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The Max Planck Society has pledged to support Ukrainian scientists who have to flee and need a place to work. If you are an archaeologist leaving #Ukraine, or work in an area related to our institute’s research, please DM us here or email us at [email protected]

Das @MPI_GEA sucht einen Prozess- und Projektmanager:in (w/m/d) zur Unterstützung von Prof. Dr. Ricarda Winkelmann in der Abteilung Integrative Erdsystemwissenschaft. bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/0f4…

📘 Newly released! 🌍 Martine Robbeets & Mark Hudson of the MPI GEA have co-edited a major new reference work with Oxford University Press: "The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Language". Find out more here: gea.mpg.de/165463/oxford-… 📸 Book Cover ©Oxford University Press 2025

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants managed to people the rest of the world. newscientist.com/article/248735…

Dr. Basira Mir Makhamad from @MPI_GEA has been awarded the Max Planck Society's prestigious Otto Hahn Medal for the first ever systematic archaeobotanical research at the heart of the Silk Road. Congratulations, Basira! gea.mpg.de/160232/makhama… 📸 : © David Ausserhofer / MPG

Congratulations to all our wonderfully talented young researchers honoured with an #OttoHahnMedal today for their outstanding scientific contributions - we're so proud of you🥳! Keep paving the way for a bright future!📷Group photo of the winners in Magdeburg w/th @mpgpresident

When Humans Learned to Live Everywhere nytimes.com/2025/06/18/sci…

🌍 Geoanthropologie: Kann sich die Wissenschaft auf die Herausforderungen des Anthropozäns einstellen? 📅 Heute, 16–18 Uhr 📍 Jena, EAP 8, HS E028 🎤 Prof. Dr. Jürgen Renn 🔗 gea.mpg.de/157220 #Geoanthropologie #Nachhaltigkeit

Study: collapse of #WestAntarctic #IceSheet could be triggered with very little #OceanWarming above present-day, leading to 4 metres of global #SeaLevelRise to play out over hundreds of years. PIK researcher @juliusgarbe: “We have a narrow window to act.” pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest…

🧪 New Research Alert! 🧪 Our latest study, published in @CommsBio, uncovers the earliest known evidence of the medicinal and psychoactive plant Harmal in ancient Arabia. nature.com/articles/s4200… @MPI_GEA @univienna @HeasVienna @MOCHeritage

Earliest Use of Psychoactive and Medicinal Plant ‘Harmal’ Identified in Iron Age Arabia - A new study uses metabolic profiling to uncover ancient knowledge systems behind a plant still used in traditional medicine and household fumigation practices today gea.mpg.de/153598/earlies…

New research questions the role of mobile pastoralism in wider socioeconomic connections in the Chalcolithic Lesser Caucasus gea.mpg.de/151414/role-of…

In der Verwaltung des Max-Planck-Instituts für Geoanthropologie ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine Stelle als Baukoordinator*in (m/w/d) in Voll- oder Teilzeit mit mindestens 32 Wochenstunden unbefristet zu besetzen bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/931…

Congratulations to Prof Adam Izdebski, newly appointed member of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors to the European Commission! gea.mpg.de/151192/adam-iz…

Six outstanding scientists have been nominated for a three-year term. They will join Prof Naomi Ellemers, who continues her mandate. Supported by the Network of European Academies, they will provide evidence-based scientific advice for policy-making ⬇️