For all folks interested in #africa , #archaeology and #metallurgy , last days to apply for this 18 months post-doc at the #britishmuseum and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow! 🤩🤩
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Amazing opportunity to work in the Omo valley with an amazing team. They're looking for people with experience in Quartz analysis. I would go if I could :) PACEA
sciences-archeologiques.u-bordeaux.fr/gpr/jobs/offers

I have a new piece in The Atlantic, a review of The Invention of Prehistory, a history of (and wholesale attack on) our ideas about human origins from Rousseau to the present.
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4th Summer School on Computer and Geoscience in Archaeology (online), Dresden University of Applied Sciences, 3-14 June 2024. Registration is free and open until 12 May.
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The new discoveries of more Early Stone Age sites in Singida region is ongoing…

UConn Anthropology Professor Christian Tryon at the PaleoAnthropology Society meetings in LA giving a talk in honor of the life and legacy of late UConn Anthropology Professor Sally McBrearty.

Another devastating blow to our discipline. Permanent faculty at colleges and universities need to step up and do something about our provosts, chancellors, etc. who are on a mission to make higher education a training ground for STEM and MBAs. They are the only ones who can.

The disconnect between public perception of academia vs. the reality is so immense. Anti-intellectuals on the right and left assume that academia is run by--and full of cushy tenured jobs for--'Marxists.' The reality is that universities are run like neoliberal businesses. 1/

“The speed with which the climate is now changing is faster than (almost) all scientists thought possible.
There is now zero prospect of holding the average temperature increase this century to below 1.5°C; even 2°C is beginning to slip out of reach.” jonathonporritt.com/mainstream-cli…

Meet our youngest female volunteer at #SallamLab as a scale next to the Basilosaurus fossil in #Egypt
#FossilFriday
#International_Womens_Day #InternationalWomensDay   #WomensDay #WomenEmpowerment

The ancient villages of the #SenegalRiverValley include more than 400 sites dating between 1100 BC-1900 AD. Studies have given us fascinating glimpses of the communities’ daily activities in this area where the production of metals and ceramics is very marked.

📢📢New(ish) publication! Want to know more about Senegambian archaeology? I've managed to cram in 10k words a summary of it all! doi.org/10.1093/acrefo…

Geography is not destiny: A quantitative test of Diamond's axis of orientation hypothesis | Evolutionary Human Sciences bit.ly/3IljZVj

Great to see this in print! What a journey - many Africa based authors, many women, Inspiring topics! Readers let's hear what you will say! Oxford School of Archaeology Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA)

Fun find at Blombos Cave to end out week 2! Credits to Ella Walsh for the video and Alex for the excavation and hand acting! 😁 #Blombos2024 #archaeology

📢PhD opportunity in African Prehistory at PACEA, Bordeaux University!
Open to #international candidates only ‼️

#Prehistory , #Acheulean , #Oldowan , #Lithic raw material, Eastern #Africa , Ethiopia

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This day in really, really REALLY cool stone age shit: aDNA, palaeoproteomics and stable isotopes reveals the life-history of a ~3.000 BC individual from a peat bog (in Vendsyssel - my home region).

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Join our excellent team of international researchers and help us unlock the secrets of African Middle Stone Age! Apply for our fully-funded 3-year #postdoc at AHKR in #Bergen via the link below! Deadline is February 25!
jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

Bassin du Congo: Avec les détectives de la forêt, mon reportage pour C'est Pas Du Vent! à la station de recherche de Yangambi où une jeune génération de chercheurs congolais étudie la forêt pour mieux la protéger #TheCongoBasinProject National Geographic Society rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/c-…

Non-tenure-track positions of all types now account for over 70 percent of all instructional staff appointments in American higher education.

#DefendHigherEd #Organize