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Geoarchaeologist, University of Liverpool, likes human evolution, fire and microarchaeology
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Research@LivUni
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🔥Wood, Smoke and Science!
#LivUni’s
Dr Ceren Kabukcu was a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science podcast. Drawing on her archaeobotany expertise, she explained how carbonised plant remains and dental evidence reveal how fire shaped human diets and eating habits. 🎧
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The best of the BBC, with the latest news and sport headlines, weather, TV & radio highlights and much more from across the whole of BBC Online.
https://bbc.co.uk
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Mareike C Stahlschmidt
8 days ago
Join us in Poznań for the XXI
#UISPP2026
congress: Session S -1F: Multi-method, multi-proxy: promoting multidisciplinary approaches in
#pyroarchaeology
organized by
@segovandevelde.bsky.social
Chris Miller and myself. Abstract submission deadline Feb 28th!
uispp2026.syskonf.pl
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XXI World Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences
https://uispp2026.syskonf.pl
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Dr. Alice Rodriguez
12 days ago
New paper out! Does fire erase use-wear? Using experimental burning and 3D confocal analysis, we show that heating modifies surfaces but does not erase use-wear signals.
@hcelab.bsky.social
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Almost ready to start sampling for analyses from this amazing stalagmite from Wookey Hole Caves. Fingers crossed for nice results.
12 days ago
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After a major grant rejection this week only one thing for it. Sack it all off and go climbing Instead! At least I understand the grading system in climbing 😂
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Dr Sally Hoare
unravellingpalaeo.bsky.social
16 days ago
Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2026! Join us for two days of all things Palaeolithic, Pleistocene and Early Human Origins at UCL Institute of Archaeology 19-20th June. Call for papers is now open and tickets are on sale! Check out our website for more information.
sites.google.com/view/unravel...
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Unravelling the Palaeolithic
Welcome to the website for the Unravelling the Palaeolithic conference 2026! Unravelling the Palaeolithic is an ECR and student-led conference with a history of showcasing excellence in research in P...
https://sites.google.com/view/unravelling-the-palaeolithic/home
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ERC-StG MATRIX
26 days ago
MatrixERC StG works across archaeological sites from all over Europe, following the microscopic traces of late Neandertals and the first modern humans. We study intact sediment samples, checking whether the archaeological layers are truly preserved and looking for ancient DNA, proteins, and lipids.
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UoL EvoAnth Seminar Series
about 1 month ago
We are delighted to announce our timetable of talks for Semester 2 of the 2025/26 academic year! 🥳🤩 As always, all of our talks will be streamed online and are open to anyone. Our first talk will be on the 12.02.26. More details will be released closer to the time. We hope to see you there!
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Dr Matt Pope
29 days ago
Breaking News! ✨
@annemiekemilks.bsky.social
,
@katharv.bsky.social
,
@harvatilab.bsky.social
and colleagues publish important artefacts from the MIS12 cold stage in Greece. Great forensic work and a little glimpse of what we are missing from sites without the preservation of wood. 🌳🦣🏺1/3
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Dr Matt Pope
29 days ago
Science article on the discovery here from
@andrewcurry.com
with great recon art by G. Prieto
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Oldest wooden tools may have been used to butcher elephants
Branches sharpened 400,000 years ago shine light on humans’ early toolmaking
https://www.science.org/content/article/oldest-wooden-tools-may-have-been-used-butcher-elephants
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Dr Matt Pope
30 days ago
Some inspiration for a cold day during bleak times. Half million year old handaxes from Boxgrove, Sussex, laid out for a photoshoot with Dr Claire Harris at the
@britishmuseum.bsky.social
#MondayMotivation
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Dr Matt Pope
about 1 month ago
More Breaking Palaeo-news! 🐘 Boxgrove preserved oldest Elephant Bone beyond Africa. 🐘 Early Neanderthals using bone to shape beautiful tools. 🐘 New research from Simon Parfitt
@uclarchaeology.bsky.social
Silvia Bello of the
@nhm-london.bsky.social
. 🦣🏺🐘https://share.google/20WUjY5TybDAr4QoT
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Prehistoric tool made from elephant bone is the oldest discovered in Europe
A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in southern England and analyzed by archaeologists from UCL and the Natural His...
https://share.google/20WUjY5TybDAr4QoT
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Emma Caton
about 2 months ago
The earliest confirmed evidence of an adult cremation pyre has been discovered in Malawi! 🔥
theconversation.com/oldest-known...
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Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age hunter-gatherers
An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What was behind this unexpected funeral ritual?
https://theconversation.com/oldest-known-cremation-in-africa-poses-9-500-year-old-mystery-about-stone-age-hunter-gatherers-268074
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Dr Rachel Pope
2 months ago
Another of my excellent colleagues, trained by the very lovely Emeritus Prof. John Gowlett.
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Dr Sally Hoare
Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL
3 months ago
Featuring the flame-tastic work of the Faculty's Dr Sally Hoare
@sallygeoarch.bsky.social
🔥
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Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL
3 months ago
🔥🔥 We're very proud to see Dr Sally Hoare from the University as one of the bright sparks (ahem) who helped discover humans had been able to create fire much earlier than previously thought. Read about this amazing work here 🎇
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Groundbreaking discovery shows humans were making fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought - University of Liverpool News
Groundbreaking discovery shows humans were making fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought
https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/12/10/groundbreaking-discovery-shows-humans-were-making-fire-350000-years-earlier-than-previously-thought/
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Dr Matt Pope
3 months ago
BBC coverage of breaking news announcing the earliest evidence for humanly made fire. From Barnham, UK. Quite probably early Neanderthal people with a late Acheulean culture 🦣🏺🔥
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
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The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered - BBC News
Archaeologists in the UK have discovered the world's oldest evidence of humans lighting fires
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-b9da7a6d-165b-492a-8785-235cd10e2e8e
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes
3 months ago
Congrats to the authors for a very nice paper, inc
@sallygeoarch.bsky.social
from
@livancworlds.bsky.social
[and in case anyone is interested in the nuts & bolts of science, the peer review file is available and shows that this system can indeed work well, even for 'controversial' discoveries]
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes
3 months ago
🧪🏺🦣 Strong case for *oldest fire-starting* 🔥 capacity, before 400 Ka, suggested by multi-stranded analysis: geochem, magnetic, sedimentary evidence of anthropogenic burning, + heated lithics + remains of iron pyrite. Behaviourally heading towards
#Neanderthals
.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Andrés Robledo
3 months ago
Are we... Yes... Another experiment of
#FLAHME
and
#PALFUEL
project... This time exploring embers and braziers with temporal coverture 🪵 Fire emission
#health
@iphes-cerca.bsky.social
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4 months ago
QRA ADM in Brighton, abstract submission deadline 10th November!!! Submit your abstracts for a talk or a poster
@quaternaryra.bsky.social
sites.google.com/view/qraadmb...
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Lisa-Marie Shillito
4 months ago
New paper! Cave site formation processes, climate change and hominin activities: A high-resolution microstratigraphic investigation on the terminal Pleistocene deposits at Fodongdi Cave, Yunnan Province, South China
doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106416
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Tom Higham
4 months ago
Looking forward today to the “Paleoenvironmental DNA and Human Evolution” Symposium here in our department, featuring talks by Viviane Slon, Mikel Pedersen, Karina Sand, Ben Vernot, Pere Gelabert, Mareike Stahlschmidt and Susanna Sawyer. sedaDNA, so exciting!
