ESHE7 Leiden conference

The PalaeoChron team is at ESHE this week for the 7th meeting of this society. We were excited to learn that all of our team has been given podium presentations. The full list of papers and presenters is :

• Marine Frouin, Jean-Luc Schwenninger, Katerina Douka, Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, Thibaut Devièse, Thomas Higham, Lucy Farr, Tim Reynolds, Christopher Hunt, Graeme Barker. A chronological framework for Shanidar Cave (Iraq) based on luminescence dating.

• Thibaut Devièse, Ivor Karavanic, Daniel Comeskey, Cara Kubiak, Petra Korlevic, Mateja Hajdinjak, Sinisa Radovic, Michael Buckley, Svante Pääbo, Tom Higham. New single amino acid radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis of the Vindija Cave Neanderthals.

• Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, Katerina Douka, Daniel Comeskey, Behrouz Bazgir, Nicholas Conard, Andreu Ollé, Marcel Otte, Curtis Marean, Mohsen Zeidi, Tom Higham. Age modelling of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition in the Zagros Mountains through AMS radiocarbon dating.

• Rachel Hopkins, Bibiána Hromadová, András Markó, Aleta Guadelli, Mike Buckley, Tom Higham. To the point — Understanding the chronology of ‘Aurignacian’ osseous point industries and their meaning for the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic biocultural shift.

• Katerina Douka, Rasmi Shoocondej, Prasit Auetrakulvit, Patrick Roberts, Daniel Comeskey, Oshan Wedage, Mike Petraglia, Tom Higham. Dating early human adaptation in the tropical forests of southern Asia (Thailand and Sri Lanka).

• Tom Higham, Samantha Brown, Katerina Douka, Cara Kubiak, Viviane Slon, Petra Korlevic, Mateja Hajdinjak, Thibaut Devièse, Daniel Comesky, Noemi Procopio, Ivor Karavanic, Sinsia Radovic, Michael Shunkov, Anatoly Drevianko, Matthias Meyer, Svante Pääbo, Michael Buckley. Finding hominin bones from the Palaeolithic using collagen peptide mass sequencing (ZooMS).