Dr Sally Hoare
@sallygeoarch.bsky.social
Geoarchaeologist, University of Liverpool, likes human evolution, fire and microarchaeology
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QRA ADM in Brighton, abstract submission deadline 10th November!!! Submit your abstracts for a talk or a poster @quaternaryra.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/qraadmb...
October 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
QRA ADM in Brighton, abstract submission deadline 10th November!!! Submit your abstracts for a talk or a poster @quaternaryra.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/qraadmb...
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New paper!
Cave site formation processes, climate change and hominin activities: A high-resolution microstratigraphic investigation on the terminal Pleistocene deposits at Fodongdi Cave, Yunnan Province, South China
doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
Cave site formation processes, climate change and hominin activities: A high-resolution microstratigraphic investigation on the terminal Pleistocene deposits at Fodongdi Cave, Yunnan Province, South China
doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
Redirecting
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November 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
New paper!
Cave site formation processes, climate change and hominin activities: A high-resolution microstratigraphic investigation on the terminal Pleistocene deposits at Fodongdi Cave, Yunnan Province, South China
doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
Cave site formation processes, climate change and hominin activities: A high-resolution microstratigraphic investigation on the terminal Pleistocene deposits at Fodongdi Cave, Yunnan Province, South China
doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
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Looking forward today to the “Paleoenvironmental DNA and Human Evolution” Symposium here in our department, featuring talks by Viviane Slon, Mikel Pedersen, Karina Sand, Ben Vernot, Pere Gelabert, Mareike Stahlschmidt and Susanna Sawyer. sedaDNA, so exciting! @univie.ac.at @heasvienna.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Looking forward today to the “Paleoenvironmental DNA and Human Evolution” Symposium here in our department, featuring talks by Viviane Slon, Mikel Pedersen, Karina Sand, Ben Vernot, Pere Gelabert, Mareike Stahlschmidt and Susanna Sawyer. sedaDNA, so exciting! @univie.ac.at @heasvienna.bsky.social
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📄 New paper 📣 of @matrixerc.bsky.social & @welkergroup.bsky.social! We show that microstratigraphic-scale #paleoproteomics works in intact sediments - opening new ways to explore ancient ecosystems & hominin behaviour 🌍🦴
@erc.europa.eu @icarehb.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
@erc.europa.eu @icarehb.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
New methods on the block: Taxonomic identification of archaeological bones in resin-embedded sediments through paleoproteomics
Abstract. The integration of biomolecular studies of past organisms with geoarchaeological studies can significantly improve our understanding of the relat
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October 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
📄 New paper 📣 of @matrixerc.bsky.social & @welkergroup.bsky.social! We show that microstratigraphic-scale #paleoproteomics works in intact sediments - opening new ways to explore ancient ecosystems & hominin behaviour 🌍🦴
@erc.europa.eu @icarehb.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
@erc.europa.eu @icarehb.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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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...
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...
September 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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...
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...
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#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
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
September 26, 2025 at 8:11 AM
#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
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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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/
14:00 (GMT) on the 7th of October. Free for all, join here
icarehb.com/lexa/
September 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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/
14:00 (GMT) on the 7th of October. Free for all, join here
icarehb.com/lexa/
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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! 🥳
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! 🥳
September 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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! 🥳
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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Stones and Fire in the West African Savanna
www.anthropology.net/p/stones-and...
www.anthropology.net/p/stones-and...
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
www.anthropology.net
September 5, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Stones and Fire in the West African Savanna
www.anthropology.net/p/stones-and...
www.anthropology.net/p/stones-and...
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August 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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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
doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...
@humendylab.bsky.social @arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social
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@humendylab.bsky.social @arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social
Redirecting
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August 5, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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
doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...
@humendylab.bsky.social @arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...
@humendylab.bsky.social @arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social
Fantastic day (research trip) to Wookey Hole Caves - witches, dinosaurs and removal of a large stalagmite for analysis (climate and fire) 🔥
July 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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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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 😊
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...
cp.copernicus.org
July 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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 😊
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 😊
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
July 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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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Very pleased to see our paper now out in Communications Biology! 🥳
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...
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...
www.nature.com
July 5, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Very pleased to see our paper now out in Communications Biology! 🥳
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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
June 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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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
June 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Onset of extensive human fire use 50,000 y ago | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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
3MT® Final!
And the winner of the UoL 3MT® Final 2025 is
………….
Stephanie Thomson!
Massive congratulations, and a fantastic presentation!
Awarded by Dr Martha Beard from Vitae!
#LivUni3MT
And the winner of the UoL 3MT® Final 2025 is
………….
Stephanie Thomson!
Massive congratulations, and a fantastic presentation!
Awarded by Dr Martha Beard from Vitae!
#LivUni3MT
June 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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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@tommyhigham.bsky.social introducing #NickAshton for the #HEASSeminar taking place now online and in-person @univie.ac.at
June 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
@tommyhigham.bsky.social introducing #NickAshton for the #HEASSeminar taking place now online and in-person @univie.ac.at
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Great to have you here!!
An exciting week at Uni Vienna working on micromorphology samples from the Lower Palaeolithic site of Barnham, UK! #fire #geoarchaeology
June 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Great to have you here!!
An exciting week at Uni Vienna working on micromorphology samples from the Lower Palaeolithic site of Barnham, UK! #fire #geoarchaeology
June 3, 2025 at 9:06 AM
An exciting week at Uni Vienna working on micromorphology samples from the Lower Palaeolithic site of Barnham, UK! #fire #geoarchaeology
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A permanent job here at Southampton in Palaeolithic Archaeology and/or Palaeoanthropology
Please share widely!
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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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May 30, 2025 at 8:32 AM
A permanent job here at Southampton in Palaeolithic Archaeology and/or Palaeoanthropology
Please share widely!
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Please share widely!
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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🏺 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!
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!
May 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
🏺 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!
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!
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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…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Who made the Oldowan? Reviewing African hominin fossils and archaeological sites from 3.5 million years ago www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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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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May 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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...