Palaeolithic archaeologist, @BritishAcademy_ postdoc @UniofReading Pointy Stick Expert, experimental archaeology, wood, childhood in the past, & Neanderthals!
Mar 16, 2022 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
It's #ArchaeologyWoodWednesday and now that I've read SO MANY papers for our new Glossary (for those researching wood technologies of stone tool using cultures) I thought it might be nice to highlight a few of the papers that showcase the richness of this field of study. 1/?
Several of our terms come from @paloma_vidal_m et al's paper looking at woodworking amongst prehispanic peoples of the Canary Islands. Importantly, terms are well-defined so we know what is being described and imaged in the traceological analysis sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Nov 3, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This is what happens when people who aren't archaeologists or anthropologists write about the human past - they pretty much get every single thing wrong. I'm actually sick of it - why and how does this crap get published? theconversation.com/war-in-the-tim…
First, @LeMoustier 's recent book which he links to Kindred is incredible. If you haven't bought it already, get onto that. She IS a Neanderthal expert (which the author of this piece clearly isn't) and summarises what we know amazingly eloquently. hive.co.uk/Product/Rebecc…
