Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia 🏺🧪
@katharv.bsky.social, @chrisbstringer.bsky.social, et al
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Apidima 1 ~210,000 years old, so far the oldest human fossil found outside of Africa
Apidima 2 ~170,000 years old was a Neanderthal
@katharv.bsky.social, @chrisbstringer.bsky.social, et al
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Apidima 1 ~210,000 years old, so far the oldest human fossil found outside of Africa
Apidima 2 ~170,000 years old was a Neanderthal
May 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia 🏺🧪
@katharv.bsky.social, @chrisbstringer.bsky.social, et al
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Apidima 1 ~210,000 years old, so far the oldest human fossil found outside of Africa
Apidima 2 ~170,000 years old was a Neanderthal
@katharv.bsky.social, @chrisbstringer.bsky.social, et al
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Apidima 1 ~210,000 years old, so far the oldest human fossil found outside of Africa
Apidima 2 ~170,000 years old was a Neanderthal
The 2025 excavation season is now officially underway at Apidima in Greece! ⛏️✨️
#excavations #fieldseason #Paleoanthropology
#excavations #fieldseason #Paleoanthropology
August 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The 2025 excavation season is now officially underway at Apidima in Greece! ⛏️✨️
#excavations #fieldseason #Paleoanthropology
#excavations #fieldseason #Paleoanthropology
Greetings from Apidima! The 2026 field season is on! ✨🤩💀🔨
August 31, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Greetings from Apidima! The 2026 field season is on! ✨🤩💀🔨
My comments on a very early sapiens-like partial cranium from Apidima Cave, Greece (2019)
June 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
My comments on a very early sapiens-like partial cranium from Apidima Cave, Greece (2019)
A snapshot from Katerina Harvati’s podium presentation at #ESHE2025 earlier today! ✨️ Her talk: “Middle Pleistocene funerary ritual at Apidima? An examination of evidence.” ☠️🌍🪨
September 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
A snapshot from Katerina Harvati’s podium presentation at #ESHE2025 earlier today! ✨️ Her talk: “Middle Pleistocene funerary ritual at Apidima? An examination of evidence.” ☠️🌍🪨
Great to see our PhD student Serena Lombardo presenting at the SAA meeting in Denver! Her talk, “Early Upper Paleolithic Technical Behavior at Apidima (Peloponnese, Greece): Technological Analysis of the Lithic Assemblage from Cave C,” highlighted our exciting ongoing research at Apidima! Congrats!🤩
April 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Great to see our PhD student Serena Lombardo presenting at the SAA meeting in Denver! Her talk, “Early Upper Paleolithic Technical Behavior at Apidima (Peloponnese, Greece): Technological Analysis of the Lithic Assemblage from Cave C,” highlighted our exciting ongoing research at Apidima! Congrats!🤩
Time flies and soon it will be time to close the Apidima excavation, after a very productive season!🔨👲
In the meantime, here's a Field Friday photo of the team in Cave D 😍
#fieldfriday #humanevolution #ERC
In the meantime, here's a Field Friday photo of the team in Cave D 😍
#fieldfriday #humanevolution #ERC
September 19, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Time flies and soon it will be time to close the Apidima excavation, after a very productive season!🔨👲
In the meantime, here's a Field Friday photo of the team in Cave D 😍
#fieldfriday #humanevolution #ERC
In the meantime, here's a Field Friday photo of the team in Cave D 😍
#fieldfriday #humanevolution #ERC
Greetings from Apidima! The 2026 field season is on! ✨🤩💀🔨
August 31, 2026 at 1:28 PM
And that's a wrap on another fantastic season at #Apidima! Until next time 🌊🪨⛏️
@harvatilab.bsky.social
@katharv.bsky.social
@unituebingen.bsky.social
@harvatilab.bsky.social
@katharv.bsky.social
@unituebingen.bsky.social
September 14, 2026 at 6:33 PM
And that's a wrap on another fantastic season at #Apidima! Until next time 🌊🪨⛏️
@harvatilab.bsky.social
@katharv.bsky.social
@unituebingen.bsky.social
@harvatilab.bsky.social
@katharv.bsky.social
@unituebingen.bsky.social
Hello from Ferrara ✨🇮🇹
Katerina and Serena are attending the Hugo Obermaier Conference and presenting results from Apidima and Marathousa 1 🌍💀🪨🦴⛏️ @katharv.bsky.social @serena-lombardo.bsky.social
Katerina and Serena are attending the Hugo Obermaier Conference and presenting results from Apidima and Marathousa 1 🌍💀🪨🦴⛏️ @katharv.bsky.social @serena-lombardo.bsky.social
April 8, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Hello from Ferrara ✨🇮🇹
Katerina and Serena are attending the Hugo Obermaier Conference and presenting results from Apidima and Marathousa 1 🌍💀🪨🦴⛏️ @katharv.bsky.social @serena-lombardo.bsky.social
Katerina and Serena are attending the Hugo Obermaier Conference and presenting results from Apidima and Marathousa 1 🌍💀🪨🦴⛏️ @katharv.bsky.social @serena-lombardo.bsky.social
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
Apidima excavation update: 📢
This year we focus on Caves C and D, which document the Upper Paleolithic (very rare in Greece): Cave C (left) Protoaurignacian, Cave D (right) (Epi)Gravettian
(see: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...)
