👥 Meet the team behind the ERC Matrix Project!
We introduce Hussein Kanbar, postdoc researcher and experimental geochemist at @icarehb.bsky.social
Hussein explores how DNA moves, binds, and survives in soils and sediments.
His work builds bridges between archaeology, geochemistry, and genetics.
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🔎 Artifacts lie in soils and sediments. Geoarchaeology reveals how these deposits formed, transformed, and preserve traces of past human life.
Our facilities include:
🪨 ArchaeoDirt Lab
🔬 MICROLab
🧬 A new clean room for ancient DNA & proteins (coming soon!)
👉 matrix.icarehb.com/archaeomatri...
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👥 Meet the team behind the ERC Matrix Project!
🔬 Today: Vera Aldeias, PI of Matrix and a geoarchaeologist decoding past human behaviour through sediments.
🧬 Vera’s team uses ancient DNA & proteins in soils to trace modern humans’ arrival in Europe & Neanderthals’ disappearance.
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Imagem with the 6 team members altogether. There is also the name of the porject and its logo and institutional logos. The color is light red.
The ERC Project MATRIX explores one of the big questions in our past: how Neanderthals disappeared as modern humans spread across Europe. Meet the team behind it and learn more about our research on sediments, ancient DNA, proteins, lipids & human evolution
👉 matrix.icarehb.com
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Matrix logo featuring a hand and two human heads, one form neanderthal and another of a modern human. The color is red and the logo and writing is white
The MATRIX Project, ERC Starting Grant, led by @veraaldeias.bsky.social and based at @icarehb.bsky.social, explores the replacement of Neanderthals by early modern humans by analyzing intact blocks of sediment as archives of ancient DNA, proteins, and lipids.
Follow us and visit matrix.icarehb.com
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NE-aar is obsessed with amino acid racemization analysis for Quaternary geochronology, earth science, archaeology & to understand protein breakdown. Based at Uni of York; posts are own views.
Postdoc at ICArEHB | PhD from NYU | Computational archaeologist interested in stone tool recycling, hominin mobility, and Paleolithic Central Asia | she/her
🔬 Archaeologist interested in how stone tools were used 🤏 and robots 🤖 Researcher at: @paleomonrepos.bsky.social @leizarchaeology.bsky.social
@tracer-leiza.bsky.social
@icarehb.bsky.social (www.joaomarreiros.com)
Postdoctoral Researcher @ICArEHB interested in all things ancient proteins 🦴👩🏼🔬
Interested in Paleolithic adaptations | Director @ICArEHB @UAlg | PI of @Finisterra_ERC | Blogging at https://world.hey.com/jmcascalheira | Views are my own
European Research Council, set up by the EU, funds top researchers of any nationality, helping them pursue great ideas at the frontiers of knowledge. #HorizonEU
The Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behaviour is located in Faro, PT, and aims to build and share an integrative understanding of the origins and evolution of human behaviour, through rigorous and innovative research.
(Geo)Archaeologist into 'dirt' and human behavior-related things.
PI of ERC-StG MATRIX https://matrix.icarehb.com/
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