Publication Update!

Dearest Science Supporters, 

It has been a long time since we launched the experiment.com crowdfunding campaign to support research in the Falkland Islands and I just wanted to reach out to share that I just had a paper come out in Science Advances highlighting the work that your funds supported! You can find a link to the paper and a National Geographic story about the research below.

Evidence of prehistoric human activity in the Falkland Islands (science.org) 

New clues may explain the mysterious origins of the Falklands wolf (nationalgeographic.com) Ultimately this work spanned three field seasons and combined paleoecology and archaeology to show that there was likely a human presence in the Falklands several centuries prior to European arrival. Our findings highlight the likelihood that the warrah (Falkland Islands Fox) was brought to the islands by Indigenous South Americans at some point in the past. 

I am very proud of this work and incredibly grateful to all of you for your support of this project when it was in its infancy. Without you, we may never have gotten to this point with the research, so thank you!

Please reach out if you have any questions about the research (which is ongoing!). 

Thank you so much, 

Kit