Dr Ben Schoville

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Dr Ben Schoville

Dr Ben Schoville

@bschovil

Archaeologist, Explorer @NatGeo, studies stones and bones and a bit about ants, UQ via UCT via ASU, current fieldwork in the southern Kalahari

Brisbane, Queensland Katılım Nisan 2014
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HERI@heri_uct·
HERI’s @DrPeeChiwara & @bschovil are organising a session at ASAPA 2026 on Pleistocene adaptations in the Kalahari and surrounding interior regions. Researchers working in these regions are invited to submit abstracts and join the discussion. asapa2026.co.za
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Brisbane Lions@brisbanelions·
THANK YOU FOR BELIEVING IN US❤️
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North of Kuruman@NorthOfKuruman·
We are busy plotting artefacts at Sonstraal, a new MSA/Acheulean archaeological site on the @tswalu kalahari reserve! Here Kabelo is mapping in a quartzite stone artefact from layers >500,000 years old!
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North of Kuruman@NorthOfKuruman·
Our 2024 excavations on @Tswalu have just begun, watch this space!
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Science Magazine@ScienceMagazine·
Fifty years ago, paleoanthropologists unearthed the 3.2-million-year-old skeleton known as Lucy and transformed our views of humanity’s origins. Today, Lucy faces competition for the role of our direct ancestor but remains the best candidate. Learn more: scim.ag/6tI
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@DrJayneWilkins and I wrote a paper looking at some of the contradictions and inconsistencies in how researchers link environment and innovation in human evolution. Check it out open-access in the new journal Quaternary Science Advances! doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.…
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My turn! Apparently, I've published quite a bit on "South" 😬
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Paige Madison@FossilHistory·
#OnThisDay in 1925, @nature published 'The Man-Ape of South Africa.' Author Raymond Dart argued the skull was that of an extinct ape "intermediate between living anthropoids and man." He named it Australopithecus africanus. bit.ly/2GO7YIw
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Everick@EverickHF·
#EFFieldSchool 2024! The field school will run for 4 weeks, the first 3 weeks will be conducted in the field, at our archaeological site in Ipswich, southeast Queensland, and the final week will be held in a lab space for artefact analysis...
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