@Pyropithecus profile picture
🔥Andrew Sorensen🔥 @Pyropithecus

Archaeology postdoc @LeidenArchaeo. Burning desire to know more about #fire use/making by #Palaeolithic peoples. #Pyroarchaeology Also grants guy @ESSB_Erasmus

Joined December 2017
  • Tweets 942
  • Following 1,449
  • Followers 1,485
50 Photos and videos
Pinned Tweet
🔥Andrew Sorensen🔥@Pyropithecus
17 May 2021
**SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION ALERT** My @UniversiteitNL talk about #Neanderthal #fire-making is now online for your viewing enjoyment! Check it out here: youtube.com/watch?v=O61Yc7yQ… #ShamelessSelfpromoMonday #archaeology #evolution @LeidenArchaeo @UniLeiden @pyroarchaeology

4
10
47
🔥Andrew Sorensen🔥 retweeted
Chris Stringer
@ChrisStringer65
30 Dec 2025
Oldest evidence of fire-lighting comes from early humans in Britain youtu.be/BUokWM_nceo?si=FUzT…

Oldest evidence of fire-lighting comes from early humans in Britain

Around 400,000 years ago, a band of Neanderthals, or their ancestor...

youtube.com
2
8
30
4,313
The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered - BBC News share.google/fVvQ5RF5Kctb8T8…

The moment the earliest known human-made fire was uncovered - BBC News

Archaeologists in the UK have discovered the world's oldest evidence of humans lighting fires

bbc.co.uk
73
This could be the oldest evidence of fire-making | National Geographic share.google/REz05TZFYcA55Iy…
142
Neandertals mastered fire-making tools 400,000 years ago sciencenews.org/article/nean…

Neandertals mastered fire-making tools 400,000 years ago

Archaeologists found flint, iron pyrite to strike it and sediments where a fire was probably built several times at an ancient site in England.

sciencenews.org
1
1
3
401
🚨New paper alert!🚨 Earliest known instance of pyrite ca. 400 kya at Barnham (UK), in layers with strong evidence of fire use, in an area with no naturally occurring pyrite nodules, together strongly suggest these pre-Neandertal peoples were making fire! nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

Earliest evidence of making fire

Nature - Baked sediment, heat-shattered artefacts and introduced pyrite in a 400,000-year-old Palaeolithic occupation site in Suffolk, UK provide evidence of intentional fire-making, marking a...

nature.com
2
7
13
1,541
Please sign the #petition against giant budget cuts to #HigherEducation in The #Netherlands! #academia #research campagnes.degoedezaak.org/ca…
152
🔥🚨#NewPaperAlert!🚨🔥 After being buried on the editor's desk for over a year, my manuscript on experimentally testing the utility of manganese dioxide powder as a #fire-starting aid has seen the light of day! 😅 #Neanderthals #archeology link.springer.com/article/10…

Lucky strike: testing the utility of manganese dioxide powder in Neandertal percussive fire making

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences - Late Middle Palaeolithic Neandertals in France are known to have engaged in the collection and grinding of black minerals rich in manganese dioxide...

link.springer.com
6
23
87
11,737
This is a fun read 😁 Way to not only only the line, but gain back some ground for #archaeology, @FlintDibble! 💪
This tweet is unavailable
1
1
8
4,270
D'oh!😖 *hold the line 😒
158
Really looking forward to watching this! All 4.5 hours of it 😳
Flint Dibble 🍖🏺
@FlintDibble
16 Apr 2024
Hi all, I appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience yesterday for an in-depth chat with Graham Hancock (link in next tweet) You can read my essay about my motivations for doing this in @SAPIENS_org magazine sapiens.org/archaeology/grah…
1
1
386
🔥#ShamelessSelfPromo alert🔥 @WatchNebula TV to see me featured in the "#Fire" episode of the show "Real #Science - #Archaeology Quest", hosted by @boissolm and @stephaniesamma. It's behind a paywall, but I think you can still watch one video for free: nebula.tv/videos/realscience…

