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News from the #Paleoanthropology 🦴🦷⚒️ lab at the University of Tübingen 🎓 & Senckenberg 🌍
- Reposted by Harvati LabThe artwork that illustrated our PNAS paper on the oldest wooden tools was made by Gleiver Prieto, who has also worked with me on illustrations for previous projects, including the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Marathousa 1. Gleiver's art really brings Pleistocene Megalopolis to life ✨ 🤩
- Reposted by Harvati LabDie bisher frühesten bekannten Holzwerkzeuge, die Menschen nutzten, stammen aus Griechenland. Ein Forschungsteam der Universitäten Tübingen und Reading sowie der Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung hat rund 430.000 Jahre alte Belege entdeckt: 👉 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/… #Archäologie
- Reposted by Harvati LabThat's a name to keep in mind: Sorry Schöningen spears, but there's a new top dog in town - the #Marathousa tools from southern #Greece may have been used to butcher elephants ... 400,000 years ago: 🏺 www.science.org/content/arti... by @andrewcurry.com for science.org
- Reposted by Harvati Lab🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS': uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨
- Reposted by Harvati LabUsually, stones and bones get all the attention, but wood was part of the toolkit too, and the evidence is growing! 🪵 A new paper by @annemiekemilks.bsky.social et al. reports the earliest handheld wooden tools (~430 ka) from Marathousa 1 (Greece)! @harvatilab.bsky.social 🦣🧪🏺
- Reposted by Harvati LabA great write up of our paper in New Scientist by @michael-marshall.bsky.social! www.newscientist.com/article/2509...
- Reposted by Harvati LabSuch a pleasure to share our latest article on the wooden tools from Marathousa 1 (Megalopolis), the oldest known in the world at 430 ka. Congratulations to the team! Evidence for the earliest hominin use of wooden handheld tools found at Marathousa 1 (Greece) | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- #teammember Frini Roditi was invited to give a talk today at the Biogeology seminar at the University of Tübingen! ✨ She shared her exciting ongoing work in the Megalopolis Basin, Greece 🦣🌍🦛 Well done! 🙌🏻
- Reposted by Harvati LabAs a belated Christmas present, our article on the human remains from the Grotta Del Poggio is now published open access in the AJBA 😀 Congratulations to Erica Piccirilli and the whole team!! ✨🎉 #humanevolution #openaccess #ERCprojectFIRSTSTEPS
- Reposted by Harvati LabFestive office vibes! 🎄✨ Happy holidays to all and warm wishes for the new year! Cheers to more research, discoveries and new adventures in 2026! 🐵🦴🌍📃
- Happy holidays and happy new year from all of us! 🎄✨ Wishing you a restful break, joyful moments and an inspiring start to 2026. ✨️🦴🌍
- 🎉 Huge congratulations to Dalila de Caro for successfully defending her PhD today! @daliladecaro.bsky.social 🎊
- Reposted by Harvati LabAnd today it was the turn of the Megalopolis delegation to present our work at Marathousa 1 (Greece) 🙂 With dalil@daliladecaro.bsky.social
- Reposted by Harvati LabA great pleasure to be invited, together with @daliladecaro.bsky.social, to participate in the symposium celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Vertesszolos discovery! Wonderful venue at the Hungarian National Museum 🤩 Many thanks to our hosts, the organizers G. Lengyel & Y. Zaidner
- New paper alert! 🎉 #teammember David Naumann’s study on the La Rochette Upper Paleolithic human remains is now out in PaleoAnthropology journal (early view). @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social 🦴💻📊 #openaccess Link to the paper 🔗 : share.google/MVCG2U9dMFHN... Congrats, David! 🙌🏻 #archeology
- Reposted by Harvati LabThe new issue of PaleoAnthropology is now online! 📢 It includes the Special Issue 'What’s in a Name? Late Middle and Early Late Pleistocene Hominin Systematics' The cover features the article 'Revisiting the Anatomy of the Florisbad Hominin Cranium' by Balzeau et al. #humanevolution #openaccess
- The latest issue of PaleoAnthropology is out now! Volume 2025, Issue 2 #openaccess 📖Read Here: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph... #paleoanthropology #humanevolution
