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Just finished the 2025 season at Hayonim Cave. The Acheulo-Yabrudian at the site is not for the faint of heart...
Thanks to the small team of students and volunteers who did an amazing job, working hard and laughing a lot in the deep, deep sounding..

Local food processing traditions of late Middle Paleolithic groups in the southern Levant. A project that took 20 years to materialize and is now available as an open-access paper (www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...) led brilliantly by Anaelle Jallon @anispringflower.bsky.social and Lucille Crete

End of our 2025 season at #MelkaWakena. Leaving with tons of stone tools, some fossils, some questions answered, many more emerging. Science ay work.

A productive day at NW1… actually, not even the half of it… we will not be out of work anytime soon.

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

A new issue of PaleoAnthropology is now availed paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...

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...

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there is a new international program for prehistory at Institute of archaeology in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Check it out !

Carving the Mind: Middle Paleolithic Engravings and the Dawn of Symbolic Thought New Evidence from the Levant Challenges Traditional Views on Early Human Cognition

Middle Paleolithic engravings reveal early symbolic thought in humans, challenging assumptions about when abstract reasoning emerged in evolution. #PaleolithicArt #Symbolism #HumanEvolution

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Another article on the JHE resignations:
www.wired.com/story/editor...
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Could not agree more. The PaleoAnthropology journal is peer reviewed, copyedited by humans, open access, community-owned, no publication fees. Time to move forward
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Journal editors’ mass resignation marks ‘sad day for paleoanthropology’ Exodus from the Journal of Human Evolution leaves a flagship journal in crisis

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Great to see community-owned journal PaleoAnthropology mentioned by colleagues as one of JHE's successors. Shout out to Carol Ward!
PaleoAnthropology is fully peer reviewed, copyedited by humans 🙂, and "diamond" open access.
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Incised stone artefacts from the Levantine Middle Palaeolithic and human behavioural complexity - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences In recent years, archaeological research has demonstrated the presence of abstract non-utilitarian behaviour amongst palaeolithic hominins, fuelling discussions concerning the origin and implications ...

A look into some nitty-gritty details of symbol-making in the late Middle Paleolithic of the Levant, in a paper that just came out doi.org/10.1007/s125...

Journal editors’ mass resignation marks ‘sad day for paleoanthropology’ Exodus from the Journal of Human Evolution leaves a flagship journal in crisis

Science reporting on the mass resignation of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution, highlighting some of the problems with commercial scientific publishing.
OA PaleoAnthropology journal (www.paleoanthropology.org) highlighted among JHE's successors
#openaccess #humanevolution

Exploring early Acheulian technological decision-making: A controlled experimental approach to raw material selection for percussive artifacts in Melka Wakena, Ethiopia The evolution of human behaviour is marked by key decision-making processes reflected in technological variability in the early archaeological record. As part of the technological system, differences ...

our paper ed by Eduardo Paixao is out, discussing the raw material choices for percussors in the early Acheulian of #MelkaWakena Ethiopia. A first step in long-term project. But hey, even a 1000-mile journey begins with the first step.This is that step.
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Congrats to Yotam Ben-Oren for his great talk about his Ph.D. project "Modeling Cultural Evolution in Structured Populations".

check out some pretty amazing papers in the early view page of the journal PaleoAnthropology
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