Lucy Timbrell

A paper over then years in the making! Using Latent Class Models to categorise stone tool classes. Great to see it out after so long, and huge thanks to @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social for taking this to the finish line!

Assessing the Potential of Latent Class Modelling for Classifying Stone Artefacts and the Quantification of Technological Diversity - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology - Archaeological typologies are used to determine the number and diversity of artefact forms within a prehistoric toolkit. However, objective classification is...

With @elliescerri.bsky.social and Matt Grove, we explore latent class modelling for quantifying stone tool assemblages in our new paper published in the Journal of Palaeolithic Archaeology 😊 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2026!

Join us for two days of all things Palaeolithic, Pleistocene and Early Human Origins at UCL Institute of Archaeology 19-20th June.

Call for papers is now open and tickets are on sale! Check out our website for more information.

sites.google.com/view/unravel...

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🔥Wood, Smoke and Science!

#LivUni’s Dr Ceren Kabukcu was a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science podcast.

Drawing on her archaeobotany expertise, she explained how carbonised plant remains and dental evidence reveal how fire shaped human diets and eating habits.

🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Hi all,
Please join us next Thursday, 19th February at 13:00 GMT for the next webinar of the semester, presented by Dr Francesc Marginedas.

If you would like to attend, please register here:
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/30baf8...

We hope to see you there!

PanAF Sessions The Local Organizing Committee is excited that almost 70 sessions and workshops will occur at PanAF Moz 2026. Pan-African Association members and non-members are welcome to submit paper abstracts t…

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS!🚨 @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social and I are running a session (S17) at PanAf2026 in Mozambique, titled: Pan-African Homo sapiens evolution: linking processes with data. More info: panaf2026moz.com/panaf-sessio... & submit an abstract: panaf2026moz.com/paper-submis... deadline March 15th

Job alert in Malta on my ERC funded IslandLab Project for a post excavation research assistant. A bachalor's degree in Archaeology, or related fields is required, ideally with experience working on faunal assemblages and handling bones/fossils, and curating finds.
www.um.edu.mt/media/um/doc...

We are delighted to announce our timetable of talks for Semester 2 of the 2025/26 academic year! 🥳🤩

As always, all of our talks will be streamed online and are open to anyone. Our first talk will be on the 12.02.26. More details will be released closer to the time.

We hope to see you there!

📣 Yonatan Sahle and I are delighted to invite abstracts for Session# 18 of the 17th PanAf Congress (July 26–31, 2026, Maputo, Mozambique). The session welcomes interdisciplinary contributions on the Middle and Late Pleistocene archaeology of eastern Africa. Submit your abstract by March 15, 2026.

📣 The Newton International Fellowship programme by the Royal Society opens on 15th January!

📍If you're an early career researcher interested in collaborating and moving to Liverpool, lets chat!

🔗 www.royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

PanAF Sessions The Local Organizing Committee is excited that almost 70 sessions and workshops will occur at PanAF Moz 2026. Pan-African Association members and non-members are welcome to submit paper abstracts t…

CALL FOR PAPERS ALERT 🚨 For the next PanAf2026 in Mozambique, we are organizing the session "Beyond the frontiers in Palaeoscience: renewing chronological, geoarchaeological, palaeolandscape and palaeoenvironmental approches to the African Pleistocene".

Fully funded PhD studentship here with @katerinad.bsky.social on palaeoproteomics. Apply below!

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/PhD-Stud...

Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age hunter-gatherers An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What was behind this unexpected funeral ritual?

The earliest confirmed evidence of an adult cremation pyre has been discovered in Malawi! 🔥

theconversation.com/oldest-known...

Social and emotional cognition in Pleistocene hominin evolution: The role of biocultural processes Patterns and processes of social cognition underlie much of the behavioral and ecological flexibility and adaptive capacity that characterizes the pri…

Just out "Social and emotional cognition in Pleistocene hominin evolution: The role of biocultural processes" with @johnhawks.net @marckissel.bsky.social Penny Spikins, Jennifer French and me. Open access in Journal of Archaeological Science... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Join us this Thursday in Liverpool for the next MENDLS lecture 👇🏼

Well done James! It was great 🤩

We hope you are enjoying the series so far! Please join us again next Thursday, 27th November 2025 at 13:00 GMT for a talk by Dr James Clark, University of Cambridge. More details 👇

If you would like to attend, please register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

PANAF2026

ALERT - One day left to submit session abstract for the 17th Congress of the Pan African Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies! Check here the website : panaf2026moz.com

National curriculum review in England: 10 key recommendations Proposals include shortening length of GCSE exams, a new diagnostic test in maths and English, and expanding RE

Young people don't need more "Religious Education" to live in modern world.
If it's inclusion/social cohesion govt is aiming for, then a better approach would be to drop RE, and create new subject Anthropology, on critical thinking, philosophy & belief systems.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Please join us next week, Thursday 30th October, for our next talk. We will be joined by Dr Jessica Thompson, Yale University. More details 👇

Please note the change of start time to 15:00 GMT!

Please register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We hope to see you there!

Very grateful to everyone who joined our symposium and workshop last week, inspiring discussions and wonderful company all around!

Sorry to hear that Marta! I hope your recovery goes well ❤️

Join us tomorrow online for our symposium on quantifying complexity in stone tools! 😊

Next Tuesday at UCL 😊

Fully-funded 4-year #PhD in Cultural Evolution! Join my @erc.europa.eu project exploring how compression & compositionality drive cultural innovation: hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur...
Apply by Nov 12!
Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏

On the 4th December 2025, @eesaupe.bsky.social will be giving an in person lecture at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social as part of the MENDLS series.

There will be tea and cake, a panel discussion, and a reception to follow!

Open to all, more details 👇

Register here:
forms.gle/hHEQA4mSZEXg...

Our first speaker of the academic year in the Human Palaeosystems in Focus seminar series will be Prof Miikka Tallavaara!

His talk will be on “The evolution of human niche size in East Asia across the Pleistocene”

Join us on Wednesday here: www.gea.mpg.de/177637/the-e...

Our first speaker of the academic year in the Human Palaeosystems in Focus seminar series will be Prof Miikka Tallavaara!

His talk will be on “The evolution of human niche size in East Asia across the Pleistocene”

Join us on Wednesday here: www.gea.mpg.de/177637/the-e...

The seminar series is back! Don't miss the FIRST talk of the 2025/26 Human Palaeosystems in focus - the perfect way to get inspired for the new academic year ahead ➡️
www.gea.mpg.de/177655/the-e...

We are happy to share the programme of speakers for our global symposium on lithic technology 🪨🔎

There are just a few spaces left for in-person participation! DM for more information.

You can join us online via this Zoom registration link: eu02web.zoom-x.de/webinar/regi...