One-year Asst. Prof - Researcher position for a prehistorian with a specialty in Paleolithic or Mesolithic technology at PACEA, U of Bordeaux. Starts Sept. 1, 2024. Listed as “Préhistorien technologue”
u-bordeaux.fr/universite/tra…

Quick reminder, given that we are having our bi-annual 20-second conversation about it: Nuclear weapons are an invention of unparalleled insanity and any morally serious country would be having a conversation about how to get rid of them iandunt.substack.com/p/the-oblivion…

Reminds me of my eldest's first and greatest joke (aged 4):
'A sheep has a hole in its back'

that's it, that's the joke 👌

Hugely excited for this!

Pointless musing, but is it possible some lucky/unlucky marine creature survived the KT impact and was blasted upwards 100km, surviving just long enough to cross the Karman line and therefore be an even older first animal in space?

Great piece by my friend and colleague eyal weizman
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Wonderful book post arrived!
So v excited to dive into this now that I have walked the very croft and seen the views and felt the wind that its words describe!
Thank you Annie O'Garra Worsley Arabella Pike

Our new interdisciplinary project at Holley Shelter in #SouthAfrica bears fruit: In a paper led by Gregor Bader we for the first time provide combined chronometric, lithic and faunal data on the Middle Stone Age of the site! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #Archaeology A thread 🧵 1/6

Travelling west today for other reasons, I treated myself to some aesthetic delights at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Victorian Radicals - absolutely captivating; prepare for more photos later !

Some exciting reading for train journeys today 🦌📚
Sophie Yeo
HarperNorth

Great interview! And also why archaeology is so powerful, & why I'm writing #MATRIARCHA 📖 - we might not ever know their names, but we can learn SO much about the experience of all kinds of women from both ancient historical contexts and from millions of years of prehistory

This is what I used to love about Twitter … such a fine & insightful analysis. commonreader.co.uk/p/is-mary-oliv…

Q for archaeologist/historian/metallurgist types :
when/why in Europe did spears as elite martial weapons (& objects of masculine warrior identity) fade away?

My cats contemplate the latest arrival in their household... #OurIslandStories : Country Walks Through Colonial Britain

'There is no support for the previous interpretation of the 'elephant butchery area'.
Lithics and elephant remains seem to be placed in different paleosurfaces.
The accumulation derives from at least two diverse and unrelated depositional events. '

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 .

bit.ly/3PCO1Ii

'A startlingly beautiful exploration of evolution's crucibles of creation' - me, raving about Jules Howard's new book - filled with astonishing & profound connections between the eggs you & I came from, to creatures through Earth's ancient eons - out 9th May, pre-order now!

Congrats to Dr. Jing Zhang for her highlight at #CVPR2024 ! Our paper (w/ Chen Feng) describes an #AI classification algorithm for microscopic use wear, to be used by archaeologists to guess what materials were worked with a stone tool. (1/3)
arxiv.org/abs/2403.13171

We also look at the difference between the areas that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and human experts pay attention to when they classify images. (2/3)

Everyone, Beyond the Streets is doing their Beyond Jack the Ripper tour again, which focuses on the victims' lives (not their deaths) and raises money for women in need.👇
eventbrite.co.uk/e/whitechapel-…