Helen Hampton
@helenshampton.bsky.social
PhD student, University of York, UK: researching Neanderthal adaptation to cold climates; MSc Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology, UCL; Events Assistant, Lithics Studies Society.
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Thank you to the Kiernan Experimental Archaeology Award, sponsored by EXARC member John Kiernan, for the micro-grant of 500 euros to fund my experimental archaeology project testing Neanderthal technology!
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Join our guided, hands-on workshop on #systematic #synthesis in #archaeology & #humanevolution.
🗓️ Jan 12, 19, 26 & Feb 2
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Join our guided, hands-on workshop on #systematic #synthesis in #archaeology & #humanevolution.
🗓️ Jan 12, 19, 26 & Feb 2
⏰ 09:00–13:00 WET | Online
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November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
🚨 Registrations closing soon!
Join our guided, hands-on workshop on #systematic #synthesis in #archaeology & #humanevolution.
🗓️ Jan 12, 19, 26 & Feb 2
⏰ 09:00–13:00 WET | Online
Apply by Nov 27 👉 heirs.icarehb.com
#HEIRS
Join our guided, hands-on workshop on #systematic #synthesis in #archaeology & #humanevolution.
🗓️ Jan 12, 19, 26 & Feb 2
⏰ 09:00–13:00 WET | Online
Apply by Nov 27 👉 heirs.icarehb.com
#HEIRS
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Applications are now open to join our 2026 Master's programme in human evolution. Covering the Palaeolithic, Palaeoanthropology & other key disciplines, the course is taught by experts from UCL and designed to equip you for a career in the deep human past. #PaPa
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November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Applications are now open to join our 2026 Master's programme in human evolution. Covering the Palaeolithic, Palaeoanthropology & other key disciplines, the course is taught by experts from UCL and designed to equip you for a career in the deep human past. #PaPa
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tinyurl.com/5duy6twh
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#Vacancies: we are looking for not just one but three #postdoctoral researchers interested in bridging #genetics, #archaeology and #linguistics in exploring the #humanpast. shorturl.at/B3Qdd @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social
Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University
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November 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM
#Vacancies: we are looking for not just one but three #postdoctoral researchers interested in bridging #genetics, #archaeology and #linguistics in exploring the #humanpast. shorturl.at/B3Qdd @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social
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🏺 🧪 Research and publications like this really matter, since even when one theory is not supported by later evidence, it opens up interesting new perspectives and scenarios for #humanevolution.
Rather, in terms of metrics and morphology, it matches best to impact from a hammerstone, likely used to access the liquid within-bone nutrients such as marrow and bone grease.
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
🏺 🧪 Research and publications like this really matter, since even when one theory is not supported by later evidence, it opens up interesting new perspectives and scenarios for #humanevolution.
A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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November 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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⚠️Just a quick reminder, there are a few days left to apply for these two positions in #palaeoproteomics.
I'm hiring!⭐ As part of the DFF Sapere Aude-funded project MiddleEarth, I am looking for 1 postdoctoral researcher and 1 research assistant.
November 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
⚠️Just a quick reminder, there are a few days left to apply for these two positions in #palaeoproteomics.
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New research on wild chimpanzees shows juvenile innovation is not play but a cultural engine. Young chimps invent tools, refine adult techniques, and introduce novelty. What if childhood experimentation drove early human cultural evolution too? #Primatology #Anthropology #Archaeology #HumanOrigins
Young chimpanzees invent tools, modify adult techniques, and explore in ways that spark cultural change. New research suggests childhood curiosity may have fueled innovation long before Homo sapiens shaped history. #Anthropology #Primates #Evolution #Science www.primatology.net/p/the-little...
The Little Inventors of the Forest
Young chimpanzees build tools, break rules, and may hold clues to how culture first evolved
www.primatology.net
October 31, 2025 at 2:44 AM
New research on wild chimpanzees shows juvenile innovation is not play but a cultural engine. Young chimps invent tools, refine adult techniques, and introduce novelty. What if childhood experimentation drove early human cultural evolution too? #Primatology #Anthropology #Archaeology #HumanOrigins
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👣 What can ancient #footprints tell us about #movement, #behaviour, and #technology in #prehistory?
