Clarissa Dominici

We're still buzzing from the news!

SFU has been named Canada’s number one comprehensive university in the 2026 Maclean’s University Rankings! 🏆

SFU Postdoctoral Association Executive Council for the year 2025-2026. From top left to bottom right: Dr Angela Silva Bessa, Dr Clarissa Dominici, Dr Alexander Beams, Dr Marina Bauer, Dr Ine Mylle and Dr Santiago Issac Flores Alonso

Hi! We are the #SFU 𝗣𝗗𝗔 𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗹 for the academic year 2025-2026 and would like to welcome all postdocs for a new year full of professional and social events!

Whether you are an international or a national postdoc, we hope that SFU will feel like home in the coming months! 📚☕🎇

AWRANA is pleased to announce its student scholarship to support participation in the next AWRANA conference (Pisa)!

📅 Applications open: 1 October – 30 November

📨 Send your application to awrana.international@gmail.com

🏆 Results will be communicated in December.

This year the Associazione Italiana di Archeozoologia (AIAZ) will sponsor two prizes for best archaeozoology talk and poster at ISBA11 🎉

Fill in this form to be considered!
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#ISBA11 #archsci #aiaz #Archaeozoology
@archaeobiomics.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social

Get excited for ISBA11! The conference program is now online!
www.isba11.com/programme

#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #Archaeology #Archaeology #archaeologist
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social

Frontiers | Neanderthal had a “crush” on fats. Macronutrient estimation in Middle Paleolithic (Late Mousterian) hunter-gatherers of southern Italy During the Late Mousterian period Apulia (southeastern Italy) was characterized by frequent and prolonged aridity that could have caused the scarcity of vege...

Neanderthal had a “crush” on fats. Macronutrient estimation in Middle Paleolithic (Late Mousterian) hunter-gatherers of southern Italy
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...

𝗔𝗪𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗔𝟮𝟲, the 4th edition of the Association of Use-Wear and Residue Analysts Conference, will be held from 9 to 12 April 2026 in Pisa 🎉

Main theme: "𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆"

Check the details and submit your contribution here 👇

awrana2026.cfs.unipi.it/call-for-paper…

A map of Canada from the Canadian Space Agency showing what times the eclipse will be visible in major cities: 8:57pm: Vancouver and Whitehorse 9:57pm: Edmonton, Regina, Yellowknife 10:57pm: Winnipeg 11:57pm: Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec City, Montreal, Iqualuit 12:57am: Fredricton, Halifax, Charlottetown 1:27am: St. John's

Unlike a solar eclipse, the lunar eclipse this Thursday, March 13 will be visible across Canada. Do you see your city on the list?

If the weather is clear we will be hosting a special Starry Nights at #SFU Trottier Observatory from 8pm to midnight. 🔭

a piece of clear sky reflected in the pond between RCB and EDB on the Burnaby campus

the Academic Quadrangle Reflection Pond on a sunny day

me walking outside in the sun to get to the Archaeology Department

A beautiful day at #SFU, Burnaby Campus!

Almost March, almost Spring?

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📢 Job available here at University of Birmingham for a CT scanner experimental officer to run and manage our micro-CT facility! Scanning a range of paleontological, geological and biological samples edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

We're kicking off Multilingual Week today, with an exciting panel tonight! ⤵️ Happening all week until March 1, we have film screenings, workshops, lectures and more. All events are free & open to everyone. Check out the full schedule: www.sfu.ca/wll/mlw

Goodnight from the grey-coated roe deer ghosts of February’s past, still searching for ivy in Angle Wood. Goodnight from Christopher Rushbrook, wondering why people say ‘the sleep of the dead’ when so many of the bastards refuse to rest. Goodnight from Hookland.

Canada Research Chair - Indigenous Health and Well-Being

Job available for Full Professor Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) - Indigenous Health and Well-Being at the Faculty of Health Science, Simon Fraser University (RT 🙏🏼 please):

www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/a...

🦴 New #zooarchaeology paper out! Study of the faunal remains of layer 18b, Final #Gravettian, of #GrottaPaglicci!

