Lecturer in Archaeology @BristolAnthArch @BristolUni Archaeological Science | Palaeolithic | Radiocarbon | Ancient Proteins (all views are my own)

Bristol, England
Joined March 2019
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
📣 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! ➡️ europa.eu/!89nG4M 🇪🇺 #HorizonEurope
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Another funded opportunity at UCL supervised by ⁦@MatthewPope⁩ Pope and myself. Establishing Limits of late Neanderthal Presence in Britain. trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/est…
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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
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Two Cambridge/ERC PhD studentships in archaeology/pastoralism/Kenya: one on animal economies (isotopes), one on exchange (obsidian and ceramic sourcing). Please share! jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49439/
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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. tinyurl.com/mryrjyrn & nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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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: youtu.be/YJ9OKRR0Tj8
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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. tinyurl.com/ya9js9xp
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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
🚨New paper! How we can move towards a deeper integration of #ZooMS and #Zooarchaeology at #Palaeolithic sites? In this paper we discuss optimising study designs, sample recording, lab protocols and data analyses. @geoffreymsmith @MathiotSinet @FridoWelker tinyurl.com/mr3dx4cu
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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!)
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🔬 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 👇 bit.ly/3N9jL6q
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Helen Fewlass retweeted
!!!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 bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find site.
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Helen Fewlass retweeted
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 employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=1… employment.ku.dk/all-vacanci…
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This is such a cool job opportunity for any early career paleoanthropologists! Run Sterkfontein, study hominin fossils, advise graduate students at Wits 😍
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🚨ONE WEEK🚨 left to register (it's free!) for what is sure to be a brilliant one day conference later this month!
✨Our *first* #PAASTACommunity conference is fast approaching! (26 September)✨ The full programme is now live on our website and registration will remain open until the 20th of September! And trust us, it's not an event you will want to miss! ;) paasta-community.github.io/e…
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"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: digitscotland.com/what-can-a…
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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
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Helen Fewlass retweeted
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.
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 jobs.ac.uk/job/DJO014/resear…
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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 jobs.ac.uk/job/DJO014/resear…
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