Kayla Flanagan

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🏺 Always intrigued about potential that such things existed in prehistoric settlements. Identifying multi-storey buildings from stone remains are one thing, but organic superstructures might not preserve.
e.g. what if these Neolithic house models aren't symbolic, but show real architecture?

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I know you're a details man Derek so here you go: the evidence we have for #Neanderthal clothing, including thermal arguments that some of it, at some times, must have been 'tailored'.

(from Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art)

Quantifying Levallois: a 3D geometric morphometric approach to Nubian technology - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Levallois technology, a hallmark of Middle Palaeolithic stone tool manufacture, involves sophisticated core reduction strategies that have major implications for understanding human cognitive and tech...

Levallois Alert ⚠️
Moving beyond classic metric measurements, @eshallinan.bsky.social and @jmcascalheira.bsky.social applied a geometric morphometric approach to Nubian Levallois cores, offering novel insights into shape variability at an inter-regional scale.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

That is most certainly A Choice.

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The universe will always hold more wonders than we can imagine

Been dipping into this already, and once again, Riley has created something marvellous!
If you're into prehistory, #palaeontology, biology, science or just great writing - this book is for you
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Love how our Earthling eyes are just not adapted to the Moon's strange desaturated starkness, so that photos of it with something familiar can look oddly fake

🦣🧪🏺 More evidence of early ecological adaptation v cool, but consider that in Eurasia, (roughly) equivalent Middle Palaeolithic technologies are made by several species.
Wouldn't it be amazing if the makers of these tools, living in wet forests, turn out to be 'ghost' hominins known only from DNA?

🏺 Fascinating find, and a great quote here threading between Indigenous knowledge & histories, and archaeological science: "let the finds tell their stories"

I’m excited to look through this digital exhibit! Alice Watterson is one of the creators and I’ve really appreciated her writing on visualization in the past. Also it looks like an excellent model for sharing archaeological research while prioritizing a community’s needs and interests.

🦣🧪🏺 As far as I am aware, this is NOT regarded by the majority of researchers as a hybrid between #Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.
Its re-dating to the Gravettian is useful info for that period, but uncontroversial.

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Just learned that in some Bronze Age cultures, seats of rulers - i.e. thrones - were actually deities. The Seat Of Power was not just a thing but an entity

The earliest human face of Western Europe - Nature A Homo aff. erectus individual dated to 1.4 million to 1.1 million years ago found at Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain) does not display the modern-human-like aspect of Homo antecess...

The oldest human remains from Western Europe from a species never documented here 🤯 #Atapuerca did it again! 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Officially complaining that there's just too much cool archaeology out these days

🗃️🏺 Been thinking about ancient female literacy a lot recently for #Matriarcha, in Bronze Age Aegean and Near East, and the extent to which we might underestimate it not just in elite or scribal settings, but mercantile/trade contexts too.

A heart-shaped yellowy brown flint tool about 12cm x 10cm, delicately shaped,. Held in a hand covered in a blue latex glove with draws behind with more flint tools in

From the teaching collection of the @uclarchaeology.bsky.social a beautiful, deep honey coloured handaxe. It's unprovenanced but based on shape, technology and condition, there is no reason it couldn't be from a local late Neanderthal population.
#FlintFriday
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Absolutely mind-bending - and makes me wonder, if Earth had a moon like Titan (or a binary partner planet like Venus) with a thick atmosphere and just the right orbital configuration to create total eclipses, what colour would we see its eclipses as?

Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies Published in Childhood in the Past: An International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2025)

I've am deep dive fascinated w the history of women in anthropology, particularly my bit of it, so you can imagine how excited i was when Sarah Blaffer Hrdy published a new book on paternal care -- and it did not disappoint. insight and insane Trivers quotes... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🏺This IS cool but N American Old Copper culture (clue's in the name), were also using copper at this time: mining, heating, hammering & grinding into weapons & tools.
Not same intensity of metallurgy/pyrotechnology, but foragers definitely interested in metals!
[all this will feat. in #Matriarcha]

🏺🧪🦣 #Neanderthals eating some insects makes sense (here in #Kindred I write about reindeer parasites), but we should also consider that some studies show early H. sapiens in same environments have equivalent high nitrogen levels

V interesting what this might suggest for the late prehistoric perceptions & use of the landscape: a massive river, wetlands, deep black lakes, with not much settlement at all, but body deposition on the Thames shore & eyots (isles)

The Canis lupus ssp. (Mammalia, Carnivora) of the Baume Traucade (Issirac, Gard, France): A complete skeleton of a “dog-like” individual from the post-LGM Completely preserved canid skeletons dating from the Pleistocene are rare finds. Here, we describe such a unique discovery from Baume Traucade, a cave…

🏺 🐕 New potential late Upper Palaeolithic dog, from southern France (slightly younger than Erralla one); with pathology that may indicate hunting by humans

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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