New paper,Vidrige Kandza Haneul Jang et al. In a Congolese village, a hunter's skill and the needs of his family predict inter-group cooperation in shotgun hunting. | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3wrJamQ

We recovered a total of 12 dipping wands made from 5 different plant species measuring between 39cm up to a whopping 1.5m! 😲

#primatearchaeology #chimpanzeetools #primatetooluse

The Leverhulme Trust Oxford Anthropology Oxford HumanSciences ICArEHB

We caught VAMPYRUM SPECTRUM!!!

Here is a good piece about free speech on campus from The Atlantic. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

🚨New paper alert!🚨 'Frequent disturbances enhanced the resilience of past human populations' - We analysed 30,000 years of history to understand how populations absorb and recover from disturbances Research @ Bournemouth University Bournemouth Uni

doi.org/10.1038/s41586… Gold OA:🔓

Great psychologist turned philosopher Mariel Goddu and I wrote this review of the development of human causal learning, 20 years worth of comparative, developmental, philosophical and computational work. Empowerment included. Free to read at this link. nature.com/articles/s4415…

The migration map of the American West is coming in to focus. This is from a new #deer #elk #pronghorn #moose #bison report by @usgs with state & Tribal partners. The open spots either don't have migrations, haven't been mapped, or data hasn't been shared. usgs.gov/news/national-…

The website for our new project COEXIST, studying #Neanderthal -Homo sapiens coexistence in central and southeast Europe is now live! Selected by European Research Council (ERC) and funded by UK Research and Innovation
research.reading.ac.uk/coexist/

Check out our new Open Access article: Best Practices for Publishing pXRF Analyses | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4b5LT4d

Over a month after the vote, the think pieces on the 'rejected' Anthropocene are still coming strong, so I wanted to take a moment to (finally!) offer some background and thoughts about the vote, the process, and what it all means.

If anyone attended this Homo floresiensis heavy session of AABA in Philadelphia in 2007 - and has particularly vivid memories of it - would you be willing to chat and share them with me?

I have a postdoc position available on our 'COREX: From correlations to explanations: towards a new European prehistory' grant: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…
... working at the intersection of archaeology, ancient DNA, computational modelling and stats

Arizona State University (ASU School of Life Sciences ) has opened a line for a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow position in comparative #genomics and One #Health . Looking for recent Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral recipients in the biological, computational, and genomic sciences to a future…

New OA paper now out in advances in archaeological practice on webscraping! doi.org/10.1017/aap.20…

Looking forward to presenting and meeting everyone in the session!

Interspecific competition played an important, previously ignored, and unusual role in hominin speciation and extinction - read my latest paper in NatureEcoEvo here: rdcu.be/dE0vz
Dept of Zoology Cambridge Archaeology