Neanderthal, in the footsteps of another humanity, David Geoffroy's film, featuring Rozel and a little La Cotte, has been entered in the Arkhaios festival competition You can see a trailer and vote for the film (or another) here: watch.eventive.org/arkhaiosfilm...
Today our Archaeology of Early Human Origins class will be covering the basics of stone percussion, primate tool use and the possible 3.3 million year old Lomekwian. Grear to be sharing #PaPa allumni @tomosproffitt's research with our new Master's students.
Our tents starting to take their place on the prehistoric skyline of @butserfarm. Once again we're their guests as we run our @UCLarchaeology ArchaeoTech course! #Archaeotech23
Sharing again for the Monday crowd! If you're discussing conspirituality, include #conspiritual or #conspirituality in your post to add it to the feed.
Finally have my own Chauvet mammoth, reproduced ~31,000 years after the original cave art and healing well! Thanks to the talented Kim from Lucky Leopard for channelling the ice age artist. 🦣
Just stunning, huge congrats to the team. More evidence that some Middle Pleistocene humans were engineers. The deep roots of the Anthropocene lie in these rare structural traces, more are out there.www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06557-9
A new assemblage of late Neanderthal remains from Cova Simanya (NE Iberia) 🧪 Juan Ignacio Morales, Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo et al www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... An exceptional collection of 54 Late Pleistocene human remains that correspond to at least 3 Neanderthal individuals
My tribute to my dear friend Damian
Damian Evans at a temple in Siem Reap, Cambodia In the ghostly dark of the deep rainforests on Earth, your senses are heightened. The air is heavy and damp, the greens are greener than anything you co...
This weekend I'll be talking about our work, our latest book and future projects at @JerseyWordFest jerseyfestivalofwords.org/dr-matt-pope as ever, the island is the star!
I'm reading the Historic Environment Scotland scheduled monument document. Contains this stunning image of Habchester Fort showing the impact of different landuse histories and how fragile our prehistory is.
