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Dr Sally Hoare
@sallygeoarch.bsky.social
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Geoarchaeologist, University of Liverpool, likes human evolution, fire and microarchaeology
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Dr Izzy Wisher @izzywisher.bsky.social · 9d
Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵

Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺

doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Close-up image of a sand coloured stone, with a diagonal crack. The sand rock has a textured surface, and small spots of blue can be seen towards the centre of the stone. The background is grey. Microscopic photo of the blue spots, that are irregular in shape and size and positioned diagonally across the image. The rest of the photo shows the rough sand coloured texture of the stone.
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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 12d
#ESHE2025
Giulia Gallo ‘ Estimating fire duration through bioapatite crystallite growth in Middle Palaeolithic contexts’
Bioapatite crystals: XRD/point of calcination.
Nice experiment!
Roc de Marsa (~90Ka) & Le Moustier (~55Ka): 10-20 hrs fire duration, at Le Moustier assoc w burning megafauna
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Tomos Proffitt @tomosproffitt.bsky.social · 16d
Don’t miss our next ICArEHB Experimental Archaeology Seminar. We will welcome Dr William Chase Murphree to talk about new geoarchaeological experiments investigating Upper Palaeolithic fire use.
14:00 (GMT) on the 7th of October. Free for all, join here
icarehb.com/lexa/
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UoL EvoAnth Seminar Series @liverpoolevoanth.bsky.social · 19d
We are thrilled to announce our timetable of seminars for the upcoming semester!

As always, all of our talks will be on Zoom and open to everyone. Our first talk will take place on the 2nd October at 13:00-14:00 BST. The Zoom link will be available closer to the time.

We hope to see you there! 🥳
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Jørgen Holm @jholm.bsky.social · Sep 5
Stones and Fire in the West African Savanna
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Stones and Fire in the West African Savanna
A 9,000-year-old quartz workshop from Senegal reframes the story of Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers
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Research@LivUni @livuniresearch.bsky.social · Aug 7
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Dr Kaja Fenn (she/her) @drloessismore.bsky.social · Aug 5
Our new study lead produced enhanced paleo‑geomorphological mapping of the Ararat Depression to decode how shifting landforms shaped human movement and settlement in the Late Pleistocene
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Redirecting
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Dr Sally Hoare @sallygeoarch.bsky.social · Jul 18
Fantastic day (research trip) to Wookey Hole Caves - witches, dinosaurs and removal of a large stalagmite for analysis (climate and fire) 🔥
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Lucy Timbrell @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social · Jul 10
Very pleased to see our paper published online at Climate of the Past: cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...

We present model-data comparisons of Late Quaternary climate across the Northern Hemisphere, showing that increasing model resolution has little net effect on coherence with pollen proxies 😊
More is not always better: delta-downscaling climate model outputs from 30 to 5 min resolution has minimal impact on coherence with Late Quaternary proxies
Abstract. Both proxies and models provide key resources to explore how palaeoenvironmental changes may have impacted diverse biotic communities and cultural processes. While proxies are thought to pro...
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Dr Sally Hoare @sallygeoarch.bsky.social · Jul 7
Fieldwork day to Creswell Crags as part of our new project "Fire & Climate: Speleothems and the British Palaeolithic" funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social with Rob Hosfield & Sam Nicholson #soot #fire #aDNA
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Lucy Timbrell @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social · Jul 5
Very pleased to see our paper now out in Communications Biology! 🥳
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Eleanor Scerri @elliescerri.bsky.social · Jul 5
New paper alert! Led by @jblinkhorn.bsky.social, we look at refugia for baboons in the Pleistocene and Holocene, offering a potential analogue for early hominins where climatic tolerances are shared.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Identifying late Pleistocene and Holocene refugia for baboons - Communications Biology
Hindcasted species distribution modelling of baboons illuminates potential refugia across Africa and Arabia, with predicted maxima and minima of habitable ranges pulsed by orbital precession and obliq...
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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · Jun 30
Really thrilled that my second book is now published! It explores the life of Tacfarinas, a C1st AD auxiliary soldier-deserter-bandit-rebel who came to lead a revolt against #Rome in NW Africa during the early reign of Tiberius. He is a truly fascinating figure in #Roman history! 🏺AncientBlueSky
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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Jun 25
Onset of extensive human fire use 50,000 y ago | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Onset of extensive human fire use 50,000 y ago | PNAS
Fire is a pivotal aspect of human involvement in the carbon cycle. However, the precise timing of the large-scale human fire use remains uncertain....
www.pnas.org
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Dr Sally Hoare @sallygeoarch.bsky.social · Jun 18
Congratulations to Stephanie Thomson winner of the UoL 3MT 2025 final. What a fantastic presentation and the first HSS winner of the competition! @uolhsspgr.bsky.social
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PGR Development (University of Liverpool) @uolpgrdevelopment.bsky.social · Jun 18
3MT® Final!

