Dr. Jayne Wilkins
@drjaynewilkins
Palaeoarchaeologist. Senior Lecturer @Griffith_Uni. Leading @NorthofKuruman Project. Tweets about #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Lithics #WomenInScience
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My brief contribution to the #pleistocene archaeology of Africa handbook is titled, "The Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa" where we (North of Kuruman) started working at in 2017. Prior research there mostly focused on the stunning rock engravings. link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Wow Dr. Jayne Wilkins handed me my copies of this 2 volume masterpiece on the #archaeology of #Africa. 2,146 pages of pure joy. Thanks to the Editors for inviting us to give an overview of #PangayaSaidi
Yay for this! Congrats Michelle Langley and see you tonight at the book launch 🙌
Great to be at the Australian Archaeological Association conference on the Gold Coast, #Brisbane. Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution Griffith Science & Environment Connor 💫
Bharti Jangra gave an awesome talk at #AAA46 showing a widespread procurement range of diverse raw materials at Ga-Mohana Hill in the Kalahari Basin 👌 Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution Griffith Science & Environment
At #AAA46, Honours student Aidan Hughes presented new experimental results relevant to identifying novices in the archaeological record 👏, initiating an awesome conversation about the topic with loads of good questions. Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution Griffith Science & Environment
It's finally here - coming to you on Monday eve! Meet the Speakers for a drink at the Ship Inn afterwards. Dr. Jayne Wilkins, Tanya Smith (DrTanyaMSmith.bsky.social), Jillian Huntley, Adam Brumm and me!
Very well deserved Courtney McCreery , president of our Griffith University Archaeological Society (GUAS) ! #AAA46
We calculated the information loss during the knapping process. Only 40% of removals and 14% of their chronological relations is preserved on the surface of cores/bifaces. To find out how it influences the chaine operatoire analyses check our paper in #JAS sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Huge congratulations to Courtney McCreery for winning the Best Student Poster Prize at #AAA46 for her experimental study with stone piercing tools! Well done 👏🎉👌 Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution Griffith Science & Environment Griffith University North of Kuruman
Delighed to see my GU_SocialCultural & Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution colleague Professor Lynley Wallis recognised for her decades long commitment to research partnerships with Indegenous Australians
Dr. Jayne Wilkins and I wrote a paper looking at some of the contradictions and inconsistencies in how researchers link environment and innovation in human evolution. Check it out open-access in the new journal Quaternary Science Advances! doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.…