"We provisionally suggest that the line separating regions with Nubian cores from those without Nubian cores be referred to as the “No-bian Line.”" What a way to end a paper on #Nubian cores! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… #Archaeology

Several years after our last excavation at Umbeli Belli #SouthAfrica the place still improoves our understanding of the #MSA and #LSA chrono-cultural sequence. @MatthiasBlessi1, Senckenberg Research sajs.co.za/article/view/1…

Einmaliges Archiv des frühen Homo sapiens: Fundstätte #Sibhudu zum #UNESCO-#Weltkulturerbe ernannt. Universität Tübingen erforscht seit 14 Jahren unter einem Felsdach in #Südafrika die kulturelle #Evolution des Menschen uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/a… SENCKENBERG #uni_tue #homosapiens

The next Dialogues theme has been announced! Keep checking our social media for more updates in the coming weeks! @ICArEHBDialogues

#holleyshelter🔥

Hii kali😂😂😂

Led by UJ Palaeo-Research Institute professor M. Lombard (+Gregor Bader ), we present the phyto-scape & foodplant potential of Holley Shelter in #SouthAfrica. The environs are rich in foodplants, but also those for medicines, poisons or firewood! #Archaeology #openaccess link.springer.com/article/10.100…

A nice little article for a broad audience about the Jojosi project. Yves who wrote it is amazing in summing up nerdy facts nicely 😋 Glimpses of stone-age ‘workshops’: Archaeologists shed light on hunter-gatherers at work making tools jivemedia.co.za/?p=8126

Opening of the #PlanetAfrica exhibition and #TANA meeting in #Morocco. Thanks a lot @JorgLinstadter Philipp von Rummel and DAI

Long in the making but here it finally is & #OpenAccess - The late MSA occupations from ~50-37 ka at the beautiful site of Mertenhof Rock Shelter in the Western Cape of #SouthAfrica & discussing what it means for the end of this period. link.springer.com/article/10.100… #Archaeology

Looking forward to the upcoming #safa2025 Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA) conference in Faro, Portugal? Join our session on #ochre exploitation in Africa! Daniela Rosso Guilhem Mauran Abstract submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 safa2025.icarehb.com/poster-and-ora…

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

A great article by Duncan Stibbard Hawkes in Behavioral and Brain Sciences doi.org/10.1017/S01405… on the link between past material culture and cognition in light of contemporary hunter–gatherer material use - including 21 (!) comments #Archaeology #anthropology #evolution #cognition

-- SAfA conference promotion -- Please consider submitting your research to our session at SAfA in Faro this year! Katharina, Dirk and myself are looking forward to your contributions 🤠👨‍🎓 Will be fun as always with sun, sea, and of course, science!☀️😎

So many firsts: The first first-author paper of my first PhD student Gunther Möller is out! Reporting on the first stratified MSA archaeological open-air site of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Dug in 1991, now re-analyzed & dated, including refits! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Color me surprised (not)! #academia #peerreview

I’m grateful for the opportunity to return home for the holidays and share my excavation knowledge with #Udsm students, thanks to my mentors Gregor Bader and Manuel Will from Tübingen And Dr Musa Mwitondi from Udsm for mentorship and support in helping me grow professionally

Published today in nature our new study on the drivers of the successful dispersal of modern humans out of Africa! A huge, interdisciplinary team effort long in the making. Glad to have contributed a bit! nature.com/articles/s4158… #archaeology #Evolution #anthropology

Something wonderful for the weekend! About 40,000 years ago, during the #IceAge, this tiny figurine was sculpted from mammoth ivory. Imagine the artist sitting by the warmth and flickering light of a camp fire, carving what is the world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!

The second version of another of the controversial #naledi papers is out (this one headed by Agustín Fuentes ) with a hefty review - you can read it here, plus the authors response, and judge for yourself elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr…