Deep time on the penninsula. A Lower Palaeolithic Mode I chopper crafted from local Wirral red sandstone. A challenging material compared to flint. It offers a fascinating look at how early humans adapted to local raw materials. #FindsFriday #Palaeolithic #Prehistory #Lithics #Wirral
October 23, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Deep time on the penninsula. A Lower Palaeolithic Mode I chopper crafted from local Wirral red sandstone. A challenging material compared to flint. It offers a fascinating look at how early humans adapted to local raw materials. #FindsFriday #Palaeolithic #Prehistory #Lithics #Wirral
A Late Upper Palaeolithic Magdalenian stone burin/engraver c.10,000-17,000 BC. It is identical to those found in Mayan-Koblenz, Germany, showing a close continental connection.
#FindsFriday #Palaeolithic #Archaeology #Wirral
#FindsFriday #Palaeolithic #Archaeology #Wirral
October 23, 2026 at 6:51 AM
A Late Upper Palaeolithic Magdalenian stone burin/engraver c.10,000-17,000 BC. It is identical to those found in Mayan-Koblenz, Germany, showing a close continental connection.
#FindsFriday #Palaeolithic #Archaeology #Wirral
#FindsFriday #Palaeolithic #Archaeology #Wirral
been sick for over 3 weeks now. first fatigue, then once that cleared up it was a sore throat, and now it’s sinusitis. immune system …. do something !! if this was the palaeolithic i’d be fucking dead
October 23, 2026 at 10:48 PM
been sick for over 3 weeks now. first fatigue, then once that cleared up it was a sore throat, and now it’s sinusitis. immune system …. do something !! if this was the palaeolithic i’d be fucking dead
Original study:
@palmirasaladie.bsky.social et al., Neanderthal woodworking at Abric Romaní: Insights into the role of wood in a Middle Palaeolithic domestic context, Science Advances 12(41), 2026. 🔓
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@palmirasaladie.bsky.social et al., Neanderthal woodworking at Abric Romaní: Insights into the role of wood in a Middle Palaeolithic domestic context, Science Advances 12(41), 2026. 🔓
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Neanderthal woodworking at Abric Romaní: Insights into the role of wood in a Middle Palaeolithic domestic context
Wood technology likely played a key role in human evolution, yet it remains poorly documented because organic materials rarely preserve in archaeological contexts. The Middle Palaeolithic site of Abri...
www.science.org
October 20, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Original study:
@palmirasaladie.bsky.social et al., Neanderthal woodworking at Abric Romaní: Insights into the role of wood in a Middle Palaeolithic domestic context, Science Advances 12(41), 2026. 🔓
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@palmirasaladie.bsky.social et al., Neanderthal woodworking at Abric Romaní: Insights into the role of wood in a Middle Palaeolithic domestic context, Science Advances 12(41), 2026. 🔓
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
New excavations has unearthed large quantities of mammoth bones and ivory at the Aurignacian site of Breitenbach.
@paleomonrepos.bsky.social
@leizarchaeology.bsky.social @landesmuseumhalle.bsky.social
www.lda-lsa.de/en/presse-un...
#archaeology #palaeolithic #paleolithic #aurignacian
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@leizarchaeology.bsky.social @landesmuseumhalle.bsky.social
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#archaeology #palaeolithic #paleolithic #aurignacian
October 23, 2026 at 7:05 AM
New excavations has unearthed large quantities of mammoth bones and ivory at the Aurignacian site of Breitenbach.
@paleomonrepos.bsky.social
@leizarchaeology.bsky.social @landesmuseumhalle.bsky.social
www.lda-lsa.de/en/presse-un...
#archaeology #palaeolithic #paleolithic #aurignacian
@paleomonrepos.bsky.social
@leizarchaeology.bsky.social @landesmuseumhalle.bsky.social
www.lda-lsa.de/en/presse-un...
#archaeology #palaeolithic #paleolithic #aurignacian
🏺🧪 The genetic history of humans in pre-LGM Upper Palaeolithic Europe gets even more complex with more ancient genomes and some ingenious use of sedimentary DNA. Also casually identify that two burials from Ostuni Cave represent a mother and her son.
October 23, 2026 at 9:46 PM
🏺🧪 The genetic history of humans in pre-LGM Upper Palaeolithic Europe gets even more complex with more ancient genomes and some ingenious use of sedimentary DNA. Also casually identify that two burials from Ostuni Cave represent a mother and her son.
Upper Palaeolithic mariners?
Evaluating experimental evidence for intentional early seafaring🏺🧪
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Argues creating a boat for which there is no archaeological evidence with generic tools not widely available in the region risks a confounding circularity of logic.
Evaluating experimental evidence for intentional early seafaring🏺🧪
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Argues creating a boat for which there is no archaeological evidence with generic tools not widely available in the region risks a confounding circularity of logic.
