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Too often when people talk about convergent evolution are they using boring vague examples like bats and birds having wings and not wacky shit like two snakes looking nearly identical while in two separate genera on opposite sides of the world sharing the same habits and hunting-

Phd opportunity in African archaeology coastal Mozambique (historical, material analysis). 3 years funding + poss 6-12 months more. Visa & NHS surcharge covered McDonald Institute Cambridge International Entangled PhD Scholarship at University of Cambridge jobs.ac.uk/job/DKR174/mcd…

The new Oxford Doctoral Training Program in Environmental Research (ILESLA) has been announced. Please get in contact if would like to pursue a radiocarbon based DPhil (=PhD) with us, and need funding for your scholarship and research! Oxford School of Archaeology environmental-research.ox.ac.uk

Colin Renfrew - the passing of a giant in archaeology.

'Extensive locomotor versatility acrossa global sample of hunter–gatherer societies' You can read more about the study here😍! arch.cam.ac.uk/news/first-cro… CambridgeBioAnth Cambridge Archaeology

Two Cambridge/ERC PhD studentships in archaeology/pastoralism/Kenya: one on animal economies (isotopes), one on exchange (obsidian and ceramic sourcing). Please share! jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49439/

It’s that time of year! Top stories in #humanevolution for #2024 with Dr. Briana Pobiner + @brianapobiner.bluesky.social is now LIVE! Follow the link below and let me know which is your favorite! 🤩 scicomm.plos.org/2024/12/16/top…

Paid three week zooarchaeology summer internship! Room and board will also be covered. Application deadline March 1. internships.si.edu/opportunity/ma…

First comprehensive study reveals hematite and goethite as primary pigments in West Papua's rock art, reflecting broader Southeast Asian traditions. #southeastasianarchaeology #indonesia #westpapua #rockart bit.ly/4gA9oVu

New paper out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… We propose how knapping could have taken hold among early hominin groups. Mainly, a reliance on naturally occurring flakes to cut could have bridged a gap between the making of bone flakes, and intentional knapping of stone flakes. 1/7

The 1.2.0 version of my #brms + #tidyverse translation of Kruschke’s "Doing Bayesian data analysis" is up! bookdown.org/content/3686/ 1/3 #rstats

the official position of the US government:

Take a look at some of the articles in our special issue Archaeometry Journal that aim to explore how stone tools can directly address some of the grand challenges in anthropological archaeology: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ar… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ar… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ar…

1/3 New recommendation: Cardillo, Marcelo & Carranza, Eugenia (2025) Applying statistical and causal modeling to interpret thermal alteration in observational lithic data. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… #Archaeology

New paper alert! Learn about our discovery of a ~12,000-year-old skeleton and associated projectile point from northern Vietnam! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

An exotic quartz arrow may have killed a man 12,000 years ago in Vietnam msn.com/en-gb/entertai…

#A 12,000-year-old skeleton from Vietnam shows a rib fractured by a quartz-tipped projectile, offering rare early evidence of interpersonal violence and #Infection in ancient #SoutheastAsia. Royal Society Publishing doi.org/g9zmrp phys.org/news/2025-08-f…

How would you solve a crime from thousands of years ago?

A very fun VICE article on our discovery from northern Vietnam: vice.com/en/article/he-…