Michael Petraglia
@MDPetraglia
Professor & Director @ARCHE_Griffith | Human Evolution | Archaeology | Researching Human Origins in Africa and Asia
1/ Paper alert @Nature! Our study, led by Monika Markowska, reveals 8 million years of #GreenArabia. nature.com/articles/s4158…
Shattered careers. #opentowork nature.com/articles/d4158…
“When a person walks with their gaze fixed on the floor, it often points to feelings of insecurity, sadness, or even depression”. This study is dead wrong. I’m looking for artifacts. cmu.fr/en/what-it-mea…
Paper alert! Happy to have joined Huan et al. to examine miniaturised lithic diversity across the last 20,000 years in southern China and its potential relation to geographic and climatic variability. link.springer.com/article/10.100…
Quite the provocative title, but why not a crossroad for way longer than we currently realise. haaretz.com/archaeology/20…
NSF budgets slashed by 50%, ongoing grants cancelled, NSF staff drastically reduced, all 37 divisions abolished, and grants will now be reviewed by a political kommissar. How will that help technological leadership? linkedin.com/posts/yann-lec…
Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature. go.nature.com/3EXWAeB
A unforgettable trip to #Mongolia and into the #GreenGobi - thanks to all my colleagues for their hospitality #mongolianacademyofsciences @ARCHE_Griffith
Rather than a volcanic winter, the Toba eruption 74,000 years ago resulted in several years of warm and dry weather, geochemical evidence from India suggests Source: New Scientist Shared via the Google app search.app/B7GLX47e4eg74t…
Our discoveries at Jwalapuram have been rather remarkable and of great importance to the natural and cultural #heritage of #India and the world illustrating the effects of the Toba volcanic super-eruption on ecosystems and humans. Please save this site @ASIGoI!
“The deserts are turning on and off through time. We have hippos coming out of Africa. Why not hominins?” dailygalaxy.com/2025/04/arabia…
In collaboration with 30 researchers and 28 local and international institutions, the #SaudiHeritageCommission has published a scientific study in Nature magazine, under the #GreenArabiaProject. Link to study: nature.com/articles/s4158…
Nature research paper: Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years go.nature.com/3Yq3eRn
بفضل الله وتوفيقه، تم نشر بحث جديد لي مع كوكبة من الباحثين في مجلة Nature الأم، تحت مظلة @MOCHeritage وبدعم من سمو @BadrFAlSaud و @CEOHeritageksa ومشاركة العديد من الجهات. @_KSU وثّقت هذه الدراسة لأول مرة مناخ الجزيرة العربية على مدى ٨ مليون سنة. ١/ ٥ nature.com/articles/s4158…
من داخل دحول الصِّمَّان في شمال شرق مدينة الرِّياض؛ يُوثّق الفريق العلمي اكتشافات تعكس تحولات مناخية شهدتها المنطقة عبر العصور، وذلك ضمن مشروع #الجزيرة_العربية_الخضراء. #هيئة_التراث
-@MOCHeritage has unveiled new findings that prove that #SaudiArabia was a vital oasis eight million years ago #GreenArabiaProject arab.news/8njjv
بجهود حثيثة تُوثّق ملامح تاريخنا الطبيعي.. #هيئة_التراث تكشف في دراسةٍ علميّة عن حقب رطبة شهدتها أراضي المملكة على مدار 8,000,000 عام؛ وذلك ضمن مشروع #الجزيرة_العربية_الخضراء. رابط الدراسة: nature.com/articles/s4158…
Huge effort by Huw over the years, and instrumental in getting us those speleothems, which now open up a new chapter in our work.
(1/13) A thread on our new paper just published in Nature, ‘Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years’. nature.com/articles/s4158…
رحلة داخل دحول الصِّمَّان، يقدّم خلالها الفريق العلمي شروحات عن اكتشافات تُعيد تشكيل فهمنا لتاريخ المملكة الطبيعي. #الجزيرة_العربية_الخضراء #هيئة_التراث
A journey inside Duhool Al-Samman, where the scientific team provides explanations about discoveries that reshape our understanding of the Kingdom’s natural history. #GreenArabiaProject #SaudiHeritageCommission