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Some more talks from Session 1: How large-scale archives can boost archaeological research. #BHDC2023

We start our third and last day of #BHDC2023 with Christian Sommer and colleagues who will chair Session 8: Insights from reusing large prehistoric and interdisciplinary databases.

Session 8 also comes to an end. Thanks to Christian Sommer and colleagues for organising this. We move now to session 9: Palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental databases. Exploring the dynamics of human-environmental systems. Organised by achimbrauer. #BHDC2023

Last week, members of the ARIADNE RI attended the SHADE (COST Innovators Grant) Kick-off meeting in Brussels. The discussion was wide-ranging and thoughtful, resulting in several action points. ariadne-research-infrastructure.eu/2023/12/07/sha…

I’m thrilled to receive funding from the The Leakey Foundation to excavate a new Upper #Palaeolithic site in the Ili Basin. Stay tuned for new publications #LeakeyFunded

Der spektakuläre Fund einer Knochenflöte von vor 36.000 Jahren ist das bisher älteste Zeugnis für ein Musikinstrument. Das Projekt ROCEEH der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften erfasst diese und weitere Fun-de in ihrer Online-Datenbank. Mehr dazu: buff.ly/3tW8uAd #Schongewusst BMBF

This ivory baton discovered in a German cave may be an 35,000-year-old European rope-making tool. scim.ag/5Jc

New ROCEEH publication by Conard et al.:

New publication co-authered by ROCEEH's Firas Jabbour: Antonosyan et al. 2024. Multiproxy evidence for environmental stability in the Lesser Caucasus during the Late Pleistocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 330, 108559. doi.org/10.1016/j.quas…

Dutkiewicz, E., Wolf, S., Velliky, E. C., & Conard, N. J. (2024). Constructing identity. Body decoration and modification in the Swabian Aurignacian. In Benjamin Collins & April Nowell (eds.), Culturing the Body: Past Perspectives on Identity and Sociality. 160-207.

Haidle, Miriam Noël 2024. L‘homme de Néandertal était-il stupide? Cerveau & Psycho 163 mars 2024, 90-91. Haidle, Miriam Noël 2024. Waren Neandertaler wirklich dumm? Spektrum der Wissenschaft Geist und Gehirn 1/2024, 28-29. spektrum.de/frage/waren-ne…

Haidle, Miriam Noël 2024. Ein Löwe ist ein Löwe ist ein Löwe? Intersubjektivität und die Interpretation figürlicher Darstellungen aus der Altsteinzeit. doi.org/10.1515/978311…

New publication coauthered by ROCEEH's Miriam Haidle: Nichols et al. 2024. Philosophy of science for cultural evolution: a review of theo-retical needs. Evolutionary Human Sciences 6: e12. doi.org/10.1017/ehs.20…

New 📖: Koehler, H., N. J. Conard, H. Floss, A. Lamotte 2024. The Rhine During the Middle Paleolithic: Boundary or Corridor? Tübingen: Kerns Verlag doi.org/10.51315/97839…

Kitagawa, K., S. C. Münzel, B. Starkovich, G. Toniato, P. Krönneck, and N. J. Conard. 2024. The Fauna from the Middle Paleolithic: Settlement, Dietary Patterns and Technology in the Swabian Jura. doi.org/10.51315/97839…

New📰: Will, Blessing, Möller, Msimanga, Pehnert,, Riedesel, Botha & Sommer (2024). The Jojosi Dongas 🇿🇦: An interdisciplinary project to study the evolution of human behaviour and landscapes in open-air contexts. Southern African Field Archaeology, 19. doi.org/10.36615/safa.…

📢 #publicationalert: With great pleasure, I share the introduction and first fieldwork results of our new research project on the open-air #archaeology & landscape dynamics at the Jojosi Dongas. The paper can be found #openaccess here journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/safa… #southafrica

New Article: Schürch, Benjamin, Gillian L. Wong, Elisa Luzi, Nicholas J. Conard 2024. Evidence for an earlier Magdalenian presence in the Lone Valley of southwest Germany. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 104632. doi.org/10.1016/j.jasr…

Our latest paper discusses topography, climate, and vegetation in the eastern part of Java 1 million years ago. Hominin environments are reconstructed for a wider region instead of individual localities. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1016/j.hisb… It's open access