In 1856, quarry workers in a peaceful German valley stumbled across 16 bones. A discovery that sparked a long scientific war and a complete reimagining of humanity's story. Neanderthal 1: The incredible discovery that rewrote history 🏺🧪 www.bbc.com/reel/video/p...

The ‘dresser’ from the Neolithic village of Skara Brae on Orkney. Occupied from around 3100 to 2500 BC, the prehistoric settlement is one of the best preserved in the British Isles. 📸 My own. #SkaraBrae #Neolithic #Orkney

The Beatles' 'Rubber Soul' hit #1 on the US albums chart 60 years ago on January 8, 1966 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/TheBeatlesRS

January 2026... #Archaeology 🏺

With all this carnyx talk today, you can hear Letty Stott play a piece she composed for our Europa Conference in 2021 here. 👇 #Archaeology 🏺 youtu.be/wNVKQw0-cIk?...

“Extraordinary’ Iron Age war trumpet find in Britain may have Boudicca links. Bronze instrument or carnyx dug up in Norfolk in area inhabited by Celtic tribe led by warrior who fought Romans” www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

@profaliceroberts.bsky.social !! I know you said there was a spectacular Iron Age fund, but you could have warned us!!! @theduncanmackay.bsky.social and me are going to be fit for nowt today!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

The new carnyx from Norfolk is the most complete ever found, & I can’t wait for the first reproduction to appear & be played. But it wasn’t alone! Also incredibly rare boar standard & shield bosses were deposited with it! 5/.. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Back down to earth with a bump... "Incredibly rare" & yet we'll flog it anyway. WHY COMMENT FROM AN AUCTIONEER & NOT AN ARCHAEOLOGIST??? The commercialisation of portable artefacts continues... sob... #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The waterlogged, anaerobic environment within prehistoric pile dwellings provided ideal conditions for the preservation of organic materials like wood. This bucket-like vessel made of oak wood and two smaller bowls (maple and ash wood) were found in In Reute Schorrenried. Dating 3900-3500 BC. 🏺

In this blog for @theoryculturesociety.org I parody the hand-crafted woodcut style of popular books on nature, folklore, and the distant past 'decorated with fluttering leaves, distant hills, perhaps a Morris troupe or a charismatic megalith or two'. www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/imagini...

Very common phenomenon amongst collectors of lithic artefacts

Its a miserable grey cold day. So what better to warm up than some too hot to handle Iron Age stuff? #latenetuesday The Lisnacrogher scabbard, c 200 to 50 BC from a complex multi period/function Ballymena site. The art has echoes w/the Torr pony cap, in Scotland. On display in the @ulstermuseum.org

Multigenerational mammoth-bone home that lasted more than 400 years in #Ukraine #archaeology

Indigenous People, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Climate Change: The Iconic Underwater Cultural Heritage of Stone Tidal Weirs Project Group. #oceanspast #OceanAction46159 #maritimeheritage #IndigenousPeoples #oceandecadeheritage oceandecadechfp.org/.../indigeno... 8/8

Stark and otherworldly - sunset at Mitchell’s Fold, the Bronze Age stone circle on Stapeley Hill. I got this shot at the tail end of a blizzard, when the sky took on a golden glow that made a spectacular contrast with the snow-covered landscape. It was every bit as cold as it looks. #Shropshire

Lucky to have found this classic in the local bookstore! 📚 Originally the catalogue to the 1985 Edinburgh exhibition in what is now the National Museum of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 it had a grandiose successor in the 2022 British Museum exhibition ‘The world of Stonehenge’.

Bronze Age Complex at Kealkill • Cork West Cork is one of the best places in Ireland to explore Bronze Age monuments thanks to its rich copper deposits. This evocative example of a Bronze Age ritual landscape is hidden in the Maughanclea Hills at Kealkill. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺

For #FindsFriday and #FlintFriday this beautiful handaxe of Wommersom quartzite (so no flint) we documented @rmoudheden.bsky.social @naturalis.bsky.social within the LegaSea AI project. Found on the beach it comes from Doggerland and is emblematic of long distance lithics transport by Neanderthals.

-Into the trees- m.youtube.com/watch?v=xik-...

Masterful Mystery. Impressive works by the enigmatic Master I.S. one of Rembrandts mysterious and hitherto unidentified contemporaries at the Lakenhal Museum in Leiden. Ageing and imperfection delicately captured. www.lakenhal.nl/en/story/mee...