@univie.ac.at
@heasvienna.bsky.social
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Vera Aldeias
4 months ago
📄 New paper 📣 of
@matrixerc.bsky.social
&
@welkergroup.bsky.social
! We show that microstratigraphic-scale
#paleoproteomics
works in intact sediments - opening new ways to explore ancient ecosystems & hominin behaviour 🌍🦴
@erc.europa.eu
@icarehb.bsky.social
🔗
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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New methods on the block: Taxonomic identification of archaeological bones in resin-embedded sediments through paleoproteomics
Abstract. The integration of biomolecular studies of past organisms with geoarchaeological studies can significantly improve our understanding of the relat
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/10/pgaf289/8285272
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Dr Sally Hoare
Dr Izzy Wisher
5 months ago
Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵 Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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Marta Mirazon Lahr
5 months ago
#ESHE2025
Giulia Gallo ‘ Estimating fire duration through bioapatite crystallite growth in Middle Palaeolithic contexts’ Bioapatite crystals: XRD/point of calcination. Nice experiment! Roc de Marsa (~90Ka) & Le Moustier (~55Ka): 10-20 hrs fire duration, at Le Moustier assoc w burning megafauna
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Tomos Proffitt
5 months ago
Don’t miss our next ICArEHB Experimental Archaeology Seminar. We will welcome Dr William Chase Murphree to talk about new geoarchaeological experiments investigating Upper Palaeolithic fire use. 14:00 (GMT) on the 7th of October. Free for all, join here
icarehb.com/lexa/
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UoL EvoAnth Seminar Series
5 months ago
We are thrilled to announce our timetable of seminars for the upcoming semester! As always, all of our talks will be on Zoom and open to everyone. Our first talk will take place on the 2nd October at 13:00-14:00 BST. The Zoom link will be available closer to the time. We hope to see you there! 🥳
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Jørgen Holm
6 months ago
Stones and Fire in the West African Savanna
www.anthropology.net/p/stones-and...
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Stones and Fire in the West African Savanna
A 9,000-year-old quartz workshop from Senegal reframes the story of Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers
https://www.anthropology.net/p/stones-and-fire-in-the-west-african?r=2l0fe&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Research@LivUni
7 months ago
@livunihss.bsky.social
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Dr Kaja Fenn (she/her)
7 months ago
Our new study lead produced enhanced paleo‑geomorphological mapping of the Ararat Depression to decode how shifting landforms shaped human movement and settlement in the Late Pleistocene
doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...
@humendylab.bsky.social
@arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social
@yannismicrooikon.bsky.social
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109532
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Fantastic day (research trip) to Wookey Hole Caves - witches, dinosaurs and removal of a large stalagmite for analysis (climate and fire) 🔥
7 months ago
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Lucy Timbrell
8 months ago
Very pleased to see our paper published online at Climate of the Past:
cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...
We present model-data comparisons of Late Quaternary climate across the Northern Hemisphere, showing that increasing model resolution has little net effect on coherence with pollen proxies 😊
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More is not always better: delta-downscaling climate model outputs from 30 to 5 min resolution has minimal impact on coherence with Late Quaternary proxies
Abstract. Both proxies and models provide key resources to explore how palaeoenvironmental changes may have impacted diverse biotic communities and cultural processes. While proxies are thought to pro...
https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/1185/2025/
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Fieldwork day to Creswell Crags as part of our new project "Fire & Climate: Speleothems and the British Palaeolithic" funded by
@britishacademy.bsky.social
with Rob Hosfield & Sam Nicholson
#soot
#fire
#aDNA
8 months ago
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Lucy Timbrell
8 months ago
Very pleased to see our paper now out in Communications Biology! 🥳
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Dr Jo Ball
8 months ago
Really thrilled that my second book is now published! It explores the life of Tacfarinas, a C1st AD auxiliary soldier-deserter-bandit-rebel who came to lead a revolt against
#Rome
in NW Africa during the early reign of Tiberius. He is a truly fascinating figure in
#Roman
history! 🏺AncientBlueSky
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Chris Stringer
8 months ago
Onset of extensive human fire use 50,000 y ago | PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Onset of extensive human fire use 50,000 y ago | PNAS
Fire is a pivotal aspect of human involvement in the carbon cycle. However, the precise timing of the large-scale human fire use remains uncertain....
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2500042122
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Congratulations to Stephanie Thomson winner of the UoL 3MT 2025 final. What a fantastic presentation and the first HSS winner of the competition!
