Evidence from China clarifies the 'muddle in the middle' of human evolution World-leading fossil expert Chris Stringer guides us through latest evidence on fossils, Denisovans and DNA from China

Details of our annual talk with Chris Stringer on Nov 11 joined with UCL #Archaeology
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Aerial view of MSc students excavating in the Cairngorms, Scotland

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Remember you can find information about all the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Community associated sessions on our web page!

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We are pleased to announce that Dr. Daniel Groß was successful in our recent vote to join the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Community as co-chair. Daniel will replace Annemieke Milks, and join Silje Evjenth Bentsen and Andrej Maczowski.

Today (Tuesday) has two sessions, both from 14:00-18:30 CEST. Session 128: The Production and Diffusion of Obsidian Artefacts in Room 10, and Session 100, Caves and Rock Shelters: the Interactions of People and Natural Environment in the Prehistory in Room 17. Enjoy!

PaM sessions at EAA2025 The PaM usually distributes a flyer showing PaM sessions at the EAA meetings. The flyer is virtual this year. Please scroll down to read all the information, or click the links to go directly to a …

Welcome to EAA's 2025 virtual meeting! The Palaeolithic and Mesolithic (PaM) Community has put together an online 'flyer' this year of PaM sessions which can be seen below. eaapalaeomesocommunity.wordpress.com/2025/08/28/p...

Reminder that our annual EAA Palaeolithic and Mesolithic community meeting is today, 13:00 CEST on zoom. We'll announce our new co-chair, and discuss community business with our members. Thank you for taking the time to engage with our community!

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Our annual PaM Community meeting will be held online on 29 August at 13 – 14 pm CEST, where we will announce our new co-chair (voting open to all EAA members until August 26th). We hope you can join us! Zoom link via email (or message us here).

This is figure 2, which shows stone artefacts recovered from Early Pleistocene deposits at Calio.

The discovery of ancient stone tools on Sulawesi suggests that this Indonesian island was populated by hominins at around the same time as the nearby island of Flores, if not earlier, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/4oq7zzw 🏺 🧪

Evidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel suggests behavioural uniformity across Homo groups in the Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic circa 130,000–80,000 years ago - Nature Human Behaviour The Middle Palaeolithic of southwest Asia witnessed interactions and knowledge sharing between archaic and modern humans ~130,000–80,000 years ago. These interactions led to increased behavioural comp...

Evidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel suggests behavioural uniformity across Homo groups in the Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic circa 130,000–80,000 years ago: intentional human burial and the use of ochre in burial contexts
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Early European evidence of artificial cranial modification from the Italian Late Upper Palaeolithic Arene Candide Cave - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Early European evidence of artificial cranial modification from the Italian Late Upper Palaeolithic Arene Candide Cave

Paleolithic evidence for artificial cranial deformation in an Epigravettian individual from Arene Candide Cave (Italy), dating to ca. 12.4ky BP. This new study adds to a host of diverse ritual, mortuary and social behaviors documented at the site. 🦣🏺🧪

One of the tough things about selling the Palaeolithic without hyperbole, or not ending up on the cutting room floor, is that fine grained anthropogenic deposits like Cora's square metre of gritty, light reddish-grey wonder are our pyramids, are our hanging gardens, are our pompeiis. 🏺🦣

Get involved The PaM Community was founded to be a member-led community and we want you to help shape our future directions. This community is very new and our ways of communicating will evolve as we find our f…

Finally, if you have any issues to discuss in the community meeting, or anything you'd like us to discuss with the EAA get in touch (instructions on following page) eaapalaeomesocommunity.wordpress.com/get-involved/

Get involved The PaM Community was founded to be a member-led community and we want you to help shape our future directions. This community is very new and our ways of communicating will evolve as we find our f…

Not a member yet? See here to join us (no costs involved!) eaapalaeomesocommunity.wordpress.com/get-involved/

Our annual PaM Community meeting will be held on 29 August at 13 - 14 pm CEST, where we will announce our new co-chair (also please do vote!). We hope you can join us! All PaM Community members (via EAA membership, or our google mailing list) welcome. Zoom link to come to our members by email.

Attention all EAA members of the PaM Community! Please check your emails for instructions on how to vote in the election for a new PaM Community co-chair. We have two fantastic candidates running, Danica Mihailović and Daniel Groß. You can read their statements here: www.e-a-a.org/EAA/Membersh...

Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal - Nature Analysis of species distribution models in a pan-African database comprising chronometrically dated archaeological sites over the past 120,000 years shows major expansion in the human niche from 70 ka...

1/5 Why do all non-Africans descended from a group that left Africa 50k ago? In @nature.com we model 120k years of human niche dynamics. From 70ka, a big expansion of the human niche in Africa likely equipped later OOA dispersals with a unique ecological flexibilty.
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We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s—only nobody knew After years of mystery, we now know what at least one Denisovan looked like.

This is wonderful. So now Harbin can be grouped with the Denisovans and we can finally meet this population face to face, what shall we call them?
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Reminder of the call for applications for a new PaM Community co-chair - due by July 1st. Thanks!

This is a crucial role that requires dedication and a passion for the PaM community. Please get in touch with us by July 1st by email (eaa.palaeomeso@gmail.com) with a short paragraph about yourself if you are interested in standing for election to join the PaM community as a co-chair!

As a co-chair, your shared duties will include seasonal newsletters and short announcements, maintaining our web page and social media presence, coordinate scheduling for PaM-associated sessions, organising a Discussion session and a social event and an annual report.

PaM Community News! Dr Annemieke Milks will be stepping down after 5 years of acting as a co-chair for the PaM community! We are searching for a new co-chair to join Dr Andrej Maczkowski and Dr Silje Evjenth Bentsen. Thread with more info: