Nice, Lazaret and the Cote d'Azur
Some of the most important Middle to Upper Palaeolithic sites are located on the Cote d'Azur of southern France and the border with...
Svante Pääbo visit
The PaleoChron team hosted the visit of Svante Pääbo to the ORAU to discuss method development for AMS and DNA prep, and to look at joint...
Pääbo lecture in Oxford
Svante Pääbo is giving a talk tonight for the Keble College Advanced Studies Centre on his work into the Neanderthal genome. The talk was...
Croatia and Velika Pećina (Kličevica)
Croatia has always been a key place in terms of Neanderthals and modern humans by virtue of the famous sites of Vindija and Krapina, the...
Working at the Palaeolithic site of Ksar Akil, Lebanon
We had the opportunity in October 2014 to visit Lebanon and to go to the key site of Ksar Akil, at the ouskirts of Beirut. Ksar Akil is...
Symposium on Human Origins II, Santa Barbara 2014
The second SOHO meeting was held in Santa Barbara in September. From Oxford Mike Petraglia, Greger Larson, Tom Higham and Katerina Douka...
Burgos UISPP conference
Members of the PalaeoChron team attended the UISPP meeting in Burgos, Spain between September 1-7, 2014. The UISPP is the International...
Sungir excavations 2014
The PalaeoChron team is working in the field as well as in the Lab. In collaboration with Kostya Gavrilov and Sergey Lev of Moscow...
The hours before our recent Nature publication
Our Nature paper on the dating of the Mousterian and the end of the Neaderthals was published on the 21st of August. After a lot of...
1st Project meeting
The PalaeoChron team had a group meeting on July 30 2014 to update progress, discuss results and formulate future plans. Tom Higham...