- It’s a wrap! 🎉 Huge thanks to the organizers, members and everyone involved for making #ESHE2025 a success! 🙌 Special thanks to our Christina Siali for her wonderful work. 😊 And big congrats to Harmony Hill and Gabriel Russo for winning the student prizes! 🏆👏 See you next year in Burgos, Spain! ✨
- A snapshot from Katerina Harvati’s podium presentation at #ESHE2025 earlier today! ✨️ Her talk: “Middle Pleistocene funerary ritual at Apidima? An examination of evidence.” ☠️🌍🪨
- Reposted by Harvati Lab#ESHE2025 Katerina Harvati ‘Middle Pleistocene funerary ritual at Apidima? An examination of evidence’ 2 homs– 2 dates: Ap2: >170 ka (NEA), Ap1 >210 ka (early H sapiens). Could it be mortuary ritual instead (Otte 2020)?! NO. Analysis of tapho, homs in fissure! no pebbles, no pigments 😀
- And finally today, team members Gabriel Russo and Marya Soubra presented their latest work on sites in Lebanon at #ESHE2025 poster session! 🌍🐆🦴🐾 Congratulations to both! 🤗🤗
- #ESHE2025 featured posters from our team members on Greek sites: Klissoura (Marciani et al.), Megalopoli (Roditi et al.), and Apidima (Lombardo et al.)! 🌍🦴🐵 They couldn’t attend in person, but their work was well represented. 👏
- The #ESHE2025 poster session was on fire today! 🔥 Check out the great work from our team members Katerina Harvati, Laura Limmer, David Naumann, and Caroline Röding. 🤗✨ Huge congratulations to all authors and co-authors! 👏👏👏
- Team member Melania Ioannidou presented her poster on Ouranopithecus macedoniensis at #ESHE2025! 🐵🐒🦧 Congrats, Melania! 👏✨
- Team member Majid Aljaber Abo Fakher kicked off this morning’s Pecha Kucha session at #ESHE2025 in Paris! His talk: “A strictly modern human trait? Tracing hypoconulid absence in first molars and its evolutionary implications.” 🦷🌍 Congrats, Majid! 👏🏻
- Reposted by Harvati Lab#ESHE2025 Majid Aljaber Abo Fakher ‘A strictly modern human trait? Tracing hypoconulid in first molars and its evolutionary implications’ No LM1s hypoconulid: +% in WEurasia, India ALL earlier homs have it – except: H floresiensis (but Matamenge has it!); earliest absence in W Eurasia: Ksar Akil
- Reposted by Harvati LabThe #ESHE2025 meeting in Paris starts tomorrow (please use this hashtag for sharing). If you are interested in the program, you find it here mcusercontent.com/9347aa3598d5... - Members have received an email for accessing the live stream! We hope you all enjoy the conference in person or online. /MW
- Reposted by Harvati LabTime flies and soon it will be time to close the Apidima excavation, after a very productive season!🔨👲 In the meantime, here's a Field Friday photo of the team in Cave D 😍 #fieldfriday #humanevolution #ERC
- Last chance to apply! Deadline September 15th! ⬇️⬇️
- 🚨 We are hiring!! 🚨 The Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS' is looking for: - a scientific coordinator - a science communication officer 🚨 Deadline: September 15 🚨 See links for the full advertisements: uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
- 📢 We are hiring! 🥳 Applications are open until September 10th! Feel free to circulate! ✨️ Last chance to apply!
- 📢Now hiring:independent junior research group leader-Biomechanics🦴💻 The #HumanOrigins Cluster at Uni Tübingen invites applications for a leader in biomechanics. 📝Start: Jan 1, 2026 🗓 Deadline: Sept 10, 2025 Interested? Apply now! 🔗 share.google/iIGo4jjQp7Ge... Share this ad! #HumanEvolution #Jobad
- 📢 Job opportunity! Applications are open until September 10th. Apply now! Please circulate. ✨️
- 📢Job Opportunity:independent junior research group leader-Experimental Archaeology 🪨The Cluster of Excellence #HumanOrigins at Uni Tübingen seeks a researcher in experimental archaeology! 📝Job starts Jan 1, 2026 🗓 Apply by Sept 10, 2025 Apply now! 🔗 share.google/d9npIiRdhOWq... #Jobad Share it!
- Last chance to apply! Position open! Feel free to circulate ✨️ 📢 Applications are open until September 10th! ⬇️ #jobad #academicjob
- 📢Position open:Independent junior research group leader:genotype-phenotype interactions🧬🔎 The #HumanOrigins Cluster at Uni Tübingen seeks an expert in genotype-phenotype interactions. 📝Start: Jan 1, 2026 🗓 Apply by Sept 10, 2025 🔗 share.google/OVbg1ZLG19yI... Apply now! #AcademicJobs Please share!
