We are hiring a Project Co-ordinator! 🚨

Are you extremely organised with great interpersonal skills?
Able to multitask efficiently?
Interested in African prehistory?
Keen to work with an enthusiastic team?
We want to hear from you!

Closing date: 17 October, 2025

Great fun at #ESHE2025 presenting on how handaxe shape can inform discussions of African demography in the Early and Middle Pleistocene! While we have very few fossils or genetic data for this period, handaxe shape may carry a signal that can help to constrain biogeographic models - more to come!

Could there be a connection between a squashed million-year-old skull and the Denisovans? I look at whether a provocative new study can be squared with what we already know from ancient genomes. I think there's a way.

www.johnhawks.net/p/the-proble...

Interesting piece on the US (and Zionist) money backing Waxy-Lemon...

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

They are attacking the Police again, at the 'peaceful march'.

Imagine if Pro Palestine supporters did this (they never do), they would all be instantly in jail.

After all we learnt about Boris in office, I shouldn’t be surprised by any of this…but the extent of corruption is truly shocking

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

And see this excellent coverage from our Department @cam-archaeology.bsky.social

www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/early-h...

A paper like this is an amazing team effort, and thank you to everyone who has been involved in the project over the last few years. There is much more to come from the site in future - stay tuned!

Thrilled to share our latest article on the Lower Palaeolithic occupation of Fordwich Pit, Old Park - including at least one likely glacial occupation in MIS12! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The last 3 years have been the hottest in around 125,000 years.

CO2 levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years.

But most people have no idea this is happening, let alone what it means for our kids’ futures.

Our politics & media have failed our children. We should be furious.

Celebrating our wonderful PI @martamlahr.bsky.social for such an incredible achievement 🎉🍾🥂

Fabulous news that @martamlahr.bsky.social has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy 🍾🍾🍾

Justus Erus Edung was only 25 years old when he discovered Kenyanthropus platyops in a team led by Prof. Meave Leakey in 1999.

This 3.5 million year old “flat-faced” skull quickly grabbed international headlines and changed the course of human evolution.

#fossils #turkana #humanevolution

3D scanning these beauties with Ng'ipalajem!
@palaeotrails.bsky.social

#handaxe #turkana

New paper out in eLife! 🎉 Old age variably impacts chimpanzee engagement and efficiency in stone tool use elifesciences.org/articles/105... (including videos of wild elderly chimpanzees using tools! 🪨 🌰)

*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*

The archaeology of climate change: a blueprint for integrating environmental and cultural systems www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ChatGPT is a lie generator wrapped in a weighted blanket.

Read the below. It’s fascinating.

Holding out for the day when I can afford to buy back all the articles I’ve published

If you think the seasons are feeling… different, you may be right.
Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our branch unanimously passed this motion yesterday in solidarity with trans, non-binary and intersex people www.ucu.cam.ac.uk/motion-on-so...

#HumanEvo25 features 26 posters showcasing fabulous evolutionary science - vying for your attention and 🏆

This evening we’ve heard the first half of poster pitches including Palaeotrails’s @jclark997.bsky.social P9 and Avantika Binani P5!

Let the poster session begin!

🚨New preprint!🚨"Sexual division of labour shapes hunter-gatherer spatial ranges". Following on the sexual division of labour theme, finally out our analyses on the lifetime spatial ranges of over 700 Mbendjele BaYaka 🤩

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...