Prof. Julio Mercader Florín

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 nature.com/articles/s4324…

@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 linkedin.com/feed/update/ur… CONGRATULATIONS!!

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 linkedin.com/feed/update/ur… Can we annotate palaeo finds on the move?

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

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... linkedin.com/feed/update/ur… sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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

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 linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

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

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

@deg_zed Congratulations Degsew et al!!

Did climate or social dynamics shape early farming & state formation in Ethiopia’s amazing Pre-Aksumite & Aksumite cultures? Our review in African Archaeological Review explores this. Hope it’s helpful!#Icarehb link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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

@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!!

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.

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

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

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 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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

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!