New evidence of plant food processing in Italy during Neanderthal-to-Homo sapiens period

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-evidence-food-italy-neanderthal-to-homo-sapiens.html

#neanderthals #homosapiens #foodprocessing

Ars Technica: Could these marks on a cave wall be oldest-known Neanderthal finger paintings? https://arstechnica.com/?p=1948722 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #humanevolution #anthropology #Neanderthals #Archaeology #hominins #Culture #Science

Q&A with Ludovic Slimak, the archeologist who wants to rewrite the history of early humans in Europe

https://theconversation.com/qanda-with-ludovic-slimak-the-archeologist-who-wants-to-rewrite-the-history-of-early-humans-in-europe-206688

#homosapiens #neanderthals

Ars Technica: Neanderthal adhesives were made through a complex synthesis process https://arstechnica.com/?p=1948666 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #materialsscience #anthropology #Neanderthals #Science #toouse

Animal skulls found in a Spanish cave may reveal Neanderthal rituals

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-02-20/animal-skulls-found-in-a-spanish-cave-may-reveal-neanderthal-rituals.html#?rel=mas

#archeology #neanderthals #culture

Neanderthal and human fire-making methods suggest different origins, shared intelligence

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-neanderthal-human-fire-making-methods-intelligence.html

#humans #neanderthals #intelligence #firemaking

Study finds #Neanderthals manufactured #synthetic material with underground #distillation https://phys.org/news/2023-05-neanderthals-synthetic-material-underground-distillation.html #anthropology #archaeology #archeology #BirchTar

RT @LeMoustier
📣 Still a few places left on my mid-June @NS_Discovery tour!
Come for 10 day trip of a lifetime exploring key sites & museums for understanding #Neanderthals and the origins of art
(plus stunning landscapes, gorgeous hotels & delicious cuisine...)
https://www.newscientist.com/tours/caves-neanderthal-france/

📣 Still a few places left on my mid-June @NS_Discovery tour!
Come for 10 day trip of a lifetime exploring key sites & museums for understanding #Neanderthals and the origins of art
(plus stunning landscapes, gorgeous hotels & delicious cuisine...)
https://www.newscientist.com/tours/caves-neanderthal-france/

Really enjoyed bringing #Neanderthals and their world to a different audience at the Yorkshire event yesterday.
(And it is certainly a fine thing when late night whisky tasting is a perk of the job 🥃)

Dream #postdocjobs for a #Neanderthal researcher!
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RT @iphes
🚨 JOB OPPORTUNITY! @MSCActions Postdoc position at @iphes on "Spatial analysis of combustion structures from #AbricRomani Middle Paleolithic site using geostatistics and geographic information system (#GIS) tools" ▶️ Interested?🔗Info: https://bit.ly/3VbzXqU #neanderthals
https://twitter.com/iphes/status/1651886147100979200

Great to see this interview for German radio on #Neanderthals recorded in November, featuring me alongside many eminent scholars!

https://www.br.de/mediathek/podcast/radiowissen/der-neandertaler-der-verkannte-urzeit-mensch/1973506

A new harvest of ERC-funded research results!

This week's highlights include:

🌍 Ecosystemic politics @ElanaWilsonRowe

🪸 Coral reef heat tolerence @jr_guest

🚶‍♂️#Neanderthals and humans in Iberia @AlcarazCastano

More findings 👉

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1648966849751814145

A lovely meditation on what difference means, featuring the great impact of #JeanAuel's writing, and ways of relating to the #Neanderthals - and UK edition of @jaimealyse's book is out this Thursday!
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RT @jaimealyse
A new essay for pub day, about my favorite fictional aliens, who once—really—lived on Earth. https://slate.com/technology/2023/04/aliens-neanderthals-clan-cave-bear.html
https://twitter.com/jaimealyse/status/1648336635917119490

That made my day! Thanks @AlisonFisk !
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RT @AlisonFisk
Beautiful ✨ rock crystal tools✨made by #Neanderthals. Mousterian, c. 200,000 - 40,000 years ago.

Found at Les Merveilles rock shelter near Sergeac, Dordogne, France, by George Grant MacCurdy in the 1920s.

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
https://twitter.com/AlisonFisk/status/1646813669638959105

Reading back around Shanidar #Neanderthals, and this from 14 yrs ago on S3 injury now seems even more intriguing given shift in knowledge of timing of H. sapiens entering Eurasia with apparent dart/ bow & arrow tech before 55,000 BP
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004724840900092X
(Churchill et al 2009)

Such great points. I always come back to the archaeology - it's not a perfect record, of course, but it is the only test we have to evaluate what we *infer* #Neanderthals were doing based on their anatomy or DNA (not to mention our own imaginary limitations...)
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RT @johnhawks
I gave an answer centering archaeological positivism. The material record left by Neandertals is different from many other, later populations. But there is so mu…
https://twitter.com/johnhawks/status/1645985340002381824

Here's my #Neanderthals & #SETI article again from last year, which is also perfect moment to share that I got my copy through of @jaimealyse's fantastic book #ThePossibilityOfLife! If you're into science, culture and Big Picture Questions, this is a super read
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RT @PioneerWorks_
Archaeologist and writer @LeMoustier on how rediscovering Neanderthals primed us for the search for extraterrestrial life. https://pioneerworks.org/broad…
https://twitter.com/PioneerWorks_/status/1645532104384745472

This is such a great point, and v relevant to our persistent assumptions about what #Neanderthals and other hominins "should" have been eating/doing, vs. seeing them as knowledgeable agents who have desires & cultural frameworks within which they may perform normatively or not
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RT @CTennie
The best current explanation for the specific study's population reluctance to even attempt to eat the provided nuts (even when they were presented i…
https://twitter.com/CTennie/status/1635240090258780160

I would very much to see a transparent conference discussing palaeogenomics ethics, covering working on ancient hominin genetic research including #Neanderthals, as well as faunal 'de-extinction' attempts
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RT @kakape
@thecrick @DrJoyZhang Ethicisation:
Idea that "ethics precedes technology" has been officially adopted in China: "This officially overturns what I termed the post-hoc pragmatism that used to trivialise ethical debates as a d…
https://twitter.com/kakape/status/1632691410859184128