Looking forward to presenting our new work on evidence for recurrent and increasing control of fire at the Lower Palaeolithic site of Beeches Pit today at the Pathways to Ancient Britain workshop at Queen Mary University 🔥 🔥 🔥. Really exciting results and paper on the way soon 😃
New Paper Alert!
great to have been involved with the BAS BIOPOLE team and collaborators in Dan Mayor's group at Exeter University. Looking forward to beginning work on Antarctic food webs shortly!
#copepods #calanus #zooplankton #lipidbiomarkers #lipids #isotopes #bas #biopole
Dr Sally Hoare
New paper alert: such a privilege to work with the amazing @elliescerri.bsky.social, @matejahajdi.bsky.social, and @chrisbstringer.bsky.social on a new review paper for the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute: rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Sabena Blackbird
Dr James Cole
From Judge Dredd to bottlenose dolphins, the work of Leonie Sedman, Curator of Heritage and Collections Care, really does cover everything.
Find out more about Leonie and what she gets up to in this @heritageinstitute.bsky.social interview:
www.liverpool.ac.uk/heritage-ins...
Please join us this Thursday, 30th April, at 13:00 BST, for our final talk of the semester. We will be joined by Prof Nick Ashton (British Museum), and Dr Sally Hoare (University of Liverpool).
If you'd like to attend, please register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/1342a8...
🧪 Lab-based microstratigraphic excavation for high-resolution archaeological sampling. #ICArEHB researchers Aldeias, Goldberg, McPherron, Li and Mallol co-author this #PaleolithicArchaeology study in J Paleo Arch using #Microstratigraphy.
🔗 10.1007/s41982-025-00253-y
780,000-year-old charcoal from Gesher Benot Ya’aqov reveals that early hominins may have chosen their campsites partly for firewood access. Even the wood they burned tells us how they read their landscape. #Paleoanthropology #Acheulian #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/the-wood-t...
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New paper: heated chert from Australia +45 Ka, poss. > 55 Ka.
15% of analysed #lithics were heated and later knapped.
I would have liked more on technological aspects, to refine whether pieces worked before & after heating show differences in reduction etc.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Achieved an academic milestone today - having our research be an obscure trivia answer on a quiz show! Thanks @felixthehauskat.bsky.social for sharing this with me!
Everyone knows the answer, right…? 🔵
A new anthracological study from Gesher Benot Ya’aqov finds that early hominins chose their campsites partly around access to fuel.
Trophic connections between Calanus spp. and deep-sea benthos in the Fram Strait, Arctic Ocean #stableisotopes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology - We identify the oldest known example of systematic heat treatment of chert in the world. The specimens come from the base of one of Australia’s oldest...
Copepods of the genus Calanus are central to the ecological and biogeochemical functioning of polar pelagic ecosystems. They graze on seasonal phytopl…
Happy to share our new paper on non-destructive FTIR analysis on silcrete artefacts from Mertenhof and Diepkloof with heating temperature reconstructions. Is the data beautiful and clean? No. But is it still meaningful? Yes! Study led by Will Archer: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Transformative technologies that alter raw material properties, rather than just raw material shape and size, are key proxies for the evolution of hum…
