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"FINDER" : ERC grant awarded to Katerina Douka
The PalaeoChron team is delighted to announce the award of an ERC Starting Grant to Dr Katerina Douka, one of the PalaeoChron...
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Congratulations Cara!
The entire PalaeoChron team sends it very best wishes and congratulations to Cara on submitting her final MSc dissertation. The...
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Betovo, Russia
The open-air sites from East European Plane are of great importance when discussing the transition from the late Middle Palaeolithic to...
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Bulgaria fieldwork 2016
Rachel Hopkins and Eileen Jacob, both PalaeoChron PhD students, travelled to Kozarnika Cave in northern Bulgaria. The site has been...
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Austria/Slovakia August
It is always a joy to travel back to Vienna. The percent nitrogen (%N) samples taken the last time indicated good collagen preservation...
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The south of Italy
Tom, Marine and Katerina spent a week sampling material from 4 important Italian sequences. We were working with the Siena team of...
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Poland sampling
Marine went to the site of Biśnik Cave in the central part of the Kraków-Częstochowa valley, to collect sediment samples for...
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Sampling in Granada
Tom and Eileen returned to Granada to renew work on material in the museum there from Cariguela. We are aiming to attempt to AMS date low...
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C14 and Archaeology conference
PalaeoChron members attended the 8th International C14 and Archaeology meeting in Edinburgh in late June. The conference was held at the...
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Torquay trip
We visited Torquay this week for our regular monthly meeting as well as to see the excavations currently being undertaken at the site of...