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Nature paper on Denisova 11 published today
We were very excited today see the publication of our Denisova 11 paper in Nature, and the beautiful cover art that accompanied it. The...
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Denny publication: the daughter of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father
In 2016 we published our paper on the discovery, using ZooMS, of Denisova 11, or Denny, work that was undertaken as part of Sam Brown's...
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Transbaikal and Denisova Cave
Tom, Marine and Sam undertook fieldwork in the Transbaikal region of Russia in late June, visiting sites across the region to the east of...
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Radiocarbon conference: Trondheim
The PalaeoChron team has been well represented at the 23rd Radiocarbon Conference held at the Scandic Lerkendal in Trondheim, Norway. ...
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Arte film crew visit
Ludovic Slimak (CNRS, Toulouse) visited with a film crew from ARTE (France) to film the radiocarbon laboratory for a forthcoming...
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ZooMS help
PalaeoChron is delighted to be hosting Saltanat Amirova in the AMS lab. Saltanat is a Graduate Diploma student from the Institute of...
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Belgium sampling
With MSc student Lauren Bell we have been in Belgium sampling material from several sites to screen for human bones using ZooMS. We went...
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SAA conference
Marine Frouin, Thibaut Devièse, Tom HIgham, Lorena Becerra Valdivia, Katerina Douka and Mike Buckley attended the SAA meeting in...
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Italy sampling
PalaeoChron MSc student Lauren Bell is working on a research dissertation concerned with applying ZooMS to archaeological sites in the...
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Belgium and late surviving Neanderthals
The final trip of the year saw us heading to Brussels to look into the potentially late survival of Neanderthals in Belgium. Previously,...