Thus week in #PalaeoLunch we are reading Magnani and Clindaniel 2026 Artificial Intelligence and the Interpretation of the Past
@uclarchaeology.bsky.social #PaPa 🏺🦣
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Today in #Palaeolunch (the @uclarchaeology.bsky.social online Palaeolithic discussion group) we are discussing Oktaviana et al.
Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Its Open Access so do give it a read. #PaPa
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Today in #Palaeolunch we considered the evidence for cannibalism of gracile female Neanderthals and children from Goyet cave. Who was eating who? was this hunting, warfare, desperation or ritual? The latest study of the site takes our understanding a lot further. #PaPa 🦣🏺
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Today in #PaPa #PalaeoLunch we are discussing Mongle et al. 2025 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Is Boisei making Olodwan tools alongside late Australopiths and early Homo? Is the earliest Oldowan from Nyayanga, Kenya indeed made by Paranthropines? 🦣🏺
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In #Palaeolunch today we discussed the updated Berger et al Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi. There is a lot of good taphonomic detail and more nuance, we cant reconcile that with the title of the paper. #PaPa 🏺🦣
elifesciences.org/articles/891...
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Today in #PalaeoLunch we discussed Curran et al 2025
Hominin presence in Eurasia by at least 1.95 million years ago
We were cautiously open to the conclusions but....
where are stone tools? why no bone smashing? lots of other non-human damage blurs things?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PaPa
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Screenshot of the article header giving the title A Data‐Driven Paradigm Shift for the Middle‐to‐Upper Palaeolithic Transition and the Neandertal Debate, the Elsevier log and and the cover of the journal, Quaternary Environments and Humans
Maybe a paper for the first #Palaeolunch of 2025?
The MP UP transition is a fast moving subject right now. This will be an new interesting contribution from Zihao, d'Errico, Banks & @teyssand31.bsky.social
Paradigms are indeed shifting.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#AncientSky
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This week at #Palaeolunch we discussed Nicolas Teyssandier's recent paper on the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe.
Called, pointedly, Us and Them, it frames the rupture in continuity brought to the continent by Homo sapiens with UP technology.
shorturl.at/dXdLn
#PaPa
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Just about to head into #PalaeoLunch and welcome former @uclarchaeology.bsky.social colleague @tomosproffitt.bsky.social as we are discussing his paradigm shifting paper:
Proffitt et al. 2016 Wild Monkeys Flake Stone Tools.
www.nature.com/articles/nat...
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Today in #Palaeolunch we discussed Roberts & Stewart 2018 Defining the ‘generalist specialist’ niche for Pleistocene Homo sapiens. An impressive powerful theory but personally need more convincing its so different from examples we can point to in Neanderthals
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Map and photographs showing the location of the Wonderboom site and the rock outcrops surrounding it
Images of rock outcrops of a lightly wooded hillside showing flakes scars from flake production
Today in #PalaeoLunch we discussed Lotter, Lombard & Caruana 2024 Wonderboom, South Africa: An Acheulean workshop with evidence of flake harvesting.
Lots of great questions & consideration of how they were using the flakes knapped from outcrops🏺
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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In tomorrow’s #Palaeolunch we’ll be discussing the following paper:
Meneganzin, A. and Killin, A., 2024. Beyond reasonable doubt: reconsidering #Neanderthal aesthetic capacity.
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11097-0...
Be great to know what any of you who have...
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In tomorrow’s #Palaeolunch we’ll be discussing the following paper:
Meneganzin, A. and Killin, A., 2024. Beyond reasonable doubt: reconsidering #Neanderthal aesthetic capacity.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Be great to know what any of you who have read think of it afterwards. 🏺
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Today in #PalaeoLunch we're discussing Slimak et al. 2024. Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before their extinction.
What can Thorin tell us about Neanderthal population dynamics? Read along too.......
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Today saw the return of #PalaeoLunch, our @UCLarchaeology Palaeolithic paper discussion group. This week we were discussing Zeller and Timmerman 2024. The evolving three-dimensional landscape of human adaptation.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adq3613
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Today our #Palaeolunch discussion session for staff & students, is on Balzeau et al 2020 on the La Ferrasie LF8 Neanderthal infant burial. It's dating, geoarchaeology & ZoomS leading to behavioural...
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About to start the first #Palaeolunch of the academic year, discussing Pante et al 2020 claims of ancient bone harpoon technology. Do they have a point? www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004...
@UCLarchaeology
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This week's #Palaeolunch discussion focuses on Wynn et al "Reflections on Possible Zoomorphic Acheulean Bifaces from Southwestern Algeria."
Can you see it?
Do you believe it?
Do you have a favourite zoomorphic handaxe?
#FindsFriday
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Wish we could beam @Ichnologist into to #Palaeolunch today to discuss the intepretation of the Laetoli footprints https://elifesciences.org/content/5/e19568
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@OGAAP @josiemills @Rukia1012 @AnnemiekeMilks how about this for #palaeolunch this week?
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Really enjoyed #palaeolunch today. Discussion focused on the importance of clear archaeological agendas in regional research. .@IOA_AHE
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For my first #palaeolunch I've gone for a post-glacial mix of leave, fallow deer and hazel nut. @ UCL… http://instagram.com/p/yMpSI6CsRz/
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Picking up some appropriate ingredients to snack on during tomorrow's #palaeolunch with @IOA_AHE
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