Join us for the next #LEXA seminar, exploring traces and early #transport innovations.
🗓️ 4 Nov | 🕑 14:00 GMT | 🌍 Online via #Zoom
🔗 icarehb.com/lexa
Join us for the next #LEXA seminar, exploring traces and early #transport innovations.
🗓️ 4 Nov | 🕑 14:00 GMT | 🌍 Online via #Zoom
🔗 icarehb.com/lexa
November 3, 2025 at 9:10 AM
👣 What can ancient #footprints tell us about #movement, #behaviour, and #technology in #prehistory?
Join us for the next #LEXA seminar, exploring traces and early #transport innovations.
🗓️ 4 Nov | 🕑 14:00 GMT | 🌍 Online via #Zoom
🔗 icarehb.com/lexa
Join us for the next #LEXA seminar, exploring traces and early #transport innovations.
🗓️ 4 Nov | 🕑 14:00 GMT | 🌍 Online via #Zoom
🔗 icarehb.com/lexa
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New purchase from my local Oxfam 📖 It is very far outside my period of study, but I'm fascinated by prehistory, and how our modern viewpoint shapes studies of the ancient past. Should be an insightful read!
November 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
New purchase from my local Oxfam 📖 It is very far outside my period of study, but I'm fascinated by prehistory, and how our modern viewpoint shapes studies of the ancient past. Should be an insightful read!
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Here is the abstract for another session speaker. If this tickles your fancy come along either in person or online to further your lithic knowledge!!!!!
Voluntary Action Leicester (VAL) 7th and 8th November
Grab your tickets here www.tickettailor.com/events/lithi...
Voluntary Action Leicester (VAL) 7th and 8th November
Grab your tickets here www.tickettailor.com/events/lithi...
October 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Here is the abstract for another session speaker. If this tickles your fancy come along either in person or online to further your lithic knowledge!!!!!
Voluntary Action Leicester (VAL) 7th and 8th November
Grab your tickets here www.tickettailor.com/events/lithi...
Voluntary Action Leicester (VAL) 7th and 8th November
Grab your tickets here www.tickettailor.com/events/lithi...
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Here is the abstract for another speaker. If this tickles your fancy come along either in person or online to further your lithic knowledge!!!!!
Voluntary Action Leicester (VAL) 7th and 8th November
Grab your tickets here www.tickettailor.com/events/lithi...
Voluntary Action Leicester (VAL) 7th and 8th November
Grab your tickets here www.tickettailor.com/events/lithi...
October 29, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Here is the abstract for another speaker. If this tickles your fancy come along either in person or online to further your lithic knowledge!!!!!
Voluntary Action Leicester (VAL) 7th and 8th November
Grab your tickets here www.tickettailor.com/events/lithi...
Voluntary Action Leicester (VAL) 7th and 8th November
Grab your tickets here www.tickettailor.com/events/lithi...
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We have an exciting line-up of speakers already confirmed for our Ancient Genomes meeting in November. If you want to be one of the speakers or present a poster, submit your abstract by 31 July!
genetics.org.uk/events/ancie...
genetics.org.uk/events/ancie...
July 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
We have an exciting line-up of speakers already confirmed for our Ancient Genomes meeting in November. If you want to be one of the speakers or present a poster, submit your abstract by 31 July!
genetics.org.uk/events/ancie...
genetics.org.uk/events/ancie...
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📕 #BookReview
How did prehistoric people settle islands? Did the first humans have the cognitive and behavioural traits to develop seafaring?
Explore John F. Cherry & Thomas P. Leppard's 'Human dispersal, human evolution, and the sea' in Antiquity:
(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
How did prehistoric people settle islands? Did the first humans have the cognitive and behavioural traits to develop seafaring?
Explore John F. Cherry & Thomas P. Leppard's 'Human dispersal, human evolution, and the sea' in Antiquity:
(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
October 27, 2025 at 8:13 AM
📕 #BookReview
How did prehistoric people settle islands? Did the first humans have the cognitive and behavioural traits to develop seafaring?
