Prehistory Decoded

New paper featured in international news My new paper, with Alistair Coombs, on Palaeolithic cave art, including Chauvet, the Lascaux Shaft Scene and the Lion-man of Hohlenstein-Stadel cave, featured on the science pages of international newspapers and websites today, such The Times, Telegraph, Daily Mail, Express and India Today. Read all about it!

Paper accepted My new paper, with Alistair Coombs, "Decoding European Palaeolithic art: Extremely ancient knowledge of precession of the equinoxes" has been accepted and published online, see https://www.athensjournals.gr/ajhis/forthcoming . In this work, we show that it is likely that; A Palaeolithic zodiac and precession of the equinoxes were already known during the last ice age. The Lascaux Shaft Scene likely memorialises another impact with the Taurid meteor stream This tradition lasted into the Neolithic period, e.g. at Gobekli Tepe and Catalhoyuk.