Real Science — Archeology Quest — Fire

Fire-production is one of the most crucial aspects of human evolution—and in this case, it will be essential to unlock the calories collected by the explorers in previous tasks.

nebula.tv
1
3
506
Filmed remotely at @LeidenArchaeo. Researchers featured in other episodes include Metin Eren and Michelle Bebber @AnthroKentState, and Terrence Delaney @terryinvt @uvmvermont.
204
Why am I #writing when I could be #foraging? 🤔😒 #ADHD #AcademicTwitter #stuckinside @paleomonrepos
Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias@padillaccc
21 Feb 2024
The actual paper from the foraging study comparing individuals showing symptoms of ADHD against those not showing them is very neat! royalsocietypublishing.org/d… (also nice framing within optimal foraging theory) ☺️
1
1
10
908
🔥Andrew Sorensen🔥 retweeted
MONREPOS – Schicht für Schicht zum Ich@paleomonrepos
20 Feb 2024
Our DiPA (Dialogues in Pleistocene Archaeology) continues on Thursday, 22nd of February at 10:30 AM. Dr. Andrew Sorensen will talk about #fire making in the #Aurignacian. Zoom registration possible. #paleomonrepos #leiza #DiPA #paleolithic #palaeolithic #microwear #Archaeology
2
9
1,135
🔥Andrew Sorensen🔥 retweeted
MONREPOS – Schicht für Schicht zum Ich@paleomonrepos
5 Dec 2023
🔥New paper in PNAS about Widespread evidence for elephant exploitation by Last Interglacial Neanderthals on the North European plain is out, now!🔥 👇 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23… #paleomonrepos #leiza #elephants #paleolithic #neanderthals #hunting #cuttingsmarks #elephanthunting

Widespread evidence for elephant exploitation by Last Interglacial Neanderthals on the North...

Neanderthals hunted and butchered straight-tusked elephants, the largest terrestrial mammals of the Pleistocene, in a lake landscape on the North E...

pnas.org
16
48
7,062
🔥Andrew Sorensen🔥 retweeted
Marta @MartaMLahr@MartMLahr
24 Oct 2023
New Special Issue of PaleoAnthropology 😍‼️ 7 great pps on Niche Construction, Plasticity, and Inclusive Inheritance paleoanthropology.org/ojs/in… obituaries - Bill Kimbel & Sally McBrearty, a book review AND the abstracts of the 13th ESHE meeting! What a treat 🥳
32
96
11,386
I am very sad to be missing #ESHE2023 due to a serious illness in the family😟 I was very much looking forward to sharing knowledge (and drinks 🍻) with friends and colleagues in lovely #Aarhus. But I'll be keeping tabs on things here and via the livestream. Have fun, everyone!
1
7
536
Also, congrats to @TrineKellberg and the rest of the local organizing committee at @AU_Archaeology for making the online element of #ESHE2023 run smoothly (and the rest of the conference, as well, I'm sure)!
6
232
Hugely interesting @informeren series “Children of the Sun” (in🇩🇰, translate it!) by Johanne Pontoppidan Tuxen & @mikkelvuorela about the relationship between #humans and #energy. I contributed to this article discussing our early forays into #fire use 🔥 tinyurl.com/k3wmzhtc
1
1
474
Tic-tac-toe appears to have been popular among ancient humans! #hashtag While quite interesting, I'm a bit disappointed a paper on the purported evidence of #HomoNaledi using #fire in the cave was not among these preprints 🤷‍♂️ Hopefully something on this soon...
John Hawks
@johnhawks
5 Jun 2023
Our team has released three preprints on @biorxivpreprint today. One of these describes engraved panels on the rock walls of the Dinaledi subsystem of the Rising Star cave system, where we have abundant fossil remains of Homo naledi. doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.01.5…
Engraved panel from the Dinaledi subsystem of the Rising Star cave system. Photo from Berger et al. 2023 https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.01.543133

ALT Engraved panel from the Dinaledi subsystem of the Rising Star cave system. Photo from Berger et al. 2023 https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.01.543133
1
242
Load more