🧪🦣 Pre-print Tsoupas et al. 2026 Tracing #Neanderthal ancestry patterns through successive population expansions in Europe
"admixture between hunter-gatherers and Neolithic populations was an order of magnitude higher than that between Neanderthals and modern humans"
doi.org/10.64898/202...
Lovely new paper by @sarah-paris.bsky.social & Charles Higham "Ochre use in burial practices in Thailand, from Neolithic to the Iron Age" 😍!!
@cam-archaeology.bsky.social
"Normalcy bias is a cognitive bias which leads people to disbelieve or minimize threat warnings. Consequently, individuals underestimate the likelihood of a disaster, when it might affect them, and its potential adverse effects."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalc...
🚨 Palaeo jobs alert!! 🚨
Two(!!) postdoc positions available in Cambridge!
1. Human Evolutionary Anatomy: cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
2. Evolutionary Biomechanics: cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
As part of the @erc.europa.eu funded STEPS project!
Thank you, Lucy 😊
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Thank you so much to @liverpoolevoanth.bsky.social for the chance to come and give a talk to the Evo Anth seminar series this afternoon! It was great fun to try and pull several threads of research together 😊
Wonderful talk by @jclark997.bsky.social for the great UoL Evo Anth Seminar Series - fabulous to see the synthesis of so much fantastic work and so many dxciting ideas and models 🤩
We hope you are enjoying the series so far! Please join us again next Thursday, 27th November 2025 at 13:00 GMT for a talk by Dr James Clark, University of Cambridge. More details 👇
If you would like to attend, please register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Very grateful to everyone who joined our symposium and workshop last week, inspiring discussions and wonderful company all around!
A huge congratulations, John!
Today was the ceremony for new fellows at the #BritishAcademy - it was wonderful 🤩. I am thrilled and so grateful to the colleagues who nominated me, elected me, and the many colleagues, students, friends, our kids & family, & specially Rob 😍 who have so enriched my life and career ❤️
We are hiring a Project Co-ordinator! 🚨
Are you extremely organised with great interpersonal skills?
Able to multitask efficiently?
Interested in African prehistory?
Keen to work with an enthusiastic team?
We want to hear from you!
Closing date: 17 October, 2025
Myself standing in front of a poster of research entitled “What can handaxe shape contribute to discussions of hominin demography in Africa in the late Early and early Middle Pleistocene?”
Great fun at #ESHE2025 presenting on how handaxe shape can inform discussions of African demography in the Early and Middle Pleistocene! While we have very few fossils or genetic data for this period, handaxe shape may carry a signal that can help to constrain biogeographic models - more to come!
Could there be a connection between a squashed million-year-old skull and the Denisovans? I look at whether a provocative new study can be squared with what we already know from ancient genomes. I think there's a way.
www.johnhawks.net/p/the-proble...
Interesting piece on the US (and Zionist) money backing Waxy-Lemon...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
They are attacking the Police again, at the 'peaceful march'.
Imagine if Pro Palestine supporters did this (they never do), they would all be instantly in jail.
After all we learnt about Boris in office, I shouldn’t be surprised by any of this…but the extent of corruption is truly shocking
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
And see this excellent coverage from our Department @cam-archaeology.bsky.social
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/early-h...
A paper like this is an amazing team effort, and thank you to everyone who has been involved in the project over the last few years. There is much more to come from the site in future - stay tuned!
Thrilled to share our latest article on the Lower Palaeolithic occupation of Fordwich Pit, Old Park - including at least one likely glacial occupation in MIS12! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The last 3 years have been the hottest in around 125,000 years.
CO2 levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years.
But most people have no idea this is happening, let alone what it means for our kids’ futures.
Our politics & media have failed our children. We should be furious.
Celebrating our wonderful PI @martamlahr.bsky.social for such an incredible achievement 🎉🍾🥂
Announcement at the British Academy
Fabulous news that @martamlahr.bsky.social has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy 🍾🍾🍾
Justus Erus Edung was only 25 years old when he discovered Kenyanthropus platyops in a team led by Prof. Meave Leakey in 1999.
This 3.5 million year old “flat-faced” skull quickly grabbed international headlines and changed the course of human evolution.
#fossils #turkana #humanevolution
3D scanning these beauties with Ng'ipalajem!
@palaeotrails.bsky.social
#handaxe #turkana
New paper out in eLife! 🎉 Old age variably impacts chimpanzee engagement and efficiency in stone tool use elifesciences.org/articles/105... (including videos of wild elderly chimpanzees using tools! 🪨 🌰)
