Interested in stable isotopes,palaeoproteomics, ancient DNA... Postdoc at ArchaeoScience Platform, Research Institute of the University of Bucharest
Bucharest (Romania)
Joined January 2012
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New paper out!
We present the earliest dated foxtail millet (Setaria italica) grain from Europe, broadly overlapping with the expansion of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) across Europe around 1500 BC.
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Was Venice's iconic Winged Lion statue made in China?
Isotope analysis indicates this symbol of Venetian statehood was made from a modified Tang Dynasty tomb guardian, a reminder of the impressive connectedness of the medieval world.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.10…
ALT Illustration of a lion with wings in profile, coloured with six different colours on different sections. The colours represent phases of casting, and phases 1 and 2 (the majority of the main body) are ascribed to the original Tang sculpture.
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New research on Tyrrhenolutra helbingi reveals that early #otters didn’t dive into aquatic life all at once. Their swimming adaptations evolved piece by piece, with forelimbs leading the way. Evolution really went with the flow! Study by Faggi et al: doi.org/10.1002/ar.70373
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A Hispanic Society of America vén de publicar as imaxes nunca antes vistas que tomou Ruth Matilda Anderson nas súas dúas expedicións a Galicia entre 1924 e 1926. gciencia.com/retro/fotografi…
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Solo tres días después de que Europol alertase del auge de robos en museos nos hemos despertado con la terrible noticia del robo del Tesoro de Villena.
Vamos a analizar este problema y a desmontar algunos mitos y bulos.
HILO 🧵
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🟥 4 minutos contra 3.000 años
No éramos los propietarios del Tesoro de Villena, éramos solo sus guardianes. Y hemos fallado
elperiodicodevillena.com/4-m…
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Esto es una tragedia. Están destruyendo los principales tesoros prehistóricos de Europa, fundidos en aras del último boom capitalista. Hoy le ha tocado el turno a Villena. Increíble que los museos no estén reaccionando para proteger sus fondos.
Roban el Tesoro de Villena, uno de los hallazgos más importantes de la Edad de Bronce en Europa cadenaser.com/comunitat-vale…
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⚠️ Des del Departament de Prehistòria, Arqueologia i Història Antiga de la Universitat de València volem manifestar la nostra més absoluta repulsa i indignació pel robatori del Tresor de Villena, ocorregut aquesta matinada al MUVI de Villena.
Coming to Athens for #EAA2026? Join us for #Session256: “Collapse, Mobility, and Renewal: Rethinking the Chalcolithic–Bronze Age Transition in Southeastern Europe and the Black Sea Region”
📅 Sat 29 Aug
⏰ 08:30–13:00
📍 Room: Library
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Muere a los 80 años el 'niño lobo de Sierra Morena', que vivió 12 años entre animales 20minutos.es/galicia/ourense… a través de @20m
The important of biomolecular analysis in archaeology/paleontology. ZooMS confirms that it was not the oldest cattle in Ireland, but bear and wild boar.
ucd.ie/newsandopinion/news/2…
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Modern bison herds are far more genetically isolated than their ancestors, according to a new study in Science.
The findings suggest that reconnecting fragmented herds could help restore historical gene flow and strengthen bison resilience to future environmental change. scim.ag/3UoCIso
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A leg bone as been confirmed to be from a Denisovan, so we now get to once again play "how well did @David_Gokhman do at predicting Denisovan phenotype?"
I find that his aDNA methylation informed predictions to be very impressive. He knocked it out of the park on the skulls
Denisovan leg bones from Taiwan reveal large body size (preprint) biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
The real paleodiet
eatshistory.com/eating-like-…
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Can #ancient ground #squirrel poop reconstruct Ice Age ecosystems? 🐿️💩🧬
A recent study shows that #permafrost-preserved #coprolites can preserve #DNA for up to 700,000 years!
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #paleogenomics
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90 kya Fossilized finger bone found in Saudi Arabia (desert now, grassland then) shows Homo sapiens out of Africa/Levant early on. Stone tools not yet fancy Upper Paleolithic
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La UNESCO acaba de declarar 20 nuevos sitios culturales Patrimonio de la Humanidad. Vámonos de viaje a disfrutarlos 🧵👇
1. Monte Olimpo (Grecia)
Mítica morada de los dioses del panteón heleno. Un paisaje sagrado donde religión y geología se entrelazan desde la Antigüedad.
ALT Mount Olympus Date: 22/01/2008 Author: Themis Nasopoulou Copyright: © Themis Nasopoulou
ALT Holy Monastery of Agia Triada, Vrontou Date: 08/09/2014 Author: Vasilis Triantafyllou Copyright: © Protected Area Management Units
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Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!
They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
ALT My photo collage shows five cylindrical Minoan cups each with a single handle and a slightly flaring rim. Each cup has a black slip background decorated with a different geometric polychrome motif painted in white, red and orange colours. This type of Minoan pottery is known as Kamares Ware, after the Kamares Cave in central Crete where this kind of pottery was first found. Kamares Ware vessels were luxury items produced by palace workshops mainly at Phaistos and Knossos. These five cups were excavated at Phaistos and are dated 1800-1700 BC.
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Mi amigo @Nunodomin me vuelve a desconcertar con hallazgos prehistóricos. Otra vez los neandertales:
Un enigmático cráneo de hace 200.000 años hallado en Ciudad Real complica aún más “el lío en el medio” de la evolución humana elpais.com/ciencia/2026-07-3… vía @el_pais
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An analysis of fossil mammals suggests that Mexico served as a long-term evolutionary “holding pen” where North American species adapted and diversified for millions of years before sweeping into South America 2.8 million years ago.
The findings in Science clarify the timing of one of Earth's most consequential migrations and may help explain why North American mammals were more successful migrants than those from South America. scim.ag/4fKB0ZF
