BonesLab
@boneslab.bsky.social
Research group Osteoarcheology, Paleoanthropology & Prehistory
Led by Stefano BENAZZI
Prof at @unibo
PI ERC Synergy Last Neanderthals
Led by Stefano BENAZZI
Prof at @unibo
PI ERC Synergy Last Neanderthals
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Exploring Uluzzian Lithic Technology at Klissoura Cave 1, Greece🏺🧪
Giulia Marciani, @katharv.bsky.social et al
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Uluzzian technocomplex 43–39 Kya marks one of the earliest dispersals of Homo sapiens into Europe and onset of the Upper Palaeolithic in the Mediterranean
Giulia Marciani, @katharv.bsky.social et al
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Uluzzian technocomplex 43–39 Kya marks one of the earliest dispersals of Homo sapiens into Europe and onset of the Upper Palaeolithic in the Mediterranean
July 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Exploring Uluzzian Lithic Technology at Klissoura Cave 1, Greece🏺🧪
Giulia Marciani, @katharv.bsky.social et al
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Uluzzian technocomplex 43–39 Kya marks one of the earliest dispersals of Homo sapiens into Europe and onset of the Upper Palaeolithic in the Mediterranean
Giulia Marciani, @katharv.bsky.social et al
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Uluzzian technocomplex 43–39 Kya marks one of the earliest dispersals of Homo sapiens into Europe and onset of the Upper Palaeolithic in the Mediterranean
Some exciting news on the Uluzzian from Klissoura Cave, Greece!
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✨Our paper on the Uluzzian of Klissoura Cave, Greece, is now published online #openaccess ✨, one of the important studies of the @erc.europa.eu Advanced Project FIRSTSTEPS and a Greek-Italian collaboration!
Congratulations to Giulia Marciani, @serena-lombardo.bsky.social and team! 🎉👏
rdcu.be/ftlpN
Congratulations to Giulia Marciani, @serena-lombardo.bsky.social and team! 🎉👏
rdcu.be/ftlpN
July 11, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Some exciting news on the Uluzzian from Klissoura Cave, Greece!
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In 1928, Dorothy Garrod pioneered excavations at Hazar Merd Cave
Renewed investigations are now refining the site's sequence
Revisiting Hazar Merd Cave:
100 years after Dorothy Garrod’s excavations🏺🧪
Saman Heydari-Guran, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social et al
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Renewed investigations are now refining the site's sequence
Revisiting Hazar Merd Cave:
100 years after Dorothy Garrod’s excavations🏺🧪
Saman Heydari-Guran, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social et al
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
June 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
In 1928, Dorothy Garrod pioneered excavations at Hazar Merd Cave
Renewed investigations are now refining the site's sequence
Revisiting Hazar Merd Cave:
100 years after Dorothy Garrod’s excavations🏺🧪
Saman Heydari-Guran, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social et al
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Renewed investigations are now refining the site's sequence
Revisiting Hazar Merd Cave:
100 years after Dorothy Garrod’s excavations🏺🧪
Saman Heydari-Guran, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social et al
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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It has been a pleasure working with such a fantastic team❤️ @boneslab.bsky.social @harvatilab.bsky.social
July 11, 2026 at 2:51 PM
It has been a pleasure working with such a fantastic team❤️ @boneslab.bsky.social @harvatilab.bsky.social
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The final session took us to the Italian and Greek records and their connections. Wonderful to see everything coming together and the progress the team has made over the last four years 👏
Thank you to all the team members and collaborators who presented their work!
@erc.europa.eu #humanevolution
Thank you to all the team members and collaborators who presented their work!
@erc.europa.eu #humanevolution
June 18, 2026 at 5:48 PM
The final session took us to the Italian and Greek records and their connections. Wonderful to see everything coming together and the progress the team has made over the last four years 👏
Thank you to all the team members and collaborators who presented their work!
@erc.europa.eu #humanevolution
Thank you to all the team members and collaborators who presented their work!