@uolhsspgr.bsky.social
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8 months ago
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HEAS
9 months ago
@tommyhigham.bsky.social
introducing
#NickAshton
for the
#HEASSeminar
taking place now online and in-person
@univie.ac.at
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Mareike C Stahlschmidt
9 months ago
Great to have you here!!
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An exciting week at Uni Vienna working on micromorphology samples from the Lower Palaeolithic site of Barnham, UK!
#fire
#geoarchaeology
9 months ago
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Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton
9 months ago
A permanent job here at Southampton in Palaeolithic Archaeology and/or Palaeoanthropology Please share widely!
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Lecturer A
The University of Southampton is in the top 1% of world universities and is one of the UK’s top 15 research-intensive universities. Committed to excellence in all we do, we are growing and investing i...
https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=3112325AR
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes
9 months ago
🏺 V. excited to announce I'll be bringing new prehistory & archaeology to
@chalkefestival.bsky.social
next month! Our
@livancworlds.bsky.social
"Science From The Hearth" team led by Dr Pete Hommel will run demos & interactive stuff on ancient tech: birch tar, metals & ceramics. Details TBA!
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Chris Stringer
9 months ago
Who made the Oldowan? Reviewing African hominin fossils and archaeological sites from 3.5 million years ago
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Who made the Oldowan? Reviewing African hominin fossils and archaeological sites from 3.5 million years ago
The question of which African hominin taxon/taxa was responsible for producing Oldowan stone tools has persisted for nearly a century. Homo habilis, P…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278416525000492
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Chris Stringer
9 months ago
Unravelling the formation processes and depositional histories of the Middle Palaeolithic Ararat-1 Cave, Armenia: A multiscalar and multiproxy geoarchaeological approach
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Unravelling the formation processes and depositional histories of the Middle Palaeolithic Ararat-1 Cave, Armenia: A multiscalar and multiproxy geoarchaeological approach
The sedimentary sequence of Ararat-1 Cave encapsulates an intricate depositional archive (Marine Isotope Stage 3), crucial for our understanding of th…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379125002252
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Fantastic paper just out by
@ivynotterpek.bsky.social
and co detecting pyrogenic carbon in charred archaeological residues
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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BPChAr—a Benzene Polycarboxylic Acid database to describe the molecular characteristics of laboratory-produced charcoal: Implications for soil science and archaeology
The benzene polycarboxylic acid (BPCA) method is a technique to characterise the aromaticity and aromatic condensation of pyrogenic carbon (PyC) in charred residues. As a molecular marker for polycond...
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0321584
9 months ago
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Vera Aldeias
10 months ago
Our next LEXA seminar will be a hot one🔥! With the wonderful
@caromallol.bsky.social
. Join us at 2pm (Lisbon time!) on Tuesday the 6th of May. Register here:
www.icarehb.com/lexa/
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Ségolène Vandevelde
10 months ago
|✨ Publication Alert! ✨| Our latest research on
#pyroarchaeology
has just been published with
@springernature.com
in the
#JournalOfArchaeologicalMethodAndTheory
! -> Late Mid-Pleistocene hominin fire control inferred from sooty speleothem analysis 🔥 Read here:
rdcu.be/ehqag
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Chris Stringer
10 months ago
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Charcoal insights on the vegetation, climate and subsistence patterns at Wonderwerk Cave
Wonderwerk Cave is one of the most important archaeological sites in central southern Africa as it preserves multiple indicators of past environments,…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618225000989
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Lucy Timbrell
11 months ago
Our paper “Climate seasonality and predictability during the middle stone age and implications for technological diversification in early Homo sapiens” has been published in Scientific Reports 🥳
rdcu.be/egqwZ
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Climate seasonality and predictability during the middle stone age and implications for technological diversification in early Homo sapiens
Scientific Reports - Climate seasonality and predictability during the middle stone age and implications for technological diversification in early Homo sapiens
https://rdcu.be/egqwZ
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