
Research group Osteoarcheology, Paleoanthropology & Prehistory Led by Stefano BENAZZI Prof at @unibo PI ERC Synergy Last Neanderthals
Joined August 2018
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Exploring Uluzzian Lithic Technology at Klissoura Cave 1, Greece link.springer.com/article/10…
🏔️ “In Pursuit of Middle Palaeolithic Cave Sites in Mongolia”
Talk by Sano Katsuhiro — Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University 🇯🇵
🗓️ Mon 22 June | 16:00–17:00
📍 Aula Conferenze, Dip. Beni Culturali – Campus Ravenna, Unibo
🔗 Join online → teams.microsoft.com/meet/370…
🪓 Archaeology as Indigenous History in South America
Today at 17:30 — Lucas de Melo Reis Bueno (@UFSC_oficial) challenges the concept of “prehistory” at Palazzo Malvezzi, Università di Bologna 🇧🇷🇮🇹
site.unibo.it/isa/en/events/…
#archaeology #brazil – at Bologna, Emilia Romagna
🪓 Archaeology & indigenous history in Brazil: entanglements in Deep Time
Lucas de Melo Reis Bueno (@UFSC_oficial) oggi alle 15:00 – Aula Conferenze, Campus Ravenna 🇧🇷🇮🇹
#Archaeology #IndigenousHistory #Paleoanthropology #UniBO
teams.microsoft.com/meet/357…
New publication! Our archaeological research at Halban (Al-Batinah South) and Romail Shelter (Ash-Sharqiyyah North) is now available on p. 8 of Athar Issue 2 (2023–2024). 🏺✨
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@eu_bortolini @OmaniMOH
#oman #archaeology
Evidence from foramina, dental histology, and allometry supports the presence of extraoral tissues in Triassic archosauromorphs, suggesting that lipped jaws may represent the ancestral sauropsid condition.
#dinosaur #lips #triassic @OnHig @uno_chapeco
doi.org/10.1111/pala.70066
📍 10 June | 11:00–12:00
👨🏻🏫 Lucas D. M. R. Bueno (UFSC – Brazil)
🗣️ First People in a New World: perspectives from Brazilian archaeological context
📌 Campus Ravenna, UniBo – Aula conferenze, Via degli Ariani n.1
🙏 Thanks to ISA – Inst. of Adv. Studies – at Ravenna, Emilia Romagna
teams.microsoft.com/meet/312… – at Ravenna, Emilia Romagna
3 PhD positions open
💰 Funded by the Department of Cultural Heritage with ERC Synergy Grant “Last Neanderthals”
📅 Deadline: 15 June 2026
#phd #palaeoproteomics #dentalhistology #culturalheritage
unibo.it/en/study/phd-profes…
ZooMS and taphonomic analyses of Uluzzo C’s Mousterian fauna reveal complex palimpsests formed by brief human occupations and carnivore activity within a Late Pleistocene Mediterranean refugium.
#ercprojects #thelastneanderthals
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@RomandiniMatteo
📍 Talk 2
The Ancient Pacific Islands: settlement, chiefdoms, and current questions
🗓 Tuesday, April 28, 2026 – 11:00 AM
📍 Aula Bovini, Via San Vitale 28, Ravenna
💻 Online (Teams): teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup…
Ethan Cochrane (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Seminar Series
🗣️Talk 1
How to Make a Better, Scientifically Robust Archaeology
🗓 Monday, April 27, 2026 – 10:30 AM
📍 Aula Seminari 2, San Giovanni in Monte, Bologna
💻 Online (Teams): teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup…
🤖 Made with AI
Bones Lab contributed to the identification of Homo individuals who lived 730,000 years ago.
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Sara Bernardini presented the research carried out by Bones Lab at PNRR CHANGES conference
"Mappe e scenari per il futuro del patrimonio culturale"
Groundbreaking fossils from Morocco's Thomas Quarry, dated ~773,000 years ago, reveal an early African population basal to Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, and Denisovans
A project with participation of Stefano Benazzi
Details in Nature: nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
BonesLab retweeted
🚨New paper alert!🚨
Earliest known instance of pyrite ca. 400 kya at Barnham (UK), in layers with strong evidence of fire use, in an area with no naturally occurring pyrite nodules, together strongly suggest these pre-Neandertal peoples were making fire!
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
BonesLab retweeted
Here are some facts and figures from the 2025 Consolidator Grant call:
🔶 €728 million in funding
🔶 349 mid-career researchers from Europe and beyond
🔶 44 different nationalities
All of them pushing the frontiers of knowledge. Congratulations!
BonesLab retweeted
P-RI Research publication alert!
We are extremely proud to share that M. Lombard, C.M. Schlebusch & M. Jakobsson have co-authored a paper recently published in Nature.
You can access it via the link below:
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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@UjHumanities
The Dipartimento di Beni Culturali at the University of Bologna (UNIBO) and @Univates have signed a cooperation agreement to advance archaeological and environmental research, with a particular focus on the prehistory of Brazil.
univates.br/noticia/37193-un…












