Category: News
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Extra Seminar: “Reconstructing extinct landscapes submerged by the sea on the South African continental shelf”
ICArEHB invited Hayley Cawthra, Head of Marine Geosciences in the South Africa Council for Geoscience, as a speaker on the theme “Reconstructing extinct landscapes submerged by the sea on the South African continental shelf”. The event will take place 11:00 on the 3rd of June, at Teresa Gamito Amphitheater (Ed. 1 FCHS) at Gambelas Campus.…
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“Initial Upper Paleolithic bone technology and personal ornaments at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria)”
New article published by Naomi L. Martisius, Rosen Spasov, Geoff M. Smith, Elena Endarova, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot, Frido Welker, Vera Aldeias, Pedro Horta, João Marreiros, Zeljko Rezek, Shannon P. McPherron, Nikolay Sirakov, Svoboda Sirakova, Tsenka Tsanova, Jean-Jacques Hublin,, in Journal of Human Evolution. The expansion of Homo sapiens and our interaction with local environments, including the replacement or…
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Masters Fellowships at ICArEHB
ICArEHB has opened a call for 4 fellowships, for students who want to pursue their master of archaeology at the University of Algarve, in Faro, in Prehistoric Archaeology. More info at http://www.icarehb.com/masters-2022/
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Post-doctoral positions at ICArEHB
ICArEHB has currently 2 calls open for 6-year contracts for a principal and an assistant researcher. Principal researcher in European Prehistoric Archaeology Assistant researcher in Prehistoric Archaeology
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“SPIN enables high throughput species identification of archaeological bone by proteomics”
New article published by Patrick Leopold Rüther, Immanuel Mirnes Husic, Pernille Bangsgaard, Kristian Murphy Gregersen, Pernille Pantmann, Milena Carvalho, Ricardo Miguel Godinho, Lukas Friedl, João Cascalheira, Alberto John Taurozzi, Marie Louise Schjellerup Jørkov, Michael M. Benedetti, Jonathan Haws, Nuno Bicho, Frido Welker, Enrico Cappellini & Jesper Velgaard Olsen, in Nature Communications. Species determination based on genetic evidence is an indispensable tool in archaeology, forensics, ecology, and food authentication. Most available analytical approaches…
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“The evolutionary relationship between bere barley and other types of cultivated barley”
New article published by Konstantina Drosou, Hayley Craig, Karren Palmer, Sandra L. Kennedy, John Wishart, Hugo R. Oliveira, Peter Civáň, Peter Martin & Terence A. Brown, in Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. We used genotyping-by-sequencing to investigate the evolutionary history of bere, the oldest barley variety still cultivated in Britain and possibly in all of Europe. With a panel of 203 wild and 401…
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“A large-scale environmental strontium isotope baseline map of Portugal for archaeological and paleoecological provenance studies”
New article published by Hannah F. James, Shaun Adams, Malte Willmes, Kate Mathison, Andrea Ulrichsen, Rachel Wood, Antonio C. Valera, Catherine J. Frieman, Rainer Grün, in Journal of Archaeological Science. Strontium isotopes (87Sr/86Sr) provide valuable information to help reconstruct past mobility. For the analysis of archaeological tooth enamel to provide a direct assessment of mobility, a comparison to…
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ICArEHB Dialogues – Migrations and Dispersals in the Mesolithic and Neolithic
Our next Dialogue is on the 27thy of May and features Rick Schulting and Maïté Rivollat on the theme “Migrations and Dispersals in the Mesolithic and Neolithic”. To register for the session please register here DIALOGUES Migrations and Dispersals in the Mesolithic and Neolithic
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“Human forager response to abrupt climate change at 8.2 ka on the Atlantic coast of Europe”
New article published by Asier García-Escárzaga, Igor Gutiérrez-Zugasti, Ana B. Marín-Arroyo, Ricardo Fernandes, Sara Núñez de la Fuente, David Cuenca-Solana, Eneko Iriarte, Carlos Simões, Javier Martín-Chivelet, Manuel R. González-Morales & Patrick Roberts, in Scientific Reports. The cooling and drying associated with the so-called ‘8.2 ka event’ have long been hypothesized as having sweeping implications for human societies in the Early Holocene, including some of the last Mesolithic…
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“Genomic variation in baboons from central Mozambique unveils complex evolutionary relationships with other Papio species”
New article published by Cindy Santander, Ludovica Molinaro, (…), Vera Aldeias, (…), René Bobe, (…), Frederico Tátá Regala, (…), Susana Carvalho & Cristian Capelli, in BMC Ecology and Evolution . Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique hosts a large population of baboons, numbering over 200 troops. Gorongosa baboons have been tentatively identified as part of Papio ursinus on…