I'm very happy to announce that in October I'll be starting a postdoc at SFU Archaeology, British Columbia 🇨🇦 to join Prof Francesco Berna's project on Neandertal pyrotechnology at #Oscurusciuto Rock shelter (southern Italy) and continue my research on #residueanalysis! 🔥🔬🌿

A news and views from Peter Mitchell Oxford School of Archaeology discusses why this genetic continuity is so surprising, given what we know about the regional archaeological record. rdcu.be/dUrSX nature.com/articles/s4155…

Back in Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste 💫✨🔬 For the very first time since the end of my #PhD 🎉🎉🎉 CERIC-ERIC UR Preistoria e Antropologia - Unisi Università di Siena

26/9. #Bright_NightSiena in Rettorato! ✅H. 17, inaugurazione mostra fotografica “Indizi" ✅H. 18, “Fuori sede: il viaggio nel vissuto universitario” 👉bright-night.it/fuori-sede-il-… ✅H. 21, camminata “L’Ateneo al centro della Via Francigena” 👉bright-night.it/lateneo-al-cen… #Brightnight2024

#Entusiasta di essere tra i #5finalisti per il conferimento del #premio Trieste Next Science Book of the Year! Per saperne di più 🔗 youtube.com/channel/UCr96s… Raffaello Cortina Ed European Research Council (ERC) Dept. Chemistry Ciamician - University of Bologna

Our latest study explores how wetland plants, rich in minerals like silica, shape wear patterns on stone tools using a combined approach of botany, experimental archaeology, and traceology! buff.ly/4e7UdlT

Today, CLIOARCH’s first PhD student David N. Matzig defends his thesis. The clouds hang low but our heads and flags high. An amazing and beautiful dissertation

If you're interested in exploring this fascinating research further, check out TraceoLab’s recent publications on this topic: Conard & Rots (2024): Rope making in the Aurignacian of Central Europe more than 35,000 years ago 👉 buff.ly/3ZFVV9O

Tomasso et al (2024): Exploring the link between plant minerals and wear formation on stone tools through experimentation: a view from the wetland 👉 buff.ly/4eImkIn

Broad-audience video (English version) of our new #ScientificReports paper on the unexpected presence of #IUP technology in Iberia’s hinterlands. #UVa #CuevaMillán #Arlanzian rdcu.be/dVhCd

New paper out! A great contribution of Gregor Marchand to our project in Oman 💜

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗼 𝗕𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻 from our RU was invited at Trieste Next to talk about adaptive intelligence, starch grains and ancient adhesive use in the #UpperPalaeolithic of southern Italy 🏹 Università di Siena Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste CERIC-ERIC

For details: doi.org/10.1038/s41559…

𝗗𝗿 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝗠𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗼 of our RU Università di Siena was at the Center for the Study of First Americans, Texas A&M University, to give her lecture "Gateway to South America: New Insights on the Early Human Settlement of Colombia"

📌 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗮 2024, Marina di Camerota 🏷🪣 Università di Siena #MarinadiCamerota #fieldwork #excavation

We are thrilled to announce the publication of our joint paper on the Bipolar knapping! Experimental-based approach to define the Bipolar as a systematic method in the Uluzzian link.springer.com/10.1007/s12520… BonesLab Jacopo Conforti Serena Lombardo Matteo Rossini Marcos César Pereira Santos

📌 We are hiring! Join the European Research Council (ERC) Synergy 𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗡𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗹𝘀 project as part of the Università di Siena geoarchaeology team! Applications open until December 30, 2024 📅 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/300156

The meeting was organized at UR Preistoria e Antropologia - Unisi, the Research Unit of Prehistory and Anthropology at the University of Siena