Helen Hampton

Photo of me holding "Lady Sapiens: Breaking Stereotypes About Prehistoric Women" by Thomas Cirotteau, Jennifer Kerner, and Éric Pincas

New purchase from my local Oxfam 📖 It is very far outside my period of study, but I'm fascinated by prehistory, and how our modern viewpoint shapes studies of the ancient past. Should be an insightful read!

Here is the abstract for another session speaker. If this tickles your fancy come along either in person or online to further your lithic knowledge!!!!!
Voluntary Action Leicester (VAL) 7th and 8th November
Grab your tickets here www.tickettailor.com/events/lithi...

Here is the abstract for another speaker. If this tickles your fancy come along either in person or online to further your lithic knowledge!!!!!
Voluntary Action Leicester (VAL) 7th and 8th November
Grab your tickets here www.tickettailor.com/events/lithi...

Hi Makarius, please see the PM from the LSS

We have an exciting line-up of speakers already confirmed for our Ancient Genomes meeting in November. If you want to be one of the speakers or present a poster, submit your abstract by 31 July!

genetics.org.uk/events/ancie...

Cover of the book reviewed, depicting the surface of the sea, with the text 'Book Review, Antiquity'.

📕 #BookReview

How did prehistoric people settle islands? Did the first humans have the cognitive and behavioural traits to develop seafaring?
Explore John F. Cherry & Thomas P. Leppard's 'Human dispersal, human evolution, and the sea' in Antiquity:

(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

YouTube video by Guy Schofield Star Carr : After The Ice

To ease you into the weekend, here's a lovely film by Guy Schofield, one of two winners of this year's President’s Award.

The film is about an interactive mural commissioned by York Museums Trust for the exhibition Star Carr: Life After The Ice.

Enjoy! 😊

#Archaeology 🏺

youtu.be/xv_0yjWpK0s?...

Thank you to the Kiernan Experimental Archaeology Award, sponsored by EXARC member John Kiernan, for the micro-grant of 500 euros to fund my experimental archaeology project testing Neanderthal technology!

There’s still time to sign up for this week’s talk from Dr Natasha Reynolds, Université de Bordeaux!

Sign up here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Episode graphic titled “Why Does Ancient DNA Matter?” featuring several speakers and a large question mark background.

NEW EPISODE: Who are our ancestors and why does it matter?

Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about ancient DNA.

Listen on your favourite podcast platform: lnk.to/AQOSAncientD...

And here's Day 2 of the Lithic Studies Society 2025 conference - attend in person or online! Details and tickets here: tinyurl.com/2025Lithic

Check out the amazing Day 1 programme of the Lithic Studies Society 2025 conference! Details and tickets here: tinyurl.com/2025Lithic

A group of Arctic white wolves walking through the snow. They have white fur and blend in their surroundings. By Amit Eshel.

A close-up of a red deer bellowing, its head tilting towards the sky. It has light brown fur and large, dark brown antlers. By Jamie Smart.

Four slime moulds on a fallen tree. The moulds are circular and light blue, with their tops slouching slightly. By Kutub Uddin.

A potter wasp flying, holding large green worm. The insect is red, with large wings and large dark eyes. By Bidyut Kalita.

The 61st Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition opens today! 📸

Through 100 awe-inspiring photographs, the exhibition celebrates the variety of life on Earth and spotlights the threats facing species around the world.

The exhibition is supported by Lead Corporate Sponsor, Nuveen.

BGS' GeoIndex viewer has been given a major upgrade and is available as a beta release.

It includes core geological data layers, such as 625K- and 50K-scale digital geological mapping and borehole datasets, to allow for focused user testing.

Visit the app: geoindex.bgs.ac.uk?_ga=2.224738...

Please join us next week, Thursday 23rd October at 13:00 BST, for the next talk of the semester. We will be joined by Dr Natasha Reynolds, Université de Bordeaux - more details 👇

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

We hope to see you there!

