janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Going with your statement… the gesture to me is what I see people do when they signal, it’s raining -this- much. There’s another body gesture with rain of sticking one hand out in front of the body palm up: how much is it raining? 010
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Are you aware of if there any groups of people today who build megalithic structures as a hobby/lifestyle? Not EXARC but — “this is what we do.” 110
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026They can really blow prices away if they think a little harder. 30-% is a dent 000
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Also there’s a regional pattern of depicting close friendships into classical period in the Med 110
Reposted by @janfrel.bsky.socialJohn Hawks @johnhawks.net · 18/07/2026I’m fascinated today reading a recent article about insect-eating and ancient dental calculus. In brief, Neanderthals have as much insect DNA in their dental calculus as western chimpanzees, while ancient European modern people have a lot less. www.johnhawks.net/p/traces-of-...johnhawks.netTraces of insect DNA in dental calculus may reveal bug-eating pastA study finds that Neanderthals had comparable insect trace evidence as gorillas and western chimpanzees. 24610
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Thanks to interaction with IE social grammar 000
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 01/07/2026If you had to pick something ancient from Qatar, what would you pick? 000
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Diarists of the time noted that the food was delicious in london back then 230
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 20/06/2026All those cute innocent sheep running around 000
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 18/06/2026But he also starred in Mrs Brown, so who knows 010
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Also, 3D printing has gotten quite good — doubt most British Museum visitors would notice the difference. 010
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Except some researchers think those are freshwater eels, and have meaningful contextual roots for why. 010
Reposted by @janfrel.bsky.socialΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Mount Caburn (1935) by Eric William Ravilious (1903-1942), British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver. Watercolour and pencil on paper 47 x 59 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt 0308
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 20/05/2026You missed one, so I thought I’d go there for you. At Msoura in Morocco this week 000
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 14/05/2026A collection of populations with similarish morphologies, less similar phenotypes that started to appear around 2m, faded out 100kyaish? Just trying to get my casual human origins shorthand down. 000
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Hey there -- Has HBES posted abstracts anywhere? 100
Reposted by @janfrel.bsky.socialKaterina Douka @katerinad.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Eastern Neanderthals who lived ~120,000 years ago and Western Neanderthals ~60,000 years ago were as genetically differentiated as the most divergent modern human populations today. A lot from one “unremarkable” bone! Here's the full publication: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 4/4doi.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans... 1283
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Again, they hired the wrong PR company that is giving them this strategy. If they had gone with someone competent, they might have a 180 approach, which is merited here. Either way, they will need to adapt, given the discoveries coming out of Michael Levin’s lab. 020
Reposted by @janfrel.bsky.socialAntiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 11/03/2026NEW How did prehistoric people actually design and use their tools? The WEAR Project combines experimental #archaeology with computational modelling to statistically analyse and predict how lithics were made, worn down and reshaped over time. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology 0277
Reposted by @janfrel.bsky.socialKiona N. Smith @kionasmith07.bsky.social · 20/02/2026My latest for @arstechnica.com explores what it means that we have 1.77 million year-old Homo erectus fossils in central China, and whether Homo erectus was really the first hominin to migrate that far. 🧪arstechnica.com"Million-year-old" fossil skulls from China are far older—and not DenisovansThe revised age may help make sense of 2-million-year-old stone tools elsewhere in China. 35121
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 18/02/2026So many goodies coming out of central Italian water sources these days! 000
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Rather, social animal intelligence is very likely to ingress into mourning as a consequence of that problem-solving approach. 010
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Otherwise the people who look at behavioral parametrics or histories of them will stop at, “wow, whales are more like us than we thought,” or “we’re alike,” or mourning has been “independently/convergently invented.” 100
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 16/02/2026But now, I think this material has to be understood through the frameworks of studies in diverse intelligence and developmental biology for context, basically the sphere of scientists hanging around Michael Levin’s Lab. 100
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 16/02/2026When we launched Human Bridges, I thought that synthesis of recent findings in these fields plus gradual archaeology leading to the present was the core information framework, and forge that produced deep-time and global perspectives. 100
Reposted by @janfrel.bsky.socialChris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 14/02/2026This MSc at UCL covers human evolution, human behavioural ecology, primatology and human evolutionary genetics www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...ucl.ac.ukHuman Evolution and Behaviour MScDevelop the ability to generate, assess and synthesise empirical evidence and hypotheses related to human evolution and behaviour. 1133
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Very good idea for a program. Wonder who guided the thinking there…💡🌝 It’ll be even stronger comingled w/ programs like Erdem Denk’s Arkeopolitics syllabus, taking from global U.Paleolithic to Iron Ages. And 🧨 when countries realize this is PPE curriculum^10. I’m working toward that effort. 100
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 10/02/2026I’m sure fascinating, but you have to pay to learn about it. 000
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Amazing, and what do they know at 4.5kya that they didn’t know at 25+kya? Kitsissut in that environment is like a moon landing. Would you deny those people the right to migrate to Atlantic along different Arctic pathways? 000
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Naledi evidence is easier to absorb in a wider context of parameters of animal mortuary behavior, as Cherene de Bruyn did for Human Bridges: observatory.wiki/Parameters_o...observatory.wikiParameters of Animal Mortuary Behavior 000
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 31/01/2026I subscribe to your AI summaries. Gotta say thr script that tells me, X wasn’t just Y, it was an (adjective) Z…. are tiring. Even the teaser, … not chance. It comes off formulaic once you read it in 150-200 summaries (which are great, the less florid they are). 000
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Publishing science with one’s parent is v. cool. 010
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 26/01/2026I can’t read this article. Can it be shared with the public? 000
janfrel.bsky.social @janfrel.bsky.social · 24/01/2026If we took the Sulawesi rock art paper’s logic to the geometrically-marked 500kya Trinil shell, wouldn’t the null hypothesis be that it was made by a H. sapiens population? 100
Reposted by @janfrel.bsky.socialW. Andrew Barr @wabarr.bsky.social · 21/01/2026I am really excited to share news of this new jaw...until now Paranthropus had been conspicuously absent from the Afar. Fieldwork at Mille-Logya is not easy, and this fossil is the result of years of very hard work (and a lot of days of dry screening by our team)! www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comAfar fossil shows broad distribution and versatility of Paranthropus - NatureWith its attribution to Paranthropus, a 2.6-million-year-old partial mandible expands the range of the genus into the Afar region of Ethiopia and adds to our understanding of hominin evolution in east... 23915
