Katie Ranhorn
@kathrynranhorn.bsky.social
Asst Professor ASU SHESC & Research Scientist IHO
deep time social-technological systems; community-driven paleoanthro research 🪷🐶
deep time social-technological systems; community-driven paleoanthro research 🪷🐶
another paper led by Dr. Abdolahzadeh is out! Experimentally advancing the study of ancient fire use, we show how rock type and size respond under variable thermal conditions. Follow for more updates from the Ancient Technology Lab at ASU! @asubeinghuman.bsky.social @asuiho.bsky.social
How do macroscopic thermal alterations relate to lithic artifact size and raw material type? A controlled heat-fracture experiment
Burned lithic artifacts are among the most reliable proxies for prehistoric fire use in the archaeological record, yet the roles of raw material varia…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 15, 2026 at 10:26 PM
another paper led by Dr. Abdolahzadeh is out! Experimentally advancing the study of ancient fire use, we show how rock type and size respond under variable thermal conditions. Follow for more updates from the Ancient Technology Lab at ASU! @asubeinghuman.bsky.social @asuiho.bsky.social
new blog post from Dr. Aylar Abdolahzadeh on studying fire use in human evolution blog.castac.org/2026/06/trac...
Tracing the Legacy of Human Resilience in the Debris of Ancient Campfires | Platypus
Have you ever made fire from scratch, without matches or charcoal? In the summer of 2015, I tried to recreate fire using flint, pyrite, and tinder. It quickly became clear that making fire is a learne...
blog.castac.org
June 11, 2026 at 9:37 PM
new blog post from Dr. Aylar Abdolahzadeh on studying fire use in human evolution blog.castac.org/2026/06/trac...
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✨New opportunity✨
Fully funded PhD position in our Experimental Archaeology Lab lead by @egveatch.bsky.social!
Find all necessary information on our website: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...
#HumanOrigins #EarlyCareerArchaeologists
Fully funded PhD position in our Experimental Archaeology Lab lead by @egveatch.bsky.social!
Find all necessary information on our website: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...
#HumanOrigins #EarlyCareerArchaeologists
Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS
uni-tuebingen.de
May 27, 2026 at 8:33 AM
✨New opportunity✨
Fully funded PhD position in our Experimental Archaeology Lab lead by @egveatch.bsky.social!
Find all necessary information on our website: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...
#HumanOrigins #EarlyCareerArchaeologists
Fully funded PhD position in our Experimental Archaeology Lab lead by @egveatch.bsky.social!
Find all necessary information on our website: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...
#HumanOrigins #EarlyCareerArchaeologists
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What happens when students gain real-world experience in NAGPRA and repatriation work?🏺
Caseldine et al. explore how undergraduate #NAGPRA education and collaboration with Tribal communities help prepare the next generation of practitioners for work in #archaeology.
🔎 Read the FirstView article:
Caseldine et al. explore how undergraduate #NAGPRA education and collaboration with Tribal communities help prepare the next generation of practitioners for work in #archaeology.
🔎 Read the FirstView article:
Guiding the Next Generation of NAGPRA Practitioners: Formalizing Undergraduate NAGPRA Education | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core
Guiding the Next Generation of NAGPRA Practitioners: Formalizing Undergraduate NAGPRA Education
www.cambridge.org
May 20, 2026 at 1:57 AM
What happens when students gain real-world experience in NAGPRA and repatriation work?🏺
Caseldine et al. explore how undergraduate #NAGPRA education and collaboration with Tribal communities help prepare the next generation of practitioners for work in #archaeology.
🔎 Read the FirstView article:
Caseldine et al. explore how undergraduate #NAGPRA education and collaboration with Tribal communities help prepare the next generation of practitioners for work in #archaeology.
🔎 Read the FirstView article:
1st paper in our Deep History & Community Joy collection is live!
Dr. Matt Kroot: projects working within non-descendant host communities can and must think beyond archaeological knowledge and historical narratives when designing & implementing Stone Age research
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Dr. Matt Kroot: projects working within non-descendant host communities can and must think beyond archaeological knowledge and historical narratives when designing & implementing Stone Age research
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Paths Forward for an Engaged Archaeology of Africa’s Deep Pasts - Archaeologies
There have been calls for the expansion of community-engaged approaches within the archaeology of Pleistocene Africa. Such programs face challenges trying to connect deep histories with present commun...
link.springer.com
February 17, 2026 at 5:48 PM
1st paper in our Deep History & Community Joy collection is live!
Dr. Matt Kroot: projects working within non-descendant host communities can and must think beyond archaeological knowledge and historical narratives when designing & implementing Stone Age research
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Dr. Matt Kroot: projects working within non-descendant host communities can and must think beyond archaeological knowledge and historical narratives when designing & implementing Stone Age research
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Names matter! Siembo and colleagues rename a fossil hominoid site with community input to reflect its local place-name.
Their important work aligns scientific practice with local lived reality, and is another example of how deep time research impacts everyone.
Their important work aligns scientific practice with local lived reality, and is another example of how deep time research impacts everyone.
