AMBI Lab@AMBI_Lab

Archaeological Micromorphology and Biomarkers Laboratory | #Prehistory #Sediments #PaleoEnvironments #AncientBiomolecules 🌿🔥💩🔬 | @IUBOAG @ULL | PI @MallolC

 The Canary Islands, Spain
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Joined January 2016
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If you want to learn more about archaeological soil micromorphology, don't miss a great tutorial made by @ULL @enegrint @MallolC. You can see the whole tutorial here: piped.video/channel/UCPg2S73… #Archaeology #Micromorphology #Science
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¡Hoy tenemos una nueva Welcome Lecture! Dimitri Papavasiliou, doctorando de intercambio de Rutgers Univeristy, que realiza su estancia con nosotros, presentará su trabajo realizado con la comunidad Ogiek (Kenia). Te esperamos 🙌🏻 📍12:00h, Salón de Actos IUBO #Ethnoarchaeology
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Châtelperronian cultural diversity at its western limits: Shell beads and pigments from La Roche-à-Pierrot, Saint-Césaire | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25… @AMBI_Lab con el apoyo de @CabildoTenerife

Châtelperronian cultural diversity at its western limits: Shell beads and pigments from La Roche-...

The timing and mechanisms underlying the gradual replacement of Neanderthal populations by Homo sapiens groups have elicited heated debate for deca...

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📢 New paper out! Led by @ferpalenrique & @thethinsection, the authors combined microcontextual and biomolecular analyses in a Neolithic combustion feature at Abric del Xicotó (Alòs de Balaguer, Lleida, Spain) to approach fuel use and herding strategies 🔥🐑
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Micromorphology, microremains analyses, molecular biomarkers (fecal sterols & n-alkanes carbon stable isotopes) reveal that animals were kept in the site during late spring/early summer, reinforcing the idea that livestock management was part of the site’s occupation dynamics.
Figure 5. Micromorphological indicators of excrement (A) Coprolite fragment (PPL) (scale bar, 250 μm); (B) same as (A) in XPL (note the abundant fecal spherulites inside) (scale bar, 250 μm); (C) phosphatic nodules (PPL) (note white-yellowish color) (scale bar, 100 μm); (D) same as (C) in XPL (scale bar, 100 μm); (E) same as (C) in BL (note how the nodules fluoresce) (scale bar, 100 μm). PPL, plane-polarized light; XPL, cross-polarized light; BL, blue light.

ALT Figure 5. Micromorphological indicators of excrement (A) Coprolite fragment (PPL) (scale bar, 250 μm); (B) same as (A) in XPL (note the abundant fecal spherulites inside) (scale bar, 250 μm); (C) phosphatic nodules (PPL) (note white-yellowish color) (scale bar, 100 μm); (D) same as (C) in XPL (scale bar, 100 μm); (E) same as (C) in BL (note how the nodules fluoresce) (scale bar, 100 μm). PPL, plane-polarized light; XPL, cross-polarized light; BL, blue light.

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You can read and download the full Open Access article here: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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#Fonoteca ¿Sabías que en Canarias 🇮🇨 habitaron lagartos gigantes? 🦎 mucho más grandes que los actuales, te lo contamos en esta entrevista a Carolina Castillo, investigadora del área de Paleontología @ULL ivoox.com/lagartos-gigantes-…

Lagartos gigantes en el pasado - Doble Hélice 3.0 - Podcast en iVoox

Más allá de los dinosaurios y, más recientemente, los Mamuts, no solemos reparar en los animales que convivieron con nuestros antepasados, es más, no solemos pensar en los animales que habitaron la...

