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Dr Sonja B Grimm
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#Palaeolithic #archaeology freelance, feminist, labour unionist, she/her;
previously: LEIZA-ZBSA, Schleswig & CRC 1266/ Kiel University, UCL Institute of Archaeology, MONREPOS/LEIZA;
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Dr Sonja B Grimm @sonja-grimm.bsky.social · Nov 16
If you are wondering who I am, a short intro: Focusing on lithics & spatial analysis in MA, I moved to chronology, palaeo-climatic & -environmental reconstruction coupled with transformation in material culture in my PhD & think about resilience since. From the start I'm into the Late #Palaeolitic.
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cylex.bsky.social
Call for Session - UISPP 2026 - Poznan (Poland)

Deadline extented until November 30!

Please consider submit something in the scope of the Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age Commision 🌟

► uispp2026.syskonf.pl

#UISPP2026
November 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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mattpope.bsky.social
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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Picture of 6 postgrad students sat at a table in a lab studying bones. Text says: The UCL Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic (PaPa) MSc programme is an established, pioneering course in human origins delivered by a world-leading university. It will bring you a deep and expert understanding of the scientific record of human evolution which powerfully combines opportunities for the study of palaeolithic archaeology, palaeoanthropology and wider scientific approaches to the early human story. Coordinated by UCL’s Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology departments and drawing on expertise from across the University and other institutions, it will provide you with training in the specialisms of your choice, while also ensuring you are introduced to the wider scope of approaches to the study of human evolution.  Having run now for over 15 years, we have PaPa alumni actively leading a new generation of human origins research across the world. Our programme is a proven springboard to PhD programmes, careers in academia, archaeological science, specialist archaeological fieldwork, science media and much more.
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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antiquity.ac.uk
At Upper Palaeolithic Helong Dadong 🇨🇳 they loved their obsidian tools! From over 800 27,300-24,100-year-old microblades, 94.7% were made from obsidian, indicating close ties to the obsidian-rich environment of the Changbaishan Mountains.

🔗 from 2024 (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
Different kinds of lithic tools (scrapers, endscrapers & bifacial points), predominantly made from obsidian.
November 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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martinporr.bsky.social
I hope that you will all find the result equally inspiring and enriching for yourself and the fields of palaeoanthropology, human evolutionary studies, and Palaeolithic archaeology.

www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Abadia...
Alterity and Human Evolution: Deep-Time and Multispecies Perspectives on Difference and Variation | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
www.berghahnbooks.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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antiquity.ac.uk
#FindsFriday Researchers found traces of blue pigment on this 13,000-year-old artefact from Mühlheim-Dietesheim, Germany. It questions the idea that Palaeolithic artists only used red or black, painting a picture of a more vibrant Ice Age world than previously imagined.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Close-up image of a sandstone surface with flecks of blue on it.
October 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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izzywisher.bsky.social
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...
Close-up image of a sand coloured stone, with a diagonal crack. The sand rock has a textured surface, and small spots of blue can be seen towards the centre of the stone. The background is grey. Microscopic photo of the blue spots, that are irregular in shape and size and positioned diagonally across the image. The rest of the photo shows the rough sand coloured texture of the stone.
September 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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antiquity.ac.uk
Pulei Cave in the Eastern Tianshan Mountains of Xinjiang ⛰️
Field investigation uncovered the first evidence for Upper Palaeolithic lithics in the region, indicating connections between Siberia, the Tibetan Plateau and East Asia 45,000 years ago.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
Top: aerial photo of a desert. In the foreground, a cave is visible, in the background, a mountain range. Bottom left: entrance of a cave. Bottom right: interior of a cave, annotated to display areas of archaeological deposits.
October 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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antiquity.ac.uk
📰 What was thought to be a Palaeolithic oil lamp was likely in fact a 13,000-year-old paint pallet, and contains the oldest instance of blue pigment in Europe!

🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @smithsonianmag.bsky.social

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These Archaeologists Set Out in Search of Animal Fat. Instead, They Found the Oldest Blue Pigment Ever Discovered in Europe
Blue residue on a 13,000-year-old stone artifact, long believed to be an oil lamp, may paint a new picture of Paleolithic art and culture
www.smithsonianmag.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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eaapam.bsky.social
Statement from the co-chairs of PaM:
Due to the current developments at the annual meeting, we, as the representatives of the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic community, want to underline that we support the democratic right to protest and speak freely,...continued...
September 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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There are also some for @eaapam.bsky.social Community! #Palaeolithic #Mesolithic
oxbowbooks.bsky.social Oxbow Books @oxbowbooks.bsky.social · Sep 4
You can find your copy of this award-winner on our special #EAA2025 landing page ➡ bit.ly/3VqN3kW
EAA 2025
Representing leading independent publishers
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September 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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🆓 Download free-access articles on #EuropeanArchaeology, for #EAA2025Belgrade: 📲✅ https://cup.org/42bmHqP

Free access (where not already OA) until 30/09/25.

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#EAA2025
Promotional image for Cambridge's presence at EAA 2025 in Cambridge, featuring a scenic view of the Belgrade cityscape with river and boats under autumn leaves.
September 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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uoearchhist.bsky.social
Some of our 2nd year students are currently working with Dr Alex Pryor and Dr Jarek Wilczyński at Nietoperzowa Cave in Poland. They're spending four weeks excavating early Upper Palaeolithic layers previously made famous for finds of Jerzmanowician lithic points and human remains!
Students and staff working to excavate within a cave, lit by a large light. They are wearing hard hats and gloves, and there are buckets lined with bags for samples. A top-down view of three people washing finds in coloured buckets and laying them out on trays A student sieves in the daylight outside the cave entrance Someone is looking through a total station towards a group of people, all in dappled shade
August 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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annemiekemilks.bsky.social
And Palaeolithic archaeology, which remains hugely behind too. 'This is not about political correctness or ticking boxes....Diverse teams deliver better science: they ask different questions, challenge old assumptions, and produce richer, more nuanced insights.'
www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...
We need a feminist palaeoanthropology that finally listens to all of us — HERI - Human Evolution Research Institute
Palaeoanthropology asks profound questions: Who are we? What makes us human? Too often, answering these answers has been done by a privileged few. HERi Co-director Prof Rebecca Ackermann calls for tha...
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August 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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cam-archaeology.bsky.social
📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣

In a new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, Cambridge researchers explore the role of skill for Lower Palaeolithic handaxe manufacture through flint knapping experiments.

👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

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August 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
One of the oldest known musical instruments: a Palaeolithic flute made from a vulture bone some 38,000 years ago!

This is one of 8 known flutes found on the Swabian Jura. The finds suggest that music played an important role in this region. 🧵1/2

📷 me

#archaeology #music
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A close-up photograph of a flute made from a hollowed bone, displayed horizontally on a soft, gray fabric mount in a museum. The flute features several round finger holes along its length and showcases signs of wear and age, such as small chips.
August 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
sonja-grimm.bsky.social
🖤 Am Wochenende ist Bernhard "Benno" Gramsch nach kurzer Krankheit im Alter von 91 Jahren gestorben. Er wird fehlen. Benno war ein Urgestein der Erforschung des #Mesolithikum in #Europa, bis zum Schluß hervorragend vernetzt & aktiv in der #Forschung. Mein herzliches Beileid gilt den Angehörigen! 🪦🦣⚱️
Benno Gramsch hinter einem Podium mit aufgeklappt Laptop vor Publikum und neben ihm auf der Leinwand ist ein Foto einer Gruppe von Leuten zu sehen. Er hält die Festrede auf der jährlichen Tagung der AG Mesolithikum am 7. März 2025 in Berlin, wo sie zu Ehren seines 90. Geburtsjahres stattfand (Foto: Sonja B. Grimm) *** Benno Gramsch behind a podium with an open laptop in front of an audience and beside him the screen shows a picture of a group of people. He is giving a keynote lecture at the annual meeting of the workgroup Mesolithic on March 7th 2025 in Berlin, held there in honour of his 90th birth year (photo: Sonja B. Grimm)
August 18, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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antiquity.ac.uk
NEW Pulei Cave in the Eastern Tianshan Mountains of Xinjiang ⛰️
Field investigation uncovers the first evidence for Upper Palaeolithic lithics in the region, indicating connections between Siberia, the Tibetan Plateau and East Asia 45,000 years ago 🏺 #Archaeology

Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Top: aerial photo of a desert. In the foreground, a cave is visible, in the background, a mountain range. Bottom left: entrance of a cave. Bottom right: interior of a cave, annotated to display areas of archaeological deposits.
August 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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arkeostrida.bsky.social
Fresh off the press - latest from the LAST project: "Under Pressure? Living with Climate Change and Environmental Hazards in the Past and Now" (Open access) link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Thanks to all contributors, and to my great co-editors: Marcel Bradtmöller, Sonja B. Grimm and Noa Lavi!!
Under Pressure?
This open access book gathers case studies of resilience and coping strategies in hunter-gatherer societies who were confronted with natural hazards
link.springer.com
August 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Hip-Hip-Hoorray!!! This wonderful volume is finally out in the #openaccess world. We are discussing how people handled #hazards,
what makes #disasters or #vulnerability,
how to built societal #resilience & #sustainability &
is this smart to do?
#anthropology #Archaeology share.google/XtBTYyy8VRlq...
Under Pressure?
This open access book gathers case studies of resilience and coping strategies in hunter-gatherer societies who were confronted with natural hazards
share.google
August 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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arkeostrida.bsky.social
Reposting @stevenjgibbons.bsky.social great post - seeing that sharing knowledge is one of the best strategies against hazards turning disaster #LifeAftertheStoreggaDisaster
stevenjgibbons.bsky.social Steven J. Gibbons @stevenjgibbons.bsky.social · Jul 30
A little reminder that there is lots of completely open #seismic data in the world that can be viewed on any PC (and even a phone!) with only a few lines of python and the #obspy package. This plot shows 20 minutes of signal from today's Magnitude 8.8 #earthquake
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Python script for plotting the signal from the M8.8 Kamchatka earthquake recorded on station IU.MJAO (Matsushiro, Japan) Signal from the M8.8 Kamchatka earthquake recorded on station IU.MJAO (Matsushiro, Japan)
July 31, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Ever wondered what the Palaeolithic sounded like? When did music and language begin? Here’s the podcast for you!

Had a great time being part of this project:

www.thresholdpodcast.org/hark-episode...
Hark Episode 13: Part of the Choir
Homo sapiens joined the story of life on Earth just 300,00 years ago. So when and how did we start making music and creating languages? In this episode, we explore these signature sounds and discover...
www.thresholdpodcast.org
August 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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mattpope.bsky.social
A Middle Palaeolithic artefact, found by a member of the public in Jersey near an intertidal site, eroded from loess, then rolled on the beach.
It was badly struck from a little Levallois core taking a chunk of core with it, then bearing witness to a Neanderthal swear
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday
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A yellow stained flint artefact about 10cm long, held in the hand with out of focus office behind
August 8, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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jmcascalheira.bsky.social
📢 Just published: our latest paper on site formation processes at the Middle Paleolithic sequence of Escoural Cave, southern Portugal.

Check it out!

@erc.europa.eu @icarehb.bsky.social #neanderthals #archaeology #openscience

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Close to sunlight or deep underground? New data to reconstruct site formation processes at the Middle Paleolithic Escoural cave (southern Portugal)
The ability to exploit the deeper levels of cave systems is regarded as complex human behavior. Evidence that Neanderthals possessed this skill remain…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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natureportfolio.nature.com
The discovery of ancient stone tools on Sulawesi suggests that this Indonesian island was populated by hominins at around the same time as the nearby island of Flores, if not earlier, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/4oq7zzw 🏺 🧪
This is figure 2, which shows stone artefacts recovered from Early Pleistocene deposits at Calio.
August 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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pnas.org
Many Europeans had the dark skin and eyes of their African ancestors well into the Bronze and Iron ages, according to estimates of genotype likelihoods for 348 ancient genomes from Eurasia. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Temporal and geographical distribution of skin pigmentation estimates in Eurasia from Paleolithic to Iron Age.
August 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM