Next Wednesday, #ICArEHB welcomes Louise Leakey for a free public seminar on the Turkana Basin, at 16:30 in the Teresa Gamito Auditorium, Gambelas Campus, University of Algarve, Faro.
The seminar is free and open to the public.
#Paleoanthropology #HumanEvolution #TurkanaBasin

#ICArEHB welcomes Bernard Wood on 28 April at 11:00 for a lecture on reconstructing the history of human evolution at the University of Algarve, Faro. Free, open to the public, and in English.
#Paleoanthropology #HumanOrigins #HumanEvolution

🎉 Congrats to Roxane Matias on successfully defending her PhD thesis at ICArEHB, University of Algarve!
A proud achievement in archaeological research.
#PhD #Archaeology #PhDDefense

✨Thinking about a career beyond academia?✨
📢 Join us for #AltAc Paths on 11 May 16:00 GMT

🎤 Sarah-Louise Decrausaz – research strategy & funding
🎤 Alice Novello – project management & outreach
💬 Career stories + live Q&A

🔗 Join via Zoom | zoom.us/j/9429649076...

🌍 Interdisciplinary #FieldSchool in #HumanEvolution at #Gorongosa National Park, #Mozambique, 12–24 July 2026.
A unique opportunity in #Primatology, #Paleoanthropology, and #Archaeology.
📝 Application deadline: 30 April 2026
🔗 fchs.ualg.pt/curso/3001
#Research #ICArEHB #UAlg

#ICArEHB welcomes Louise Leakey on 22 April for a seminar on the #TurkanaBasin and the #OriginsOfHumanity, sharing major discoveries that have transformed our understanding of #HumanEvolution. Free and open to the public.

🧬 Europe’s Late Neanderthals descended from a single population.
New research featuring ICArEHB researchers Alvise Barbieri, Ricardo Miguel Godinho, and Flora Schilt shows that Europe’s last Neanderthals shared a common genetic lineage.
Read more: www.icarehb.com/portfolio/eu...

🗺️ SASSI: New database of Southern African Stone Age sites! #ICArEHB Emily Hallinan in J Open Archaeology Data: doi.org/10.5334/joad... #StoneAge #OpenScience

Sheep and goat management practices at Perdigões (Southern Portugal, 4th millennium BC) via sequential carbon and oxygen isotopic analyses of tooth enamel - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences The archaeological site of Perdigões (Reguengos de Monsaraz, Portugal) was a centre of social and ceremonial importance with diverse funeral traditions from the middle 4th to the 3rd millennium BC. Pr...

🐑 Sheep/goat herding at Neolithic Perdigões via tooth isotopes? #ICArEHB Adriana Leite, Rosalind Gillis, Cláudia Relvado & António Valera (w/ Almeida) in Archaeol Anthropol Sci: doi.org/10.1007/s125... #Neolithic #Zooarchaeology

ICArEHB researcher @veraaldeias.bsky.social is featured in Le Monde on one of prehistory’s key questions: when did humans really master fire? 🔥
FR article: www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
#Paleoanthropology #Neanderthal #HumanEvolution

#MEDZooarch Symposium brought together 80-100 #Zooarchaeology researchers. Cláudia Costa and Roz Gillis (organizers), Adriana Leite (presenter) & Milena Carvalho (chair) represented #ICArEHB. Co-organized with Mardin Artuklu, Córdoba & DAI. 🦴 #Zooarchaeology

🪨 Early Oldowan tech thrived during Pliocene environmental change in Kenya’s Turkana Basin.
#ICArEHB researchers Jonathan S. Reeves, René Bobe & Susana Carvalho with D. R. Braun et al. in Nature Communications: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41188262/
#Oldowan #HumanEvolution #StoneTools

🎉 ICArEHB is joining the party!
30 years of MSCA. 150,000+ researchers. 7 projects that changed how we understand humanity.
#MSCA30 #ICArEHB #UAlg #EUResearch #Archaeology

🪨 Earliest Oldowan toolmakers selected distant stone sources? #ICArEHB Jonathan S. Reeves (w/ Finestone, Plummer et al.) in Science Advances: doi.org/10.1126/scia... #Lithics #Archaeology

Last month #ICArEHB's Osman Khaleel presented communications at the #UNESCO Cultural Heritage of Human Adaptations conference in Egypt (2025).
#Archaeology #CulturalHeritage

