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Some exciting news on the Uluzzian from Klissoura Cave, Greece! 🌜

It has been a pleasure working with such a fantastic team❤️ @boneslab.bsky.social @harvatilab.bsky.social

The final session took us to the Italian and Greek records and their connections. Wonderful to see everything coming together and the progress the team has made over the last four years 👏 Thank you to all the team members and collaborators who presented their work! @erc.europa.eu #humanevolution

The afternoon session started with some in-depth comparative analysis of human fossils from Greece and the Balkans, one of the main objectives of FIRSTSTEPS. So nice to see this work slowly coming to fruition! 😀 @erc.europa.eu #humanevolution

Our FISTSTEPS workshop continued with faunal and microfaunal analyses, paleoproteomics and human osteological analyses focusing on the record of the Apidima caves 😀 @erc.europa.eu #humanevolution

The first session of the @erc.europa.eu project FIRSTSTEPS workshop is concluded, with exciting reports on the Apidima excavation, geomorphology and sediment micromorphology! wonderful to see the results coming together ✨ #humanevolution

Our joint workshop on "Big Data and Human Evolution" between ROCEEH and @boneslab.bsky.social, organized by Giulia Marciani in Ravenna, is in full swing! Great talks, good company and Sangiovese🍷

🚨New paper alert!🧪 We explore the #Aurignacian at Grotta della Cala (southern Italy), providing robust evidence of human settlement shortly after the #CampanianIgnimbrite eruption (ca. 40 ka). 1/5 🌋 @tommyhigham.bsky.social @lucdoyon.bsky.social @boneslab.bsky.social & the University of Siena

I was literally about to submit the edited draft of my new book on prehistory, "Lost Worlds," but now I need to rework the Çatalhöyük section! What a great problem to have, incredibly exciting new research, check it out!

Two PhD positions open! Deadline end of June! Apply now!

🚨 Two PhD Positions Available! Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠 Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history. www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...

Two #PhD opportunities in Ravenna, Italy 🇮🇹, in #HumanEvolution within the #ERC project "Last Neanderthals"! 🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth #BioArch #Archaeology #Neanderthal #SciComm

Two PhD positions open! Deadline end of June! Apply now!

🚨 Two PhD Positions Available! Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠 Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history. www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...

🧬Welcome to the new Palaeoproteomics Lab at the University of Bologna – Department of Cultural Heritage (Ravenna), where we study ancient proteins preserved in archaeological remains such as bones and teeth.

🌍 Join us in the ERC Last Neanderthals! We're hiring: 1️⃣ PhD: Digital approaches for the study of Paleolithic human remains 🖥️ 2️⃣ PhD: Taxonomic discrimination of Late Pleistocene bone fragments through paleoproteomics 🦴

We have a 4-year PhD-student opening in our lab, deadline on Wednesday noon. For anyone interested in computational genomics of ancient human, pathogen, or canid genomes. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud... If you are curious, send in an application!

Our latest research presents Grotta della Lea, a newly investigated Palaeolithic site in Uluzzo Bay. Check its Early Epigravettian lithics, faunal remains, and AMS dates! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My #review of Giulia Marciani's monograph on the Late Mousterian of Oscurusciuto (Southern Italy) is on Lithic Technology. I totally recommend it! link to the review shorturl.at/Jotx9 link to the book shorturl.at/wCmcH #archaeology#palaeolithic @barpublishing.bsky.social@tandfresearch.bsky.social

On Monday we launched the first PaleolITica meeting, to foster exchange between young researchers in Italian #Palaeolithic lithic technology. It was very productive, thank you to all the participants! shorturl.at/6J9ba @boneslab.bsky.social #archaeology #FlintFriday #FindsFriday🏺

Time to learn some more about the West African MSA! They were not only in rainforests 150,000 years ago, they were also in mangrove forests! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our new study investigates developmental changes in the human calcaneus linked to the acquisition of mature bipedal locomotion 🦴👣 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Being a woman in science is not just something to celebrate today, but a journey of resilience and determination in a field historically shaped by men. Cheers from the women of Bones Lab!

🌊 Our team just completed an archaeological survey of the most significant sambaqui on Florianópolis Island, kickstarting a new project at one of these sites. The research is supported by a collaboration including BonesLab (Italy), Unochapecó, CEOM, UFPEL, LEIA/UFSC (Brazil), and CONICET (Argentina)

BonesLab is also in the UAE with the Italian Archaeological Mission in Umm al-Quwain on Siniya Island @tetinicolosi @iamuq_uae @uaq_tad

Just arrived and ready to excavate one of the most promising Paleolithic rock shelter in northern Oman! Excited for what discoveries lie ahead!

The third excavation campaign at the Bronze Age necropolis of Halban, Oman (IAMHAL project) has just come to an end. Another year of thrilling discoveries and an incredible team!

PaleoAnthropology Journal has made it to Bluesky! We are a fully externally peer-reviewed, Open Access, online-only journal. We have no publication fees, and are accessible free of charge to all. Find our website above to read our current issue, or if you are interested in submitting to our journal

Thrilled to announce the release of the Italian translation of The Human Bones Manual by Tim D. White and Pieter A. Folkens! 🎉💀🦷🦴📘 www.piccin.it/en/antropolo... #Anthropology #Osteology #Archaeology #Forensics #TheHumanBonesManual #IlManualeDelleOssaUmane #Translation

Thrilled to announce the publication of the Italian translation of The Human Bones Manual by White and Folkens! This work, translated by Owen Higgins and curated by Stefano Benazzi, is now available in Italian🦴📖 Check it out at www.piccin.it/en/antropolo....

Excited to be in Ravenna for a #FIRSTSTEPS meeting with many team members! Thank you Bones Lab for having us! 😊 #archeology #teamwork

Brainstorming, networking, and sharing new ideas! Thrilled to have hosted our friends and colleagues for the ERC FIRSTSTEPS midterm meeting – what an inspiring exchange of knowledge and perspectives! @katharv.bsky.social @harvatilab.bsky.social

Studio and digitisation assistant www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ148/s...

Thrilled to share this paper born from a workshop uniting researchers for hands-on analysis of lithic assemblages Though they share the same stratigraphic and chronological window, the Châtelperronian and Uluzzian are fundamentally distinct link.springer.com/article/10.1... @mariesoressi.bsky.social

As 2025 begins, we're excited to resume our fieldwork, research, and educational activities at BONES Lab. Wishing everyone a productive and enlightening year filled with remarkable experiences! ⭐🌍🔬 #BONESLab #Fieldwork #Archaeology #NewYear

📢The ERC Synergy project Last Neanderthals is hiring a postdoc to join the geoarchaeology team at the University of Siena. Applications close: December 30, 2024. For details, visit euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/300156?...

Greetings from the BonesLab team! 🎄 Wishing everyone a joyful holiday season filled with health, happiness, and discovery🥂

Today on TG Leonardo, Stefano Benazzi comments on the two new papers on DNA analysis, which provide further evidence on the interbreeding between sapiens and Neanderthals. www.rainews.it/tgr/rubriche...

We’re thrilled to announce our latest results from the histological analyses on the first deciduous molars from two Early-Medieval necropolises, now available on PLOS One! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...