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BBC Jersey {bot}@bbcjersey.bsky.social · last wk.

Three-year project into ancient land begins https://bbc.in/4fChxdh

Excellent paper on early Pleistocene fire dynamics and climates and it's implications for human evolution

Rachel Lupien@loopdlupien.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 We have a new paper out in QSR on the high-resolution relationships between precipitation, vegetation, and fire across one precession cycle in the early Pleistocene in the Turkana Basin. Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Today I'm giving a lecture at the @algao-uk.bluesky.social AGM. Protecting the Palaeolithic in the Planning System. It's a call to arms because the Palaeolithic record is being regularly trashed in the UK right now. I identity 5 reasons why this is happening and suggest some remedies: 🏺🦣 1/2

New paper alert: such a privilege to work with the amazing @elliescerri.bsky.social, @matejahajdi.bsky.social, and @chrisbstringer.bsky.social on a new review paper for the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute: rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New Paper Alert! great to have been involved with the BAS BIOPOLE team and collaborators in Dan Mayor's group at Exeter University. Looking forward to beginning work on Antarctic food webs shortly! #copepods #calanus #zooplankton #lipidbiomarkers #lipids #isotopes #bas #biopole

Stable Isotope Ecology (CER, Kyoto Univ.)@stableisotopeecol.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Trophic connections between Calanus spp. and deep-sea benthos in the Fram Strait, Arctic Ocean #stableisotopes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to share our new paper on non-destructive FTIR analysis on silcrete artefacts from Mertenhof and Diepkloof with heating temperature reconstructions. Is the data beautiful and clean? No. But is it still meaningful? Yes! Study led by Will Archer: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fire, temperature control, and silcrete heat treatment at Diepkloof and Mertenhof Rock Shelters, West Coast, South Africa

Transformative technologies that alter raw material properties, rather than just raw material shape and size, are key proxies for the evolution of hum…

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From Judge Dredd to bottlenose dolphins, the work of Leonie Sedman, Curator of Heritage and Collections Care, really does cover everything. Find out more about Leonie and what she gets up to in this @heritageinstitute.bsky.social interview: www.liverpool.ac.uk/heritage-ins...

Achieved an academic milestone today - having our research be an obscure trivia answer on a quiz show! Thanks @felixthehauskat.bsky.social for sharing this with me! Everyone knows the answer, right…? 🔵

Looking forward to presenting our new work on evidence for recurrent and increasing control of fire at the Lower Palaeolithic site of Beeches Pit today at the Pathways to Ancient Britain workshop at Queen Mary University 🔥 🔥 🔥. Really exciting results and paper on the way soon 😃

🧪 Lab-based microstratigraphic excavation for high-resolution archaeological sampling. #ICArEHB researchers Aldeias, Goldberg, McPherron, Li and Mallol co-author this #PaleolithicArchaeology study in J Paleo Arch using #Microstratigraphy. 🔗 10.1007/s41982-025-00253-y

Please join us this Thursday, 30th April, at 13:00 BST, for our final talk of the semester. We will be joined by Prof Nick Ashton (British Museum), and Dr Sally Hoare (University of Liverpool). If you'd like to attend, please register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/1342a8...

780,000-year-old charcoal from Gesher Benot Ya’aqov reveals that early hominins may have chosen their campsites partly for firewood access. Even the wood they burned tells us how they read their landscape. #Paleoanthropology #Acheulian #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/the-wood-t...

The Wood They Burned: Firewood, Driftwood, and Camp Selection 780,000 Years Ago

A new anthracological study from Gesher Benot Ya’aqov finds that early hominins chose their campsites partly around access to fuel.

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🏺🧪 New paper: heated chert from Australia +45 Ka, poss. > 55 Ka. 15% of analysed #lithics were heated and later knapped. I would have liked more on technological aspects, to refine whether pieces worked before & after heating show differences in reduction etc. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Earliest Lithic Heat Treatment in Australia is the World’s Oldest Known Treatment of Chert - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology

Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology - We identify the oldest known example of systematic heat treatment of chert in the world. The specimens come from the base of one of Australia’s oldest...

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Since 2019, HERI has run women-focused field camps for archaeology & geology students. Female-led and hands-on, they provide field skills, mentorship, and safe spaces—building confident, resilient researchers ready to study #Africa’s rich heritage.

Come and share your Palaeolithic research in London this June! Unravelling the Palaeolithic is coming to the @uclarchaeology.bsky.social and we're looking forward to seeing you there. 🦣🏺

Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2026@unravellingpalaeo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Call for papers deadline extended to 10 April 2026! You’ve got more time to get your abstract in for Unravelling this year at UCL If you were on the fence before now's the time to turn your research into a submission Don’t miss out!

