Jimbob Blinkhorn
@jblinkhorn.bsky.social
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There's still time to register for this week's talk, given by @professorlacy.bsky.social !
Sign up here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We hope to see you there!
Sign up here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We hope to see you there!
October 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
There's still time to register for this week's talk, given by @professorlacy.bsky.social !
Sign up here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We hope to see you there!
Sign up here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We hope to see you there!
Beautiful clear day at the top of British Camp
October 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Beautiful clear day at the top of British Camp
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Join us at the MPI-GEA or online for a free symposium on Quantifying Complexity in Stone Tools on the 21st of October! 🪨
With a keynote lecture by Charles Perreault. Full speaker list will be released soon!
Secure your spot here: shh-cloud.gnz.mpg.de/index.php/ap...
With a keynote lecture by Charles Perreault. Full speaker list will be released soon!
Secure your spot here: shh-cloud.gnz.mpg.de/index.php/ap...
August 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Join us at the MPI-GEA or online for a free symposium on Quantifying Complexity in Stone Tools on the 21st of October! 🪨
With a keynote lecture by Charles Perreault. Full speaker list will be released soon!
Secure your spot here: shh-cloud.gnz.mpg.de/index.php/ap...
With a keynote lecture by Charles Perreault. Full speaker list will be released soon!
Secure your spot here: shh-cloud.gnz.mpg.de/index.php/ap...
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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 obliquity expressed within the last precessional cycle. 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 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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 obliquity expressed within the last precessional cycle. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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This project ended up taking the best part of 3 years 😅 Thank you very much to @margheritac17.bsky.social, @mikleonardi.bsky.social, @jblinkhorn.bsky.social, @elliescerri.bsky.social, Manuel Chevalier, Matt Grove, Andrea Pozzi and Andrea Manica from @eegcam.bsky.social for your hard work!!
July 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
This project ended up taking the best part of 3 years 😅 Thank you very much to @margheritac17.bsky.social, @mikleonardi.bsky.social, @jblinkhorn.bsky.social, @elliescerri.bsky.social, Manuel Chevalier, Matt Grove, Andrea Pozzi and Andrea Manica from @eegcam.bsky.social for your hard work!!
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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 😊
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New paper in collaboration with @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social and @jblinkhorn.bsky.social, with several of us involved (@mikleonardi.bsky.social @margheritac17.bsky.social @andreavpozzi.bsky.social) shows that downscaling palaeoclimate models doesn't necessarily improve coherence with proxy data.
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 9:22 AM
New paper in collaboration with @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social and @jblinkhorn.bsky.social, with several of us involved (@mikleonardi.bsky.social @margheritac17.bsky.social @andreavpozzi.bsky.social) shows that downscaling palaeoclimate models doesn't necessarily improve coherence with proxy data.
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New paper out, in collaboration with @jblinkhorn.bsky.social @elliescerri.bsky.social and @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social
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 7:50 PM
New paper out, in collaboration with @jblinkhorn.bsky.social @elliescerri.bsky.social and @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social
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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 7:53 AM
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...
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Here it is, our case study on how to combine a century of deep (and building) archaeological knowledge around prehistoric social traditions with the new and exciting aDNA data, to help avoid interpretive pitfalls.
I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed the process of writing it 🎁
I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed the process of writing it 🎁
Who was NG10 and what was the world they lived in? The sister paper to our CAJ paper is now out in Antiquity and the cover image no less! Working on these papers with this group, has been one of the richest academic experiences I have had in my career. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The ‘king’ of Newgrange? A critical analysis of a Neolithic petrous fragment from the passage tomb chamber | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
The ‘king’ of Newgrange? A critical analysis of a Neolithic petrous fragment from the passage tomb chamber - Volume 99 Issue 405
www.cambridge.org
June 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Here it is, our case study on how to combine a century of deep (and building) archaeological knowledge around prehistoric social traditions with the new and exciting aDNA data, to help avoid interpretive pitfalls.