Research Unit of Prehistory and Anthropology - #UniSiena

#UpperPalaeolithic
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I would love to be added too!

My first post on here and it's for a JOB ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣 The University of Tübingen is seeking to find a post-doctoral researcher for a 3-year position, funded through the DFG (13 TV-L, 39,5 h/week). More info here: tinyurl.com/4xbdya5t #archaeology #palaeoproteomics #job #ZooMS

Notice of public selection interview for the awarding of 1 research grant (12 months) - Research topic “Sedimentology, soil micromorphology, and lithostratigraphy of Eurasian archaeological sites date... Notice of public selection upon qualifications and interview for the awarding of 1 research grant –(letter b) – 12 months duration - Scientific Disciplinary Field GEOS-02/B – Scientific Disciplinary G...

The #geoarchaeology team of the #ERCresearch Synergy Grant "𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗡𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗹𝘀" is hiring! Check the information below to join the Research Unit of Prehistory and Anthropology at the University of Siena!

#UniSiena

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euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/300156

Notice of public selection interview for the awarding of 1 research grant (12 months) - Research topic “Sedimentology, soil micromorphology, and lithostratigraphy of Eurasian archaeological sites date... Notice of public selection upon qualifications and interview for the awarding of 1 research grant –(letter b) – 12 months duration - Scientific Disciplinary Field GEOS-02/B – Scientific Disciplinary G...

The #geoarchaeology team of the #ERCresearch Synergy Grant "𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗡𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗹𝘀" is hiring! Check the information below to join the Research Unit of Prehistory and Anthropology at the University of Siena!

#UniSiena

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euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/300156

Hi, I'd love to be added as well! 🎉

Our Special Issue is out, fully #openaccess in PaleoAnthropology! 7 studies integrating #ZooMS and #Zooarchaeology, alongside an extensive introduction on challenges/potentials. Guest editors
@geoffreymsmith.bsky.social, Karen Ruebens, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot, Frido Welker. 🏺🧪🦴
tinyurl.com/ya9js9xp

Some pictures from #Oscurusciuto rock shelter (Ginosa, southern Italy) 2023 & 2024!

#MiddlePalaeolithic #Neanderthal

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Hi, it would be nice to be included and thank you for your work!🏺🌿

Snow on campus today ❄✨
#SFU

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Schematic example of the cultural evidence characterising the Late Mousterian, the Uluzzian and the Aurignacian in southern Italy.

Chronometric data and stratigraphic evidence support discontinuity between Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens in the Italian Peninsula 🏺🧪
@tommyhigham.bsky.social , @katerinad.bsky.social et al
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Disappearance of Neanderthals may pre-date early modern humans in region.

Contextual information for the skeletal remains of Le Mura 1. a Position of Grotta delle Mura within the Italian peninsula (from NASA Visible Earth project ‒ credits to Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC); b Stratigraphy and complete cultural sequence at the site; the infant’s location within the stratigraphy is highlighted (see Supplementary Note 1); c Photograph of the infant burial during excavation (Photo by Mauro Calattini).

Ancient DNA tells story of toddler from 17 Kya

Young boy (~72 weeks old) had dark skin, blue eyes and a congenital heart condition

Life history and ancestry of the late Upper Palaeolithic infant from Grotta delle Mura, Italy 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Full-text access to the view-only version here:
rdcu.be/dkfE2

Combining SR-FTIR, SR-LEXRF and PIXE microscopies for residue analysis on Palaeolithic stone artefacts - The European Physical Journal Plus Residue analysis in the field of Palaeolithic studies represents a powerful source of information, as well as a challenging operation of deduction, based on the interpretation of what remains of organ...

📢 Paper alert!! 📢 We explore the combination of #FTIR #LEXRF and #PIXE microscopies for #residueanalysis on #UpperPalaeolithic artefacts from #GrottaPaglicci 🔬💫🎉 #UniSiena #CERIC #ElettraSincrotrone
Read it here ⬇
doi.org/10.1140/epjp...