Payre fossil teeth reveal regional diversity among Europe’s earliest Neanderthals

A team led by the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana studied fossil teeth from the Payre site in southeastern France. The material comes from nine teeth found in layers linked to the Middle Pleistocene, around 250,000 years ago...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/05/payre-fossil-teeth-europes-earliest-neanderthals/

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#FossilFriday The final tooth—12 of 12—is SMM P2024.5.1, a lower molar found at Mississippi Gateway Regional Park (Brooklyn Park, MN) in 2023.

Twelve 3D printed reproductions of the molars are also underway and are now receiving their final paint touches. Once complete, the original specimens will be carefully packed and shipped to UC Irvine’s W. M. Keck Carbon Cycle AMS Facility (KCCAMS) for radiocarbon dating.

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"If there happened to be nuts and seeds and their favorite plants, that was great. If there happened to be a dead mammoth over there or a dead horse or whatever else, they ate that. Or if there happened to be some poop of a horse over there, they ate that." https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/frozen-squirrel-poop-9.7230087

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New blog post! Sometimes a fragment of a bone is all you need:

https://life-from-a-certain-point-of-view.ghost.io/more-mall-fossils/

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🐴 #YearOfTheHorse #FossilFriday 🐟🐘🦥🐴🐪 Specimen SMM P2025.8.6 — originally MNH 779 in the Minnesota Historical Society collection — comes from Nicollet County near St. Peter, Minnesota.

Molar #11 of 12 in the statewide Ice Age horse project. All twelve will be heading to UC Irvine’s KCCAMS Facility for radiocarbon dating this summer.

Follow the full 12 tooth journey in Lost Bones #4 and its updates through the link in my bio.

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🐘 #MuseumSpotlight #FossilFriday 🐟🐘🦥🐴🐪 How often do you see a life‑sized mastodon full reconstruction?

I happened across this fantastic display recently in the Entering the Ice Age exhibition at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery in Dayton, Ohio. If you have nature‑ or paleo‑curious kids—I highly recommend a visit.

They also have an excellent giant ground sloth and short‑faced bear skeletal replicas.

https://boonshoft.org/

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🐂 #LostBones #FossilFriday 🐟🐘🦥🐴🐪 This month I'm back out #CountingBones. At the Winnebago Area Museum a quiet storage room revealed bison and horse remains from two Blue Earth River sites

Shout out: this museum has been entirely volunteer run for half a century — the kind of stewardship that will help keep Ice Age stories alive.

Museum: https://www.winnebagoareamuseum.org

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Anthropology.net: The Bag Before the Bowl: Pleistocene Origins of Mobile Container Technology. “The new database, published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, documents 739 Pleistocene mobile containers drawn from 210 sites across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas.”