If you want to know more about #Natufian body decorations and 🐦birds in the symbolic sphere during the Neolithic transition of SW Asia, come check the Bonetool of the Month by the WBRG 🦴 of ICAZ News wbrg.net/bonetool-of-th…

Great paper by Lisa Yeomans & Camilla Mazzucato about avifauna from #Natufian & #PPNA Shubayqa 🐦🐦‍⬛🦅🦆🪿🦉🦢🪶 Human-bird interactions in the Levant during the Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene: Multi-scalar analysis of avifaunal remains link.springer.com/article/10.100…

René Neuville was a french diplomat for 11 yrs at the French consulate in Jerusalem. He was also a prehistorian and discovered many sites in Palestine, among which the famous Qafzeh cave where he found 5 H. sapiens skeletons in 1932! He is buried at Saint Anne church, Jerusalem

Study reveals hunter-gatherer #children learn diverse skills early via community, challenging emphasis on parent-child transmission. Cultural traits preserved for millennia through broad informal networks. PNASNews doi.org/g8rgj4 phys.org/news/2024-11-h…

A l’occasion des 50 ans de la découverte, le 24 novembre 1974, de #Lucy squelette partiel d’australopithèque daté de 3,2 millions d’années, Sonia Harmand, archéologue préhistorienne au CNRS 🌍, dévoile trois faits méconnus sur cette ancêtre de l’humanité. cnrs.fr/fr/actualite/t…

Philippe Descola sur "Tristes Tropiques" de Claude Lévi-Strauss via France Culture radiofrance.fr/franceculture/…

PORTRAIT Jacques Boucher de Perthes, pionnier de la Préhistoire À lire dans📚 Archéologia n°637 👉 bit.ly/Archeologia-637

'Worldwide patterns in mythology echo the human expansion out of Africa' [preprint] biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

« Les sciences humaines et sociales constituent un rempart essentiel pour la construction d’une société démocratique vigoureuse » lemonde.fr/idees/article/…

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J’ai signé avec 300 collègues: “Nous refusons que la France suive cette pente, que le Collège de France devienne le réceptacle d’une telle dérive. La mission des universités et institutions de recherche n’est pas de conforter le pouvoir, mais d’éclairer la société” lemonde.fr/idees/article/…

Colloque annulé au Collège de France : les manœuvres d’universitaires pro-Israël Entre stupéfaction et dénégation, le temple du savoir vacille. Comment une telle décision, portant une si grave atteinte à la liberté académique et d’enseignement a-t-elle été prise ? Le Collège de

📸👇The fingerprint of the #Natufian young adult/adult female who meticulously modeled the clay figurine of a woman and a goose 12,000 years ago in Nahal Ein Gev II. Details in PNASNews doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

📰 Discovery of a 12,000-year-old Natufian figurine depicting a woman with a goose on her back 'unlike anything previously found in Southwest Asia' #ArchaeologyNews via Archaeology News Online Magazine archaeologymag.com/2025/11/rare-n…

📢📷 🪿New #PaperAlert! in PNASNews : More views of the 12,000-year-old baked clay and ochre-colored figurine of a woman and a goose discovered in Late #Natufian Nahal Ein Gev II (Upper Jordan Valley) doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

A 12,000-year-old clay figurine from an archeological site in northern Israel depicts a woman and a goose in a mythological scene that hints at an animistic belief system. Depictions of human–animal interactions in Paleolithic artwork are rare. In PNAS: ow.ly/osMi50Xx2E7

📽️⛏️You can watch here the movie « Devenir sédentaire / Becoming sedentary» celebrating 70 years of excavation in #Natufian Eynan Mallaha Excavation umrtemps.cnrs.fr/devenir-sedent… Directed by Fanny Bocquentin & Paul Rambaud with beautiful drawings by Pascaline Gaussein #Archaeology #Prehistory