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Light as a feather, heavyweight research impact: #HumanOrigins spokesperson Nicholas Conard and Ria Litzenberg presenting two new bird figurines from Hohlefels Cave at the annual press conference at Urmu museum Blaubeuren. (Press report below) 🏺

Congrats to our speaker @katharv.bsky.social, who was just announced as the winner of the Albert Einstein World Award of Science!

Katerina Harvati erhält den Albert Einstein World Award for Sciencewww.idw-online.de

❗️Starting soon ❗️ Join our HUMAN ORIGINS lectures by Dr. Antoine Souron via Zoom!

HUMAN ORIGINS is welcoming Dr. Antoine Souron (University of Bordeaux) for two! Lectures this Thursday, July 16th! Invitation to join via Zoom, links below.

Congrats also to our Postdoctoral Researcher @emilypigott.bsky.social, we’re happy to have you here!

Congrats to our spokesperson @katharv.bsky.social on their new paper published today! 🏺 #paleosky

Likely no hunters of Elephants nor masters of fire - new paper on taphonomic analysis challenges former assumptions on Homo floresensis. Congratulations to Grace Veatch, who recently started her position as an Independent Junior Research Group Lead at Human Origins! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Taphonomic analysis at Liang Bua reveals the behavioral and technological capabilities of Homo floresiensisHomo floresiensis scavenged Stegodon and did not use fire, challenging previous claims of advanced behavior.www.science.org

Happening now: our Spokesperson Prof. Christopher Miller is presenting an Introduction of the Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS at the annual Geosymposium and Quenstedt Celebrations at @unituebingen.bsky.social.

🚨Deadline approaching 🚨 for this fully funded PhD position in Human Origins Experimental Archaeology Lab! For this fantastic opportunity to get involved with our Cluster of Excellence as well as with the enigmatic site of Liang Bua! More info on our website!

Starting soon: Lecture by Prof. Dr. Andrzej Wiśniewski on "Open-Air Sites of the Keilmessergruppe: The Example of Pietraszyn 49a, Poland". Join us today, 10:15 a.m. CEST via Zoom, link below. #paleosky

Our fellow Cluster of Excellence Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science is offering a fantastic career opportunity, which is explicitly open for applications by Early Career Researchers with a background in Archaeology, Paleoanthropology, Geoscience and adjacent subjects! #paleosky

📣 Lecture announcement 📣 Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology Colloquium, sponsored by HUMAN ORIGINS On June 18th, 10:15 a.m., Prof. Dr. Andrzej Wiśniewski is giving a lecture at the Castle Hohentübingen on "Open-Air Sites of the Keilmessergruppe: The Example of Pietraszyn 49a, Poland".

It‘s #EuropeanArchaeologyDay 🏺, and at the Cluster exciting things are happening! The first fieldwork projects of HUMAN ORIGINS are underway, and one of it is Yerevan-1. Armenia is a place of stunning landscapes, and potentially of new insights into the time Neanderthals disappeared. #paleosky

Starting soon: Dr. Grace Veatch on Human Evolution and Biogeography of Flores island. Zoom link below!

Lecture Announcement! Dr.Grace Veatch, Independent Junior Research Group Leader at Human Origins, on „An Unexpected Journey: Human Evolution and Island Biogeography on Flores, Indonesia“. Join us this Friday, June 12th, at 10:15 a.m. , live on site or via Zoom: zoom.us/j/9643057107... 🏺 #paleosky

❗️Reminder❗️ Lecture today, 10:15 am CEST, also on Zoom!

📣Lecture Announcement📣 How did environmental changes across Africa over the past ~300,000 years shaped population structure, connectivity, and isolation? And how did these dynamics contributed to the evolution of Homo sapiens and to present-day human diversity?

✨New opportunity✨ Fully funded PhD position in our Experimental Archaeology Lab lead by @egveatch.bsky.social! Find all necessary information on our website: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/... #HumanOrigins #EarlyCareerArchaeologists

🚨Deadline approaching🚨 for this fully funded PhD-position at Uni Tübingen! Want to know more? ➡️ Get in touch!

Join us TODAY via zoom for Dr. Jaap Saers talk „The Brain-Bone Tradeoff: evolutionary and developmental origins of human skeletal fragility“. (Link below)