Let's take a closer look at some of the #mammoth fossils we currently have on display at the Centre.

#DYK that mammoth teeth (aka molars), are common fossils in the Yukon? Mammoth molars are very distinctive, with hard vertical enamel plates. Because these plates formed a flat grinding surface, mammoth teeth were well suited to breaking down the tough grasses that flourished in Beringia during the last glacial period.

#FossilFriday #FieldFriday

Happy #FieldFriday from the Lower Pleistocene #paleontological site Tsiotra Vryssi (TSR, northern Greece) with the joint University of Tübingen-University of Thessaloniki team! 🤠
🔗 Read about TSR in the #OpenAccess paper by Konidaris et al. (2021)
https://doi.org/10.3390/quat4010001
Here are some of this year’s finds from TSR! ⚒️ Articulated specimens and carnivore modified bones are common in the assemblage.
🔗Read about the #taphonomy of TSR in the paper by Katsagoni et al. (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2022.2140424

What a treat to visit Atapuerca today with colleagues Emiliano Bruner, Antonio Profico, Amelie Beaudet and Edwin de Jager! 🤩

And thank you to Emiliano and the other organisers for a wonderful conference on cortical evolution.

#humanevolution #FieldFriday

Happy #FieldFriday ⚒️

This year's field campaign at Podlipa #cave (Bosnia & Herzegovina) has been completed! ⛏️The #FIRSTSTEPS team members & our colleagues from the University of Belgrade & Museum in Doboj are looking forward to resuming #Paleolithic excavation next year at the site! 🙌

#FieldFriday

Our ERC funded survey in Megalopolis has announced results, pushing back the earliest known human presence in Greece! ⬇️

🔗https://apnews.com/article/greece-archaeology-oldest-site-stone-tools-3e84007cde4d77a2725b7877b9b38335

Check also the press release from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports ⬇️

🔗http://t.ly/K0MW

Our ERC funded survey in Megalopolis has announced results, pushing back the earliest known human presence in Greece!

Press release from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports ⬇️

🔗 http://t.ly/K0MW

#FieldFriday

https://apnews.com/article/greece-archaeology-oldest-site-stone-tools-3e84007cde4d77a2725b7877b9b38335

Our ERC funded survey in Megalopolis has announced results, pushing back the earliest known human presence in Greece!

Press release from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports ⬇️

🔗 t.ly/K0MW

#FieldFriday

https://apnews.com/article/greece-archaeology-oldest-site-stone-tools-3e84007cde4d77a2725b7877b9b38335

#FieldFriday: Oh the places you'll go with #SFUEarthSciences! Profs Brent Ward and Sergio Sepulveda and MSc student Nicolas Jaimes recently climbed up the Seabird Island landslide which blocked #BC Highway 7 and trapped approximately 300 people in 2021.
#geology #sfuscience #sfu #geoscience

The view from Stac Pollaidh, Assynt, Scottish Highlands. Made of mid- to late-Proterozoic Torridonian arkose. #FieldFriday #EarthSystemScience #Scotland

Happy #fieldfriday to #SFUEarthScience students in Brent Ward's Quaternary Geology class! They're out at #UBC today checking out the bluffs near Wreck Beach. #geology #quaternary #sfuscience

@Paazraaf #MonDog #FieldFriday

Snow in August! Molt from geese preparing for the migration south. Along the Gladel River in northern Quebec. #FieldFriday #Quebec #Arctic