Updating the “Meswa Bridge” Locality Name to “Tonde Bridge”
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Names matter! Siembo and colleagues rename a fossil hominoid site with community input to reflect its local place-name.
Their important work aligns scientific practice with local lived reality, and is another example of how deep time research impacts everyone.
Their important work aligns scientific practice with local lived reality, and is another example of how deep time research impacts everyone.
Reposted by Katie Ranhorn
Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Grantee spotlight on lab member Husna Mashaka, who is doing her PhD research on fossil plants in Tanzania @leakeyfoundation.org @asubeinghuman.bsky.social
Grantee Spotlight: Husna Mashaka
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leakeyfoundation.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Grantee spotlight on lab member Husna Mashaka, who is doing her PhD research on fossil plants in Tanzania @leakeyfoundation.org @asubeinghuman.bsky.social
New essay about our collaborative deep history work in Tanzania!
Thanks to @sapiens.org for inviting me to contribute & for editorial support
Fidelis Masao, Husna Mashaka, Sam Porter, & many more contribute to this work. Thanks @leakeyfoundation.org @asubeinghuman.bsky.social & @asuiho.bsky.social
Thanks to @sapiens.org for inviting me to contribute & for editorial support
Fidelis Masao, Husna Mashaka, Sam Porter, & many more contribute to this work. Thanks @leakeyfoundation.org @asubeinghuman.bsky.social & @asuiho.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
New essay about our collaborative deep history work in Tanzania!
Thanks to @sapiens.org for inviting me to contribute & for editorial support
Fidelis Masao, Husna Mashaka, Sam Porter, & many more contribute to this work. Thanks @leakeyfoundation.org @asubeinghuman.bsky.social & @asuiho.bsky.social
Thanks to @sapiens.org for inviting me to contribute & for editorial support
Fidelis Masao, Husna Mashaka, Sam Porter, & many more contribute to this work. Thanks @leakeyfoundation.org @asubeinghuman.bsky.social & @asuiho.bsky.social
Reposted by Katie Ranhorn
FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
note about studying evolution (esp of human behavior):
Variation = differences in traits
Variability = how those differences arise
✨ Methods ✨
Variation: morphometrics, typologies, stats
Variability: experimental & developmental studies, behavioral observations, modeling
Variation = differences in traits
Variability = how those differences arise
✨ Methods ✨
Variation: morphometrics, typologies, stats
Variability: experimental & developmental studies, behavioral observations, modeling
April 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
note about studying evolution (esp of human behavior):
Variation = differences in traits
Variability = how those differences arise
✨ Methods ✨
Variation: morphometrics, typologies, stats
Variability: experimental & developmental studies, behavioral observations, modeling
Variation = differences in traits
Variability = how those differences arise
✨ Methods ✨
Variation: morphometrics, typologies, stats
Variability: experimental & developmental studies, behavioral observations, modeling
Reposted by Katie Ranhorn
Yohannes Haile Selassie, Director the the Institute for Human Origins makes a powerful statement for inclusivity in the study of human origins www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00695-y?WT.ec_id=NATURE-202503&sap-outbound-id=F5E8493EC49A5A7A599C4A9CA2D5898F57CCC092
Why Africans should be telling the story of human origins
Yohannes Haile-Selassie wants to shift the trajectory of palaeoanthropology in fossil-rich Ethiopia away from its long colonial heritage.
www.nature.com
March 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Yohannes Haile Selassie, Director the the Institute for Human Origins makes a powerful statement for inclusivity in the study of human origins www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00695-y?WT.ec_id=NATURE-202503&sap-outbound-id=F5E8493EC49A5A7A599C4A9CA2D5898F57CCC092
the way the 1-day slack outage has forced me to... call people (gasp)
February 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
the way the 1-day slack outage has forced me to... call people (gasp)
Reposted by Katie Ranhorn
💼Open position in the ROCEEH Project!
Join the team as Data Curator for Paleolithic Archaeology and help expand the ROAD database!
🔍Details: www.hadw-bw.de/aktuelles/au...
📅Deadline: 28.02.2025
Join the team as Data Curator for Paleolithic Archaeology and help expand the ROAD database!
🔍Details: www.hadw-bw.de/aktuelles/au...
📅Deadline: 28.02.2025
February 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
💼Open position in the ROCEEH Project!
Join the team as Data Curator for Paleolithic Archaeology and help expand the ROAD database!
🔍Details: www.hadw-bw.de/aktuelles/au...
📅Deadline: 28.02.2025
Join the team as Data Curator for Paleolithic Archaeology and help expand the ROAD database!
🔍Details: www.hadw-bw.de/aktuelles/au...
📅Deadline: 28.02.2025
have archaeology chemistry samples but no funding yet to process them? Andrew Zipkin shares a new award where students can receive up to $3000 credit toward analytical chemistry lab work
socarchsci.org/awards/eag-l...
socarchsci.org/awards/eag-l...
EAG Laboratories–SAS Student Pilot Research Award - Society for Archaeological Sciences
Society for Archaeological Sciences
socarchsci.org
February 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
have archaeology chemistry samples but no funding yet to process them? Andrew Zipkin shares a new award where students can receive up to $3000 credit toward analytical chemistry lab work
socarchsci.org/awards/eag-l...
socarchsci.org/awards/eag-l...
