We’re celebrating, and you’re invited! October 4th we’re hosting a 20th Anniversary party for… ourselves! Free event with talks and lots of alumni, register on the eventbrite and we’ll see you there 🎉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...

If you’re in the Preston area and fancy talking palaeo-parenting or primate placenta, well aren’t you in luck ;) come to this totally free talk at the University of Lancashire, kick off at 17:40 on October 8th www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/growing-up...

I will be talking to my new home crowd on October 8th about all things odd and evolutionary about our very funny little human children! come say hi, its free :) www.lep.co.uk/community/fr...

Thanks! This book was co-written by the fab archaeologist @brennawalks.bsky.social and, as ever, illustrated by the hilarious @rikinparekh.bsky.social And the previous books are cowritten with Roman historian @emmasouthon.bsky.social and Egyptologist and curator Dr Campbell Price

Looking for some fab kids' books ahead of the new school year? Check out @gregjenner.bsky.social's riotous Totally Chaotic History series! The latest book, The Stone Age Runs Wild!, is out now 💥 youtu.be/OULXpXL6Tek?...

Great write up of research we can finally share: two unrelated individuals with west African ancestry have been identified in early medieval sites excavated by Duncan Sayer and our team www.newscientist.com/article/2492...

The stunning landscape of mastic country μαστιχοχώρια as seen from the Chios mastic museum to present recent research 😍

Wowwwwww

My department at Tulane has a TT position for a bioanth ("specializing in the analysis of human skeletal remains"). Apps due by Oct 15. apply.interfolio.com/171196

This whole debacle doesn't just affect me, Vincent, Nic and Flint -- it also took aim @trowelblazers.bsky.social, and my dear friends & collaborators @lemoustier.bsky.social, @brennawalks.bsky.social, and @suziebirch.bsky.social

🧪🦣🏺 Who wants to hear a story about biotech billions, unscientific claims, and shoddy smear tactics attacking women in science*? Thread 🧵 *which, for legal clarity, are totally denied as being connected

So, back to those weird articles, which might be AI or not (the 1st was bylined to a PR company, then byline removed). Guess what? After that one, we found another piece, this smearing not just Tori, but also @trowelblazers.bsky.social, me @suziebirch.bsky.social & @brennawalks.bsky.social .

I get that it isn't easy. But the more of us that speak up, and the more we boost those speaking up, the more we can be a voice for informed change We live in a hostile world, and it is only getting more hostile. We need to push back against anti intellectualism before we truly are silenced

One of the really fun things about editing Current Anthropology is getting to read and share excellent and extremely fun research like this...

🏺🧪🦣 New piece I wrote for BBC Science Focus is out, on the increasingly complex but ever more interesting story of early Homo sapiens' origins & dispersal, and the other kinds of humans we encountered.

Aaaaaaand with the @newscientist.com link archive.is/202507311223...

Like science? Then you better be interested when *someone* starts putting out hit pieces on scientists. This is beyond the pale ethically and honestly anyone who doesn’t want to slide to hell on a slick of ai generated content that benefits billionaire business, maybe now is the time to get angry.

Was really nice to speak to people who have done so much for representation in archaeology. Out soon! www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress... 20% discount code 006120

Petition for Greg to do a 90s emo musical version of totally chaotic: Stone Age starts here ;)

Hello! If money is tight, you can get my brand-new kids' book TOTALLY CHAOTIC HISTORY: THE STONE AGE RUNS WILD for just £5.56 from Amazon. It's getting lovely reviews from kids, parents, and teachers, and it's cowritten with fab archaeologist @brennawalks.bsky.social www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1...

In case anyone is wondering, survey is awesome when you have a great team ❤️

Dear friends, writing online reviews of books enormously helps authors get their books up the charts and into customer eyelines If any of you enjoyed my new one, Totally Chaotic History: The Stone Age Runs Wild, I’d be so grateful for any online support on the usual websites. Thank you!

In news that surprises no one: the ‘optimisation’ of PhD research funding in the uk = 60 per cent cut. For all the students out there who can’t get the funding, it’s definitely not you. :/

Nifty preprint led by @mathiesoniain.bsky.social comparing femur length as a proxy of stature to genetic variants linked to height today. Many key insights, but main one for me is that variants responsible for lactase persistence are strongly associated with height in ancient but not modern people.

This may be Greece but you can still get that…

I wish I had read this while writing ‘growing up human’ (Türkçe : büyümek). My information BaYaka childrearing is probably way less informed but this piece conveys such an important point: how we parent is a very culturally determined thing

Out now, Totally Chaotic History: The Stone Age Runs Wild! by @gregjenner.bsky.social with @brennawalks.bsky.social, illustrated by @rikinparekh.bsky.social, is a brilliantly funny kids’ guide to all things Stone Age! @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social worldssmallestlibrary.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/t...

