🎉Delighted to participate in a day of history & music discussing ‘Where are you from? No, where are you really from?’ 🎉Nevill Holt Festival Saturday 15 June alongside Prof Alice Roberts💙 @MichaelMorpurgo & more
🎉Tickets nevillholtfestival.com/whats-on/

'I think she can help us connect with who they were,' said Emma Pomeroy, a palaeoanthropologist on the #Shanidar project. #Neanderthal Cambridge University 📸 BBC/Gwyndaf Hughes

I’m always blown away by the ability of Alfons and Adrie Kennis to bring these ancient people ‘back to life’ - no longer just a skull, the woman we know as Shanidar Z gazes at us across the millennia.

🎥🦴We are delighted to announce the release of the Netflix documentary ‘Secrets of the Neanderthals’ today, featuring the Shanidar Cave Project!

👉 Read the story to find out more: arch.cam.ac.uk/news/shanidar-…

Wonderful evening talking to colleagues & students at Cambridge Archaeology about #SecretsOfTheNeanderthals & challenges of communicating archaeology in film - and how utterly magical to have both the stunning new reconstruction & the actual Shanidar Z skull both there!

Evolutionary Fact Friday!
In Peter Jackson's 2005 remake of #KingKong , Andy Serkis's character, Lumpy (the cook), gets eaten by gigantic priapulid worms!
'I was the only person in the cinema going, 'It's a priapulid worm!', and my wife was going 'Please sit down, dear.''
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📣 Do you have 15 minutes this weekend to help our rivers?

On your marks, get set, go! #BigRiverWatch starts now 👀

🤳Download our app, visit your local river, and complete a quick survey to help gather important data. Let's make a difference together! theriverstrust.org/take-action/th…

Paying a visit to Galen - physical & surgeon, pioneer of medical science and doctor to Marcus Aurelius - in Bergama (ancient Pergamon)

📢 BREAKING: It's official - our government is not doing enough to meet climate targets.

We’re running out of time to make a difference. ⌛️Decisions made now about climate & the natural world will have consequences for future generations.

news.sky.com/story/governme…

This millefiori bead is the product of a Mediterranean workshop. It was found in a woman's grave in Güttingen, dating around 600 AD.
It's one of the many pieces of evidence of north-south trade in the early Middle Ages.

Photo: Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg

#archaeology #medievaltwitter

Infectious disease friends - which does this most closely resemble?
1. Measles
2. Chickenpox
3. Monkeypox

A 75,000-year-old Neanderthal skeleton found in the foothills of Iraq is believed to have been a woman aged in her mid-forties, according to researchers who pieced her skull back together

rte.ie/news/world/202…

Lovely to see my newly published book Foyles Bookshop near Picadilly where a spontaneous book signing happened today!

Last summer I spent 3 epic days #photogrammetry capturing the National Trust WW2 sites on the White Cliffs of Dover with Jon Barker. Firstly there's this underground plotting room that was also explored by Prof Alice Roberts💙 in Digging for Britain. 🧵
3D👉skfb.ly/oTXtz

I have a new piece in The Atlantic, a review of The Invention of Prehistory, a history of (and wholesale attack on) our ideas about human origins from Rousseau to the present.
theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Time for another adventure!

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