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Michael Petraglia
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Michael Petraglia
@MDPetraglia
Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Transforming Human Origins Research | Human Evolution | Archaeology | Researching Human Origins in Africa and Asia
Joined July 2017
- Asian elephants observed for the first time carrying dead calves and partially "burying" carcasses. Lots to investigate and think about here @pili_scotland and @MMartinonT threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT…
- Why do #Homosapiens have such a low impact on fauna in #India while they have been implicated in large scale #extinctions elsewhere in the world? Like #Africa, the Indian record provides strong support for the #coevolution hypothesis. Nice work @amjukar! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
- Who remembers this book? It inspired me to become a #Palaeolithic archaeologist. #Origins #Leakey #Humanevolution
- When we arrived at Jwalapuram, we saw villagers mining #Toba ash. They had been mining it for 30 years, and they are still going strong over the last 20 years. Astounding to think the ash was from Mount Toba, #Sumatra, 2500 kms away. #India #volcano #Archaeology
- If this is true, it’s a game changer in dating a huge number of archaeological sites worldwide. advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/23/e…
- A major new claim for #Neanderthal engravings and abstract designs on cave walls. "Here we report on Neanderthal engravings on a cave wall at La Roche-Cotard (LRC) in central France, made more than 57±3 thousand years ago". journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
- We are thrilled to announce the very first discovery of #hominin and #mammal footprints in Arabia! #SaudiArabia #Homosapiens @MOCSaudi
- I love this #footprints story. This trackway is remarkable for its length – over at least 1.5km. This individual did not deviate from their course. Even more remarkable is that they followed their own trackway home again a few hours later. #newmexico
- Monkeys as toolmakers? Or the earliest migrations into the Americas? "We are confident that the early archeological sites from Brazil may not be human-derived but may belong to capuchin monkeys" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
- Do you have an archaeology program?What does a typical University timetable look like? What is Freshers week like? What student bank account should you get? Ask all these Qs (and more!) to our current Sheffield Uni students here, and filter the students by the subject they're studying🤩 👉tinyurl.com/95jwnctf
- About 8500 years ago, hunter-gatherers living beside Eagle Lake in Wisconsin hammered out a conical, 10-centimeter-long projectile point made of pure #copper.
- Shared by friend from #SaudiArabia, this incredible #lake scene after heavy #rainfall. #emtyquarter #desert
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