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Radical Anthropology

Pretty exciting record of #ochre (red/orange) close to #burials of #Levant #MiddlePalaeolithic at #Tinshemet

These are human populations contemporary to #Skhul and #Qafzeh and we need more on the #fossils -- any H s/Nean admixing, cultural and genetic?

nature.com/articles/s41562-025

NatureEvidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel suggests behavioural uniformity across Homo groups in the Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic circa 130,000–80,000 years ago - Nature Human BehaviourThe Middle Palaeolithic of southwest Asia witnessed interactions and knowledge sharing between archaic and modern humans ~130,000–80,000 years ago. These interactions led to increased behavioural complexity and consolidation of a uniform behavioural set across Homo groups in the region.
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The Inquisitive Biologist

New review: Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior is a concise, well-structured, and beautifully illustrated book that transcends being "merely" good popular science by also addressing professional palaeontologists.

inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #AnimalBehavior #Ethology #Fossils #Evolution #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Dinosaurs #Scicomm princetonupress@mastodon.social @princetonnature @serpenillus @bookstodon

The Inquisitive Biologist · Book review – Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior: What They Did and How We KnowUncovering Dinosaur Behavior is a concise, well-structured, and beautifully illustrated book that transcends being “merely” good popular science by also addressing professional palaeont…
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Russell Garwood

Two for the price of one, this #FossilFriday - meet two Carboniferous (~310 million year old) millipedes. The left is Amynilyspes, the right is Myriacantherpestes - both are from the USA, but fossils of land animals this age are found throughout the US, and Europe (incl. UK). Why?

Well, they are associated with the coal we've mined, especially since the industrial revolution, which is typically this age. That in turn, reflects a few things.

A black and white photograph of a fossil millipede. You are looking at the dorsal (top) surface, and can see on the right, a head, followed by a series of body segmented demarcated by spines. There are a couple of segments at the end with no spines. Overall it's long, but also relatively flat - kinda lozenge shaped. It is quite 3D, and there is a metric scale on the rock above it. It's about 3 inches long.
A photograph of a millipede fossil in a slightly shattered piece of rock. The rock is grey, and has a few bits of plant in it as well as lots of cracks through it. The fossil is darker than the rock, and is made of a large number of segments - I guess at least 30 but have not counted (sorry). Each segment has a spine going out sideways. This is just part of the animal so we're missing the head and the butt. There is a scale bar across the bottom - it's about 20cm long. It's preserved curved into an s shape.
#science#nature#fossils
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Ele Willoughby, PhD

The last of my older prints which would fit #printerSolstice2425 prompt silicon: four radiolarians of the of the spyroidea family on handmade Japanese paper. Radiolarians (or radiolaria) are a type of tiny creature -amoeboid protozoa - which produce silica mineral skeletons. They occur as zooplankton throughout the oceans and their tiny skeletal remains can be used as diagnostic fossils to date submarine sediments.

As described: linocut print of four radiolarians of the of the spyroidea family on handmade Japanese celadon-grey paper, 8” x 8” (20.3 cm x 20.3 cm) printed in dark plum ink. Their mineral skeletons are various shapes and sizes include bulbous forms with many holes and spiky bits.
#linocut#printmaking#sciart
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