With @lucdoyon.bsky.social , we discussed how beads and bone tool technology can help trace the dispersal of Homo sapiens across Eurasia.
Our colleague N. Zwyns (PACEA) shared new insights on the IUP in mainland Asia (~45 ka), and P. Zhang (PACEA) presented on stone tool tech in China MIS 3.

Paula’s postdoctoral fellowship within the #ERCStG ExOsTech project aims to establish more precisely whether the previously documented potential tools and new unpublished finds were indeed used as tools by Homo heidelbergensis and, if so, for what purpose.

During the transition between the Oldowan and Acheulean, systematic bone selection, modification and use at Oldupai indicate planning depth and knowledge transfer among early hominins. #ERC_AdG BICAEHFID #ERC_StG ExOsTech

The discovery of a 1.5 million year old bone tool assemblage suggests that this technology was neither rare, nor episodic nor expedient.

Photo credit @marcel-weiss.bsky.social

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