Enjoying being in Dushanbe to study the beautiful lithics from the Middle Paleolithic site of Soii Havzak, Tajikistan
@hcelab.bsky.social
@gerda-henkel-stiftung.de
#CentralAsia
#Paleolithic
#lithics
📢🔬New #PaperAlert! on the cover of @ScienceAdvances :
Emergence of clay personal ornaments in Southwest Asia
A butterfly clay bead from #Natufian Eynan-Mallaha, colored red with ochre and marked with the fingerprints of the child (≈10 y/o) who modeled it 12,000 years ago
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Generation of elevation profiles from the DEM of the experimental deer engraving. These profiles are obtained using high-resolution photogrammetry, allowing for the analysis of incision depth and surface morphology associated with the engraving process.
New 3D method maps Paleolithic engravings at submillimeter resolution
To be or not to be an engraving:
Testing photogrammetry and DEM for identifying or disproving fine prehistoric engravings 🏺🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A couple news outlets have covered this preeclampsia claim, but I talked to experts who are not convinced. 🧪🏺
📢Deadline Extended📢
Final week of abstract submissions for EAA2026 and Session 178 - Cave Sediments as Archives of Human-Environment Dynamics: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Geoarchaeology & Micro-contextual Research!
We look forward to seeing you all in Athens!
Our volume on Stone Age clothing is now online and completely open access:
Jöris, O., Dietrich, O., Risch, R., & Meller, H. (Hrsg.). (2026). A Stone Age History of Clothing: Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 26. bis 28. September 2024 in Halle (Saale).
doi.org/10.11588/pro...
The artwork that illustrated our PNAS paper on the oldest wooden tools was made by Gleiver Prieto, who has also worked with me on illustrations for previous projects, including the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Marathousa 1.
Gleiver's art really brings Pleistocene Megalopolis to life ✨ 🤩
Usually, stones and bones get all the attention, but wood was part of the toolkit too, and the evidence is growing! 🪵
A new paper by @annemiekemilks.bsky.social et al. reports the earliest handheld wooden tools (~430 ka) from Marathousa 1 (Greece)! @harvatilab.bsky.social 🦣🧪🏺
📢Call for Contributions! 📢
If you work on the (micro-) geoarchaeology of cave sediments, using micromorphological, chemical, or biomolecular approaches, this session #178 is for you!
There is still time to apply (deadline: 5th of February)!
@humendylab.bsky.social & #TransCause Project invite you to our symposium on Middle Pleistocene behavioral variability with special focus on Dalarik-1 Cave (Armenia)!
📍Room 520, Mt. Scopus Campus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
💻Also online (via zoom)!
See you all there!
Fragments of a wall painting from a Sogdian Royal Palace at Sanjar-Shah, Tajikistan.
Reconstruction of the scene found it depicts a procession of priests approaching a large fire altar, offering a rare glimpse into ancient fire worship.
🆓 in our latest issue: doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Labs will be established in Panjakent and Dushanbe 🤠🔬📏🖥️🧬
The recording from this talk is now on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8l2...
🪓 Stone flakes = ancient tool care? #ICArEHB's David Nora's introduces a module flake approach in his new paper: doi.org/10.1007/s108...
#Lithics #Archaeology
About Nesher Ramla hunting strategies
Take a look at this new discovery!
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The first article from my PhD results is now published — and it’s Open Access!
We show how handaxe grip and use evolved over time at La Noira (France).
doi.org/10.1007/s419...
#usewear #prehistory #handaxe #paleolithic #acheulean
#Palaeoproteomics of Middle and Late Pleistocene hominin fossils and associated zooarchaeological assemblages from Central Eurasia with @fridowelker.bsky.social!
Postdoc: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Research Assistant: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Learn more about the INASIA project on its website: inasia.uw.edu.pl
There:
- a list of palaeolithic sites in Central Asia,
- project publications,
- communication & dissemination activities,
- bios of the project team,
- all project related news in the form of blog entries.
Qafzeh 11 is other case that raises fascinating questions about symbolism in Paleolithic #burials
This adolescent, around 12 or 13 years old, was buried about 90,000 years ago in Qafzeh Cave (Galilee, Israel)
Image: https://doi.org/10.4000/paleo.4848
@erc.europa.eu @cenieh.bsky.social #FECYT
Archéologie de l’urgence: Le site de Nunalleq sur la côte ouest de l’#Alaska est un témoin rare de la culture du peuple Yupiit. Menacés par la montée des eaux, des fouilles ont permis de révéler plus de 100.000 objets documentant une culture en voie de disparition www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
And still here to study the lithics artifacts :)
The proposed evolutionary history of MUC19. The Denisovan-like haplotype (in orange) was first introgressed from Denisovans into Neanderthals and then introgressed into modern humans.
Modern human genomes contain a small number of archaic variants, the legacy of past interbreeding events with Neanderthals and Denisovans.
The MUC19 gene:
An evolutionary history of recurrent introgression and natural selection 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
For #FossilFriday: Meet CAM 2023-7, a Mesolithic child buried ~8,000 years ago in Portugal.
Their burial is one of the most elaborate ever found in the Muge shell mounds. What made it so special? 🐚🧵
#Mesolithic #Funerary #Paleoanthropology www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Harbin cranium and geographic location of hominin specimens older than 100 ka where human DNA has been retrieved
Denisovan mtDNA is directly connected to the Harbin skull, a nearly complete hominin cranium
Denisovan mitochondrial DNA from dental calculus of the >146,000-year-old Harbin cranium 🏺🧪
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.mpg.de/25243512/082...
Early hunters and gatherers were already engaged in practices that led to agriculture. The research suggests that the domestication of plants may have happened unconsciously.
🪨🌿What can a stone tool tell us about human–plant relationships in prehistory?
Join Dr Andrea Zupancich at the next free @ICArEHB LEXA Seminar to explore groundstone artifacts, food practices & cultural traditions.
2nd of September at 2pm
🔗 Register: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Co-organizing a session at #SAA San Francisco with T. Kovach: "Toward an Integration of Quantitative Approaches in #Lithic Analysis." A few spots still open! Abstracts due Sept. 4.
Email me if you’d like to join the conversation: armando.falcucci@nyu.edu
#Archaeology #FlintFriday #FossilFriday 🏺
[RDV 16h !] Des flûtes en os de vautour qui remontent à + de 35.000 ans jusqu’aux innovations d’aujourd’hui en passant par les lyres de l’époque gauloise, chaque époque a marqué l’histoire de la musique. Comment retracer cette évolution ? avec Laurent Davin et Julian Cuvilliez
