More delightful flint fingerprints, c.300,000 years old.

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Diving head first into our 66th meeting #HOG2025 with talks on #LowerPalaeolithic & #MiddlePalaeolithic topics. What a blast to hear about all the research going on all over the world! 🌍🪨🦴🔬

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I find stuff in fields - old stuff... very old stuff. These stone tools were made by people - real people c. 400,000+ years ago I am told. #HomoHeidelbergensis #Neanderthal #HomoSapen #Hoxnian #Kent #flint #Fordwich #LowerPalaeolithic @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social

Making a U-turn on the Purfleet Interchange: Stone Tool Technology in Marine Isotope Stage 9 Britain and the Emergence of the Middle Palaeolithic in Europe - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology This paper re-examines earlier Palaeolithic core technology from British sites assigned to MIS 11, 9, and 7 using primarily a châine opératoire approach, with the objective of better understanding the...

New research paper dropped last Friday, discussing why we don't think the Purfleet Simple Prepared Cores are actually in any way prepared anymore...

doi.org/10.1007/s419...

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