The Ice Age

@Jamie_Woodward_

Prof : 🌎 history, , , human past, rivers, Nile, . Author of The Ice Age VSI. Trustee Fellow

Manchester, UK
Joined May 2009

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    16 Dec 2018

    The Vogelherd horse – a miniature ice age masterpiece. This remarkably accomplished work is the oldest known sculpture of a horse. It was crafted in woolly mammoth ivory with flint tools over 35,000 years ago in southern Germany. It’s beautiful. Image

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  2. 11 hours ago
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  3. 11 hours ago

    This is a fascinating and thought-provoking discussion of the issues and ethics surrounding conservation and de-extinction - what is an 'authentic ecological conscience’?

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  4. 11 hours ago

    Chinese demand for ivory fuels rush for Siberian woolly mammoth tusks

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  5. 12 hours ago

    Woolly mammoths could live for 60 to 80 years. They had four large molars, two in the upper jaw and two in the lower. Once their sixth and final set of teeth wore out they would typically die of starvation, a common cause of death

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  6. 13 hours ago

    The Nastiest Feud in Science – A Princeton geologist has endured decades of ridicule for arguing that the fifth extinction was caused not by an asteroid but by a series of colossal volcanic eruptions. But she’s reopened that debate

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  7. 14 hours ago

    Encrusted in calcite for over 150,000 years deep inside an Italian cave – Altamura Man has yielded the oldest known samples of Neanderthal DNA. The rest of the skeleton is entombed below Image: Museo Archeologico di Altamura

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  8. 15 hours ago

    Homo lithos

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  9. 16 hours ago

    It has taken two decades of painstaking work to free this ancient skull. It was embedded in solid rock deep inside a South African cave and may be over 3.5 million years old. It has sparked a fierce debate

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  10. 17 hours ago

    This week I stepped down as Editor of Geoarchaeology after 12 years. What to do with my new-found freedom? 🤔

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  11. 18 hours ago

    Around the world, miles of rock are missing. Could ‘Snowball Earth’ be the culprit?

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  12. Retweeted
    21 hours ago

    4th presentation is a keynote from Phil Hughes in Geomorphic Records Session Review of work, including collaboration with & from U-Th on 2ndary carbonates in moraines & cosmogenic dating with David Fink & recently

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  13. 18 hours ago

    DNA of woolly mammoths found in ivory trinkets for sale in South East Asia

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  14. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    Guericke's unicorn at the Natural History Museum in (Germany). Otto von Guericke, by then mayor of Magdeburg, interpretated bones of a woolly rhinoceros as those of a and presented this reconstruction in 1672.

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  15. Jan 3

    10 birds that came back from the brink of extinction

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  16. Jan 3

    “The geothermal features found on Mt Erebus, overlooking New Zealand's Scott Base, are home to an abundance of micro-organisms with some extremely unusual features. Scientists believe they may even have the potential to change how we understand life itself.”

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  18. Jan 3

    Into the ice world: Drilling into Antarctica's Mt Erebus

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  19. Jan 3

    Seaborne Freight launch their Brexit fleet on budget and on time.

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  21. Jan 3

    Or the land that forgot time?

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