Our latest paper on the study of the entire collection of wooden remains from Schöningen is now published in PNAS, led by Dirk Leder. New findings include the earliest evidence of splitting, additional types of wooden tools, & more weapons.

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'Yesterday we shocked the world by showing how desperate we have become as a party. Today we shock the universe'.

Does anyone know of any UK based archaeological digs taking place this summer that are accepting volunteers?

I'm particularly interested in the recovery of human remains, conflict archaeology (any period), or medieval. Not so into ancient stuff

I need soil under my nails!

This is based on a true story and an 800k project across three organisations, many research tears were shed

Really nice paper showcasing the redeposition of ancient DNA into much younger sediments. #TaphonomyMatters !

by Peter Seeber, Beth Shapiro, Laura Epp et al.

(and great to see this application of Sam Vohr's mixemt for deconvoluting the mito-haplotypes!)

elifesciences.org/articles/89992

I wish I was a scientist with superpowers 🦸

Preprint alert! 📢

The appearance of symbolic material culture is often linked to the evolution of complex, 'modern' human minds.

In a new article for BBS, I reconsider this link, and argue that modern humans needn't leave any such evidence. A thread.

cambridge.org/core/journals/…

A short article about the work we do and the cases we assist the police with: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Open access thesis: PALEOCLIMATIC INVESTIGATION OF #KARAINCAVE (ANTALYA) USING STALAGMITE DATA
open.metu.edu.tr/handle/11511/1…

Five ejector seats for Suella...

This. Utterly brilliant. MAGA - Make Arakis Great Again. Also...can we throw Trump and the entire GOP and their fanatical followers to Shai-Hulud? Asking for a friend...

The country is in mourning today after the death of the popular Willy Wonka Experience meme that was brutally murdered yesterday by the Labour Party

Our study 'East-to-west human dispersal into Europe 1.4-million-years-ago' was just published online in nature !!! nature.com/articles/s4158… Thank you to all participating institutions! Ústav jaderné fyziky AVČR HZDR @[email protected] Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Brno, v. v. i. GFÚ AVČR La Trobe University Aarhus Universitet Archeologický ústav Univerzita Karlova

Excited to announce our new paper with Katerina Douka, introducing SpecieScan, a new open-access algorithm developed in R & Python automating species identification in ZooMS.
academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…

Jeremy Hunt just announced a huge tax cut for landlords.

Reminder: Hunt owns seven flats. Watch our investigation.

They say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but the pages didn't survive 437 years submerged in seawater!

Nine book covers were recovered from the Mary Rose, which probably belonged to officers - books were very expensive in 1545!

#WorldBookDay

While the use of generative AI in coursework is very hard to detect. It's good that student stupidity is still very easy to spot #AI #ChatGPT

Our new study on the last hunter-gatherers of Atlantic France showing that they lived as separate communities from the first farmers in the area
by Luciana G Simões Rita Peyroteo Stjerna et al. is out now!!!

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Fancy a Masters scholarship to study Human Osteology and Palaeopathology, Archaeological Sciences or Forensic Archaeology and Crime Scene Investigation at @bradarcforensic? Then apply here: bradford.ac.uk/scholarships/a… FindAMasters #archaeology #forensics #osteology #palaeopathology

PhD student Mpumi Maringa organized a Microfauna Sorting Party, to sort material from Lapa do Picareiro.
The event welcomed beginners to professionals, providing an opportunity for hands-on experience in microfauna sorting!
Who said you can't have fun while working??? 🎉🎉🎉