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"We can almost look through the eyes of the Aurignacian people and see how they viewed the environment around them,” says Amy Clark, a palaeolithic archaeologist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts."
"We can almost look through the eyes of the Aurignacian people and see how they viewed the environment around them,” says Amy Clark, a palaeolithic archaeologist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts."
40,000-year-old bird carvings provide clues to how ice age humans flourished
Newly discovered figurines point to skills that might have helped shape early humans’ expansion across Europe.
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July 29, 2026 at 6:51 PM
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"We can almost look through the eyes of the Aurignacian people and see how they viewed the environment around them,” says Amy Clark, a palaeolithic archaeologist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts."
"We can almost look through the eyes of the Aurignacian people and see how they viewed the environment around them,” says Amy Clark, a palaeolithic archaeologist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts."
New paper alert!
Blombos Cave is known for early symbolic behaviour, but to understand mobility we must first map the resource landscape. Here, we identify areas rich in raw materials (silcrete, ochre) to set the stage for future provenance & mobility studies.
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Blombos Cave is known for early symbolic behaviour, but to understand mobility we must first map the resource landscape. Here, we identify areas rich in raw materials (silcrete, ochre) to set the stage for future provenance & mobility studies.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com
July 29, 2026 at 6:58 PM
New paper alert!
Blombos Cave is known for early symbolic behaviour, but to understand mobility we must first map the resource landscape. Here, we identify areas rich in raw materials (silcrete, ochre) to set the stage for future provenance & mobility studies.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Blombos Cave is known for early symbolic behaviour, but to understand mobility we must first map the resource landscape. Here, we identify areas rich in raw materials (silcrete, ochre) to set the stage for future provenance & mobility studies.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted
40,000 years ago, humans in Europe carved over 3,000 geometric signs—symbols we still can’t decode. A new study finds their complexity rivals the earliest protocuneiform tablets of ancient Mesopotamia. Read more in PNAS: https://ow.ly/fUFH50Yoa6T
March 3, 2026 at 8:01 PM
40,000 years ago, humans in Europe carved over 3,000 geometric signs—symbols we still can’t decode. A new study finds their complexity rivals the earliest protocuneiform tablets of ancient Mesopotamia. Read more in PNAS: https://ow.ly/fUFH50Yoa6T
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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/...
October 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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/...
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/...
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.
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June 30, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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/...