@erc.europa.eu
@sgn.one
@unituebingen.bsky.social ky.social
This year we focus on Caves C and D, which document the Upper Paleolithic (very rare in Greece): Cave C (left) Protoaurignacian, Cave D (right) (Epi)Gravettian
(see: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...)
@erc.europa.eu
@sgn.one
@unituebingen.bsky.social ky.social
September 5, 2026 at 6:35 AM
Apidima excavation update: 📢
This year we focus on Caves C and D, which document the Upper Paleolithic (very rare in Greece): Cave C (left) Protoaurignacian, Cave D (right) (Epi)Gravettian
(see: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...)
@erc.europa.eu
@sgn.one
@unituebingen.bsky.social ky.social
This year we focus on Caves C and D, which document the Upper Paleolithic (very rare in Greece): Cave C (left) Protoaurignacian, Cave D (right) (Epi)Gravettian
(see: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...)
@erc.europa.eu
@sgn.one
@unituebingen.bsky.social ky.social
🏺🦣
Watching online @katharv.bsky.social talk about Apidima at #ESHE2025 , extremely important and intriguing site: what is the taphonomic context of these two skulls of different ages?
Watching online @katharv.bsky.social talk about Apidima at #ESHE2025 , extremely important and intriguing site: what is the taphonomic context of these two skulls of different ages?
September 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
🏺🦣
Watching online @katharv.bsky.social talk about Apidima at #ESHE2025 , extremely important and intriguing site: what is the taphonomic context of these two skulls of different ages?
Watching online @katharv.bsky.social talk about Apidima at #ESHE2025 , extremely important and intriguing site: what is the taphonomic context of these two skulls of different ages?
Grateful for the opportunity to present my work on Apidima lithics and for the many inspiring conversations! 💖
Serena @serena-lombardo.bsky.social presented her exciting research on technical behavior at Apidima (Cave C) at the Hugo Obermaier Conference in Ferrara! 🌍⛏️⚱️
Congratulations to Serena and all colleagues, great work! ✨️🙏🏼
#lithics #archaeology
Congratulations to Serena and all colleagues, great work! ✨️🙏🏼
#lithics #archaeology
April 12, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Grateful for the opportunity to present my work on Apidima lithics and for the many inspiring conversations! 💖
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
Excited to be back at #Apidima for another season of fieldwork 🧡⛏️
Apidima excavation update: 📢
This year we focus on Caves C and D, which document the Upper Paleolithic (very rare in Greece): Cave C (left) Protoaurignacian, Cave D (right) (Epi)Gravettian
(see: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...)
@erc.europa.eu
@sgn.one
@unituebingen.bsky.social ky.social
This year we focus on Caves C and D, which document the Upper Paleolithic (very rare in Greece): Cave C (left) Protoaurignacian, Cave D (right) (Epi)Gravettian
(see: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...)
@erc.europa.eu
@sgn.one
@unituebingen.bsky.social ky.social
September 5, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Excited to be back at #Apidima for another season of fieldwork 🧡⛏️
#ESHE2025 featured posters from our team members on Greek sites: Klissoura (Marciani et al.), Megalopoli (Roditi et al.), and Apidima (Lombardo et al.)! 🌍🦴🐵 They couldn’t attend in person, but their work was well represented. 👏
September 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
#ESHE2025 featured posters from our team members on Greek sites: Klissoura (Marciani et al.), Megalopoli (Roditi et al.), and Apidima (Lombardo et al.)! 🌍🦴🐵 They couldn’t attend in person, but their work was well represented. 👏
Our species left Africa many times over thousands of years.
The oldest known Homo sapiens fossil outside of Africa is a 210,000-year-old skull fragment from Apidima Cave in #Greece 🇬🇷
Bones of the Neanderthals were found nearby - a species we had an intimate relationship with...
The oldest known Homo sapiens fossil outside of Africa is a 210,000-year-old skull fragment from Apidima Cave in #Greece 🇬🇷
Bones of the Neanderthals were found nearby - a species we had an intimate relationship with...
February 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Our species left Africa many times over thousands of years.
The oldest known Homo sapiens fossil outside of Africa is a 210,000-year-old skull fragment from Apidima Cave in #Greece 🇬🇷
Bones of the Neanderthals were found nearby - a species we had an intimate relationship with...
The oldest known Homo sapiens fossil outside of Africa is a 210,000-year-old skull fragment from Apidima Cave in #Greece 🇬🇷
Bones of the Neanderthals were found nearby - a species we had an intimate relationship with...