@erc.europa.eu #humanevolution
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The afternoon session started with some in-depth comparative analysis of human fossils from Greece and the Balkans, one of the main objectives of FIRSTSTEPS. So nice to see this work slowly coming to fruition! 😀
@erc.europa.eu #humanevolution
@erc.europa.eu #humanevolution
June 18, 2026 at 2:28 PM
The afternoon session started with some in-depth comparative analysis of human fossils from Greece and the Balkans, one of the main objectives of FIRSTSTEPS. So nice to see this work slowly coming to fruition! 😀
@erc.europa.eu #humanevolution
@erc.europa.eu #humanevolution
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Our FISTSTEPS workshop continued with faunal and microfaunal analyses, paleoproteomics and human osteological analyses focusing on the record of the Apidima caves 😀
@erc.europa.eu #humanevolution
@erc.europa.eu #humanevolution
June 18, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Our FISTSTEPS workshop continued with faunal and microfaunal analyses, paleoproteomics and human osteological analyses focusing on the record of the Apidima caves 😀
@erc.europa.eu #humanevolution
@erc.europa.eu #humanevolution
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The first session of the @erc.europa.eu project FIRSTSTEPS workshop is concluded, with exciting reports on the Apidima excavation, geomorphology and sediment micromorphology! wonderful to see the results coming together ✨
#humanevolution
#humanevolution
June 18, 2026 at 9:49 AM
The first session of the @erc.europa.eu project FIRSTSTEPS workshop is concluded, with exciting reports on the Apidima excavation, geomorphology and sediment micromorphology! wonderful to see the results coming together ✨
#humanevolution
#humanevolution
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Our joint workshop on "Big Data and Human Evolution" between ROCEEH and @boneslab.bsky.social, organized by Giulia Marciani in Ravenna, is in full swing! Great talks, good company and Sangiovese🍷
October 28, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Our joint workshop on "Big Data and Human Evolution" between ROCEEH and @boneslab.bsky.social, organized by Giulia Marciani in Ravenna, is in full swing! Great talks, good company and Sangiovese🍷
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🚨New paper alert!🧪 We explore the #Aurignacian at Grotta della Cala (southern Italy), providing robust evidence of human settlement shortly after the #CampanianIgnimbrite eruption (ca. 40 ka). 1/5 🌋
@tommyhigham.bsky.social @lucdoyon.bsky.social @boneslab.bsky.social & the University of Siena
@tommyhigham.bsky.social @lucdoyon.bsky.social @boneslab.bsky.social & the University of Siena
Revisiting the Early Aurignacian in Italy: New insights from Grotta della Cala
Grotta della Cala in southern Italy is a key archaeological site spanning from the Middle Paleolithic to the Bronze Age. In the stratigraphic sequence…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🚨New paper alert!🧪 We explore the #Aurignacian at Grotta della Cala (southern Italy), providing robust evidence of human settlement shortly after the #CampanianIgnimbrite eruption (ca. 40 ka). 1/5 🌋
@tommyhigham.bsky.social @lucdoyon.bsky.social @boneslab.bsky.social & the University of Siena
@tommyhigham.bsky.social @lucdoyon.bsky.social @boneslab.bsky.social & the University of Siena
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Biomolecular approaches to Pleistocene bones
New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Annette Oertle, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social @katerinad.bsky.social et al
New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Annette Oertle, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social @katerinad.bsky.social et al
July 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Biomolecular approaches to Pleistocene bones
New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Annette Oertle, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social @katerinad.bsky.social et al
New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Annette Oertle, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social @katerinad.bsky.social et al
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I was literally about to submit the edited draft of my new book on prehistory, "Lost Worlds," but now I need to rework the Çatalhöyük section! What a great problem to have, incredibly exciting new research, check it out!
After many years this is out now, many congratulations to everybody!
Female lineages and changing kinship patterns in Neolithic Çatalhöyük
Combining 131 paleogenomes with bioarchaeological and archaeological data, we studied social organization and gendered practices in Çatalhöyük East Mound (7100 to 5950 BCE), a major Neolithic settleme...
www.science.org
June 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I was literally about to submit the edited draft of my new book on prehistory, "Lost Worlds," but now I need to rework the Çatalhöyük section! What a great problem to have, incredibly exciting new research, check it out!
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Neanderthal had a “crush” on fats. Macronutrient estimation in Middle Paleolithic (Late Mousterian) hunter-gatherers of southern Italy
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
Frontiers | Neanderthal had a “crush” on fats. Macronutrient estimation in Middle Paleolithic (Late Mousterian) hunter-gatherers of southern Italy
During the Late Mousterian period Apulia (southeastern Italy) was characterized by frequent and prolonged aridity that could have caused the scarcity of vege...
www.frontiersin.org
June 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Neanderthal had a “crush” on fats. Macronutrient estimation in Middle Paleolithic (Late Mousterian) hunter-gatherers of southern Italy
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
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Two PhD positions open! Deadline end of June! Apply now!
🚨 Two PhD Positions Available!
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠
Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.
www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠
Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.
www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...
June 7, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Two PhD positions open! Deadline end of June! Apply now!
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🚨 Two PhD Positions Available!
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠
Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.
www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠
Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.
www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...
June 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🚨 Two PhD Positions Available!
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠
Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.
www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠
Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.
www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...
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Two #PhD opportunities in Ravenna, Italy 🇮🇹, in #HumanEvolution within the #ERC project "Last Neanderthals"!
🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth #BioArch #Archaeology #Neanderthal #SciComm
🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth #BioArch #Archaeology #Neanderthal #SciComm
🚨 Two PhD Positions Available!
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠
Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.
www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠
Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.
www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...
June 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Two #PhD opportunities in Ravenna, Italy 🇮🇹, in #HumanEvolution within the #ERC project "Last Neanderthals"!
🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth #BioArch #Archaeology #Neanderthal #SciComm
🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth #BioArch #Archaeology #Neanderthal #SciComm
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A great opportunity, with a great team and a great lab 🏺🧪
Dr Stefano Benazzi's Bones Lab @boneslab.bsky.social
Two PhD positions open!
Deadline end of June!
Apply now!
bsky.app/profile/bone...
Dr Stefano Benazzi's Bones Lab @boneslab.bsky.social
Two PhD positions open!
Deadline end of June!
Apply now!
bsky.app/profile/bone...
Two PhD positions open! Deadline end of June! Apply now!
🚨 Two PhD Positions Available!
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠
Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.
www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠
Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.
www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...
June 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
A great opportunity, with a great team and a great lab 🏺🧪
Dr Stefano Benazzi's Bones Lab @boneslab.bsky.social
Two PhD positions open!
Deadline end of June!
Apply now!
bsky.app/profile/bone...
Dr Stefano Benazzi's Bones Lab @boneslab.bsky.social
Two PhD positions open!
Deadline end of June!
Apply now!
bsky.app/profile/bone...
Two PhD positions open! Deadline end of June! Apply now!
🚨 Two PhD Positions Available!
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠
Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.
www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠
Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.
www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...
June 7, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Two PhD positions open! Deadline end of June! Apply now!
🚨 Two PhD Positions Available!
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠
Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.
www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠
Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.
www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...
June 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🚨 Two PhD Positions Available!
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠
Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.
www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠
Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.
www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...
🧬Welcome to the new Palaeoproteomics Lab at the University of Bologna – Department of Cultural Heritage (Ravenna), where we study ancient proteins preserved in archaeological remains such as bones and teeth.
June 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
🧬Welcome to the new Palaeoproteomics Lab at the University of Bologna – Department of Cultural Heritage (Ravenna), where we study ancient proteins preserved in archaeological remains such as bones and teeth.