Here’s my funny new book TOTALLY CHAOTIC HISTORY: THE STONE AGE RUNS WILD! it’s cowritten with the brilliant archaeologist @brennawalks.bsky.social and illustrated by the ace @rikinparekh.bsky.social It has facts, new scientific discoveries, and comedy sketches www.walker.co.uk/978152952249...

Can’t tell you how delighted and relieved I am that readers are enjoying my new TOTALLY CHAOTIC HISTORY book!! It was so very hard to write this one with the brilliant @brennawalks.bsky.social, because the facts kept changing, but I think we are both really proud of it

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New book review on my blog - the new Totally Chaotic History - The Stone Age Runs Wild! - by @gregjenner.bsky.social with @brennawalks.bsky.social Substack: tudorblogger.substack.com/p/book-revie... Blog: tudorblogger.com/2025/07/07/b... #GregJenner #History #TotallyChaoticHistory

Pls enjoy this Totally Chaotic #unboxing video of (rather appropriately) @gregjenner.bsky.social (and @rikinparekh.bsky.social and my) new book!! Yes I should invest in scissors 😅🤘https://www.walker.co.uk/9781529522495/totally-chaotic-history-the-stone-age-runs-wild/

Happy #PublicationDay to @gregjenner.bsky.social @rikinparekh.bsky.social and… me! This has been the most fun I have ever had writing a book, hands down — exactly the way archaeology ought to be ;) (otherwise I’d get a real job, wouldn’t I) www.walker.co.uk/978152952249...

Thinking about this (full disclosure, I went with Becky and we absolutely DID love the star objects because: nerds) and the conversation i want to be having in archaeology about whether we are storytellers or world builders (because: @clmorgan.bsky.social makes me think about interesting things)

If I'd been able to go (😭), Tori, Emma & I would be channeling this exact #trowelblazers vibe right now: L - Germaine Henri-Martin, R - Dorothy Garrod, C - Suzanne de Saint-Mathurin (from whose archive this photo comes, & within which Garrod's archive was found, only in the 1990s!) #ExcavatingGarrod

There are even ‘audiobook only’ updates 😅😅😅😅 — this is why no one in their right mind would write a palaeoanthropology textbook ;)

This is happening!

The ‘after’ 😂😅🤪

There could be no finer audiobook than the one that has the multitalented @gregjenner.bsky.social doing comedy stone age art school bits. You are pre ordering now ;) www.walker.co.uk/978152952249...

Pls note this is the ‘beginning of 6 hours’ shot 😅

Me & @brennawalks.bsky.social in the vocal booth, narrating our new kids audiobook book TOTALLY CHAOTIC HISTORY: THE STONE AGE RUNS WILD!

There's bit of discussion about wether freshly published #aDNA 🏺🧬 data from #Catalhöyük allows talking about matrilineally organised Neolithic community there - of course I couldn't help but join having an opinion: www.livescience.com/archaeology/... by @killgrove.bsky.social via @livescience.com

Off to London to narrate the audiobook of TOTALLY CHAOTIC HISTORY: THE STONE AGE RUNS WILD! alongside my fab co-author @brennawalks.bsky.social (and this will be the first time we actually meet in person!!)

Big day tomorrow recording the audio book! What will we do now that Homo Longi is long goni??? (Ps this is perhaps not an unanticipated event)

And my brand new kids’ book, out next week, is about the Stone Age - it’s cowritten with @brennawalks.bsky.social

This lil’ beaut lands in less than 3 weeks! It’s a funny, fact-filled guide to the Stone Age for kids aged 8+, co-written with @brennawalks.bsky.social I’d be v. grateful if you lovely peeps might pre-order a few copies, as it makes a MASSIVE difference to the success of a book — thank you! 🙏 📚😎

I'll soon be recording the 3rd audiobook in the Totally Chaotic History series, with amazing @brennawalks.bsky.social! If you have kids aged 8+, check out my award-nominated audiobook about Roman Britain, narrated by me & the fab @emmasouthon.bsky.social www.audible.co.uk/pd/Roman-Bri...

I am watching this situation with interest. When I was approached by Ben Lamm to join the Colossal advisory board, he specifically said that he wanted to hear dissenting views. At the time I believed him, and was impressed, but now I am not so sure…

I'm very happy to share my new game/publication, co-authored with Digital Archaeology MSc grad McKenna Crowe: "Other Eyes: Choose your own digital archaeology paradata adventure" in @intarcheditor.bsky.social You can read the intro and play the game here: intarch.ac.uk/journal/issu...

For those (cough @herring1967.bsky.social ) who have mentioned the tragic lack of my actual comedy voice in my previous books… YOUR WAIT IS OVER. Er, in July. ;)