Oh hey. Look at that! So many fabulous ancient doggies! We love our dogs and so did our palaeolithic ancestors.
Huge congrats to the amazing people who contributed to the sister studies revealing the deep time of fuzzy tummies.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is figure 1 from “Genomic history of early dogs in Europe.” It shows genomic screening identifies early dogs in Europe.
Domesticated dogs were already widely distributed in western Eurasia at least 14,200 years ago, according to two studies published in Nature. The papers report the oldest known dog genomes to date.
go.nature.com/4lWrxBe
go.nature.com/3NPY9zE
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Ja... und halt auch so absehbar. Klar wird eine so bekannte Größe wie Sarah Engels gegen die ganzen unbekannteren Acts gewinnen.
Echt enttäuschend - mit so nem generischen Lied.
German Vorentscheid: Zero Points.
#ESC #Eurovision #Vorentscheid
Eight stone points, all different shapes and colours.
Projectile points from the highland wetlands (bofedales) and salt flats of the Dry Puna of northern Chile.
Vital sources of food and raw materials for both hunter-gatherers and pastoralists, the wetlands were occupied over 12,000 years ago.
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🏺 #Archaeology
We've enjoyed reading the first few abstracts submitted to us over the last week - if you have something you'd like to present follow the link for our call for papers!
sites.google.com/view/unravel...
Together with Krist Vaesen, I have written some words of caution about #replication in lithic analysis. We fear that the way the issue has been taken up in #Palaeolithic #archaeology can narrow the scope of disciplinary inquiry 🏺🧪🦣
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🚩Post-doctorat "biologie et taphonomie des fossiles humains du Paléolithique récent et du Mésolithique du Sud-Ouest de la France"
"Biology and taphonomy of Mesolithic and Upper Palaeolithic human fossils from the South-West of France"
contact bruno.maureille@u-bordeaux.fr
Now Open: SSH Doctoral Recruitment Call 2026
40+ fully funded 4yr PhD positions @univie.ac.at
careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...
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Contact me for #Palaeolithic projects!
palaeo.univie.ac.at
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 authors conclude by providing recommendations on how we can all contribute to helping women reach representation at proportions that reflect their growing numbers in the field of archaeology.
Data suggest that women continue to face personal & systemic barriers to participation; they're underrepresented in participation related to their representation in the field of archaeology overall; & they may not be invited into prestigious roles by their colleagues as often as their male peers.
OPEN ACCESS in @saa-aap.bsky.social: This team analyzed 22 years of data from the annual meeting of the SAA to examine how women's participation has changed over time.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Theory, Culture & Society. 6ICYMI: Rakesh Sengupta, 'Towards a Decolonial Media Archaeology: The Absent Archive of Screenwriting History and the Obsolete Munshi'. (Open Access).
Much has been written about how Foucault's archaeology of the modern episteme, emerging from early 19th-century Europe,
🗄️ Digital Archives Assistant Position
📍 University of York, United Kingdom
Work on digital preservation, archaeological data, & heritage archives
🎓 GCSE education + digital literacy (degree desirable)
📅 Deadline: 15 February 2026
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#Archaeology #HigherJobz @york.ac.uk
Hi everyone!
I am researching how AI and the 'vibe coding' phenomenon are redefining archaeological work in 2026.
Could you help me by filling out this brief survey? It only takes a few minutes:
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Please feel free to share this with your colleagues
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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...
📺 Streaming tip: Coastal #archaeology & the future of the oceans. What can sunken settlements and ancient coastlines teach us about climate change? Watch @niklashausmann.bsky.social talk, now on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/live/x82KOsN...
#VoicesForClimate #LEIZArchaeology
‼️#thread about an analysis of Turkish #archaeology as an example about the remaining #exclusiveness of that discipline: no #decolonisation, no #equity, a truly dreadful picture that certainly not just applies to archaeology in Turkey.
Read! Reconsider! Reframe!
💡📢New publication!
The editorial for the special issue of #EAZ 59(2) addresses the issue of 'turns' in #archaeology as trends, inviting critical discussion on whether they are passing fads or productive shifts in archaeological #theory
doi.org/10.54799/YTR...
#anthropology #research #ontology
It was such a privilege to get to work on this amazing material from an incredible site and team - now the earliest handheld wooden tools in the archaeological record, taking evidence back to 430,000 years! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Indigenous People, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Climate Change: The Iconic Underwater Cultural Heritage of Stone Tidal Weirs Project Group. #oceanspast #OceanAction46159 #maritimeheritage #IndigenousPeoples #oceandecadeheritage
oceandecadechfp.org/.../indigeno...
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Delighted to launch a new Research Topic with Dr Mariana Nabais!
Pushing the Boundaries: Coastal Adaptation during the Palaeolithic is now open for submissions in Frontiers in Environmental Science.
Submit your article by the 30th of September 2026: www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
Call for Session - UISPP 2026 - Poznan (Poland)
Deadline extented until November 30!
Please consider submit something in the scope of the Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age Commision 🌟
► uispp2026.syskonf.pl
#UISPP2026
Picture of 6 postgrad students sat at a table in a lab studying bones. Text says: The UCL Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic (PaPa) MSc programme is an established, pioneering course in human origins delivered by a world-leading university. It will bring you a deep and expert understanding of the scientific record of human evolution which powerfully combines opportunities for the study of palaeolithic archaeology, palaeoanthropology and wider scientific approaches to the early human story. Coordinated by UCL’s Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology departments and drawing on expertise from across the University and other institutions, it will provide you with training in the specialisms of your choice, while also ensuring you are introduced to the wider scope of approaches to the study of human evolution. Having run now for over 15 years, we have PaPa alumni actively leading a new generation of human origins research across the world. Our programme is a proven springboard to PhD programmes, careers in academia, archaeological science, specialist archaeological fieldwork, science media and much more.
Applications are now open to join our 2026 Master's programme in human evolution. Covering the Palaeolithic, Palaeoanthropology & other key disciplines, the course is taught by experts from UCL and designed to equip you for a career in the deep human past. #PaPa
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Different kinds of lithic tools (scrapers, endscrapers & bifacial points), predominantly made from obsidian.
At Upper Palaeolithic Helong Dadong 🇨🇳 they loved their obsidian tools! From over 800 27,300-24,100-year-old microblades, 94.7% were made from obsidian, indicating close ties to the obsidian-rich environment of the Changbaishan Mountains.
🔗 from 2024 (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
I hope that you will all find the result equally inspiring and enriching for yourself and the fields of palaeoanthropology, human evolutionary studies, and Palaeolithic archaeology.
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Abadia...
Close-up image of a sandstone surface with flecks of blue on it.
#FindsFriday Researchers found traces of blue pigment on this 13,000-year-old artefact from Mühlheim-Dietesheim, Germany. It questions the idea that Palaeolithic artists only used red or black, painting a picture of a more vibrant Ice Age world than previously imagined.
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Close-up image of a sand coloured stone, with a diagonal crack. The sand rock has a textured surface, and small spots of blue can be seen towards the centre of the stone. The background is grey.
Microscopic photo of the blue spots, that are irregular in shape and size and positioned diagonally across the image. The rest of the photo shows the rough sand coloured texture of the stone.
Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵
Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
