ICArCHEB in Portugal has put out a call for proposals for HEIRS (the Hub for Human Evolution Research Synthesis). HEIRS supports collaborative research projects designed to produce syntheses of important issues in the field. A wonderful opportunity - link below
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The joy of sorting LSA lithics from Turkana under the guidance of @robfoley.bsky.social
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Proud dad post! Hugh Foley shortlisted for Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets, for his ‘Recent Poems’
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Episode 3 of our Ng'ipalajem video series with Justus Erus Edung, talking about the biggest discovery of his career, Kenyanthropus!
Sehemu 3 ya video Ng'ipalajem na Justus Erus Edung anazungumza uguduzi mkuu wa maisha ya kazi yake, Kenyanthropus!
It's a bit late for #FossilFriday but I have to show this lovely young adult Palaeoloxodon (giant elephant) jaw from the new Middle Pleistocene site I'm working at in Turkana, Kenya!
Episode 2 of our Ng'ipalajem video series showing this summer's research! Today, I show some antelope teeth I'm using to understand paleoenvironments
Sehemu 2 wa Ng'ipalajem video inaonyesha utafiti wa kiangazi hiki! Leo naonyesha meno wa nyumbu na swala ambayo natumia kwa kuelewa mazingira ya kale
It was a wonderful day and so deserved. Very proud!
Fabulous news that @martamlahr.bsky.social has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy 🍾🍾🍾
The morphological affinities of the fossil cranium from Kabua, Kenya 🏺🧪
A M Bosman, @ltbuck.bsky.social, @martamlahr.bsky.social, @chrisbstringer.bsky.social, @katharv.bsky.social et al
rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Kabua 1's similarity to derived H. sapiens and date of 64.4 ± 5.4 ka.
Okay. This is angering me.
First of all, “MAN”!?
We’re not in the nineteenth century FFS. There’s a better word and it is “Humans”.
And secondly - who the f£&k thought HUMANS only learned to control fire 50,000 years ago???!!!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Groundbreaking find makes compelling case that humans were lighting fires much earlier than originally believed
Justus Erus Edung was only 25 years old when he discovered Kenyanthropus platyops in a team led by Prof. Meave Leakey in 1999.
This 3.5 million year old “flat-faced” skull quickly grabbed international headlines and changed the course of human evolution.
#fossils #turkana #humanevolution
Episode 2: Faunal identification with @deadbovids.bsky.social
Other than identification, tooth wear pattern can give us exciting insights into faunal diet and palaeoecology.
Today was the ceremony for new fellows at the #BritishAcademy - it was wonderful 🤩. I am thrilled and so grateful to the colleagues who nominated me, elected me, and the many colleagues, students, friends, our kids & family, & specially Rob 😍 who have so enriched my life and career ❤️
