African archaeology has neglected Namibia’s deserts, but scientists now know when an ancient lake supported human life in the Namib Sand Sea bit.ly/4cYuUCk 💻 Abi Stoney, University of Manchester The University of Manchester and Dominic Stratford, Wits University #ScienceAndTech

For those asking, yes I do have comments on the revisions to the Homo naledi pre-prints. I’m taking some time to carefully review it and gather all of my thoughts, and will write something here soon. For now, I will say this - I do not think they fixed the problems.

John Odling-Smee's long-awaited new book "Niche Construction. How Life Contributes to its own Evolution" (@MITPress) is finally in production!!! Odling-Smee explains how the activities and choices of organisms direct their own evolution. To order and for more information

A thread on a really cool new paper on the #demography and #population history of Upper Paleolithic hunter-gatherers. Great combination of a uniquely large dataset and innovative methods in #anthropology and #archaelogy !

Happy to share this open dataset, synthesising sites with Nubian cores into one centralised database. The data also form the basis for some more papers to come (hopefully next week…)

Letter from Niko Tinbergen about his relationship with Konrad Lorenz, written to my stepfather Anthony Storr, 1974

Our research on how #IceAge Europeans coped with past #ClimateChange has been featured in tagesschau, one of Germany's most prominent and trusted news programs. Huge thanks to our team Teresa_ Judith Beier Silvia Ghirotto The Harvati lab at University of Tübingen Senckenberg Research tagesschau.de/inland/regiona…

my hopes for gen z taking over the academic review process is that it will be matched for harshness, but at least more efficient

Tonight at the European Association of Archaeologists 2024 meeting in Rome: Makarius Itambu on "a contemporary view on hunter and gatherer adaptations ..." #EAA2024 EAA PaM Community

Now up to 30,000, so thank you all who are still here, despite the growing problems. I included some thoughts on that in this interview: cell.com/current-biolog…

Our new article focuses on new excavations of chimpanzee wooden and stone anvil sites in the Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire. There are clear differences in the archaeological signature of nut cracking using stone tools on these anvil types. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Happy to share our Eric Zurrin special issue on compound specific isotopes in environmental archaeology. We’re inviting papers using stable isotopes for archaeological research with climate or environmental focuses. 1/2 frontiersin.org/research-topic…

📢 The next round of applications for the SENCKENBERG Global #Fellowships is now open! The program supports early-career scientists from the Global South to conduct research for 3-6 months at one of our Senckenberg Institutes. Apply by October 1st! 👉sgn.one/gcu

are you from the Global South and want to come to Germany to study the paleo collection in Tübingen and/or start a project in functional morphology? I will be sponsoring applications for the next SGN Global Fellowship

Thrilled to share our new open-access paper, which explores early hominin tool-use efficiency through a novel experimental approach! Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…

Hot of the press & #openaccess - the results of the B.A-work of our student Elena Moos together with Gregor Bader on the experimental study of knapping traces on dolerite and their implications of Middle Stone Age technology tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #archaeology #experiment

New results on the necessity of raw material related experiments in lithic technology! Full article: Experimental Investigation of Knapping Characteristics of Dolerite and Implications for the Interpretation of Middle Stone Age Technologies tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Issue number 101 (June 2024) of Nyame Akuma: Bulletin of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA) is posted and available for SAfA members on the Nyame Akuma page of the SAfA website: safarchaeology.org/Nyame-Akuma

Still unreal to browse the UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 world heritage list and see Sibhudu, Diepkloof & Pinnacle Point listed there. Enjoyed supporting KZN Amafa & Research Institute +many scientists & other stakeholders in the process & excited about the future of the sites! #science #scicomm whc.unesco.org/en/list/1723/

Congratulations and well done Gregor, what an accomplishment! It has been a privilege working on so many different projects with you in the past 6 years (+) and looking forward to many more :-)