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Chronology of the Grotta di Fumane
The Grotta di Fumane is one of the most important Palaeolithic sequences of Europe. The site lies around 350 m above sea level at the...
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Sampling at the Naturalis Museum, Leiden
One of the most important prehistoric Palaeolithic sites in the Near East, at the crossroads of Africa, Asia and Europe, is the Lebanese...
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Denisova Cave meeting
From June 29 to July 8 we were in Russia at Denisova cave for an invited meeting. It was an opportunity for us to present our new series...
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New paper by D'Errico and Banks
Our attention was drawn to a recent paper just out online by D’Errico and Banks in Quaternary Science Reviews called “Tephra studies and...
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Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story conference
Tom participated in a one day public conference held at the Natural History Museum in London on June 1. Along with several other members...
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New Luminescence reader arrives
The other day a new state-of-the-art Freiberg "LEXSYG" Luminescence reader arrived at the RLAHA as part of the PalaeoChron project. It...
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Mochi field trip
Riparo Mochi is one of the key sites documenting the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Italy, and the coast of the...
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Sampling in the Russian Altai
Denisova is one of the key sites in palaeoanthropology, featuring as it does the remains of a new species of hominin (the 'Denisovans')....
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New logo designed
In June, we thought that the project required an easily recognized logo to accompany presentations, publications and, of course, the...
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PalaeoChron starts
We were informed of the success of the application to fund our work in November 2012. After a series of negotiations with the ERC local...