- 📢 We are hiring! See below for more information ⬇️
- 🚨 We are hiring!! 🚨 The Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS' is looking for: - a scientific coordinator - a science communication officer 🚨 Deadline: September 15 🚨 See links for the full advertisements: uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
- The 2025 excavation season is now officially underway at Apidima in Greece! ⛏️✨️ #excavations #fieldseason #Paleoanthropology
- Position open! Feel free to circulate! 📢 Applications are open until September 10th! ⬇️
- 📢Position open:Independent junior research group leader:genotype-phenotype interactions🧬🔎 The #HumanOrigins Cluster at Uni Tübingen seeks an expert in genotype-phenotype interactions. 📝Start: Jan 1, 2026 🗓 Apply by Sept 10, 2025 🔗 share.google/OVbg1ZLG19yI... Apply now! #AcademicJobs Please share!
- Job opportunity! Applications are open until September 10th. Apply now! Please circulate. ✨️
- 📢Job Opportunity:independent junior research group leader-Experimental Archaeology 🪨The Cluster of Excellence #HumanOrigins at Uni Tübingen seeks a researcher in experimental archaeology! 📝Job starts Jan 1, 2026 🗓 Apply by Sept 10, 2025 Apply now! 🔗 share.google/d9npIiRdhOWq... #Jobad Share it!
- We are hiring! 🥳 Applications are open until September 10th! Feel free to circulate! ✨️
- 📢Now hiring:independent junior research group leader-Biomechanics🦴💻 The #HumanOrigins Cluster at Uni Tübingen invites applications for a leader in biomechanics. 📝Start: Jan 1, 2026 🗓 Deadline: Sept 10, 2025 Interested? Apply now! 🔗 share.google/iIGo4jjQp7Ge... Share this ad! #HumanEvolution #Jobad
- Reposted by Harvati Lab🚨 We are hiring!! 🚨 The Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS' is looking for: - a scientific coordinator - a science communication officer 🚨 Deadline: September 15 🚨 See links for the full advertisements: uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
- 📢Now hiring:independent junior research group leader-Biomechanics🦴💻 The #HumanOrigins Cluster at Uni Tübingen invites applications for a leader in biomechanics. 📝Start: Jan 1, 2026 🗓 Deadline: Sept 10, 2025 Interested? Apply now! 🔗 share.google/iIGo4jjQp7Ge... Share this ad! #HumanEvolution #Jobad
- 📢Job Opportunity:independent junior research group leader-Experimental Archaeology 🪨The Cluster of Excellence #HumanOrigins at Uni Tübingen seeks a researcher in experimental archaeology! 📝Job starts Jan 1, 2026 🗓 Apply by Sept 10, 2025 Apply now! 🔗 share.google/d9npIiRdhOWq... #Jobad Share it!
- 📢Position open:Independent junior research group leader:genotype-phenotype interactions🧬🔎 The #HumanOrigins Cluster at Uni Tübingen seeks an expert in genotype-phenotype interactions. 📝Start: Jan 1, 2026 🗓 Apply by Sept 10, 2025 🔗 share.google/OVbg1ZLG19yI... Apply now! #AcademicJobs Please share!
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- Reposted by Harvati LabJob Alerts!🚨 We are looking to fill three Independent Junior Research Group Leader positions in the 'HUMAN ORIGINS' Cluster of Excellence at the University of Tübingen Application deadline: Sept. 10, Starting Jan. 1, 2026 1. Genotype-Phenotype interactions: uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
- Reposted by Harvati LabOur new edited volume is finally out! It collects much of the team's work over the last several years in Greece and elsewhere. Thank you and congratulations to authors, reviewers, editors and the University of Tübingen Press for this exciting - and beautiful! - work!! 🎉✨ #openaccess #humanevolution
- We’re excited to share that the #CROSSROADS VOLUME is published and also printed!🥳It features 28 contributions from the closing CROSSROADS symposium (Feb. 2022, Tübingen). It took time, but was worth the wait!✨️Edited by K. Harvati & M. Ioannidou. Congrats to all involved!🎉 Link: tinyurl.com/4s5mwdht
- We’re excited to share that the #CROSSROADS VOLUME is published and also printed!🥳It features 28 contributions from the closing CROSSROADS symposium (Feb. 2022, Tübingen). It took time, but was worth the wait!✨️Edited by K. Harvati & M. Ioannidou. Congrats to all involved!🎉 Link: tinyurl.com/4s5mwdht
- Reposted by Harvati LabOur article on Kayaca, a new Miocene locality in Turkey, is now out in the Senckenberg journal Paleodiversity and Paleoenvironments! Congratultions to George Konidaris, Ahmet Aytek and the whole team! The first result from this wonderful collaboration ✨🎉 #openaccess
- Reposted by Harvati LabThe pollen analysis from Marathousa 1, an MIS12 Lower Paleolithic elephant butchering site in Megalopolis basin (Greece) is now published!! Congratulations to Stella Kyrikou and team!!! ✨ 🎉 It's wonderful to see this important work finally out! #openaccess #humanevolution doi.org/10.1017/qua....
