#UTP26 is under way with @drclaireharris.bsky.social leading a tour on Ice Age London. Beginning at Embankment and the modern Thames, the banks of which have been remodelled in the historic era. 🦣🏺 #PalaeoLondon
June 18, 2026 at 6:09 PM
#UTP26 is under way with @drclaireharris.bsky.social leading a tour on Ice Age London. Beginning at Embankment and the modern Thames, the banks of which have been remodelled in the historic era. 🦣🏺 #PalaeoLondon
And we can be fairly certain that Palaeolithic people were not in fact preferring Holborn, Bloomsbury, Fitzrovia, Marylebone and Mayfair over Bayswater, Knightsbridge and Paddington. So what has given rise to this mapped distribution pattern? Recent historical geography I assume.🏺🦣
#PalaeoLondon
#PalaeoLondon
October 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
And we can be fairly certain that Palaeolithic people were not in fact preferring Holborn, Bloomsbury, Fitzrovia, Marylebone and Mayfair over Bayswater, Knightsbridge and Paddington. So what has given rise to this mapped distribution pattern? Recent historical geography I assume.🏺🦣
#PalaeoLondon
#PalaeoLondon
Next Monday I'll be talking at the autumn @cbalondon.bsky.social meeting on the Ice Age archaeology and geology of the City. Its going to be held at @UCLarchaeology, its totally free, but you have to book a place. See you there!
#PalaeoLondon 🦣
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-autumn...
🎨Tabitha Paterson
#PalaeoLondon 🦣
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-autumn...
🎨Tabitha Paterson
November 11, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Next Monday I'll be talking at the autumn @cbalondon.bsky.social meeting on the Ice Age archaeology and geology of the City. Its going to be held at @UCLarchaeology, its totally free, but you have to book a place. See you there!
#PalaeoLondon 🦣
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-autumn...
🎨Tabitha Paterson
#PalaeoLondon 🦣
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-autumn...
🎨Tabitha Paterson
This Monday I'll be talking in London on Ice Age London alongside as part of @cbalondon.bsky.social 's meeting, @UCLarchaeology, its totally free, but you have to book a place.
#PalaeoLondon 🦣 🏺
eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-autumn...
🎨Tabitha Paterson
#PalaeoLondon 🦣 🏺
eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-autumn...
🎨Tabitha Paterson
November 15, 2024 at 11:49 AM
This Monday I'll be talking in London on Ice Age London alongside as part of @cbalondon.bsky.social 's meeting, @UCLarchaeology, its totally free, but you have to book a place.
#PalaeoLondon 🦣 🏺
eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-autumn...
🎨Tabitha Paterson
#PalaeoLondon 🦣 🏺
eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-autumn...
🎨Tabitha Paterson
Next Monday I'll be talking at the autumn @cbalondon meeting on the Ice Age archaeology and geology of the City. Its going to be held at @UCLarchaeology, its totally free, but you have to book a place.
#PalaeoLondon...
#PalaeoLondon...
January 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Next Monday I'll be talking at the autumn @cbalondon meeting on the Ice Age archaeology and geology of the City. Its going to be held at @UCLarchaeology, its totally free, but you have to book a place.
#PalaeoLondon...
#PalaeoLondon...
North east London & Essex.
Ice Age geology & Palaeolithic finds.
The former extent of the Anglian Ice Sheet is in blue. The red triangles are our record of 400,000 years of early human occupation in the region. #PalaeoLondon.
Ice Age geology & Palaeolithic finds.
The former extent of the Anglian Ice Sheet is in blue. The red triangles are our record of 400,000 years of early human occupation in the region. #PalaeoLondon.
January 24, 2025 at 5:50 AM
North east London & Essex.
Ice Age geology & Palaeolithic finds.
The former extent of the Anglian Ice Sheet is in blue. The red triangles are our record of 400,000 years of early human occupation in the region. #PalaeoLondon.
Ice Age geology & Palaeolithic finds.
The former extent of the Anglian Ice Sheet is in blue. The red triangles are our record of 400,000 years of early human occupation in the region. #PalaeoLondon.
