In 2021 #Saraswazi undertook a survey in the Mgwayiza Valley #Eswatini . Besides countless #StoneAge and #IronAge sites we documented a #GreenChert outcrop, used by people for more than 40.000 years for the production of #StoneTools . Senckenberg Research
DAI Jörg Linstädter🌞

Happy Monday!

Today, we feature the students selected to participate in HOMER Student Summer Field Research at Boomplaas Cave during May and June 2024.

Now it is official - you can even win prizes Cambridge Archaeology with Holley Shelter 😂 Well done Marina Z. G. for taking this stunning picture of the site with Gregor Bader in the front on top! #Archaeology #excavation

I forgot to share this earlier, but I recently won something at Cambridge, thanks to the stunning beauty of Holley Shelter site 💚 📸! :) Gregor Bader Manuel Will Cambridge University Press - Archaeology

Happy World African Heritage Day!

Proclaimed by the 38th session of the General Conference of UNESCO, African World Heritage Day is an opportunity for people around the world, and particularly Africans, to celebrate the Continent’s irreplaceable cultural and natural heritage.

#SecretsOfTheNeanderthals is out TODAY on Netflix - feat Shanidar ⛏️ 💀, Bruniquel 🪨🔥 & more!
I'm in Cambridge Archaeology with one of the doc's 🌟s Emma Pomeroy, we'll be doing a live watch-along from c. 5pm BST & taking your Qs on here!

Our little #Paranthropus mandibles are in the cover 😍!
with Lucia Nadal, Louise Leakey & Meave Leakey

Special thanks to National Museums of Kenya and Tom Mukhuyu, Katerina The Harvati lab at University of Tübingen, nice reviewers & having a true open science journal in our field 🥰🥳

paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/…

Thanks to the generous support of The Leakey Foundation, PAST AFRICA, and U.S. National Science Foundation, we have 18 incredible students lined up for the 2024 field season at Boomplaas Cave. Ready for a season of exploration, discovery, and unforgettable experiences starting May 12th.

Out now!
What is new in the Aterian?
A functional view on tool use, hafted stone tool technologies and assemblage variability at Ifri n’Ammar within the context of the Northwest African Middle Stone Age #msa
Sonja Tomasso
#kaak_dai FAAK20
Further info👇
dainst.org/newsroom/noslu…

📢 Publication alert for PaleoAnthropology Volume 2024, Issue 1 - all diamond #OpenAccess . This week, we'll feature the 7 new articles on this account ranging in scope from paleoanthropology to #Archaeology and #ethnography Stay tuned! #antropology paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/… /MW

Raus aus der #Wissenschaft ?

Neue Daten der ' #nacaps '-Promovierendenbefragung zeigen: Der Anteil der Doktoranden, die ihre Zukunft in Hochschulen und Forschungsinstituten sehen, ist eingebrochen. Woran liegt das? Und  was folgt daraus?

Im Blog: jmwiarda.de/2024/04/30/rau…

Archaeology PhD student Tanner Kovach was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant titled Investigating the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition in the southern Caucasus. Find out more at anthropology.uconn.edu/2024/04/29/phd…!

Great news of a strategic partnership between Universität Tübingen and Wits University ! uni-tuebingen.de/en/university/…

Happy #FossilFriday and another awesome #FeatureFriday !

Meet Zahra Omarjee, Masters student in palaeoecology at University of KZN (@ukznpalaeolab). Zahra believes that studying the past is key to solving our most pressing current global challenge, climate change🌍
👉 past.org.za/grantee-zahra-…

The 'Dongas' in Eswatinis centre are colluvia that show specific forms of erosion, so-called organ pipes. The colluvia contain exciting palaeoclimatic and cultural information. Looking forward to future research Gregor Bader Sabrina Stempfle #saraswazi DAI Senckenberg Research

Check out this funding opportunity for African Scientists: PAGES Inter-Africa Mobility Research Fellowship Program 2024 for African early-career scientists - opportunitiesforafricans.com/pages-inter-af…
Past Global Changes (PAGES): About us (ENG) youtu.be/8GQexjfXv-M?si… via YouTube

For the 1st time in my life I've missed a flight thanks due to ramshackle state of Deutsche Bahn Personenverkehr -my flight went 30 mins ago and I haven't even made it to the airport yet. Bridge problems, door issues, traffic jams, a mandatory break for the conductor all included... #DeutschlandTempo

Past Global Changes announces the Inter-Africa Mobility Research Fellowship Program for #African ECRs studying past global changes. The program will give limited support for travel and subsistence to #ECRs interested in gaining experience in Africa.

More info: opportunitiesforafricans.com/pages-inter-af…

IMPORTANT REMINDER 📢: Abstract submission for the 14th Annual Meeting of #ESHE in Zagreb will close at 23:59 (PST) on Thursday, 2nd of May. You can submit your abstract here: eshe.eu/abstract/ #conference /MW

📢Time to voice our concerns about the #WissZeitVG once again!
➡️17 scientific societies, which together represent more than 55,000 scientists, are speaking out!
👉Please share our initiative!
🔁Please RT