Our paper on the surface registration method applied to the Hahnöfersand frontal is out, showing the potential of this approach to analyze often neglected fragmentary remains.
Congrats to C. Röding & team!✨👏
#openaccess #humanevolution
@harvatilab.bsky.social @humanorigins.bsky.social
📢 Call for Papers! We invite submissions for special issue “Development, Evolution, and Comparative Anatomy of the Larynx.” This issue aims to highlight interdisciplinary work exploring the development, evolution, and structure–function relationships of the larynx across species.
📅 Deadline: Sep 15
Transmission of human handedness: a reanalysis | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The growing bookshelf of a Biological Anthropologist (more at home!)
#research #biology #anthropology
While >70% of bone strength variation is explained by structure, a new manuscript by Skedros et al shows that collagen fiber orientation (CFO) in deer calcanei also reflects compression vs. tension loading. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
22-02-2026: Museum day
Tate, London.
Turner-Constable exhibit!
#turner #constable
Cover of Ancient Mesoamerica journal, featuring an image of stone carvings. Beside it is the text "Ancient Mesoamerica" and "Paper of the Month".
The #PaperOfTheMonth from Ancient Mesoamerica is "Palace Diplomacy and Propaganda. A Comparison between Constantinople and Mexico-Tenochtitlan" by Erik Damián Reyes Morales and Edmundo Hernández-Vela, available #openaccess!
📚 https://cup.org/4kIpUX6
#Archaeology #AncientMesoamerica
15-02-2026, museum day:
Wallace Collection, London.
Reuben’s sketch of the Adoration of The Magi, with the full triptych at King’s College, Cambridge.
New paper by PI Dr. Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel and former BHEML postdoc Dr. Lauren Schroeder! The human chin is a unique; investigating why and how it formed helps us to better understand ourselves and our lineage!
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
11-02-2026:
Very interesting talk from @pennybickle.bsky.social about LBK burial practices in Neolithic Central Europe. Especially interested by the development of ‘bounded’ cemeteries from settlement burials, and the variation between them!
#BioAnthSeminar #Archaeology #Neolithic #Bioarchaeology
Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2026!
Join us for two days of all things Palaeolithic, Pleistocene and Early Human Origins at UCL Institute of Archaeology 19-20th June.
Call for papers is now open and tickets are on sale! Check out our website for more information.
sites.google.com/view/unravel...
06-02-2026:
Great PalMeso talk last night with @carlafigus.bsky.social on all things 3D morphometrics and bone morphometry!
30-01-2026: Talk 2.
Ethnomusicologist Dr Carol Pegg discusses Mongolian Throat-Singing!
#anthropology #ethnography
30-01-2026:
Great talk by Marco Vidal on human impacts on Pleistocene-Holocene environments in Iberia 😁
@PalMeso seminar series
#palaeoanthropology #humanevolution
Anatomical Society 2025 Winter Meeting @angliaruskin.bsky.social Chelmsford. Poster:
Anatomical Society Winter Meeting 2025 with colleagues from the Cambridge Human Anatomy Centre, and a great chance to present research with @Tom O'Mahoney!
Lovely new paper by @sarah-paris.bsky.social & Charles Higham "Ochre use in burial practices in Thailand, from Neolithic to the Iron Age" 😍!!
@cam-archaeology.bsky.social
Great time last night presenting more #humanevolution research at the Cambridge Anatomy Demonstrators Society (CADS) poster evening, with a great keynote talk by Dr Andrew Grainger (pictured front, middle).
This was followed by a formal at Christ’s college! #anatomy #biology
A Geometric Morphometric Study of Scapular Ontogeny in Modern Humans onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Great day 1 at the AnatSoc summer meeting @stjohnsox.bsky.social
Looking forward to more amazing seminars.
#biology #humanevolution #biologicalanthropology
Looking forward to attending the Anatomical Society summer meeting next week @stjohnsox.bsky.social, presenting my current research on basicranial variation!
#anatomicalsociety #humanevolution #humandiversity
Surface scans capture rotator cuff volume across hominoids; origin areas predict muscle size, paving the way for improved reconstructions. van Beesel, Melillo, and Vereecke's latest publication is now available in @journalofanatomy.bsky.social
A huge congratulations to all the #HumanEvo25 prize winners 👏
🎉 including Palaeotrails’s @avantikab.bsky.social who won a a prize for her poster Tracing Ancient Footsteps using sulphur isotopes 🏆
Round 2 of the poster pitch talks! 🚨
Including Palaeotrails' @sarah-paris.bsky.social Otto Geissier and Tom Van Parys
From reconstructing populations to Ronaldo, come and see the wide range of fascinating research on display!
#HumanEvo25
Fantastic time with @palaeotrails.bsky.social presenting my research, and listening to interesting talks from fossils to population genetics #HES2025
