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My students did great refitting this core I knapped yesterday! 🏺🏺

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Practiced some Levallois while volunteering for ASU’s open door event 🏺 #flintknapping

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Obsidian preform with an incipient cone in the middle of it. 🏺🏺

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Heat-treated silcrete 🏺🏺

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Final demo handaxes before I swap shifts with Nic! 🏺🏺 If you’re in the area, Nic will be here until 5!

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First demo piece finished 😃

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Thanks again to @kabweordie.bsky.social for helping with this flint knapping video demonstration for my online students. I had way too much fun editing this video and adding the intro. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anho...

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I made this Fort Ancient point out of a piece of Ste. Genevieve chert. Arrowpoints like this were made in Kentucky from 1000-1750 CE. This particular variation would have been made by Fort Ancient people during the later part of that date range. #flintknapping #archaeology

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Knapping demo for the opening of a new exhibit at the AZMNH in Mesa called THRIVE: The First People Yesterday, Today, and Forever. Come by! Nic or myself will be here until 5 pm. 🏺🏺

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Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

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Good morning paleofolks!

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This week the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution issued a press release announcing their joint resignation, leaving the journal without any evident future. The journal has been a property of the publishing conglomerate Elsevier since the company acquired Academic Press ...

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Just published in Quaternary International, our paper (led by the wonderful @soleneboisard.bsky.social) presenting modelled climate frameworks for the Middle and Later Stone Age in northwestern Africa: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Heat-treated silcrete blade core (hard hammer percussion) #archaeology #flintknapping #anthropology🏺

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The call for contributions to the 27th #SAfA2025 in Faro, Portugal (21-26 July 2025) has opened! Join us in Session #46: Bridging Intergenerational Research on African Pleistocene Archaeology: Advances and remaining gaps. Submit your abstracts here: safa2025.icarehb.com @a-beyin.bsky.social

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We thank the reviewers for their suggestions and believe they have substantially improved the paper

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CONGRATULATIONS to Dr Fran Allfrey for receiving the UK Wikimedian of the Year award! The award cited her publication on medieval wikipedia with Lucy Moore and Richard Nevell and her tremendous work using wikidata as part of the Avebury Papers project. 🏺 www.aveburypapers.org/avebury-pape...

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Unheated South African silcrete 🏺🏺#archaeology

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I just found out that around 20% of the neanderthal genome still exists today in living people!! No individual person has more than 3 or 4% but we don't all have the same bits. If you add up all the bits we've found, about a fifth of the Neanderthal genome is still present on earth today.

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Handaxes on the move! We’ve been busy making lots of replica prehistoric goodies for Christmas presents. But a couple found themselves on a plane with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social heading to Australia for her Cells to Civilisation tour! Here’s one of Palaeolithic handaxes being made: 🏺 🦣 🧪

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Point from tonight’s experimental archaeology club meeting

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Mahogany obsidian handaxe 🏺 #archaeology #flintknapping

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Silver sheen obsidian handaxe 🏺 I went back to this one after a year or so to do the final round of flaking.

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I am excited finally to have my hands on the very first copy of the third edition of "Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour", co-authored with @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social. The paperback will be available in just over two weeks time, from Oxford University Press.

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New #Homonaledi paper from @dizachster.bsky.social and @tracykivell.bsky.social looks at the 2015 hand from Rising Star and discusses some surprising implications about H. naledi social behaviour! 🏺 🦣 🧪 #paleosky (abstract is French but article is English) sciencepress.mnhn.fr/fr/periodiqu...

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Behavioural variability and change is going to be a big part of the hominin story in China. Watch this space! www.sciengine.com/CSB/doi/10.1...

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Special Issue now available: Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology Towards a Deeper Integration of ZooMS and Zooarchaeology at Palaeolithic Sites: Current Challenges and Future Directions: PaleoAnthropology paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...

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🏺 So lovely! Age without context is tricky, the form of this isn't clearly distinctive to Late #Neanderthals, but it may have been resharpened asymmetrically (eg pic) which you do see in the Late Middle Palaeolithic. Worthing Museum actually has another likely LMP biface, from field at Woodshill.

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One of the large cutting tools we just recovered from a new layer, >400,000 years old, at Amanzi Springs Area 1 in South Africa.

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Hey everyone! I figured I should do a quick introductory post. I am a PhD candidate in archaeology 🏺 at Arizona State University and a OYO faculty member at Glendale Community College in biological anthropology. I am broadly interested in lithic technology and early Homo sapiens archaeology 1/5

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Keokuk chert handaxe 🏺

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Come hang out and let’s do cool archaeology together! I’m hiring a Post-Doc! #archaeology 🔗 psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

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There’s something extraordinary about this otherwise pretty standard Late Bronze Age axehead: A human fingerprint. A real, visible and tangible connection to someone from 3000 years ago. If that doesn’t give you goosebumps, idk what will. 🥹 #FindsFriday Link to record: finds.org.uk/database/art...

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Hello to all the new followers who found me over the weekend! If you want to hear about the record of Neanderthal archaeology I and my colleagues work with, here's a podcast I recorded with Tristan Hughes from the brilliant History Hit Ancients series. 500k yrs in 47mins 🦣 🏺 pca.st/episode/7a41...

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Phd opportunity in African archaeology coastal Mozambique (historical, material analysis). 3 years funding + poss 6-12 months more. Visa & NHS surcharge covered McDonald Institute Cambridge International Entangled PhD Scholarship at University of Cambridge www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKR174/m...

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As a recovering Museum Archaeologist, this looks like an amazing opportunity. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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