Emily Hallinan

🔍 What’s it like to be an early-career archaeologist in Africa? Degsew Mekonnen, Osman Khaleel, Humphrey Nyambiya & Nompumelelo Maringa explore challenges from funding gaps to limited mentoring.
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Still digging in the desert at 85

We’re losing so many legends in archaeology. Here is a lovely tribute to Tony Marks, who died in August. He was incredibly encouraging to me, and supported our work revisiting the Nubian technology he first characterised. He will be missed.

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Today was the ceremony for new fellows at the #BritishAcademy - it was wonderful 🤩. I am thrilled and so grateful to the colleagues who nominated me, elected me, and the many colleagues, students, friends, our kids & family, & specially Rob 😍 who have so enriched my life and career ❤️

🔥 Next #LEXA Seminar!
Dr William Chase Murphree will explore #fire use during the #UpperPalaeolithic, using #geoarchaeology experiments to reveal how humans managed fire in glacial times.
🗓️ 7 Oct, 14:00 GMT | 🌍 Online
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Amazing! Please share more if you can. We need to hear more about research reaching local young people ❤️

Join us today for Session 8 in room 0.5 for talks on archaeology outreach and education in Africa, with a “show and tell” of outreach materials 4-5pm #SAfA2025

Thanks to everyone who presented, attended the talks and joined discussions and dinner of our #SAfA2025 session on open air sites. We had a great day of inspiring inputs - there is lots of connections and lots to expect from arid open air archaeology in southern Africa in the next years 💪🇿🇦🇧🇼🇳🇦

Day 1 of #SAfA and first day in my new permanent role as Principal Researcher in African Stone Age archaeology at ICArEHB.
Looking forward to seeing lots of friends and colleagues in Faro this week!

28. Challenges and opportunities of surface sites: The Kalahari basin and adjoining arid regions – SAfA 2025 The Kalahari basin is the largest semi-desert in southern Africa. Despite the lack of caves and rockshelters in most parts, vast amounts of artefacts can be found on the surface in many areas of the…

Please be aware of the new timing for #SAfA session 28 on Tuesday (tomorrow!) safa2025.icarehb.com/safa_session....
@eshallinan.bsky.social et al. will lead a short tribute to the recently passed Garth Sampson at 10.45. @sallieburrough.bsky.social will then introduce the session (1/2)...

Announcement at the British Academy

Fabulous news that @martamlahr.bsky.social has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy 🍾🍾🍾

Memories of this time last year - some of the most fun I’ve had discussing rocks. An opportunity I will treasure. Have a fab field season, your lithics there are so interesting and what a great team

ANNOUNCEMENT INTERNATIONAL TENDER FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF A POST-DOCTORAL ASSOCIATE RESEARCHER recruit one (1) ) post-doctoral assistant researcherresearcher to perform duties in the scientific area of Geochronology / Plio-Pleistocene Geology or related areas, under the research project “

Very happy to announce that a new postdoctoral position on the New ERC funded Western Rift Archaeology and Palaeoenvironment Project is open - if you're a geologist or geochronologist come and join us at @icarehb.bsky.social euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/358068 Feel free to share it around.

Postdoc in Geochronology / Plio-Pleistocene Geology
Join the ERC WRAP project at ICArEHB!
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If anyone would like to share memories, photos or tributes to Garth, we have arranged a slot for this at the upcoming SAfA meeting in Faro - please let me know

Sad to learn that C. Garth Sampson has passed away. He was a kind and encouraging man; as Janette Deacon commented, Garth "made an outstanding contribution to the Stone Age archaeology of the Karoo and southern Africa and will long be remembered." We are standing on the shoulders of these giants

INTERNATIONAL TENDER FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF A POST-DOCTORAL ASSOCIATE RESEARCHER International tender to recruit one (1) ) post-doctoral initial level researcher to perform duties in the scientific area of Palaeolithic Archaeology or related areas, under the research project “ERC ...

Calling all palaeolithic archaeologists. Come and work with me on a really exciting new survey and excavation project in Uganda: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/348570

Don’t forget to join us tomorrow at 11am (UK/Lisbon time) to hear from @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social and @tansybranscombe.bsky.social in the next @icarehb.bsky.social Alt-Ac Paths
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Other global conferences should follow this lead - especially to be more accessible to African and Global South students

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We're excited to announce the next @icarehb.bsky.social Alt-Ac Paths conversation, with Luíseach Nic Eoin @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social and Tansy Branscombe @tansybranscombe.bsky.social, who now work at @natecoevo.nature.com and @barpublishing.bsky.social.
Thurs 19th June, 11am (GMT), Zoom link below.

BREATHE BREATHE aims to contribute a new understanding of cultural and behavioral traits of North African early modern humans through the archaeological record of the central and northern Sahara The project'...

Proudly introduce BREATHE, a project investigating late Quaternary human behavior in the Sahara. Funded by #HorizonEurope - ERA Postdoctoral Fellowships, BREATHE is based at the University of Algarve’s fabulous #ICArEHB and partnered with #Sapienza University of Rome.

Hello everyone,

I’m pleased to share with you my first research article, conducted in collaboration with B. Gravina, X. Muth, M. Villaeys, and J.G. Bordes, and published in @peercomjournal.bsky.social!

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Gorgeous! 😍

I’m delighted to make my first Recommendation for PCI Archaeology @pciarchaeology.bsky.social of Julien Looten @julienlooten.bsky.social and colleagues’ clear method and potential of RTI for lithic illustration

Exciting start to 2nd day of #HumanEvo25 - @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social talk on “Beyond out of Africa”, mobility of HGs oc the Nile Valley badin in the late Pleistocene 🥰

#Nubian #Levallois #MSA
If you haven’t read our article on the spatial distribution of Nubian Levallois cores @eshallinan.bsky.social , check out our recent poster from the Hugo Obermaier Society 2025 conference, hosted by @icarehb.bsky.social in Portugal:

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What an amazing evening!
Thank you to everyone who joined us for Science Sip – it was a fantastic night of archaeology, conversations, and connection 🍻🧠
Here are a few snapshots from the event 📸
Stay tuned for our next one in the Autumn! 🍂
#PublicArchaeology #FaroEvents