João Cascalheira

📢 New publication: "Late Neanderthal subsistence and foraging mobility at Lapa do Picareiro: a zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis of Level JJ" by Carvalho, M., Haws, J. A., & Jones, E. L., in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology (2025). 🔗 More info: doi.org/10.3389/fear...

📢 New publication: "Old age variably impacts chimpanzee engagement and efficiency in stone tool use" by Howard-Spink, E., Matsuzawa, T., Carvalho, S., Hobaiter, C., Almeida-Warren, K., Gruber, T., & Biro, D., in eLife (2025). 🔗 More info: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

📢 New publication: "Experimental Protocol for Cooking Rabbits and its Archaeological Implications" by Real, C., Rufà, A., Carvalho, M., Pérez, L., Haws, J., & Sanchis, A., in Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (2025). 🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1007/s108...

📢 New publication: "The dichotomy of human decision-making: An experimental assessment of stone tool efficiency" by Nora, D., Marreiros, J., Gneisinger, W., Pedergnana, A., & Pereira, T., in PLOS ONE (2025). 🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Why skip protocols in literature reviews? Join our hands-on course for rigorous synthesis in archaeology & anthropology, 29–31 Oct 2025, Faro 🇵🇹 Register👇 heirs.icarehb.com/calls-traini... #archaeology #openscience #researchsynthesis #anthropology #HEIRS #ICArEHB

📢 New publication: "The role of lithic technology in shaping mobility and decision-making: The case of Ararat-1 Cave" by Nora, D., Frahm, E., et al., in Quaternary Science Reviews (2025). 🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...

📢 "Intensive resource exploitation in Late Neolithic Iberia: Bone marrow and subsistence changes at Branqueiras, central-coastal Portugal" by Costa, C., Martins, M. J. (...) & Carvalho, A. F., in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (2025). 🔗https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105324

📢 Built-in smartphone LiDAR for archaeological and speleological research by Antón, D., Mayoral-Valsera, J., Simón-Vallejo, M. D., Parrilla-Giráldez, R., & Cortés-Sánchez, M., in J. Archaeol. Sci. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

📢Close to sunlight or deep underground? New data to reconstruct site formation processes at the Middle Paleolithic Escoural Cave (southern Portugal) by Alzate-Casallas, G., Gomes, A., Ferar, N. (...) Cascalheira, J., & Barbieri, A., in Quat. Sci. Rev. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109550

📢 Just published: our latest paper on site formation processes at the Middle Paleolithic sequence of Escoural Cave, southern Portugal. Check it out! @erc.europa.eu @icarehb.bsky.social #neanderthals #archaeology #openscience www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#SAfA2025 kicks off today in #Faro, #Portugal! Hosted by #ICArEHB, we’re ready to welcome the global #AfricanistArchaeology community for a week of connection and knowledge-sharing at the #CrossroadsThroughTime.

Proudly introduce BREATHE, a project investigating late Quaternary human behavior in the Sahara. Funded by #HorizonEurope - ERA Postdoctoral Fellowships, BREATHE is based at the University of Algarve’s fabulous #ICArEHB and partnered with #Sapienza University of Rome.

Calling all palaeolithic archaeologists. Come and work with me on a really exciting new survey and excavation project in Uganda: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/348570

📢 New publication: "Deciphering the diet of the Iberian lynx: Insights from taphonomic analysis of Pleistocene coprolites" by @annarb.bsky.social, (ICArEHB, UAlg), Sanz, M., & Daura, J., in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 675 (2025). 🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...

📢 New publication: "Collagen peptide markers for three extinct Australian megafauna species" by Peters, C., Oertle, A., Gillespie, R., Boivin, N., & Douka, K., in Frontiers in Mammal Science 4 (2025). 🔗 More info: doi.org/10.3389/fmam...

📢 New publication: "Quantifying Levallois: a 3D geometric morphometric approach to Nubian technology" by Hallinan, E. & Cascalheira, J., in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 17, 88 (2025). 🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1007/s125...

🔍 Postdoc in Palaeolithic Archaeology Join the #ERC Starting Grant #WRAP – Western Rift Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments project at ICArEHB! We're exploring human prehistory through fieldwork, machine learning, and interdisciplinary research. 🔗 www.icarehb.com/research-pos...

Don’t miss this opportunity, join us in @icarehb.bsky.social and work with @tomosproffitt.bsky.social on this great project!

