🔥Andrew Sorensen🔥
@Pyropithecus
@NWO_SHH Veni postdoctoral researcher at @LeidenArchaeo. Burning desire to know more about #fire use and 🔥 making by #Palaeolithic peoples. #Pyroarchaeology
**SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION ALERT** My @UniversiteitNL talk about #Neanderthal #fire-making is now online for your viewing enjoyment! Check it out here: youtube.com/watch?v=O61Yc7… #ShamelessSelfpromoMonday #archaeology #evolution @LeidenArchaeo @UniLeiden @pyroarchaeology
Please sign the #petition against giant budget cuts to #HigherEducation in The #Netherlands! #academia #research campagnes.degoedezaak.org/campaigns/stop…
🔥🚨#NewPaperAlert!🚨🔥 After being buried on the editor's desk for over a year, my manuscript on experimentally testing the utility of manganese dioxide powder as a #fire-starting aid has seen the light of day! 😅 #Neanderthals #archeology link.springer.com/article/10.100…
Really looking forward to watching this! All 4.5 hours of it 😳
Hi all, I appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience yesterday for an in-depth chat with Graham Hancock (link in next tweet) You can read my essay about my motivations for doing this in @SAPIENS_org magazine sapiens.org/archaeology/gr…
Why am I #writing when I could be #foraging? 🤔😒 #ADHD #AcademicTwitter #stuckinside @paleomonrepos
The actual paper from the foraging study comparing individuals showing symptoms of ADHD against those not showing them is very neat! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… (also nice framing within optimal foraging theory) ☺️
Our DiPA (Dialogues in Pleistocene Archaeology) continues on Thursday, 22nd of February at 10:30 AM. Dr. Andrew Sorensen will talk about #fire making in the #Aurignacian. Zoom registration possible. #paleomonrepos #leiza #DiPA #paleolithic #palaeolithic #microwear #Archaeology
🔥New paper in PNAS about Widespread evidence for elephant exploitation by Last Interglacial Neanderthals on the North European plain is out, now!🔥 👇 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… #paleomonrepos #leiza #elephants #paleolithic #neanderthals #hunting #cuttingsmarks #elephanthunting
New Special Issue of PaleoAnthropology 😍‼️ 7 great pps on Niche Construction, Plasticity, and Inclusive Inheritance paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/… + obituaries - Bill Kimbel & Sally McBrearty, a book review AND the abstracts of the 13th ESHE meeting! What a treat 🥳
🚨🧵 So very excited to finally be able to share two papers I worked on with @professorlacy in which we argue against the persistent idea that hunting (performed by men) was the driving force in human evolution. @UNDResearch @NotreDame @AnthroND @UDelaware 1/5
Hugely interesting @informeren series “Children of the Sun” (in🇩🇰, translate it!) by Johanne Pontoppidan Tuxen & @mikkelvuorela about the relationship between #humans and #energy. I contributed to this article discussing our early forays into #fire use 🔥 tinyurl.com/k3wmzhtc
Tic-tac-toe appears to have been popular among ancient humans! #hashtag While quite interesting, I'm a bit disappointed a paper on the purported evidence of #HomoNaledi using #fire in the cave was not among these preprints 🤷♂️ Hopefully something on this soon...
Our team has released three preprints on @biorxivpreprint today. One of these describes engraved panels on the rock walls of the Dinaledi subsystem of the Rising Star cave system, where we have abundant fossil remains of Homo naledi. doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…
That #Neandertals used fire in controlled, complex ways like synthesizing birch bark tar logically suggests they were also well-versed in the more fundamental task of producing #fire at will, despite limited direct archaeological evidence for this practice--for now, at least...🔥
Huge new paper on #Neanderthal birch tar just dropped! New images & scans of the two Königsaue pieces, plus lots of v. exciting results, with the headline being: - chemical analyses = *both* made using trickier oxygen-restricted, underground methods link.springer.com/article/10.100…
“Smoke archaeology” reveals early humans were visiting Nerja Caves 41,000 years ago arstechnica.com/science/2023/0…
Cool stuff!! "Ancient human DNA recovered from a Palaeolithic pendant" The way aDNA studies are advancing these days is kinda crazy! Linking individual genomes to specific tools or ornaments could answer all kinds of lingering questions about ancient peoples and societies!
Amazingly happy about the results of this project @ElenaEssel and many others inc @MatejaHajdi and the immense Matthias Meyer rdcu.be/dbhI7 art by Myrthe Lucas
The @UniLeiden Faculty of Archaeology ranks 6th in QS World University Ranking. We share this place with our colleagues from @stanford universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2023/0… #archaeology @TopUnis