Paléoanthropologie. 

Nos lointains ancêtres essayaient-ils de transformer des pierres en sphères parfaites ?

https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/paleoanthropologie-nos-lointains-ancetres-essayaient-ils-de-transformer-des-pierres-en-spheres-parfaites

The limestone spheroids of ‘Ubeidiya: intentional imposition of symmetric geometry by early hominins?
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230671

#paleolithique
#acheulean
#lithics
#openaccess

Found three treasures while litterpicking, including another Mesolithic worked flint - 7 from the same area so far (2 x blades and 2 x points/barbs were notably close finds). This one is the same grey flint, and it's been worked as a core, but only about a third remains because it broke from intense heating. Archaeologists sometimes record these heated flints as "potboilers" but I'm not convinced that applies to this artifact. It seems to be part of a core with usable flint that was put beyond use either intentionally or in a natural wildfire. I was already beginning to wonder if a tool - spear/harpoon - was mislaid and I've been finding some of the pieces. Now I'm wondering if a campsite was lost or even a human life: landslip, wildfire, hunting accident? Impossible to know but I can't help speculating.

#archaeology #Mesolithic #lithics #larking #litterpicking

Two tiny worked Mesolithic flints, probably used as barbs on spears. The smallest, which I found yesterday while litterpicking, is 11x6mm. Apart from me, you're the first people to see the one on the left for over 8,000 years.

#lithics #Mesolithic #archaeology #larking #litterpicking

Guess who just found the teeniest Mesolithic microlith while litterpicking on a sunset walk? Me! Strange to be the first person for over 8,000 years to see this human manufactured tool.

#larking #lithics #Mesolithic #litterpicking

This is an #Obsidian blade core from #Azerbaijan, dating to the #ChalcolithicPeriod. Visit the 3D model to learn more: https://stonetoolsmuseum.com/artefact/west-asia/macroblade-core-3/1687/

#archaeology #stonetools #obsidian #lithics

https://twitter.com/MusofStoneTools/status/1665544923234586624?s=20

🔊 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow

Lithics:
🎵 Beat Fall

#Lithics

https://open.spotify.com/track/7E7zANzss7rV9I89oljvU0

https://lithics.bandcamp.com/track/beat-fall

#archaeology #lithics
Eren, M., Bebber, M., Buchanan, B., Grunow, A., Key, A., Lycett, S., . . . Riley, T. (2023). Antarctica as a ‘natural laboratory’ for the critical assessment of the archaeological validity of early stone tool sites. Antiquity, 97(392), 472-482

🔊 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis

Lithics:
🎵 Flat Rock

#Lithics

https://open.spotify.com/track/1OjBHeuFiNcMHk9jpcWaNG

https://lithics.bandcamp.com/track/flat-rock-2

@jrcarpenter Lovely! Especially the retouched edges. A classic find and not uncommon in some places if you know what you're looking for. I've found a surprising number of mesolithic to metal age #lithics, but I'm still dreaming of a palaeolithic find. Is that whitish colour patina on the darker flint, or a trick of the light, or an effect of immersion?

Obsidian Cliff: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/20/science/yellowstone-indigenous-people-obsidian.html?smid=url-share #obsidian #lithics #archaeology #stonetools #wyoming #nationalhistoriclandmark #nationalparks

Awesome to see #archaeology get popular ink!

Interesting contention that obsidian was “the most prized tool stone in paleoindian cultures.” It takes an incredible edge and #Yellowstone obsidian is particularly aesthetic. It does not hold an edge the least bit well. #lithics #montana
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/20/science/yellowstone-indigenous-people-obsidian.html?unlocked_article_code=cBMPzYlhMfHZxSVuLgSa9GIfVoyLNA6KVxJm6rltXI5vfS7xpHxQIfeLzIwOQdKI0r_w1CEuQxEpgK2myMjtXkXWZqGsqg5q2xun5wDcU5FohoDpv_VHg0pbXT3qwQZCQ25p0XVP4wWqPRs_ahngvp1l9nATdsIM-ejd0PBpnxIOw4XQI2omOjosJQ0iAlnaC9q42EoYmoT9xSJdgYxtFc_fP7GNyrgoVIxp96Het0SfR9l8oaWU8xDYKyKHbvWQCDN5YJ0KNWlLfPT15P8Incge3fPPhaKNTE4Qq-yGvpVQCc4YLEPZgHXdiCb1iqW3vpVw_emNAH_HYPDKJFZJ2H0x-99BRoTp6eDSi1H_Aao&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

@LeMoustier istatoy - or do I mean ping? @roger #lithics #StoneAgeTech

Archeo illustrations are amazingly half-way between representing and reconstructing the object. The illustration itself, is already an act of #cognition, interpretation, presentation. Love it!

From: The Lithic Studies Society
@LithicSociety

Here is #illustration drawn by C.J.W Taylor of a ficron #handaxe. It was found at a depth of 15ft during the construction of the Seven Kings Station, London.

#archaeology #lithics

Have you heard the news about #Paranthropus? We now have confirmation, on some level, that they were using tools. We don’t know if they made them, but they have been found associated together. Learn more about this discovery, nd why it is, no is not important. https://dsh.re/7eed97 #paleoanthropology #archaeology #lithics #stonetools #worldofpaleoanthropology Learn more: www.worldofPaleoanthropology.org!

#Prehistory & #lithics job!
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Vacancy at the National Museum of Denmark, 'Senior Researcher with Stone Age expertise'.

Deadline: 20/02/2023

More information is available from: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=5001&ProjectId=165108&MediaId=5&fbclid=IwAR2GK3qclbhAdfT1dzi-eXwmkKppsCzmKp9JS4YqL_aIE8hHyFAlZ4zT9hc
https://twitter.com/MesoMisc/status/1618545952306126848

#Lithics love never gonna leave me 😍
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RT @GennaiJacopo
Is this boy coming from 300 km away? In any case, it was very well appreciated. #flinttool #palaeolithic #Tuscany #Archaeology #paleolithique #paleolithikum
https://twitter.com/GennaiJacopo/status/1605147953177452546

RT @ArmandoFalcucci@twitter.com

Once upon a time, an #Aurignacian forager settled in #Lessinia 🇮🇹 collected a nodule to make stone tools with sharp edges. 40,000 years later, #3D visualization technology allows us to virtually reconstruct and quantify these skillful actions.
@Grotta_Fumane@twitter.com #FlintFriday #Lithics

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ArmandoFalcucci/status/1601178010119733251

RT @MobiliTyMSCA@twitter.com

It's starting looking like #lithics! #MondayMotivation #Aurignacian #Palaeolithic #archaeologytwitter #Archaeology @Unipisa@twitter.com @MSCActions@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MobiliTyMSCA/status/1597276169707012096

We have a 𝗦𝗧𝗨𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 Late Bronze Age #lithic debitage refitting for you from Blackrath, County Kildare, via our 2007 work for the TII N9/N10 Kilcullen to Carlow part of the Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme.

⛏️E2870 director: Gillian McCarthy
📷 and refitting: Sara Nylund

#commercialarchaeology #infrastructure #archaeology #BronzeAge #prehistory #prehistoric #lithics #history #heritage #Ireland #Irish #CountyKildare

So, here's a little summary for #mastodon!

The ERC Consolidator REVIVE project (2021-2026) is picking up where the work stopped several decades ago in central levant and advance it by employing state-of-the-art methodologies available today #lithics #paleoanthropology #geoarchaeology #zooarchaeology

Right now our team is in #Lebanon doing fieldwork, collecting new data and discovering new sites.

Follow us to stay updated!
#archaeology #levant