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Tim in Bath @timinbath.bsky.social · 24d

A lovely review article (and my first dissertation citation🍾) on Scottish archaeological mollusc exploitation from @jenniferbones.bsky.social & @mlaw.bsky.social. Makes the point that culture ("taste" if you like) may be just as important as economic considerations www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/8/...

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Dr Ross Barnett @deepfrieddna.bsky.social · Aug 22

New research by @jenniferbones.bsky.social phys.org/news/2025-08...

Lessons from cave bear extinction could save endangered bears

Lessons from extinction could help protect the bears of today. New research reveals that the now-extinct cave bear was much more adaptable than once thought yet was still made extinct when faced with ...

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Dr. Jennifer Jones @jenniferbones.bsky.social · Aug 15

Mislabelled Chatgpt anatomical images are my new favourite thing.

Do you know your Pelvix from your Pelmis and how to differentiate between your Tarpula and your Fibuir?

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Aug 14

Yesterday I discovered that ChatGPT's PhD-level expertise didn't extend to bird anatomy. This morning I thought, perhaps I was being too hard on the half-trillion-dollar company. Birds are a little weird, anatomically speaking. Let's try something more familiar. A mammal. Behold.

Dr. Jennifer Jones @jenniferbones.bsky.social · Aug 1

I really enjoyed reading this paper exploring the possibility that elevated d15N values may be linked to the consumption of meat that was rotten and maggot filled! Definitely lots more work to do as the authors point out, but an interesting idea!

www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Neanderthals, hypercarnivores, and maggots: Insights from stable nitrogen isotopes

Putrefying animal foods laced with maggots should be considered when using isotopes to reconstruct Late Pleistocene hominin diets.

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Dr. Jennifer Jones @jenniferbones.bsky.social · Jul 30

Poor little cat, it sounds like she should pick up soon with the antibiotics and painkillers, and I am sure that she will be roaming around in no time!

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Dr. Jennifer Jones @jenniferbones.bsky.social · Jul 30

What a sad looking little thing! Hope she recovers quickly!

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Dr. Jennifer Jones @jenniferbones.bsky.social · Jul 27

That's really helpful! Thanks Flint!

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Dr. Jennifer Jones @jenniferbones.bsky.social · Jul 24

I liked the concept of a Bring your Own Boar party! It made me think of the Iron age Llanmaes middens where you had to bring along your Right Forelimb of a pig to the celebration.

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Dr. Jennifer Jones @jenniferbones.bsky.social · Jul 24

Great coverage of our Cave Bear paper on Olde News with @flintdibble.bsky.social (from 11.47 onwards). A brilliant summary of the key findings and the rest of the show is well worth a watch too, some great explorations of interesting archaeological findings!

www.youtube.com/live/E-23TjC...

Beyond the ANTIKYTHERA Device, GIANT Shoes, Ice Age MAGNETIC Shifts, BOAR feasts – OLDE NEWS #1

YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble

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Dr. Jennifer Jones @jenniferbones.bsky.social · Jul 24

A very useful paper here here exploring Sulfur cycling in Weltand locations, which is important for Archaeologists interpreting d34S values in their research.

Spoiler Alert: it's quite complex!

Prof. Rhiannon Stevens @nannonstevens.bsky.social · Jul 22

Our new #openaccess paper is out:

Wetland sulfur isotope signals and dynamic isotope baselines: implications for archaeological research

#stableisotopes

doi.org/10.3389/fear...

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Dr. Jennifer Jones @jenniferbones.bsky.social · Jul 15

Our new paper explores how we can use large bodies of stable isotope data from paleoenvironmental and bioarchaeological in wider cross-discipline studies.

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The palaeoenvironmental potential of bioarchaeological isotope data - Communications Earth & Environment

Bioarchaeological isotope data that provide information on the migratory and feeding behaviors of ancient species and their interactions with humans can improve understanding of past ecological and cl...

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Dr. Jennifer Jones @jenniferbones.bsky.social · Jul 11

There are some great groups of people trying to do just that! A few years ago I enjoyed volunteering with the Cantabrian Brown Bear society planting fruit trees to provide food for the endangered bear population in the region

A photo of a mountainous landscape with lots of newly planted trees, put in by the hard working volunteers!

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Dr. Jennifer Jones @jenniferbones.bsky.social · Jul 11

By supporting the creation of new habitats, and by greeting better connectivity between existing populations we can help to limit the impacts of environmental change and human activity on these populations.

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Dr. Jennifer Jones @jenniferbones.bsky.social · Jul 11

It's interesting to think of how we can use this to help threatened species today. In Europe Brown bears are threatened by environmental change affecting their habitats, as well as humans encroaching on their territory, mirroring what happened to the cave bears.

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Dr. Jennifer Jones @jenniferbones.bsky.social · Jul 11

So what can we say about their extinction? Well, when the last ice age happened, even though the bears were adaptable in what they could eat, the scale of environmental change affecting food availability, combined with competition for resources with humans likely played a role.

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Dr. Jennifer Jones @jenniferbones.bsky.social · Jul 11

In fact, European cave bears appeared to adapt well to consuming plants that were available locally, showing they were fairly adaptable.

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Dr. Jennifer Jones @jenniferbones.bsky.social · Jul 11

Results suggested that they ate a wide variety of plants deriving from across the landscape, suggesting some flexibility what they were eating from different ecological zones. When compared to other European bears they had some of the largest ranges in values of populations analysed to date.

Test tubes, bone fragments and bottles of acid- a classic lab benchtop!

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Dr. Jennifer Jones @jenniferbones.bsky.social · Jul 11

Within Level 3 the site of Šalitrena Pećina a cave bear den was found, with remains dating back around 40,000 years. We used stable isotope analysis to explore what these individuals ate.

A view of the outside of Salitrena cave, surrounded by lush vegetation.

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Dr. Jennifer Jones @jenniferbones.bsky.social · Jul 11

The extinction of the cave bears is widely explored, particularly how they coped with changing environments, adapting to new conditions, predation by humans and competition for resources. Cave bear diet is a key part of this debate.

An image of a cave bear skull in a museum display.

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Dr. Jennifer Jones @jenniferbones.bsky.social · Jul 11

⭐New Open Access publication alert! ⭐

Are you interested in Cave Bears? If so then this might be the article for you!

This is the first study of the diet of a cave bear population from Serbia using stable isotope analysis. See thread below for our findings!
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Dr. Jennifer Jones @jenniferbones.bsky.social · Jul 9

Fun fact: My Fitbit registered all of my clapping as footsteps... I'd logged 8,000 by the time I'd left the ceremony...

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Dr. Jennifer Jones @jenniferbones.bsky.social · Jul 9

It's my favourite day of the academic year! It was an absolute pleasure to celebrate with our new Archaeology graduates today and to loudly applaud them as they walked across the stage. Very proud of them all!

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Dr. Jennifer Jones @jenniferbones.bsky.social · Jul 6

Completely agree! Purple didn't parse at all for me! Terrible!

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · Jul 3

Happy #PublicationDay to @gregjenner.bsky.social @rikinparekh.bsky.social and… me! This has been the most fun I have ever had writing a book, hands down — exactly the way archaeology ought to be ;) (otherwise I’d get a real job, wouldn’t I) www.walker.co.uk/978152952249...

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Dr. Jennifer Jones @jenniferbones.bsky.social · Jun 29

Alanis' set had exactly the right amount of harmonica solos.