Brexit fears affecting U.K. archaeologists
I have no political position on the impending departure of Britain from the European Union. Nevertheless, I wanted to point to this article in The Guardian t...
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Boning up on British history
From The Guardian: “Richard III archaeologists to return to Leicester site in search of lost knight”.
LRJ as a transitional industry
I was reading this morning an interesting paper from last year by Damien Flas Flas:2011, who considered the context of archaeological assemblages grouped as ...
Reindeer hides and Neandertals
In reference to the post below about Quina Mousterian and reindeer specialization (“Paleoclimate and shifting Neandertal strategies”), let me add this great ...
A stretch of Bronze Age river
In the course of studying recent human evolution, I’ve done a lot of work on the skeletal remains of Bronze Age Europeans. This is a series of cultures we kn...
The radiocarbon dating paper without a radiocarbon date
Nature this week released two papers about European archaeological sites that come near the end of the Neandertals and beginning of the archaeological transi...
News tidbit on Kent's Cavern
The local paper gives us a snippet of news about ongoing work at Kent’s Cavern: