Alice Leplongeon

Call for Papers #UISPP 2026 Poznań

Join our session - Moving on: updated scales, concepts and approaches to mobility in the Late Pleistocene (Thematic Session 4D)

Abstract Deadline: 28 Feb 2026
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🎉 Congratulations to Degsew Mekonnen on the successful defense of his PhD thesis at ICArEHB! #Archaeology #PhD #PhDDefense

New preprint: "Does point size matter? Morphometric arguments in Palaeolithic weaponry models" Our study challenges reliance on TCSA/TCSP for weapon identification. Small points ≠ arrow tips! Experimental data shows these metrics don't reliably predict weapon type. zenodo.org/records/15051934

Come and join us in Liège! Vacancy for a Professor in Prehistory now open!

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IMQP MOOC - Prehistory of Philippines Prehistory of Philippines

Want to know more about world prehistory?
🧐Have a look at the #moocs of the International Master in Quaternary and prehistory #IMQP. The second one on the #prehistory of the #Philippines is now online! Check it out! sites.google.com/unife.it/imq...

Call for Session - UISPP 2026 - Poznan (Poland)

Deadline extented until November 30!

Please consider submit something in the scope of the Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age Commision 🌟

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#RésultatScientifique 🔎

Une étude publiée dans la revue Journal of World Prehistory révèle que les milieux tropicaux, souvent perçus comme moins impactés par le DMG, ont en réalité connu des dynamiques environnementales complexes.

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Hace 45-70 ka los neandertales de El Castillo (España) usaban materia prima local, pero también adquirida a grandes distancias.
Neanderthal mobility over very long distances: The case of El Castillo cave (northern Spain) and the ‘Vasconian’ Mousterian

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

La célèbre primatologue britannique Jane Goodall est morte à 91 ans Elle est la première scientifique à avoir rapporté que les chimpanzés utilisaient des outils pour s'alimenter.

Jane Goodall a révolutionné la primatologie et consacré sa vie à la sauvegarde des grands singes. Elle s’est imposée dans un monde scientifique masculin et machiste.
Immense merci Madame pour toute votre œuvre. #RIP

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Netherlands is going to give the Dubois fossil collection back to Indonesia

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C'est un honneur de participer à la prochaine séance des "Clés pour comprendre" le 9 octobre prochain ! Au programme, un beau moment d'échange sous la Coupole de l'institut de France !

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@upvd.bsky.social

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This is the result of numerous discussions started in 2021 within the framework of the LGM working group of the PRETROP team (hnhp.mnhn.fr/fr/pretrop-6...) of the HNHP research unit @mnhn.fr @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @upvd.bsky.social @recherche.mnhn.fr

Thrilled to see this online and #openaccess!

The Last Glacial Maximum in the Tropics: Human Responses to Global Change, 30–10 ka - Journal of World Prehistory The world at 18,000 BP, published by Gamble and Soffer (The world at 18,000 BP. Vol. 2: low latitude, Unwin Hyman, 1990), represents the first, and so far the only, attempt at characterising and discussing the impact of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) on human societies on a global scale. At the time, they highlighted that research and data on the LGM in southern latitudes and the tropics in particular were scant. Since 1990, however, many sites dated to the LGM and located in tropical latitudes have been published. Many paradigms have changed regarding the peopling of the Americas, which allows the archaeology of this continent to be integrated into global scale studies of the LGM. The development of Pleistocene archaeology in tropical contexts, in parallel with methodological advances in cultural, geosciences and palaeoenvironmental studies have strongly reshaped what we know of the antiquity of human occupation in tropical regions and specific human–environment interactions. This article provides for the first time a pan-tropical perspective on the impact of the LGM on human groups living within the tropical latitudes, drawing from case studies in Southeast Asia, Africa and South America, specifically regions which have up until now never been discussed together. To this end, we focus on six different tropical regions between 30 and 10 ka. We present the archaeological and paleoenvironmental data available in these areas, along with proposed relationships for variations in these two records. Finally, we discuss at the regional scale the presence or absence of human changes (site density and techno-cultural change or continuity) before, during and immediately after the LGM.

📣New paper alert

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How did populations in tropical regions cope with the global climatic change around the LGM?