I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed the process of writing it 🎁
I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed the process of writing it 🎁
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Malaria shaped human spatial organisation for the last 74 thousand years🏺🧪
Margherita Colucci, @ceciliapad.bsky.social, @elliescerri.bsky.social et al
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Humans avoided or unsuccessful in malaria hotspots. Effects of these choices shaped human demography for last 74 kya
Margherita Colucci, @ceciliapad.bsky.social, @elliescerri.bsky.social et al
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Humans avoided or unsuccessful in malaria hotspots. Effects of these choices shaped human demography for last 74 kya
June 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Malaria shaped human spatial organisation for the last 74 thousand years🏺🧪
Margherita Colucci, @ceciliapad.bsky.social, @elliescerri.bsky.social et al
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Humans avoided or unsuccessful in malaria hotspots. Effects of these choices shaped human demography for last 74 kya
Margherita Colucci, @ceciliapad.bsky.social, @elliescerri.bsky.social et al
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Humans avoided or unsuccessful in malaria hotspots. Effects of these choices shaped human demography for last 74 kya
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Nice coverage of some our ongoing work at Latnija and our Island Legacies conference last week timesofmalta.com/article/latn...
Latnija cave discovery hailed as ‘world class’ by leading archaeologist
The discovery showed that Malta’s human history is at least 1,000 years older than previously thought
timesofmalta.com
June 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Nice coverage of some our ongoing work at Latnija and our Island Legacies conference last week timesofmalta.com/article/latn...
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🚨 NEW preprint🚨 Our latest study @HPS MPI-GEA @elliescerri.bsky.social & @eegcam.bsky.social models #malaria risk over the past 74,000 years revealing its powerful role in shaping human habitat choice and dispersal since the late Pleistocene in sub-Saharan Africa 🦟🌍 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Malaria shaped human spatial organisation for the last 74 thousand years
The mechanisms driving the spatial organisation of early human societies in Africa are typically addressed through climate variables [1][1]-[3][2]. However, genetic and archaeological studies have als...
www.biorxiv.org
June 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
🚨 NEW preprint🚨 Our latest study @HPS MPI-GEA @elliescerri.bsky.social & @eegcam.bsky.social models #malaria risk over the past 74,000 years revealing its powerful role in shaping human habitat choice and dispersal since the late Pleistocene in sub-Saharan Africa 🦟🌍 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Palaeo folks, I was speaking with the production team recently and they said they are keen to feature more palaeontology stories.
So if you are excavating/surveying this summer and think you might turn up something, drop them a line
So if you are excavating/surveying this summer and think you might turn up something, drop them a line
If you’re doing an exciting dig, please get in touch - and we’re interested in post-ex stories too. This is a chance to showcase your work, your discoveries and your passion on BBC Two, sharing UK archaeology with wide audiences here and abroad. Contact us: digging@rare-tv.com
May 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Palaeo folks, I was speaking with the production team recently and they said they are keen to feature more palaeontology stories.
So if you are excavating/surveying this summer and think you might turn up something, drop them a line
So if you are excavating/surveying this summer and think you might turn up something, drop them a line
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🚨NEW PAPER from the @eegcam.bsky.social!🚨I have never been as proud of something as of the work that finally we can share today: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - we show how a climatically driven Pan African meta population model explains our species genetic and morphological diversity 🧬💀
Pan-African metapopulation model explains Homo sapiens genetic and morphological evolution
Emerging evidence has challenged the traditional view of a single-region origin for Homo sapiens, suggesting instead that our species arose and diversified across multiple geographically distinct popu...
www.biorxiv.org
May 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
🚨NEW PAPER from the @eegcam.bsky.social!🚨I have never been as proud of something as of the work that finally we can share today: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - we show how a climatically driven Pan African meta population model explains our species genetic and morphological diversity 🧬💀
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First publication for my recently started TerraForm project is out. A short overview and introduction published in The European Archaeologist (www.researchgate.net/publication/...).
(PDF) Project Announcement. Introducing the TerraForm Project: The Rise and Fall of Maltese Terraced Landscapes
PDF | On May 15, 2025, Huw S. Groucutt published Project Announcement. Introducing the TerraForm Project: The Rise and Fall of Maltese Terraced Landscapes | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
www.researchgate.net
May 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
First publication for my recently started TerraForm project is out. A short overview and introduction published in The European Archaeologist (www.researchgate.net/publication/...).
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Our next MENDLS lecture is coming up next week and it's sure to be a great one. If you're in the Northwest, come and hear Prof Manica talking about the role of climate in human evolution.
On the 14th May, Prof Andrea Manica will be giving an in person lecture at @liverpooluni.bsky.social as part of the MENDLS series.
With a following panel discussion and wine reception, this is a fab event to close the year!
