Frido Welker

Parts of the group out enjoying some Copenhagen sun and iced tea!

For the last six months, @adrianaleite.bsky.social has been visiting us from @icarehb.bsky.social. Thank you for this time Adriana, it has been a joy to have you in our group and we hope to see you again soon!

Parts of the Welker Group taking a boat ride around the canals of Copenhagen, all looking very happy!

For the last six months, we've had Lucas Siero from Utrecht University visiting us for an internship, working on some #palaeoproteomics method development. It was a joy to have you join our group Lucas, and good luck with the rest of your studies!

How we use game mechanics to explore and educate about archaeology in our board game Cultivaria- a thread.

#archaeology #boardgame

Eighteen million years of diverse enamel proteomes from the East African Rift - Nature The isolation of dental proteins from fossils deposited 1.5 million to 18 million years ago in the Turkana Basin in Kenya, a tropical region, demonstrate the promise of dental enamel for palaeoproteom...

We published a new paper on enamel paleoproteomics from teeth up to 18 million years old from the Turkana Basin in Kenya. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oldest proteins yet recovered from 18-million-year-old teeth The oldest protein fragments ever recovered have been extracted from fossilised teeth found in Kenya's Rift Valley, revealing the remains belonged to the ancient ancestors of rhinoceroses and elephant...

The record for the oldest protein ever found has been smashed five-fold after analyzing ancient fossilized teeth 🦷

@paleoproteomicist.bsky.social @fridowelker.bsky.social @harvardpress.bsky.social @smithsonianmag.bsky.social @newscientist.com

www.newscientist.com/article/2487...

Lots of exciting potential now for truly deep-time #palaeoproteomics in palaeontology!

Eighteen million years of diverse enamel proteomes from the East African Rift - Nature The isolation of dental proteins from fossils deposited 1.5 million to 18 million years ago in the Turkana Basin in Kenya, a tropical region, demonstrate the promise of dental enamel for palaeoproteom...

Two great new studies out in @nature.com today, pushing back the recovery of dental enamel proteins to 21+ million years in the Arctic (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) and 18+ million years in East Africa (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).

Woo-Hoo! This has been a long time coming, and in much testing (beta testing) but the integrated beta more functionality - smooth genome scrolling, nice uploads, and gene + function pages.

Don't hesitate to reach out to the organising team in case you have questions or additional dietary requirements than the options listed.

ICAZ AGPM 2025 - Registration Conference registration has opened as of 04 July 2025. The registration fee includes: access to all sessions, welcome reception, coffee breaks, lunches, certificate of attendance. Registration can be...

Registration is open for the 11th #ICAZ-AGPM meeting taking place this October in Copenhagen! We're looking forward to four days of #archaeozoology #aDNA #morphometrics & #palaeoproteomics.
sites.google.com/palaeome.org...

⚠️registration is now open for the ICAZ-AGPM meeting in Copenhagen this coming October⬇️ We're looking forward to welcoming you to @ucph.bsky.social @ucph-soa.bsky.social for four days of research on interdisciplinary archaeozoology.

✨REGISTRATION IS OPEN✨ for the 11th International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ) Archaeozoology, Genetics, Proteomics, and Morphometrics (AGPM) Working Group Meeting taking place this autumn in Copenhagen the 14-17th of October!

eventsignup.ku.dk/11th-icazagp...

@icaz-news.bsky.social

Mysterium om Dragemandens kranium er løst: Han var et denisova-menneske Et omdiskuteret kranium stammer fra et fortidigt denisova-menneske, fastslår nye analyser. Kraniet er indtil videre det eneste, der findes fra menneskearten.

Mysterium om Dragemandens kranium er løst: Han var et denisova-menneske #dkvid #dkforsk

Tusind tak Trine!

Dankjewel!

219 mio. kr. til fremragende forskningsideer: 36 nye Sapere Aude-forskningsledere Dansk forskning er netop blevet 36 nye forskningsprojekter rigere med Danmarks Frie Forskningsfonds bevillinger til nye, talentfulde Sapere Aude: DFF-Forskningsledere. Forskerne får nu mulighed for at...

I am proud that I've been awarded a DFF Sapere Aude grant by the 🇩🇰 DFF/Independent Research Fund Denmark to conduct #palaeoproteomics research in Central Eurasia for the next 3 years! #MiddleEarth. Soon more information on #postdoc/#researchassistant positions!
dff.dk/om-fonden/ny...

Cultivaria Bringing Archaeology to the table.

A couple of present and former ANU Archaeology students have been working to develop a board game inspired by the Deep Past called Cultivaria. They've (quite literally) just launched their kickstarter and I know a few of you love games so... #archaeogaming 🏺

6 years ago, we predicted what Denisovans probably looked like. Since then, every new Denisovan specimen💀 - Harbin, Penghu, Xiahe - matched it beautifully.
☑️ Xiahe: 4/4 features match the profile
☑️ Penghu: 5/6
☑️ and now: Harbin with 16/18!
See 🧵
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31539495/

Deer of the World This book is the first reference work ever published on the systematics, ecology, conservation status and management of all the world's deer species.

