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Sofia, Bulgaria
The Bulgarian Palaeolithic record is crucially important in understanding the nature of the early movement of modern humans, the...
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Modern humans in Sri Lanka
We are very fortunate to collaborate with our colleagues in Oxford's PalaeoDeserts ERC project led by Prof. Michael Petraglia. Katerina...
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Thai sampling
PalaeoChron is working in SE Asia, an area of high archaeological interest due to the likely introgression within the region of Denisovan...
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PalaeoChron meeting 2
The PalaeoChron team had a group meeting on 26 February 2015 to work on progress, plans and results. We met at Brasenose College in a...
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Tautavel
We (Thibaut and Tom) spent two days in the south of France in Tautavel. The name of Tautavel is inextricably linked with the site of...
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David Reich visit
Professor David Reich of the Harvard Medical School visited the RLAHA to give a talk at the regular Palaeolithic and Quaternary seminar...
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Copenhagen sampling
Tom and Katerina went to Copenhagen to sample material being worked on in the Centre for GeoGenetics from a key French site we are...
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The Grotte Mandrin
Dr Marine Frouin was at the site of Grotte Mandrin, in the Middle Rhône valley of France in December obtaining samples for new TL and OSL...
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New HPLC lab opens
Full credit goes to Thibaut for designing and pushing the project to completion, and everyone that helped move things out of the...
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RNMH 2 conference, Hokkaido
The first glimpse of Japan from the plane was the sight of Mount Fujiyama poking through the clouds as we came into Narita airport. From...