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

Happy to share my latest work with archaeologist Manuel Will 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…

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…

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…

🚨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 VolkswagenStiftung. Applications open until March 15th. bit.ly/4gVa5Je

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

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 European Research Council (ERC) FECYT

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

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! 👍

🚨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…

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.

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

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

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-…

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

🚨 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

🚨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 🧬💀

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

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

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