Already second week at Boomplaas Cave with @justinpargeter.bsky.social.
First week launched the season with introduction to the dig and a rock art tour for the students.
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@justinpargeter.bsky.social
Africanist archaeologist, Assistant Professor @ NYU, Cultural Evolution, Lithic Analysis, rstats, papers @ https://nyu.academia.edu/JustinPargeter
Already second week at Boomplaas Cave with @justinpargeter.bsky.social.
First week launched the season with introduction to the dig and a rock art tour for the students.
@leakeyfoundation.org @umr5608traces.bsky.social
Thank you!
21.03.2025 10:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Do you have a link to register for the talk?
21.03.2025 10:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Here, we propose a new perspective on early stone tool technology: emulation of naturally occurring sharp-edged stones (naturaliths) instead of inventing via 'Eureka!' moments. Nature provided the blueprint; hominins took it further.
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16.03.2025 00:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0π Exciting news from the Cultural Evolution Society π
We're launching the ACE Curricular Awards this spring to boost cultural evolution education! There are two award categories (more below)
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Our latest work from the open-air Stone Age landscape of Jojosi on new absolute ages - this is something for the luminescence nerds! π€ gchron.copernicus.org/articles/7/5... #archaelogy #SouthAfrica #geology #luminescence #geography #dating
12.03.2025 16:53 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Excellent talk, thanks for hosting it
12.03.2025 13:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Job alert!
@katerinad.bsky.social and I are looking for an archaeologist/archaeological scientist to join us on a 4 year post-doc, helping to manage and participate in field and lab work on 2 ERC grants in our group. We would love to hear from you via the link! π
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct...
There have been at least 20 mass resignations from scientific journals since 2023. Whatβs going on?
08.03.2025 20:20 β π 816 π 207 π¬ 42 π 18I join you today across the ocean
07.03.2025 15:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Reach out if interested in reviewing this @barpublishing.bsky.social volume on raw material selection and Clovis fluted points for Lithic Technology
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Youβre welcome, Julia! We will have to have you back to the site for a trip down memory lane. Judy and Janette have spent quite a bit of time with us at the site and itβs been delightful!
05.02.2025 13:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0A short video by the talented @piepergrantham.bsky.social showcasing the amazing student stories behind the 2024 Boomplaas Cave excavations youtu.be/sK9m0vvNTwA?...
23.01.2025 19:58 β π 8 π 5 π¬ 1 π 1Are you studying technological complexity in #archaeology? If so, here is an open call for a Special Issue on 'Technological Complexity & Archaeological Interpretation in the Deep Past' which I am co-editing in JAMT! More information here or contact me! link.springer.com/collections/... - Pls share!
23.01.2025 17:22 β π 30 π 21 π¬ 1 π 1What about an exerpt from Rathje and Murphyβs Rubbish! Book: www.thriftbooks.com/w/rubbish-th...
08.01.2025 13:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Hey Robyn, just a heads up looks like someone hacked your account and is sending PMs about cryptocurrency.
05.01.2025 20:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Top of the 2025 reading list
05.01.2025 12:53 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Fascinating work and really exciting results. Could something similar be done with the global distribution of Mancala-like games?
04.12.2024 15:37 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0π§ͺ New paper alert! πΊ
Comparing Neanderthal and Modern Human Subsistence at Riparo Bombrini: An Integrated Archaeozoological, Multivariate Taphonomic, and ZooMS Analysis.
This is Geneviève Pothier Bouchard's last PhD paper. I'm *thrilled* to see it out and flesh out our work at Bombrini 1/6
Hey everyone! I figured I should do a quick introductory post. I am a PhD candidate in archaeology πΊ at Arizona State University and a OYO faculty member at Glendale Community College in biological anthropology.
I am broadly interested in lithic technology and early Homo sapiens archaeology 1/5
Catch @jwhoopes2.bsky.social on the Elevated Thoughts Podcast as he describes some of the 19th century origins of modern pseudoarchaeology: Atlantis, aliens, and archaeology.
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Keokuk chert handaxe πΊ
18.11.2024 20:35 β π 31 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0Job posting for a 2.5 year postdoc with Dr. Felix Riede in Aarhus on Palaeolithic gene-culture coevolution: international.au.dk/about/profil... πΊ
18.11.2024 17:41 β π 60 π 53 π¬ 0 π 1π¨ New paper alert π¨ : A multimethod analysis for tracing Gravettian red ochre provenance at Arene Candide Cave (NW Italy)! Ochre was heavily used during the Gravettian period (31-22 ky ago), both in everyday and ritual contexts, so knowing where people acquired it from is important. 1/3
18.11.2024 17:30 β π 29 π 9 π¬ 2 π 0A tale of a climate tipping point, and climate refugees, from southern African pre-history
www.biogrip.ac.za/isotopes-con...
Exciting opportunity two African Masters students to investigate the abrasion and percussion of ochre @Boomplaas. Co-supervised by Guilhem Mauran and Tammy Hodgskiss Reynard at Wits Archaeology.
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