"In either case, it is very likely that the structure lies above a fault zone including fractured, possibly karstic chalk,
with high groundwater conductivity." J.R Lee and T.D. Aldiss 2012 The subterranean flooded caves under the London Olympic Village?! #PalaeoLondon 4/4
with high groundwater conductivity." J.R Lee and T.D. Aldiss 2012 The subterranean flooded caves under the London Olympic Village?! #PalaeoLondon 4/4
January 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"In either case, it is very likely that the structure lies above a fault zone including fractured, possibly karstic chalk,
with high groundwater conductivity." J.R Lee and T.D. Aldiss 2012 The subterranean flooded caves under the London Olympic Village?! #PalaeoLondon 4/4
with high groundwater conductivity." J.R Lee and T.D. Aldiss 2012 The subterranean flooded caves under the London Olympic Village?! #PalaeoLondon 4/4
Possible Late Pleistocene pingo development within the L...
nora.nerc.ac.uk
January 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
It's quite dramatic reading! "The borehole penetrates a 70 metre-thick sequence...revealing a 43 metre-thick zone of
bedrock mélange." #Pingo #PalaeoLondon 1/4
bedrock mélange." #Pingo #PalaeoLondon 1/4
January 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
It's quite dramatic reading! "The borehole penetrates a 70 metre-thick sequence...revealing a 43 metre-thick zone of
bedrock mélange." #Pingo #PalaeoLondon 1/4
bedrock mélange." #Pingo #PalaeoLondon 1/4
While flying over, take a moment to gaze in wonder at London's Palaeolithic. In deep red is Ground Zero on the Grays Inn Road. Look at the cluster of finds in Hackney, in the City and the West End. #PalaeoLondon #UrbanPrehistory #WiP
January 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
While flying over, take a moment to gaze in wonder at London's Palaeolithic. In deep red is Ground Zero on the Grays Inn Road. Look at the cluster of finds in Hackney, in the City and the West End. #PalaeoLondon #UrbanPrehistory #WiP
London Before London @carolinejuby's PhD thesis, covering Pleistocene London, is such a brilliant work and it's 10 years old this year. Thank you Caroline for all the times I've virtually reached for it over the last few years. #PalaeoLondon...
January 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
London Before London @carolinejuby's PhD thesis, covering Pleistocene London, is such a brilliant work and it's 10 years old this year. Thank you Caroline for all the times I've virtually reached for it over the last few years. #PalaeoLondon...
"The locality is of paramount importance, not only does it contain one of the richest Palaeolithic archaeological assemblages in southern England, but also rich palaeoenvironmental evidence for a relatively poorly-known interglacial" Juby 2011 on Hackney #PalaeoLondon
January 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
"The locality is of paramount importance, not only does it contain one of the richest Palaeolithic archaeological assemblages in southern England, but also rich palaeoenvironmental evidence for a relatively poorly-known interglacial" Juby 2011 on Hackney #PalaeoLondon
Your regular reminder that 120,000 years ago Hippos ruled Trafalgar Square and that that #FourPlinth would look great with a statue of one on it. #PalaeoLondon #FossilFriday
Fab🎨 by @TabithaPaterson
Fab🎨 by @TabithaPaterson
January 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Your regular reminder that 120,000 years ago Hippos ruled Trafalgar Square and that that #FourPlinth would look great with a statue of one on it. #PalaeoLondon #FossilFriday
Fab🎨 by @TabithaPaterson
Fab🎨 by @TabithaPaterson
The 🟦shows Ice Age deposits, 🔺Palaeolithic finds. Dead centre is John Conyers 1690 Grays Inn Road handaxe, right on the edge of mapped deposits. The lack of known find spots to the east means very little. Just gaps to be tested. 🦣 #PalaeoLondon #Bloomsbury #Clerkenwell
January 24, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The 🟦shows Ice Age deposits, 🔺Palaeolithic finds. Dead centre is John Conyers 1690 Grays Inn Road handaxe, right on the edge of mapped deposits. The lack of known find spots to the east means very little. Just gaps to be tested. 🦣 #PalaeoLondon #Bloomsbury #Clerkenwell
Read the historical find spot data literally and they tell us Neanderthals preferred #Acton to #ShepherdsBush
Until the gaps are tested we can't really say anything. #PalaeoLondon
Until the gaps are tested we can't really say anything. #PalaeoLondon
January 24, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Read the historical find spot data literally and they tell us Neanderthals preferred #Acton to #ShepherdsBush
Until the gaps are tested we can't really say anything. #PalaeoLondon
Until the gaps are tested we can't really say anything. #PalaeoLondon
In pink, one of the oldest (>500,000 years) Ice Age deposits in London: the Stanmore Gravel Formation. Not sure how old it is, if its ancient river or marine in origin. So far no artefacts have been found in it. It caps high hills on the edges of the Thames basin. #PalaeoLondon
January 24, 2025 at 4:42 AM
In pink, one of the oldest (>500,000 years) Ice Age deposits in London: the Stanmore Gravel Formation. Not sure how old it is, if its ancient river or marine in origin. So far no artefacts have been found in it. It caps high hills on the edges of the Thames basin. #PalaeoLondon
Intrigued to hear that Indiana Jones has been filming in Hackney. Is the series going to redeem itself with an Ice Age theme & #PalaeoLondon plot?...
January 24, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Intrigued to hear that Indiana Jones has been filming in Hackney. Is the series going to redeem itself with an Ice Age theme & #PalaeoLondon plot?...
Nearby at Angel Road pit the peaty 'Arctic Beds' don't look detached at all. Right down the Lea Valley to Stratford records of rich organic deposit from the last cold stage have been made. #PalaeoLondon
January 24, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Nearby at Angel Road pit the peaty 'Arctic Beds' don't look detached at all. Right down the Lea Valley to Stratford records of rich organic deposit from the last cold stage have been made. #PalaeoLondon
Up early editing some text for #PalaeoLondon teaching resources. It's a shame we can't confirm any archaeology older than half a million years in the city. It's almost certainly here. 🦣
January 24, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Up early editing some text for #PalaeoLondon teaching resources. It's a shame we can't confirm any archaeology older than half a million years in the city. It's almost certainly here. 🦣
The pit was owned by the Great Eastern Railway company. It produced remains of woolly mammoth which were preserved & put on display in the board room at Liverpool Street station. The history of railways & early Ice Age science are deeply entangled. #PalaeoLondon🦣🚂
January 24, 2025 at 3:43 AM
The pit was owned by the Great Eastern Railway company. It produced remains of woolly mammoth which were preserved & put on display in the board room at Liverpool Street station. The history of railways & early Ice Age science are deeply entangled. #PalaeoLondon🦣🚂
Using the 1746 Rocque Map (and others) to help give a grid point for the Grays Inn Lane elephant. The first recorded Ice Age fauna in London.
We'll soon be ready to share the draft map.
#PalaeoLondon #MammothMap 🦣
We'll soon be ready to share the draft map.
#PalaeoLondon #MammothMap 🦣
January 24, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Using the 1746 Rocque Map (and others) to help give a grid point for the Grays Inn Lane elephant. The first recorded Ice Age fauna in London.
We'll soon be ready to share the draft map.
#PalaeoLondon #MammothMap 🦣
We'll soon be ready to share the draft map.
#PalaeoLondon #MammothMap 🦣
I would love to see a modern section through this. An unscaled photograph, by Sam Hazzledine-Warren, showing detached blocks of ice-rafted peat, the Arctic Beds of the Lea Valley. At Picketts Lock Pit, Ponders End, Enfield.
#PalaeoLondon
#PalaeoLondon
January 24, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I would love to see a modern section through this. An unscaled photograph, by Sam Hazzledine-Warren, showing detached blocks of ice-rafted peat, the Arctic Beds of the Lea Valley. At Picketts Lock Pit, Ponders End, Enfield.
#PalaeoLondon
#PalaeoLondon
Tonight we got to test drive our #PalaeoLondon Mammoth Map with London primary school teachers as part of their CPD
January 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Tonight we got to test drive our #PalaeoLondon Mammoth Map with London primary school teachers as part of their CPD
Working in London today. Thinking about how the Roman city, to the east, was in the landscape of the Hackney Gravels. Early Medieval London, to the west, that of the Lynch Hill Gravels. Two versions of early London, set out on two seperate Ice Age legacies. #PalaeoLondon
January 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Working in London today. Thinking about how the Roman city, to the east, was in the landscape of the Hackney Gravels. Early Medieval London, to the west, that of the Lynch Hill Gravels. Two versions of early London, set out on two seperate Ice Age legacies. #PalaeoLondon
Rediscovering the tributaries of the Thames is one thing, but here at Embankment you can look north across the floodplain edge of the Early Medieval actual Thames up to the Ice Age Taplow terrace formed by the river over 125,000 years ago. #PalaeoLondon 1/2
January 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Rediscovering the tributaries of the Thames is one thing, but here at Embankment you can look north across the floodplain edge of the Early Medieval actual Thames up to the Ice Age Taplow terrace formed by the river over 125,000 years ago. #PalaeoLondon 1/2