Explore John F. Cherry & Thomas P. Leppard's 'Human dispersal, human evolution, and the sea' in Antiquity:
(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
How did prehistoric people settle islands? Did the first humans have the cognitive and behavioural traits to develop seafaring?
Explore John F. Cherry & Thomas P. Leppard's 'Human dispersal, human evolution, and the sea' in Antiquity:
(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
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To ease you into the weekend, here's a lovely film by Guy Schofield, one of two winners of this year's President’s Award.
The film is about an interactive mural commissioned by York Museums Trust for the exhibition Star Carr: Life After The Ice.
Enjoy! 😊
#Archaeology 🏺
youtu.be/xv_0yjWpK0s?...
The film is about an interactive mural commissioned by York Museums Trust for the exhibition Star Carr: Life After The Ice.
Enjoy! 😊
#Archaeology 🏺
youtu.be/xv_0yjWpK0s?...
Star Carr : After The Ice
YouTube video by Guy Schofield
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October 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
To ease you into the weekend, here's a lovely film by Guy Schofield, one of two winners of this year's President’s Award.
The film is about an interactive mural commissioned by York Museums Trust for the exhibition Star Carr: Life After The Ice.
Enjoy! 😊
#Archaeology 🏺
youtu.be/xv_0yjWpK0s?...
The film is about an interactive mural commissioned by York Museums Trust for the exhibition Star Carr: Life After The Ice.
Enjoy! 😊
#Archaeology 🏺
youtu.be/xv_0yjWpK0s?...
Thank you to the Kiernan Experimental Archaeology Award, sponsored by EXARC member John Kiernan, for the micro-grant of 500 euros to fund my experimental archaeology project testing Neanderthal technology!
October 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Thank you to the Kiernan Experimental Archaeology Award, sponsored by EXARC member John Kiernan, for the micro-grant of 500 euros to fund my experimental archaeology project testing Neanderthal technology!
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There’s still time to sign up for this week’s talk from Dr Natasha Reynolds, Université de Bordeaux!
Sign up here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Sign up here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
There’s still time to sign up for this week’s talk from Dr Natasha Reynolds, Université de Bordeaux!
Sign up here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Sign up here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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NEW EPISODE: Who are our ancestors and why does it matter?
Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about ancient DNA.
Listen on your favourite podcast platform: lnk.to/AQOSAncientD...
Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about ancient DNA.
Listen on your favourite podcast platform: lnk.to/AQOSAncientD...
October 22, 2025 at 8:18 AM
NEW EPISODE: Who are our ancestors and why does it matter?
Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about ancient DNA.
Listen on your favourite podcast platform: lnk.to/AQOSAncientD...
Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about ancient DNA.
Listen on your favourite podcast platform: lnk.to/AQOSAncientD...
And here's Day 2 of the Lithic Studies Society 2025 conference - attend in person or online! Details and tickets here: tinyurl.com/2025Lithic
October 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
And here's Day 2 of the Lithic Studies Society 2025 conference - attend in person or online! Details and tickets here: tinyurl.com/2025Lithic
Check out the amazing Day 1 programme of the Lithic Studies Society 2025 conference! Details and tickets here: tinyurl.com/2025Lithic
October 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Check out the amazing Day 1 programme of the Lithic Studies Society 2025 conference! Details and tickets here: tinyurl.com/2025Lithic
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The 61st Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition opens today! 📸
Through 100 awe-inspiring photographs, the exhibition celebrates the variety of life on Earth and spotlights the threats facing species around the world.
The exhibition is supported by Lead Corporate Sponsor, Nuveen.
Through 100 awe-inspiring photographs, the exhibition celebrates the variety of life on Earth and spotlights the threats facing species around the world.
The exhibition is supported by Lead Corporate Sponsor, Nuveen.
October 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The 61st Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition opens today! 📸
Through 100 awe-inspiring photographs, the exhibition celebrates the variety of life on Earth and spotlights the threats facing species around the world.
The exhibition is supported by Lead Corporate Sponsor, Nuveen.
Through 100 awe-inspiring photographs, the exhibition celebrates the variety of life on Earth and spotlights the threats facing species around the world.
The exhibition is supported by Lead Corporate Sponsor, Nuveen.
