Dr Geoff M Smith 🇬🇧🇪🇺

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#Palaeolithic #zooarchaeology 🦴🦣. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow on project BACBONE. School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent. #archaeology | #Neanderthal | #humanevolution | #rstats. All views my own. 🐦: @geoffreymsmith
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Dr Geoff M Smith 🇬🇧🇪🇺Jun 8, 2024
MU-Peter Shimon 🀄Feb 2, 2024

Stable isotopes show Homo sapiens dispersed into cold steppes ~45,000 years ago at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany
Sarah Pederzani. @geoffreymsmith , JJ Hublin et al
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02318-z

Demonstrates that humans operated in severe cold conditions during many distinct early dispersals into Europe and suggests pronounced adaptability.

Stable isotopes show Homo sapiens dispersed into cold steppes ~45,000 years ago at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany - Nature Ecology & Evolution

The authors present palaeoclimatic data in the form of stable isotope records from equid teeth spanning 12,500 years of human occupation at the site of Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany, including the earliest occupation of the site by Homo sapiens ~45,000 years ago.

Nature
Dr Geoff M Smith 🇬🇧🇪🇺Jun 8, 2024
MU-Peter Shimon 🀄Feb 9, 2024

The ecology, subsistence and diet of ~45,000-year-old Homo sapiens at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany
Geoffery M Smith @geoffreymsmith JJ Hublin et al
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02303-6

Indicates a homogenous human diet based on large terrestrial mammals.

The ecology, subsistence and diet of ~45,000-year-old Homo sapiens at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Using zooarchaeology, palaeoproteomics, ancient sediment DNA and stable isotope analyses, the authors characterize the ecology of the Homo sapiens individuals associated with the ‘transitional’ Lincombian–Ranisian–Jerzmanowician technocomplex at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis.

Nature
Dr Geoff M Smith 🇬🇧🇪🇺Jun 8, 2024
MU-Peter Shimon 🀄Mar 8, 2024

Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago
Dorothea Mylopotamitaki, Mateja Hajdi @geoffreymsmith Elena Essell JJ Hublin et al
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06923-7

H. sapiens in central & NW Europe before extinction of Neanderthals in SW Europe

Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago - Nature

Through archaeological excavation, morphological and proteomic taxonomic identification, mitochondrial DNA analysis and direct radiocarbon dating of human remains, a study reports the presence of Homo sapiens in Germany north of the Alps more than 45,000 years ago.

Nature
Dr Geoff M Smith 🇬🇧🇪🇺May 3, 2023
RT @ElenaEssel
Don't miss out this great summary of our paper by @MarieSoressi and @MatejaHajdi: Ancient woman’s DNA recovered from a 20,000-year-old pendant https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01342-0
Ancient woman’s DNA recovered from a 20,000-year-old pendant

An innovative method reveals the identity of the handler of a small Palaeolithic object.

Dr Geoff M Smith 🇬🇧🇪🇺May 3, 2023
Cool work. And from #BachoKiro
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RT @ElenaEssel
Exciting news! Our paper out today in @Nature shows how we recovered ancient human DNA from the surface of a pierced elk tooth pendant found in Denisova Cave. We were able to use this DNA to learn about the actual person who wore and/or made this artefact! http://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06035-2(1/22)
https://twitter.com/ElenaEssel/status/1653776812218933248
Dr Geoff M Smith 🇬🇧🇪🇺May 3, 2023

RT @UniKentSAC
While mudlarking, in a Kent river, a Ramsgate archaeologist Steve Tomlinson discovered a 3000-year-old shoe. He sent it off for tests at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre’s carbon-dating unit in East Kilbride...

http://ow.ly/UKr550O4QFq

Use of micro CT scanner to verify Bronze Age Toddler shoe – School News

Dr Geoff M Smith 🇬🇧🇪🇺May 3, 2023
RT @Harvatilab_tue
📣 New paper alert
Konidaris et al. describe new Middle Pleistocene locality Marathousa 2 (Megalopolis basin, Greece) and #hominin exploitation of megafauna 🦛, now online in the current issue of PaleoAnthropology!
Check it here ⬇️
#OpenAccess
https://paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/article/view/810
Marathousa 2: A New Middle Pleistocene Locality in the Megalopolis Basin (Greece) With Evidence of Hominin Exploitation of Megafauna (Hippopotamus) | PaleoAnthropology

Dr Geoff M Smith 🇬🇧🇪🇺May 3, 2023
Exciting work on Bilzingaleben with more to come….
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RT @StahlschmidtC
New investigation of ostracod remains from Bilzingsleben give environmental insights and indicate a sequence of fluviatile, lacustrine and spring deposits https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/gea.21960
https://twitter.com/StahlschmidtC/status/1653643705847369728
Dr Geoff M Smith 🇬🇧🇪🇺Apr 30, 2023

RT @StewieStewart13
Hyena paleogenomes reveal a complex evolutionary history of cross-continental gene flow between spotted and cave hyena

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aay0456#.ZE4qoX_iyH8.twitter

Dr Geoff M Smith 🇬🇧🇪🇺Apr 28, 2023
RT @ICArEHB
Today we are wrapping up the TIFA Advanced Methods in Zooarchaeology.
Thank you to all and especially to our trainers Michaela Ecker, Milena Carvalho, Sarah Pederzani, Louise Le Meillour and Catarina Ginja for the generous share of their time, knowledge and experience!