📢 New publication: "Reliable long-term individual variation in wild chimpanzee technological efficiency" by Berdugo, S., Cohen, E., Davis, A. J., Matsuzawa, T. & Carvalho, S., in Nature Human Behaviour 9(3), 472–480 (2024). 🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

📢 New publication: "Agent-based simulations reveal the possibility of multiple rapid northern routes for the second Neanderthal dispersal from Western to Eastern Eurasia" by Coco, E. & Iovita, R., in PLOS ONE 20(6), e0325693 (2025). 🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Tudo pronto para o último dia da #FestaDaArqueologia2025! Visite-nos no Museu Arqueológico do Carmo, entrada livre até às 18h! #ICArEHB #Arqueologia Everything's ready for the final day! Visit us at the Carmo Archaeological Museum — free entry until 18:00! #Archaeology

📢 New publication: "New Insights on an Old Excavation: Re-visiting the Late Middle Palaeolithic Site of Far’ah II, North-western Negev, Israel" by Goder-Goldberger, M., Gilead, I., Paixão, E., et al., in J Paleo Arch (2025, Vol. 8, Article 13). 🔗 More info: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📢 New publication: "Revisiting the thermal alteration of buried bone" by Gallo, G., Aldeias, V., & Stahlschmidt, M., in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (2025, Vol. 63). 🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

📢 New publication: "Large scale and regional demographic responses to climatic changes in Europe during the Final Palaeolithic" by Schmidt, I., Gehlen, B., Winkler, K., Arrizabalaga, A., Arts, N., Bicho, N., et al. 🔗 More info: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

📢 "Scales of toolstone transport in the Armenian Highlands during MIS 3: The contribution of Ararat-1 Cave (Ararat Depression) to reconstructing opportunities for social interactions" by Frahm, E., Nora, D., et al., in Quaternary Science Reviews. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...

📢 Registration is OPEN! Join us for ICArEHB Dialogues: Technology – Past and Future 🗓️ May 29th | 🕓 4pm Lisbon | 📺 Live on YouTube 3 speakers. 1 question: How does the past inform our future? 🔗 Register now: www.icarehb.com/dialogues/te...

📢 We have a new paper out!! Led by the incredible @eshallinan.bsky.social we introduce a novel application of three-dimensional geometric morphometrics (GM) to quantify the shape variability of Nubian Levallois cores. #archaeology #openscience @icarehb.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚀 New Seminar Series: #AltAc Paths! ICArEHB’s AltAc Paths brings PhDs in #archaeology & related fields who’ve moved outside #academia. Open conversations, real advice, no stigma. 📅 Every 3 months | 💻 Online & hybrid 🎙️ 2 speakers, Q&A First session soon—stay tuned!

📢 Alt-Ac Paths: First Seminar! Thinking beyond #academia? Join us on Zoom Tue 25 March 11:00 (GMT) for insights from two #archaeology #PhDs who made the leap! 🔹 Patrícia Monteiro – Archaeobotany Researcher @ Cultural Heritage 🔹 Rita Dias – Senior Archaeologist @ Era Arqueologia 🔗 t.co/mp096GfFY9

🚀 Launch Alert! #HEIRS is now accepting proposals for group synthesis projects in #HumanEvolution! 🌍 ✅ Funding for 10-15 scholars & 3 in-person meetings ✅ Full support: training, data stewardship & more! Apply by April 23rd ⏳ Find out more here 🔗 heirs.icarehb.com/calls-traini...

I'm very happy to share our most recent @icarehb.bsky.social Experimental Archaeology Seminar video. On the role of birds in archaeological contexts by Dr Anna Rufà www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXbP...

A big thank you to Dr. Angeliki Theodoropoulou from CSIC for leading a Lithic Artefact Illustration Workshop for our PhD students. With over 10 years of experience, Dr. Theodoropoulou shared her expertise in illustrating Palaeolithic stone tools. #Archaeology #LithicIllustration

A couple of weeks ago, I participated in the LEXA seminars, presenting the results of the experiments carried out with my lovely colleagues from @pacea.bsky.social & @iphes-cerca.bsky.social . Thank you @tomosproffitt.bsky.social for the invitation! #smallprey #avianremains #experimentalarchaeology

📢 Happening Tuesday! Join us on March 25th at 3pm (Lisbon time) for an info session on the Group Synthesis Project 2025A! 🌍🧬 ✅ Overview of the call and what we fund ✅ Application details ✅ Live Q&A 🔗 Join here videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/9413521825... 🔍 More details heirs.icarehb.com/calls-traini...

