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Archaeology postdoc @LeidenArchaeo. Burning desire to know more about #fire use/making by #Palaeolithic peoples. #Pyroarchaeology Also grants guy @ESSB_Erasmus

 Leiden, The Netherlands
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Joined December 2017
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Chris Stringer
@ChrisStringer65Oct 7
Neanderthal woodworking at Abric Romaní: Insights into the role of wood in a Middle Palaeolithic domestic context | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…

Neanderthal woodworking at Abric Romaní: Insights into the role of wood in a Middle Palaeolithic...

Wood technology likely played a key role in human evolution, yet it remains poorly documented because organic materials rarely preserve in archaeological contexts. The Middle Palaeolithic site of...

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Chris Stringer
@ChrisStringer6530 Dec 2025
Oldest evidence of fire-lighting comes from early humans in Britain youtu.be/BUokWM_nceo?si=FUzT…

Oldest evidence of fire-lighting comes from early humans in Britain

Around 400,000 years ago, a band of Neanderthals, or their ancestor...

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Our DiPA (Dialogues in Pleistocene Archaeology) continues on Thursday, 22nd of February at 10:30 AM. Dr. Andrew Sorensen will talk about #fire making in the #Aurignacian. Zoom registration possible. #paleomonrepos #leiza #DiPA #paleolithic #palaeolithic #microwear #Archaeology
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🔥New paper in PNAS about Widespread evidence for elephant exploitation by Last Interglacial Neanderthals on the North European plain is out, now!🔥 👇 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23… #paleomonrepos #leiza #elephants #paleolithic #neanderthals #hunting #cuttingsmarks #elephanthunting

Widespread evidence for elephant exploitation by Last Interglacial Neanderthals on the North...

Neanderthals hunted and butchered straight-tusked elephants, the largest terrestrial mammals of the Pleistocene, in a lake landscape on the North E...

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Marta @MartaMLahr@MartMLahr24 Oct 2023
New Special Issue of PaleoAnthropology 😍‼️ 7 great pps on Niche Construction, Plasticity, and Inclusive Inheritance paleoanthropology.org/ojs/in… + obituaries - Bill Kimbel & Sally McBrearty, a book review AND the abstracts of the 13th ESHE meeting! What a treat 🥳
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PaleoAnthropology@Qafzeh10 May 2023
“Smoke archaeology” reveals early humans were visiting Nerja Caves 41,000 years ago arstechnica.com/science/2023…

“Smoke archaeology” reveals early humans were visiting Nerja Caves 41,000 years ago

Interdisciplinary study analyzed fossilized soot and charcoal from lighting sources.

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Leiden Archaeology@LeidenArchaeo6 Apr 2023
The @UniLeiden Faculty of Archaeology ranks 6th in QS World University Ranking. We share this place with our colleagues from @stanford universiteitleiden.nl/en/new… #archaeology @TopUnis
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DutchNews.NL@DutchNewsNL2 Mar 2023
Early Dutch were dark-skinned and blue-eyed, dna research shows dutchnews.nl/news/2023/03/ea…

Early Dutch were dark-skinned and blue-eyed, dna research shows - DutchNews.nl

The earliest Dutch people were not white and blonde but dark-skinned and often blue-eyed, a large scale international study into the genetic make up of the early Europeans has shown. The theory...

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trowelblazers@trowelblazers1 Feb 2023
📢 NEW POST! Our first of 2023 is #KathyMacDonald, a brilliant Palaeolithic archaeologist who tragically passed away last year. She worked on 'Big Picture' questions eg how hominins settled vast & challenging landscapes, with or without fire 🔥 trowelblazers.com/2023/01/31…
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George Monbiot
@GeorgeMonbiot7 Jan 2023
Of all the lies we tell ourselves, the most comforting and damaging is the lie of an afterlife. There is no means by which our minds, that emerge from the interaction of several complex systems (brain, body, physical world, social world), could persist after death.🧵
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Flint Dibble 🍖🏺
@FlintDibble5 Jan 2023
Junk science is when you focus on connecting two data points that fit your narrative and ignore the larger dataset and context
Dave Vetter@davidrvetter5 Jan 2023
He's still at it folks. Is this guy honestly the best the Cato Institute can afford? Just look at that line. ZOOM OUT, STEVE
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Jorrit Kelder@Jorrit_Kelder8 Dec 2022
Sapiens may not have been the first, or even second (if we assume Neanderthal used it) to make fire. @Pyropithecus, what do you make of this? Pity really that Berger didn’t first publish his finds. washingtonpost.com/science/2…

Ancient human relative used fire, surprising discoveries suggest

Charcoal and burned bones offer intriguing — if controversial — clues that the species Homo naledi made hearths to light its way and cook in dark caves.

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Marie Soressi@MarieSoressi7 Dec 2022
Impressive🎉 2 Myr DNA extracted from likely always frozen❄️ sediment in Greenland * possibly preserved because adhering to (clay) mineral surfaces * 🏵️ nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA

Nature - Analysis of two-million-year-old ancient environmental DNA from the Kap København Formation in North Greenland shows there was an open boreal forest with diverse plant and animal...

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Jason Colavito@JasonColavito5 Dec 2022
My latest article for @newrepublic on the politics of Graham Hancock's "Ancient Apocalypse" and the spread of pseudohistory on TV. newrepublic.com/article/1692…
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Flint Dibble 🍖🏺
@FlintDibble18 Nov 2022
Hi all, my piece critiquing Graham Hancock's Ancient Apocalypse has just been published in @ConversationUK Give it a read and a share! theconversation.com/with-net…

With Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse, Graham Hancock has declared war on archaeologists

The new ‘docuseries’ makes grand claims about our ice age ancestors. Here’s why you should proceed with caution.

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Sally Hoare@Dr_sally_hoare17 Nov 2022
Fire, light & smoke! Our new experiments show harmful pm2.5 levels in smoke vary massively (5000 ug/g - 120,000 ug/g) between different type of fuel used in Palaeolithic combustion features (animal dung/fresh bone/grass/reeds/woods). WHO recommend 25 ug/g for 24hour period!🤢😱☠️
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Femke H. Reidsma@FHReidsma2 Nov 2022
🔥Very happy to share that my paper on the diagenesis of heated bone + improved tools for the study of fire in the Pleistocene is out today in @SciReports 🔥 (1/n) @LeidenArchaeo #Archaeology #GeoChemistry #Fire #HumanEvolution #WomenInSTEM nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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Dr. Rebecca Wragg Sykes@LeMoustier10 Oct 2022
Me for @guardian on the bigger picture of #Neanderthals & the #NobelPrize : from a visionary pioneer to a vibrant field of research, with profound implications about our place in the world
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@guardianscience10 Oct 2022
Behind this Nobel prize is a very human story: there’s a bit of Neanderthal in all of us | Rebecca Wragg Sykes theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Behind this Nobel prize is a very human story: there’s a bit of Neanderthal in all of us | Rebecca...

Svante Pääbo deserves his accolade – palaeogenetics is an expanding field that tells us who we are, says archaeologist Rebecca Wragg Sykes

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Manuel Will@MW_hominin6 Oct 2022
Archaeologists & #archaeology enthusiasts please share widely: An open letter to the state of Baden-Württemberg (@RegierungBW ) to save the Archäopark Vogelherd, a key museum for the #UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Caves & Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura! uni-tuebingen.de/en/universi…
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Benjamin Vernot@melanoidin3 Oct 2022
In case anyone needs to see a @NobelPrize winner get tossed into a pond :) Congratulations, Svante!
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