🔔Don’t miss out on this great event in June! Reserve your FREE ticket as a LSS Member now at eventbrite.com/e/upper-palaeo…

Not long to go until our first Butser Knapping weekend!

Taking place on Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th May your ticket includes: knapping materials, expert tutorial, entry to Butser, access to our handling collections and networking opportunities.

#FlintKnapping

Are you an early career archaeologist looking to showcase your research? Join us for the Student and Early Careers Conference! 🏛️

Participants will be able to present on any archaeological subject of their choice!

Find out more here 👉 archaeologyuk.org/youth-engageme…

#Archaeology

📰 Humans occupied Patagonia prior to the Younger Dryas period

#AntiquityResearch in the news via HeritageDaily

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CITiZAN's intertidal archaeology dataset is live!

Almost 6,000 images of archaeological features around England's coast, recorded by our CITiZAN volunteers. Without their work, many of these sites would have vanished with no record.

Explore them HERE: buff.ly/4amp0cI

🏞️Fieldwork can take place in various outdoor settings. From caves to deserts to mountains, evidence of stone tools can be found at many beautiful sites.

📸Comment below a photo of fieldwork you’ve done in an interesting or special location!

#EYANature #FieldArchaeology

Join us for Dr. Leonardo Carmignani's seminar on April 30th, 1:30 PM at the Museum of Prehistory. His talk is entitled 'Artifacts without a Homeland. Rethinking the Late Middle Paleolithic at Oscurusciuto Rockshelter (Southern Italy)'

Do you have some research you would like to share? Have you worked on a site which deserves some recognition?

Submit an abstract now for our annual conference celebrating all things lithic!

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Over 200 lithic artefacts have been found at Pilauco in Chile's Lake Region dating to 17,300–12,800 cal BP. 3D analysis proves that they are human-made, suggesting human occupation in north-western Patagonia prior to the Younger Dryas period.

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For the #Archive30 Challenge from ARA Scotland today’s theme is #ArchiveSustainability 🗃️ Did you know our journal archive is entirely open access? It features 41 editions of our society journal dating back to 1980.

👇Why not check it out here at journal.lithics.org

The later Neanderthal people at La Cotte de St Brelade were regularly accessing good flint & we see them using Levallois technique with aplomb. Here's looking down the striking platform and across the flaking surface of one of my favourite cores.
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday

Dating of giant handaxes from Britain finds they predominantly date to Marine Isotope Stage 9. Could they be a sign of changing hominin cognition during the Lower-Middle Palaeolithic transition?

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Join us this afternoon for a talk from Dr Siebrecht! Details and registration ling are below!

Join emmalouwynjones, Sally Pointer and I at Creswell Crags 🦣 from the 1st of August to try your hand at flintknapping, bone & antler working, jewellery making, textiles and sprang the Stone Age way!

creswell-crags.org.uk/events-listings

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Meet another of our PhD students, Serena Lombardo [Serena Lombardo]! #meettheteam 😊
Serena is part of the FIRSTSTEPS team & she is working on the technological study of early Upper Paleolithic lithic assemblages from Greece & Italy. 🪨🧭⛏️
More about her ⤵️ uni-tuebingen.de/de/235409