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Ursula K. LeGuin on technology
January 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Ursula K. LeGuin on technology
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Science reporting on the mass resignation of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution, highlighting some of the problems with commercial scientific publishing.
OA PaleoAnthropology journal (www.paleoanthropology.org) highlighted among JHE's successors
#openaccess #humanevolution
OA PaleoAnthropology journal (www.paleoanthropology.org) highlighted among JHE's successors
#openaccess #humanevolution
Journal editors’ mass resignation marks ‘sad day for paleoanthropology’
Exodus from the Journal of Human Evolution leaves a flagship journal in crisis
www.science.org
January 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Science reporting on the mass resignation of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution, highlighting some of the problems with commercial scientific publishing.
OA PaleoAnthropology journal (www.paleoanthropology.org) highlighted among JHE's successors
#openaccess #humanevolution
OA PaleoAnthropology journal (www.paleoanthropology.org) highlighted among JHE's successors
#openaccess #humanevolution
Reposted by Katie Ranhorn
Funded by our Innovations Grant, check out how
@chelachir.bsky.social is breaking barriers for students and teachers, making anatomy accessible, exciting, and impactful for communities that need it most! ow.ly/tvKj50UAKWa
#Anatomy25 #anatomy #science #research #education #AAA
@chelachir.bsky.social is breaking barriers for students and teachers, making anatomy accessible, exciting, and impactful for communities that need it most! ow.ly/tvKj50UAKWa
#Anatomy25 #anatomy #science #research #education #AAA
Dr. Habiba Chirchir: Bringing Anatomy to Life for High School Students
Anatomy Now - January 8, 2025
ow.ly
January 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Funded by our Innovations Grant, check out how
@chelachir.bsky.social is breaking barriers for students and teachers, making anatomy accessible, exciting, and impactful for communities that need it most! ow.ly/tvKj50UAKWa
#Anatomy25 #anatomy #science #research #education #AAA
@chelachir.bsky.social is breaking barriers for students and teachers, making anatomy accessible, exciting, and impactful for communities that need it most! ow.ly/tvKj50UAKWa
#Anatomy25 #anatomy #science #research #education #AAA
what's one more form? "it's only one page" is the new "it's only wafer-thin!"
January 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
what's one more form? "it's only one page" is the new "it's only wafer-thin!"
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Reminder: The deadline for AABA Pollitzer travel award applications is 1 week away (Jan 6). If you are a student traveling to the Annual Meeting in Baltimore, please apply!
The William S. Pollitzer Student Travel Award topic has been announced! This year we are increasing the amount of the award and the number of awards given. Students, submit your essay to apply for #AABA2025 travel awards! bioanth.org/about/willia...
William S. Pollitzer Student Travel Award - AABA
The Pollitzer Student Travel Awards are designed to help students defray the costs of attending the AABA meetings. The awards are named in honor of […]
bioanth.org
December 30, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Reminder: The deadline for AABA Pollitzer travel award applications is 1 week away (Jan 6). If you are a student traveling to the Annual Meeting in Baltimore, please apply!
Reposted by Katie Ranhorn
This thread 🧵 collects all the #archaeology 🏺 starter packs
Share far & wide. We could all use a little more archaeology in our lives
@cjfrieman.bsky.social made the OG Archaeology and heritage list with first wave Twitter refugee scholars & orgs. Go follow Catherine now!
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Share far & wide. We could all use a little more archaeology in our lives
@cjfrieman.bsky.social made the OG Archaeology and heritage list with first wave Twitter refugee scholars & orgs. Go follow Catherine now!
bsky.app/starter-pack...
November 12, 2024 at 5:46 PM
This thread 🧵 collects all the #archaeology 🏺 starter packs
Share far & wide. We could all use a little more archaeology in our lives
@cjfrieman.bsky.social made the OG Archaeology and heritage list with first wave Twitter refugee scholars & orgs. Go follow Catherine now!
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Share far & wide. We could all use a little more archaeology in our lives
@cjfrieman.bsky.social made the OG Archaeology and heritage list with first wave Twitter refugee scholars & orgs. Go follow Catherine now!
bsky.app/starter-pack...
thanks to the leadership of the JHE EB - their decision to resign reflects what many of us have experienced over the years. Given these challenges, what advice to people have for ECRs to share their work? Resources for workflows appreciated! what's your favorite repository and why? #courseprep #TT
Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.
December 27, 2024 at 11:02 AM
thanks to the leadership of the JHE EB - their decision to resign reflects what many of us have experienced over the years. Given these challenges, what advice to people have for ECRs to share their work? Resources for workflows appreciated! what's your favorite repository and why? #courseprep #TT
slowly coming back to academic socials after a 2+ year hiatus
*emerges from cocoon*
hello world!
*emerges from cocoon*
hello world!
December 27, 2024 at 10:55 AM
slowly coming back to academic socials after a 2+ year hiatus
*emerges from cocoon*
hello world!
*emerges from cocoon*
hello world!