Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026My thoughts on the paper about 'Hobbit' capabilities 0478
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 07/01/2026My thoughts on new human fossils from Thomas Quarry 1, Morocco 15310
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Some additional thoughts on Yunxian, Homo longi, Denisovans and the origin of Homo sapiens 15110
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 26/09/2025#FossilFriday Replicas of Yunxian 2 reconstruction (L) and Sangiran 17 Homo erectus from Java. Our research indicates that Yunxian is not an erectus, but is an early member of the group containing Homo longi, other Chinese fossils, and Denisovan material 17416
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Look out for some news on Thursday evening! 6658
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 01/08/2025#FossilFriday One of the most complete and beautiful dentitions of Australopithecus africanus. Sts52a+b from Sterkfontein, South Africa 0358
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 28/07/2025From the Shard to St Paul’s - great views from the One New Change terrace 041
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Louis Leakey with 'Zinjanthropus' skull+newspaper @NHMLondon in 1959. Found #OTD by Mary Leakey, ‘Zinj’ was assumed to represent the earliest toolmaker at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, until the discovery of Homo habilis. Pic by Anthony Sutcliffe. 0286
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 15/07/2025The remarkable diversity of ancient Apes: Harrison - Apes Among the Tangled Branches of Human Origins | Science (2010) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 1295
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 14/07/2025For #WorldChimpanzeeDay, here’s a picture of Twycross Zoo's hairless chimp Mongo (now sadly gone), showing his remarkable musculature.. 5453
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 11/07/2025#FossilFriday Dragon Man (the Harbin cranium - Homo longi) on the cover of The Innovation (open access papers) in 2021 0185
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Apologies, don’t have the original source… 171
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025#FossilFriday Kabwe 1 (Zambia, perhaps H. heidelbergensis) and Forbes’ Quarry (Gibraltar) (H. neanderthalensis) are both in our Human Evolution exhibition 1316
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Here are replicas of crania: Kabwe, La Ferrassie Neanderthal, Harbin and a recent human.. 0296
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 01/07/2025#OTD 1858 Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution at the Linnean Society, London 06419
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 20/06/2025#FossilFriday Replicas of the Dali (L) and Harbin crania from China, both probably Homo longi and Denisovan. It would be great to find similarly complete material from places like Sumatra, Borneo and Sulawesi. 26013
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Akhenaten was a heretical Egyptian pharaoh (c. 1353–36 BCE), who established a new cult dedicated to the Aton, the sun disc. He was the father of Tutankhamen… 1252
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 11/06/2025A golden hawk from the tomb of #Tutankhamun 0514
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 10/06/2025My comments on a very early sapiens-like partial cranium from Apidima Cave, Greece (2019) 1113
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 07/06/2025My comments on 'The genome of the offspring of a Neandertal mother and a Denisovan father', Slon et al. Nature (2018) 0143
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 06/06/2025#FossilFriday A range of crania from Africa and Israel assigned to early H. sapiens. From The origin and evolution of Homo sapiens (2016) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 0212
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 05/06/2025My comments on new finds and new dating for Jebel Irhoud (2017) 0121
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Human Evolution: still a huge amount to come (from 2017) 0204
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025My comments from 2015 on dates for early Australian occupation at Madjedbebe 2 of >60,000 years 2266
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 30/05/2025#FossilFriday The Lake Mungo 3 skeleton was discovered in 1974 in south eastern Australia and is one of the oldest known red ochre burials (~42ka). The remains have been returned for reburial. Picture from the late Colin Groves. 1579
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 26/05/2025See my comment on the Bruniquel structures made about 176,000 years ago.. 021
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 25/05/2025‘The West Tofts handaxe is a small British Acheulean biface well known for its cortical preservation of a fossilised bivalve shell’ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 618136
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Handaxe in banded limestone from Ceprano locality... Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and archaeology of Middle Pleistocene localities near Ceprano, Campogrande area, Italy Biddittu et al. DOI: doi.org/10.1017/qua.20… 0393
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 23/05/2025#FossilFriday Not a great picture, but a historic comparison of the Omo Kibish 1 cranium (L) before it was returned to Ethiopia, with Kabwe @NHM. This shows the sapiens shape of Omo 1 in rear view. 2239
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 21/05/2025My comment from 2016 on the amazing Bruniquel structures built ~176,000 years ago 0204
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 21/05/2025The introductory display in our Human Evolution exhibition when it opened in 2015. There were some things missing (e.g. Orrorin) and other changes were still to come (e.g. luzonensis, longi, dating of naledi) 3449
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Mary Anning, fossil finder, dealer and palaeontologist was born #OTD in 1799 25711
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 19/05/2025This huge bronze cauldron dating from about 700 BC was recovered from the Thames at Battersea @britishmuseum 6867
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 16/05/2025#FossilFriday CTs of the Petralona cranium, showing the remarkable sinuses, the largest in any fossil human Balzeau et al (2022) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.. 2177
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 15/05/2025#Tutankhamun tomb This gold pendant of King Amenhotep III (Tut’s grandfather) was meant to protect him in the afterlife 141
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Gold collar known as The Shannongrove Gorget, maker unknown, late Bronze Age (probably 800-700 BC), Ireland photographed @britishmuseum 1496
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 12/05/2025#Tutankhamun The gold falcon (foreground) represents the god Horus, holding the sign for eternity (shen) in his claws. Horus was thought to be the creator and protector of the pharaohs 2261
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 10/05/2025This fragmentary small ivory figurine was discovered in a cave at Brassempouy, France in 1892. Gravettian, about 25,000 years old, it is one of the earliest known realistic representations of a human face 213428
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 09/05/2025#FossilFriday CTs of Bodo cranium, showing the extensive sinuses Balzeau et al (2022) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 094
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Pic via Roger Highfield (left) at the wonderful Science Media Centre event for Robin McKie (centre) 0162
Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Dorothy Garrod (1892-1968) who led excavations at Tabun, Skhul and in Gibraltar was Cambridge's first female professor. Born #OTD in 1892. 37119
