FossilFriday

The Top 10 hominin #FossilFriday tweets of 2022
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The Top 10 hominin #FossilFriday tweets of 2022

It is time for year-end lists. Below is a little tradition on this blog: the 10 best hominin #FossilFriday tweets published in 2022, from number 10 to 1.

What is a ‘FossilFriday’? Every Friday, mainly on Twitter, people post pics of interesting fossils using the hashtag #FossilFriday about famous specimens, museum collections, scientific papers, blog posts, odd fossils, etc. I love to join & tweet about hominin fossils. One more time -9 years doing this- the top 10 of 2022:

10. Guess who’s coming to dinner… By Lee Berger @LeeRberger & Keneiloe Molopyane @Keneiloe

A pretty neat pic of hominin material in situ during fieldwork at Rising Star cave system

9. One of the enigmatic fossils of the ‘Muddle in the Middle’. By DEATHREVOL @DEATHREVOL1

Aroeira 3 (Torres Novas, central Portugal) is one of the earliest hominins to be directly associated with Acheulean tools in a well-defined and dated sequence around 400 ka. Sigue leyendo →

The Top 10 hominin #FossilFriday tweets of 2020
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The Top 10 hominin #FossilFriday tweets of 2020

A special list to celebrate the New Year… A little tradition on this blog is to collect my favorite hominin #FossilFriday tweets of the year, from number 10 to 1. This is the sixth list!

What is a ‘FossilFriday’? Every Friday, people post pics of their favorite fossils using the hashtag #FossilFriday, mainly on Twitter. This can be about famous specimens, odd fossils, museum collections, rare photos, scientific papers or blog posts. I love to join & tweet about hominin fossils. One more time, let’s start!

10. Out of the box: ER 1805, Homo habilis. By Dr Andy I. R. Herries @Ozarchaeomaglab

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The Top 10 hominin #FossilFriday tweets of 2019

Another list to celebrate the end of 2019! The little tradition on this blog is to collect my favorite hominin #FossilFriday tweets of the year, from number 10 to 1. This is the fifth year of this list!

What is a ‘FossilFriday’? Every Friday, people post pics of their favorite fossils using the hashtag #FossilFriday, mainly on Twitter. This can be about famous specimens, odd fossils, museum collections, rare photos, scientific papers or blog posts. I love to join it & tweet about hominin fossils. One more time, let’s start!

10. Feeding the debates about the dawn of ‘modern’ speech. By Tom O’Mahoney:

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The Top 10 hominin #FossilFriday tweets of 2018

Another year-end list! This one is becoming an old tradition on this blog… My favorite hominin #FossilFriday tweets of 2018, from number 10 to 1.

What’s a ‘FossilFriday’? Every Friday, people post pics of their favorite fossils using the hashtag #FossilFriday, mainly on Twitter. This can be about famous specimens, odd fossils, museum collections, rare photos, scientific papers or blog posts. I love to join it & tweet about hominin fossils. Now, let’s go!

10. Unusual picture of a very iconic fossil, ER 1813 Homo habilis:

9. New studies on old fossils. Did Cro-Magnon 1 have neurofibromatosis type 1? 

8. This gorgeous hand of Australopithecus sediba: 

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