Join us for the first seminar in ICArEHB's @icarehb.bsky.social new 'Alt-Ac Paths' series, tomorrow at 11am on Zoom, to hear from Rita Dias and Patrícia Monteiro on their move into commercial archaeology videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/9355232390... #AltAcPaths #BeyondAcademia #PhDLife #Archaeology

📢 New publication: "Novel field experiment on alkalinity enhancement in intertidal environments—a trailblazer for natural climate solutions" by Mendes, I., (...), Gomes, A., & Grasse, P., in Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 🔗 More info: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🎤 Excited to welcome Davi Rios as our non-#archaeology speaker for #ICArEHBDialogues 2025! 🚀 Davi is a software engineer working on AI, ethics & misinformation. Join us as we explore #Technology: #Past and #Future"—stay tuned for details! 🔜

Proud PhD supervisor moment! @wcmurph.bsky.social successufully defended his PhD thesis on 🔥Pyrotechnology during the Upper Paleolithic in Europe @icarehb.bsky.social

From Feb 12-14, we hosted the Agent-Based Modeling & Network Science TIFA with Iza Romanowska & Tom Brughmans. Learned, connected, & explored how to use these tools in research. Grateful to all participants! 🚀 Stay tuned for the next #TIFA!

📢 Como comunicar a Pré-História e Evolução Humana? 🏺🧬 Especialistas em arqueologia, comunicação de ciência e jornalismo debatem os desafios de levar o passado ao público. 📅 17 março 2025 | ⏰ 15h00 📍 CCDR - Algarve, Faro Não percas! #ComunicaçãoDeCiência #PréHistória #EvoluçãoHumana #ICArEHB #UAlg

Launch Alert! 🚀 #HEIRS is now accepting submissions for its first-ever call for group synthesis projects focused on #HumanEvolution. If you're passionate about research in human evolution, this is your chance to synthesis! 🌍 heirs.icarehb.com/calls-traini... 💡 What’s in store?

📢 New publication: "Within and Beyond: Chert Procurement Patterns During The Upper Palaeolithic in Southwesternmost Iberia" by Belmiro, J., Terradas, X., Dominguez-Bella, S., & Cascalheira, J., in Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology (2025). 🔗 More info: curt.link/UFsjw

🔥 How did fire shape #HumanEvolution? ICArEHB seeks PhD candidate for #FCTPhDFellowships to study fire-use evidence and quantitative synthesis tools, supervised by Godefroy Devevey. 🔗 More info www.icarehb.com/fct-phd-fell... #PhDOpportunity #Archaeology

🌍 How did #LatePleistocene caves shape #humanevolution in Southeast Africa? ICArEHB seeks a PhD candidate for #FCTPhDFellowships to study caves and #paleoenvironments in the region, supervised by Frederico Tátá Regala. 🔗 www.icarehb.com/fct-phd-fell... #PhDOpportunity #Archaeology

🌍 How did #Afrotheria evolve and spread across Southeastern Africa? ICArEHB seeks a PhD candidate for #FCTPhDFellowships to study the evolution and #biogeography of these mammals, supervised by René Bobe. 🔗 More info www.icarehb.com/fct-phd-fell... #PhDOpportunity #Archaeology

Here we are again! Keep tuned for the next #ICArEHBDialogues

Join us again on the 4th of March for another @icarehb.bsky.social Experimental Archaeology online seminar. Dr Anna Rufà will be talking about bird exploitation. Register for free here: www.icarehb.com/lexa

Join us again on the 4th of March for another #ICArEHB #ExperimentalArchaeology online seminar. Anna Rufà will be talking about bird exploitation. Register for free here: www.icarehb.com/lexa #Archaeology #LEXA

📢 New publication (OA) from our student Valentina Lubrano exploring the challenges of identifying Neanderthal occupation duration. Check it out! 🔍 #Archaeology #Neanderthals #Palaeolithic @icarehb.bsky.social @iphes-cerca.bsky.social #proudsupervisor link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📢 New publication: "Neolithic landscape and firewood use: charcoal analysis of domestic and funerary contexts at LA Dehesilla (Andalusia, Spain)” by Monteiro, P.D., Taylor, R., García-Rivero, D. in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany (2025). 🔗 More info: link.springer.com/article/10.1...