Scientific Research Fellowship (BI) 014/2026 NOTICE NO. 014/2026 COMPETITION FOR THE AWARD OF A GRANT, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE RESEARCH GRANT REGULATIONS OF UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE

Interested in Early Stone Age and Africanist Archaeology? Check out this doctoral research grant at @icarehb.bsky.social with @jonathanreeves.bsky.social in his project on Oldowan technology and Plio-Pleistocene hominin evolution 🦴⛏️🦣🪨

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/427576

We will hold two discussion sessions in the next #IZAZ workshop. In past workshops, these discussion sessions have been pivotal in advancing community efforts. So - what do you think the theme of these discussions should be? 🤔💭
Follow this link to make a suggestion: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Sedimentary ancient DNA is seriously shaking up how we study the past, and I'm very happy to be quoted in this Nature feature😅. Cool piece on sedaDNA, what it can do and where things get messy (literally, in the dirt) @erc.europa.eu @matrixerc.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social

Register now for our free online workshop hosted by the #COEXIST project and @archaeoprotein.bsky.social: Maximising data from #Palaeolithic bone. Exciting program on chronology, diet, taphonomy and method advancement:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🦣🧪🏺

Registration OPEN for Practical Palaeoproteomics Summer School Copenhagen! 🦴🧪

🗓️ Aug 12–21, 2026 📍 Copenhagen (In-person + 3-day remote option) 🎓 6 ECTS credits ⏳ Deadline: April 1st

Apply here: phdcourses.ku.dk/detailkursus...

#Palaeoproteomics #BioArch #Archaeology #Proteomics #PhDLife

Research Fellow in Biomolecular Archaeology at UCL Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Fellow in Biomolecular Archaeology opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

Job alert! 3 year post doc in my research group at University College London working on Roman Leather via biomolecular archaeology. #ZooMS #stableisotopes

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ187/r...

Job alert in Malta on my ERC funded IslandLab Project for a post excavation research assistant. A bachalor's degree in Archaeology, or related fields is required, ideally with experience working on faunal assemblages and handling bones/fossils, and curating finds.
www.um.edu.mt/media/um/doc...

Meet the ERC Matrix Project team!

We introduce Sofia Kouki, PhD student working on archaeoinformatics at @icarehb.bsky.social.

Sofia applies computational methods to micromorphological analysis and explores how artificial intelligence can complement the work of micromorphologists.

Identification and removal of contamination in palaeoproteomic analysis of dental enamel - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Identification and removal of contamination in palaeoproteomic analysis of dental enamel

Do you need to clean your teeth? And if so, how? 🦷

The answer is YES, at least for Pleistocene teeth. Here, we show you why that is the case, and find a couple of good methods: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🎓 FCT PhD Fellowships 2026
ICArEHB invites inquisitive and motivated candidates to pursue a PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology or Primatology through the national FCT Program.
📍See our poster & details: www.icarehb.com/fct-phd-fell...
#PhD #Archaeology #FCT #ICArEHB

We worked hard in 2025, will be super busy in 2026 and you will hear all about it.

For now, we are ready for a break and wish you all the best of holidays!

#MatrixERC #ICArEHB #Neanderthal #Paleolithic #HumanEvolution #Prehistory #AncientDNA #Biomolecules #SedimentDNA #Geoarchaeology

🚨ONLINE WORKSHOP🚨
We will be hosting a free online workshop “Maximising Data from Palaeolithic Bone" as part of the the COEXIST project on 10th March 2026. Please submit abstract by 23rd January 2026. Further information in the flyer. See you there!

The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered - BBC News Archaeologists in the UK have discovered the world's oldest evidence of humans lighting fires

BBC coverage of breaking news announcing the earliest evidence for humanly made fire. From Barnham, UK.
Quite probably early Neanderthal people with a late Acheulean culture 🦣🏺🔥
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

PAASTA WINTER SCHOOL Now is your chance to provide input on our upcoming PAASTA Winter School on tools and topics you’re keen to learn and teach, please give your thoughts on this short form forms.gle/om48gkCKzTt9... before 9th Jan!

