Mak Itambu

Paysage de la région de Singida

For more on this site and others in central Tanzania, check out our recent paper in African Archaeological Review 🏺

Hunting Down the Facts About Paleo Diets An evolutionary anthropologist argues that Paleolithic diets were more varied than people think based on research with the Hadza of Tanzania.

From the archive. An evolutionary anthropologist argues that Paleolithic diets were much more varied than people think based on his research with the Hadza community, contemporary hunter-gatherers in Tanzania. Read more: www.sapiens.org/biology/pale...

Fouilles archéologiques à l'abri sous roche d'Itramuka, mission de terrain 2025 à Singida
-Archaeological excavations at the Itramuka rock shelter, Singida field mission 2025

The SHARP project has been quite active this summer, uncovering what appears to be ESA artifacts in central Tanzania. 🏺

The Singida2025 research expedition into on human origins continues to discover more early Stone Age sites today
-L'expédition de recherche Singida2025 sur les origines de l'homme continue de découvrir d'autres sites de l'âge de pierre

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nouvelle publication : La conservation communautaire du patrimoine est compacte dans la région de Singida
-New publication: Community heritage conservation is compact in the Singida region

The Singida region continues to make new discoveries every year, with fossil bones and tools dating back to the beginning of the Stone Age being found today... other new sites on the human origins of the Tanzanian Pleistocene are still to come....

La région de Singida continue de faire de nouvelles découvertes chaque année, avec des ossements fossiles et des outils datant du début de l'âge de pierre trouvés aujourd'hui... d'autres nouveaux sites sur les origines humaines du Pléistocène tanzanien sont encore à venir....

Late Pleistocene vegetation succession, climate change and hominin adaptation in Sandinggai site, central South China - Journal of Geographical Sciences The paleoenvironmental changes and adaptation strategies of hominins during the Late Pleistocene are crucial for understanding the evolution, dispersal, and behavioral shifts of early modern humans. D...

Late Pleistocene vegetation succession, climate change and hominin adaptation in Sandinggai site, central South China 🏺

Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of human adaptation in the Nihewan Basin of North China during Middle Pleistocene: A case study of Jijiazhuang archaeological site - Journal of Geographical Sciences Situated in the semi-arid regions of North China, the Nihewan Basin documents the fluvio-lacustrine sequence and Pleistocene archaeological sites, offering an excellent opportunity to investigate huma...

Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of human adaptation in the Nihewan Basin of North China during Middle Pleistocene: A case study of Jijiazhuang archaeological site 🏺

Don’t insult Australopithecines like that

Expéditions géophysiques et géochronologiques en cours dans la région de Singida, 2025
-Geophysical and geochronological expeditions underway in the Singida region

Have you heard of our @exoceanlab.bsky.social lab? It's a new facility for experimental oceanography -- We culture, measure, and dissolve carbonates there. Register to the account to get fresh updates from what we are doing there!

I didn’t know Wenner Gren lost their funding from the Mellon Foundation and Ford Foundation, in addition to the major cuts and restrictions to the Fulbright program, National Science Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities

U·M·A·P·P Usambara Mountains Archaeology and Palaeoecology Project

Thrilled to return to Tanzania's Usambara Mountains in 2026! With support from the NSF International Research Experiences for Students program, we're launching the next phase of U·M·A·P·P, the Ecological Resilience of Afromontane Forests project. Check out more on the project below 👇

Massive congratulations!!!!

Human origins science in 1925: the good, the bad, and the fake As I look back at a sometimes-confusing picture of a science in its early days, I see some connections with today's landscape.

How do you look back at a science a hundred years ago and grapple with the frauds and failures promoted above their grade, and the myopia of legendary researchers who criticized enduring discoveries while promoting eugenics. Well, that’s history isn’t it?

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Échantillonnage géoarchéologique sur le site de l'âge de pierre d'Isanga aujourd'hui, datation Be-10 des roches et échantillonnage des sédiments
-Geoarchaeological sampling at Isanga Stone Age site today, Be-10 dating rocks and sediments sampling

Études géoarchéologiques sur les sites de l'âge de pierre d'Isanga, région de Singida - Tanzanie

Geoarchaeological studies on the Stone Age sites of Isanga, Singida region - Tanzania

Renewed Archaeological Research in Singida Region, Central Tanzania - African Archaeological Review Archaeological research in central Tanzania, chiefly in the Singida Region, has only been sporadically conducted, with the focus of such investigations being mostly on rock art and Later Stone Age (LS...

Happy to share our paper on new archaeological discoveries in Singida Region of central Tanzania!

Led by @makariusitambu.bsky.social, we found 31 new sites with lithics, ceramics, metallurgical remains, as well as human and other animal bones.

It is Open Access so please share and enjoy!

So HAPPY to see our new Nature paper out !!! Check it out !!!

Cool to see our work covered in the New York Times!

Although we don't definitively say in our paper that this was a rainforest (as we don't have a rainfall proxy), the pollen, phytolith, and plant wax data all suggest wet adapted species and the site's location is in the rainforest biome today.

So cool paper ! Kudos guys

U·M·A·P·P Usambara Mountains Archaeology and Palaeoecology Project

Although not selected as finalists for the 2024 ArcGIS StoryMaps Competition (there were some amazing submissions), I am proud of the StoryMap we put together for our project in the Usambara Mountains of Tanzania. Check it out 👇

This looks super awesome, congratulations Bob!