A morphological analysis of the modern human frontal bone from Hahnöfersand, Germany - Scientific Reports Frontal bone morphology is considered informative concerning phylogenetic and taxonomic affinities in hominin fossils. However, evaluating individual frontal bone features, especially macroscopically ...

Our paper on the surface registration method applied to the Hahnöfersand frontal is out, showing the potential of this approach to analyze often neglected fragmentary remains.

Congrats to C. Röding & team!✨👏

#openaccess #humanevolution

@harvatilab.bsky.social @humanorigins.bsky.social

✨🎉Huge congratulations to Dr. Laura Limmer, the most recent PhD graduate from the Tübingen Paleoanthropology group! Well done Laura!!👩‍🎓👏

Geographical overview of the study site.

One of the primary biogeographical corridors for hominin migration.

Drilling the Marathousa palaeo-lake in Greece (Peloponnese): inferring the environmental context of a Middle Pleistocene archaeological site 🏺🧪
Ines Bludau, @katharv.bsky.social et al
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Wonderful to be in Ferrara this week to present the wood tools from Marathousa 1 to the Hugo Obermaier conference 😀

Serena @serena-lombardo.bsky.social presented her exciting research on technical behavior at Apidima (Cave C) at the Hugo Obermaier Conference in Ferrara! 🌍⛏️⚱️
Congratulations to Serena and all colleagues, great work! ✨️🙏🏼
#lithics #archaeology

Hello from Ferrara ✨🇮🇹
Katerina and Serena are attending the Hugo Obermaier Conference and presenting results from Apidima and Marathousa 1 🌍💀🪨🦴⛏️ @katharv.bsky.social @serena-lombardo.bsky.social

Drilling the Marathousa palaeo‐lake in Greece (Peloponnese): inferring the environmental context of a Middle Pleistocene archaeological site The Megalopolis Basin is located in the central Peloponnese (Greece), a region that is situated along one of the primary Pleistocene biogeographical corridors for intracontinental hominin migration. ...

✨I am so pleased that our latest paper on the Megalopolis basin and its paleoenvironment is published online today in Boreas! 🐘🏔️✨
Many congratulations to Ines Bludau and the entire team! 🎉👏

Happy April from Tübingen!!! 🌷🪷🌸🐝👒
I guess the joke is on us - today we are getting some of the heaviest snow we've had all year...🌨️🥶

There is still time to apply!💼📝Deadline: April 6, 2026⌛
#jobalert #Humanevolution #academia

So wonderful to be in Thessaloniki again, at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Geology Dept! 🦴💀
Thank you to D. Kostopoulos for hosting me and for a great collaboration! 🙏

✨Thank you to Annika Thiem and Agnes Fatz for all their work organizing the @humanorigins.bsky.social retreat!! 🙏

Kicking things off! 💥 Our first HUMAN ORIGINS Cluster of Excellence retreat (back in February) brought everyone together! 🔗🤲👥We can’t wait for what’s next!🚀

📢 Another #jobalert from the new Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS, University of Tübingen. 💼

Independent Junior Group Leader in Ethics Laboratory.

📅Deadline: April 6th, 2026
🔗 Link:
shorturl.fm/EXRxc

Please forward to interested potential candidates!🔄

New job opportunities at the HUMAN ORIGINS Cluster of Excellence, University of Tübingen!

Indeed

Congratulations to the University of Tübingen on being awarded once more the status of Excellent University!!! ✨🎉

Check out the recent publication from the Cluster’s main spokesperson, Katerina Harvati, and team, on the earliest evidence for hand-held wood tools from Greece, dated to ca. 430 ka! 🪵⛏️🌍
🔗Link to the publication:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#archeology #anthropology #research

There is still some time to apply!
Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨

🚨There is still time to apply! Deadline March 11

Huge congratulations to Stephanie Lismann on defending her PhD - well deserved! 🎉

I was extremely honored to present my long term research in Greece at the gathering of the Omoioi of Mani yesterday, who recognized me as an honorary member. It was a great pleasure and honor!

Exposure to burn injuries played key role in shaping human evolution, study suggests Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme inj...

Human populations may have had unique adaptations to burn injuries due to long-term evolution in high-risk proximity to fire. I wonder if we also developed a degree of enhanced resistance to long-term smoke inhalation? 🏺
phys.org/news/2026-02...

A Nordic Perspective on AMOC Tipping This report is the outcome of the Nordic Council of Minister’s sponsored workshop arranged in October 21-24, 2025 in Helsinki and Rovaniemi, Finland as part of Finland’s council presidency theme resil...

While I am delighted to see this work published after collaborating with some of the field's greatest scientists, I am deeply unsettled by the consequences a potential AMOC collapse would have on communities and ecosystems. Here is to hoping global leaders take note. pub.norden.org/temanord2026...

Oldest wooden tools may have been used to butcher elephants Branches sharpened 400,000 years ago shine light on humans’ early toolmaking

That's a name to keep in mind: Sorry Schöningen spears, but there's a new top dog in town - the #Marathousa tools from southern #Greece may have been used to butcher elephants ... 400,000 years ago:

🏺 www.science.org/content/arti... by @andrewcurry.com for science.org

🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS':

uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨

Scientists recover the oldest wooden tools from a site in Greece Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back 430,000 years.

Two wooden tools dating back 430,000 years have been uncovered at a lakeshore site in Greece, offering rare insight into early human technology and tool use. doi.org/hbmjbx

The artwork that illustrated our PNAS paper on the oldest wooden tools was made by Gleiver Prieto, who has also worked with me on illustrations for previous projects, including the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Marathousa 1.
Gleiver's art really brings Pleistocene Megalopolis to life ✨ 🤩

Thank you @andrewcurry.com for covering the research and to colleagues for contributing their thoughts!

Artistic reconstruction by G. Prieto of a Palaeolithic woman producing a digging stick at the Marathousa site from a small alder tree trunk with a small stone tool (copyright K. Harvati).

Evidence for the earliest hominin use of wooden handheld tools found at Marathousa 1 (Greece) | PNAS The Middle Pleistocene (MP; ca. 774 to 129 ka) marks a critical period of human evolution, characterized by increasing behavioral complexity and th...

It was such a privilege to get to work on this amazing material from an incredible site and team - now the earliest handheld wooden tools in the archaeological record, taking evidence back to 430,000 years! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...