Acheulean Expediency Potential: Handaxe Manufacturing Time Costs, Covariates and Skill Despite decades of replicative experiments, the fundamental question “how long did it take to make an Acheulean handaxe” remains poorly understood. Archaeologists routinely base influential Pleisto...

Acheulean Expediency Potential: Handaxe Manufacturing Time Costs, Covariates and Skill www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What a great start to the term with our first speakers at Palmeso! ✨
Thanks a lot for joining us @carlafigus.bsky.social and Marco Vidal

Medical imaging technologies applied to ancient human behaviour and lifestyle Recent advances in medical imaging have opened new avenues for investigating ancient human behaviour, physiology, and cognition. This review compiles and synthesises a wide range of studies applyin...

New article!!!

Medical imaging technologies applied to ancient human behaviour and lifestyle www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#ESHE2025

I am happy to announce that Dr Maria Silva Gago will be joining us for a workshop on eye-tracking technology applied to archaeology!

Workshop details:
📅 9 May
🕙 10:00–12:00
📍 University of Cambridge

Limited places available! To reserve your spot, please email me at af900@cam.ac.uk

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🦴Nuevos hallazgos revelan que ya se producían herramientas de hueso de manera habitual hace 1,5 millones de años

El descubrimiento, liderado por el #CSIC, supone un hito en la arqueología de los orígenes humanos

➡️https://tinyurl.com/44efm3w6

Dentro hilo🧵

A researcher holding up a flint tool

A selection of flakes produced by John Lord

Two researchers comparing flint tools

The group of researchers with John Lord

This morning, some of our researchers took part in a McDonald Institute knapping workshop focused on microlithic technologies with brilliant guidance from expert John Lord!

Thanks to @robfoley.bsky.social for organising this opportunity and to @kingscollege.bsky.social for kindly hosting us

📢Less than two weeks to the SAfA deadline!
Submit your abstract to our session on Digital Pathways (#56) and join us in Faro for an open discussion on the use of digital technologies to advance our understanding of the past.
@edwindejager.bsky.social

safa2025.icarehb.com/poster-and-o...

From stone tools to fMRI, studying human cognitive evolution when the mind doesn't fossilize - Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science Successive cognitive upswings could have been decisive in our ancestors' ability to develop increasingly complex tool systems and functional forms of communication. The recent incursion of neuroarchae...

From stone tools to fMRI, studying human cognitive evolution when the mind doesn't fossilize (abstract) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Only one month to go until the symposium "From Anatomy to Behaviour: Challenges and Solutions in Studying Hominin Postcranial Evolution" ☺️

Sign up to attend in person, or contact us to join online.

Find more info here: 👇
www.eventbrite.com/e/from-anato...

I'm really happy that my first post here is about #TAG45
Thanks @helenshampton.bsky.social for organising such a wonderful session! It was a real pleasure to participate.
@tag45.bsky.social