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Dr Sonja B Grimm

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#Palaeolithic #archaeology freelance, feminist, labour unionist, she/her; previously: LEIZA-ZBSA, Schleswig & CRC 1266/ Kiel University, UCL Institute of Archaeology, MONREPOS/LEIZA; Mastodon: @SonjaBGrimm.archaeo.social Instagram:@grimms.palaeotales

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Dr Sonja B Grimm @sonja-grimm.bsky.social · Nov 16

If you are wondering who I am, a short intro: Focusing on lithics & spatial analysis in MA, I moved to chronology, palaeo-climatic & -environmental reconstruction coupled with transformation in material culture in my PhD & think about resilience since. From the start I'm into the Late #Palaeolitic.

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eaapam.bsky.social @eaapam.bsky.social · Sep 5

Statement from the co-chairs of PaM:
Due to the current developments at the annual meeting, we, as the representatives of the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic community, want to underline that we support the democratic right to protest and speak freely,...continued...

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Dr Sonja B Grimm @sonja-grimm.bsky.social · Sep 5

There are also some for @eaapam.bsky.social Community! #Palaeolithic #Mesolithic

Oxbow Books @oxbowbooks.bsky.social · Sep 4

You can find your copy of this award-winner on our special #EAA2025 landing page ➡ bit.ly/3VqN3kW

EAA 2025

Representing leading independent publishers

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Cambridge University Press - Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org · Sep 4

🆓 Download free-access articles on #EuropeanArchaeology, for #EAA2025Belgrade: 📲✅ https://cup.org/42bmHqP

Free access (where not already OA) until 30/09/25.

@archaeologyeaa.bsky.social
@antiquity.ac.uk
@cam-archaeology.bsky.social
@prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
@saa-aap.bsky.social
#EAA2025

Promotional image for Cambridge's presence at EAA 2025 in Cambridge, featuring a scenic view of the Belgrade cityscape with river and boats under autumn leaves.

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University of Exeter Archaeology and History Department @uoearchhist.bsky.social · Aug 20

Some of our 2nd year students are currently working with Dr Alex Pryor and Dr Jarek Wilczyński at Nietoperzowa Cave in Poland. They're spending four weeks excavating early Upper Palaeolithic layers previously made famous for finds of Jerzmanowician lithic points and human remains!

Students and staff working to excavate within a cave, lit by a large light. They are wearing hard hats and gloves, and there are buckets lined with bags for samples.

A top-down view of three people washing finds in coloured buckets and laying them out on trays

A student sieves in the daylight outside the cave entrance

Someone is looking through a total station towards a group of people, all in dappled shade

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Annemieke Milks @annemiekemilks.bsky.social · Aug 21

And Palaeolithic archaeology, which remains hugely behind too. 'This is not about political correctness or ticking boxes....Diverse teams deliver better science: they ask different questions, challenge old assumptions, and produce richer, more nuanced insights.'
www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...

We need a feminist palaeoanthropology that finally listens to all of us — HERI - Human Evolution Research Institute

Palaeoanthropology asks profound questions: Who are we? What makes us human? Too often, answering these answers has been done by a privileged few. HERi Co-director Prof Rebecca Ackermann calls for tha...

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Cambridge Archaeology @cam-archaeology.bsky.social · Aug 22

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣

In a new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, Cambridge researchers explore the role of skill for Lower Palaeolithic handaxe manufacture through flint knapping experiments.

👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · Aug 22

One of the oldest known musical instruments: a Palaeolithic flute made from a vulture bone some 38,000 years ago!

This is one of 8 known flutes found on the Swabian Jura. The finds suggest that music played an important role in this region. 🧵1/2

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#archaeology #music
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A close-up photograph of a flute made from a hollowed bone, displayed horizontally on a soft, gray fabric mount in a museum. The flute features several round finger holes along its length and showcases signs of wear and age, such as small chips.

