New publication from our sister Australian @latrobe.edu.au expedition in Oman 🎉👏 where @arduq.bsky.social is participating. // New insights from the Lahem rock shelter in Dhofar, southern Oman. // sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
We have decided to share our new paper on failed OoA human expansion as a preprint, to avoid bias in judgement, and to create an open platform for feedback. Please follow @osamawi.bsky.social post to know more and to download preprint and data/code. @czechacademy.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social
@arduq.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social
What happened to humans who left Africa 100,000 years ago? Here, we bridge genetics and stone tools — Nubian Levallois from Oman dated 109–95 ka, synchronous with gene flow into Neanderthals. Novel stratified evidence.
🔗 doi.org/10.21203/rs....
🌍 How did miniature #stonetools revolutionized technology on Africa's southern migration route?
Jeff Rose leads this study, with fellow #ICArEHB members Nuno Bicho, João Cascalheira, and Osama Samawi.
doi.org/10.1007/s419...
#Lithics #OutOfAfrica #Paleolithic
Great collection of articles on Arabia! Congratulations to authors 🎉
ARDUQ 5A expedition is in full swing. Our fieldwork in Nejd plateau in southern Oman is focused on collecting samples for paleoenvironmental, micro-morphological, geochemical and OSL dating analyses from the excavated stratified Palaeolithic sites. @czechacademy.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social
Grand interior of the National Museum in Prague, featuring a sweeping marble staircase lined with red carpets, ornate columns, and golden lamps. Busts of historical figures line the upper level beneath a decorative arched gallery, and the ceiling is made of elaborately patterned glass panels that let in natural light. Visitors walk up and down the staircases, giving a sense of scale to the opulent architecture.
A grand place for Lucy to make her European debut.
📍 Národní muzeum
Great talk @armandofalcucci.bsky.social! Impressive depth of data analysis, and I really appreciated the open science approach. Finally, robust evidence that the Ahmarian and Protoaurignacian aren’t directly linked
#Paleolithic #lithics 🏺🦣🧪
Announcement at the British Academy
Fabulous news that @martamlahr.bsky.social has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy 🍾🍾🍾
Now nice to see talk with data from the namesake Garba site 🥰
#ESHE2025
Marc Dickinson ‘Advancing enamel amino acid dating’
Using AA in dental enamel for dating
Does glue affect potential? NO 😊
Can ESR powder by re-used? YES 😊
‘lab-on-a-chip’ (minimise sample size) and no need of lab for pre-processing! 😊
#ESHE2025
Harold Berghuis ‘Madura Strait, the first subsea Homo erectus site in Sundaland (Indonesia)’
Underwater fossils 🌟!
Subsidence in Sundaland: key to biogeography. Submerged river valley-MIS6, w rich fossil record! hunting bovids?
H erectus: frontal & parietal frags– aff Java late erectus
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Amazing Gabi! Bravo! 🎉
Several beads and pendants of varying colours and shapes, made from stone, shell and shark teeth.
For #FindsFriday, here are some shell, stone and shark tooth beads and pendants from a Neolithic grave at Wadi Nafūn, Oman.
These materials indicate a symbolic connection to marine themes amongst the people buried here.
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Myself standing in front of a poster of research entitled “What can handaxe shape contribute to discussions of hominin demography in Africa in the late Early and early Middle Pleistocene?”
Great fun at #ESHE2025 presenting on how handaxe shape can inform discussions of African demography in the Early and Middle Pleistocene! While we have very few fossils or genetic data for this period, handaxe shape may carry a signal that can help to constrain biogeographic models - more to come!
This non #FlintFriday and #FieldworkFriday, I would like to share this mint-fresh Quartzite handaxe from SE India, likely dating back to Middle Pleistocene.
Yes, it hurts to see that broken tip! Still, one of my best find.
I am field-sick, can't wait to go back.
#Acheulean #India #HumanOrigins
Congrats Gabriele!
It is finally OUT! 🎉 My book "HINTERLAND MONUMENTS OF ANCIENT NOMADS: Trilith Stone Structures of Southeastern Arabia" was published by @archaeopress.bsky.social Book is the first dedicated study of these enigmatic 2000-year-old ritual monuments.
www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...
Very sad news today. Anthony E. Marks has passed away. He conducted pioneering prehistoric research in the Nile Valley, the southern Levant and Arabia, producing seminal works on the Palaeolithic. In 2023, aged 85, he still joined the @arduq.bsky.social excavations in Dhofar, Oman. Rest in peace.
The 'bone midden' surprised with its age, megalithic features and the number of individuals. It is as impressive as the neighbouring rock art sites, triliths and shell midden. The Nafun cultural landscape comprises 214 archaeological sites! @arduq.bsky.social
Such fun & fantastic team 🤩🤩🤩
We spend long periods of time in Kenya collecting data in the collections, understanding the landscape and looking for fossils. Picture credits: Sarah Paris
The rest of the year is spent analysing data, honing skills and preparing for upcoming field work. During this time, we develop new methodologies, attend conferences, write papers and discuss our findings Picture credits: Sarah Paris, Eleanor Williams
What does the Ng'ipalajem team do?
Ng’ipalajem, meaning Ancestors in Turkana, is an ERC-funded project.
Led by @martamlahr.bsky.social, the project investigates how the emergence of Homo sapiens is deeply intertwined with Africa’s long-term environmental and ecological history.
#humanevolution
From the blog: The #Denisovans got a face! - Turns out, it’s #DragonMan's ...
🏺 trowelandpen.com/2025/06/20/t...
ERC_INASIA is the first high-mountain archaeological project in Uzbekistan. For the very first time, our research team will reach unstudied caves in order to collect data for multiproxy analyses.
#HorizonEU #EUResearch #ERC
Airplane nearly ready for take-off
Yippieh! 2nd try for field-work in Greece starts today🥳 (1st was cancelled due to general strike). With @romangarba.bsky.social and Stephanie Neuhuber. Let's see if we can find some nice samples for cosmogenic nuclide analysis by #AMS for VERA @univie.ac.at
Cool stuff, an appetizer 😉, from Duqm as part of Australian LARiO @latrobeuni.bsky.social expedition in Oman in collaboration with @arduq.bsky.social
Here, we propose a new perspective on early stone tool technology: emulation of naturally occurring sharp-edged stones (naturaliths) instead of inventing via 'Eureka!' moments. Nature provided the blueprint; hominins took it further.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/arcm...
#Archaeology #Stonetools
Don't miss our talk, where Vitalii Usyk and I reveal more details about the unique archaeological site of Korolevo, including some unpublished material about the record of hominin occupation there from 1.4 million years ago to 20,000 years ago! Thank you, @heasvienna.bsky.social for inviting us!
@tommyhigham.bsky.social from #HEASVienna introducing @romangarba.bsky.social and #VitalyUsik for the #HEASSeminar taking place now online and in-person in the #UBB @univie.ac.at
