Searching for hominin bones from Denisova Cave using ZooMS
Denisova Cave is one of the most important sites in the world of palaeoanthroplogy and PalaeoChron is privileged to be working there with...
South of France
Back to the south of France this week for Tom and Thibaut, along with our colleague Viviane Slon of the Max Planck Institute. We started...
More on Ksar Akil
We have had a lot of feedback and interest about our blog post from a couple of weeks ago and the issue of the dating of early modern...
Iranian sampling
Lorena Becerra Valdivia has been in Tübingen in Germany sampling material for her MSc dissertation research which is focussing on the...
Lithics workshop
In an atttempt to learn something about lithics and the way that they are made Natasha organised a day of hands-on stone tool making with...
Misuse of Bayesian modelling in the Palaeolithic : the recent case of Ksar Akil in PNAS
Bayesian statistical modelling is an increasingly widely used method in chronometric analysis in archaeology and environmental science....
Filming
Marine and Tom were involved in interviews for a new programme being made for French television by Rob Hope. He is filming a production...
Sampling Aurignacian bone tools
PalaeoChron welcomed Dr Claire Heckel from Toulouse Université to Oxford. We are collaborating with Claire and Harald Floss on the dating...
Liège
The PalaeoChron team spent 2 days visiting Liège in Belgium. Our colleague, Professor Marcel Otte, works in the Université de Liège and...
Budapest; sampling precious artefacts
Radiocarbon is a destructive process, but with the advent of AMS dating, milligram sized carbon samples are now required. Bone is...