The #SaidiHeritageCommission announces scientific discoveries of the first speleology in the Kingdom, in the Umm Jirsan Cave, in Al-Medina Al-Munawwarah.

We have a new paper out, led by Stewie Stewart on the #Archaeology of Umm Jirsan, an incredible lava tube in #SaudiArabia !

One for the #anthropologists out there! #academicjobs
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AHH I WON 🥹 thank you so much to Dorothy Bishop and the UK Reproducibility Network for recognising my work UK Reproducibility Network

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Publication alert 📢: The Special Issue on 'The generic Middle Stone Age: fact or fiction?' edited by Eleanor Scerri and myself is out now in Azania. tandfonline.com/toc/raza20/59/1 #Archaeology #anthropology #Africa 1/2

Our new paper documenting the earliest examples of compound glues from Europe, led by Patrick Schmidt Universität Tübingen & Ewa Dutkiewicz Museumsportal Berlin science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… also w/ Abay Namen (1/6)

Dear human evolution crowd, please share the news below widely. Thanks a lot! Looking forward to future engagements with all of you. #scicomm #socialmedia #anthropology #Archaeology #evolution #Genetics #Science

So pleased with how well my new group Human Palaeosystems Group launch event went yesterday! In the end I was surprised by MPI-GEA Jena managing director Prof. Renn presenting me with the 3D print of our #PanAfrican model of #humanevolution driven up from the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum! This means so much to me!

If you are interested in my group's work and want to follow all our outputs more closely, we have a new revamped page for it all, follow @Palaeosys :)

We are happy to announce the new permanent independent Max Planck Society group at the MPI-GEA Jena, the Human Palaeosystems Group, led by Eleanor Scerri - new launch event tomorrow ft. Andrea Manica & Prof. Stefanie Kaboth-Bahr🔬🐚🌎!

With Chris Stringer and other specialists giving some views:
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I have two postdoc positions available on our 'COREX: From correlations to explanations: towards a new European prehistory' grant:
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and:
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Both working at the intersection of archaeology, ancient DNA, computational modelling and stats

and wonderful recognition of the work of Tracy Kivell with the #RiversMedal and Bernard Wood's life achievement award

The RAI Conf in honour of Chris Stringer 😍😍
Nick Ashton, Dr Matt Pope Wogan Cavern Silvia Bello William Marsh Rainer Grun The Harvati lab at University of Tübingen Huw Groucutt Eleanor Scerri Tom Higham Robert Foley Xijun Ni Francesco d'Errico Mateja Hajdinjak Pontus Skoglund Matthias Meyer

The first paper of a Special Issue in Azania on the 'Generic MSA' edited by Eleanor Scerri and myself is out - headed by Dr Lucy Timbrell on stone point variability & population structure in the MSA of eastern Africa! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #Archaeology #Africa #anthropology

The great Chris Stringer receives his Huxley Medal! Honoured to be there to share this moment for a lifetime given to resolving key questions about human origins. He has helped and inspired so many colleagues including myself, and will no doubt continue to do so!

Hey look at this! A great new pair led by Dr Lucy Timbrell Stone point variability reveals spatial, chronological and environmental structuring of eastern African Middle Stone Age populations tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

So enjoyed participating in the first day of the Mostly Out of Africa conference in honour of Chris Stringer! A fantastic set of talks and so great to see so many awesome colleagues. Been ages since we were all together! Huw Groucutt and Tom Higham both especially funny :)

📣New paper 📣If you are an #ESRdating nerd (or not!), check our article 'How to measure the ESR intensity of the Al centre in optically bleached coarse quartz grains for dating purpose?'. Free access during 50 days (link below) CENIEH MPI-GEA Jena Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution La Trobe University MNHN