Upper Palaeolithic mariners? Evaluating experimental evidence for intentional early seafaring | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Upper Palaeolithic mariners? Evaluating experimental evidence for intentional early seafaring
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October 23, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Upper Palaeolithic mariners?
Evaluating experimental evidence for intentional early seafaring🏺🧪
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Argues creating a boat for which there is no archaeological evidence with generic tools not widely available in the region risks a confounding circularity of logic.
Evaluating experimental evidence for intentional early seafaring🏺🧪
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Argues creating a boat for which there is no archaeological evidence with generic tools not widely available in the region risks a confounding circularity of logic.
Amud 7. 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴. Occipital bone. Middle Palaeolithic. Levant. Courtesy of Y. Rak University Tel Aviv #FossilFriday
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@erc.europa.eu CENIEH
October 23, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Amud 7. 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴. Occipital bone. Middle Palaeolithic. Levant. Courtesy of Y. Rak University Tel Aviv #FossilFriday
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@erc.europa.eu CENIEH
Upper Palaeolithic mariners? Evaluating experimental evidence for intentional early seafaring
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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October 23, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Upper Palaeolithic mariners? Evaluating experimental evidence for intentional early seafaring
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Excavations in the Côa valley in Portugal, the world’s largest site of Palaeolithic open-air rock art, are yielding clues about how engravings of animals were seen by prehistoric hunter-gatherers
Archaeologists are uncovering the meaning of a unique rock art site | New Scientist
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October 24, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Excavations in the Côa valley in Portugal, the world’s largest site of Palaeolithic open-air rock art, are yielding clues about how engravings of animals were seen by prehistoric hunter-gatherers
Traces of blue pigment on a 13,000-year-old stone artefact from Mühlheim-Dietesheim, Germany. Questioning the idea that Palaeolithic artists only used red or black, it paints a picture of a more vibrant Ice Age than imagined #NationalColorDay
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
October 22, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Traces of blue pigment on a 13,000-year-old stone artefact from Mühlheim-Dietesheim, Germany. Questioning the idea that Palaeolithic artists only used red or black, it paints a picture of a more vibrant Ice Age than imagined #NationalColorDay
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Excavations in the Côa valley in Portugal, the world’s largest site of Palaeolithic open-air rock art, are yielding clues about how engravings of animals were seen by prehistoric hunter-gatherers
Archaeologists are uncovering the meaning of a unique rock art site | New Scientist
www.newscientist.com
October 23, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Excavations in the Côa valley in Portugal, the world’s largest site of Palaeolithic open-air rock art, are yielding clues about how engravings of animals were seen by prehistoric hunter-gatherers
NEW Did Palaeolithic mariners use dugout canoes to cross through the Ryukyu Islands 35,000 years ago, pushing seafaring back thousands of years?
The latest #AntiquityDebate critically assesses this claim, exploring the risks of experimental archaeology.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
The latest #AntiquityDebate critically assesses this claim, exploring the risks of experimental archaeology.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
October 21, 2026 at 4:35 PM
NEW Did Palaeolithic mariners use dugout canoes to cross through the Ryukyu Islands 35,000 years ago, pushing seafaring back thousands of years?
The latest #AntiquityDebate critically assesses this claim, exploring the risks of experimental archaeology.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
The latest #AntiquityDebate critically assesses this claim, exploring the risks of experimental archaeology.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Neanderthal woodworking at Abric Romaní: Insights into the role of wood in a Middle Palaeolithic domestic context doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Neanderthal woodworking at Abric Romaní: Insights into the role of wood in a Middle Palaeolithic domestic context
Wood technology likely played a key role in human evolution, yet it remains poorly documented because organic materials rarely preserve in archaeological contexts. The Middle Palaeolithic site of…
doi.org
October 18, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Neanderthal woodworking at Abric Romaní: Insights into the role of wood in a Middle Palaeolithic domestic context doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Excavations in the Côa valley in Portugal, the world’s largest site of Palaeolithic open-air rock art, are yielding clues about how engravings of animals were seen by prehistoric hunter-gatherers
Archaeologists are uncovering the meaning of a unique rock art site | New Scientist
www.newscientist.com
October 22, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Excavations in the Côa valley in Portugal, the world’s largest site of Palaeolithic open-air rock art, are yielding clues about how engravings of animals were seen by prehistoric hunter-gatherers
The palaeolithic persons who invented fire probably had allistics sneering passive-aggressively over their shoulder because of their audacity of wanting to rub rocks and stones together.
"What are you doing? 😡 Stop being weird."
🪨🪵🔥
"What are you doing? 😡 Stop being weird."
🪨🪵🔥
Creativity: a synonym of non-conformity. The ability to see & do what normal people cannot.
Autistics are punished for non-conforming. Allistics are obsessed with following normative scripts & expectations.
Doesn't this mean allistics are the ones who lack creativity? 😂 Another projection.
