Several stone tools, predominantly Mousterian borers and scrapers, as well as some Levallois points and flakes.
#FlintFriday Lithics from the Goab playa in eastern Iran.
Now a desert, it likely contained lakes and rivers during Pleistocene wet periods. Tool workshops indicate the playa acted as a migration corridor for early hominins heading towards East Asia.
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Happy Origin Day! Published OTD in 1859
Mara and Rana have such a special bond. It's beautiful to see. 💕
A red heeler puppy named Archie, just a few weeks old. He’s sitting in the grass.
A red heeler dog named Archie, three years old! He’s holding a hot dog chew toy in his mouth.
Can’t believe this little guy is 3 years old today!
Meet Alabama’s salamanders like you’ve never seen them before and fall for their undeniable charm.
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This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Been a couple of good weeks for research on extinct proboscideans.
Hybrid mammoths roamed North America following interspecies breeding, fossil teeth show share.google/LGrqgYGyDoG6...
Most fossils sit quietly in drawers, known only by numbers. From the beginning, AL 288-1 was different. She had a story, she became Lucy. New Substack: paigemadison.substack.com/p/when-we-fi... 🏺
Black and white photograph of Charles Darwin: a bald man with a grey beard wearing a black suit.
HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, reached the Galápagos Islands #OnThisDay in AD 1835. It was on this voyage where the seeds were sown for his theory of natural selection.
Interested in human evolution? Learn more in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Lyrics to ‘Don’t Let me Down’ by the Beatles.
Me to the latest draft of my thesis:
The photo shows an Acheulean biface handaxe knapped from dark grey flint with a creamy-white cortical layer, shown against a black background. The handaxe is roughly tear-drop shaped with a pointed tip and rounded bottom. There is a fossil shell centrally displayed on one face, identified as the Cretaceous bivalve mollusc Spondylus spinosus. Above the shell to the right is a small rectangular museum label. The toolmaker has knapped the flint in such a way as to retain the shell in a central position. Measurements 79mm x 35mm x 132mm Weight 0.375kg. Collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
Something beautiful for the weekend!
An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago!
The shell’s central display has been described as an example of aesthetic intention by the toolmaker.
West Tofts, Norfolk. 📷 MAA Cambridge University
#Archaeology
How to take part in Sun Day - different ways you can take action for clean energy on September 21
Do you care about the future of clean energy? Then we want to see you at Sun Day! Here are 3 ways you can get involved, and help celebrate the power of solar, wind, and renewable energy on September 21 👇🧵
When Campus Reform and Turning point came after professors and created the professor watchlist, administrators didn't pay attention..Now they are being fired and attacked. Maybe institutions should have done more to protect academic freedom....
When you live in a gerrymandered state, you can’t just vote better.
That’s the point of gerrymandering. To take away your vote and voice. To silence you.
Black graphic with a quote in white text: "We should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." In red text, the quote is attributed to Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Dissenting in Noem v. Perdomo
Yesterday's Supreme Court decision endangers our communities and subjects people to immigration stops simply because of the color of their skin, occupation, or the language they speak.
This fight isn't over. Our right to live free from racial profiling is fundamental.
Registration for in-person or online participation for our symposium is still open!
A 2 panel image showing a photo of the Milky Way from space and from Earth.
the milky way from above and below 🌌
a beautiful collaboration between astronaut don pettit and photographer babak tafreshi to show the same things from earth and space ✨
The split-based antler point from the Early Aurignacian sequence at Grotta della Cala, southern Italy, provides new insights into Early Upper Paleolithic osseous technology. Read our recently published paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...
#Palaeolithic #Archaeology #FlintFriday #FossilFriday
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I agree, it’s very sad! As many have said before me: we need better access to education! I come from a very rural part of Alabama & am a first-gen grad student—taking the time to educate my parents & grandparents has helped them realize how awful all this is. Good education can literally save lives!
I cannot with the manipulative whiplash—setting up a false crisis and then swooping in as the only supposed solution. How horrible!
The Juno probe has already survived far longer than anticipated—its path around the solar system’s largest planet has repeatedly flown it through a tempest of radiation that should have corroded away its instruments and electronics long ago.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...?
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed.
So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.
Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.
Closeup of a baby king vulture looking down at the viewer
Hey!
Did you know it's the best day of the year? International Vulture Day is here!!
It's a day to celebrate, share & support vultures, the most endangered (and misunderstood) family of birds in the world.
Take a moment to share a vulture with someone just how cool and important they are!
#ivad2025
A digital illustration of a flowering summer prairie at sunset, with blue hills in the distance. An American bison is walking from right to left, and with it walks a ghostly white silhouette of a mammoth.
#SciArtSeptember 6 - Prairie
The greatest beasts are gone, but maybe the land still remembers.
Another version of the idea of ghosts of lost beasts, this time the spirit of a mammoth walking with a bison somewhere in the fragments of the American prairie that still exist.
A couple of my favorite scenery pics from my time spent conducting archaeological field research in Kenya this summer!
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