A new study investigating 30,000 years of human history shows that frequent disturbances increased the resilience of past human populations.

Read our press release here: gea.mpg.de/2397761/distur…

And find the #openaccess publication below

New paper published in NatureClimate : Interactions between #climate change and #urbanization will shape the future of #biodiversity go.nature.com/3Wzh587

Check out our paper looking at obsidian fragments from a newly discovered Copper Age Yeghegis-1 site in Armenia that reveals greater social connectivity across the landscape through time
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Ellery Frahm Patrick Roberts
MPI-GEA Jena Yale University

Happy to share our new paper led by PhD Candidate Mohammad Javad Shoee of MPI-GEA Jena. We report on the initial Upper Paleolithic in the Zagros Mountains of Iran, specifically the ~36 to 42 Kya layers of Pebdeh Cave!

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Between Climate and Culture: Exploring Middle Stone Age Archaeological Diversity in Eastern Africa - A systematic review by Dr Lucy Timbrell highlights links between climate change, population dynamics & archaeological diversity in E. Africa during the MSA bit.ly/3xIhZEP

📢New paper alert 📢Led by Solène Boisard, we present a critical inventory of the MSA-LSA archaeological and chronological data in Northwest Africa. Hope that this open-access database for these periods will be useful for African Pleistocene nerds!

Today at 3pm CET! #ice #Antarctica

Happening today at 3pm CET!

What scenarios of sea-level change are we facing from Antarctic Ice Sheet loss? And how can those scenarios be influenced? Zoom in on 9 April for Ann Kristin Klose's talk 'Long-term sea-level commitment and reversibility of ice loss from Antarctica' bit.ly/4awz5U3

How are processes of humans' social and technological evolution connected to global environmental challenges? Zoom in on 8 April for a talk from Dr. Tim Waring Tim Waring titled 'Human evolution of, in and beyond the Anthropocene'

Details and registration: bit.ly/3VBZATX

The International Officers of the Max Planck Society met last week in Frankfurt for their 20th annual convention. Get to know the International Office at MPI GEA and the support services we offer our employees as they settle in Jena #thueringenweltoffen bit.ly/4aivFEs

Wissenschaft braucht Internationalität und Vielfalt. Wir unterstützen ein weltoffenes Thüringen! Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology JenaVersum #thueringenweltoffen bit.ly/3Pv8Oxs

Wichtige Botschaft unserer Partner: Wissenschaft braucht Vielfalt! Erfolgreiche Forschung an unserem Standort basiert auf Weltoffenheit und Internationalität. Kluge Köpfe aus der ganzen Welt forschen hier und das soll so bleiben. 💪
#thueringenweltoffen Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry MPI-GEA Jena Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

There is little doubt that the world is in an Anthropocene, as understood by researchers who use the term, and that course correction is needed go.nature.com/3vnlT59

MAPSS 2nd annual workshop in Ulaanbaatar, sharing #digitalarchaeology and #culturalheritagepreservation methods with our wonderful partners at the Mongolian Institute of Archaeology and National Center for Cultural Heritage.

Human activity on Curaçao began centuries earlier than believed! Learn more about the new research co-led by Simon Fraser University & the National Archaeological Anthropological Memory Management (NAAM Foundation) in Curaçao partnering the MPI GEA: bit.ly/48O5TXn