🐂 Fascinated by the symbolic role of animals in the Neolithic world? Develop your #PhD with #ICArEHB through the #FCT #PhD #Fellowships 2026.
🔗 More info: www.icarehb.com/fct-phd-fell...
#Archaeology #Neolithic #HumanEvolution #ScienceCareers #PhDLife

Stone tool shaping without cultural transmission? #ICArEHB Nolan Ferar in J Archaeol Sci: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja... #Lithics #Archaeology

🎉 Congratulations to Anastasia Eleftheriadou on successfully defending her PhD at ICArEHB! Well done, Dr. Eleftheriadou! 🎓

#Archaeology #PhD #PhDDefense #NewDoctor

⛰️Drawn to the landscapes where human evolution unfolded in Eastern Africa? Develop your #PhD with #ICArEHB through the #FCT #PhD #Fellowships 2026.
🔗 More info: www.icarehb.com/fct-phd-fell...

#Geoarchaeology #HumanEvolution #Paleoecology #ScienceCareers #PhDLife

🦴 Passionate about fossil mammals and human evolution in Africa? Develop your #PhD with #ICArEHB through the #FCT #PhD #Fellowships 2026.
🔗 More info: www.icarehb.com/fct-phd-fell...
#Archaeology #Paleoecology #HumanEvolution #ScienceCareers #PhDLife

🌍 Could prehistoric communities have reorganised in response to earthquakes?
#ICArEHB researchers Barbieri, Sánchez Martínez, Belmiro, Galfi, Horta, Cascalheira & Bicho find earliest evidence of seismic adaptation at Vale Boi.
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s125...
#Palaeolithic #Iberia #HumanAdaptation

🦷 Curious about what prehistoric teeth can reveal about diet and daily life in Meso-Neolithic Iberia? Develop your #PhD with #ICArEHB through the #FCT #PhD #Fellowships 2026.
🔗 More info: www.icarehb.com/fct-phd-fell...
#Archaeology #Research #Prehistory #ScienceCareers #PhDLife

Anthony E. Marks (1938–2025): Pioneer of the Palaeolithic - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology -

🪨 What made Anthony Marks one of the most influential Palaeolithic archaeologists of the 20th century?
#ICArEHB researchers Jeff Rose & Nuno Bicho (w/ Usyk & Winchell) pay tribute in Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology.
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s419...
#Palaeolithic #Archaeology

🌏 #ICArEHB's Sofia Fonseca was an invited speaker at the International Forum on Liangzhu and World Civilizations in Hangzhou, China — sharing perspectives on #CulturalHeritageTourism as Secretary-General of #ICOMOS ICTC. 🏛️

🥳 A huge well done to Humphrey Nyambiya for successfully defending his PhD thesis at ICArEHB! Congratulations on this incredible achievement, Dr. Nyambiya! 🎓

#Archaeology #PhD #PhDDefense #NewDoctor

🌍 #ICArEHB researcher Sofia Fonseca co-chaired “Archaeological Heritage and Sustainable Tourism” at the ICAHM Meeting (Chile, 16 May 2025), presenting on the ICOMOS 2022 Charter and the ONLAAH MOOC for heritage training.

Celebrating the women at ICArEHB, then and now.

From childhood curiosity to careers uncovering the past, we’re proud of the women shaping archaeology at ICArEHB.

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 💜
#WomenInScience #EveryVoiceInScience #11February

Bayesian Inference of Sex-Specific Mortality Profiles and Product Yields from Unsexed Cattle Zooarchaeological Remains - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Zooarchaeological age-at-death profiles for domesticated ruminants can be inferred from tooth eruption, replacement, and wear. These profiles contain important information on slaughter management and ...

🐄 Bayesian inference reveals sex-specific yields from ancient cattle bones? #ICArEHB #Zooarchaeology #Bayesian #OpenScience Rosalind Gillis in J Archaeol Method Theory: doi.org/10.1007/s108...

Exploring ancient Amazonia!
Last month #ICArEHB member Grace Ellis presented “The Way to the Water is a Wharf” in Washington, D.C., revealing how wharfs, canals, and roads shaped pre-Columbian connectivity.
#Archaeology #Amazonia

🏛️ Infrastructure before cities in the Americas? #ICArEHB Associated Student Grace Ellis in Journal of World Prehistory: doi.org/10.1007/s109...