We are looking forward to welcoming @annemiekemilks.bsky.social on the 19th June to deliver the keynote at Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2026. The lecture: From Sticks to Social Worlds: Rethinking Palaeolithic Technology through Wood will be the perfect end to the first day. Book your place!
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Podcasting can bring #humanevolution research into public conversation - where more voices can be heard.
Our podcast on the #TaungChild explores how the Taung fossil reshaped ideas about human origins in #Africa.
🎧 Listen to all 4 episodes FREE: www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...
Very exciting and disorientating to see this important (re) discovery from Nash et al.
Important implications come with this.
Why was it so comprehensively dismissed?
Was late glacial recolonisation possible earlier than thought?
What else are we missing? 🦣🏺
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
I’ve just discovered that the BBC has some of my old documentaries - re-edited and served up on YouTube. Here’s a mash-up of my first landmark series on human evolution - The Incredible Human Journey - from 2008 but still holding up!
youtu.be/1NWevQpcFIo?...
Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2026
⚠️ Durotriges Big Dig OPEN DAY alert ⚠️
Sunday 28 June 10-4.30
Free Parking (on private land) at North West Farm Winterborne Kingston Dorset DT11 9AT
The dig is a 20 min walk but minibuses are available
Guided tours PLUS the Big Dig Brewhouse, cafe + chips!!
Maybe see you there? #Durotriges26
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Scientific dating proves streaks on walls of Bacon Hole, near the Mumbles in south Wales, is Palaeolithic rock art
Human Evolution Research Institute at University of Cape Town
Dr Matt Pope
Alice Roberts
Durotriges Dig
🪨Residual #Mesolithic core 25x20mm of orange flint with white outer cortex of a type found in Southern England. Indicating long distance travel. The core was discarded near a palaeostream as it became exhausted, last microlith removed 13mm.
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Wirral
🔥This discovery changed human history by 350,000 years youtu.be/_-ZuS0m1Oso?...
#Archaeology #Palaeolithic #Prehistory
🪨🦣An Oldowan c.900,000 BC black flint cobble chopper tool 75x60mm. It displays classic Oldowan morphology and weighs 322g. Part a Lower Palaeolithic landscape occupation of Wirral.
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Palaeolithic #Wirral #Lithics
🪨🏹A Neolithic chisel tip/transverse arrowhead 37X31mm made from dark brown chert. This type of arrowhead is indicative of the middle Neolithic c.3,000-2,500 BC.
#FindsFriday #Archaeology #Neolithic #Wirral #Lithics
🪨Greasby the oldest settlement in the region. Discovered in 1987 along with Irby, excavated 1987-92 by Museum of Liverpool, both dated from lithics alone to 7,800 BC. Subsequently Greasby dated in 2018 from burnt hazlenut shells to 8,500 BC. #ThrowbackThursday #Archaeology #Wirral #Mesolithic