They've *always* been very good dogs... Latest evidence unearthed at @liverpooluni.bsky.social excavation sites reveals dogs were domesticated much earlier than previously thought. 15,800 years ago/10 @weratedogs.com 🐕🐶🐩

Evidence of earliest dogs discovered on University of Liverpool excavation sites in Türkiye - University of Liverpool News

Evidence of earliest dogs discovered on University of Liverpool excavation sites in Türkiye

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Setting up for filming our YouTube video on the new fire evidence from Barnham. I will explain the role magnetics and hydrocarbon analysis played in differentiating human from natural fire 🔥 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Interested in research like this? Join us June 19-20th for more at Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2026 Call for papers below: sites.google.com/view/unravel...

Deadline moved to March 20th! Go submit your pyroarchaeology abstract and join us in Poznań to talk fire! #pyroarchaeology #UISPP2026

Mareike C Stahlschmidt@stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Join us in Poznań for the XXI #UISPP2026 congress: Session S -1F: Multi-method, multi-proxy: promoting multidisciplinary approaches in #pyroarchaeology organized by @segovandevelde.bsky.social Chris Miller and myself. Abstract submission deadline Feb 28th! uispp2026.syskonf.pl

E-mail us and join the mailing list at MCRHumNetwork@gmail.com if you are a jobbing researcher with a pre-2019 PhD. We will give peer support and advice. #MCRHumNetwork

Ulla Rajala@ullamr.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Did you do your PhD before 2019, are you a researcher but do not have a permanent academic job: we have a #MCRHumNetwork for you! E-mail us at MCRHumNetwork@gmail.com and join the e-mail list. Tell us also what support would you need. Let's come together!

There's still time to sign up to this afternoon's talk, given by Dr Rosa Huguet! If you'd like to join, please register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/3195e0... We hope to see you there!

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UoL EvoAnth Seminar Series@liverpoolevoanth.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hi All, Please join us next Thursday, 26th February at 13:00 GMT, for our next talk of the semester! This talk will be given by Dr Rosa Huguet. If you would like to attend, please register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/3195e0... More details below 👇 We hope to see you there!

🔥Wood, Smoke and Science! #LivUni’s Dr Ceren Kabukcu was a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science podcast. Drawing on her archaeobotany expertise, she explained how carbonised plant remains and dental evidence reveal how fire shaped human diets and eating habits. 🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Join us in Poznań for the XXI #UISPP2026 congress: Session S -1F: Multi-method, multi-proxy: promoting multidisciplinary approaches in #pyroarchaeology organized by @segovandevelde.bsky.social Chris Miller and myself. Abstract submission deadline Feb 28th! uispp2026.syskonf.pl

New paper out! Does fire erase use-wear? Using experimental burning and 3D confocal analysis, we show that heating modifies surfaces but does not erase use-wear signals. @hcelab.bsky.social

Almost ready to start sampling for analyses from this amazing stalagmite from Wookey Hole Caves. Fingers crossed for nice results.

After a major grant rejection this week only one thing for it. Sack it all off and go climbing Instead! At least I understand the grading system in climbing 😂

Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2026! Join us for two days of all things Palaeolithic, Pleistocene and Early Human Origins at UCL Institute of Archaeology 19-20th June. Call for papers is now open and tickets are on sale! Check out our website for more information. sites.google.com/view/unravel...

MatrixERC StG works across archaeological sites from all over Europe, following the microscopic traces of late Neandertals and the first modern humans. We study intact sediment samples, checking whether the archaeological layers are truly preserved and looking for ancient DNA, proteins, and lipids.

We are delighted to announce our timetable of talks for Semester 2 of the 2025/26 academic year! 🥳🤩 As always, all of our talks will be streamed online and are open to anyone. Our first talk will be on the 12.02.26. More details will be released closer to the time. We hope to see you there!

Breaking News! ✨ @annemiekemilks.bsky.social , @katharv.bsky.social , @harvatilab.bsky.social and colleagues publish important artefacts from the MIS12 cold stage in Greece. Great forensic work and a little glimpse of what we are missing from sites without the preservation of wood. 🌳🦣🏺1/3

Annemieke Milks@annemiekemilks.bsky.social · 6mo ago

It was such a privilege to get to work on this amazing material from an incredible site and team - now the earliest handheld wooden tools in the archaeological record, taking evidence back to 430,000 years! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...