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Generation of elevation profiles from the DEM of the experimental deer engraving. These profiles are obtained using high-resolution photogrammetry, allowing for the analysis of incision depth and surface morphology associated with the engraving process.

New 3D method maps Paleolithic engravings at submillimeter resolution

To be or not to be an engraving:
Testing photogrammetry and DEM for identifying or disproving fine prehistoric engravings 🏺🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Research group claims preeclampsia doomed the Neanderthals, but experts say it's just a 'thought experiment' Preeclampsia, a complication of pregnancy that involves high blood pressure, could have led to a decline in Neanderthals' fertility, a new study suggests.

A couple news outlets have covered this preeclampsia claim, but I talked to experts who are not convinced. 🧪🏺

📢Deadline Extended📢
Final week of abstract submissions for EAA2026 and Session 178 - Cave Sediments as Archives of Human-Environment Dynamics: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Geoarchaeology & Micro-contextual Research!
We look forward to seeing you all in Athens!

Our volume on Stone Age clothing is now online and completely open access:

Jöris, O., Dietrich, O., Risch, R., & Meller, H. (Hrsg.). (2026). A Stone Age History of Clothing: Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 26. bis 28. September 2024 in Halle (Saale).

doi.org/10.11588/pro...

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 ✨ 🤩

Usually, stones and bones get all the attention, but wood was part of the toolkit too, and the evidence is growing! 🪵
A new paper by @annemiekemilks.bsky.social et al. reports the earliest handheld wooden tools (~430 ka) from Marathousa 1 (Greece)! @harvatilab.bsky.social 🦣🧪🏺

📢Call for Contributions! 📢
If you work on the (micro-) geoarchaeology of cave sediments, using micromorphological, chemical, or biomolecular approaches, this session #178 is for you!
There is still time to apply (deadline: 5th of February)!

@humendylab.bsky.social & #TransCause Project invite you to our symposium on Middle Pleistocene behavioral variability with special focus on Dalarik-1 Cave (Armenia)!
📍Room 520, Mt. Scopus Campus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
💻Also online (via zoom)!
See you all there!

Fragments of a wall painting from a Sogdian Royal Palace at Sanjar-Shah, Tajikistan.
Reconstruction of the scene found it depicts a procession of priests approaching a large fire altar, offering a rare glimpse into ancient fire worship.

🆓 in our latest issue: doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Labs will be established in Panjakent and Dushanbe 🤠🔬📏🖥️🧬

The recording from this talk is now on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8l2...

Snakes and Ladders: A technological approach to tool maintenance byproducts using module flake categories - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory The study of retouching, reshaping, and rejuvenation in lithic technology has traditionally focused on finished tools, overlooking the byproducts of these processes, particularly microdebitage. This e...

🪓 Stone flakes = ancient tool care? #ICArEHB's David Nora's introduces a module flake approach in his new paper: doi.org/10.1007/s108...
#Lithics #Archaeology

About Nesher Ramla hunting strategies

Take a look at this new discovery!
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Use-Wear Analysis Shows Changing Handaxe Grip and Use Across Time at la Noira (France) - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology Handaxes — sub-oval bifacially flaked stone tools — were produced for over a million years across Africa, Europe, and Asia during the Lower Palaeolithic. Their relatively uniform shape across varied e...

The first article from my PhD results is now published — and it’s Open Access!
We show how handaxe grip and use evolved over time at La Noira (France).
doi.org/10.1007/s419...

#usewear #prehistory #handaxe #paleolithic #acheulean

Ancient ochre crayons from Crimea reveal Neanderthals engaged in symbolic behaviors Ochre is an iron-rich mineral pigment that was used by many ancient civilizations for color, decoration and practical tasks such as preserving animal hides and tanning clothing. Recent analysis of fra...

Ooooh!

phys.org/news/2025-10...

Postdoc in Paleoproteomics

#Palaeoproteomics of Middle and Late Pleistocene hominin fossils and associated zooarchaeological assemblages from Central Eurasia with @fridowelker.bsky.social!