While the tropics are often perceived as having been less impacted by the LGM, we show that -as is often the case - it is more complex than it seems!

🌍Fieldwork, Communities, and Conflicts in Northestern Africa

Join us in the next LPNEA workshop on 29-30 Sept in Bracciano and online! To register, scan the QR code or write an email to neafrica[at]gmail[.]com

Very much looking forward to it!

Rock art relief depicting humans hunting animals such as elephants, with the text 'African Archaeology, Antiquity' overlaid.

The Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA) conference in Faro, Portugal begins tomorrow! To celebrate the occasion, we've put together a collection of articles on #AfricanArchaeology and they will all be *absolutely free* for the duration of the event 🏺

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Very much looking forward to #SAfA2025!! The whole program is 🔥 but if you can don't miss our session on Tuesday!!! 👇👇👇👇

Needless to say, the Peer Community In outperforms all of the major publishers on this criterion, despite a budget many orders of magnitude smaller - again illustrating that the big money we pay for publishing is not used for the good of science. (5/5)

@peercommunityin.bsky.social

New preprint about open science in eco-evo!
We sampled 110 journals, 550 articles, and assessed whether data and code are accessible: (1/5)
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#ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #ecology #conservation #EvolutionaryBiology #paleobio #systematics #archeology

Congratulations @martamlahr.bsky.social !!!

ANNOUNCEMENT INTERNATIONAL TENDER FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF A POST-DOCTORAL ASSOCIATE RESEARCHER recruit one (1) ) post-doctoral assistant researcherresearcher to perform duties in the scientific area of Geochronology / Plio-Pleistocene Geology or related areas, under the research project “

Very happy to announce that a new postdoctoral position on the New ERC funded Western Rift Archaeology and Palaeoenvironment Project is open - if you're a geologist or geochronologist come and join us at @icarehb.bsky.social euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/358068 Feel free to share it around.

Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Sad to learn that C. Garth Sampson has passed away. He was a kind and encouraging man; as Janette Deacon commented, Garth "made an outstanding contribution to the Stone Age archaeology of the Karoo and southern Africa and will long be remembered." We are standing on the shoulders of these giants

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Navigating the PhD journey amid prolonged conflict: Challenges, growth, and resilience Author: Osman Khaleel // Editor: Cherene de Bruyn Cover image from Pexels *Archaeology: The study of past human cultures through the material culture (artefacts) left behind. *Lithics: Archaeologic…

ICArEHB PhD student Osman Khaleel shares a powerful reflection on navigating the PhD journey amid prolonged conflict.

Read it here ➡️ research-hive.com/2025/06/02/n...

#PhDLife #ResilientResearch #ICArEHB #ResearchHive

Alors plutôt qu'une énième discussion foireuse sur l'HDR, supprimons là: une proposition, mais pas la seule, du Réseau académique pour l'égalité de genre ou RAGE, parce qu'à un moment ça suffit !
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@tommyhigham.bsky.social from #HEASVienna introducing @romangarba.bsky.social and #VitalyUsik for the #HEASSeminar taking place now online and in-person in the #UBB @univie.ac.at

Surprise floods: the role of our imagination in preparing for disasters Abstract. What's the worst that could happen? After a flood has devastated communities, those affected, the news media, and the authorities often say that what happened was beyond our imagination. Ima...

Why #geomorphology matters and teaching about extreme Events is so important, not only within our scientific bubble, part 4752589 nhess.copernicus.org/articles/24/...

A group of four conference delegates standing on a stage with a brown wooden floor. They are the winners of the poster and short talk prizes at the 2025 Human Evolution conference. They are each holding a certificate. They are joined on the stage by four members of the conference committee.

Congratulations to our poster and short talk prize winners who presented at this week's Human Evolution conference! 👏#HumanEvo25

We're impressed by the quality of the research presented. Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors!

Thanks to @hpgg-pivot.bsky.social for sponsoring the prizes.

Truly honored to have received this award - thank you so much! 🥳 It was a pleasure meeting so many new colleagues and friends at #HumanEvo25 ! @martamlahr.bsky.social @lquintanamurci.bsky.social @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social