Post-Doc Research Fellow Fyssen Foundation.
@Musée de l’Homme, UMR 7194, Paris.
Prehistoric and African zooarchaeologist.
Taphonomy, proteomics & stable isotopes.
Martina Di Matteo
Happy to share with you the new paper on taphonomy in arid environments in collaboration with my friend and colleague @roccoro.bsky.social. Check it out!
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Happy and honoured to share this paper with @ercrema.bsky.social about pottery in Early Holocene Africa! Check out more in the thread!
Hot off the press! A bioarchaeological study of medieval burials from northern Tunisia.
www.uniroma1.it/it/notizia/d...
🦴✨ How do we know if an archaeological bone still preserves collagen — without damaging it?
Check it out our new paper on portable ER-FTIR:
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Proud team work with @Krista McGrath @Cristina Lemorini @Stella Nunziate Cesaro @Silvia Soncin
📢CALL FOR PAPERS🚨
@martinadm.bsky.social @mariannafusco.bsky.social @Olivier Scancarello and I are running a session (#24) @Panaf26 titled: Archaeology of liminality and transition: eco-cultural strategies in African prehistoric ecotones. More @ panaf2026moz.com/panaf-sessio...
The osteological analysis of human skeletal assemblages offers crucial osteobiographical insights into ancient populations, yet remains largely unexplored in past Tunisia. This paper presents the firs...link.springer.com
In the last decades, archaeology has witnessed a significant increase in the use of biomolecular analyses to study a variety of materials, including s…
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The Local Organizing Committee is excited that almost 70 sessions and workshops will occur at PanAF Moz 2026. Pan-African Association members and non-members are welcome to submit paper abstracts t…
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Lo studio inoltre getta nuova luce sull’ascendenza neandertaliana, mostrando che gli individui di Takarkori possedevano significativamente meno DNA neandertaliano rispetto agli esseri umani fuori dall’Africa, ma più rispetto agli africani sub-sahariani contemporanei.
This study investigates natural syn- and post-depositional processes affecting terrestrial mammal bones from the Takarkori rock shelter in the hyper-arid Tadrart Acacus massif, south-western Libya. Th...
⚠️Paper Alert!⚠️
Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion
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Nature Communications - Several possible points of origin have been proposed for the spread of ceramic technology in Saharan Africa between 11–10,000 years ago. Here, the authors...
