🔥 Next #LEXA Seminar!
Dr William Chase Murphree will explore #fire use during the #UpperPalaeolithic, using #geoarchaeology experiments to reveal how humans managed fire in glacial times.
🗓️ 7 Oct, 14:00 GMT | 🌍 Online
🔗 Register: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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'A second female sexual figuration has been found in a cramped cavity shelter in a quartzitic sandstone megaclast at Courdimanche, some 10 km from that recently described in the La Ségognole 3 shelter at Noisy-sur-Ecole'

#UpperPalaeolithic #rockcarving […]

Prehistoric Humans Made Necklaces From Marine Mollusk Fossils 20,000 Years Ago Humans have been collecting fossils since Neanderthal times.

Necklaces from southern Spain, back to the #LastGlacialMaximum (c.20 Ka)
Made of scaphopod fossils, some shells covered with #red #ochre

#archaeology #UpperPalaeolithic #bodyart #ritual

www.iflscience.com/prehistoric-humans-made-...

Traces of blue indigo on 34,000-year-old grinding tools suggest new Paleolithic plant use scenarios An international research team coordinated by Ca' Foscari University of Venice has identified the presence of indigotin—a blue dye compound—on stone pebbles dating back to the Upper Paleolithic. This molecule, derived from the leaves of Isatis tinctoria L., a biennial plant in the Brassicaceae family native to the Caucasus and commonly known as woad, was found on ground stone tools.

Traces of #indigo processing in the #UpperPalaeolithic

#archaeology #pigments

phys.org/news/2025-09-blue-indigo...

Just published in print, long-awaited EPIC volume on #Mesolithic #UpperPalaeolithic #Archaeology in Vale of Pickering, N Yorkshire, England. (Also available free as v large PDF download). www.scriptbooks.co.uk/product/5684...
PS spot my name from 1985-6, also on front cover pic, rained every day 😂 🌦️

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A new face for the #Gravettian
'This article describes a sculpted head with a highly detailed face and headpiece, unearthed in 2021 at the Amiens-Renancourt 1 site. Since 2013, excavations at this Gravettian site have yielded one of the largest collections of female statuettes in Europe' […]

Going on in time, we also visited the very interesting #UpperPalaeolithic site of Val de Boi, as well as the Museu de Vila do Bispo. Thank you so much @ICArEHB & Museu for welcoming & introducing us to the #palaeolithic #archaeology of the #Algarve 🫶🏻
#excursion

Times flies🪰, and we're halfway through our very last session of #HOG2025 🥲 with contributions on #UpperPalaeolithic #FinalPalaeolithic #Mesolithic & #Neolithic topics. Each year, anew in awe how fast we travel through several hundred thousand years of #prehistory 🤯⏳️ #conference #archaeology

Like always #HOG2025 combines a variety of fields and topics from #Palaeolithic #Research🤓 Now very excited to listen to a piece on #researchhistory of the #Iberianpeninsula & Hugo Obermaiers pioneering research on Levantine #Art in Spain.
#conference #archaeology #paleolithicart #upperpalaeolithic

As #HOG2025 at #UAlg #ICArEHB in #Faro is proceeding, we are moving forward in time - this morning starts with fantastic #UpperPalaeolithic presentations. Despite the early morning the room is crowded, excited to hear the latest news about #Palaeolithic #Archaeology!

🤝 His case study looked at the 20-year collaboration between Manuel Heleno, curator at the Museu Nacional de Arqueologia in Lisbon and head of countless #UpperPalaeolithic excavations in Portugal between 1930-1960, and his field director João Moleiro.

🦴 New #zooarchaeology paper out! Study of the faunal remains of layer 18b, Final #Gravettian, of #GrottaPaglicci!

Research Unit of Prehistory and Anthropology - #UniSiena

#UpperPalaeolithic
🦣🌿🏺

Combining SR-FTIR, SR-LEXRF and PIXE microscopies for residue analysis on Palaeolithic stone artefacts - The European Physical Journal Plus Residue analysis in the field of Palaeolithic studies represents a powerful source of information, as well as a challenging operation of deduction, based on the interpretation of what remains of organ...

📢 Paper alert!! 📢 We explore the combination of #FTIR #LEXRF and #PIXE microscopies for #residueanalysis on #UpperPalaeolithic artefacts from #GrottaPaglicci 🔬💫🎉 #UniSiena #CERIC #ElettraSincrotrone
Read it here ⬇
doi.org/10.1140/epjp...

Also #archaeology #upperpalaeolithic #AncientBluesky 🏺

Initial Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens from Bacho Kiro C... Direct dates for human remains found in association with ...

Original study 2:

@jjhublin et al., Initial #UpperPalaeolithic #HomoSapiens from #BachoKiroCave, #Bulgaria, @nature 11 May 2020.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2259-z