All human societies divide labor in some way. But when did this behavior arise in human evolution? My new piece in SAPIENS sapiens.org/biology/labor-…

Check out our paper on landscape variation in chimpanzee stone tool assemblages and how they inform on how to search for pre-core and flake archaeological sites. A big thanks to everyone involved Lydia Luncz Dr Tomos Proffitt Serge Soiret royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

'the age of the base of the overlying mid-Middle Palaeolithic Layer C..ranges between 204 ± 18 ka & 192 ± 14 ka. Consequently, the Tabun C2 mandible discovered at the base of..C may prove to be among the oldest H. sapiens fossils found outside Africa' sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Read lots of papers on #seasonality in #coastal #prehistory and this is what came out: doi.org/10.1007/s12520… Includes metadata on methods, outcomes, and some thoughts on what we can do better in the future.

Beyond the here and now: hunter–gatherer socio-spatial complexity and the evolution of language royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

#Levallois 🚨 Nubian Levallois Alert 🚨 I’m excited to share my new article with Emily Hallinan. It presents the first quantitative spatial analysis of sites with Nubian Levallois cores across five regions. ICArEHB Universität zu Köln Universidade Algarve Twitter threads 🪨: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🚨📄Excited to share my new OA #openaccess paper looking at #ochre use in burials at Khok Phanom Di, Thailand. Looking at the bioarchaeological context & change in pigment use through time. The Harvati lab at University of Tübingen CambridgeBioAnth Cambridge Archaeology doi.org/10.1002/oa.3348

In #Zagreb for #ESHE2024 😍 & just got notification of this amazing paper👇 Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before their extinction www-cell-com.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/cell-genomics/… New #Neanderthal genomic lineage from #GrotteMandrin (yes! the one with eSapiens 😁) ..and THAT cover!!!

Great talk by James Clark on use of #bifaces in the early #Acheulean - so proud 🤩🤩🤩🤩 #ESHE2024

Over for another year at #ESHE2024! Such a lovely week in Zagreb presenting my PhD work, spending time with some wonderful people, and visiting iconic cave sites 😊

New paper from James Clark 🥳! To what extent were early bifaces used as cores? Assessing the Role of Early “Large Cutting Tools” in Flake Production: an Experimental Comparison of Early Acheulean Handaxe and Oldowan Core Manufacture www-tandfonline-com.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/doi/full/10.10…

Interesting work! We are working on the similar question on the other end of the Acheulian; how late Acheulian handaxe were used or reused (recycled) as bifacial cores? Cool stuff by James Clark

Assessing the Role of Early “Large Cutting Tools” in Flake Production: an Experimental Comparison of Early Acheulean Handaxe and Oldowan Core Manufacture tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…