🧪🏺🦣 Strong case for *oldest fire-starting* 🔥 capacity, before 400 Ka, suggested by multi-stranded analysis: geochem, magnetic, sedimentary evidence of anthropogenic burning, + heated lithics + remains of iron pyrite. Behaviourally heading towards #Neanderthals. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fieldwork day to Creswell Crags as part of our new project "Fire & Climate: Speleothems and the British Palaeolithic" funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social with Rob Hosfield & Sam Nicholson #soot #fire #aDNA

Onset of extensive human fire use 50,000 y ago | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Onset of extensive human fire use 50,000 y ago | PNAS

Fire is a pivotal aspect of human involvement in the carbon cycle. However, the precise timing of the large-scale human fire use remains uncertain....

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🔥 Reminder — join us next Tuesday as Dr. Carolina Mallol explores how Neandertals used fire! 👉 Info & registration: www.icarehb.com/lexa/

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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 www.icarehb.com/lexa/ #HumanEvolution #ExperimentalArchaeology #Archaeology

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Charcoal insights on the vegetation, climate and subsistence patterns at Wonderwerk Cave

Wonderwerk Cave is one of the most important archaeological sites in central southern Africa as it preserves multiple indicators of past environments,…

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|✨ Publication Alert! ✨| Our latest research on #pyroarchaeology has just been published with @springernature.com in the #JournalOfArchaeologicalMethodAndTheory! -> Late Mid-Pleistocene hominin fire control inferred from sooty speleothem analysis 🔥 Read here: rdcu.be/ehqag

Our commission is organizing a fire session at the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna, Austria, April 27th to May 2nd, 2025: “Combining geosciences and pyroarchaeology methods to study past and present fire dynamics and human fire use/interactions” #EGU25 Join us!

Join us in Vienna in April 2025 for a fabulous session on human fire interactions and past fire dynamics in archaeology and geosciences. meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

@pyroarchaeology.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our commission is organizing a fire session at the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna, Austria, April 27th to May 2nd, 2025: “Combining geosciences and pyroarchaeology methods to study past and present fire dynamics and human fire use/interactions” #EGU25 Join us!

Colleagues from #geoarchaeology, spread the information: The german "Arbeitskreis Geoarchäologie" celebrates its 20th anniversary with a joint conference with the international group Developing International Geoarchaeology DIG: May 21st to 25th 2025 in #Tübingen sites.google.com/view/dig2025...

Deciphering past human actions through experimental archaeology - it is all in the sediments! Join us for the next hybrid @icarehb.bsky.social LEXA seminar on Dec 3rd. You can register here www.icarehb.com/lexa/

Tomos Proffitt@tomosproffitt.bsky.social · 2y ago

The next @icarehb.bsky.social LEXA Seminar is on Tuesday the 3rd of Dec at 2pm. Join us to learn about experimental approaches to geoarchaeology by Dr Susan Mentzer and Prof Christopher Miller. It's online and free to join Register here www.icarehb.com/lexa/.

Hearth management at a middle Paleolithic rock shelter site: Smoke density analysis at Tor Faraj, Jordan www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hearth management at a middle Paleolithic rock shelter site: Smoke density analysis at Tor Faraj, Jordan

Paleolithic rock shelters often include several hearths located in different parts of the site. In this paper, we analyze relevant data from Middle Pa…

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New paper "A Neanderthal's specialised burning structure compatible with tar obtention". Ochando et al. t.co/FVKkCtyCcP

Our commission is organizing a fire session at the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna, Austria, April 27th to May 2nd, 2025: “Combining geosciences and pyroarchaeology methods to study past and present fire dynamics and human fire use/interactions” #EGU25 Join us!

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