Rocco Rotunno

Rocco Rotunno

@roccoro.bsky.social

Prehistory, pottery and African archaeology🏺🌍|AvH Fellow @ HU Berlin|The Archaeological Mission in the Sahara @ Sapienza Uni Rome|| views are mine (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈

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Rocco Rotunno
@roccoro.bsky.social

Happy and honoured to share this paper with @ercrema.bsky.social about pottery in Early Holocene Africa! Check out more in the thread!

Enrico R. Crema@ercrema.bsky.social

⚠️Paper Alert!⚠️ Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion rdcu.be/eJi3g

rdcu.beBayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology in Early Holocene AfricaNature Communications - Several possible points of origin have been proposed for the spread of ceramic technology in Saharan Africa between 11–10,000 years ago. Here, the authors...
Rocco Rotunno
@roccoro.bsky.social

📢CALL FOR PAPERS🚨 @martinadm.bsky.social @mariannafusco.bsky.social @Olivier Scancarello and I are running a session (#24) @Panaf26 titled: Archaeology of liminality and transition: eco-cultural strategies in African prehistoric ecotones. More @ panaf2026moz.com/panaf-sessio...

panaf2026moz.comPanAF SessionsThe Local Organizing Committee is excited that almost 70 sessions and workshops will occur at PanAF Moz 2026. Pan-African Association members and non-members are welcome to submit paper abstracts t…

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Emanuele Cancellieri
@emanucanc.bsky.social

Hot off the press! Led by Olivier Scancarello, in collaboration with amazing colleagues and institutions in Tunisia, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal link.springer.com/article/10.1...

link.springer.comDifferential Taphonomic Behavior of Flint Types: Experimental Insights and Implications for the Middle Stone Age Assemblages of Wadi Lazalim in the Northern Sahara (Kebili, Tunisia) - Journal of Archa...Several syn and post-depositional processes are responsible for different degrees of site and assemblage formation and disturbance. Understanding the processes that lead to archaeological site formati...

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Martina Di Matteo
@martinadm.bsky.social

Happy to share with you the new paper on taphonomy in arid environments in collaboration with my friend and colleague @roccoro.bsky.social. Check it out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

link.springer.comShelters and bones: Site-specific archaeofaunal taphonomy for identifying formation processes in Saharan Holocene rock shelters - Archaeological and Anthropological SciencesThis study investigates natural syn- and post-depositional processes affecting terrestrial mammal bones from the Takarkori rock shelter in the hyper-arid Tadrart Acacus massif, south-western Libya. Th...

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Julia Aramendi
@juliaramendi.bsky.social

🚨 New paper out! This work combines 3D geometric morphometrics, multivariate statistics, and machine learning to assess sexual dimorphism in great ape long bones — aiming to classify unsexed skeletal remains and reveal patterns relevant to human evolution. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

onlinelibrary.wiley.comExternal Long Bone Morphology as a Tool for Sex Identification in Great Apes: The Case of the Humerus and FemurObjectives Sexual dimorphism in primates reflects evolutionary, ecological, and social pressures and varies widely across species, complicating its analysis. This study builds on previous research t.....

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Dr Alessio Veneziano
@aveneziano.bsky.social

Today, the 25th of April, in Italy 🇮🇹 we celebrate the #Liberation from NaziFascism. We celebrate to remember the people of the resistance, we celebrate to remember that we kicked fascists' asses once and we can do it again.

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Nada Salem
@nadasalem.bsky.social

I'm beyond excited to share our new paper in Nature! We sequenced the first ancient human autosomal genomes from the Central Sahara, two ~7,000-year-old individuals from Takarkori in Libya, revealing a long-isolated North African lineage: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here's a short thread: (1/n)

nature.comAncient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage - NaturePastoralism spread through cultural diffusion into the Green Sahara, where an isolated, distinct North African ancestry persisted.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes
@lemoustier.bsky.social

All this ⬇️ "It sounds ridiculous to say such things. It sounds unbelievable even to me. But it is where we are and the sooner we accept it, the sooner we can organise to change it." 🧪

Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social

Colleagues are cancelling their US work trips. I worry that international colleagues in the US are at risk if they collaborate with us on certain topics. I've written a new post about the increasing danger of being a foreign scientist in the US. christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att...

christinapagel.substack.comTrump's attacks on universities get ever darker, with the shadows reaching our shoresThe US has become a hostile and authoritarian state to foreign scientists and is choosing ideology over science.

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Sara Bernardini
@sarabern.bsky.social

I'm very happy to share with you our latest work on stable isotope analysis on dessicated wild cereals from Takarkori rock shelter 🌱🌾 What a challenge! Do not hesitate to contact us for a free copy ✨ #prehistory #archaeology

tandfonline.comExploring the use of Wild Cereals at Takarkori (Central Sahara, Southwestern Libya) Through Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis of Prehistoric Desiccated SeedsStable isotope analyses of archaeological plant material have increased in the last few decades with questions arising about climate, environment, and subsistence strategies. While the available st...

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Edwin de Jager
@edwindejager.bsky.social

Hot off the press! 📢 Honoured to have contributed to this special issue with @ameliebeaudet.bsky.social and team celebrating the iconic #Taung child for this centenary event. Stay tuned for more! #Palaeoanthropology #FossilFriday

Assoc Prof Robyn Pickering@pickeringrobyn.bsky.social

To commemorate the #Taung centenary, a special issue of the SAJS came out today! We present a collection of articles looking at aspects of the #history, #anatomy, #geology, #community and -#museum curation of the #Taung child in this post colonial era 🙌🏽 Link here 👇🏽👇🏽 sajs.co.za/index

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Rocco Rotunno
@roccoro.bsky.social

All set for the new term!here the line-up for the next African Archaeology Seminar Series... save the dates🗓👈join us the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at UniCambridge

Rocco Rotunno
@roccoro.bsky.social

Deadline is approaching!but you still have time!👈⏳️

Rocco Rotunno@roccoro.bsky.social

📢🚨call for papers open @SAfAarchaeology 2025 @ICArEHB ....if you're interested in early POTTERY adoption and diffusion throughout time and space in AFRICA then share your research 👥

Rocco Rotunno
@roccoro.bsky.social

📢🚨call for papers open @SAfAarchaeology 2025 @ICArEHB ....if you're interested in early POTTERY adoption and diffusion throughout time and space in AFRICA then share your research 👥

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