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David Nora

@norarch.bsky.social

Lithic detective ๐ŸงTime-traveling with stone tools | PhD in organized chaos, Currently decoding human decisions one flake at a time. I do experimental archaeology so if youโ€™ve got a rock, Iโ€™ve got a experiment design.

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It will happen this week at the 7th Congress for Experimental Archaeology. This time organized by @traceolab.bsky.social
I will present how we can use proxies to classify efficiency of Lithic Raw Materials. @humendylab.bsky.social @tracer-leiza.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social

21.10.2025 09:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Back to Armenia, back to Dalarik-1 Cave, with a large international team from Armenia, Spain, Israel, Greece, France, Portugal, Italy & beyond! Let the excavation of this unique Middle Pleistocene site start! ๐ŸŽ‰ #TransCause @humendylab.bsky.social

16.08.2025 17:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐ŸชจWhat have 10 years of stone tool experiments taught us โ€” and whatโ€™s still unknown?
Join Dr Alastair Key for the next #LEXA seminar!
๐Ÿ“… 5 Aug | ๐Ÿ•‘ 14:00 WEST | ๐ŸŒ Online
๐Ÿ”— www.icarehb.com/lexa
๐Ÿ“ข New Zoom account: all must re-register!
#Archaeology #ICArEHB

22.07.2025 13:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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The dichotomy of human decision-making: An experimental assessment of stone tool efficiency The physical properties of distinct raw materials, such as hardness, homogeneity, and grain size, have been recurrently suggested as some of the key reasons for human decision-making, namely the selec...

๐Ÿ“ข New publication: "The dichotomy of human decision-making: An experimental assessment of stone tool efficiency" by Nora, D., Marreiros, J., Gneisinger, W., Pedergnana, A., & Pereira, T., in PLOS ONE (2025).
๐Ÿ”— More info: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

29.07.2025 13:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Did you ever ask why people used so many different rocks in their tasks?
If you had this question in your mind, go and check my new paper with my colleagues. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

19.07.2025 16:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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My first paper of the PhD is out, we talk about Mobility and lithic technology at Ararat-1 Cave in Armenia. We also talk a bit about ๐Ÿ‘ป tools. Are you curious? Go and check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

14.07.2025 17:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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New paper out with Radu Iovita in PLOS One modeling potential routes of dispersal for Neanderthals moving from the Caucasus Mountains to the Altai Mountains after MIS 6

doi.org/10.1371/jour...

09.06.2025 18:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Only 3 days to go! ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ
ICArEHB Dialogues returns May 29 at 4PM (GMT+1), live on YouTube ๐ŸŽฅ

Join us to explore: What is technology? How did it shape usโ€”and where is it taking us?

๐Ÿ”— Join us at: www.youtube.com/live/RAO_pxR...
#ICArEHBDialogues #TechnologyPastFuture #Archaeology #DigitalHumanities

26.05.2025 14:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@humendylab.bsky.social

21.05.2025 20:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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PRE-PRINT OUT! ๐Ÿšจ
My first paper of the PhD is out as a pre-print go there and comment ๐Ÿ˜. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

21.05.2025 19:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

This research would not have been possible without my amazing calleagues & co-authors: @arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social @norarch.bsky.social @lausanrom.bsky.social @drloessismore.bsky.social Teo, Shira, Dominik, Delphine, Artur & Boris! MASSIVE THANKS to @humendylab.bsky.social & Netanel for the support!

14.05.2025 14:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
My friend and colleague just published this amazing multi-proxy work on Ararat-1 Cave.

My friend and colleague just published this amazing multi-proxy work on Ararat-1 Cave.

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My friend and colleague @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social just published this amazing multi-proxy work about Ararat-1 Cave. Congratulations ๐ŸŽ‰ @humendylab.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

14.05.2025 13:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Wrapping up the amazing #SAA2025Denver conference with the participation of some of the @humendylab.bsky.social team members @norarch.bsky.social
@yannismicrooikon.bsky.social #MaeGoder-goldberger

26.04.2025 17:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Great times in the Annual Meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society, at Denver, Colorado (US). HUMENDY LAB was there with talks by @arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social, @norarch.bsky.social and a poster by @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social!
See you in the next one!
#TransCauseProject

26.04.2025 17:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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At the conference of the Society for American Archaeology, presenting part of my PhD thesis.

25.04.2025 20:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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At Denver on the Paleo Meeting, talking about Virtual Experiments using FEA simulations.

23.04.2025 18:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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