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🪨What have 10 years of stone tool experiments taught us — and what’s still unknown? Join Dr Alastair Key for the next #LEXA seminar! 📅 5 Aug | 🕑 14:00 WEST | 🌍 Online 🔗 icarehb.com/lexa 📢 New Zoom account: all must re-register! #Archaeology #ICArEHB

Day 2 of #SAfA2025 is starting at the University of Algarve in #Faro, PT The opening session was held this morning and registration desks remain open throughout the event Panels and discussions on #AfricanistArchaeology continue today. #ICArEHB #CrossroadsThroughTime #Archaeology

#SAfA2025 kicks off today in #Faro, #Portugal! Hosted by #ICArEHB, we’re ready to welcome the global #AfricanistArchaeology community for a week of connection and knowledge-sharing at the #CrossroadsThroughTime.

📢 New publication: "Early Middle Palaeolithic Occupations Dated to MIS 7 at the Abri du Maras (Ardèche, Southeast France)" by Moncel, M.-H., Vaissié, E., Marin, J., Fernandes, P., Abrunhosa, A., et al. in Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology (2025). 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s41982…

📢 New publication: "The behavioural ecology of hominin locomotion: what can we learn from landscapes of fear and primate terrestriality?" by Hammond, P., Bobe, R. & Carvalho, S., in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2025). 🔗 More info: doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2…

📚 Book Launch: New Ways of Communicating Archaeology in a Digital World 📅 17 July, 6 PM | 📍 Museu Municipal de Faro Talk with Sofia Fonseca & Sara Cura (ICArEHB, UAlg) 🎫 Free | RSVP by 14 July: [email protected] #Archaeology #ScienceCommunication

🌞 On July 7, ICArEHB joined UAlg's #CampusDeFérias to host a hands-on archaeology event for kids aged 6–14! Mini excavations, real finds, and lots of fun. Big thanks to Cláudia Costa & Nolan Ferrar for leading the adventure! 👏 #ArchaeologyForKids #UAlg

Postdoc in Geochronology / Plio-Pleistocene Geology Join the ERC WRAP project at ICArEHB! Apply now 👉 icarehb.com/research-posit…

📢 New publication: "Agent-based simulations reveal the possibility of multiple rapid northern routes for the second Neanderthal dispersal from Western to Eastern Eurasia" by Coco, E. & Iovita, R., in PLOS ONE 20(6), e0325693 (2025). 🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1371/journa…

🧠What do ancient pots reveal about the minds of early humans? Join Dr Vanessa Forte for a #LEXA seminar on pottery, cognition & experimental archaeology! 📅 1 July | 🕑 14:00 WEST | 🌍 Online 🔗 icarehb.com/lexa #Archaeology #Neuroscience #ICArEHB

📢 New publication: "Reliable long-term individual variation in wild chimpanzee technological efficiency" by Berdugo, S., Cohen, E., Davis, A. J., Matsuzawa, T. & Carvalho, S., in Nature Human Behaviour 9(3), 472–480 (2024). 🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1038/s41562…

🔍 Postdoc in Palaeolithic Archaeology Join the ERC Starting Grant WRAP – Western Rift Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments project at ICArEHB! We're exploring human prehistory through fieldwork, machine learning, and interdisciplinary research. 🔗 icarehb.com/research-posit…

📢 New publication: "Quantifying Levallois: a 3D geometric morphometric approach to Nubian technology" by Hallinan, E. & Cascalheira, J., in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 17, 88 (2025). 🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1007/s12520…

📢 New publication: "Collagen peptide markers for three extinct Australian megafauna species" by Peters, C., Oertle, A., Gillespie, R., Boivin, N., & Douka, K., in Frontiers in Mammal Science 4 (2025). 🔗 More info: doi.org/10.3389/fmamm.…

📢 New publication: "Deciphering the diet of the Iberian lynx: Insights from taphonomic analysis of Pleistocene coprolites" by @arb_rufi, A., @MontSaBo & @joan_daura, in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 675 (2025). 🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1016/j.pala…

📢 New publication: "Machine Learning Applications in Use-Wear Analysis: A Critical Review" by Eleftheriadou, A., McPherron, S. P., & Marreiros, J., in Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 8(1), 2025. 🔗 More info: doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.1…

📢 New publication: "Women Archaeologists. A Long Fight Against Invisibility: Dorothy Garrod, Gertrude Caton‑Thompson, Virgínia Rau" by Melo, A. Ávila de, in Estudos Arqueológicos De Oeiras 35 (2025), pp. 337–354. 🔗 More info: eao.oeiras.pt/index.php/DOC/…

📢 "Unveiling the behavioural significance of the Aterian coarse-grained lithic assemblages: Insights from use-wear analysis of Rhafas Cave, Northeast Morocco" by Djellal Y. (...) & Marreiros J., in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (2025). 🔗doi.org/10.1016/j.jasr…

📢 New publication: "Reconstructing hammerstone size flake by flake: an experimental approach" by Li L. & McPherron S.P., published in Journal of The Royal Society Interface (2025). 🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2…

Don't miss it — Dr Eduardo Paixão's #LEXA seminar is this Tuesday, 3 June at 14:00 WEST! 🪓 Join us on Zoom!