Geo-#Dakar2023 - stage 4. It may be hard to imagine, but during the Pleistocene ice ages of the last few hundred thousand years, Arabia was green! Today, the race will come close to Jubbah, where Pleistocene lake sediments have told us a lot about the lost savannah's of Arabia!

A late MIS 5 (about 85 thousand years ago) palaeolake in the Nefud Desert (site 16.3). Stone tools and animal fossils were found in association.

I am happy and proud to introduce you to the #newpaper describing #pastclim v 1.2, our Rstats package to easily access and use #paleoclimate onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… now out in Ecography Authored by Andrea Manica Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge, Emily Hallett, Robert Beyer Mario Krapp 🧵

Belated #surveysunday! Using the King's Geography DGPS to record palaeoenvironmental proxies and their surrounding landscape in the Nefud dunes on one of our Palaeodeserts field seasons. هيئة التراث

Come listen to me talking about how we can move from predicting where known past routes might have been to explaining why they are where they are Thanks to DAH Lab for the opportunity to share my PhD research!

PhD Alert! 📢 Join Ola Kwiecien & me Geog & Env Sciences Northumbria Uni & work with the #NICEST team on #speleothems & past environmental change in #Mongolia - details here: findaphd.com/phds/project/g… Deadline 27.01.23! RT Dr Stuart Umbo Kathleen Wendt SISAL group Greenland_Caves Dr. Andrea Erhardt

For some reason, around seven thousand years ago nomadic pastoralists in northern Arabia began to construct a new kind of ritual stone structure, that we now call the mustatil (rectangle in Arabic). Over 1500 of these were built, sometimes vast (over 600 m long).

Reassuring to know I'll still be working with cool fossils in 180 years! Got to love a good Google photos glitch!

#fieldworkfriday. Sampling and surveying a playa in the Ad Dhana, Saudi Arabia, 2014

#FieldworkFriday and @FlintFriday. This time ten years ago, I was having a good time at Mundafan in southern Saudi Arabia. 85,000 year old stone tools on the edge of what once been a large lake.

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🚨Hot off the press Science Magazine — Oldowan tools, butchered hippos, and Paranthropus (oh my!) 2.9 million-year-old artifacts and fossils from Nyayanga, Kenya shed light on the dawn of technology & raise questions about who made the first stone tools science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

#fieldworkfriday! Ten years ago, investigating around mountain wadi systems in Najran Province, back during our first season on the Palaeodeserts project with the هيئة التراث

#FieldworkFriday. Working out the age of an ancient lake in northern Arabia using optically stimulated luminescence dating. Dr Paul S. Breeze in action with the gamma spectrometer (an important piece of kit for accurate OSL dating).

#fieldworkfriday. From one of our trips exploring the stunning landscapes of northern Arabia for new archaeological sites and records of past climate. We sometimes do hours of off-road driving on these recces, but they almost always end in a cool discovery! هيئة التراث

#fieldworkfriday Gaffer tape...the answer to all life's problems! In this case, how to collect a 12km long DGPS elevation transect without walking it and dying in the desert heat!