12,000-year grind: How Climate Change led to Modern Farming ecofooddev.com/?p=230 New blog on how farming first emerged. Climate change brought innovation before & can again #climatechange #environment #sustainability #globalwarming #climate #farming #agriculture #archaeology

Climate Cartoon of the day: Watch up for the Carbon Tax!

Let's talk about fire 🔥 Join me on EXARC 's #FinallyFriday podcast where we discuss Prehistoric #fire, #pyrotechnology, and #experimentalArchaeology , followed by a live Q&A how to join: exarc.net/history/finall… Sign in early on Discord to not miss anything!

Interested in #SensitivityAnalysis in #Archaeology ? New paper by #AIASFellow dr Iza Romanowska and collaborators on 'Sensitivity analysis in archaeological simulation: An application to the MERCURY model' in @ElsevierArchaeo sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I will try to join since I included a piece on resilience in Neanderthal simulations...

The winner of the 2021 Nick Ryan Bursary: Anastasia Nikulina Anastasia Nikulina 👏 For "Agent-based modelling to assess hominin role in creating and maintaining vegetation openness during the Last Interglacial and the Early – Middle Holocene in Europe: overview of a planned simulation"

So cool if your son knows what you like 😎

Carl Sagan in 1978 calling out racism in a science fiction film with scientific arguments. Ahead of his time, also in tune with debates around representation taking place in the 70s. In the same interview, he warns about climate change.

Great talk, very nice research presented. Datasets are OA!

Ever wondered why those dances on TikTok spread like wildfire? Their diffusion is based on transmission methods deeply embedded in our lineage. Our paper in PNAS on cultural diffusion published today: pnas.org/content/118/31…. I am pretty sure #Neanderthal would have danced too!

A different take on the spread of #fire in the #Paleolithic. universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2021/0…

De vaardigheid ‘vuurtje stoken’ heeft zich tussen 400.000 en 350.000 jaar geleden als een lopend vuurtje over de wereld verspreid, stellen Leidse archeologen. newscientist.nl/nieuws/uitvind…

#WednesdayWisdom "When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan..from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa & whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams.” Follow your dreams.

We are thrilled to announce that the very first #ABM in #archaeology textbook is now PUBLISHED!!! 🎉🎉🎉 amazon.com/dp/1947864254 Colin D. Wren @StefaniCrabtree

1/x It gives me much pleasure to announce that, on my proposal, the Working Group on Small Body Nomenclature (WGSBN) of International Astronomical Union (IAU) has decided that #asteroid (555292) = 2013 UZ32 henceforth will be called: (555292) Bakels ...after Leiden Archaeology archeobotanist Prof. Corrie Bakels

Reply to McGrew: Chimpanzees do not exhibit widespread cultural diffusion pnas.org/content/118/51…

Accepted and published: Landscape modification by Last Interglacial Neanderthals science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

rdcu.be/cEdl9 Hunter Gatherer impact in the past. Proxies to identify. One of the first papers in 2022!

Please consider. Note the five(!) violated values. Grant writing and grant peer review as questionable research.... Conix S et al., published by F1000Research, f1000research.com/articles/10-11…