Helen Fewlass

Lecturer in Archaeology @BristolAnthArch @BristolUni

Archaeological Science | Palaeolithic | Radiocarbon | Ancient Proteins

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[Helen Fewlass @HelsFewlass]

Very excited to receive an ERC Starting Grant to study the earliest archaeological and biomolecular evidence of Homo sapiens in NW Europe

Watch this space for new positions in Bristol in 2026! 🎉

#HorizonEurope #ERCStG

[European Research Council (ERC) @ERC_Research]

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

➡️ https://t.co/cGctMhcJos

🇪🇺 #HorizonEurope

[UR Preistoria e Antropologia - Unisi @URPA_unisi]

📌 We are hiring! Join the @ERC_Research Synergy 𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗡𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗹𝘀 project as part of the @unisiena geoarchaeology team!

Applications open until December 30, 2024 📅

https://t.co/5h4pPzIYYd

[Prof Rhiannon Stevens @NannonStevens]

Another funded opportunity at UCL supervised by ⁦@MatthewPope⁩ Pope and myself.
Establishing Limits of late Neanderthal Presence in Britain. https://t.co/x1DKJqQt9v

[Archaeological Proteomics Lab @archaeoprotein]

We are organising a session for the #EAA2025 in #Belgrade and are now inviting submissions on Neanderthal-Homo sapiens subsistence differences 60,000 to 40,000 years ago in Central and Southeast Europe @eaapam @archaeologyEAA #zooarchaeology #ZooMS

[Marcos Martinon-Torres @martinontorres]

Two Cambridge/ERC PhD studentships in archaeology/pastoralism/Kenya: one on animal economies (isotopes), one on exchange (obsidian and ceramic sourcing). Please share!
https://t.co/S3pEDoFgYi

[MPI-EVA Leipzig @MPI_EVA_Leipzig]

Oldest modern human #genomes sequenced. These seven early #Europeans belonged to a small, isolated group that left no present-day descendants. Study @Nature led by @arevsumer, Kay Prüfer, Johannes Krause @MPI_EVA_Leipzig. https://t.co/thySPSDXyR & https://t.co/IDwbcYjkkF

[HEAS Vienna @HeasVienna]

We are looking forward to welcoming #ShannonMcPherron to #HEASVienna as part of the #HEASSeminar in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic
taking place online and in-person @univienna
. Registration and more information on our website 🔗👇

https://t.co/4lZPpMOiy3

[PAASTA community @paastacommunity]

Congratulations Ismael Rodriguez Palomo
et al. on the recent paper in
@PeerCommunityIn: Benchmarking the identification of a single degraded protein to explore optimal search strategies for ancient proteins!

If you missed the corresponding talk: https://t.co/9sGrXEwmyb

[Archaeological Proteomics Lab @archaeoprotein]

Our Special Issue is out, fully #openaccess in PaleoAnthropology! 7 studies on integrating #ZooMS and #Zooarchaeology, alongside an extensive introduction on challenges/potentials. Guest editors @geoffreymsmith, Karen Ruebens, @MathiotSinet, @FridoWelker.
https://t.co/Zrd7nOhlD7

[Virginie Sinet-Mathiot @MathiotSinet]

Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology: Excited to see the special issue out now in #OpenAccess in PaleoAnthropology! Such a great output from the 1st edition of IZAZ with @geoffreymsmith Karen Ruebens @FridoWelker

[PAASTA community @paastacommunity]

In case you haven't already, be sure to mark your calendars for 06 November at **16:00** CET for
@rdilja08
's talk, which is the next talk in our #PAASTACommunity talk series!

(Apologies for the wrong time in a prior post!)

[Arts Matter Bristol @UoBArtsMatter]

🔬 Dr Lucy Cramp and team have received a £1m @ahrcpress grant to create a Centre for Chemical Characterisation in Heritage Science

Uniting @BristolAnthArch, @BristolChem & @UoBEarthScience, the Centre will be a world-leading facility for the sector 👇

https://t.co/vhwiCUgCgP

[OGU Bristol @ogu_bristol]

!!!Job alert!!! We are looking for a Research Technician to join @ogu_bristol @BristolChem @BristolAnthArch and analyse archaeological pottery using state-of-the-art analytical methods. Deadline 9th October. Job number: SUPP111719 on the https://t.co/WidFP8I8eX site.

[Elena Zavala @ElenaIreneZ]

Interested in sedaDNA, aDNA, or forensic genetics?

Join me in Copenhagen!

I'm hiring a PhD and a Postdoc to start in 2025. Application deadline 28 November

https://t.co/xzg6v5QYyD
https://t.co/S4vgZxJ9yD

[Carrie Mongle @CarrieMongle]

This is such a cool job opportunity for any early career paleoanthropologists! Run Sterkfontein, study hominin fossils, advise graduate students at Wits 😍

[PAASTA community @paastacommunity]

🚨ONE WEEK🚨 left to register (it's free!) for what is sure to be a brilliant one day conference later this month!

[Dig It! @DigItScotland]

"There’s hardly any population on Earth that hasn’t been affected by migration and mixing of populations" 🧬

As part of #ScotlandDigs2024: International Connections, @Boothicus explains what archaeology can tell us about prehistoric migration in Scotland: https://t.co/HKFj8OPgKx

[Marta @MartaMLahr @MartMLahr]

Marc Dickinson on aminoacid geochronology based on AA racemisation from the intra-crystaline fraction (avoid prob of open system using AA inside crystals in teeth). Tested diff taxa on UK known-age 👍, then S African fossils fr several sites 🥰
#ESHE2024

[Kate Britton @WhatKatieDigs]

Come work with us here in Aberdeen! Now seeking a zooarchaeologist or palaeontologist specialising in Late Pleistocene fauna for a 2 year full time fellowship role (with potential for further extension) on our ERC-selected/UKRI-funded project.

[Archaeology at UoA @UoA_Archaeology]

Job alert! Are you a specialist in late Pleistocene animals? Come join us for 2+ years in Aberdeen to work with @WhatKatieDigs on the amazing PALaEoScot project https://t.co/Qbe2EsleEW