- Congratulations to George Konidaris on successfully completing his #habilitation! A major milestone and well-deserved recognition of his academic dedication and expertise. ✨️👏🏻🎉 #PrivatDozent
- New Dr. on the block! 👩🎓 Huge congrats to Dr. Stella Kyrikou on successfully defending her PhD on paleoenvironmental research in the Megalopolis Basin! ✨️👏🏻 Well done! 🎉 #PhDDefense #Paleoenvironment #MegalopolisBasin
- Reposted by Harvati LabWhat an amazing and packed week! Had an absolute blast at #EAVP2025 in Krakow. I also had the chance to present my latest updates on the dentition of #Ouranopithecus 🐵🦧 Huge thanks to all the organizers! ✨🙏🏼 @eavpalaeo.bsky.social #Paleontology
- Reposted by Harvati LabIt was fun participating in the Science Day of our Faculty yesterday with team members Frini Roditi and Stella Kyrikou! We enjoyed presenting our poster on paleoclimate reconstructions of the Middle Pleistocene Megalopolis Basin (Greece) 😎
- Reposted by Harvati LabCongratulations to PhD student Dalila DeCaro for the publication of her paper on the Marathousa 1 lithics at PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...! Well done Dalila!!
- Reposted by Harvati Lab🎉 Welcome to #EAVP2025! LET THE FOSSIL FUN begin! Check-in (today only): Museum of Natural History ISEA PAS (Św. Sebastiana 9; maps.app.goo.gl/XA5mPrdVdz6Y...) See you soon! #Palaeontology
- Happy #FossilFriday from the TSR locality (Greece): a horse calcaneus, a carnivoran metapodial and a long bone shaft fragment, possibly leftovers from a Pachycrocuta brevirostris, the giant #hyena of the #Pleistocene! 🦴🐾🐺 Curious for more? See Katsagoni et al. (2023)⬇️ doi.org/10.1080/0891...
- Exciting week ahead! 🦴🛠 Paleontological #excavations kicked off this Monday at the TSR locality (Lower Pleistocene) in Greece - a joint effort between Uni Tübingen and Uni Thessaloniki. 🙌🏻🙏🏼 Stay tuned for some exciting discoveries! 👀✨️🦴
- Reposted by Harvati LabSo nice to be back in Nairobi with the team working in the Museum after many years!
- Reposted by Harvati LabIt was a pleasure to deliver a lecture on humanity's African origins as part of the special exhibit 'Planet Africa – Eine archäologische Zeitreise' at the Archäologische Staatssammlung Museum in Munich. Wonderful public, a full house and lots of questions! I look forward to the next time 🤩
- Reposted by Harvati Lab#JobFairy #PhD #Anthropology A PhD position in the Virtual Anthropology Group at @univie.ac.at with #HEASVienna member #GerhardWeber is now available. More information and details on our website 👇🔗
- Reposted by Harvati Lab🎉Exciting times ahead for @elmanubohn.bsky.social, Michael Franke, and me! We will soon be advertising 2 PhD positions (linguistics/biology/psychology) for our SFB subproject "Modeling Great Ape Signaling Behaviour" 🧮 🐵 Stay tuned!
- Die @dfg.de hat den linguistischen SFB Common Ground: Kognition – Grammatik – Kommunikation an der @unituebingen.bsky.social bewilligt! 🎉🥂Großer Erfolg der Kolleg:innen!! Herzliche Glückwünsche!! Hier geht es zur PM 👉👉👉 www.dfg.de/de/service/p...
- Reposted by Harvati Lab🚨 Two PhD Positions Available! Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠 Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history. www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...
- Reposted by Harvati LabVery proud to be part of this extraordinary team! What a time to be working and living in Tübingen ⚒️🐵🦧🦴💀
- Reposted by Harvati LabA great success for archaeology and human origins research in Germany 🥳 Two clusters of excellence to be funded for (another) 7 years. Congratulations to @clusterroots.bsky.social, @uni-kiel.de, @unituebingen.bsky.social, @harvatilab.bsky.social, @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social @ctennie.bsky.social!
