A once-in-a-career event - the giant ape is out and it looks so good - massive thanks to GARG Art Garcia for your brilliant design Science and Engineering @ MQU Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences Macquarie University

'Show me the light!!' Searching for Gigantopithecus blacki remains in the island of Hainan in southern China - great shot GARG !! Macquarie University Science and Engineering @ MQU Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences

Great PhD opportunity in my old lab at The University of Waikato 🎓 with
Fiona Petchey looking at exploring pyrogenic carbon (“charcoal”) dating close to the 50k limit of radiocarbon. This is super important for dating very old human sites in Australia. Looks a great topic!
waikato.ac.nz/research/phd-o….

So, among the most precious, symbolic human fossils from South Africa

O’Keefe et al. study the fossil in the 'La Brea tar pits in conjunction with nearby core samples and found a clear relationship between an increase in #fire —and fire-related #ecosystems —and large mammal #extinction '

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Extremely happy ! It is out ! This central study is the result of 10 yrs of thorough fieldwork at Saint-Césaire. It paves the way to relevant interpretation of its archaeological context #Neandertals #Homosapiens #Prehistory #Archaeology #Mousterian #Chatelperronian #Aurignacian

🌟 Congratulations to the spring 2023 Leakey Research Grant awardees!

🧬 These outstanding scientists are leading groundbreaking studies to expand our understanding of human origins and evolution. #ICYMI

🔗 Read on and meet our inspiring grantees! leakeyfoundation.org/spring-2023-le…

Special Issue. #Australia has been subject to a wide variety of large-scale, environmentally damaging events, from decimation of its distinctive #biodiversity to extreme #wildfires .
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Human pressure primarily drove #extinction .
#megafauna #Australia

The Max Planck Society (Max Planck Society) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation are jointly financing a competitive funding programme for ambitious and excellent African early career researchers heading a research unit. Call for application 👇🏼

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I am looking for a #zooarchaeology PDRA to hire at the University of Malta to work on my European Research Council (ERC) funded #IslandLab project with Stewie Stewart. Candidate must have great team spirit and expertise in Mediterranean wild and domesticated fauna. Please RT!
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Come and hear Alice Gorman and I talk all things Archaeology at the Unley Town Hall as part of Science Week! CityOfUnley Unley Libraries Flinders University Flinders Archaeology #archaeology #scienceweek unley.sa.gov.au/Eventbrite/LIB…

In some scientific papers, words expressing uncertainty have decreased | Science science.org/content/articl…

Open-science practices don't (all) require big investments of time and effort. This great post by Dax Kellie and Martin Westgate introduces small and achievable steps to improve R code reproducibility that can have a big impact ecoevocommunity.nature.com/posts/improvin…

Tenure-track position in Archaeology open NYU ANTHROPOLOGY. Regional specialization open, preference for scholars working on sociopolitical complexity in the Holocene and Later Pleistocene records. Apply at apply.interfolio.com/128728. Come join our team!

Postdoc alert! We're currently looking to fill a two-year #postdoc position as part of the European Research Council (ERC) project 'PROSPER'. The successful candidate will work on #palaeoproteomics datasets of hominin fossils.

My thoughts on a possible ‘Denisovan’ from Laos

Puppy thinks he's one of them...🐶🐾🐥🐤🐥🥰

If we're going to do this preprint-model 'open science' thing, then these highly-critical reviews need to receive the same level of media attention the preprints did. Maybe next time Netflix can wait to put out the special documentary until big claims receive proper scrutiny.

📢 #JobAlert
Join the Paleoanthropology team in Tübingen! We have an opening for a 5-year visiting professorship in #humanevolution .
Application deadline: August 4 2023 ⏳️
🔗 shorturl.at/rzAY2
Please share with any interested candidates!