Hannes Rathmann

In our new @ScienceAdvances paper, we explore 40,000 years of Ice Age hunter-gatherer demography in Europe, utilizing the largest fossil dataset ever assembled and a new AI tool. The study: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… @Senckenberg @uni_tue @UniFerrara @nyuanthro 👇A thread (1/7)

Just published in AJBA! Toothnroll: An R Package for Landmarking, Measuring, and Mapping Dental Tissues of Hominoid Anterior Teeth dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.7… #VirtualAnthropology #HumanEvolution #opensource

An amazing study by brilliant colleagues and dear friends. Give it a read!

Honoured to serve on the Advisory Committee for the DeMoDa project at @CENIEH this week, powered by @LHlusko’s ERC project @Tied2Teeth – together with eight fellow experts in dental anthropology. cenieh.es/en/press/news/…

🚨NEW PAPER from our amazing lab 😍🚨I have never been as proud of something as of the work that finally we can share today: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… - we show how a climatically driven Pan African meta population model explains our species genetic and morphological diversity 🧬💀

🚨 I am hiring! Join me at Masaryk University as a postdoc researcher in human #bioarchaeology & #isotope analysis. Work on past mobility, diet & funerary practices using cutting-edge lab facilities. ⏳ Apply by 1 June 2025 📍Brno, CZ 🔗 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/339250

Applying a new / adapted method Pheno-ABC to dental phenotypes to answer questions of prehistoric population dynamics by @hannes_rathmann 🥰 #HumanEvo25

Thrilled to share the new & open-access "VERA 2.0" method and its experimental validation: a semi-automated, fast, and reliable protocol for reconstructing past physical activity from skeletal remains! Validation paper: doi.org/10.1371/journa… Protocol: protocols.io/view/protocol-…

🚨14.000 years of population history revealed!🚨 What happened to the late prehistoric populations in the Nile Valley? Our new study uncovers major migrations, population replacement and regional mobility at the Neolithic transition! 1/6🧵 👇 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Ouch! This Celtic warrior took an arrow to the butt 🏹But thanks to some surprisingly advanced ancient medics, he survived! A peek into healthcare 2,500 years ago: doi.org/10.1002/oa.3395

Fully funded PhD position on Hominin Life History Evolution available in my new lab @UZH_en Please retweet! Link: uzh-my.sharepoint.com/my?id=%2Fperso…

Just wrapped up the 15th International Meeting of the Society for Anthropology with a wonderful visit to the #Haithabu Viking Museum. Many thanks to Katharina Fuchs for organizing this interesting conference, where I met many new colleagues and friends.

Another fascinating stop on our tour through KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa – the UNESCO World Heritage site #Sibhudu. The hike to the site is quite the adventure! Big thanks to Mohsen Zeidi for the interesting tour! 👍

Visited the stunning #HolleyShelter site in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. ⛏️🧭🦴Super interesting tour by the excavator @gregorDbader

We are looking for a scientist! 🔬👌 ️✔️ A Postdoctoral Research : Bring your PhD-level skills in human dental variation. DEADLINE: March 28 APPLY NOW!!✍️ cenieh.es/sobre-el-cenie… @CENIEH @ERC_Research @FECYT_Ciencia

Know a colleague who has made a novel research contribution to dental anthropology? Nominate them for the 2025 Innovation in Dental Anthropology Award! Deadline is March 10. More info here: dentalanthropology.org/innovation

🚨Come work with us in charming Tübingen and become a member of our growing Freigeist group! We offer a 2-year postdoc position on the communicative plasticity in wild & captive bonobos, fully funded by @VolkswagenSt. Applications open until March 15th. bit.ly/4gVa5Je

Had such an amazing and inspiring time at the HEIRS Opening Symposium at ICArEHB in Faro (@ICArEHB). Don’t miss out on their new exciting funding opportunities for synthesis projects in human evolution: heirs.icarehb.com/calls-training…

Interesting read: The skeleton from the Octagon at Ephesos isn't Cleopatra's sister Arsinoë after all. It's a Roman boy with growth disorders. doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

Happy to share my latest work with archaeologist @MW_hominin on lithic flake variability at the Middle Stone Age site of Sibhudu, South Africa. As a bioanthropologist, this was my first non-bone paper, and I loved the interdisciplinary journey! nature.com/articles/s4159…

Can we use mere stone flakes to track cultural change? @hannes_rathmann and I test this with simple flake attributes & a newly developed statistical method! All data, methods and code are #openaccess nature.com/articles/s4159… #archaeology #statistics #openscience