Here is an absolute doozy for #fossilfriday: a find of an ivory point tip embedded in a mammoth rib from the very beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic (ca. 40,000 cal BP) at Kostënki 14 in Russia. Solid evidence that people were hunting mammoth back then.

And now the moment you've all been waiting for...available today open access in #PaleoAnthropologyJournal, I and my co-authors (Queffelec Alain, Dr Robyn Pickering) present our detailed rebuttal for the assertion of deliberate burial by Homo naledi. Thread: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/…

🟣 #LatestNews New remains of Homo antecessor and lithic technology found in #Atapuerca’s Gran Dolina site, in TD6 unit. 📸 Maria D. Guillén/IPHES-CERCA #Atapuerca2024 FUNDACION ATAPUERCA Centres CERCA #SomCERCA

What drives #handaxe distribution in Europe? Here is our large-scale analysis, performed with Alastair Key (Cambridge Archaeology), Stephen Lycett, and Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge (Dept of Zoology) "The #Acheulean niche: #climate and #ecology predict handaxe production in Europe" biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New mug project inspired by cuneiform cylinders. The handwriting and grammar would give Sumerians a heart attack!

🔥🚨#NewPaperAlert!🚨🔥 After being buried on the editor's desk for over a year, my manuscript on experimentally testing the utility of manganese dioxide powder as a #fire-starting aid has seen the light of day! 😅 #Neanderthals #archeology link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Another letter opener finished with an apple wood handle

Tiny arm bone belonged to smallest ancient human ever found nature.com/articles/d4158…

Can't beat tea in a handmade mug by @thalianitzdraws !

Hugely exciting - 1st comprehensively identified bone spear point from a #Neanderthal site! Found some time ago at #AbricRomaní but recently analysed in detail, likely hafted by being held directly in wood shaft & fixed with (plant?) cord. nature.com/articles/s4159…

From a Neandertal fossil to its reconstructed brain, that's the goal of the PaleoBRAIN project! WIP, news coming soon. Drawings by Tiphaine Derrey Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle Science & recherche au Muséum #FossilFriday

What do we find in #Mustatil in #AlUla? How old are they? Did Saudi Arabia have locally made pottery 7000 years ago? Why are there bits of human remains in Mustatil? Want the answers? Our NEW ARTICLE IS OUT! With the excavation results of 7 mustatil! doi.org/10.5334/oq.139 🧵1/

Christina Kolb In another mustatil, we found 11 arrowheads! The first arrowheads found in a mustatil. They are unique & locally produced. We called them Naklah points, named after where they were found in #AlUla. Finn Stileman first identified these- here he’s holding one! /11

There’s still time to register for our new monthly #experimentalarchaeology seminar series ICArEHB. Dr Li Li will talk about controlled experiments to understand stone tool technology. Online and free for everyone to join: icarehb.com/lexa/ #Archaeology #palaeolithic

Excited to share our latest paper, new in Science Magazine : science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #ScienceResearch

Lately I've been using ceramics as a more controlled material in knapping experiments. I decided to test its limits today with Solutrean technology - such a tactile material!

I'm excited to be sharing some of the first results of my PhD project soon!

#FlintFriday. Stone tools found with Ötzi, the 5300 year old naturally mummified 'Iceman'. Including a dagger with the preserved handle, arrows, etc. A remarkable insight into the toolkit of a single individual, who ended his days in the Alps with an arrow wound to the shoulder.