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Dr Sonja B Grimm @sonja-grimm.bsky.social · Aug 18

🖤 On the weekend Bernhard "Benno" Gramsch has passen after a short illness. He will be missed. He has been an old hand of #Mesolithic #research in #Europe, until the end he has been an extremely good networker and very active in the research. My heartfelt condolences to the family.
RIP Benno! 🪦⚱️🦣

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Dr Sonja B Grimm @sonja-grimm.bsky.social · Aug 18

🖤 Am Wochenende ist Bernhard "Benno" Gramsch nach kurzer Krankheit im Alter von 91 Jahren gestorben. Er wird fehlen. Benno war ein Urgestein der Erforschung des #Mesolithikum in #Europa, bis zum Schluß hervorragend vernetzt & aktiv in der #Forschung. Mein herzliches Beileid gilt den Angehörigen! 🪦🦣⚱️

Benno Gramsch hinter einem Podium mit aufgeklappt Laptop vor Publikum und neben ihm auf der Leinwand ist ein Foto einer Gruppe von Leuten zu sehen. Er hält die Festrede auf der jährlichen Tagung der AG Mesolithikum am 7. März 2025 in Berlin, wo sie zu Ehren seines 90. Geburtsjahres stattfand (Foto: Sonja B. Grimm)
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Benno Gramsch behind a podium with an open laptop in front of an audience and beside him the screen shows a picture of a group of people. He is giving a keynote lecture at the annual meeting of the workgroup Mesolithic on March 7th 2025 in Berlin, held there in honour of his 90th birth year (photo: Sonja B. Grimm)

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Aug 8

NEW Pulei Cave in the Eastern Tianshan Mountains of Xinjiang ⛰️
Field investigation uncovers the first evidence for Upper Palaeolithic lithics in the region, indicating connections between Siberia, the Tibetan Plateau and East Asia 45,000 years ago 🏺 #Archaeology

Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Top: aerial photo of a desert. In the foreground, a cave is visible, in the background, a mountain range. Bottom left: entrance of a cave. Bottom right: interior of a cave, annotated to display areas of archaeological deposits.

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Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida.bsky.social · Aug 8

Fresh off the press - latest from the LAST project: "Under Pressure? Living with Climate Change and Environmental Hazards in the Past and Now" (Open access) link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Thanks to all contributors, and to my great co-editors: Marcel Bradtmöller, Sonja B. Grimm and Noa Lavi!!

Under Pressure?

This open access book gathers case studies of resilience and coping strategies in hunter-gatherer societies who were confronted with natural hazards

link.springer.com

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Dr Sonja B Grimm @sonja-grimm.bsky.social · Aug 8

The articles cover an area from Late #Palaeolithic in the #Levant across #Mesolithic northern #Europe and #Japan, #Neolithic Alpine area, historic #Sweden to modern #India but they also discuss #storytelling as well as theoretical & methodological approaches of how to live well with #climatechange

Dr Sonja B Grimm @sonja-grimm.bsky.social · Aug 8

Thanks to my lovely co-editors, @marcelbradtmoeller.bsky.social (Rostock), @arkeostrida.bsky.social (Stavanger), Noa Lavi (Haifa) & all the fantastic authors such as @kschumtina.bsky.social, @vonmeding.bsky.social, @antonyaolarsson.bsky.social, @felixthehauskat.bsky.social, @pyaworsky.bsky.social

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Dr Sonja B Grimm @sonja-grimm.bsky.social · Aug 8

Hip-Hip-Hoorray!!! This wonderful volume is finally out in the #openaccess world. We are discussing how people handled #hazards,
what makes #disasters or #vulnerability,
how to built societal #resilience & #sustainability &
is this smart to do?
#anthropology #Archaeology share.google/XtBTYyy8VRlq...

Under Pressure?

This open access book gathers case studies of resilience and coping strategies in hunter-gatherer societies who were confronted with natural hazards

share.google

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Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida.bsky.social · Jul 31

Reposting @stevenjgibbons.bsky.social great post - seeing that sharing knowledge is one of the best strategies against hazards turning disaster #LifeAftertheStoreggaDisaster

Steven J. Gibbons @stevenjgibbons.bsky.social · Jul 30

A little reminder that there is lots of completely open #seismic data in the world that can be viewed on any PC (and even a phone!) with only a few lines of python and the #obspy package. This plot shows 20 minutes of signal from today's Magnitude 8.8 #earthquake
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Python script for plotting the signal from the M8.8 Kamchatka earthquake recorded on station IU.MJAO (Matsushiro, Japan)

Signal from the M8.8 Kamchatka earthquake recorded on station IU.MJAO (Matsushiro, Japan)

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Michelle Langley @michellelangley.bsky.social · Aug 7

Ever wondered what the Palaeolithic sounded like? When did music and language begin? Here’s the podcast for you!

Had a great time being part of this project:

www.thresholdpodcast.org/hark-episode...

Hark Episode 13: Part of the Choir

Homo sapiens joined the story of life on Earth just 300,00 years ago. So when and how did we start making music and creating languages? In this episode, we explore these signature sounds and discover...

www.thresholdpodcast.org

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · Aug 8

A Middle Palaeolithic artefact, found by a member of the public in Jersey near an intertidal site, eroded from loess, then rolled on the beach.
It was badly struck from a little Levallois core taking a chunk of core with it, then bearing witness to a Neanderthal swear
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday
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A yellow stained flint artefact about 10cm long, held in the hand with out of focus office behind

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João Cascalheira @jmcascalheira.bsky.social · Aug 7

📢 Just published: our latest paper on site formation processes at the Middle Paleolithic sequence of Escoural Cave, southern Portugal.

Check it out!

@erc.europa.eu @icarehb.bsky.social #neanderthals #archaeology #openscience

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Close to sunlight or deep underground? New data to reconstruct site formation processes at the Middle Paleolithic Escoural cave (southern Portugal)

The ability to exploit the deeper levels of cave systems is regarded as complex human behavior. Evidence that Neanderthals possessed this skill remain…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Aug 6

The discovery of ancient stone tools on Sulawesi suggests that this Indonesian island was populated by hominins at around the same time as the nearby island of Flores, if not earlier, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/4oq7zzw 🏺 🧪

This is figure 2, which shows stone artefacts recovered from Early Pleistocene deposits at Calio.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · Aug 5

Many Europeans had the dark skin and eyes of their African ancestors well into the Bronze and Iron ages, according to estimates of genotype likelihoods for 348 ancient genomes from Eurasia. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Temporal and geographical distribution of skin pigmentation estimates in Eurasia from Paleolithic to Iron Age.

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · Jul 23

New publication covering 25yrs of landscape and palaeoenvironmental research on Lake Flixton (North Yorks) - Palaeolithic and Mesolithic wonders! Available to download for free here: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/mcdonald-ins...

McDonald Institute Monographs Archive (2021‒2025)

Our full catalogue is presented here by publication date. Our publications are distributed by Pen & Sword Books/Casemate Academic. Direct links to Pen & Sword Books are included in the catalogue

www.arch.cam.ac.uk

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corff.bsky.social @corff.bsky.social · Jul 25

Middle Palaeolithic Human occupations, cultural behaviours and demographic dynamics during MIS 5a to late 3 in the Bawa Yawan Rockshelter, Kermanshah, West-Central Zagros Mountains - ScienceDirect
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Jørgen Holm @jholm.bsky.social · Jul 25

The site of Loreto, Southern Italy, dates to between MIS 15 and 13, a pivotal phase in the human peopling of Europe. This period marks a moment of change in the Lower Palaeolithic and the subsequent technological renewal that culminated in the transition to the Middle Palaeolithic ...

The lithic legacy of Loreto: a technological perspective on early hominin toolmaking during the Lower Palaeolithic

The site of Loreto (Venosa basin, Southern Italy) dates to between MIS 15 and 13, a pivotal phase in the human peopling of Europe. This period marks a moment of change in the Lower Palaeolithic, pr...

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Alfons López Tena @alfonslopeztena.bsky.social · Jul 25

Evidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel suggests behavioural uniformity across Homo groups in the Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic circa 130,000–80,000 years ago: intentional human burial and the use of ochre in burial contexts
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Evidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel suggests behavioural uniformity across Homo groups in the Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic circa 130,000–80,000 years ago - Nature Human Behaviour

The Middle Palaeolithic of southwest Asia witnessed interactions and knowledge sharing between archaic and modern humans ~130,000–80,000 years ago. These interactions led to increased behavioural comp...

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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · Aug 4

Saddle up!

Domesticated horses introduced to Iberia around 1800 BC but wild horses derived from Palaeolithic populations still persist until around 500 BC.

Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Aug 4

The genomic history of Iberian horses since the last Ice Age www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The genomic history of Iberian horses since the last Ice Age - Nature Communications

Horses have lived in Iberia since the Ice Age. Using ancient genomes to study their history, Lira Garrido et al. reveal a local wild lineage lasting until Late Iron Age, and highlight the far-rea...

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