Margot Serra

Proud to have presented some of my PhD’s initial results on the analyses of Preceramic burials from the south coast of Peru at UCL’s South American Archaeology Seminar! @uclarchaeology.bsky.social

Mysterious holes in the Andes may have been an ancient marketplace, study suggests New research published in Antiquity by Dr Jacob Bongers at the University of Sydney has uncovered compelling evidence that brings us closer to solving the mystery behind one of the most unique…

📰 Was Peru's mysterious monument Monte Sierpe (Band of Holes) an ancient marketplace?

🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @sydney.edu.au

www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion...

Archaeologists discover how oldest American civilisation survived a climate catastrophe Experts find artefacts left behind in Caral showing how population survived drought without resorting to violence

📰 New research shows how the people of the ancient Peruvian city of Caral survived a climate catastrophe, adapting and moving rather than resorting to violence

🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

External Long Bone Morphology as a Tool for Sex Identification in Great Apes: The Case of the Humerus and Femur Objectives Sexual dimorphism in primates reflects evolutionary, ecological, and social pressures and varies widely across species, complicating its analysis. This study builds on previous research t.....

🚨 New paper out!

This work combines 3D geometric morphometrics, multivariate statistics, and machine learning to assess sexual dimorphism in great ape long bones — aiming to classify unsexed skeletal remains and reveal patterns relevant to human evolution.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Citation of the book reviewed and name of the reviewer.

"Despite the extensive looting, Marcus and her team were able to recover a remarkably diverse and well-preserved assemblage of artefacts... demonstrating the wealth of material and thus information that can still be recovered from highly looted contexts." 2/2

✍️ Reviewed by @margotserra.bsky.social

Happy and honoured to share this paper with @ercrema.bsky.social about pottery in Early Holocene Africa! Check out more in the thread!

Left: recreated Neanderthal head. Right: reconstructed skull, on which the head was based.

The recreated head and reconstructed skull of Shanidar Z, a Neanderthal originally buried in Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan around 75,000 years ago.

The crushed skull was rebuilt from hundreds of bone fragments by a team of archaeologists and conservators led by the University of Cambridge 🏺

Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage - Nature Pastoralism spread through cultural diffusion into the Green Sahara, where an isolated, distinct North African ancestry persisted.

I'm beyond excited to share our new paper in Nature! We sequenced the first ancient human autosomal genomes from the Central Sahara, two ~7,000-year-old individuals from Takarkori in Libya, revealing a long-isolated North African lineage: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here's a short thread: (1/n)

Margot Serra working with the co-director of the Samaca Archaeological Project, in the field last summer, excavating the burial of a child discovered at a Preceramic site

@margotserra.bsky.social working with the co-director of the Samaca Archaeological Project, George Chauca, in the field last summer, excavating the burial of a child discovered at a Preceramic site located at the mouth of the Rio Ica, south coast of Peru. (Credit: Dr. David Beresford Jones)

‼️Very excited to share that our paper on settlement patterns and land use in Etruria is finally out on JAS: Reports! You can find it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

Only one month to go until the symposium "From Anatomy to Behaviour: Challenges and Solutions in Studying Hominin Postcranial Evolution" ☺️

Sign up to attend in person, or contact us to join online.

Find more info here: 👇
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Fragmentary data and scattered lands: a recording protocol for a co... Introduction Introductory remarks The Cyclades are a cluster of approximately 220 islands (figure 1), and although only 25 are inhabited today, current research observations suggest various pattern...

Anastasia Chrysanthi Solomou
Fragmentary data and scattered lands: a recording protocol for a comparative archaeothanatological analysis based on archaeological illustrations
doi.org/10.4000/12kyz

I have started to compile a Starter Pack for those researching children and childhood in the past 👋 Do let me know if you’d like to be included! Hopefully we can grow this list as more people move to BlueSky🦋 #Archaeology #ChildhoodArchaeology @sscipchildhood.bsky.social go.bsky.app/TyZAyQ8

Started up a bioarch starter pack 🤩
Let me know if you want to be added or have suggestions 😊
#archaeology #bioarchaeology

go.bsky.app/N5yfURb

Two PhD Studentships in the Archaeology of Later Pastoralism in Kenya, inclusing one focussing on #stableIsotopes and #zooarchaeology, at Cambridge University (starting October 2025): www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49439/ #jobalert #PhDpositions

🚩Dans notre dernier numéro, focus sur le dimorphisme sexuel de la base du crâne avec l'article publié par Alexandra Boucherie, qui a reçu pour ses travaux de thèse le prix de la SAP 2023!

Strange pile of Stone Age skulls unearthed in Italian village baffles archaeologists At least 15 human skulls at a Neolithic site in Italy may represent the group's collective ancestors, although archaeologists aren't certain.

They’re not exactly baffled (it’s ritual!), but still a cool study.🏺🧪

MP calls for government to ban human remains sales: A deep dive An MP has called on the government to ban the sale of human remains. Here's what happened and why it matters.

Great to see BABAO making an impact and maybe some progress on the sale of human remains in the UK.

www.patrickpester.com/post/mp-call...