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Grotta della Lea, a new Early Epigravettian site in southern Italy (Uluzzo Bay) 🏺🧪
Giulia Marciani, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social , et al
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Shouldered backed bladelets and points on high-quality chert. Radiocarbon dating between 21,821–18,281 cal. BP
Giulia Marciani, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social , et al
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Shouldered backed bladelets and points on high-quality chert. Radiocarbon dating between 21,821–18,281 cal. BP
April 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Grotta della Lea, a new Early Epigravettian site in southern Italy (Uluzzo Bay) 🏺🧪
Giulia Marciani, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social , et al
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Shouldered backed bladelets and points on high-quality chert. Radiocarbon dating between 21,821–18,281 cal. BP
Giulia Marciani, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social , et al
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Shouldered backed bladelets and points on high-quality chert. Radiocarbon dating between 21,821–18,281 cal. BP
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🌍 Join us in the ERC Last Neanderthals!
We're hiring:
1️⃣ PhD: Digital approaches for the study of Paleolithic human remains 🖥️
2️⃣ PhD: Taxonomic discrimination of Late Pleistocene bone fragments through paleoproteomics 🦴
We're hiring:
1️⃣ PhD: Digital approaches for the study of Paleolithic human remains 🖥️
2️⃣ PhD: Taxonomic discrimination of Late Pleistocene bone fragments through paleoproteomics 🦴
February 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
🌍 Join us in the ERC Last Neanderthals!
We're hiring:
1️⃣ PhD: Digital approaches for the study of Paleolithic human remains 🖥️
2️⃣ PhD: Taxonomic discrimination of Late Pleistocene bone fragments through paleoproteomics 🦴
We're hiring:
1️⃣ PhD: Digital approaches for the study of Paleolithic human remains 🖥️
2️⃣ PhD: Taxonomic discrimination of Late Pleistocene bone fragments through paleoproteomics 🦴
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We have a 4-year PhD-student opening in our lab, deadline on Wednesday noon.
For anyone interested in computational genomics of ancient human, pathogen, or canid genomes. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
If you are curious, send in an application!
For anyone interested in computational genomics of ancient human, pathogen, or canid genomes. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
If you are curious, send in an application!
Skoglund Lab | Ancient human statistical population genomics
www.crick.ac.uk
March 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We have a 4-year PhD-student opening in our lab, deadline on Wednesday noon.
For anyone interested in computational genomics of ancient human, pathogen, or canid genomes. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
If you are curious, send in an application!
For anyone interested in computational genomics of ancient human, pathogen, or canid genomes. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
If you are curious, send in an application!
Our latest research presents Grotta della Lea, a newly investigated Palaeolithic site in Uluzzo Bay. Check its Early Epigravettian lithics, faunal remains, and AMS dates!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Our latest research presents Grotta della Lea, a newly investigated Palaeolithic site in Uluzzo Bay. Check its Early Epigravettian lithics, faunal remains, and AMS dates!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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My #review of Giulia Marciani's monograph on the Late Mousterian of Oscurusciuto (Southern Italy) is on Lithic Technology. I totally recommend it!
link to the review shorturl.at/Jotx9
link to the book shorturl.at/wCmcH
#archaeology#palaeolithic @barpublishing.bsky.social@tandfresearch.bsky.social
link to the review shorturl.at/Jotx9
link to the book shorturl.at/wCmcH
#archaeology#palaeolithic @barpublishing.bsky.social@tandfresearch.bsky.social
December 10, 2024 at 2:37 PM
My #review of Giulia Marciani's monograph on the Late Mousterian of Oscurusciuto (Southern Italy) is on Lithic Technology. I totally recommend it!
link to the review shorturl.at/Jotx9
link to the book shorturl.at/wCmcH
#archaeology#palaeolithic @barpublishing.bsky.social@tandfresearch.bsky.social
link to the review shorturl.at/Jotx9
link to the book shorturl.at/wCmcH
#archaeology#palaeolithic @barpublishing.bsky.social@tandfresearch.bsky.social