Degsew Zerihun Mekonnen PhD

Archaeologist at the National museum of Ethiopia. Interested in plant and human relationship.

[ICArEHB @ICArEHB]

🚀 Historic achievement for ICArEHB! We’ve secured €31.5M to launch UAlgTec Heritage, a pioneering European centre for innovation in archaeological heritage. Proud of our team and excited for what comes next! #ICArEHB #UAlgTecHeritage #HeritageTech #UAlg #Portugal

[ICArEHB @ICArEHB]

🎉 Congratulations to Anastasia Eleftheriadou on successfully defending her PhD at ICArEHB! Well done, Dr. Eleftheriadou! 🎓

#Archaeology #PhD #PhDDefense #NewDoctor

[Adriana Leite @accfml]

Our new paper about sheep and goat husbandry practices at Perdigões (4th–3rd millennium BC, Portugal) via sequential isotope analysis of tooth enamel is out! @ICArEHB
https://t.co/qJ6MNVsivU

[Michael B. Toffolo 🦥 @MichaelToffolo]

We are accepting applications for the "James Brink Field School in Pleistocene Archaeology and Palaeontology", to be held at the Florisbad Quaternary Research Station (National Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa) from 22 June to 3 July 2026. Deadline: 6 February 2026.

[Degsew Zerihun Mekonnen PhD @deg_zed]

@Tseday Archeological evidences shows before Christianity the people were worshipping the South Arabian gods. Not Judaism!
History without Archeological evidence is weak specially if you don't have written documents. Above all, what's the point here? To say we are not Africans ????

[ICArEHB @ICArEHB]

🎉 Congratulations to Degsew Mekonnen on the successful defense of his PhD thesis at ICArEHB! #Archaeology #PhD #PhDDefense

[Akin Ogundiran @akin_ogundiran]

The Society of Africanist Archaeologists and affiliated organizations have launched a fundraising campaign to support early-career, Africa-based archaeologists for radiocarbon dating purposes. I am appealing to you to support this initiative. https://t.co/S7pABBQkB9

[Degsew Zerihun Mekonnen PhD @deg_zed]

Check out our new publication on the challenges faced by African scholars, especially early-career researchers. *Against All Odds: An Archaeologist's Journey in Africa*
Ethiopia, Sudan, Zimbabwe and South Africa collaboration
#EX NOVO Journal
https://t.co/vmx5WlwiP3

[ICArEHB @ICArEHB]

🤖 Can #AI help #archaeologists identify how #stonetools were used?
#ICArEHB researchers A. Eleftheriadou, Y. Djellal, S.P. McPherron & J. Marreiros explore this with convolutional neural networks for #UseWear analysis.
🔗 https://t.co/4thY9Feiv2
#Archaeology #MachineLearning

[Degsew Zerihun Mekonnen PhD @deg_zed]

@SossaSR Congratulations 🎉

[Degsew Zerihun Mekonnen PhD @deg_zed]

Must read!!👇👇

[Tegenu Gossa @tegenu_gossa]

Another concrete evidence shows that the earliest appearence of the Acheulian at Melka Kunture is NOT older than 1.6 Ma. This one pretty much seals the case!
Many thanks Suwa et al. for this contribution.

https://t.co/eeUZPmKMDC

[Guillermo Alzate @AlzateGuillermo]

📢Thrilled to share the first paper from my PhD, now published in Quaternary Science Reviews 🔬

We integrate micromorphology, geochemistry & radiocarbon dating to reassess Neanderthal use of Escoural Cave (Portugal).

https://t.co/oqJw7N11If

#Neanderthals #Geoarchaeology

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

On my way to Sarajevo. But not before having honoured the memory of the victims of the genocide. Tomorrow, Srebrenica.

[Dr Tomos Proffitt @tomosproffitt]

Very happy to announce that a new postdoctoral position on the New ERC funded Western Rift Archaeology and Palaeoenvironment Project is open - if you're a geologist or geochronologist come and join us at @ICArEHB https://t.co/0dE1clGfAR

[Degsew Zerihun Mekonnen PhD @deg_zed]

@Giutter3 @TheLeakeyFndtn @UConnAnthro @unicomplutense @HebrewU Congratulations!

[Degsew Zerihun Mekonnen PhD @deg_zed]

@Mekdesmt One thing that gives me hope is that seeing someone like you and your friends commented here with different perspective❤. It really pains me to hear such a idiocracy.

[ICArEHB @ICArEHB]

📢 New publication: "Machine Learning Applications in Use-Wear Analysis: A Critical Review" by Eleftheriadou, A., McPherron, S. P., & Marreiros, J., in Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 8(1), 2025.
🔗 More info: https://t.co/90v8ZFluNQ

[Prof. Julio Mercader Florín @ProfMercader]

Ancient starch research rests on a paradox:

A molecule known to degrade rapidly is assumed to survive for tens of thousands of years. Our data show active microbial metabolism in buried contexts. Time to dismantle the myth...
https://t.co/9N0fJXwSEr

https://t.co/sairjuyZZh

[Degsew Zerihun Mekonnen PhD @deg_zed]

@StephenMagohe @the_subtender @ProfMercader @RiversToRocks @jen @TheLeakeyFndtn @CanadianAcp @UdsmOfficial @UCalgary Congratulations bro!!

[Degsew Zerihun Mekonnen PhD @deg_zed]

New from my PhD research: "The Genomics of T’ef and Finger Millet Domestication and Spread" now out in the Royal Society B.
https://t.co/QLzJChhXFH