Postdoc: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Research Assistant: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Learn more about the INASIA project on its website: inasia.uw.edu.pl

There:
- a list of palaeolithic sites in Central Asia,
- project publications,
- communication & dissemination activities,
- bios of the project team,
- all project related news in the form of blog entries.

Qafzeh 11 is other case that raises fascinating questions about symbolism in Paleolithic #burials

This adolescent, around 12 or 13 years old, was buried about 90,000 years ago in Qafzeh Cave (Galilee, Israel) 

Image: https://doi.org/10.4000/paleo.4848

@erc.europa.eu @cenieh.bsky.social #FECYT

Alaska : une archéologie de l'urgence chez les Yupiit Le site de Nunalleq sur la côte ouest de l’Alaska est un témoin rare de la culture d’un peuple à cheval entre l’Alaska et la Sibérie : les Yupiit. Menacés par la montée des eaux, ces lieux de fouilles...

Archéologie de l’urgence: Le site de Nunalleq sur la côte ouest de l’#Alaska est un témoin rare de la culture du peuple Yupiit. Menacés par la montée des eaux, des fouilles ont permis de révéler plus de 100.000 objets documentant une culture en voie de disparition www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

And still here to study the lithics artifacts :)

The proposed evolutionary history of MUC19. The Denisovan-like haplotype (in orange) was first introgressed from Denisovans into Neanderthals and then introgressed into modern humans.

Modern human genomes contain a small number of archaic variants, the legacy of past interbreeding events with Neanderthals and Denisovans.

The MUC19 gene:
An evolutionary history of recurrent introgression and natural selection 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

For #FossilFriday: Meet CAM 2023-7, a Mesolithic child buried ~8,000 years ago in Portugal.
Their burial is one of the most elaborate ever found in the Muge shell mounds. What made it so special? 🐚🧵
#Mesolithic #Funerary #Paleoanthropology www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Harbin cranium and geographic location of hominin specimens older than 100 ka where human DNA has been retrieved

Denisovan mtDNA is directly connected to the Harbin skull, a nearly complete hominin cranium

Denisovan mitochondrial DNA from dental calculus of the >146,000-year-old Harbin cranium 🏺🧪
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Discovery of a Precursor to Agriculture Early hunter and gatherers harvested wild barley in today’s southern Uzbekistan

www.mpg.de/25243512/082...
Early hunters and gatherers were already engaged in practices that led to agriculture. The research suggests that the domestication of plants may have happened unconsciously.

🪨🌿What can a stone tool tell us about human–plant relationships in prehistory?
Join Dr Andrea Zupancich at the next free @ICArEHB LEXA Seminar to explore groundstone artifacts, food practices & cultural traditions.
2nd of September at 2pm
🔗 Register: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Co-organizing a session at #SAA San Francisco with T. Kovach: "Toward an Integration of Quantitative Approaches in #Lithic Analysis." A few spots still open! Abstracts due Sept. 4.

Email me if you’d like to join the conversation: armando.falcucci@nyu.edu

#Archaeology #FlintFriday #FossilFriday 🏺

Archéologie musicale, c'est le luth final Des flûtes en ivoire de mammouth ou en os de vautour qui remontent à plus de 35.000 ans jusqu’aux innovations d’aujourd’hui en passant par les psaltérions et les lyres de l’époque gauloise, chaque époque a marqué l’histoire de la musique. Comment retracer cette évolution ?

[RDV 16h !] Des flûtes en os de vautour qui remontent à + de 35.000 ans jusqu’aux innovations d’aujourd’hui en passant par les lyres de l’époque gauloise, chaque époque a marqué l’histoire de la musique. Comment retracer cette évolution ? avec Laurent Davin et Julian Cuvilliez

"The results yield a finite age suggesting that the Petralona cranium has a minimum age of 286 ± 9 ka"
New U-series dates on the Petralona cranium, a key fossil in European human evolution www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Back to Armenia, back to Dalarik-1 Cave, with a large international team from Armenia, Spain, Israel, Greece, France, Portugal, Italy & beyond! Let the excavation of this unique Middle Pleistocene site start! 🎉 #TransCause @humendylab.bsky.social