Professor of Archaeology, Experienced Researcher in African Matters and Human Origins, Author, Grant Writer, Advisor, Career Development
Joined May 2017
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16 Jan 2025
New paper reveals Homo erectus thrived in steppe-deserts 1 million years ago—reshaping views on early adaptability, generalist strategies, and dispersal to arid zones amid mid-Pleistocene climate change #OldupaiGorge 🇹🇿
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@CommsEarth
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ALT Oldupai Gorge: Image of the red beds that typify Bed III
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7 Jul 2025
Prototyping smart glasses for palaeosciences
in the East African Rift!
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Shortly,
we will be piloting hands-free surveys with a
RealWear 520 #OldupaiGorge,
using stabilized videos and real-time uploads
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Can we annotate palaeo finds on the move?
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15 days to go!
Proud to keep advancing research training #OldupaiGorge
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@udomtheofficial @UCalgary
Team's fired up,
Some already in-country,
others landing soon:
@shikoni_abel
@MariaSotoQ
@AloyceMg
@Hernando90R
AbdallahMohamed
@StephenMagohe
Ayoola Oladele
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10 Jun 2025
Ancient starch research rests on a paradox:
A molecule known to degrade rapidly is assumed to survive for tens of thousands of years. Our data show active microbial metabolism in buried contexts. Time to dismantle the myth...
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26 May 2025
Dear Steve,
What a superb job you did!!
Congratulations!
An honor to work with you
26 May 2025
PhD Candidacy exam passed today! I am officially a candidate! Lots of appreciations to my committee @the_subtender @ProfMercader @RiversToRocks and @Jen Galloway. Thanks to the @TheLeakeyFndtn @CanadianAcp @UdsmOfficial and @UCalgary for supporting my research!
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20 May 2025
Collaborative Research and Shared Stewardship at Oldupai Gorge
A long-term partnership between researchers and the Maasai Advisory Council in the Oldupai Gorge region of Tanzania offers a model for collaboration in palaeoanthropological research
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ALT Maasai representatives and local researchers in a working session co-defining research goals and frameworks for shared stewardship and community benefit
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Prof. Julio Mercader Florín retweeted
27 Apr 2025
History made!
Dr. Fredrick Manthi has officially been inducted into the US National Academy of Sciences at NAS headquarters in Washington, DC.
This is one of the highest honors in the world of science, recognizing his groundbreaking contributions to human origins research.
Kenya and Africa stand proud.
Help us in congratulating Dr. Manthi on this incredible achievement!
@thenasciences
#NAS162
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24 Apr 2025
Excited to see the University of Dodoma
leading research at Oldupai Gorge 🇹🇿
collaborating globally
to explore the origins of humanity
#UNESCO
#WorldHeritageSite
Cheers to a new chapter of discovery 🎉
@udomofficial #HumanOrigins #Paleoanthropology
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Big thanks to
@udomtheofficial &
@UCalgary
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for backing our project and permit
to uncover early human life
at the cradle of humankind
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#OldupaiGorge
Stay tuned for discoveries ahead!
#Paleoanthropology
#HumanEvolution
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Prof. Julio Mercader Florín retweeted
31 Mar 2025
Thrilled to share that I have defended my PhD. I am thankful to my Supervisor @ProfMercader, Examination Committee, SSHRC, @UCalgary @TheLeakeyFndtn @MuseumTanzania colleagues, friends, and family for their support during this journey. I am looking forward to the future.
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Prof. Julio Mercader Florín retweeted
29 Jan 2025
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29 Jan 2025
After years of sleepless nights, restless days, several cup of espresso and perseverance, I have succussfuly passed my PhD viva. I’m offically a PhD graduate!
Heartfelt thanks to my supervisors, and everyone who has supported me along the way.
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29 Jan 2025
Dear Raquel,
This is fantastic news!
I am so glad you got funded by @TheLeakeyFndtn
to work in the Afar...
29 Jan 2025
This is BIG NEWS from me, I’m so excited!🥳🥳
So grateful to the @TheLeakeyFndtn for making this possible.
And a HUGE thank you to @LHlusko for all your advice and support!😊
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Prof. Julio Mercader Florín retweeted
27 Jan 2025
Raquel Hernando (@Hernando90R) will collaborate with @GildasMerceron to investigate the later Pleistocene dietary behavior of a cercopithecids fossil assemblages from Middle Awash, Afar Rift, Ethiopia. @palevoprim @UnivPoitiers @DR08_CNRS
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5 Jan 2025
Do waiting times between occupations truly capture adaptive strategies, or are they artifacts of methodological and taphonomic biases?
A macroarchaeological view of mobility
by Brantingham et al
JAS_R
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Prof. Julio Mercader Florín retweeted
17 Dec 2024
Institute of Human Origins Research Scientist and @ASUBeingHuman Professor, Gary Schwartz runs an Advanced Visualization Lab with state-of-the-art scanning technology including a micro-computed tomography scanner (micro-CT). 💀
@ASUTheCollege
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Prof. Julio Mercader Florín retweeted
18 Dec 2024
After 3.5 years of fieldwork, lab analysis, and writing, it all comes together in 582 pages of the most up to date archaeological, linguistic, genetic, oral historical, and palaeoenv. data on the Bantu Expansion. I am so happy to have just submitted this book for publication!
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16 Dec 2024
A transformative initiative
to foster capacity building in Paleosciences!
Eastern African Network for PaleoBioGeoChem (PaleoBGC):
🔬 Nairobi: Raman (May 5-6)
📊 Addis Ababa: XRF (May 12-13)
🔍 Dodoma: Thin-sectioning (May 20-21)
@UCalgary
@USaskSSSC
@umanitoba
@UAM_Madrid
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Prof. Julio Mercader Florín retweeted
12 Dec 2024
Oldest modern human #genomes sequenced. These seven early #Europeans belonged to a small, isolated group that left no present-day descendants. Study @Nature led by @arevsumer, Kay Prüfer, Johannes Krause @MPI_EVA_Leipzig. tinyurl.com/mryrjyrn & nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Congratulations!
28 Nov 2024
Excited to share our latest paper, new in @ScienceMagazine : science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… #ScienceResearch
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