Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo

Finally back ashore after 28 years at the bottom of the sea - a Lego life raft from the Great Lego Spill of 1997. Collected yesterday from the crew of a fishing trawler who hauled it up in their nets some 20 miles offshore. One of 28,700 lost overboard from the Tokio Express.

“Yet with Neanderthals, I find that almost every win is secretly a loss. That turned out to be the case with hypercarnivory. One thing everyone seemed to agree on: Neanderthals were weird.” johnhawks.substack.com/p/bizarre-food…

Hammond et al 2025. 'The behavioural ecology of hominin locomotion' 👌 frontiersin.org/journals/ecolo…

Excited to be a co-author on our new article “The First Million Years of Technology: The Lomekwian and the Early Oldowan” now published online in the Annual Review of Anthropology. Feel free to DM or email for a copy annualreviews.org/content/journa…

New article out now!   "Iberian Neandertal fossils: Exploring funerary practices in a paleoclimatic context" is the result of an intense research effort, reviewing over 80 sites. You can read it at the link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @ERC_Research @CENIEH @FECYT_Ciencia

Cannibalism is such a rich topic for examination of ancient cultures. So few things that hominins did in the past left such direct signs on the fossils we have from them to study. I wish I included it in my post! johnhawks.net/p/how-archaeol…

I think it's so great how every year during the summer campaigns at Atapuerca there are new press events for things they are finding and working on, long before they come out in academic journals. This is a way to let people into the process of science! comunicacio.iphes.cat/eng/news/new/8…

Balance de la campaña de excavaciones #Atapuerca2025 👉🏼 museoevolucionhumana.com/es/noticias-me…

Ancient human relative cannibalized toddlers, 850,000-year-old neck bone reveals livescience.com/archaeology/hu…

🦴 ¡Hoy hemos presentado los hallazgos de la campaña de excavaciones 2025! En esta temporada hemos dado un paso más en el conocimiento de nuestros orígenes.