A cowpat full of hundreds of holes where flies have hatched from the dung. This is an increasingly uncommon sight due to pesticide treatment in cattle

A cowpat full of dozens of holes where flies have hatched from the dung. This is an increasingly uncommon sight due to pesticide treatment in cattle

A tussocky cow pasture in North Norfolk, UK. 🐄 Autumnal colours 🍂 are beginning to infuse the hedgerow on the left where bramble, hawthorn and sallow bushes are growing.

As pockmarked as pikelets, these crumpet cowpats are signs that invertebrate life is at home in this North Norfolk pasture land.
When young, I used to turn them over to see what was inside and was rarely disappointed by the fat worms 🪱 and larvae revealed.
#invertebrates #biodiversity #pesticides

We didn’t conquer the world alone. This is humanity’s untold origin story | BBC Science Focus Magazine We’re discovering there were more characters, and more acts, in the tale of how Homo sapiens spread across the globe.

Short article I wrote* on recent advances in the story of early Homo sapiens is now available online!

*commissioned as accompanying BBC Human series, although tbh I did not love their Neanderthal episode :-(

www.sciencefocus.com/science/huma...

Animal engravings

Animal engravings

Excavations

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣

An international team, including our own Finn Stileman, have published a new study in Nature Communications on a monumental rock art tradition in northern Arabia dating between 12,800 and 11,400 years ago.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📸 @finnstileman.bsky.social

TAG 2025 - York tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk

**DONATIONS FOR BURSARIES**

TAG over the last few years has been trying to increase the accessibility of the conference by offering bursaries. We are now welcoming donations support these via our website.

tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/

Registration for this year's Theoretical Archaeology Group conference in York is open!

We'll be hosting the famous Antiquity pub quiz as usual, 19.00 on Tuesday 16th December at The Crescent Community Centre. Not one to miss!

YouTube video by Société Jersiaise Paleolithic archaeology and the Société Jersiaise

I was delighted to join other invited speakers to celebrate 150 years of the Société Jersiaise's commitment to science and culture. My lecture, on the history of their involvement in Palaeolithic research can be see via the link below. 🇯🇪🏺🦣
youtu.be/ZD_jKytjOv0?...

Please join us next week, 9th October 2025, at 13:00 BST, for our next seminar of the semester. We will be joined by @professorlacy.bsky.social, University of Delaware - more details 👇

If you'd like to join, please register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We hope to see you there!

We are thrilled to announce our timetable of seminars for the upcoming semester!

As always, all of our talks will be on Zoom and open to everyone. Our first talk will take place on the 2nd October at 13:00-14:00 BST. The Zoom link will be available closer to the time.

We hope to see you there! 🥳

Fossil footprints at the late Lower Paleolithic site of Schöningen (Germany)

Fossil footprints at the late Lower Paleolithic site of Schöningen (Germany): A new line of research to reconstruct animal and hominin paleoecology 🏺🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fossil tracks at the 300 ka Paleolithic sites of Schöningen (northern Germany) are described.

Hi Makarius! This paper is great! Are you still interested in presenting at the Lithic Studies Society Conference? I have been trying to contact you. I have sent you a PM on here.

Hi Makarius! This paper is great! Are you still interested in presenting at the Lithic Studies Society Conference? I have been trying to contact you. I have sent you a PM on here.

So excited to announce the lineup of speakers here @heasvienna.bsky.social for the 2025/6 academic year! We have some outstanding speakers for our three seminar series in Archaelogical Science, Ancient Genomics and Human Evolution & the Palaeolithic. All hybrid! Register now at HEAS.at

Looking forward to a building tour of the @britishlibrary.bsky.social

A group of students sat at a table examining documents and books from the Library's collection.

Are you an early career researcher with an interest in our collection? Apply to develop an independent research project funded by AHRC.

Hear more about the opportunity at a virtual town hall event on Monday 6 October: bit.ly/BL-EarlyCare...