NHM Anthropology

Bodies of the Thames - radiocarbon dating of human remains shows high proportion from Bronze Age and Iron Age, raising questions about funerary practices - research from Nichola Arthur Heather Bonney NHM and Jane Sidell @HistoricEngland doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2…

The Anthropology team visited the excavation site at Barnham, Suffolk last week. An incredibly rich Lower Palaeolithic site with Clactonian archaeology, flora, and fauna, telling us about the lives of Middle Pleistocene Britons.

Incredibly busy night on Wednesday for 'Valentine's at the Museum'. Our Anthropology Scientists [Emma Bird, Lucile Créte, and Karen Swan] met hundreds of couples and chatted all things love, pair-bonding, and mating across the world of primates.

Join our Anthropology Scientists at the after-hours event 'Valentine's at the Museum'. Explore 'The Origins of Human Love: Pair-bonding in Primate and Human Groups' and 'Tinder: Human-Neanderthal Interbreeding in the Age of Fire' at our Science Stations nhm.ac.uk/events/valenti…

Chris Stringer @ChrisStringer65 became the 120th recipient of the the Huxley Medal on Nov 7 @NHM_London. The highest award bestowed by the Royal Anthropological Institute @RoyalAnthro, the medal is given to distinguished researchers in the field of anthropology.

Mostly out of Africa conference, happening right now at the @NHM_London in honour of @ChrisStringer65 who's work pioneered the 'Out of Africa' theory.

Thank you ⁦@RoyalAnthro⁩ ⁦@NHM_Anthro⁩ and a host of great participants for a wonderful conference over the last 2 days that showed how exciting our field is at the present time! Thank you for the medal too!

Congratulations to our colleague Chris Stringer, who received a CBE medal from the Prince of Wales on October 4th. Chris has been at the Museum since 1973, and is well-known for research on the Recent African Origin hypothesis to explain the origin of our species, Homo sapiens.

Thanks to Science Media Centre UK @SMC_London for hosting us today; helping us better understand how to communicate our research to the News Media and general public. Watch this space for Human Evolution research updates! #smcintro

Day 2 of #BABAO2023. Karen Swan, Rachel Ives and Louise Humphrey have a poster on ‘Exploring non-linear developmental trajectories of the femur during locomotor development’. Karen and Rachel are at the meeting so so stop for a chat!

Many of the team are at #BABAO2023 this weekend. Presenting this afternoon was @DrHeatherBonney on ‘Demystifying repatriation; the complexities of returning human remains from a National Museum collection’.

A productive second day on site at Taforalt, Morocco, for CHER’s Louise Humprey and @JPlummerSires!

Join palaeoanthropologist @emmabirdpalaeo this Thursday for the museum's Nature Live series, a free, family-friendly event. Emma will chat about the extraordinary and sometimes paradoxical evolution of the human hand. Aug 24, 15:30-16:00 in the Attenborough Studio.

@emmabirdpalaeo from our Centre for Human Evolution Research has published new research on functional adaptation in the wrist of great apes, recent/fossil humans, Neanderthals, A. sediba, H. naledi & H. floresiensis. Open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Our Human Story ⁦@NHM_London⁩ ⁦@NHM_Anthro⁩ Fully updated edition out now, with added #DragonMan

Very proud of our recent PhD graduates Dr Nichola Arthur @nic_arth and Dr Hester Hanegraef @HesterHanegraef at a celebration of NHM graduates tonight.

Ancient DNA reveals how farming spread into northwest Africa by Simões and colleagues - with News and Views by NHM CHER’S Louise Humphrey with Abdeljalil Bouzouggar nature.com/articles/s4158… nature.com/articles/d4158…

Science Journalist Robin McKie attended our recent Patron's Event to hear about some of our latest research. His new article highlights how CHER is branching into Proteomics - the study of ancient proteins - with the Francis Crick Institute: bit.ly/412woF8

and Jeannette Plummer Sires, an archaeologist, osteologist and museum curator. (2/4)

Bones can tell us so many personal stories: from birth to funerary rituals. CHER researchers Louise Humphrey and Silvia Bello are experts in uncovering these stories. Here they share personal stories of their research in Britain and Morocco at our recent Patron’s event.