Abi Stone @abistone.bsky.social

2022 fieldtrip members at #Narabeb as part of #SANDS research that is the basis of our piece in @TC_Africa

theconversation.com/african-archae…

For more of the science see #OpenAccess paper doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.…

What was Narabeb like ~230,000 years ago?
Our luminescence dating with @LivLumLab shines light on this archaeological blind spot theconversation.com/african-archae… via @TC_Africa

@_TCglobal @GeographyUOM @GobabebRSH @georgemleader @rachelbynoe @QuaternaryRA_UK @_algunn @TheLeakeyFndtn

Looking forward to Windy Day conference tomorrow in Liverpool @livunigeog with @LivLumLab

🚨New Paper Alert 🚨

doi.org/10.1016/j.quag…

Signals from #portableluminescencereaders let us probe sediment #provenance and geomorphic processes as well as giving us an idea of burial age, for dunes and lake shorelines across southern Africa

Unit Evaluation time of year.
A time to reflect…
that 10% response rates & some students not actually knowing who you are (apparently I didn’t teach my lectures… / was ill) mean that these surveys mean nearly nothing.

Keep doing an excellent job everyone!

If you like a bit of Stone Age lithic archaeology sitting on the surface of your desert, go & read of our current paper in QSA

doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.…

We present fieldwork coupled with revisiting a sample from 2007 PhD fieldwork for luminescence dating… [1/n]

Also check out the excellent work of Shashank @GeographyUOM during his MSc & beyond, with @aayushgeo et al. looking at #dune accumulation in the far Wn Indian part of the #Thar desert PicoScreen3.7 #dunes #luminescence #POSL #EGU24

rb.gy/des1x1

Fans of Namib #sand & #archaeology found between dunes... head to PICOspot3 #EGU24 Mon15th (9.07am for 2 min intro & then chatting at screen3.13 about what we're finding so far, until coffee 10.15, #NamibSandSea #teamSANDS #lithics #luminescence rb.gy/pd8z74

You can read Shashank’s excellent paper on the first phase of this research here doi.org/10.1016/j.quag…

I'll talk on behalf of Shashank & collaborators @#QRA24: Can low-fi POSL-based age estimates help us increase spatial coverage & improve spatial & vertical sampling resolution as we reconstruct dune dynamics?
"Changing Resolutions in Quaternary Science" sites.google.com/view/qra2024

Happy New Year all!

Merry Christmas

On the way to @LivLumLab to talk ‘A tale of two pans’ work with a dream team
I’ll explore environmental context & age of sediments at #Narabeb & #NamibIV where ESA & MSA lithics are analysed by @georgemleader Ted Marks @rachelbynoe Kaarina Efraim et al.
(picture below is Narabeb)

I'm looking forward to heading to Cambridge this week, to talk on Weds 29th Nov (5.30 pm) about some our current thoughts on a fantastic (pantastic for @rachelbynoe) archaeological site in the northern Namib Sand Sea...

I have had a thoroughly fascinating day digging into this tome by the remarkable trowel blazer Gudrun Corvinus, who worked in southern Namibia studying Stone Age archaeology & more…

Here’s a short entry about Gudrun as a starting point by @trowelblazers trowelblazers.com/2014/05/08/gud…

If you are interesting in the Yorkshire Palaeo Group research network, have a look here:
sites.google.com/view/yorkspala…

@GeographyUOM @SoGLeeds @QuaternaryRA_UK

Delighted to have joined the ‘rogues gallery’ (Maggs-Kölling, 2023) as a Gobabeb Research Associate

gobabeb.org/currently-at-g…

@GobabebRSH @GeographyUOM @uomhums @UoM_MERI

A lovely catch up with @LivLumLab colleagues this morning, sharing news from Manchester @GeographyUOM luminescence...

Next instalment of cool tufa from Wadi Dabsa…
Just out in QSR
Humid phases on the southwestern Arabian Peninsula are consistent with the last two interglacials sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

#tufa #cooltufa #UThdating #WadiDabsa
@GeographyUOM @CQRRHUL @rhinglis @isotopesUK @DianaSahy