Prof. Julio Mercader Florín

Professor of Archaeology, Experienced Researcher in African Matters and Human Origins, Author, Grant Writer, Advisor, Career Development

[Prof. Julio Mercader Florín @ProfMercader]

New paper reveals Homo erectus thrived in steppe-deserts 1 million years ago—reshaping views on early adaptability, generalist strategies, and dispersal to arid zones amid mid-Pleistocene climate change #OldupaiGorge 🇹🇿

@NaturePortfolio
@CommsEarth

https://t.co/Hb9WOGJelw

[Prof. Julio Mercader Florín @ProfMercader]

@udomtheofficial
is getting ready to launch a thin-section lab
led by @shikoni_abel
and equipped by @UCalgary

From lithics to ceramics to bones, this facility will support geoheritage research in Tanzania's capital

https://t.co/4sIHdpO8V7

CONGRATULATIONS!!

[Prof. Julio Mercader Florín @ProfMercader]

Prototyping smart glasses for palaeosciences
in the East African Rift!
🦴🕶️

Shortly,
we will be piloting hands-free surveys with a
RealWear 520 #OldupaiGorge,
using stabilized videos and real-time uploads
https://t.co/qAZH9ynivz

Can we annotate palaeo finds on the move?

[Prof. Julio Mercader Florín @ProfMercader]

15 days to go!
Proud to keep advancing research + training #OldupaiGorge

🙏
@udomtheofficial + @UCalgary

Team's fired up,
Some already in-country,
others landing soon:
@shikoni_abel
@MariaSotoQ
@AloyceMg
@Hernando90R
AbdallahMohamed
@StephenMagohe
Ayoola Oladele

[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

[Prof. Julio Mercader Florín @ProfMercader]

Dear Steve,
What a superb job you did!!
Congratulations!
An honor to work with you

[Mwanamalundi🇹🇿 @StephenMagohe]

PhD Candidacy exam passed today! I am officially a candidate! Lots of appreciations to my committee @the_subtender @ProfMercader @RiversToRocks and @Jen Galloway. Thanks to the @TheLeakeyFndtn @CanadianAcp @UdsmOfficial and @UCalgary for supporting my research!

[Prof. Julio Mercader Florín @ProfMercader]

Collaborative Research and Shared Stewardship at Oldupai Gorge

A long-term partnership between researchers and the Maasai Advisory Council in the Oldupai Gorge region of Tanzania offers a model for collaboration in palaeoanthropological research

https://t.co/WN0Yt0CboZ

[National Museums of Kenya @museumsofkenya]

History made!
Dr. Fredrick Manthi has officially been inducted into the US National Academy of Sciences at NAS headquarters in Washington, DC.
This is one of the highest honors in the world of science, recognizing his groundbreaking contributions to human origins research.
Kenya and Africa stand proud.
Help us in congratulating Dr. Manthi on this incredible achievement!
@thenasciences
#NAS162

[Prof. Julio Mercader Florín @ProfMercader]

Excited to see the University of Dodoma
leading research at Oldupai Gorge 🇹🇿
collaborating globally
to explore the origins of humanity
#UNESCO
#WorldHeritageSite

Cheers to a new chapter of discovery 🎉
@udomofficial #HumanOrigins #Paleoanthropology

[Prof. Julio Mercader Florín @ProfMercader]

@deg_zed Congratulations Degsew et al!!

[Prof. Julio Mercader Florín @ProfMercader]

Big thanks to
@udomtheofficial &
@UCalgary
🇹🇿🇨🇦
for backing our project and permit
to uncover early human life
at the cradle of humankind
🙏

#OldupaiGorge

Stay tuned for discoveries ahead!
#Paleoanthropology
#HumanEvolution

[Prof. Julio Mercader Florín @ProfMercader]

@AloyceMg passed his viva today!

5 years of collaboration, extreme resilience, real partnership, and also friendship 🙏

A Tanzanian PhD working on phytoliths from Oldupai Gorge now has 2 papers in the pipeline and a lab at home to continue the science!

Congratulations!!

[Aloyce Mwambwiga, PhD @AloyceMg]

Thrilled to share that I have defended my PhD. I am thankful to my Supervisor @ProfMercader, Examination Committee, SSHRC, @UCalgary @TheLeakeyFndtn @MuseumTanzania colleagues, friends, and family for their support during this journey. I am looking forward to the future.

[Degsew Zerihun Mekonnen PhD @deg_zed]

💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿

[Prof. Julio Mercader Florín @ProfMercader]

Dear Raquel,
This is fantastic news!
I am so glad you got funded by @TheLeakeyFndtn
to work in the Afar...

[Raquel Hernando @Hernando90R]

This is BIG NEWS from me, I’m so excited!🥳🥳
So grateful to the @TheLeakeyFndtn for making this possible.
And a HUGE thank you to @LHlusko for all your advice and support!😊
https://t.co/JXfGprHLUr

[PALEVOPRIM @palevoprim]

Raquel Hernando (@Hernando90R) will collaborate with @GildasMerceron to investigate the later Pleistocene dietary behavior of a cercopithecids fossil assemblages from Middle Awash, Afar Rift, Ethiopia. @palevoprim @UnivPoitiers @DR08_CNRS

[Sergio Almécija @AlmecijaSergio]

https://t.co/N7Hb4BISRl

[Prof. Julio Mercader Florín @ProfMercader]

Do waiting times between occupations truly capture adaptive strategies, or are they artifacts of methodological and taphonomic biases?

A macroarchaeological view of mobility
by Brantingham et al
JAS_R
https://t.co/cJw9AVlvMZ

[Inst of HumanOrigins @HumanOriginsASU]

Institute of Human Origins Research Scientist and @ASUBeingHuman Professor, Gary Schwartz runs an Advanced Visualization Lab with state-of-the-art scanning technology including a micro-computed tomography scanner (micro-CT). 💀
@ASUTheCollege

[Peter R. Coutros @petecout]

After 3.5 years of fieldwork, lab analysis, and writing, it all comes together in 582 pages of the most up to date archaeological, linguistic, genetic, oral historical, and palaeoenv. data on the Bantu Expansion. I am so happy to have just submitted this book for publication!