Research led by Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution has highlighted an area that once acted as key point for cultural exchanges amongst ancient people, taking place in vast caves and lava tubes that have remained untapped reservoirs of archaeological abundance in Arabia. news.griffith.edu.au/2024/04/18/fir…

Our article in The Conversation about Umm Jirsan: theconversation.com/first-evidence…

Wow. A 5mm thick travertine tile appears to have captured a piece of hominin jaw.
I'm now imagining a Wonka-esque montage as palaeos start buying up all the travertine tiles they can to find the other missing slices.
Here's the Reddit sharing the find
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Hey, researchers of the past - do better. It's 2024. When I hear researchers suggesting that 'Man the Hunter' was debunked decades ago and nobody thinks that only men drove human biological or cultural evolution anymore (tempting to tag...!) have a look⬇️!

Evidence of 3,000-year-old pottery on Jiigurru indicates Aboriginal communities used & created pottery much earlier than previously thought.

This find is the result of co-designed research between Dingaal and Ngurrumungu communities and the ARC CABAH team led by AAH…

oh to be a tired bumble bee who fell asleep in a flower

Orcas imitating human speech

Still listening to this 'debate' between an archaeologist and a pseudoarchaeologist (- it's a long listen). It involves the presentation of how science works & the importance of big data, on the one hand - vs personal conviction, ideology and cherry-picked cases, with a complete…

(1) Just published, our new paper “First evidence for human occupation of a lava tube in Arabia…”. A thread...journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

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Wear on the lower teeth of 11,000-year-old skulls in what is now Türkiye showed that the individuals would have had lower lip piercings when alive.

#AntiquityResearch in the news via The Independent by Ece Toksabay

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During WWI, Marie Curie created a vehicle that contained a hospital bed, a generator, an X-ray machine and photographic darkroom equipment. These “petite Curies' (below) could be driven right up to the Front. Curie also helped train 150 women as radiology technicians.

I love the fact that our bodies are full of these little weirdos, doing their own thing, helping to keep us safe, while we’re blissfully unaware of their actions!

Research that bypasses scientific norms in favour of media blitz should raise questions, says our Dr Robyn Pickering & @UJPalaeo’s Dr D.W. Kgotleng.

In this SAJournalofScience opinion, they call for reflection on the future of human evolution in #SouthAfrica .

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The academic job market

New postdoc funding opportunity

Baby elephants typically don't learn to control their trunks until they're about a year old, which may result in behavior like this.

Mondays..