UP-NORTH Archaeology

19/09/2016

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12/09/2016

Last week some of our Up-North team were in Switzerland on a sampling trip -- with beautiful surroundings! We are hoping for some interesting results, and would like to say a huge thank you to our collaborators.

08/08/2016

Despite being the first to permanently settle Europe up to the English Channel and the North European Plain after the Last Glacial Maximum, the Magdalenians were fantastic artists that created impressive centres of art - btw, not just in South-West France:
http://boutique.arte.tv/f3864-grandsmaitresdelaprehistoirelegeniemagdalenien

Angles sur L'Anglin, petit village du Poitou-Charentes. Ici, au pied d'une falaise calcaire, dans un abri sous roche appelé le Roc aux sorciers, se cache le plus beau joyau de la sculpture du paléolithique : une frise sculptée longue de plus de trente mètres, datant de 15 000 ans avant J.-C, une vér...

05/08/2016

It's getting warm again in London, so time to think about some really cool times: Where did people go at the height of the last glacial?
An interesting perspective from north-eastern Eurasia can be found here:
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-016-0342-z
This will probably also give some new thoughts to the questions surrounding the when and how people reached the Americas.

An updated analysis of Paleolithic sites in Siberia and the Urals 14C-dated to the coldest phase of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), with its timespan currently determined as ca. 23,000–19,000 BP (ca. 27,300–22,900 cal BP), is presented. It is demonstrated that people continuously occupied the southe...

02/08/2016

Our visit last week to and our colleagues Matt Pope, Ed Blinkhorn, Beccy Scott, Andy Shaw, and Chantal Conneller summarised by Sonja B. Grimm for :
http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/up-north-and-then/

02/08/2016

No more water for the elephants... pardon, mammoths!
Why a last surviving group of mammoths may finally have become extinct:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36945909

And here you find the science behind it:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/07/27/1604903113

One of the last known populations of woolly mammoths became extinct because of a lack of drinking water, a study concludes.

01/08/2016

Summer for archaeologists often means excavating - making our institutes and departments rather quiet. So for those staying behind time and peace for some good reads - such as the bit by our German colleagues from the amazing Turkish site Göbekli Tepe. It shows that archaeologists need both time in libraries and outside research. For us this site is so interesting because it falls in the same time period that we study - only another study area than ours. However, it is also a reflection of human response to the rapidly and significantly changing climates at that time.
http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/seventy-percent-of-all-archaeology-is-done-in-the-library/

29/07/2016

Today is and we are enjoying all those diverse reads about a day in our field.
If you ever wondered what archaeologists do all day, have a look and find out that you really cannot tell unless you know more precisely what type of archaeologist s/he is and/or on which topic they are working:
http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/

Find out what archaeologists really do.

27/07/2016

Today we are back in rainy London with very rich memories of our fantastic day trip to Jersey. Our fingers are crossed that there'll be more bone coming out of Les Varines so that we have more reasons to go back to this fantastic site and this wonderful island!
For those interested in some of the sites we've visited yesterday, here's a little read up of Jersey archaeology and the activities of the project in UCL Institute of Archaeology's Archaeology International:
http://ai-journal.com/articles/10.5334/ai.1813/print/

Archaeology International, produced annually since 1997, combines news about UCL Institute of Archaeology activities with refereed articles and information about on-going projects, carried out by Institute staff and students, or those with honorary affiliation. Papers reflect the broad geographical,...

26/07/2016

Another photo today from our last stop at La Cotte - what a fantastic site! Jersey is a beautiful island and is a really exciting project! We owe a big THANK YOU! to our hosts and guides today Matt Pope, Ed Blinkhorn, Chantal Conneller, Beccy Scott and everyone who so warmly welcomed us such as Andy Needham, Ben Elliott, Letty Ingrey, Josie Rose...

26/07/2016

Enjoying our first stop of our visit Les Varines - what a view for a Late Upper site!

20/07/2016

If you want to join our research team at UCL Institute of Archaeology as a post-doc studying the human resettlement of northern Europe after the Last Glacial Maximum you can also use this way:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AOE765/research-associate/

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