1/3 New recommendation: Florian Linsel, Jan Philipp Bullenkamp, Hubert Mara (2025). From Scar to Scar: Reconstructing Operational Sequences of Lithic Artifacts using Scar-Ridge-Pattern-based Graph Models. v2 peer-reviewed and recommended doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… #Archaeology

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.Révillon 1995, Technologie du débitage laminaire au Paléolithique moyen en Europe septentrionale:[...] .DOI: 10.3406/bspf.1995.10058 Fig. 13, Lithics from Seclin, France. Distal core preparation and blades. Nubian 1 or already Nubian 2? Nubian The Prequel! #flintfriday

Here Abdallah S. Zaki and colleagues demonstrate the existence of ancient lakes, rivers, and a massive water-formed valley beneath Arabia’s vast desert. #GreenArabia dailygalaxy.com/2025/04/discov…

(1/13) A thread on our new paper just published in Nature, ‘Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years’. nature.com/articles/s4158…

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With 3D Model that we did back in 2022. Here a Clip: youtu.be/tH3plcmcF-U?si…

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🚨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 🧬💀

We are pleased to extend our congratulations to one of MOWAA’s very own archaeologists, Abidemi Babatunde Babalola, as a 2025 winner of The Dan David Prize, the world’s largest history prize.

Calling all palaeolithic archaeologists. Come and work with me on a really exciting new survey and excavation project in Uganda: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/348570

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

July 12, Arte: documentary film on Ile-Ife featuring many of our great Nigerian colleagues and the Team of the Ife-Sungbo Archaeological Project. Film is multilingual with sub-titles in English.

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Obrigado!

Hello #SAfA2025. Thanks to @icarehb.bsky.social for the nice Welcome. Looking forward to the presentations starting tomorrow.

Today I took no pictures from the lectures at #SAfA2025. Instead some impressions from my commute to the conference and the new postcard from Planet Africa exhibition.

Mostly archaeologist. Sometimes flens. instagram.com/reel/DMnmU6RB9…