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Dr Huw Groucutt

@huwgroucutt.bsky.social

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Archaeologist, lecturer at University of Malta, PI: TerraForm ERC project.....posting about old stones, and occasional bones. Exploring human responses to climate change, particularly in Malta and Arabia. http://www.huwgroucutt.com

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 2d

Jane Goodall obituary:
Pioneer primatologist who inspired generations of scientists 🏺🧪👩‍🔬
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

She was a tireless advocate for conservation, the welfare of captive chimpanzees and the protection of habitats.

Jane Goodall (1934–2025)
Photo Credit: Joel Saget/AFP via Getty

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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 3d

Looking forward to giving this talk on October 15th. Open to all.

Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 6d

Rest in peace Jane Goodall. A real hero.

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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 7d

Anatomy of a sunset. Wied iż-Żurrieq.

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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 12d

End of Latnija 2025 excavations

Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 12d

Just finished a very successful first excavation with my TerraForm team ❤

Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 14d

Had the privilege of being involved in investigations of Xrobb l-Għaġin Neolithic 'temple' today. Super interesting.

Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 16d

Some recent views of the lovely geology of the south coast of Gozo. Lovely limestone. ❤

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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 18d

The continuing saga of the Homo naledi trainwreck www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XJd...

Homo naledi the lies

YouTube video by Jamie Hodgkins

www.youtube.com

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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 19d

Important new paper on early Neolithic pottery in Malta. Congrats to the authors. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Early Neolithic Pottery Production in the Maltese Islands: Initiating a Għar Dalam and Skorba Pottery Fabric Classification

The Early Neolithic (EN) period (5500–4800 BCE) marks the first sedentary settlement of the Maltese Islands by farmers. Despite advances in petrographic and archaeometric studies of pottery in Maltese...

www.degruyterbrill.com

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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 19d

@lemoustier.bsky.social The real question is what biscuits did Homo naledi enjoy?

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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 19d

We have not traditionally had biscuits really, but as a lot of Italians have joined my team, there has been an increase in coffee quality and consistency 👌

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 19d

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation

Playmobil figure kitted out as prehistoric iceman Ötzi.

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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 19d

I mean the best and acceptable are very different beasts.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 19d

Nubian Levallois technology associated with southernmost Neanderthals🏺🧪
J Blinkhorn @clement-zanolli.bsky.social @huwgroucutt.bsky.social @elliescerri.bsky.social @chrisbstringer.bsky.social @mdpetraglia.bsky.social et al
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Btw ~ 70 and 50 kya they expanded into Levant

Nubian Levallois cores from Shukbah Cave (a–h) and Bisitun (i) and Nubian Levallois points from Shukbah cave (j–n) which feature a medial distal ridge through distal divergent and/or bilateral shaping. (a–c, e–g, j–m) Photos © UCL, Institute of Archaeology; (d, h, n) courtesy of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford; i courtesy of the Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania).

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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 19d

#FieldworkFriday. Biscuits with the coffee today.

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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 21d

Fieldwork essentials

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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 22d

Nice coverage of our ongoing research timesofmalta.com/article/cave...

Cave dig expands to learn more about hunter-gatherers

Humans inhabited Malta 1,000 years earlier than previously thought

timesofmalta.com

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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 22d

Lovely Maltese olive oil

Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 25d

Summer is gradually running out of energy

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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 26d

Fieldwork Friday is actually Office Friday this week, but it has been a busy week of fieldwork otherwise!

Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 29d

Sandbags are useful!

Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · Aug 31

Our Neanderthal cousins have been intensively studied. But every year we learn more and more about them. A couple of recent papers highlight the kinds of hypotheses that are being tested by ongoing research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-205

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.

www.science.org

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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · Aug 29

#FieldworkFriday. Stone walls near the sea 👌

Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · Aug 28

Lovely little fields in northern Malta near Latnija