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Don't miss Session 11 tomorrow, September 14th! #ESHE2024 😎🤩 Our #FIRSTSTEPS team member Giulia Marciani (BonesLab) will be presenting our work on the Uluzzian of Klissoura, Greece! 🔎🌍

Thrilled to announce another new #openaccess article on the Pleistocene mammal fauna of the Megalopolis Basin, Greece! 🐘🦛🐒🦫Congrats to George Konidaris and all co-authors! 🙌🏻 🔗 Check the link below to read the article ⬇️ mdpi.com/2571-550X/7/4/…

Shoutout to the flotation and lab teams of Apidima season 2024! Your work and dedication are crucial to the success of the field campaign! 🙌🏻🙏🏼✨️ Norwegian Institute at Athens #archeology #fieldwork #fossils #teamwork

The Megalopolis movie is crowding the airwaves, but #therealMegalopolis is also on a roll!🤠😂 Check out our 4 articles this year on our research on the Middle Pleistocene Megalopolis basin, Greece. 🤩 You can find the links to the #OpenAccess papers in the first comment below ⬇️

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Thanks to the team for another amazing field season! Till next time...

Super excited to announce our new Open-Access paper in JHE! We present original evidence showing that the grasping habits of certain early hominins (such as stone tool use) were already strikingly human-like. Here is the Link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Happy to have our new Open-Access Paper out now! Check below for the link and read some interesting insights into the hand use of Australopithecus

💥💥Thrilled to announce a new publication on isotope analysis led by Dr. Giuseppe Briatico. Congrants Giuseppe Briatico 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 ⬇️ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Ever wondered how closely trauma prevalence derived from incomplete skeletal samples conforms to the TRUE trauma rate of the once complete skeletal assemblage? We tested it! 💀 A thread (1/7) 👇 Read the full paper Scientific Reports: doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

Thrilled to share our new study, the first to use EEG to explore brain activation during early hominin tool use, with fascinating insights! Congrats to Simona Affinito and team! Senckenberg Research Universität Tübingen Link: nature.com/articles/s4159… Press Release: shorturl.at/sHkMX

We are organising a session for the #EAA2025 in #Belgrade and are now inviting submissions on Neanderthal-Homo sapiens subsistence differences 60,000 to 40,000 years ago in Central and Southeast Europe @eaapam European Association of Archaeologists #zooarchaeology #ZooMS

New Dr.rer.nat in the team! 😉 Many congratulations to Frini Roditi [Effrosyni Roditi] for successfully defending her PhD! 🥳 Great work! ✨️

Christmas lab meeting 🎄✨️ We had to use a wide angle lens to fit all the team in one photo. 🤭🤩

Brainstorming, networking, and sharing new ideas! Thrilled to have hosted our friends and colleagues for the ERC FIRSTSTEPS midterm meeting – what an inspiring exchange of knowledge and perspectives!

📢10th BONE DIAGENESIS MEETING #BD2025 Where: Athens 🇬🇷 When: 24-26 September 2025 ☀️ 📞 FOR ABSTRACTS Submission deadline: 31 March Early 🐥 registration: 15 July For more information check bd-2025.com And 👇🏻

🤩This #Friday, we are excited to announce the 5th VCWAP program! 🌟 The full program is now available on our official website ⬇️ awap-science.org/en/vcwap-2025/ #conference #program #archeology #paleontology

📢 #VCWAP2025 Begins Today! In a few minutes, we officially launch the first day of the conference, featuring high-level scientific sessions and critical discussions on the latest advancements in our field. Stay tuned for key presentations and contributions throughout the event.

🔬 Effrosyni Roditi (Effrosyni Roditi ) explores Pleistocene ecosystems through faunal remains. Her study analyzes Hippopotamus from the Megalopolis Basin (Greece), using stable isotopes to reveal habitat shifts, seasonal diets, and adaptations to cooler conditions.

Ouch! This Celtic warrior took an arrow to the butt 🏹But thanks to some surprisingly advanced ancient medics, he survived! A peek into healthcare 2,500 years ago: doi.org/10.1002/oa.3395