Dr Geoff M Smith

The number of covered amino acid positions of ameloblastin (AMBN), amelogenin (AMEL*) and enamelin (ENAM) after different decontamination methods for each replicate. Horizontal lines indicate statistically significant differences between methods. Cont. = Contaminated.

Analysis of archaeological and palaeontological dental enamel allows for study of taxonomy, phylogenetic relationships, and genetic sex of Pleistocene fauna and hominin remains

Identification and removal of contamination in palaeoproteomic analysis of dental enamel 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in maximising data from fragmented bone? Of course you are. Join our free online workshop. Registration closes March 4th. 🦣🧪🏺

Our workshop abstract booklet is live! 📘

Check out the upcoming talks and don’t miss your chance to join us online — registration closes this Wednesday, March 4.

All info: research.reading.ac.uk/coexist/work...

Pokémon turns 30 — how the fictional pocket monsters shaped science The Japanese media sensation has inspired generations of researchers in fields as diverse as evolution, biodiversity and research integrity.

Pokémon turns 30 — how the fictional pocket monsters shaped science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Free to attend. Just register with the link. Feel free to circulate further.

Register now for our free online workshop hosted by the #COEXIST project and @archaeoprotein.bsky.social: Maximising data from #Palaeolithic bone. Exciting program on chronology, diet, taphonomy and method advancement:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🦣🧪🏺

Still time to submit an abstract for our free online workshop as part of COEXIST🧪🦣🏺

Still time to submit an abstract for our free online workshop as part of COEXIST🧪🦣🏺

Great! Something to fight the January blues. Can’t wait to listen.

🚨ONLINE WORKSHOP🚨
We will be hosting a free online workshop “Maximising Data from Palaeolithic Bone" as part of the the COEXIST project on 10th March 2026. Please submit abstract by 23rd January 2026. Further information in the flyer. See you there!

And there it is. Updated with the latest results from work with @thibaut-d.bsky.social & @cartapaniso.bsky.social & the @archaeobears.bsky.social #Boxofficebears , 50 mins of 🐻 from the lateglacial to present in Britain. So much more I could have said! Ta for the invite @geoffreymsmith.bsky.social!

Photo of the tote bag for the meeting, which in reality is a gorgeous dark red 😍

Today the ICAZ-AGPM meeting begins - welcome to Copenhagen everyone, enjoy the sunshine 😊

Ancient DNA and dating evidence for the dispersal of hippos into central Europe during the last glacial Arnold et al. present evidence that Late Pleistocene hippos from the Upper Rhine Graben show close genetic ties to modern African hippos. Although hippos have been thought to have gone extinct around ...

Turns out #hippos 🦛 lived in Europe much more recently than we thought!
Fossil & genetic evidence from Germany shows they roamed 50,000–31,000 years ago, right in the middle of the last #iceage 🥶🌨️
Same species as today’s African hippos, thriving during warmer periods.
🦣🧪🧬

AT ICAZ AGPM (Copenhagen) @wagneranna.bsky.social will give a talk contrasting her current #ZooMS results from Germany and Romania, while @geoffreymsmith.bsky.social will present his #ZooMS results from the British Middle Pleistocene site of Victoria Cave. @icaz-news.bsky.social

Large-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 years ago Neanderthals intensively processed a minimum of 172 large mammals for grease and marrow fat, 125,000 years ago.

Fascinating analysis on grease-rendering at a warm-temperate Neanderthal "fat factory" near German lakes. Animal parts from cervids, equids & bovids were transported from kill sites, and maybe cached, for processing. Lutz Kindler, Sabine G-W, @geoffreymsmith.bsky.social et al. 🏺#zooarchaeology 🦣 🦌

Examples of hammerstone-induced impact damage on long bones from NN2/2B.

Large-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 years ago 🏺🧪
Lutz Kindler, @geoffreymsmith.bsky.social, et al
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Grease rendering “fat factory” predating the Upper Paleolithic,
is an important addition to our knowledge of Neanderthal adaptations

Discovered: A Neanderthal ‘fat factory’ from 125,000 years ago | CNN New research reveals the extraordinary lengths Stone Age humans went to in order to get fat on the menu.

Write up in CNN on our Neumark-Nord 2 work with a quote from me edition.cnn.com/2025/07/04/s...

Really good write up of our work at Neumark-Nord 2. Such a great project to work on during my time @paleomonrepos.bsky.social

Neanderthals boiled bones in 'fat factories' to enrich their lean diet Germany digs reveal a large-scale operation 100,000 years earlier than oldest known fat rendering by modern humans.

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

Large-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 years ago Neanderthals intensively processed a minimum of 172 large mammals for grease and marrow fat, 125,000 years ago.

Cool! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Rekonstruktion des Seebeckens in Neumark Nord mit altsteinzeitlicher Großfauna. - Copyright Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt

Nachweise für umfangreiche Fettgewinnung durch Neandertaler vor 125.000 Jahren am Fundplatz Neumark-Nord. #Archäologie in #SachsenAnhalt...
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Bild: Rekonstruktion des Seebeckens in Neumark Nord mit altsteinzeitlicher Großfauna. (c) LDA Sachsen-Anhalt, Karol Schauer.

Nachweise für umfangreiche Fettgewinnung durch Neandertaler vor 125.000 Jahren am Fundplatz Neumark-Nord. Ein internationales Forscherteam legt neue Untersuchungen an den im Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt verwahrten Funden vor.
Weitere Informationen: idwf.de/-DQszAA

The Neumark-Nord 2/2B site was excavated through year-round campaigns by a core team from 2004 to 2009, alongside an international field school that included more than 175 students in total. (photo/©: Wil Roebroeks)

Neanderthals ran "fat factories" 125,000 years ago: Groundbreaking discovery in Germany reveals large-scale fat processing by Neanderthals 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/neanderthals...

#Neanderthals Ran “Fat Factories” 125,000 Years Ago. Groundbreaking discovery by @paleomonrepos.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social @leizarchaeology.bsky.social and the LDA in Saxony reveals large-scale fat processing by Neanderthals:
idw-online.de/de/news854632

#archaeology #paleolithic #prehistory

Large-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 years ago Neanderthals intensively processed a minimum of 172 large mammals for grease and marrow fat, 125,000 years ago.

New paper in #ScienceAdvances led by @paleomonrepos.bsky.social and @unileiden.bsky.social on #Neanderthal adaptation 125ka years ago at Neumark-Nord 2, Germany. Our study shows large-scale grease rendering thousands of years earlier than previously thought: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🦣🧪🏺

Large-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 years ago Neanderthals intensively processed a minimum of 172 large mammals for grease and marrow fat, 125,000 years ago.

Try this: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Spotting her first MALDI plate! Thanks to @archaeoprotein.bsky.social for offering this wonderful training opportunity to @sarahbarakat.bsky.social and helping us further develop our ZooMS capacity in Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social - and for running our first PALaEoScot samples with us!

congratulations

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...

Pleistocene chronology and history of hominins and fauna at Denisova Cave - Nature Communications Here, the authors present mtDNA and chronological data for sediments from excavations in the South Chamber of Denisova Cave, from which they construct a timeline of hominin and faunal occupation that ...

A nice update on the chronology of Denisova Cave! I wish more sites had this type of resolution 🥹⏳️🏺🦣🧪