We are hiring! Tenure-track Assistant Professor at NYU in Biological Anthropology, for someone working in areas of non-human primate ‘omics. All new state-of-the-art lab facilities should be ready in early 2026. Job ad and application link here: https://t.co/c0ar60WWAr
Congratulations to Justin Pargeter and Guilhem Mauran on receiving a research grant from the @PASTEvolve Foundation to support two southern African master students, Malesetla Sepamo and Petrus Tangeni, who will work on ochre collections from Boomplaas Cave!
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Congrats to Alex Gregory on winning a Robert Holmes Travel/Research Award for African Scholarship for summer research on the effects that aquatic resources played on hunter-gatherer technologies during the Late Holocene in southern Africa!
❄️Curious about the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and its impact on southern Africa's climates, environments, and human evolution? Our new #Quaternary Science Reviews paper (https://t.co/pyWKRFiUxA) sheds light on this icy chapter at #Boomplaas Cave
Did Neanderthals use glue? @nyuanthro and @uni_tue researchers found evidence of a multi-component adhesive in stone tools that suggests a higher level of cognition and cultural development than previously thought.
More on the @ScienceAdvances study: https://t.co/WTxp6DITlB
Our new paper shows how neuroplasticity enables bio‑cultural feedback in Paleolithic stone‑tool making (https://t.co/afkMze3z4K). Results show that technical skill acquisition can produce structural brain changes conducive to the discovery and acquisition of additional skills.
CSHO faculty Shara Bailey is part of the research team that published in Science on the oldest Oldowan tools found at a site called Nyayanga, Kenya. They were associated with Paranthropus teeth, suggesting that Paranthropus potentially used them: https://t.co/NOBnl8888R
Hot off the presses! New review "African apes and the evolutionary history of orthogrady and bipedalism" by Scott Williams, Cody Prang, and co-authors. Check it out! https://t.co/RsY4xUtIc0 @WUSTLbioanthro@WUSTLAnthro@nyuanthro@CSHO_NYU
Fully funded opportunity to excavate at Boomplaas Cave and across several sites in Malawi through the Human Origins Migration and Evolution (HOMER) research group. May-July 2023. More info here: https://t.co/6W4n0iNBr0
How do individual differences in strength, accuracy & cognition impact knapping skill acquisition in different information transmission conditions? In a new study, we trained 23 individuals for 2 hours to knap by observation only/direct active teaching.
https://t.co/w6fHVzoULQ
As promised, a thread of photos and fun facts about the incredible drill monkey (Mandrillus leucophaeus) that I have the privilege of researching. All photos are mine. #scicomm (1/11)