#FossilFriday
Happy #FieldFriday from Apidima, Greece,
where the 2024 excavation season is in full swing! 😀🧪
h/t Dr. Katerina Harvati and The Harvati lab at University of Tübingen
September 6, 2024 at 9:59 PM
#FossilFriday
Happy #FieldFriday from Apidima, Greece,
where the 2024 excavation season is in full swing! 😀🧪
h/t Dr. Katerina Harvati and The Harvati lab at University of Tübingen
Ganz schön spannend wird die #Archäologie, wenn man beim Betrachten lang bekannter Funde, zu ganz neuen Ergebnissen kommt. So wie im Falle des Schädels von Apidima. Ein Fund aus #Griechenland, der zeigt: Der Homo Sapiens war früher in #Europa als gedacht:
www.miss-jones.de/2019/07/29/w...
www.miss-jones.de/2019/07/29/w...
Der Homo sapiens von Apidima | Miss Jones
Der Homo sapiens war offenbar früher in Europa war offenbar früher in Europa, als bislang angenommen. Anlass für diese Aussage ist, dass ein Homo sapiens Schädel, der in Griechenland, in der Höhle Api...
www.miss-jones.de
March 1, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Ganz schön spannend wird die #Archäologie, wenn man beim Betrachten lang bekannter Funde, zu ganz neuen Ergebnissen kommt. So wie im Falle des Schädels von Apidima. Ein Fund aus #Griechenland, der zeigt: Der Homo Sapiens war früher in #Europa als gedacht:
www.miss-jones.de/2019/07/29/w...
www.miss-jones.de/2019/07/29/w...
#ESHE2025
Katerina Harvati ‘Middle Pleistocene funerary ritual at Apidima? An examination of evidence’
2 homs– 2 dates: Ap2: >170 ka (NEA), Ap1 >210 ka (early H sapiens).
Could it be mortuary ritual instead (Otte 2020)?! NO.
Analysis of tapho, homs in fissure! no pebbles, no pigments 😀
Katerina Harvati ‘Middle Pleistocene funerary ritual at Apidima? An examination of evidence’
2 homs– 2 dates: Ap2: >170 ka (NEA), Ap1 >210 ka (early H sapiens).
Could it be mortuary ritual instead (Otte 2020)?! NO.
Analysis of tapho, homs in fissure! no pebbles, no pigments 😀
September 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
#ESHE2025
Katerina Harvati ‘Middle Pleistocene funerary ritual at Apidima? An examination of evidence’
2 homs– 2 dates: Ap2: >170 ka (NEA), Ap1 >210 ka (early H sapiens).
Could it be mortuary ritual instead (Otte 2020)?! NO.
Analysis of tapho, homs in fissure! no pebbles, no pigments 😀
Katerina Harvati ‘Middle Pleistocene funerary ritual at Apidima? An examination of evidence’
2 homs– 2 dates: Ap2: >170 ka (NEA), Ap1 >210 ka (early H sapiens).
Could it be mortuary ritual instead (Otte 2020)?! NO.
Analysis of tapho, homs in fissure! no pebbles, no pigments 😀
Serena @serena-lombardo.bsky.social presented her exciting research on technical behavior at Apidima (Cave C) at the Hugo Obermaier Conference in Ferrara! 🌍⛏️⚱️
Congratulations to Serena and all colleagues, great work! ✨️🙏🏼
#lithics #archaeology
Congratulations to Serena and all colleagues, great work! ✨️🙏🏼
#lithics #archaeology
April 8, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Serena @serena-lombardo.bsky.social presented her exciting research on technical behavior at Apidima (Cave C) at the Hugo Obermaier Conference in Ferrara! 🌍⛏️⚱️
Congratulations to Serena and all colleagues, great work! ✨️🙏🏼
#lithics #archaeology
Congratulations to Serena and all colleagues, great work! ✨️🙏🏼
#lithics #archaeology
New publication 📖 Trauma or damage? A study on the breakage patterns of the Apidima crania, which was part of my PhD research.
OA book chapter: hdl.handle.net/10900/156259
Longer version in PhD thesis: hdl.handle.net/10900/119049
Congratulations to the editors & all contributors of this volume! 👏
OA book chapter: hdl.handle.net/10900/156259
Longer version in PhD thesis: hdl.handle.net/10900/119049
Congratulations to the editors & all contributors of this volume! 👏
August 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
New publication 📖 Trauma or damage? A study on the breakage patterns of the Apidima crania, which was part of my PhD research.
OA book chapter: hdl.handle.net/10900/156259
Longer version in PhD thesis: hdl.handle.net/10900/119049
Congratulations to the editors & all contributors of this volume! 👏
OA book chapter: hdl.handle.net/10900/156259
Longer version in PhD thesis: hdl.handle.net/10900/119049
Congratulations to the editors & all contributors of this volume! 👏