Updates 2024

A recent study published in PLoS ONE reveals repeated human occupation at the Umm Jirsan lava tube from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. The findings shed light on diets, cultural practices, and interactions with the landscape, offering a glimpse into the lives of early peoples on the Arabian Peninsula more

A recent systematic review by new Human Palaeosystems Group member Dr. Lucy Timbrell highlights links between climate change, population dynamics and archaeological diversity in eastern Africa during the Middle Stone Age, the period of prehistory linked to the emergence of our species. more

New interdisciplinary research reveals a shift towards reliance on millet, a drought resistant crop, during the beginning of the Late Bronze Age more

Hudson is one of 43 Fellows elected to the Society at their recent meeting in February 2024 more

Review of the new book by Jürgen Renn and Hanoch Gutfreund in Nature more

Interview Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Interview in German, paywalled):
Assessment and classification of the special climate year 2023 with climate researcher Ricarda Winkelmann more