Check out our new publication on the challenges faced by African scholars, especially early-career researchers. *Against All Odds: An Archaeologist's Journey in Africa*
Ethiopia, Sudan, Zimbabwe and South Africa collaboration
#EX NOVO Journal
archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.php/…

I'm hiring!⭐ As part of the DFF Sapere Aude-funded project MiddleEarth, I am looking for 1 postdoctoral researcher and 1 research assistant.

New methods on the block: Taxonomic identification of archaeological bones in resin-embedded sediments through paleoproteomics Abstract. The integration of biomolecular studies of past organisms with geoarchaeological studies can significantly improve our understanding of the relat

New paper is out!

We and welkergroup.bsky.social show that proteins from resin-impregnated sediment blocks can reveal faunal diversity at the microscale.
We thank and congratulate all coauthors!
#paleoproteomics #geoarchaeology
erc.europa.eu
icarehb.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Frontiers | The state of the late Quaternary megafauna extinction debate: a systematic review and analysis With its origins in the late 18th and early 19th century, the question of what drove the late Quaternary megafauna extinctions remains one of science’s most ...

Just out, our new paper "The state of the late Quaternary megafauna extinction debate...". We review the various perspectives, methods, and datasets which have been used to explore the extinction of many large animals. Was it humans, climate, or a mix of both? The debate continues!

Really happy to say that this paper is out now! 🦣🦴

It was a lot of work, but we identified some interesting trends and themes.

New methods on the block: Taxonomic identification of archaeological bones in resin-embedded sediments through paleoproteomics Abstract. The integration of biomolecular studies of past organisms with geoarchaeological studies can significantly improve our understanding of the relat

📄 New paper 📣 of @matrixerc.bsky.social & @welkergroup.bsky.social! We show that microstratigraphic-scale #paleoproteomics works in intact sediments - opening new ways to explore ancient ecosystems & hominin behaviour 🌍🦴
@erc.europa.eu @icarehb.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

New methods on the block: Taxonomic identification of archaeological bones in resin-embedded sediments through paleoproteomics Abstract. The integration of biomolecular studies of past organisms with geoarchaeological studies can significantly improve our understanding of the relat

📣Paper alert📣 Is it possible to use #palaeoproteomics to identify the taxonomy of bone fragments in resin-embedded sediment blocks, enabling study of past faunal community composition at a microstratigraphic scale? 🦴🐮 🦌 We decided to test this, and the results are now out: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

Excited to share our new study in @natcomms.nature.com. It reveals surprising protein variability in birds 🐦, reshaping how we use ancient proteins to reconstruct the past. Curious about the implications? Read the paper here: rdcu.be/eJi3h. With @beademarch.bsky.social

Monumental rock art illustrates that humans thrived in the Arabian Desert during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition | Nature Communications Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

Our new paper is out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 12,000 year old camel engravings marked water sources in the desert. A great team effort @mdpetraglia.bsky.social @finnstileman.bsky.social @stewiestewart.bsky.social et al!

New discovery! Here @mariaguagnin.bsky.social and our team report on 12,000-year-old life-size camel rock art engravings in the Saudi desert. #GreenArabia @griffith.edu.au www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Frontiers | The state of the late Quaternary megafauna extinction debate: a systematic review and analysis With its origins in the late 18th and early 19th century, the question of what drove the extinction of the late Quaternary megafauna extinctions remains one ...

A sneak peak of our forthcoming article!

Led by Mathew Stewart and @huwgroucutt.bsky.social.

www.frontiersin.org/journals/mam...

A community-driven project to identify the Big Questions in palaeontology.

See our latest paper in #Paleobiology published last week and led by Jansen Smith. 📖🦖

We're recruiting an avian ecologist working with @danc-eco.bsky.social and our AviArch team! More info: archaeobiomics.com/aviarch-avif...

👥 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.

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

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