📣 New paper #2: The SASSI open dataset is a comprehensive spatial, chronological and contextual database of southern African ESA, MSA and LSA sites, providing a FAIR data resource for comparison and synthesis
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📣 New paper #1:
Applying 3DGM to the large prepared core assemblage at the MSA site Tweefontein, we investigate shape variability in Nubian and other Levallois cores, finding Nubian cores to lie at one extreme of preferential core reduction
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Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology - Prepared core technology is a defining feature of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) in Africa, yet classic preferential Levallois cores are rare in many southern...
A celebratory #AcademicAdvent today, as we share the great news of Dr Ceren Kabukcu, an archaeobotanical expert from @livancworlds.bsky.social, and her recent win of a £1.4m European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant. Read about her exciting project here ➡️
Double success: Liverpool academics awarded ERC Consolidator Grants
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Still digging in the desert at 85
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Celebrating the women at ICArEHB, then and now.
From childhood curiosity to careers uncovering the past, we’re proud of the women shaping archaeology at ICArEHB.
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 💜
#WomenInScience #EveryVoiceInScience #11February
We’re losing so many legends in archaeology. Here is a lovely tribute to Tony Marks, who died in August. He was incredibly encouraging to me, and supported our work revisiting the Nubian technology he first characterised. He will be missed.
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🔍 What’s it like to be an early-career archaeologist in Africa? Degsew Mekonnen, Osman Khaleel, Humphrey Nyambiya & Nompumelelo Maringa explore challenges from funding gaps to limited mentoring.
🔗 doi.org/10.32028/exn...
#Archaeology #Africa #ICArEHB #EarlyCareerResearchers #ExNovoJournal
Video
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The Interdisciplinary Centre for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour (ICArEHB) at the University of Algarve received with profound sadness the news of the passing of Anthony E. Marks on Augus...
Call for papers!
#UISPP2026 in Poznan
Thematic Session S-12C: Approaches to Early & Middle Stone Age/Palaeolithic open-air contexts in arid landscapes
uispp2026.syskonf.pl
Emily Hallinan
Emily Hallinan
Emily Hallinan
Emily Hallinan
Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Hot off the press! Led by Olivier Scancarello, in collaboration with amazing colleagues and institutions in Tunisia, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal
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What is the earliest use of the phrase “Women in Science”?
This is from 1931
#HistSci #HPS
Several syn and post-depositional processes are responsible for different degrees of site and assemblage formation and disturbance. Understanding the processes that lead to archaeological site formati...