Autistics are punished for non-conforming. Allistics are obsessed with following normative scripts & expectations.
Doesn't this mean allistics are the ones who lack creativity? 😂 Another projection.
October 20, 2026 at 9:50 AM
The palaeolithic persons who invented fire probably had allistics sneering passive-aggressively over their shoulder because of their audacity of wanting to rub rocks and stones together.
"What are you doing? 😡 Stop being weird."
🪨🪵🔥
"What are you doing? 😡 Stop being weird."
🪨🪵🔥
Excavations in the Côa valley in Portugal, the world’s largest site of Palaeolithic open-air rock art, are yielding clues about how engravings of animals were seen by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.
Read more: www.newscientist.com/articl...
Read more: www.newscientist.com/articl...
October 19, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Excavations in the Côa valley in Portugal, the world’s largest site of Palaeolithic open-air rock art, are yielding clues about how engravings of animals were seen by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.
Read more: www.newscientist.com/articl...
Read more: www.newscientist.com/articl...
Excavations in the Côa valley in Portugal, the world’s largest site of Palaeolithic open-air rock art, are yielding clues about how engravings of animals were seen by prehistoric hunter-gatherers
Archaeologists are uncovering the meaning of a unique rock art site | New Scientist
www.newscientist.com
October 19, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Excavations in the Côa valley in Portugal, the world’s largest site of Palaeolithic open-air rock art, are yielding clues about how engravings of animals were seen by prehistoric hunter-gatherers
The first and earliest example of blue pigment use from the European Upper Palaeolithic. The blue pigment was identified on a stone artefact with a concave, bowl-like morphology
The earliest evidence of blue pigment use in Europe🏺🧪
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The earliest evidence of blue pigment use in Europe🏺🧪
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 23, 2026 at 3:30 PM
The first and earliest example of blue pigment use from the European Upper Palaeolithic. The blue pigment was identified on a stone artefact with a concave, bowl-like morphology
The earliest evidence of blue pigment use in Europe🏺🧪
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The earliest evidence of blue pigment use in Europe🏺🧪
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
For #FlintFriday, our beautiful newly excavated bladelet from #KentsCavern, the first lithic from the cave in decades - a good sign for things to come!
#Archaeology #Palaeolithic #ERCResearch
#Archaeology #Palaeolithic #ERCResearch
October 16, 2026 at 4:38 PM
For #FlintFriday, our beautiful newly excavated bladelet from #KentsCavern, the first lithic from the cave in decades - a good sign for things to come!
#Archaeology #Palaeolithic #ERCResearch
#Archaeology #Palaeolithic #ERCResearch
Excavations in the Côa valley in Portugal, the world’s largest site of Palaeolithic open-air rock art, are yielding clues about how engravings of animals were seen by prehistoric hunter-gatherers
Archaeologists are uncovering the meaning of a unique rock art site | New Scientist
www.newscientist.com
October 21, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Excavations in the Côa valley in Portugal, the world’s largest site of Palaeolithic open-air rock art, are yielding clues about how engravings of animals were seen by prehistoric hunter-gatherers
Archaeologists are uncovering the meaning of a unique rock art site.
Excavations in the Côa valley in Portugal, the world’s largest site of Palaeolithic open-air rock art, are yielding clues about how engravings of animals we…
#Archaeology #RockArt #Palaeolithic #HunterGatherers #Portugal #Science
Excavations in the Côa valley in Portugal, the world’s largest site of Palaeolithic open-air rock art, are yielding clues about how engravings of animals we…
#Archaeology #RockArt #Palaeolithic #HunterGatherers #Portugal #Science
Archaeologists are uncovering the meaning of a unique rock art site.
by Benjamin Taub — New Scientist
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October 19, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Archaeologists are uncovering the meaning of a unique rock art site.
Excavations in the Côa valley in Portugal, the world’s largest site of Palaeolithic open-air rock art, are yielding clues about how engravings of animals we…
#Archaeology #RockArt #Palaeolithic #HunterGatherers #Portugal #Science
Excavations in the Côa valley in Portugal, the world’s largest site of Palaeolithic open-air rock art, are yielding clues about how engravings of animals we…
#Archaeology #RockArt #Palaeolithic #HunterGatherers #Portugal #Science
🧬 Redefining palaeolithic population dynamics! Early Gravettian genomic data reveals unexpected east-west gene flow in Europe before the Last Glacial Maximum, challenging regional genetic continuity www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Early Gravettian genomic data from Western Europe reveal population movements before the LGM
Anatomically modern humans first settled in Europe at least 45,000 years ago, yet limited genomic data from 45 to 20 thousand years (ka) constrain reconstructions of Upper Palaeolithic population dyna...
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October 23, 2026 at 6:22 PM
🧬 Redefining palaeolithic population dynamics! Early Gravettian genomic data reveals unexpected east-west gene flow in Europe before the Last Glacial Maximum, challenging regional genetic continuity www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...