- The #ClustersOfExcellence have been selected: today, the Excellence Commission approved 70 projects for funding. 45 clusters will continue and 25 will be newly established. Funding starts on 1 Jan 2026 for 7 years, with €539 million per year. The full list: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3
- Reposted by Harvati LabDie Universität Tübingen erhält sechs #Exzellenzcluster, die im Rahmen der #Exzellenzstrategie vom 01.01.2026 an sieben Jahre lang gefördert werden! Darunter drei Cluster, die bereits etabliert sind und eine erneute Förderung erhalten. uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... #ExStra #Forschung #UniTübingen
- Reposted by Harvati LabGreat news for #archaeology and #HumanEvolution research in Germany. The Excellence Cluster @clusterroots.bsky.social at @uni-kiel.de was extended and @unituebingen.bsky.social got a new Cluster funded @harvatilab.bsky.social. Seven years of 💶, positions, infrastructure building and science ahead.
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- Reposted by Harvati Lab#ESHE2025 registration is still open! ✍️ Few spots left for the dinner & excursion. The deadline for abstract submission is May 14th: www.eshe.eu/abstract/
- Reposted by Harvati LabThe latest issue of PaleoAnthropology is out now! Volume 2025, Issue 1 #openaccess 📖Read Here: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph... #paleoanthropology #humanevolution
- Great to see our PhD student Serena Lombardo presenting at the SAA meeting in Denver! Her talk, “Early Upper Paleolithic Technical Behavior at Apidima (Peloponnese, Greece): Technological Analysis of the Lithic Assemblage from Cave C,” highlighted our exciting ongoing research at Apidima! Congrats!🤩
- Reposted by Harvati Lab📆 #ESHE2025 abstract submission deadline is May 14th! Keep in mind to register and pay your fees in advance. More info: www.eshe.eu/abstract/
- Reposted by Harvati Lab📢Registration is now open for the 15th annual ESHE meeting in Paris! Join us in person or online this September. Details & deadlines: bit.ly/3G9CeiQ #ESHE2025
- 📢Job alert! W3 (Full) Professorship in Human Ecology at the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen. ⛓️💥 berufungen.uni-tuebingen.de Deadline for applications: May 22, 2025 🗓 Please share and repost 🙏🏼 🤩 For questions please contact Prof. Harvati.
- Reposted by Harvati LabA pleasure to be working in Athens with the team this week! I look forward to everyone's results and papers 😀 #humanevolution
- New #openaccess paper by our PhD student, Stephanie Lismann, and other colleagues on the reconstruction of the demographic profile of Final Neolithic and Early Bronze populations in Baden-Württemberg, Germany! Congrats! 🎉 ⛓️💥 Link to the paper ⬇️ journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ak...
- Reposted by Harvati LabIt is a great honor to be awarded the Alumni Achievement award by my alma mater, the City University of New York Graduate Center! Thank you!!
- We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Alumni Award winners! Yingwei Fei, Rosemarie Gnam, Beatriz Carolina Peña, Mila Burns, Eugene Mananga, Katerina Harvati, Onur Altindag, and Karin Block-Cora. Learn about their inspiring accomplishments www.gc.cuny.edu/news/announc...
- Reposted by Harvati LabPostdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA)- University of York - Department of #Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML043/p...
- Reposted by Harvati LabYesterday was such a full day at the AABA! Highlights included the symposium on A. africanus, the symposium in honor of Terry Harrison, the Paleoanthropology sessions, and meetings with so many colleagues and friends! A very productive conference indeed! 🤩 #AABA
- Reposted by Harvati LabI enjoyed the opportunity to present the diamond open access, community owned, PaleoAnthropology journal and discuss the situation at the Journal of Human Evolution at the NYCEP seminar, City University of New York last week! Thank you to Larissa Swedell for the invitation.
- Reposted by Harvati LabGreat to be in Baltimore for the 94th annual meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropology! What a treat to catch up with the latest research and with old friends 🤩
- Reposted by Harvati LabTalk done! It was a pleasure to present our work in the Megalopolis basin over the last more than ten years :-) #AABA
- Reposted by Harvati LabExciting new find from Atapuerca! Here is the write up in Science, with commentary from former Tübingen fellow Mirjana Roksandic and myself.
- Reposted by Harvati LabJob alert! @katerinad.bsky.social and I are looking for an archaeologist/archaeological scientist to join us on a 4 year post-doc, helping to manage and participate in field and lab work on 2 ERC grants in our group. We would love to hear from you via the link! 👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct...
