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Topic: optical profilometry of use-wear traces on prehistoric stone tools, methodological development and archaeological application, integration with other methods used in TraceoLab

The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes.

She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.

Esta noticia es una desgracia para Sudán y para el mundo. A continuación os muestro diez de los objetos excepcionales que custodiaba y que quizá han desaparecido para siempre:->

+1....jijiiji qué fuerte!!

📺Hoy La Revuelta de @rtvecom.bsky.social ha entrevistado a Ignacio de la Torre, investigador en el CCHS-CSIC

🦴Su equipo del #CSIC lidera el estudio que ha descubierto nuevos hallazgos de que ya se producían herramientas de hueso de manera habitual hace 1,5 millones de años

#CienciaenPrimeTime 👇

Systematic bone tool production at 1.5 million years ago

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

congrats!!

Many thanks Michael! I agree with you, multi-year studies can offer very interesting outcomes.

Wild chimpanzees remember and revisit concealed, underground army ant nest locations throughout multiple years - Communications Biology Wild chimpanzees revisit hidden, subterraneous army ant nests and inspect them in search of ants through several years, suggesting that they use spatial and episodic-like memory to exploit concealed s...

Super happy to see this paper finally published!!! 🙌🙌 How do chimpanzees in the wild find hidden food resorces, like army ants? Check it out to get an answer😉👇

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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A Palaeolithic #Archaeology & Human Origins people starter pack!

Nearly 80 people here, if you work in these fields and want to be added, let me know (I'm keeping the list to trained/ qualified professional/academic/researchers etc at the moment)

go.bsky.app/6hXVX57

Intriguing Occupations at Gran Dolina (Atapuerca, Spain): the Acheulean Subunits TD10.3 and TD10.4 - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology This paper presents the zooarchaeological, technological, use-wear, and spatial analyses of the earliest sedimentary subunits of TD10 (TD10.3 and TD10.4) of the Gran Dolina site (Sierra de Atapuerca, ...

New paper is out! 📢 Check it out for knowing more about levels TD10.3 and TD10.4 (Gran Dolina, Atapuerca)

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Snapshot of EAA's statement of selection process for sessions submitted to the #EAA2024

After receiving a record-breaking number of 535 sessions submitted for #EAA2024, the EAA Executive Board has issued a STATEMENT on the evaluation and selection of the sessions. Please find the full statement in link below.

Biocrusts protect the Great Wall of China from erosion Natural-born biocrusts cover a large proportion of the Great Wall and protect this human heritage from erosion as a shelter.

Interesting new paper looking at how biocrusts protect the Great Wall of China from erosion 👇

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Were Neanderthals soulful inventors or strange cannibals? To understand the true otherness of Neanderthals, researchers must rethink the meaning they give to their archaeological finds, argues a new book. To understand the true otherness of Neanderthals, res...

My 📚 review of The Naked Neanderthal by Ludovic Slimak is now out:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...