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Archaeology postdoc @LeidenArchaeo. Burning desire to know more about #fire use/making by #Palaeolithic peoples. #Pyroarchaeology Also grants guy @ESSB_Erasmus

Leiden, The Netherlands
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@Pyropithecus
🔥Andrew Sorensen🔥
5 years
**SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION ALERT** My @UniversiteitNL talk about #Neanderthal #fire-making is now online for your viewing enjoyment! Check it out here: https://t.co/bu12s7ABAH #ShamelessSelfpromoMonday #archaeology #evolution @LeidenArchaeo @UniLeiden @pyroarchaeology
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@ChrisStringer65
Chris Stringer
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Oldest evidence of fire-lighting comes from early humans in Britain
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@Pyropithecus
🔥Andrew Sorensen🔥
1 month
The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered - BBC News
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bbc.co.uk
Archaeologists in the UK have discovered the world's oldest evidence of humans lighting fires
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🔥Andrew Sorensen🔥
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This could be the oldest evidence of fire-making | National Geographic
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nationalgeographic.com
A new study pushes back the advent of fire-making by more than quarter of a million years.
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🔥Andrew Sorensen🔥
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🚨New paper alert!🚨 Earliest known instance of pyrite ca. 400 kya at Barnham (UK), in layers with strong evidence of fire use, in an area with no naturally occurring pyrite nodules, together strongly suggest these pre-Neandertal peoples were making fire! https://t.co/xnSYhqyltj
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nature.com
Nature - Baked sediment, heat-shattered artefacts and introduced pyrite in a 400,000-year-old Palaeolithic occupation site in Suffolk, UK provide evidence of intentional fire-making, marking a...
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🔥Andrew Sorensen🔥
1 year
Please sign the #petition against giant budget cuts to #HigherEducation in The #Netherlands! #academia #research
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🔥Andrew Sorensen🔥
1 year
🔥🚨#NewPaperAlert!🚨🔥 After being buried on the editor's desk for over a year, my manuscript on experimentally testing the utility of manganese dioxide powder as a #fire-starting aid has seen the light of day! 😅 #Neanderthals #archeology
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link.springer.com
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences - Late Middle Palaeolithic Neandertals in France are known to have engaged in the collection and grinding of black minerals rich in manganese dioxide...
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🔥Andrew Sorensen🔥
2 years
D'oh!😖 *hold the line 😒
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🔥Andrew Sorensen🔥
2 years
This is a fun read 😁 Way to not only only the line, but gain back some ground for #archaeology, @FlintDibble! 💪
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@Pyropithecus
🔥Andrew Sorensen🔥
2 years
Really looking forward to watching this! All 4.5 hours of it 😳
@FlintDibble
Flint Dibble 🍖🏺
2 years
Hi all, I appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience yesterday for an in-depth chat with Graham Hancock (link in next tweet) You can read my essay about my motivations for doing this in @SAPIENS_org magazine https://t.co/TUr6JdmeL5
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@Pyropithecus
🔥Andrew Sorensen🔥
2 years
@WatchNebula @boissolm @stephaniesamma Filmed remotely at @LeidenArchaeo. Researchers featured in other episodes include Metin Eren and Michelle Bebber @AnthroKentState, and Terrence Delaney @terryinvt @uvmvermont.
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🔥Andrew Sorensen🔥
2 years
🔥#ShamelessSelfPromo alert🔥 @WatchNebula TV to see me featured in the "#Fire" episode of the show "Real #Science - #Archaeology Quest", hosted by @boissolm and @stephaniesamma. It's behind a paywall, but I think you can still watch one video for free:
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nebula.tv
Fire-production is one of the most crucial aspects of human evolution—and in this case, it will be essential to unlock the calories collected by the explorers in previous tasks.
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🔥Andrew Sorensen🔥
2 years
@padillaccc
Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias
2 years
The actual paper from the foraging study comparing individuals showing symptoms of ADHD against those not showing them is very neat! https://t.co/RxSzaBn0ix (also nice framing within optimal foraging theory) ☺️
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@paleomonrepos
MONREPOS – Schicht für Schicht zum Ich
2 years
Our DiPA (Dialogues in Pleistocene Archaeology) continues on Thursday, 22nd of February at 10:30 AM. Dr. Andrew Sorensen will talk about #fire making in the #Aurignacian. Zoom registration possible. #paleomonrepos #leiza #DiPA #paleolithic #palaeolithic #microwear #Archaeology
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MONREPOS – Schicht für Schicht zum Ich
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🔥New paper in PNAS about Widespread evidence for elephant exploitation by Last Interglacial Neanderthals on the North European plain is out, now!🔥 👇 https://t.co/ulb9AbOeLW #paleomonrepos #leiza #elephants #paleolithic #neanderthals #hunting #cuttingsmarks #elephanthunting
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pnas.org
Neanderthals hunted and butchered straight-tusked elephants, the largest terrestrial mammals of the Pleistocene, in a lake landscape on the North E...
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@MartMLahr
Marta @MartaMLahr
2 years
New Special Issue of PaleoAnthropology 😍‼️ 7 great pps on Niche Construction, Plasticity, and Inclusive Inheritance https://t.co/I9YNuqI7Nz + obituaries - Bill Kimbel & Sally McBrearty, a book review AND the abstracts of the 13th ESHE meeting! What a treat 🥳
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🔥Andrew Sorensen🔥
2 years
Also, congrats to @TrineKellberg and the rest of the local organizing committee at @AU_Archaeology for making the online element of #ESHE2023 run smoothly (and the rest of the conference, as well, I'm sure)!
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🔥Andrew Sorensen🔥
2 years
I am very sad to be missing #ESHE2023 due to a serious illness in the family😟 I was very much looking forward to sharing knowledge (and drinks 🍻) with friends and colleagues in lovely #Aarhus. But I'll be keeping tabs on things here and via the livestream. Have fun, everyone!
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🔥Andrew Sorensen🔥
3 years
Hugely interesting @informeren series “Children of the Sun” (in🇩🇰, translate it!) by Johanne Pontoppidan Tuxen & @mikkelvuorela about the relationship between #humans and #energy. I contributed to this article discussing our early forays into #fire use 🔥 https://t.co/GwlFQwdjFK
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