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BGS' GeoIndex viewer has been given a major upgrade and is available as a beta release.
It includes core geological data layers, such as 625K- and 50K-scale digital geological mapping and borehole datasets, to allow for focused user testing.
Visit the app: geoindex.bgs.ac.uk?_ga=2.224738...
It includes core geological data layers, such as 625K- and 50K-scale digital geological mapping and borehole datasets, to allow for focused user testing.
Visit the app: geoindex.bgs.ac.uk?_ga=2.224738...
October 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
BGS' GeoIndex viewer has been given a major upgrade and is available as a beta release.
It includes core geological data layers, such as 625K- and 50K-scale digital geological mapping and borehole datasets, to allow for focused user testing.
Visit the app: geoindex.bgs.ac.uk?_ga=2.224738...
It includes core geological data layers, such as 625K- and 50K-scale digital geological mapping and borehole datasets, to allow for focused user testing.
Visit the app: geoindex.bgs.ac.uk?_ga=2.224738...
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Please join us next week, Thursday 23rd October at 13:00 BST, for the next talk of the semester. We will be joined by Dr Natasha Reynolds, Université de Bordeaux - more details 👇
If you would like to join, please register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We hope to see you there!
If you would like to join, please register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We hope to see you there!
October 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Please join us next week, Thursday 23rd October at 13:00 BST, for the next talk of the semester. We will be joined by Dr Natasha Reynolds, Université de Bordeaux - more details 👇
If you would like to join, please register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We hope to see you there!
If you would like to join, please register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We hope to see you there!
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As pockmarked as pikelets, these crumpet cowpats are signs that invertebrate life is at home in this North Norfolk pasture land.
When young, I used to turn them over to see what was inside and was rarely disappointed by the fat worms 🪱 and larvae revealed.
#invertebrates #biodiversity #pesticides
When young, I used to turn them over to see what was inside and was rarely disappointed by the fat worms 🪱 and larvae revealed.
#invertebrates #biodiversity #pesticides
October 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
As pockmarked as pikelets, these crumpet cowpats are signs that invertebrate life is at home in this North Norfolk pasture land.
When young, I used to turn them over to see what was inside and was rarely disappointed by the fat worms 🪱 and larvae revealed.
#invertebrates #biodiversity #pesticides
When young, I used to turn them over to see what was inside and was rarely disappointed by the fat worms 🪱 and larvae revealed.
#invertebrates #biodiversity #pesticides
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Short article I wrote* on recent advances in the story of early Homo sapiens is now available online!
*commissioned as accompanying BBC Human series, although tbh I did not love their Neanderthal episode :-(
www.sciencefocus.com/science/huma...
*commissioned as accompanying BBC Human series, although tbh I did not love their Neanderthal episode :-(
www.sciencefocus.com/science/huma...
We didn’t conquer the world alone. This is humanity’s untold origin story | BBC Science Focus Magazine
We’re discovering there were more characters, and more acts, in the tale of how Homo sapiens spread across the globe.
www.sciencefocus.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Short article I wrote* on recent advances in the story of early Homo sapiens is now available online!
*commissioned as accompanying BBC Human series, although tbh I did not love their Neanderthal episode :-(
www.sciencefocus.com/science/huma...
*commissioned as accompanying BBC Human series, although tbh I did not love their Neanderthal episode :-(
www.sciencefocus.com/science/huma...
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📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣
An international team, including our own Finn Stileman, have published a new study in Nature Communications on a monumental rock art tradition in northern Arabia dating between 12,800 and 11,400 years ago.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📸 @finnstileman.bsky.social
An international team, including our own Finn Stileman, have published a new study in Nature Communications on a monumental rock art tradition in northern Arabia dating between 12,800 and 11,400 years ago.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📸 @finnstileman.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣
An international team, including our own Finn Stileman, have published a new study in Nature Communications on a monumental rock art tradition in northern Arabia dating between 12,800 and 11,400 years ago.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📸 @finnstileman.bsky.social
An international team, including our own Finn Stileman, have published a new study in Nature Communications on a monumental rock art tradition in northern Arabia dating between 12,800 and 11,400 years ago.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📸 @finnstileman.bsky.social