And the final astonishing artifact of 2025 is this well-preserved covered wagon. 🏺🧪

Maiden Castle in Dorset is one of the largest Iron Age hillforts in Europe. It dates back over 2,000 years and occupies a prominent position atop a natural chalk hill. Here in snow. Happy new year all 🥳 #HillfortsWednesday

On the fourth day of Christmas a group of quietly roosting cormorants in Leiden Cronesteyn park was rudely interrupted by a large and particularly noisy group of jackdaws. Eventually the cormorants kicked them out.

“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement.“ (T.S. Eliot) 🎨 Selcha Uni

‘The human origin story is complex. So why not join us in our latest YouTube livestream as we explore how homo sapiens ended up colonising the planet and reveal our distant relatives’ youtube.com/live/QmCBmWf...

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Whether you're still too full to move after your Christmas dinner or already snacking on leftovers, why not pass the time reading some great #archaeology? Our collections contain tons of #OpenAccess and FREE articles on archaeological themes from around the world 🏺 🔗 antiquity.ac.uk/collections

A question not asked by the interviewer: At 94 have you considered what will happen to your collection when you die. Have you in place a legacy grant to enable a museum to take it and preserve it? Have you recorded information about findspot and landowner & organised transfer of title for the finds

Kilclooney Dolmen • Donegal One of Ireland's finest examples of a portal tomb, Kilclooney Dolmen is situated close to a number of other Neolithic monuments, suggesting this part of Donegal was an important landscape to Ireland's first farmers. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Donegal #WildAtlanticWay

Something lovely for the weekend! Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age 💙 Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago. 📷 National Museum of Denmark #Archaeology

An almost 6,000 years old wooden cup, found in the Late #Neolithic pile dwelling settlement of Hornstaad-Hörnle at the Lake Constance. The waterlogged, anaerobic environment provided ideal conditions for the preservation of organic materials. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social

Remembering Shane MacGowan today on what would have been his 68th birthday (born December 25, 1957) | Explore his musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: album.ink/SMacGowanHBD

Merry Christmas. Margraten U.S. cemetery today. Crisp, cold and impressive. A time to remember also their sacrifices for us, and our moments to celebrate.

Been too long. Time revisit this wonderful site!

#NewgrangeSolstice earlier today 🇮🇪 ☀️ The light slowly creeping through the corridor, illuminating the inner chamber, as the northern hemisphere gradually starts facing the sun again. The ancestral beauty of it all

Barbara Hepworth ~ Winter Solstice, 1971 #WinterSolstice

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Moongazer. 🎨 Judith Yates

now they co-occur winter solstice & new moon the darkest of nights ❄️🌑❄️ #haiku #poem #poetry #imageandverse #writingcommunity #art by John Felsing

As tomorrow I am leading our carol service, here's a gorgeous Carolingian ivory of the nativity in the Vatican (Vat 64477). 📷 my own.

‘It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, though there were no reindeers. But there were cats.’ ~ Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales. #BookWormSat 🖼️ White Cat in a Blue Winter, Mary Stubberfield.

A variety of coloured crystals in this porphyritic rhyolite piece. County Clare, Ireland.

A fine, head clearing, morning on the shore by Doolin Harbour. County Clare, Ireland.

Slightly late for #FindsFriday but this fragment of a bear (Ursus arctos) longbone was brought in last week on our @rmoudheden.bsky.social @naturalis.bsky.social Doggerland day. Found on Katwijk beach it shows cutmarks most likely by a flint tool.(C14 within our Resurfacing Doggerland project)🐻

The Winter Solstice sunrise at Newgrange is one of Ireland’s most powerful connections to the past✨ This RTÉ Brainstorm article by Terry Clavin of the @dib.ie (based at @ria.ie) explores how archaeologist Michael J. O’Kelly rediscovered the alignment in the 1960s. www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

🏺 Always gotta repost Buddo.

#FolkyFriday "And so ends this branch of the Mabinogi." It's a subtle but powerful closing line, a phrase that ties each individual story into the larger, interconnected tapestry of the Four Branches. It`s a line that, much like Christmas, gives both closure and anticipation for what's to come!

Ahead of Christmas, it feels fitting to share this Roman fibula - a decorative pin once used to fasten garments - shaped like a stag. In my Christmas-influenced imagination, it looks rather reindeerish! 🎄 Is it Dasher, Dancer, or maybe Rudolph? 🎅 From the Roman Villa at Borg, 2nd c. AD 📷Villa Borg