Becky Wragg Sykes

@LeMoustier

Neanderthal archaeologist + author Book Hon. Fellow 1/4 Rep Art

Body: Wales - Mind: 50,000 BP
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Joined April 2010
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    21 Aug 2020

    Q&A thread! What is it? A definitive, 21st C book on Neanderthals. Is it academic? Stuffed with fascinating detail but totally accessible; will blow your mind without befuddling it. Tell me more! Little stories, poems & stunning artwork bring their world to life.

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  2. 12 hours ago

    Perfect spring blossom. I only noticed this tree because I walked through its cloud of perfumed air.

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  3. 12 hours ago

    Haven't got over how amazing it felt to see presenting the award... I grew up reading and watching Julian, plus & Time Team gang on the telly, all doing something incredibly fascinating & exciting called 'archaeology' 😀

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    21 hours ago

    Let's hope this really is the case. If so a very wonderful thing indeed for the family, and long overdue

    Selfie of Nazanin, Richard and Gabriella
    In 3 DAYS Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe *should* be flying home. 🚨 RT our daily countdown & help us call on UK government & Iranian authorities to reunite Nazanin with her daughter & husband at the end of her sentence 🚨
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  5. 22 hours ago

    My talk for is available any time on YouTube!

    What can archaeology tell us about the lives and experiences of Neanderthals in Britain? Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes () University of Liverpool/Université de Bordeaux explains.
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  6. 22 hours ago

    It was great to join to talk about and women's lives (relating to my piece for )

    This week on TSM with : • Marty of on why democracy is impossible without free & independent press. • on the science of food addiction. • Archeologist on what life was like as a ‘Sheanderthal’.
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  7. 22 hours ago

    Lovely short review here of in !

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  8. Mar 5

    So grateful for everyone sending congratulations... I'm off for a Chinese takeaway & some of this!

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  9. Mar 5

    Also, check out the other nominated books, they are a fantastic selection and you're sure to find more of interest than just Neanderthals!

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  10. Mar 5

    has WON Book Of The Year! 🤩😲🤩 It's an honour that my brain can't process, and I'm just so happy that my work has connected with people. Gigantic THANK YOU to everyone who supported this book, from inception to voting.

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    Mar 4

    “Ten Things Tells Us about ” by archaeologist Rebecca Wragg Sykes ().

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  12. Mar 5

    I just realised that one face of this is basically your gold-blue art palette colours 😍

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  13. Mar 5

    Sipson, London. This one is interesting as while both faces have been patinated white, one (RH) is clearly more heavily weathered with pitting from exposure.

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  14. Mar 5

    Mousehole Heath, Norfolk. Found 1935.

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  15. Mar 5

    Acton, West London. Less clear here with no basket patina but you can see one face is paler white, with blue tinge.

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  16. Mar 5

    More examples of similar condition. Castle Lane, Bournemouth (truly one of the sexiest bifaces from any period in Britain)

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  17. Mar 5

    😍 This was found 6 km southwest from the house I grew up in! The different condition of the faces, inc distinctive 'basketwork' patina, is associated with last in Britain c. 60-40,000 BP. White marks poss from roots, while paler face was exposed on landsurface.

    For Here's a beautiful little biface from Croydon which, like so many we've seen, appears to have occupied a surface for part of its history. (Published by Taylor 2018, Lithics)
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  18. Mar 5

    Great thread of rubbish finds! Add to this mine: during foot&mouth crisis, rural digs were forbidden. So we undergrads excavated a Bristol carpark. Under a lot of concrete/aggregate, there was a drain. 😴😓

    The top 10 most boring things I’ve discovered on archaeological projects: 10. Walking along my survey transect, looking down. “Ooh, a tiny black obsidian blade.” Bend down to pick it up. “Nope, that’s a goat turd.” Repeat x1000 (Korfos Kalamianos, Greece)
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    Mar 5
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    Just to be clear: Marsha Blackburn is one of this country's most conservative legislators. Her political stances are positively antediluvian. If a nice Neanderthal couple were to move to a home next door to her, she would be the first to complain.

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  20. Mar 5

    Let's not diss them, most people alive today have a genetic legacy from some deep " " about 55,000 years ago 💘

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    "So tell me more about this 'genetic admixture' thing... " 😍 (Kennis brothers' Spy reconstruction) with thanks to for the inspiration 😉
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  21. Mar 5

    Tons of fantastic free talks here! Just enjoyed on Bog bodies, now I'm going to listen to on the archaeology of home! (I'm in there too at the bottom talking in the Outermost West, aka Britain!)

    It's conference day! Tune in to for a host of free talks spanning prehistory to the present, and covering the worlds of excavation, archaeological science, and museum and archive research. We hope you're enjoying so far!
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