Off to the field with @ll-herskind.bsky.social and a group of awesome students - four weeks teaching excavation and my @erc.europa.eu project CLIOARCH’s very last field season. And we’re going to excavate the world’s oldest amber art workshop from the Late Pleistocene 🤩

I'm on route to Gothenburg to give a seminar on our work exploring the role and relevance of stranded whales in the Late Palaeolithic along the European margins.

Preliminary results out here doi.org/10.1080/1556... with @shumon.bsky.social, @sofiefh.bsky.social et al. but we've got more coming :)

From the extensive collection of animal bones (cave bears, mammoth, rhino, reindeer, etc.), we selected a good bunch for dating, and n=13 worked out. Use of the caves peaked in the Aurignacian, with some Gravettian but little to no Magdalenian presence. All human bones post-date the Palaeolithic.

We reviewed the faunal material and its stratigraphic relations as they can be reconstructed from the original documentation.

My office Christmas decoration has gone up. #darkacademia #nordicnoir

Look what I got for my birthday! #showyourstripes

The palaeo-version of the human sciences - that's something at least. From @amesoudi.bsky.social (2006) 👇

But I also *love* artefacts and all the wonderful insights we can gain from even a single object - magical! (just look at that beautiful tanged point from 14k years ago 😍)

I like computational methods and 'macro-' approaches. I'm a big fan of #OpenScience, and #FAIR data. I often think in trees (i.e. phylogenies) and often use 'biggish' data.