🔥Before farming, hunter-gatherers already transformed nearly half of Europe’s #landscapes via burning and hunting!
Our new study using an #AI approach shows #Neanderthals began reshaping ecosystems; later foragers continued this process
👉 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
#Paleoecology #Anthropocene
So excited to announce the lineup of speakers here @heasvienna.bsky.social for the 2025/6 academic year! We have some outstanding speakers for our three seminar series in Archaelogical Science, Ancient Genomics and Human Evolution & the Palaeolithic. All hybrid! Register now at HEAS.at
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Had fun at my poster yesterday! Thanks for stopping by @adamvanc.bsky.social and thanks for the photo Philipp Gunz! #ESHE2025
Send me an email if you'd like a copy of either one!
Second on differentiating different types of Job's tears from Han Dynasty tombs, led by Jingwen Liao, in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany: doi.org/10.1007/s003...
Two new papers!
First on the origins of fire use, led by Femke Reidsma in a book celebrating the work of Wil Roebroeks: www.sidestone.com/books/intent...
The #ESHE2025 meeting in Paris starts tomorrow (please use this hashtag for sharing). If you are interested in the program, you find it here mcusercontent.com/9347aa3598d5... - Members have received an email for accessing the live stream! We hope you all enjoy the conference in person or online. /MW
We are getting ready for #ESHE2025 in Paris! 🎉
The #LHOSA #CoEvol #BrAIn team will share exciting new results on hominin evolution—talks & posters you do not want to miss.🧵👇 @palevoprim.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univpoitiers.bsky.social
Great news Frodo, Congratulations!!
🚨 Two PhD Positions Available!
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠
Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.
www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...
There are only a few days left to submit your abstract for #ESHE2025 — the deadline is Wednesday 14 May at 11:59 PM (PST). Looking forward to seeing you in Paris! Submit here: www.eshe.eu/abstract/
Please share these advertisements with your communities, and I'm very happy to answer any questions - my email is in the job ads!
They'll additionally be responsible for data management of the entire project, permitting for plant collection and human research, and public engagement activities. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
The post-doc / project manager will use the data collected by the PhD projects (and other sources) to run Agent Based Models exploring how plant properties and distributions may have influenced Homo erectus migration patterns, and compare these to other potential explanations for the migration.
For both PhDs, I'm looking for candidates who have their master degree in Anthropology, Archaeology, or related field, and some degree of lab experience. I'm particularly interested in those who are familiar with Optimal Foraging models, habitat reconstruction, and paleoecology.
The second PhD position will explore the costs and benefits of plant foods, through the nutritional analysis of wild plants and energetics experiments designed to measure the caloric costs of food collection and processing. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
The first PhD position will explore whether it's possible to find evidence of smoke, bee products, and fermentation in dental calculus, using a model system developed in my lab. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
The project explores how plants and other "sessile" foods may have structured how Homo erectus first migrated into western Eurasia.
I am offering two 4-year PhD positions (fully funded) and a 57 month combined post-doc / project manager position as part of my NWO-Vici grant, which starts in September.
I know there is some anxiety around how to protect yourself in light of Muskrat and his herd of shitler youth getting their hands on all our personal information so here are the steps you can take to protect yourself. I’ve seen these in various threads but thought it worth putting them together🧵 1/?
Here’s an interesting and important study on how fact-checking social media can lead to accusations of bias against right wing discourse - but it’s actually because that discourse is more likely to contain misinformation to start with. Paging @sheencr.bsky.social
Happy Birthday Mary Leakey!
#FossilFriday The Taung child found in South Africa, 1924. Raymond Dart published this in Nature #OTD in Feb. 1925 naming Australopithecus africanus, the "southern ape from Africa", and described this as “an extinct race of apes intermediate between living anthropoids and man"
...they are shutting off parts of GPS for funsies.
See 6th paragraph here.
Screenshot from "Letter from our correspondent" in "Papua New Guinea Courier"
The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
Best grant writing advice I ever received:
"Write your proposal as if someone from a completely different field will search through it looking for 100 banned words"
You might find good resources here: www.diamondopen.com/journals-list/, and there's also a list specifically for archaeology (though with some anthro overlap) here: diamond.open-archaeo.info
Some important statistics and information for those thinking about submitting to the PaleoAnthropology journal.
PaleoAnthropology has a >20 year-history as a community owned, diamond open access, peer-reviewed journal.
No fees, no subscription.
We look forward to your papers!