And the winner of the UoL 3MT® Final 2025 is

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Stephanie Thomson!

Massive congratulations, and a fantastic presentation!

Awarded by Dr Martha Beard from Vitae!

#LivUni3MT
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HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · Jun 10
@tommyhigham.bsky.social introducing #NickAshton for the #HEASSeminar taking place now online and in-person @univie.ac.at
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Mareike C Stahlschmidt @stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social · Jun 3
Great to have you here!!
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Dr Sally Hoare @sallygeoarch.bsky.social · Jun 3
An exciting week at Uni Vienna working on micromorphology samples from the Lower Palaeolithic site of Barnham, UK! #fire #geoarchaeology
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Dr Sally Hoare @sallygeoarch.bsky.social · Jun 3
An exciting week at Uni Vienna working on micromorphology samples from the Lower Palaeolithic site of Barnham, UK! #fire #geoarchaeology
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Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton @archsoton50.bsky.social · May 30
A permanent job here at Southampton in Palaeolithic Archaeology and/or Palaeoanthropology
Please share widely!
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Lecturer A
The University of Southampton is in the top 1% of world universities and is one of the UK’s top 15 research-intensive universities. Committed to excellence in all we do, we are growing and investing i...
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · May 28
🏺 V. excited to announce I'll be bringing new prehistory & archaeology to @chalkefestival.bsky.social next month!
Our @livancworlds.bsky.social "Science From The Hearth" team led by Dr Pete Hommel will run demos & interactive stuff on ancient tech: birch tar, metals & ceramics.
Details TBA!
Photograph of cobbles in an open air fire, with black tar smudges.
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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · May 25
Who made the Oldowan? Reviewing African hominin fossils and archaeological sites from 3.5 million years ago www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Who made the Oldowan? Reviewing African hominin fossils and archaeological sites from 3.5 million years ago
The question of which African hominin taxon/taxa was responsible for producing Oldowan stone tools has persisted for nearly a century. Homo habilis, P…
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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · May 22
Unravelling the formation processes and depositional histories of the Middle Palaeolithic Ararat-1 Cave, Armenia: A multiscalar and multiproxy geoarchaeological approach www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Unravelling the formation processes and depositional histories of the Middle Palaeolithic Ararat-1 Cave, Armenia: A multiscalar and multiproxy geoarchaeological approach
The sedimentary sequence of Ararat-1 Cave encapsulates an intricate depositional archive (Marine Isotope Stage 3), crucial for our understanding of th…
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Dr Sally Hoare @sallygeoarch.bsky.social · May 19
Fantastic paper just out by @ivynotterpek.bsky.social and co detecting pyrogenic carbon in charred archaeological residues journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 🔥 🔥 🔥
BPChAr—a Benzene Polycarboxylic Acid database to describe the molecular characteristics of laboratory-produced charcoal: Implications for soil science and archaeology
The benzene polycarboxylic acid (BPCA) method is a technique to characterise the aromaticity and aromatic condensation of pyrogenic carbon (PyC) in charred residues. As a molecular marker for polycond...
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Vera Aldeias @veraaldeias.bsky.social · Apr 24
Our next LEXA seminar will be a hot one🔥! With the wonderful @caromallol.bsky.social. Join us at 2pm (Lisbon time!) on Tuesday the 6th of May. Register here: www.icarehb.com/lexa/
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Ségolène Vandevelde @segovandevelde.bsky.social · Apr 23
|✨ Publication Alert! ✨|
Our latest research on #pyroarchaeology has just been published with @springernature.com in the #JournalOfArchaeologicalMethodAndTheory!
-> Late Mid-Pleistocene hominin fire control inferred from sooty speleothem analysis 🔥
Read here: rdcu.be/ehqag
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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Apr 18
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Charcoal insights on the vegetation, climate and subsistence patterns at Wonderwerk Cave
Wonderwerk Cave is one of the most important archaeological sites in central southern Africa as it preserves multiple indicators of past environments,…
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