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LOST IN TRANSLATION, within #UISPP2026 Poznań. Join us to discuss how Middle Palaeolithic terminology is used and understood in different regions of the world.
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Join our session: "Palaeolithic adaptations to Asian Mountain environments"
during #UISPP2026 Poznań.
All research perspectives and approaches are welcome
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4-year postdoc position in INASIA ERC project for a lithic specialist who would like to join our Central Asian research group at @UniWarszawski
with her/his expertise in lithic technology studies. Application deadline 30.11.2025. Find out more here:
inasia.uw.edu.pl/we-are-hirin...

We are hiring!
Five open positions for researchers in the INASIA project. We are looking for 4 postdocs and a doctoral candidate to join our team starting March 2026.
Check out the details at: inasia.uw.edu.pl/we-are-hirin...
We'll be holding an info session soon, stay tuned and spread the word!

it was quite a hike.

Dziękuję Pani Redaktor Zawadzkiej z @forumakademickie.bsky.social za dobrą rozmowę.

Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs - Nature Analyses of ancient human DNA show that cultural and political transformations in Central Europe during the second half of the first millennium ce were associated with movements of Slavic populations into Germany, Poland and Croatia.

Nature research paper: Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs

go.nature.com/3I5LjKN

While walking through the mountains one can collect a nice comparative collection at once. After 6-dau trek we have a skulls of capra sibirica and sus scrofa and a half of ursus arctos issabelinus.

Faecal biomarkers as evidence of human presence in the caves of Kraków-Częstochowa Upland This study investigates past human presence at cave sites by analysing faecal biomarkers—specifically sterols, bile acids and phosphorus—and compares …

And here it is. The second part of Natalia Gryczewska's PhD thesis, "Faecal biomarkers as evidence of human presence in cave sites," was published in JAS www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... I am so proud of you, girl.

When you uncover new archaeological horizons with bones, combustion structures and MP blades the only thing you can do is… dance!

#ERCResearch #HorizonEU #ERC #Archaeology #Uzbekistan #HumanHistory #InterdisciplinaryResearch #Fieldwork

with such a great team and amazing findings, all one can do is dance.

The Kiik Kamar (Uzbekistan) excavations

#ERC #archeology #research #HorizonEurope

This season we excavate Kiik Kamar Cava in south-eastern Uzbekistan.
It is circa 100sqm single chamber cave with a big triangular entrance heading west.

photos by @hermano

#erc #ExcellentScience #HorizonEurope #ArcheologicalResearch

Fieldwork - Day 3
Basecamp

Due to unbelievable hospitality of Uzbek people in Kashkadarya our team had the oportunity to set up a basecamp in a nice private garden. A little bit more work and the basecamp with a mobile lab is ready.

video by @hermano
#expedition #ERC #archeology #excavations

Zandra, you are as great donkey keeper as a team companion. It was a great joy to have you with us. It's a pity you couldn't stay longer.

⛏️ 3 years of pilot studies
🔦16 Central Asian caves
⛰️10 test trenches
🧗🏾‍♂️200km of high mountain treks through Tian Shan and Pamir-Alay

... and here we start our outstanding scientific journey with the ERC Consolidator Grant @erc.europa.eu INASIA housed at @UniversityofWarsaw

There is no treshold here. It all depends on your scope. If you wanna really read scar by scar- drop it. No point. Especially when combine these results and our previous JAS paper "Can we read stones?". But if you do it to determine generał knapping scheme it should work with average error rate.

We also created a dedicated web app where you can test your error rate in diacritic analysis. Check out the FlintReader:
flintreader.archeologia.uw.edu.pl

Ca 5% of all analysed scars are too difficult to identify their relative chronology.

The error rate differs due to the directionality of scars, raw material and the length of the ridge.

The errors are made not randomly but mostly in specific-difficult places.

But the average error rate is higher among beginners (25%) than experts (15%).

we found out that the average error rate in the diacritic analysis of lithics is 21%.

Check out our final results on the reliability of the diacritic approach in lithics. We tested how many errors beginners and experts make, which factors impede the outcome, and gave some hints. For more, scroll

sciencedirect.com/science/articl

Is it the first sign of a big change or the cry of despair of the last righteous? I hope for the first one. Using AI for editing & proof without authors consent is far beyond the standards

Consolidator Grants: ERC awards €678m in grants to back excellent research across Europe The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded its 2024 Consolidator Grants to 328 researchers across Europe. These grants, totalling €678 million, aim to support outstanding scientists and scholars ...

I am thrilled to share the news that I was awarded #ERC_Consolidator Grant for studying the problem of Initial Upper Palaeolithic in Central Asia. Stay tuner for #INASIA project
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...