Thank you ⁦Unravelling Palaeolithic 2024⁩ for a great end to day 1 of the conference! A fantastic talk from Professor Kate Britton ⁦Kate Britton⁩ on the ambitious ⁦PALaEoScot - Prehistory on the Edge⁩ project, followed by a viewing of the stunning Star Carr exhibition ⁦Yorkshire Museum⁩!

In our final session of the conference, Lithics in Action, Svetlana Kuleshova begins by presenting a technofunctional study of the handaxes of the collection of La Grande Vallée, France.

The next presentation in our final session is by Vivek Singh Vivek Singh, whose research is focussed on understanding the technological variability and prevalence of cleavers in the Acheulean. More beautiful bifaces!

The next presentation this afternoon is by Santiago Sossa-Ríos Santiago Sossa Ríos on insights into lithic record formation processes in the Abric del Pastor unit V, Alcoi, Iberia. Lthic densities highlight clear knapping areas and sequences, away from the faunal and hearth areas.

📽️Day 1 of Unravelling Palaeolithic 2024 The conference’s poster display featured work by our committee member Helen Hampton Credit for the research posters and presentations below: • Ellery Littlewood • Maria Melo • Lucy Timbrell • Finn Stileman Stay tuned for our reel for day 2!

Surprised and happy to hear my poster, along with Ellery Littlewood, was highly commended. Congratulations to AnnaMae for Best Poster Prize!! Thanks to Unravelling Palaeolithic 2024 organisers for arranging a great meeting and all participants for such interesting talks and conversations!

🚨DEADLINE EXTENSION 📣We have extended our deadline for conference papers to 28th July. Our conference this year is in Newark U.K. on 11-12th October. There is no cost to submit an abstract! So send yours now to [email protected] #Lithics

📽️Behind-the-scenes tour at Yorkshire Museum for the Unravelling Palaeolithic 2024 Day 1 ended with a keynote lecture from Professor Kate Britton about the PalaeoScot project. Attendees were then given access to the new Star Carr exhibition 🏛️ #Mesolithic #Lithics

#ThrowbackThursday to day 2 of Unravelling Palaeolithic 2024 Day 2 was another day of talks, including discussions about art, symbolism and lithics! The conference ended with an interactive workshop run by Bones Jones 🪨🐚🦴 Thank you to the conference organisers once again! #Lithics

There's still time to get your abstracts in for the upcoming The Lithic Studies Society conference! Thanks for all your support at UTP2024!

Check out the upcoming The Lithic Studies Society conference schedule! So much lithic-y loveliness!!