Jocktan Mtani

Field Archaeologist|
QGIS and Remote sensing expert|
Archaeological Technician, Department of pre-history and Quatenary Ecology University of Tübingen 🇩🇪

[Jocktan Mtani @jocktanmtani]

I'm learning alot here at #Holleyshelter under @gregorDbader and @MW_hominin
#Archaeology #Tanzania

[Gunther Möller @Gunther_Moeller]

A talk that I presented today in person at the #SAfA2025 in Faro and had pre-recorded. Jojosi lithics rock, if it fits it fits! 😋 Click! Thanks for the opportunity @MW_hominin and to all the session and conference organizers!

https://t.co/0PeAMAUwy0

[Manuel Will @MW_hominin]

The second version of another of the controversial #naledi papers is out (this one headed by @Anthrofuentes ) with a hefty review - you can read it here, plus the authors response, and judge for yourself https://t.co/chAi2HZqoK

[Alison Fisk @AlisonFisk]

Something wonderful for the weekend!

About 40,000 years ago, during the #IceAge, this tiny figurine was sculpted from mammoth ivory. Imagine the artist sitting by the warmth and flickering light of a camp fire, carving what is the world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!

Excavated in 1931, together with a number of other ivory animal figurines, from the Vogelherd Cave, Swabian Jura, Germany. The ‘Vogelherd Horse’ is on display at the Museum of Ancient Cultures, Tübingen, Germany 📷 by me https://t.co/6J9grUPrWd

#Archaeology

[Manuel Will @MW_hominin]

Published today in @Nature our new study on the drivers of the successful dispersal of modern humans out of Africa! A huge, interdisciplinary team effort long in the making. Glad to have contributed a bit! https://t.co/BlbMDxKacs #archaeology #Evolution #anthropology

[Jocktan Mtani @jocktanmtani]

@AM_NICE04 Mbili nahitaj

[Jocktan Mtani @jocktanmtani]

@0101DUBU Wanangu WA nje matopeni 😂😂😂😂
Shida Ni kwamba wanawake wengi WA Bongo wanaamin mshikaji akiwa nje anamaisha na Ni assurance ya prosperity

[Jocktan Mtani @jocktanmtani]

I’m grateful for the opportunity to return home for the holidays and share my excavation knowledge with #Udsm students, thanks to my mentors @gregorDbader and @MW_hominin from Tübingen
And Dr @mussachiko from Udsm for mentorship and support in helping me grow professionally

[Manuel Will @MW_hominin]

Color me surprised (not)! #academia #peerreview

[Jocktan Mtani @jocktanmtani]

@AbuubakaryA @TMnyama4_ Uko sahih au asave 1M atumie Laki 5 Kwa mwez inawezekana na Bado ataishi comfortable

[Manuel Will @MW_hominin]

So many firsts: The first first-author paper of my first PhD student @Gunther_Moeller is out! Reporting on the first stratified MSA archaeological open-air site of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Dug in 1991, now re-analyzed & dated, including refits! https://t.co/Iisf7U0Rrw

[Julia Becher @Julia_Becher3]

-- SAfA conference promotion --
Please consider submitting your research to our session at SAfA in Faro this year! Katharina, Dirk and myself are looking forward to your contributions 🤠👨‍🎓

Will be fun as always with sun, sea, and of course, science!☀️😎

[Manuel Will @MW_hominin]

A great article by @DStibbardHawkes in Behavioral and Brain Sciences https://t.co/j12KY4vUyZ on the link between past material culture and cognition in light of contemporary hunter–gatherer material use - including 21 (!) comments #Archaeology #anthropology #evolution #cognition

[Jocktan Mtani @jocktanmtani]

@prossoff Inategemea unatumia pixel ngap mkuu

[Manuel Will @MW_hominin]

Can we use mere stone flakes to track cultural change?
@hannes_rathmann and I test this with simple flake attributes & a newly developed statistical method! All data, methods and code are #openaccess
https://t.co/43HYep885G
#archaeology
#statistics
#openscience

[Jocktan Mtani @jocktanmtani]

@mariaziontz @safarimlevi Wewe umefanya nin boss ??
Ka play part yake ndipo uwezo wake unapoishia

[Tammy Hodgskiss @TammyReynKiss]

Looking forward to the upcoming
#safa2025 @SAfAarchaeology conference in Faro, Portugal?

Join our session on #ochre exploitation in Africa!
@DanielaERosso @GuilhemMauran

Abstract submission deadline 31 Jan 2025

https://t.co/oD25kuIGMx

[Jocktan Mtani @jocktanmtani]

@Thereal_taivina 😂😂😂😂

[Manuel Will @MW_hominin]

Long in the making but here it finally is & #OpenAccess - The late MSA occupations from ~50-37 ka at the beautiful site of Mertenhof Rock Shelter in the Western Cape of #SouthAfrica & discussing what it means for the end of this period. https://t.co/kQSeVVFav1 #Archaeology

[Gregor Bader @gregorDbader]

Opening of the #PlanetAfrica exhibition and #TANA meeting in #Morocco. Thanks a lot @JorgLinstadter @philipp_rummel and @dai_weltweit

[Gunther Möller @Gunther_Moeller]

A nice little article for a broad audience about the Jojosi project. Yves who wrote it is amazing in summing up nerdy facts nicely 😋

Glimpses of stone-age ‘workshops’: Archaeologists shed light on hunter-gatherers at work making tools https://t.co/oBJSeLIDey