Dr. Jayson P. Gill

Fourth paper of the year is finally out! This paper looks at the evolution of Levallois technology in Armenia and Britain. Hardcore and/or jazz fans should be able to clock the reference in the title. Free access through this link below for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lG2tAlZXb...

13.06.2025 16:31 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Last week we fired the ceramics made by my experimental archaeology class. Afterwards students recorded the outcome of different tempers and clays on thermal shock resistance and other attributes. They then tested the resistance to breakage and utility as a vessel.

21.04.2025 15:21 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Not by chemistry alone: Tephrostratigraphy, correlation, and context at two Palaeolithic sites in the southern Caucasus and Armenian Highlands Understanding the timing of Late Pleistocene population expansions and interactions is hindered by myriad factors among which the imprecision of absol…

Our third paper of the year is out in Quaternary Science Reviews! Three months and three papers, our team is on fire right now.

27.03.2025 13:46 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Our second paper of the year is now available! Two weeks in and two papers, not a bad start to 2025. Check out "Contextualizing the Upper Paleolithic of the Armenian Highlands: New data from Solak-1, central Armenia" in the Journal of Human Evolution. Free for the next 50 days:

14.01.2025 14:46 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

The geoarchaeology, chronology and environment of Lusakert-1, a Late Middle Palaeolithic rockshelter (Kotayk Province, Armenia) Lusakert-1 (LKT-1) is a key site in any discussion of the Palaeolithic of the Armenian Highlands. This is in large part because of a long-running camp…

Hot off the press! Check out our new article "The geoarchaeology, chronology and environment of Lusakert-1, a Late Middle Palaeolithic rockshelter (Kotayk Province, Armenia)" in the fully Open Access journal Quaternary Environments and Humans.

08.01.2025 15:27 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I have apparently become an extra-credit meme in my friend @jaysongillpaleo.bsky.social’s class… I approve.

17.12.2024 14:40 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Applications open for our 2025 field school in Armenian prehistory. Tell your students! More info: app.studyabroad.uconn.edu/index.cfm?Fu...

25.11.2024 16:50 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Applications open for our 2025 field school in Armenian prehistory. Tell your students! More info: app.studyabroad.uconn.edu/index.cfm?Fu...

25.11.2024 16:50 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Seeking student volunteers for fieldwork this summer at a Middle Palaeolithic site in northern Armenia! #archaeology #Pleistocene

05.02.2024 16:54 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0