Palaeoanthropology & Geochronology Professor at La Trobe University Archaeology. Director of the Drimolen Palaeoanthropology Field School, Amanzi Springs & The Australian Archaeomagnetism Laboratory he/himhttps://bsky.app/profile/ozarchaeomaglab.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/ozarchaeomaglab.bsky.social/post/3moeyhcouck2sA new ~2 Ma hominin cranium just discovered at the Drimolen hominin site in South Africa as part of a newly funded @arc-gov-au.bsky.social project to @ltuarchaeology.bsky.social @latrobe.edu.au and University of Johannesburg. The first year of joint Drimolen-Kromdraai excavations.16 Jun 2026 04:44 +0000at://did:plc:o7cy436ven33664xmzdpitrj/app.bsky.feed.post/3moeyhcouck2shttps://bsky.app/profile/ozarchaeomaglab.bsky.social/post/3mhii4xyjok26Latests open access paper from Amanzi Springs, with the oldest MSA on the southern African coast at ~230 ka & potential evidence for regional variability in the transition from the Acheulian along the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain compared to the Highvelt interior of S. Africa https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-40075-820 Mar 2026 12:07 +0000at://did:plc:o7cy436ven33664xmzdpitrj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhii4xyjok26https://bsky.app/profile/ozarchaeomaglab.bsky.social/post/3mhii4xyjok26Latests open access paper from Amanzi Springs, with the oldest MSA on the southern African coast at ~230 ka & potential evidence for regional variability in the transition from the Acheulian along the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain compared to the Highvelt interior of S. Africa https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-40075-820 Mar 2026 12:07 +0000at://did:plc:o7cy436ven33664xmzdpitrj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhii4xyjok26https://bsky.app/profile/ozarchaeomaglab.bsky.social/post/3mdjkuhpvas26Latests paper from the ARC funded #Drimolen team in our aim to fully publish the hominin fossil material excavated from Drimolen in South Africa since 1994 ( @latrobeuni.bsky.social ). Scans of the postcranial material are available online: https://human-fossil-record.org/index.php?%2Fcategory%2F55146&fbclid=IwY2xjawPnjVNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFWdTRId0VqeUFFaFQ1QUdtc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHklyhx4Zc_MI_BauRP8F_ttriNW-390pOrB6m5CpKacVqli5mMumeDJF4z3v_aem_ZpPxVksptOUwrsAq2P4arQ [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jan 2026 00:47 +0000at://did:plc:o7cy436ven33664xmzdpitrj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdjkuhpvas26https://bsky.app/profile/ozarchaeomaglab.bsky.social/post/3m6tq37gl322iNew open access paper in AJBA led by my former PhD student Jesse Martin now @cam-archaeology.bsky.social https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ajpa.70177 "The StW 573 Little Foot Fossil Should Not Be Attributed to Australopithecus prometheus"30 Nov 2025 10:41 +0000at://did:plc:o7cy436ven33664xmzdpitrj/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6tq37gl322ihttps://bsky.app/profile/ozarchaeomaglab.bsky.social/post/3m6ii4rlvss2iWonderful to be part of this succesful ARC LIEF for building further luminesence dating infrastructure for archaeology at the University of Adelaide. Sorry to those that missed out. [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Nov 2025 23:20 +0000at://did:plc:o7cy436ven33664xmzdpitrj/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6ii4rlvss2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/ozarchaeomaglab.bsky.social/post/3luxxznqmts2pLong form news article in @science.org covering our latest collaborations between the Drimolen and Kromdraai teams as part of a new 4 year @Australian Research Council Discovery Grant [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Jul 2025 21:02 +0000at://did:plc:o7cy436ven33664xmzdpitrj/app.bsky.feed.post/3luxxznqmts2p