Open to all, more details👇
Register here:
forms.gle/9kdzpTbfMuDZ...
With a following panel discussion and wine reception, this is a fab event to close the year!
Open to all, more details👇
Register here:
forms.gle/9kdzpTbfMuDZ...
May 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Our next MENDLS lecture is coming up next week and it's sure to be a great one. If you're in the Northwest, come and hear Prof Manica talking about the role of climate in human evolution.
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Really looking forward to this next Wednesday (14th May 2025)!
Anyone is welcome to join - registration is free and available here: forms.gle/9kdzpTbfMuDZ...
Anyone is welcome to join - registration is free and available here: forms.gle/9kdzpTbfMuDZ...
May 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Really looking forward to this next Wednesday (14th May 2025)!
Anyone is welcome to join - registration is free and available here: forms.gle/9kdzpTbfMuDZ...
Anyone is welcome to join - registration is free and available here: forms.gle/9kdzpTbfMuDZ...
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@deepakjha.bsky.social presenting CSIA of modern plants and sediments along an aridiy gradient in the Thar Desert at #EGU25
May 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
@deepakjha.bsky.social presenting CSIA of modern plants and sediments along an aridiy gradient in the Thar Desert at #EGU25
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Looking forward to our next MENDLS talk on Wednesday 14th of May with Prof Andrea Manica of the University of Cambridge @eegcam.bsky.social
Join us in Liverpool! Sign up via the QR code below
Join us in Liverpool! Sign up via the QR code below
May 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Looking forward to our next MENDLS talk on Wednesday 14th of May with Prof Andrea Manica of the University of Cambridge @eegcam.bsky.social
Join us in Liverpool! Sign up via the QR code below
Join us in Liverpool! Sign up via the QR code below
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Livestream tomorrow at 5pm UK/noon EDT with Drs Eleanor Scerri (@elliescerri.bsky.social) and Huw Groucutt (@huwgroucutt.bsky.social) to chat about their recent paper that's been all over the news about Hunter gatherer occupation on Malta
www.youtube.com/live/ZGRjN20...
www.youtube.com/live/ZGRjN20...
New Discovery: Stone Age Seafaring to Malta with Dr Eleanor Scerri and Huw Groucutt
YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble
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April 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Livestream tomorrow at 5pm UK/noon EDT with Drs Eleanor Scerri (@elliescerri.bsky.social) and Huw Groucutt (@huwgroucutt.bsky.social) to chat about their recent paper that's been all over the news about Hunter gatherer occupation on Malta
www.youtube.com/live/ZGRjN20...
www.youtube.com/live/ZGRjN20...
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🚨New preprint!🚨"Sexual division of labour shapes hunter-gatherer spatial ranges". Following on the sexual division of labour theme, finally out our analyses on the lifetime spatial ranges of over 700 Mbendjele BaYaka 🤩
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Sexual division of labour shapes hunter-gatherer spatial ranges
Mobility lies at the adaptive core of the hunter-gatherer foraging niche, and has shaped the cultural and genetic evolution of our species. Yet, the specific drivers and consequences of mobility are s...
www.biorxiv.org
April 21, 2025 at 5:20 AM
🚨New preprint!🚨"Sexual division of labour shapes hunter-gatherer spatial ranges". Following on the sexual division of labour theme, finally out our analyses on the lifetime spatial ranges of over 700 Mbendjele BaYaka 🤩
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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It’s been great to see all the excitement in Malta about our recent findings at Latnija.
Looking forward to the future at this incredible archaeological site!
Looking forward to the future at this incredible archaeological site!
April 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It’s been great to see all the excitement in Malta about our recent findings at Latnija.
Looking forward to the future at this incredible archaeological site!
Looking forward to the future at this incredible archaeological site!
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Finally out 🥳: I've written and recorded a podcast episode with the amazing Karen Kramer for Sapiens Magazine on the origins and evolution of division of labour in hunter-gatherer societies, and its implications for undestanding (or misunderstanding) gender roles: open.spotify.com/episode/2ZGA...
Hunting, Gathering, and the Fluidity of Gender Roles
SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human · Episode
open.spotify.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Finally out 🥳: I've written and recorded a podcast episode with the amazing Karen Kramer for Sapiens Magazine on the origins and evolution of division of labour in hunter-gatherer societies, and its implications for undestanding (or misunderstanding) gender roles: open.spotify.com/episode/2ZGA...