Felix Riede

Early sneak peek of an upcoming #Sidestone book on archaeological #types and #typologies I am co-editing with @felixthehauskat.bsky.social and Sébastien Plutniak. All chapters underwent open peer-review at @pciarchaeology.bsky.social - stay tuned. 🧪🏺

It’s rather brilliant! Make sure you watch it to the end.

For those biogeographers interested in these topics, consider joining @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social !

This morning, I’m at the biocultural geography session at #TIBS2026 - and it’s pretty awesome! Lots of cultural evolution and creative transfer of methods from biogeography to issues of linguistic and cultural evolution.

Excited to showcase the impressive work of @econovoau.bsky.social at #TIBS2026! Stop by to explore the posters by Xiao Huang (4002), @mattkerr.bsky.social (2010), Peter Yaworsky (2015 & 2017), Hanchen Shuai (1022), @cmlmagneville.bsky.social (4031), and @muditjoshi.bsky.social (1012)

Direct evidence for poison use on microlithic arrowheads in Southern Africa at 60,000 years ago Earliest proof of plant poisons on arrows reveals complex Pleistocene hunting in southern Africa.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

60,000 year old arrow poison in S Africa (link in the thread 👇)! One random professor calls this find 'spectecular' in the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/s...

The Royal Society Wolfson Fellowships, jointly funded with the Wolfson Foundation, are now open for applications. These fellowships enable UK institutions to attract international research leaders who wish to relocate. #RSGrants https://royalsociety.org/grants/royal-society-wolfson-fellowship/

@mathildevm.bsky.social, check it out. Another (!) toy horse!

The rate of global sea level rise doubled during the past three decades - Communications Earth & Environment Global mean sea level rise amounted to 4.5 mm per year as a result of warming oceans and melting land ice, more than twice the rate of 2.1 mm/year observed at the start of satellite data in 1993, base...

The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The Fate of Behavioral Modernity - Biological Theory Biological Theory - Over the past twenty years, empirical and theoretical advances have significantly reshaped the research agenda on “behavioral modernity” and its conceptualization....

Hey @andrameneganzin.bsky.social, this is such a great paper on why defining, capturing, and (most of all) analyzing the emergence of 'behavioural modernity' still is such an important topic link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Congrats.

Europe’s earliest blue mineral pigment? From the Palaeolithic, you ask?? Indeed - read it here first, now even fully paginated 👇

Exactly - the origin of many tech innovations lies in toys (=scale models)! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Record rains drive flooding in Vietnam, submerging ancient city Vietnam's weather agency has recorded its highest level of rainfall for a 24-hour period in the historic city of Hue.

Unprecedented rain. We're taking our climate outside the range our entire agriculture & trade based human civilisation has grown up in.

I think this site is ~400 to 1800 AD. It wasn't built for this.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Deadline extended to Nov 26!

Dear assessment committee would be a fine choice, I reckon - but that won’t be make or break!

Full Professorship(s) in Archaeology - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University

Deadline approaches for our open professorship here at @au.dk @auarcher.bsky.social. Get in touch if you have q

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And now also on YouTube courtesy of (the somewhat oddly named) Hidden History youtu.be/ibf62rLFbeY?.... OTT picture but otherwise not a bad summary, really

Great too have you here!

Atypical tool and object use in wild immature chimpanzees reveals developmental pathways to innovation - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Atypical tool and object use in wild immature chimpanzees reveals developmental pathways to innovation

Chimps and object play - what’s not to like? But why is it important? Find out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Amazing!

Top notch footage!

Wonderful video by @antiquity.ac.uk summarising our research!

Also covered in National Geographic: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

And now covered in @science.org by the fab @spoke32.bsky.social: www.science.org/content/arti.... Do check it out for yourself - the earliest evidence of mineral-based blue pigment in Palaeolithic Europe!

I, too, am proud to share this quite exciting finding with you: Europe's oldest mineral blue pigment. It's azurite and we found it on a legacy object that had long languished in a storehouse. New analysis bring new insights :) #palaeolithicblues

Human Impacts of the 8.2 ka Event on Mesolithic Foragers in Western De The 8.2 ka event had a major but regionally variable climatic impact in the Northern Hemisphere. In Denmark, it impacted lakes and rivers, which were essential landscape features for contemporaneous foragers. There is also evidence for a marked increase in sand drift...

Check out @felixthehauskat.bsky.social, Kathrine L. D. Andreasen & Peter M. Yaworsky's "Human Impacts of the 8.2 ka Event on Mesolithic Foragers in Western Denmark: A Model-Based Approach Inspired by 'Radical' #Disaster #Risk Reduction Research" in "Under Pressure" at

Job Alerts!🚨 We are looking to fill three Independent Junior Research Group Leader positions in the 'HUMAN ORIGINS' Cluster of Excellence at the University of Tübingen
Application deadline: Sept. 10, Starting Jan. 1, 2026

1. Genotype-Phenotype interactions:
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Our knotropology en español with comments by @felixthehauskat.bsky.social and external knot experts.

www.elperiodico.com/es/sociedad/...

And here’s to more!