Modifications observed on shells from La Roche-à-Pierrot in Saint-Césaire, France, including perforations made by pressure and pigment staining.
CREDIT: Solange Rigaud
Pigments and shells with drilled holes to be used as beads found with Châtelperronian stone tools in France suggest humans—or Neanderthals—were decorating themselves in the Middle Paleolithic, just as Homo sapiens were moving into Eurasia. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Unveiling the multifunctional use of ochre in the Middle Stone Age: Specialized ochre retouchers from Blombos Cave
Seven ochre artifacts from Blombos Cave show evidence of lithic retouching and pressure flaking, revealing specialized MSA tools.
Very happy that our new paper is out in ScienceAdvances showing direct evidence of #ochre used as lithic reotuchers during the MSA "Unveiling the multifunctional use of ochre in the Middle Stone Age: Specialized ochre retouchers from Blombos Cave www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Wandering SAffer, retired professor of archaeological science interested in all things human, animal and vegetable
We study human evolution across the last one million years, through ancient proteins and associated biomolecules in skeletal remains. PI Frido Welker.
#Archaeology @ox.ac.uk www.arch.ox.ac.uk
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Official account of the Max Planck Society. Devoted to basic #research in #physics #astronomy #chemistry #biology #earthsciences #materialscience #mathematics #socialsciences and the #humanities; Imprint: https://www.mpg.de/imprint
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Leibniz Research Alliance "Value of the Past"
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Blog: https://valuepast.hypotheses.org
Das Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte in Halle (Saale) ist Standort der weltberühmten Himmelsscheibe von Nebra und zählt zu den renommiertesten archäologischen Museen Mitteleuropas.
Impressum: https://www.lda-lsa.de/impressum
Archäologie an der Universität Wien vom Paläolithikum bis zur Gegenwart, mit Schwerpunkt Landschaftsarchäologie und Prospektion, Archäologie des menschlichen Körpers und materieller Kultur.
Postdoc at ICArEHB | PhD from NYU | Computational archaeologist interested in stone tool recycling, hominin mobility, and Paleolithic Central Asia | she/her
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Laboratory for Human Evolutionary Studies (University of São Paulo). PI: Mercedes Okumura
Lab specialized in the study of macro- and microscopic wear traces and residues on prehistoric stone artefacts. University of Liège (BE).
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Archaeologist at the Griffith Centre for Social & Cultural Research.
Head of World Heritage @Moesgaardmuseum; IIMAS Fellow. Former
Professor @UniGraz, MSCA @UCamArchaeology, PhD @tcddublin. Archaeology, animals, Mesopotamia, Cyprus, Aegean, horses & donkeys. Director of Erimi-Pitharka Archaeological Project.
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Paleoanthropologist, human evolution, Neanderthals, modern human origins, S-E Europe and Greece.
Dog enthusiast!
Professor, University of Tübingen, Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironments & University of Bergen. Opinions my own.
Environmental Archaeology Research Group, CSIC, Madrid. Quaternary palynologist, Paleoecology, Nature and dreams.
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