria (min 21.8 Anesbaraka) had their 2nd Dec. hottest night ever

Exceptional warmth continues in Middle East and Caucasus

32.2 Mingaish
KUWAIT had never recorded 32C so late and tomorrow The December national record can fall!

Absurd warmth continues on The Black Sea
25C in Georgia and 21C in Russia

Tomorrow AVALANCHE of December records

HERDS team members excavating at the Neolithic site of KHS-A in Oman

We’re back in the field for the second season of the HERDS project in 🇴🇲 🏺

This collection dedicated to human-environment interaction in Ancient Arabia is nearly completed :)

It’s one of the results of the UmWeltWandel project in Oman 🇴🇲 and of an amazing meeting hosted in Tübingen.

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We are coordinating a new special issue with Mathias Bellat and Luca Forti on geoarcheology in Southwest Asia 🪏
Deadline submission : 1st of May 2026
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4-year postdoc position in INASIA ERC project for a lithic specialist who would like to join our Central Asian research group at @UniWarszawski
with her/his expertise in lithic technology studies. Application deadline 30.11.2025. Find out more here:
inasia.uw.edu.pl/we-are-hirin...

#Melissa has made landfall in #Jamaica, and has preliminarily tied the record for the lowest pressure of any landfalling hurricane in Atlantic history: 892 mb. That was last observed 90 years ago with the 1935 Labor Day hurricane.
The storm does not look like it even notices Jamaica being there.

UTTERLY SURREAL LOW ANGLE GLACIER SLIDE!! 😮😱

On Saturday at 11:00 am, a 2 km-long, 25 m-high, and 150-200 m in width section detached off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier (Tajikistan) and slid down the gorge! 🧊🌊

asiaplustj.info/en/node/354309
📽️ via @volcaholic1

Bon pote recrute !

Nous recrutons un(e) journaliste confirmé(e), en CDI. Vous avez 4 à 5 ans d'expérience en journalisme ou vulgarisation scientifique sur l’environnement et l’écologie ? Ce poste est fait pour vous !

L'offre d'emploi est à retrouver sur notre site : bonpote.com/offre-demplo...

JOB: Lecturer in #geography, expertise in #geomorphology & #hydrology. Full-time, permanent. Deadline 04 Nov.
Come and join a small, highly collegial team!
#academicsky #HEjobs #UKHE
jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Préhistoire d’Armorique
La SCHLAG Asso organise le 15 novembre une journée dédiée à la recherche en Préhistoire sur l’Ile de Bréhat : conférences, démonstration de taille de silex et visite du gisement gravettien de Plasenn-al-Lomm.
N’hésitez pas à faire tourner, déjeuner offert sur inscription !

Le campement solutréen de plein air du Landry à Boulazac (Dordogne) - TRACES : UMR 5608

Nouvelle publication !

"Le campement solutréen de plein air du Landry à Boulazac (Dordogne)" dirigé par M. Brenet, É. Claud et @juliebach.bsky.social

traces.univ-tlse2.fr/accueil/agen...

Avec Raphaël Morera (@crh.ehess.fr), nous lançons cette année un nouveau séminaire, à l'@ehess.fr, intitulé "Pratiques environnementales des sociétés médiévales et modernes", pensé comme un espace de discussion autour de l'environnement avant l'Anthropocène.
Et en voici le programme ! 1/3

12,000-year-old human-faced pillar unearthed in Karahantepe marks new chapter in archaeology - Türkiye Today A human-faced T-shaped pillar found in Karahantepe marks a historic first, revealing early artistic expression from 12,000 years ago

#Néolithique: Un pilier en T à visage humain vieux de 12 000 ans a été découvert à #Karahantepe marquant la première #découverte de ce type dans l'histoire. Le projet Tas Tepeler explore les premiers sites monumentaux de l'humanité situés en Turquie www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/1200...

Le Claridenfirn complètement dépourvu de neige en septembre 2025. Crédit Matthias Huss

Les glaciers suisses ont perdu 3% de leur volume cette année, en raison de l'hiver peu enneigé et des vagues de chaleur de l'été.
En dix ans, ils ont perdu un quart de leur volume total, et de nombreux petits glaciers ont disparu.
www.slf.ch/fr/news/la-f....

A photo of the Susan Welch Liberal Arts building at sunrise

📢 Come join us! Penn State Anthropology is hiring *two tenure-track assistant professors*, one in human reproductive ecology and one in archaeology. Here are just a few reasons why working at Penn State is awesome:

The Last Glacial Maximum in the Tropics: Human Responses to Global Change, 30–10 ka - Journal of World Prehistory The world at 18,000 BP, published by Gamble and Soffer (The world at 18,000 BP. Vol. 2: low latitude, Unwin Hyman, 1990), represents the first, and so far the only, attempt at characterising and discussing the impact of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) on human societies on a global scale. At the time, they highlighted that research and data on the LGM in southern latitudes and the tropics in particular were scant. Since 1990, however, many sites dated to the LGM and located in tropical latitudes have been published. Many paradigms have changed regarding the peopling of the Americas, which allows the archaeology of this continent to be integrated into global scale studies of the LGM. The development of Pleistocene archaeology in tropical contexts, in parallel with methodological advances in cultural, geosciences and palaeoenvironmental studies have strongly reshaped what we know of the antiquity of human occupation in tropical regions and specific human–environment interactions. This article provides for the first time a pan-tropical perspective on the impact of the LGM on human groups living within the tropical latitudes, drawing from case studies in Southeast Asia, Africa and South America, specifically regions which have up until now never been discussed together. To this end, we focus on six different tropical regions between 30 and 10 ka. We present the archaeological and paleoenvironmental data available in these areas, along with proposed relationships for variations in these two records. Finally, we discuss at the regional scale the presence or absence of human changes (site density and techno-cultural change or continuity) before, during and immediately after the LGM.

📣New paper alert

doi.org/10.1007/s109...

How did populations in tropical regions cope with the global climatic change around the LGM?

While the tropics are often perceived as having been less impacted by the LGM, we show that -as is often the case - it is more complex than it seems!

YouTube video by Sciences de la vie - Collège de France Traces de morts, traces de sens dans la préhistoire (2) - Jean-Jacques Hublin (2024-2025)

Pour les ceusses qui ne pouvaient être là, mon intervention au Collège de France vient d'être mise en ligne.

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Great example of a flood produced by the end-of-monsoon-season rainstorm on an ephemeral desert stream with a drainage area of 1817 square miles. A bit west of Phoenix.

La 7e limite planétaire est officiellement dépassée : l'acidification des océans C'est officiel, nous avons dépassé la 7e limite planétaire, celle de l'acidification des océans. C'était attendu par le

C’est officiel, nous avons dépassé la 7e limite planétaire, celle de l’acidification des océans.

Vous ne lirez rien de plus important aujourd'hui. A partager massivement !
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Exploring Neolithic resilience and mobility in the Omani interior at Al-Khashbah KHS-A | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Exploring Neolithic resilience and mobility in the Omani interior at Al-Khashbah KHS-A

We’re excited to share more about the site in the coming years as the HERDS Project 🏺 continues fieldwork. Stay tuned and give our awesome team a follow: @pi-hisoka.bsky.social @tarabeuzen.bsky.social @jakezmoreau.bsky.social @archaeoman.bsky.social @petramcreamer.bsky.social

I’m in ! 🤩 Let’s read about this wonderfull site in Al-Khashbah, lithics, goats and the massive amount of charcoal we have 🪵🔥
@pi-hisoka.bsky.social @tarabeuzen.bsky.social @archbot44.bsky.social
@archaeoman.bsky.social

Hello everyone and welcome. I am an ethnomusicologist and field ethnographer in eastern Arabia. I work on music and possession rituals practised by slave descendants in the Gulf. Depending on my availability, I will post news about traditional music from the Gulf and MENA region.
So stay tuned!

Ethnoarchaeological sampling started in #Dhofar, south #Oman! Already 300 and counting.. (and some dromedaries)

It was an honor to give our lecture at the Oman Across Ages Museum! @archbot44.bsky.social and I thank the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism and the curator of the Museum for organizing this wonderful event!

What an incredible line-up! Truly honored to have my name included among so many outstanding researchers. 🙌✨ See you there!