We are *extremely* excited to share first information on our 64th annual meeting in Aarhus next year 😍 Thanks for the invitation and - we can't wait!

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Still image of the Las Farges cave paints of the Middle Palaeolithic lycanthropes

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Still image of the Las Farges Cave paintings depicting Middle Palaeolithic lycanthropes

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This graphic motif is not unusual in Palaeolithic art. It appears in numerous caves in the Cantabrian region and the French Pyrenees, suggesting the existence of a network of contacts between the two regions.

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📸The Palaeolithic representations appear mainly in two different panels, the main one located in the half-light of the cave’s vestibule, and a second one in the inner chamber. The main panel has 10 depictions, including several deer, two ibexes, one horse and one bovid.

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Inktober 52 -week 38 - stone

“Palaeolithic (stone age) humans were probably the first to tame dogs (Canis familiaris) by breeding aggression out of wolves (Canis lupus) in East Asia around 15,000 years ago.”

https://t.co/YhAIYDfKET

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An exemplary case of our patronising view of Palaeolithic ppl seems to me the huts found at Ohalo II, Israel. These were simple structures, constructed out of branches and grasses in circular forms. Simple, yet not inept - so why do artists portray them as mere bundles of sticks?

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Happy My name is Jacopo, and I work as a Palaeolithic archaeologist in West Africa and beyond. I try to understand past tropical environmental shifts and how past hominins behaved by means of paleobotanical and material culture analysis.

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Want to lose yourself in Palaeolithic Scotland? Come and investigate climate and landscape through the use of an integrated multi-proxy approach to help understand possible human activity. New PhD: https://t.co/MRyAOe4fsA

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To go with earlier tweets about in ancient Egypt and Greece, this is thought to be earliest depiction of honey gathering from palaeolithic times (8000 years ago) from cave painting in Arana Cave near Valencia, Spain 😃

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"Will u take a walk with me?" - your local palaeolithic paternal entity 💍🙏

I hope i can finish the set before white day 😂

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Some people debate whether or not its a part of STEM but since it either is or works extremely closely with I'm an archaeologist in training who looks at the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic eras and the relationships between humans and nature, with a main focus in art.

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Thought I'd start the week with the oldest object I've recorded on . It's a rather wonderful handaxe from which came in via the 'identification service' in 2015. See: https://t.co/0DUMAQYNjs

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features the portraits and personal stories of wise women from across the world and in various carefully researched historical settings, ranging from the Palaeolithic to the present.

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Hand axe from the site of Lyndford Quarry (near Mundford, Norfolk, which dates to around 60,000 years ago and falls within the Middle industry. https://t.co/OWtc9vm1l6

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Credit to the knapper who chose to make a handaxe on this flint with a natural hole! Great digging in stores today!

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