1/3 New recommendation: Iovita, R. (2024). A return to function as the basis of lithic classification. V5 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI_Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… #Archaeology radu ioviță

Congrats to Felix Devis Kisena on his Wadsworth International Fellowship from Wenner-Gren Foundation ! He will be continuing his training in quantitative #usewear analysis with us in the Anthrotopography Lab.

Very happy to welcome Marie Soressi to NYU ANTHROPOLOGY CSHO @ NYU. Please come to hear her talk today about #Neanderthals at 5pm in Kriser!

Wow, the #anthropocene has been rejected as an epoch, welcome back to the Holocene, everyone!
nytimes.com/2024/03/05/cli…

The latest in the debate on the applicability of ape culture to human culture, the zone of latent solutions, and the Oldowan…

Calling all New York University undergrads who are interested in humans:

meet.nyu.edu/academics/unde…

Declaration Day is March 12th!

Declare your NYU ANTHROPOLOGY Major! What are you waiting for?

Excited to welcome Marie Soressi to New York in two weeks! Come see her talk CSHO @ NYU NYU ANTHROPOLOGY !

Many archaeologists talk about 'quality' for #lithic raw materials, but these authors give some quantitative benchmarks for evaluating it & then, crucially, show it drove selection by prehistoric people in southern Africa. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

Why are hunting lesions so rare in faunal assemblages and, when present, can we distinguish those inflicted by osseous points? Find out more from the experimental work by Yeshurun et al link.springer.com/article/10.100…

More evidence gathers to show that, to whatever extent we are able to identify cultural groups in the Paleolithic, it doesn't correspond 1-to-1 with biology. This should serve as caution for earlier periods, where these kinds of analyses are (for now) impossible.

For excavations at a highly promising open-air Paleolithic site in SE Kazakhstan… stay tuned!