Jesus lol

#OpenAccess ⁦Julia Galway-Witham⁩ ⁦Dr James Cole 🖤💙💚⁩ Aspects of human physical and behavioural evolution during the last 1 million years onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

🍃Under cross-compliance rules hedge, tree or scrub cutting is not permitted during the nesting season between 1 Mar & 31 Aug. Phelim Connolly CAFRE discusses how simple changes to hedgerow management can feed nature. More info: daera-ni.gov.uk/news/give-hedg… nidirect Ulster Farmers' Union

‘In place of a tree, we see a pattern of diversion from migration and reconnection through interbreeding in Africa, a bit like the veins in a leaf’ salon.com/2023/07/01/a-n…

European Association Of Archaeologists Festival Of Archaeology is here! From 30 Aug - 2 Sept, this is a once-in-a-lifetime event that will see over 3000 archaeologists from across the world visit Belfast European Association of Archaeologists View the season at QFT here 👇 queensfilmtheatre.com/seasons/europe…

Well the Homo naledi documentary wasn't as bad as i'd feared. Still no reasonable evidence presented for Homo naledi burial, engraving, tools, or fire. But nice footage of beautiful fossils in a lovely cave system.

Explore the archaeology of Divis & the Black Mountain with National Trust Archaeologist Malachy Conway as part of the #FestivalofArchaeology. 🗓️Sat 22 Jul 11am-1pm: Guided walk 🗓️Sat 29 Jul 11am-2pm: Geo Surveying Visit bit.ly/NTEvent_Info to find out more and book your spot.

Happy day the ice age ended

Callum has now exclaimed “THIS IS THE HOLE YOU’VE BEEN IN” … I wish.

Oh my God they’re lighting fires in the cave Lord save us. What is going on this is chaos.

Very interesting - suggests strike-a-light firemaking could have been invented by Neanderthals, fire-drills by different Homo sapiens groups on the African savanna before populating the rest of the globe, where fire-drills are the most-used hunter-gatherer firemaking technique..

Cool, and interesting that this matches earlier evidence (e.g. El Sidron Neanderthals) for females tending to leave their groups and move. nature.com/articles/d4158…