Ana García-Vázquez
Postdoc at ArchaeoScience Platform (ASp) of the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB)
Interested in stable isotopes, ZooMS, ancient DNA...
- Deadline extended until 9 February! #EAA2026 #Session256
- 📢Call for abstracts #EAA2026 Athens We invite contributions to our #Session256: COLLAPSE, MOBILITY, AND RENEWAL: RETHINKING THE CHALCOLITHIC–BRONZE AGE TRANSITION IN SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE AND THE BLACK SEA REGION 🗓 Deadline: 5 February 2026 🔗https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2026
- Reposted by Ana García-VázquezTurns out that if you use a broom to scratch yourself everyone thinks you're a weirdo but if a cow does it they end up in the cover of Current Biology
- Reposted by Ana García-Vázquezpuffer fish gas bladder looks like a molar 👍🏻
- Reposted by Ana García-VázquezI just thought everyone should see this
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- Reposted by Ana García-VázquezKNM-ER 64061, most complete Homo habilis skeleton yet (Koobi Fora) shows primitive limb proportions: long forearms, thick cortices, small body mass & ~160 cm stature. Upper limbs like early Homo, but proportions differ from H. erectus Grine et al anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Reposted by Ana García-Vázquez🔴 La población ibérica de lobo será incluida en el Libro Rojo de las Especies Vulnerables. Esta decisión se apoya, según nuestro investigador Alberto Fernández Gil, «en un proceso científico reglado y en la mejor información disponible, muy alejado de decisiones políticas o territoriales».
- 📢Call for abstracts #EAA2026 Athens We invite contributions to our #Session256: COLLAPSE, MOBILITY, AND RENEWAL: RETHINKING THE CHALCOLITHIC–BRONZE AGE TRANSITION IN SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE AND THE BLACK SEA REGION 🗓 Deadline: 5 February 2026 🔗https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2026
- Reposted by Ana García-VázquezPretty cool www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Ana García-VázquezWe couldn't help but put an archaeological twist on the Colour of the Year for 2026: Cloud Dancer 💭
- Reposted by Ana García-VázquezOn the Factor Fexcectorn and autism bicycle AI slop study: I got an answer from Springer Nature this morning that this scientific paper will be retracted! 🧪 Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...
- Reposted by Ana García-Vázquez🚨 PNAS Special Feature 🐕 We analysed genomes of historical German Shepherds to reveal how bottlenecks linked to WWII and the use of popular sires led to significant declines in genomic health. We also found an early 20th century wolf-dog hybrid! 🔗 Full paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Ana García-VázquezDelighted to see our paper characterising the inbreeding history of dogs and wolves over the past 10,000 years published this week in @pnas.org. Work led by the excellent @katiabou.bsky.social, and co-supervised by me, Laurent Frantz and Fernando Racimo www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Wonderful days at #SVP2025, where I presented my work on the phylogeography and paleodiet of Iberian brown bears, and was a co-author on Dario Estraviz’s poster about Portugal’s bears. I absolutely loved the conference (best logo ever!) and the chance to visit Birmingham #2025SVP
- Reposted by Ana García-VázquezSomething lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️ Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology
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- Reposted by Ana García-VázquezToday my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
- Amazing results!
- Reposted by Ana García-Vázquez🦴🧬🦴🧬🦴 Abstract submission is now open for the 1st International Conference on Palaeogenomics! June 23–26 2026, in Stockholm. Join researchers from across the field for 4 days and >100 talks (+ poster sessions)! Submit abstracts here 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/ Deadline: Nov 30th
- The study of Tell Sultana-Malu Roșu (Chalcolithic, Romania), result of the collaboration between Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeoloy (Kiel University) and the ArchaeoSciences Platform (ASp) (University of Bucharest), is now published!🏺 doi.org/10.12766/jna...
- I regret to announce that the collection has been cancelled, as STAR will cease publication 😔📚
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- #EAA2025 Tomorrow at 14:45 (session 169, room 19) I’ll be talking about "Subsistence strategies in Copper Age Southeastern Europe: insights from δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N isotope analysis at Tell Yunatsite (Bulgaria)". See you there!
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