Les archéologues et cette tendance à considérer leur métier comme apolitique et leur recherche s'effectuant dans une bulle coupée de toute influence extérieure, c'est quelque chose quand même.

Archaeologists Against Apartheid urgent call for action! We are not anonymous. We are members of both the EAA&global archaeological community and more committed than ever to holding our representative organisations to account and anti-democratic influences.

aaaeaastatementseptember3rd.tiiny.site

Detrás de la posición de la EAA sobre Gaza están un antiguo presidente, Svend Hansen, y su actual presidenta, Eszter Bánffy. Ambos firmaron en abril de 2024 una carta en apoyo de las acciones de Israel en Gaza. Boicot @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social

It is very sad to see @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social supporting Zionism and censorship. If there is no change and no serious apology, this will be the last time I participate here. Always against genocide and occupation. FREE PALESTINE. #EAA2025

La doble vara de medir de
@archaeologyeaa.bsky.social
ya era preocupante en 2024, pero este año es insoportable la hipocresía y el apoyo sin paliativos de estos descerebrados a un genocidio y su intento de silenciarlo. Vergüenza y repulsa ante todos los miembros de la directiva de la EAA.

New evidence from Blombos Cave published by a team including our colleague @fderrico.bsky.social and his colleagues from Bergen: "Unveiling the multifunctional use of ochre in the Middle Stone Age: Specialized ochre retouchers from Blombos Cave" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Unveiling the multifunctional use of ochre in the Middle Stone Age: Specialized ochre retouchers from Blombos Cave Seven ochre artifacts from Blombos Cave show evidence of lithic retouching and pressure flaking, revealing specialized MSA tools.

www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Size Matters? The Winged and Stemmed Points Case YouTube video by EXARC

We always knew that joke with "Size matters" and projectile points was going to be really easily reproduced but we were first there!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

youtu.be/ZGjzVFsAHbM?...

Only for true neanderthal enjoyers! Checking some archaeological Late Middle Paleolithic assemblages from the Dordogne área. Thrilled with the reffitings and the state of conservation of these materials!

Next stop was the mighty Bergerac. This people do not joke with raw material... First flinthunt inmersion was succesfull. About 400 kg of top quality Bergerac flint gathered with a mate. Creating a nice stock for the next two months here!

New adventure! Heading to Les Eyzies for my PhD stage at the INRAP headquarters in Campagne. First stop for gathering some nice Iparralde flysch flint. This variety of flint (but other outcrops) was knapped on key sites like Isturitz, Le Prissé or Chemin de Jupiter.

This is what I usually call a "gañanada histórica", imposible to translate from spanish. Just weird Quina neandertales doing their things... Patinated flint from northern Spain

The latest issue of PaleoAnthropology is now out! #openaccess
Volume 2025, Issue 1, In Progress

Read Here: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/issue/view/91

#paleoanthropology #humanevolution #archaeology

Okey then really nice indeed!

Really awesome! How is the striking platform? From my POV looks more likely that the big spall could have been detached naturally... The scar on the "core" looks like a heavy crushed hit. This sometimes happens on open air sites with erosive processes still going on...

#FlintFriday in Luxor

Groundbreaking research
on Homo erectus
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

#OldupaiGorge
BED III:

Using sedimentology, geochemistry, Ar/Ar dating, biome simulations, fire history, paleobotany, fauna, and lithics, we reveal how hominins navigated extreme environments in northern Tanzania 1 Ma

A great article by @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social in Behavioral and Brain Sciences doi.org/10.1017/S014... on the link between past material culture and cognition in light of contemporary hunter–gatherer material use - including 21 (!) comments #Archaeology #anthropology #evolution #cognition

Back to work and It was a day full of black chert industry from Middle Paleolithic levels of El Esquilleu Cave. Here a nice Quina scraper on a very solid piece of chert. Definitely not the best material to scrape with, though...

We would like to let you know that we are organizing a dedicated session (#229) on the phenomenon of Cores-on-flakes Flakes (CoFs) in the Middle Palaeolithic and Middle Stone Age at the EAA in Belgrade (https://www.e-a-a.org/eaa2025).   The session title is “Cores-on-Flakes during the Middle Palaeolithic and Middle Stone Age: Technology, Raw materials economy and/or functional purposes”. In this session, we want to discuss and compare the technical choice of using flakes as cores to produce various end-products (including small flakes), through different geographical, temporal and cultural contexts of the Middle Palaeolithic and Middle Stone Age. Specific case studies employing a technological, techno-economic, techno-functional, or functional approach are very welcome. We additionally would be delighted about contributions adding experimental data to this topic and broader reflections on the behavioural significance.

📢 Call for papers! #EAABelgrade - Session #229

Join us with the great Viola Schmid to discuss Cores-on-Flakes during the Middle Palaeoltihic and Middle Stone Age!

Deadline for submission: *6 February*

www.e-a-a.org/eaa2025/

@archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @eaapam.bsky.social #UISPP

Qué pena lo de las prisas, imagino que es una oportunidad casi única y de la que se podría sacar muchísima info tecnofuncional con el tiempo de preparación adecuado... Los moldes de silicona los usáis para analizar a posteriori con confocal o qué?

Qué chulada!!! Habrá sido una experiencia súper emocionante! Por curiosidad, quién talló las líticas?