Marjolein Bosch

Open position for a 2-year postdoc working on sedaDNA at the NHM London and the University of Reading with Selina Brace and Aleks Pluskowski. Deadline is March 1st. jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

PhD position available in Pleistocene animal genomics, combining cutting-edge deep sequencing and pangenome analysis approaches. Join us!
careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/s...

Call for Papers #UISPP 2026 Poznań

Join our session - Before, during and after the Big Dry—Exploring the Gravettian and Epigravettian occupation of Europe (Thematic Session 14A)

Abstract Deadline: 28 Feb 2026
uispp2026.syskonf.pl
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Bald ist Ferienzeit! 🌞
In den Semesterferien hat das Museum auch am Dienstag, 3. Februar geöffnet! 🙌
Im Zuge des WienXtra-Ferienspiels hat die neue Augmented Reality-Show „Zurück in die Urzeit“ Premiere!
Ferienspiel: Mittwoch, 4. Februar, bis Freitag, 6. Februar.
www.nhm.at/veranstaltun...

Looking forward to this!

HEAS Seminar Series - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic - HEAS As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic, Emma Pomeroy from University of Cambridge will give a talk on Neanderthal life and death at Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan o...

We are looking forward to welcoming #EmmaPomeroy to #HEASVienna next week as part of the #HEASSeminar series in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic

More information and registration on our website 🔗👇

I'll just leave you with this (scallops, otherwise known as clams in Scotland)

The world has lost one of the biggest figures in Anthropology, Biology, and Conservation to have ever lived. Science will be an emptier place without her, and I can only take solace in knowing that she has inspired entire new generations of researchers who will continue her work. Rest in peace, Jane

HEAS Member awarded FWF grant for project “Residential Mobility in Upper Palaeolithic Europe” - HEAS HEAS Team Leader Philip R. Nigst has been awarded an FWF Principal Investigator grant for his project REMO (Residential Mobility in Upper Palaeolithic Europe) along with collaborators Marjolein D. Bos...

HEAS Member @philipnigst.bsky.social has been awarded an FWF grant for the project “Residential Mobility in Upper Palaeolithic Europe”

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With thanks to @tansybranscombe.bsky.social for the beautiful artwork 💖

It’s official!

👏👏 Congratulations to our colleague Marjolein D. Bosch on receiving an #ERC Starting Grant for her COPE project. She will explore how Ice Age hunters and gatherers responded to cold temperatures, resource scarcity 💦 🦌 🌱 , and environmental changes 30,000 years ago.
More info: buff.ly/EGicG8z

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

@deadbovids.bsky.social amazing work on the fauna from #Lokodongot!! 31 mammals 🤩🤩🤩

Eighteen million years of diverse enamel proteomes from the East African Rift - Nature The isolation of dental proteins from fossils deposited 1.5 million to 18 million years ago in the Turkana Basin in Kenya, a tropical region, demonstrate the promise of dental enamel for palaeoproteom...

Check out our new paper, led by former postdoc and current colleague Daniel Green on 18 Ma proteins in fossil teeth! Tim Cleland, a proteomics wizard, did the measurements. What's the take home? We hope to use protein fingerprints to study mammal and hominin phylogenetics! bit.ly/OldProteome

This is figure 1 from Eighteen million years of diverse enamel proteomes from the East African Rift. It shows Rift Valley fossils sampled over 29 million years.

Ancient proteins have been recovered from fossil relatives of rhinoceroses and other animals that are at least 18 million years old, according to evidence from two papers in Nature.

go.nature.com/4081H3m
go.nature.com/3Ik78Gj

#Paleosky 🧪

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📢 New paper out in Journal of Archaeological Science!
We present a regional analysis of fallow deer in Middle Paleolithic Levant and propose a methodological refinement for aging that has major implications for understanding human hunting behavior.
Open Access: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

Don’t forget to join us tomorrow at 11am (UK/Lisbon time) to hear from @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social and @tansybranscombe.bsky.social in the next @icarehb.bsky.social Alt-Ac Paths
videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/9355232390...

Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal - Nature Analysis of species distribution models in a pan-African database comprising chronometrically dated archaeological sites over the past 120,000 years shows major expansion in the human niche from 70 ka...

after 6 years, finally out in @nature.com!
‪Huge expansion of the human #niche in Africa ~70kya likely equipped later #outofAfrica dispersals with unique ecological flexibility

co-led with Emily Hallett @eegcam.bsky.social & @elliescerri.bsky.social
#prehistory #humanevolution #paleoecology #SDM

‘Dragon Man’ skull belongs to mysterious human relative At long last, scientists have a nearly complete cranium from hominins known as Denisovans

DNA from 146,00-year-old tooth plaque helped Chinese researchers identify the "Dragon Man" as a Denisovan, an archaic species of human: www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org

An elephant standing beneath large trees with text overlay that reads: 'How did humans become the most adaptable species on Earth?' Photo credit: Ondrej Pelanek and Martin Pelanek

Around 70,000 years ago, our ancestors in Africa began exploiting different habitats.

Flexibility to survive in deserts to rainforests enabled their successful spread ‘Out of Africa’.

Find out more about the study co-led by Andrea Manica @eegcam.bsky.social 👇
bit.ly/4e6i9H7

A key to seasonal shellfish exploitation: Elemental mapping of Mg/Ca ratios in Lutruwita (Tasmania) Cellana limpets The littoral environment has considerable influence on life history traits and patterns of growth in marine molluscs due to changes in water temperatu…

Happy to share our new publication which shows the potential of LIBS Mg/Ca mapping to characterise seasonal shellfish foraging practices from Tasmanian limpet shells. 🐚 Led by @fleurking.bsky.social #archsci #sclerochronology @niklashausmann.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We're excited to announce the next @icarehb.bsky.social Alt-Ac Paths conversation, with Luíseach Nic Eoin @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social and Tansy Branscombe @tansybranscombe.bsky.social, who now work at @natecoevo.nature.com and @barpublishing.bsky.social.
Thurs 19th June, 11am (GMT), Zoom link below.

I am offering two 4-year PhD positions (fully funded) and a 57 month combined post-doc / project manager position as part of my NWO-Vici grant, which starts in September.

Amazing work with a fabulous team 🤩

Archaeology meets modern art in the exhibition’The language of the goddesses’, curated by Elisabeth von Samsonov and I. Looking forward to the opening on Saturday #MAMUZ Asparn!

We presented our research on the Gravettian sites of Grub-Kranawetberg I & II
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Fire Use During the Last Glacial Maximum: Evidence From the Epigravettian at Korman' 9, Middle Dniester Valley, Ukraine The Last Glacial maximum (LGM), spanning from 26.5 to 19 thousand years before present (ka bp), is a period of extreme climatic degradation associated with reduced biomass production and resource str...

New paper on Fire Use during the Last Glacial Maximum! - published today in Geoarchaeology.
tinyurl.com/5n8j98ry
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Check out our new article on gender archaeology doi.org/10.1017/S095.... Here, we test the chromosomal sex of Early Bronze Age individuals from Franzhausen and Gemeinlebarn that were not conforming to the dominant gendered burial practices.

New mammoth bone finds in Lower Austria provide insights into the everyday life of Ice Age hunters A team of OeAI archaeologists discovered the remains of at least five mammoths during excavations north-east of St. Pölten. Stone tools, dismembered bones and tusk fragments indicate the utilisation…

🦣🔍 New mammoth bone discoveries in Lower Austria reveal insights into Ice Age hunters' daily life. OeAI archaeologists found remains of 5 mammoths, with stone tools, dismembered bones, and tusk fragments showing the use of meat and ivory processing by hunters 25,000 years ago.