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Archaeological Heritage in Danger from War: The Lower Palaeolithic of Ukraine

Our responsibilities Humans are the only creatures on the planet who can understand their past and consciously determine their global future. Although humans are primates, this does not mean we should return to our roots and behave like our closest relatives. Rather, we should apply our self-knowledge and not destroy the opportunity for us to…

Lithic Studies Society (UK) 2023 Conference

Call for Papers The Lithic Studies Society returns with our first in-person conference in four years on Friday 27th and Saturday 28th October 2023 at the Civil War Museum, Newark-on-Trent. In the wake of the pandemic, research has resumed apace and there are many new discoveries, analyses and approaches to be shared and discussed in…

Widi Stone Tool Workshop

The traditional country of the Widi People covers a quarter of a million hectares west of Mackay, Queensland. Widi country includes open sclerophyll woodlands typical for this part of Australia, and large parts of it are covered in silcrete cobbles—a valuable toolmaking stone for the ancestors of the Widi. The European colonisers discovered vast quantities…

Anaiwan People are using 3D Models to Manage their Heritage

The traditional country of the Anaiwan People covers over three-quarters of a million hectares on the Northern Tablelands, in Australia’s New England region. Anaiwan land is situated in the high-elevation region west of the Great Dividing Range, and includes a diverse range of sclerophyll forests and small high-elevation montane lakes, referred to locally as lagoons. …

Launch of the Museum of Stone Tools

Welcome to the Museum of Stone Tools! The Museum of Stone Tools is an outcome of the Covid 19 lockdown in Australia in 2020. With fieldwork plans stymied, I brainstormed how I could wait out the pandemic in a useful and engaged way. An obvious option was to do something meaningful with the University of…