mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06MONREPOS Archäologisches Forschungszentrum und Museum für menschliche Verhaltensevolution
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Pleistocene and Early Holocene Archaeology
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The conference proceedings "Zur Geschichte der Kleidung in der Steinzeit / A Stone Age History of Clothing" from the 2024 Archaeological Conference of Central Germany in Halle (Saale) have finally been published.
#archaeology #clothing #fashion #stoneage #openaccess
Click here to download 👇
https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeum/catalog/book/1678
🔥New paper out now in Science Advances🔥
News from the straight-tusked elephants from Neumark-Nord!
An international team has uncovered spectacular insights into life histories of some elephants by analysing their tooth enamel.
The study is the latest in a series of ongoing scientific analyses of artefacts from the former Neumark-Nord opencast lignite mine.
Read now 👇
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adz0114
#palaeolithic #paleolithic #archaeology #Neanderthals #elephants
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MONREPOS wurde vom Kulturministerium und vom Museumsverband Rheinland-Pfalz zum "Museum des Monats Januar 2026" gewählt.
Vielen Dank! Wir freuen uns sehr über diese Auszeichnung. 🥳
#paleomonrepos #leiza #museum #museumsverband #rheinlandpfalz #kultur #archäologie
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🔥New paper out now in Quaternary Science Reviews🔥
Two of our MONREPOS researchers were involved in a study that provided high-resolution climate data from the Eemian interglacial period from Neumark-Nord 2, Germany.
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#Archaeology #Research #Paleolithic #Palaeolithic #Archeology #Neanderthal #Eemian
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027737912500544X?via%3Dihub
Our DiPA (Dialogues in Pleistocene Archaeology) will continue on March 18th, at 10.30.
Josh London (SHEP) will talk about Upper Paleolithic craft traditions and regional exchange networks.
Zoom registration possible!
#paleomonrepos #archaeology #palaeolithic #paleolithic #leizarchaeology
🔥New paper in ScienceAdvances about redating of the Schöningen spear horizon is out, now🔥
Age of Schöningen spears revised to 200,000 years
The world’s oldest complete wooden hunting weapons from Schöningen, Germany, are 100,000 years younger than previously claimed.
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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv0752
#paleomonrepos #palaeolithic #archaeology
A new study, led by @paleomonrepos@mastodon.social and @leidenarchaeology together with @lda_sachsenanhalt, shows that Neanderthals systematically broke bones to extract valuable fat — much earlier than previously thought. A milestone that changes our view of Neanderthals as clever and strategic hunter-gatherers.
#LEIZArchaeology #paleomonrepos #Neanderthals #Neandertaler #Archäologie #Archaeology #Research #Forschung #Prehistory #Paleolithic #NeumarkNord #Anthropology #BecomingHuman
Our DiPA (Dialogues in Pleistocene Archaeology) will continue on Wednesday, May 28th, at 13.30.
Marie Hélène Moncel (CNRS, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle de Paris) will give a talk about
"The earliest Acheulean in Western Europe: New data from Moulin Quignon, la Noira (France) and Notarchirico (Italy). The ERC Lateurope project."
Zoom registration is possible!
#paleomonrepos #archaeology #palaeolithic #paleolithic #Acheulean #DiPA #LEIZA
A new paper has been published on the study of usewear on Palaeolithic stone tools, in which our Laboratory for Traceology and Controlled Experiments (TraCEr) @tracer-leiza.bsky.social is involved.
Congratulations to the authors👍
#paleomonrepos
#paleolithic
#palaeolithic
#stonetool
#usewearanalysis
#traceology
#laboratory
#aterian
#Hörtipp
Gestern ist der neue Podcast „Wer wir sind und warum das nicht klappte...“ gestartet.
In der ersten Folge spricht Jan Schulte-Kerlinghaus mit unserer Institutsleiterin Prof. Dr. Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser darüber, wie Neandertaler vor 125.000 Jahren Waldelefanten jagten.
Die Podcastserie begibt sich in 99 Gesprächen auf eine Reise durch die deutsche Geschichte – spannend, tiefgründig und überraschend.
Jetzt reinhören!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3DoLyngEAmOH9uTYdewXwi?si=V3HHAXxHR8aXtFBHb_KnPw&fbclid=IwY2xjawJlo4pleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHqtFVwicohnXhW7BIyCd4gLWsw5G2kH6SeFKnn6ufLPGk5ycNsRhzWh3LmmB_aem_xIdWRDjKHCV1yAiG7Y5XPg&nd=1&dlsi=6a60f9285fba48e9
#paleomonrepos #Archäologie #Neandertaler
We are pleased to announce our upcoming lecture.
On March 14th at 18.00h Dr Detlef Jantzen (Landesamt für Kultur- und Denkmalpflege Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) will talk about the latest research on the oldest #battlefield in Europe in the #Tollense Valley.
#paleomonrepos #bronzezeit #bronzeage #archäologie #mecklenburgvorpommern #archaeology
🔥New paper out now in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports🔥
The team used a combination of innovative traceological methods and manual and robotic experimentation to analyse various 15,800-year-old engraved stone plaquettes to investigate hand preferences of individual engravers.
Read now 👇
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X25005565?via%3Dihub#f0015
🔥New paper out now in Journal of Human Evolution🔥
Grăunceanu (Romania) with an estimated age >1.95 Ma is not an archaeological site!
A new study by the MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre (LEIZA), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Leiden University has refuted the evidence of human activity in the form of cut marks on animal bones.
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#Archaeology #Research #taphonomy #zooarchaeology #archeology #animalbones
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425001393?via%3Dihub
Please join us for our next DiPA on April 2nd at 10.30AM.
We will have Dr. Corey Johnson, currently at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.
He will give a talk about "Investigating evolutionary trends in blank cutting edge efficiency".
Zoom registration is possible.
#paleomonrepos #palaeolithic #paleolithic #stoneage #stonetools #science #research
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Next DiPA (Dialogues in Pleistocene Archaeology) on March 18th at 10.30h.
Prof. Dr. Henny Piezonka (Freie Universität Berlin) will give a talk about
„Learning from the experts: Ethnoarchaeological insights on multispecies lifeways and mobile settlement among North Asian hunter-reindeer herders”.
Zoom registration is possible.
🔥New paper out now🔥
in collaboration with a colleague from MONREPOS.
Congratulations!
#palaeolithic #leizarchaeology #paleomonrepos #archaeology #paleolithic #archeology
Read now 👇
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-026-02447-z