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Abierta la convocatoria de becas de colaboración para el curso 2025-26 del Ministerio de Educación, Formación Profesional y Deportes (@educaciongob) 🗓️Hasta el 16/09 ℹ️Toda la información: educacionfpydeportes.gob.es/…
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📢Paper alert📢 "Resource use and plaster manufacture in the arid steppe: micromorphological analysis of floor sequences at the final PPNB site of Qdeir (Syria)" Our analysis of archive samples demonstrates the use of animal dung as fuel in the production of gypsum plaster! 👇🏻
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Publicamos la Propuesta de Resolución Provisional de la convocatoria Proyectos Generación de Conocimiento 2024 (#PID2024). ✅ Dotación histórica de 667M de euros (+ 2% que el año anterior). ✅ Se han presentado 7.190 solicitudes. 🆕 Informe interactivo para buscar ayudas por comunidades autónomas. 👉aei.gob.es/noticias/propuest… 🗣️ José Manuel Fernández de Labastida, director de la #AEI: "Gracias a todo el personal investigador que ha participado en esta convocatoria, a los colaboradores y colaboradoras científicas de la AEI y a su personal. Ha sido un arduo trabajo para las 55 comisiones técnicas que han seleccionado las mejores propuestas. Su labor, junto con la de los más de 8.000 evaluadores y evaluadoras, ha quedado plasmada en los aproximadamente 37.600 informes de evaluación elaborados." #FondoEuropeoDeDesarrolloRegional #FondoSocialEuropeoPlus
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We are thrilled to announce that there is a new Doctor in the house! Congratulations, @ferpalenrique, on successfully defending your PhD thesis 🎓 We wish you the best on your new postdoctoral adventure! #Geoarchaeology #Pastoralism #CanaryIslands #PhDlife
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🔥🛖 Why were prehistoric houses burned down? Our new paper in Journal of Anthropological Archaeology explores the burning, destruction, and rebuilding of an Iron Age house in Iberia. @ULL @invest_ull @CienciaULL @AMBI_Lab @UBUinvestiga sciencedirect.com/science/ar… 👇
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We're hiring! We need another archaeometallurgist to join the amazing @reverseactionP team at @UCamArchaeology and work on pre-Hispanic goldwork. Is that you? Please help us spread the word! jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51186
Detail of a Muisca gold figurine (Colombia) made by the lost wax technique, showing a human with feline features. (c) Museo del Oro, Banco de la Republica, Colombia.

ALT Detail of a Muisca gold figurine (Colombia) made by the lost wax technique, showing a human with feline features. (c) Museo del Oro, Banco de la Republica, Colombia.
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🚨 I am hiring! Join me at Masaryk University as a postdoc researcher in human #bioarchaeology & #isotope analysis. Work on past mobility, diet & funerary practices using cutting-edge lab facilities. ⏳ Apply by 1 June 2025 📍Brno, CZ 🔗 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/3…
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🔥 How did Neandertals harness fire? Join Dr. Carolina Mallol on May 6 for a #LEXA seminar on #prehistorictechnology: "The Neandertal Fire Technology Project – All Its Burning Questions." ⏰ 14:00 WEST | 📍 Zoom icarehb.com/lexa/ #HumanEvolution #ExperimentalArchaeology
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La @AgEInves publica la actualización del calendario previsto de sus convocatorias. 👉aei.gob.es/noticias/publicad… El objetivo de este documento es informar a la comunidad científico-técnica de la planificación de las convocatorias en curso que aún no se han resuelto y de las que se publicarán próximamente.
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🔍 La #ULL participa en un estudio que evidencia la homogeneidad en el comportamiento neandertal y sapiens de Oriente Próximo 👉 t.ull.es/23ee
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Mañana nueva charla del Área de Prehistoria: "Identificando espacios domésticos protohistóricos en el nordeste peninsular" con la Dra. Marta Mateu (@ICAC_cat) 🔬 🗓️21 de marzo, 12-13h. 📍Sala Elías Serra Ràfols, Facultad Humanidades @ULL Enlace Meet:  meet.google.com/vqm-mnny-sfp
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📢 Abrimos la convocatoria de la XIII edición del Concurso de Divulgación Científica para jóvenes investigador@s de la @ULL!👨🏻‍🔬🧪 ¡Anímate a participar e inscríbete!:📋tinyurl.com/4mv4wmwx #MacaroNight25 @Fg_ull @Cajasiete @FECYT_Ciencia @agenciaiisi @MacaronightEU @AytoArona
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📢It's Friday and we have a new paper out! This is an important review for geoarchaeologists that is focused on studies that apply lipid biomarkers to archaeological sedimentary deposits, led by @MallolC, with @thethinsection, @mrgjmbr and A.V. Herrera-Herrera 👩‍🔬#Archaeology
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If you are interested in paleoenvironmental biomarkers and sedimentary lipids as windows to past human behavior (diet, fire technology and settlement patterns) you can read the Open Access article here: cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S…

Advancing archaeological sedimentary lipid biomarker analysis: A review of recent developments and...

Biochemical analysis; Paleobiochemistry; Archeology

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