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		<title>400,000-year-old Neanderthal Fire-Making Technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rob Davis explains how excavations by the British Museum at Barnham, Suffolk, have uncovered evidence for arguably the most important innovation in human history, the ability to make fire.  Looking back through history and prehistory, it is clear how fundamental fire has been to the development of human civilisation. Great changes in human existence have [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Quest for Fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nick Ashton explains how four years of forensic investigations at Barnham in Suffolk demonstrate the world’s oldest evidence of making fire at 400,000 years ago. Discovery The first inkling that I had of something unusual was a small patch of reddened clay, almost terracotta in colour. It was a sunny afternoon in June 2021, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Big Puzzle: the refitting of a burnt handaxe from Barnham</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[British Museum volunteers Xin Ding and Steve Barlin, and PAB member Dr Claire Lucas relate how they identified the first fire-cracked handaxe from Barnham while refitting heat shattered stones. When we think about archaeological discoveries, we first think of the amazing objects and structures that immediately stand out as they are being unearthed by the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Summer 2024 excavation at Devereux’s Pit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2024 03:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[PAB researcher and excavation director Dr Rob Davis reflects on the 2024 excavation The 2024 field season at Devereux’s Pit marked the beginning of a new phase of research at this 400,000-year-old Lower Palaeolithic site. Our previous excavations had focused on an area (Area I) near the margins of an ancient waterbody, where humans had [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Reflections on the Barnham 2023 Field Season</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2023 16:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Another season of fieldwork is completed at East Farm, Barnham Earlier this summer PAB researchers returned to Barnham for a three-week season of fieldwork. The usual blend of ‘old hands’ and those excavating at Barnham for the first time, including students from Cambridge, Liverpool and Southampton universities, quickly settled into the routine of the excavation, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>2022 Excavations Begin at Barnham</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2022 08:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The PAB project’s 2022 field season continues with a three-week excavation at the Lower Palaeolithic site at East Farm, Barnham which started this week under the blazing Suffolk sunshine.  After resuming field work in 2021, the main aim for this year is to further explore key areas within the site. As the research has evolved [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>2022 Field Season Begins at Beeches Pit, Suffolk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2022 06:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The focus of PAB field research activities in 2022 is firmly located in the Breckland of East Anglia, with excavations scheduled to take place at three Palaeolithic sites during the year. First up is Beeches Pit, West Stow. Like many Breckland sites this was once a clay pit, dug in the late 19th and early [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Barnham Excavation Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2021 07:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As we approach the end of the 2021 season, it is good to be able to report that the last three weeks have proved to be very productive. The three main objectives for this year were to recover the site after a fallow 2020, to clear the substantial backlog of sieving from 2019 and to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Reflections from a ‘newbie’ at Barnham</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2021 14:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[University of Reading PhD student Kathryn Price reflects on her experience of digging at Barnham for the first time. I have had the great fortune of surveying and excavating Palaeolithic archaeology in far flung places including South Africa, India, Oman and Georgia but never in Britain! To be excavating as my first British Palaeolithic site, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Barnham 2021 Gets Underway</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2021 19:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After a year without fieldwork, the PAB team is excited to be back out in the field at Barnham. Excavations since 2013 at this important Lower Palaeolithic site have revealed a lot of new information and transformed our understanding of the site and its wider context and significance. The stratigraphy and the relationship of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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