So nice to be a small part of this extensive reference book on deer!
🦌 🦌 🦌 🦌 🦌 🦌 🦌 🦌 🦌

#mammals #deer #RuminantsRule

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

This is the first ever confirmed skull of a Denisovan Finally, we can put a face on a Denisovan.

My latest story is based on papers in @science.org and @cp-cell.bsky.social revealing Homo longi aka 'Dragon Man' was a Denisovan - or is it the other way around? Featuring @benceviola.bsky.social, @fridowelker.bsky.social and @chrisbstringer.bsky.social. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal - Nature Analysis of species distribution models in a pan-African database comprising chronometrically dated archaeological sites over the past 120,000 years shows major expansion in the human niche from 70 ka...

1/5 Why do all non-Africans descended from a group that left Africa 50k ago? In @nature.com we model 120k years of human niche dynamics. From 70ka, a big expansion of the human niche in Africa likely equipped later OOA dispersals with a unique ecological flexibilty.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In science’s new era, open and transparent cooperation remains key As China continues its scientific ascent, the rest of the world should keep engaging.

As China continues its scientific ascent, the rest of the world should keep engaging.

In what appears to be science’s new era decoupling would be a regressive step, we argue in this week’s editorial

@nature.com

🧪 #AcademicSky

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Figure 2 of the manuscript. Data availability in palaeoproteomics. A) Percentage of ZooMS and shotgun palaeoproteomics studies with available datasets. Preprints and papers that did not produce any data were excluded from this calculation. B) Number of palaeoproteomics datasets in online repositories (since 2010). ´Other´ repositories include Dryad, Figshare, Github, Mendeley Data, and the OSF Framework. The dataset was compiled by manually going through the list of publications compiled for Figure 1 and checking raw data availability. This figure was made in R v.4.4.2. with R Studio v.2024.12.0+ (R Core Team, 2023) using ggplot2 (Wickham, 2016).

1/5 New recommendation: Dekker et al. & @zandraselina.bsky.social‬ (2025) Open science, communication, and collaboration for the future of palaeoproteomics. V4 recommended by @PCI_Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... #Archaeology #opendata #openscience @paastacommunity.bsky.social‬ #Palaeoproteomics

📢 Join us for the seminar Advanced Mass Spectrometry in Cultural Heritage 🏺

📅20 June 2025
📍In person – University of Bordeaux
🍸Free registration + networking cocktail
📩heritagems2025@gmail.com

#MassSpectrometry #CulturalHeritage

Ancient genetic data reveals biological sex and genetic variability of Paranthropus robustus — HERI - Human Evolution Research Institute Using a technique called palaeoproteomics, researchers extracted 2-million-year-old protein remains from Paranthropus robustus teeth to reveal biological sex and genetic variability. 

🧬NEW: Our Dr Palesa Madupe & colleagues retrieved some of the oldest human genetic data from #Africa

They identify 2million year-old protein remains from Paranthropus robustus to reveal its biological sex & genetic variability

Read about this breakthrough in human evolution studies: bit.ly/3HiOgqP

Enamel proteins reveal biological sex and genetic variability in southern African Paranthropus Paranthropus robustus is a morphologically well-documented Early Pleistocene hominin species from southern Africa with no genetic evidence reported so far. In this work, we describe the mass spectrome...

Hello,

Our paper on enamel proteins from Paranthropus robustus has finally been peer reviewed, please have a read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Paranthropus robustus has been puzzling scientists since its discovery in 1938 in South Africa, where a high number of fossils have been found.

Late Paleolithic whale bone tools reveal human and whale ecology in the Bay of Biscay - Nature Communications Here the authors apply ZooMS, radiocarbon, and stable isotope analyses to whale bones from the Bay of Biscay. They find that humans were utilizing the remains of at least five species of whales from 2...

Lovely publication on #ZooMS, #radiocarbon, and #stableisotopes of Late Palaeolithic whale bone tools!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

國立自然科學博物館：丹尼索瓦人到臺灣特展：特展介紹 一段深藏臺灣海峽海底的化石，揭開了古老人類演化的神祕面紗。從西伯利亞丹尼索瓦洞穴到澎湖水道，丹尼索瓦人的足跡正悄然重寫亞洲古人類地圖。 本特展以澎湖1號化石為核心，結合冰河時期動物遷徙與古環境變遷，透過前沿古蛋白質體學技術，首度證實丹尼索瓦人現蹤臺灣。展出匯集古人類化石、澎湖海底發現、分子演化研究等最新成果，帶領觀眾一探人類起源與臺灣化石寶庫的科學傳奇。

Our work on the Penghu #Denisovan mandible is now featured in a special exhibition at the National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan:

web3.nmns.edu.tw/Exhibits/114...

That's awesome, congratulations everyone!