Ice Age Art at the British Museum
At last, the British Museum has announced the upcoming, international exhibition of Ice Age art that will be on display at the museum from 7 February-26 May 2013. This exciting exhibition has been much...
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Tree Houses in Papua New Guinea
The BBC's documentary series, Human Planet, featured the incredible construction skills of the Korowai people in Papua New Guinea. The first Western contact with the Korowai is thought to have occurred...
View ArticleOn "Cavemen" and Presumptions of Naturalism in Prehistoric Art
@jorios tweeted about a paper published this week in PLoS ONE, from Horvath et al., entitled, "Cavemen Were Better at Depicting Quadruped Walking than Modern Artists: Erroneous Walking Illustrations in...
View ArticleUnravelling Human Origins Conference
Next Friday and Saturday, 18-19 January, is the "Unravelling Human Origins" conference in Cambridge. This year marks the third annual gathering of Palaeolithic archaeologists in the UK. The first was...
View ArticleFriday Funny: Song of Homo Habilis
This video landed in my inbox today via an archaeology mailing list. According to YouTube, this is "what happens when a music major takes an anthropology class." Enjoy, Palaeo-nerds. Happy Friday!
View ArticleUHO Cambridge Conference Run-Down
As I mentioned, I was in Cambridge last week for the Unravelling Human Origins conference. As always, it was a great opportunity to catch up with other Palaeolithic researchers and hear about some of...
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Guest Post from Suzanne Pilaar Birch: Human Adaptations to Climate Change in...
I met Suzie when we were both working at the site of Vela Spila (Korcula) in Croatia. She proved to be a great roommate that summer, and we have kept in touch since then. She recently finished her PhD,...
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Thoughts on those "Professional" Ice Age Artists
Last week, the Guardian ran a story about the Palaeolithic art that is travelling to the British Museum for their upcoming Ice Age Art exhibition. In this article, they described the artefacts as...
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New Dates for Hominin Remains from Serbia & Implications for Human Evolution...
Last week, Rink et al. published new radiometric dates for a hominin mandible from the site of Mala Balanica, in southern Serbia. The specimen that is the focus of their PLoS ONE paper, BH-1, is a left...
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Ice Age Art: arrival of the modern mind
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of viewing the Ice Age Art exhibition that recently went up at the British Museum. As part of the European Palaeolithic conference last Thursday and Friday, all...
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Dan Witz: The Importance of Context, even in Modern Art
A few weeks ago, my husband and I were walking around with a bit of time to kill before a dinner reservation. We searched for art galleries nearby and found the Lazarides Gallery was open late, so we...
View ArticleThoughts on Academic Career Paths & Lessons Learned from Yoga
In many ways, I was one of the "lucky" ones of my cohort when I finished my PhD. Within months of defending my dissertation, I was offered a post-doctoral fellowship in the city I already lived in,...
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Palaeolithic origins of ceramic technology: innovative and creative revolutions
As I mentioned in the previous post, a three-year Leverhulme Research Project Grant has been awarded to University of Southampton. With William Davies at the PI, and me as the post-doctoral research...
View ArticleTransitioning Back to Academia
In a little more than a month, I will be re-entering the world of academia after almost three years away from full-time archaeological research. I am simultaneously excited and anxious about this...
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New Roman Discoveries in London
File this away in the category of "We never find stuff this pretty in the Palaeolithic"....Earlier this week, news broke about recent Roman discoveries in London. A team of archaeologists from the...
View ArticleThoughts on Starting New Research Projects
Our Leverhulme funded project, Palaeolithic Origins of Ceramic Technology: innovative and creative revolutions, officially began on Wednesday. As I find my feet in this new role and dive into the...
View ArticleRESET conference at the British Museum
Last week, I attended the "finale" meeting of the RESET (Response of Humans to Abrupt Environmental Transition) research project, "When Europe was covered by ice and ash." This massive research project...
View ArticleArt Under Attack: Upcoming Exhibition at Tate Britain
Tate Britain announced on Friday that they will launch a show in October showcasing evidence of "violence against art," spanning roughly 500 years of British art history. This show is incredibly...
View ArticleSettling In and Setting Out
Long time, no blog!It's been almost exactly 4 months since I started my post-doc at the University of Southampton. I haven't done a very good job of blogging regularly about my work (or blogging...
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Stop what you are doing and watch this right now:Indeed, haven't we all wondered before, "what's the meaning of Stonehenge?"You can thank me later.P.S.- pardon his French.
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Mixing Work with Pleasure (or...an archaeologist's thoughts from a morning of...
I'm in southern Moravia (Czech Republic) right now, conducting research on the famous Gravettian ceramic figurines from this region (dated to c. 30-25,000 years before present). I am staying in the...
View Article#ESHE2013 In A Nutshell
If you follow me on Twitter, you probably saw a lot of #ESHE2013 over the past few days. I was in Vienna attending the 3rd annual conference of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution....
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Human Origins Study Day at University of Southampton, 14 December 2013
On 14 December, a group from the Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins will be discussing our research during a study day. The general theme of the day is innovation and my colleagues and I will...
View ArticleTrends in Palaeolithic Archaeology
If you follow me on Twitter, you probably noticed me tweeting highlights from the Wild Things conference in Durham last week. I had the pleasure of attending the conference and presenting some of the...
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Richard Deacon at Tate Britain
Richard Deacon is a giant in the world of British sculpture, having won the Turner Prize in 1987. When I was a research fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art, I had the pleasure of briefly meeting...
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