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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · 6d

At a recent outreach event we tried a bit of living prehistory to bring the final Palaeolithic and Mesolithic in Scotland to life - we opted for some body paints, sticking to white, black and red. Turns out we could have added blue! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The earliest evidence of blue pigment use in Europe | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

The earliest evidence of blue pigment use in Europe

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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · 8d

Châtelperronian cultural diversity at its western limits: Shell beads and pigments from La Roche-à-Pierrot, Saint-Césaire | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · 28d

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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · 29d

Test audience for these wonderful colouring sheets our new PhD student Tayla has prepared for our event on Sunday 14th at UoA. Tayla is joining PALaEoScot to work on fragmentary bones from late glacial-early Holocene sites in Scotland using molecular approaches - she’s quite the artist too!

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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ever wondered what life was like at the end of the Ice Age? What did people eat? How did they make tools? Come and meet the PALaEoScot team at Explorathon on Sept 14th 11am-4pm at UoA’s King’s College in Old Aberdeen and meet our living prehistorians at their camp! Link below ⬇️

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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · Aug 4

PalaeoScot is down in Pembroke for the week - it’s a PalaeoScot-PalaeoWales collab! We’ve done some isotope work at Wogan Cavern over the last few years and it’s great to finally see the site & to check out a potential new cave with some of the Wogan team too 👀 🦣 🦌 @ukri.org

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Dr Ross Barnett @deepfrieddna.bsky.social · Jul 27

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Natural England chair backs lynx reintroduction

Tony Juniper, chair of Natural England, says he is keen to see lynx reintroduced to Britain, backing a proposed trial in Northumberland. However, government legal blocks and strong opposition from she...

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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · Jul 27

Would love to have you up here! And I have a scheme re: writing we talked about last year… are you still on Twitter? I cannot find a way of DM’ing on here 🤔

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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · Jul 27

(Very) Late to the party but enjoying it immensely - wonderful words @lemoustier.bsky.social would recommend KINDRED to anyone interested in learning more about Neanderthals, visiting the other-worlds of the past, or learning more about the process of field and research archaeology

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Jul 26

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Archaeology funding to protect Ice Age hunt site Fetcham Springs

Fetcham Springs in Surrey is "nationally significant", says the Surrey County Archaeological Unit.

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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · Jul 26

A memorable, creative and restorative week at Moniack Mhor for a writing retreat. Met some wonderful people, was fed like a Queen and broke out of the academic writing bubble just a little bit - like a spa for the brain!

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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · Jul 8

Congrats Lucy!

Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · Jul 8

So proud of you @lucyjkoster.bsky.social !!

Linus Girdland Flink @flinklinus.bsky.social · Jul 4

Graduation time, congrats again @lucyjkoster.bsky.social! With @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social

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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · Jul 8

This week #PALaEoScot has been part of a team testing this wee rock shelter, hopeful for signs of Late Glacial/early Holocene archaeology (or palaeontology!). So far just some cracking lithology (literally) and a very friendly dog - but watch this space! 🦴 🦌 🦣 🪨 @ukri.org @willmills.bsky.social

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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · Jul 2

The data from the MALDI is looking good! So great to be collaborating with @archaeoprotein.bsky.social to help us work out the kinks ❤️

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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · Jul 2

Mesolithic! An Corran or Oronsay I think, but maybe something sneaks in a little earlier 🤔 (sorry I only know what’s in the isotope literature…). We’ve just got a project ZooMS-ing unidentified bones from early Holocene (and Pleisto…) sites so we’ll let you know if we find anything people-y…

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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · Jul 2

Spotting her first MALDI plate! Thanks to @archaeoprotein.bsky.social for offering this wonderful training opportunity to @sarahbarakat.bsky.social and helping us further develop our ZooMS capacity in Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social - and for running our first PALaEoScot samples with us!

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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · Jun 17

Lovely to see some experimental archaeology for our PalaeoScot project!

Will Mills @willmills.bsky.social · Jun 16

Friday fun! A friend offered me a Scottish red deer antler—perfect timing, as I needed an antler hammer for Late Glacial blade work. Used the burn-and-groove method (makes collagen brittle). Huge thanks to Kiki for the help! It’s already made a lovely blade 🤩🥳

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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · Jun 8

Yes! Although earlier (have directly dated the remains) and cows 🤯 We now have ~45 sr and o measurements from human burials too, from Pictish sites across Scotland, and those are eye-opening too! (No Scandinavians though if I recall correctly!) Pictish movements are super fun!

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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · Jun 8

Burghead!

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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · Jun 8

The data aren’t published yet - hot off the mass spec! Majority match different parts of Scotland, but indeed a few show very elevated strontium isotope ratios combined with low oxygen well outside what we get in British env waters today - were still digesting this! @northernpicts.bsky.social

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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · Jun 8

This week we also had a full-day PALaEoScot team meeting and welcomed our new PhD student, Tayla! It was wonderful to hear updates on the incredible lithics, palaeontological and palaeoenvironmental work the team is doing, and to discuss what’s next & to have bit of social time together too! 🦣

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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · Jun 8

Thanks to @orshicz.bsky.social and lots of others!

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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · Jun 8

This week I’ve scoured letters at NMS for glimpses of Pleistocene animals; celebrated Medieval life at an exhibition opening; & been immersed in prehistoric landscapes at the Europa in Reading. Archaeology is so rich and varied. Thank you to everyone who shared their knowledge & passion this week!🏺🦣

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