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🐂🐴 #LostBones #FossilFriday 🐟🐘🦥🐪 An in-person, eye-to-orbit visit is always best! This is the Scheirel bison skeleton, currently on display at the Paynesville Area Historical Society. It was reconstructed by William Scheirel after a dredging operation on his property in October 1975.

Originally displayed at Zapf's Leather Shop in Paynesville, the skeleton was donated to the historical society in the mid-1990s.

paynesvillehistorical.org

#Neanderthals developed extraordinary technology for extraction of fat, vital nutrition from large mammal bones

'What makes Neumark-Nord so exceptional is the preservation of an entire landscape, not just a single site,’ notes Leiden-based author Prof. Wil Roebroeks. ‘We see Neanderthals hunting and minimally butchering deer in one area, processing elephants intensively in another, and—as this study shows—rendering fat from hundreds of mammal skeletons in a centralized location. There’s even some evidence of plant use, which is rarely preserved. This broad range of behaviors in the same landscape gives us a much richer picture of their culture.’'

#Pleistocene #diet #archaeology

universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/

Leiden UniversityNeanderthals Ran “Fat Factories” 125,000 Years AgoFat is a very valuable food component, packed with calories, especially important when other resources might be scarce. Our earliest ancestors in Africa already cracked open bones to extract the fatty marrow from bone cavities. But now a new study published in Science Advances demonstrates that our…

Some dispute over dating of early entry to Sahul (#Pleistocene Greater #Australia) where the site of #Madjedbebe could be 64 Kya. How can this be consistent with a tight window of 50-55 Kya for the major ancestral migration of #Homosapiens from #Africa? Constraining those dates comes from the Neanderthal admixed sequences found today in all outofAfrican descendants.
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Isn't it possible that the people who were in Sahul by 65 Kya (Madjedbebe etc) just don't happen to be ancestors for people today who got there a bit later? Can't both be right?

#archaeology #Palaeogenomics #OutofAfrica #migration

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10

@ochrewatts

The highest human-occupied #Australian rock shelter from the Last Glacial Maximum, peak Ice Age 20,000 years ago.

'Archaeologists say the huge rock hollow was a camping spot “kind of like the Hyatt of the mountains”, occupied continuously until about 400 years ago.'
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'The groundbreaking study, funded by the Australian Museum Foundation, was a collaboration between archaeologists and Aboriginal custodians who have spent six years mapping rock shelters across the greater Blue Mountains area, spanning 1m hectares of mostly untouched wilderness west of Sydney.

'Some sites are known only to a handful of Aboriginal people or intrepid bushwalkers. Others have only just been rediscovered.'

#Pleistocene #archaeology #songlines #Darug #Wiradjuri #Gomeroi

theguardian.com/australia-news

The Guardian · ‘Mind-blowing’: inside the highest human-occupied ice age site found in AustraliaBy Ella Archibald-Binge

Oldest whale bone tools discovered in Europe reveal Stone Age humans used marine resources 20,000 years ago

A recent study has revealed that humans living on the Atlantic coast of modern-day France and Spain were crafting tools from whale bones as far back as 20,000 years ago—much earlier than previously thought...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/05/old

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🐂 #LostBones #FossilFriday 🐘🦥🐴🐪🍃 This striking left bison femur was discovered in Glenwood, Minnesota, during maintenance of the now-defunct ski hill in Barsness Park. The specimen was donated to the Pope County Historical Society in 1999.

popecountymuseum.com

#GlenwoodMN #Pleistocene #Bison #Bisonbison #MinnesotaHistory #Paleontology #CitizenScience

See the link in my profile for more Pleistocene specimens and their stories of discovery and preservation.

Prehistoric animal remains in Iran’s Wezmeh Cave reveal Zagros biodiversity

In a breakthrough discovery revealing ancient biodiversity and the first human-animal interaction, archaeologists found a collection of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene animal remains from Wezmeh Cave in the western Zagros Mountains of Iran, near Kermanshah...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/05/pre

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🐂#LostBones #FossilFriday 🦥Another huge historical museum in Minnesota! The Pine County History Museum in Askov occupies an entire former high school, features its own café, and even houses a full-sized replica of the Wright brothers' airplane. The lone Bison occidentalis skull pictured has a 79cm horn core span. It was unearthed by the Alexander Construction near a creek in Pine County - May 1968.

pinecountyhistoricalsociety.or

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#Pleistocene #Palaeontology #CitizenScience

New paper from our working group: climate niche modeling of the Pleistocene mammoth steppe. It’s a simple approach of manually defining bioclimatic limits based on modern analogs. But it worked reasonably well.

Merkens, Lisa, Tim Anders, Wolfgang Traylor, Hervé Bocherens, and Thomas Hickler. 2025. “A Simple Climate-Driven Semi-Mechanistic Vegetation Model Can Explain the Pan-Asian Extent of the Glacial Mammoth Steppe.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 112962. doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025..
#mammoth #pleistocene #SpeciesDistributionModeling

It’s #OG #FossilFriday! 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 This unassuming fossil is what anchored me to the paleo path. It's a fragment of mammoth tusk, the outer cementum, discovered on a river gravel bar near New Ulm, MN. It proved for me that Pleistocene mammals once roamed my hometown. Through research, I learned it is one of a dozen individual specimens form the area. For more check out Lost Bones #3 on Medium , link below, or explore other links in my profile.

medium.com/@dbrake40

Don Glaciation (Glaciology 🗻)

The Don Glaciation, also known as the Donian Glaciation and the Donian Stage, was the major glaciation of the East European Plain, 0.8–0.5 million years ago, during the Cromerian Stage of the Middle Pleistocene. It is correlated to Marine Isotope Stage 16, approximately 650,000 years ago, which globally contained one of the largest g...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Glac

en.wikipedia.orgDon Glaciation - Wikipedia