This is an important find. Please help if you can. #Archaeology 🏺

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*CHANGE OF DATE* In view of a date clash with the Unravelling the Palaeolithic Conference at UCL we have changed the date of this year's Europa conference to Saturday 6th June 🧵

🎯 The Prehistoric Society is celebrating 90 years of fostering research! Support their Centennial Fund. Be part of the journey forward to its 100th anniversary in 2035 💰 Donate: www.prehistoricsociety.org/donations #PrehistoricSociety #Archaeology #Fundraising @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social

Nice bit of weekend reading! FOUR (3 are open access) papers have been released in PPS this week! Including - hillforts, axeheads, the Bronze Age fens and human remains from Wood Bone Cave in Cumbria. #Archaeology #Prehistory www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This Friday (16/01/26) Miles Russell will be giving a talk entitled "The Durotriges Project: Life and death in Late Iron Age and Early Roman Dorset". The talk is sponsored by @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social. 7.45pm, United Reformed Church hall, Welwyn Garden City. All welcome (visitors £3).

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?...

William Henry Goss, founder of many archaeologists’ favourite ceramics company, died #OTD in 1906. Here’s a Goss model of an Iron Age pot from Glastonbury lake village, with the family crest and motto.

We at the Prehistoric Society want to wish all our members and followers all the best for the festive season and we look forward to a fabulously prehistoric 2026! 🎄 (... and if you like the bauble, you can buy one here 🤣: www.english-heritageshop.org.uk/stonehenge-f...)

@archaeol-winscutt.bsky.social @amandachadburn.bsky.social @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social @martynjb.bsky.social @artefactual.bsky.social @suegreaney.bsky.social @richardosgood.bsky.social This PM's sunset from Heel Stone - the furry looking silhouette on the left🙂

'Presenting these three excavations is a major advance in our understanding of Neolithic megalithic monuments in Cornwall, and represents a very significant contribution.’ A fantastic achievement, by the late and much missed Andy Jones, and James Gossip: www.barpublishing.com/book/an-inve...

Cambridge’s #Archaeology journals are publishing an increasing amount of #openaccess (OA) #research. Read the latest articles here: ▶️ https://cup.org/3We1oBR @antiquity.ac.uk @saa-aap.bsky.social @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social#Archaeology

This is happening at TAG York today, come along! As editor, I'm representing @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social journal PPS.

BBC coverage of breaking news announcing the earliest evidence for humanly made fire. From Barnham, UK. Quite probably early Neanderthal people with a late Acheulean culture 🦣🏺🔥 www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Dear all, Please find below a statement regarding the latest issue of PAST. I can assure everyone that the print issue is currently being mailed, and the online issue will be back soon. No other articles in the issue are affected. Thank you. 😊

Cambridge’s #Archaeology journals are publishing an increasing amount of #openaccess (OA) #research. Read the latest articles here: ▶️ https://cup.org/3We1oBR @antiquity.ac.uk @saa-aap.bsky.social @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social#Archaeology

Check out our report on the El Pirulejo site, an example of the Solutrean-Magdalenian transition in the south of the Iberian Peninsula :)🏺 #prehistory #archaeology

My review of the Treasure exhibition at Liverpool Museum is now in Past (Prehistoric Society). Sad to think that a number of the artefacts were effectively saved from the recent devastating theft of Bronze Age gold from Amgueddfa Cymru by being on loan. www.prehistoricsociety.org/publications...

@englishheritage.bsky.social @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social @martynjb.bsky.social @suegreaney.bsky.social @richardosgood.bsky.social @artefactual.bsky.social Back from a fascinating tour of the Greenwell pit at Grimes Graves, led by Jennifer Wexler and the local EH team 👍👍👍

Cambridge’s #Archaeology journals are publishing an increasing amount of #openaccess (OA) #research. Read the latest articles here: ▶️ https://cup.org/3We1oBR @antiquity.ac.uk @saa-aap.bsky.social @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social#Archaeology

Two new article out today in PPS FirstView. Both #OpenAccess and free to read. Long Barrows or Long Enclosures? A Survey of Evidence From Eastern England. & Chronology of the Middle Neolithic Period in Normandy. Have a great weekend! :) #Archaeology 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Kicking off the *Maiden Castle 40 years on* dayschool, hosted by the Dorchester Association and the @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social is the legendary archaeologist Niall Sharples Can it really be 4 decades since the last dig at this iconic hillfort? 😲

Great day listening to the papers and what a wonderful display @nancesw.bsky.social - congrats to the organisers!! #maidencastle #dorsetarchaeology #prehistoricarchaeology @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social

THREAD: Delighted that Peterborough Museum has received £250k, to further explore the amazing Bronze Age assemblage from Must Farm. One of my favourite projects of the past few years was creating replicas of the pots, to better understand the technology behind them 🏺 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

REMINDER. Calling all hillfort folk and ex diggers from Maiden Castle excavation 1985 and 1986. There will be a small display and film from the excavations. Bring any stories, photos etc for archive gathering.

Cambridge’s #Archaeology journals are publishing an increasing amount of #openaccess (OA) #research. Read the latest articles here: ▶️ https://cup.org/3We1oBR @antiquity.ac.uk @saa-aap.bsky.social @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social#Archaeology

As is traditional, it wouldn't be the last weekend in October without our paying homage to the stunning work of the English Heritage and National Trust teams in keeping our rocks clocking! 1/3 #Archaeology 🏺

I enjoyed looking at this when I saw the exhibition last year in York. It's a beautiful piece of interactive art. #Mesolithic #Archaeology #RedDeer

To ease you into the weekend, here's a lovely film by Guy Schofield, one of two winners of this year's President’s Award. The film is about an interactive mural commissioned by York Museums Trust for the exhibition Star Carr: Life After The Ice. Enjoy! 😊 #Archaeology 🏺 youtu.be/xv_0yjWpK0s?...

Yesterday, we held 24th Sara Champion lecture, by Dr Barbara Oosterwijk on 'Traces of Touch: From Palaeolithic Embodied Markings to Amazonian Decorated Hands'. This was a fabulous lecture & you can watch (& award presentations) here: #Archaeology 🏺 www.youtube.com/live/tq-Aj1Y...

Please can we take this opportunity to remind everyone of Museum Security and keeping our eyes and ears open for anything suspicious. Please do report anything out of place at the time to Police or authorities. 1/2 👇👇 #HeritageCrime

Fabulous evening in London honouring our awardees: Undergraduate Dissertation Prize: Archie Robson was winner, Evan Grandidge & June Little, runners up. The Peter Clark Award went to Jacqueline McKinley & President’s Awards went to Tom Björklund & Guy Schofield. Congratulations to everyone! 👏👏👏

TOMORROW! In person in London or watch along LIVE on our YouTube channel. #Archaeology 🏺 youtube.com/@theprehisto...

Next week 👇

We've received some wonderful photos of the Society in the 40s-60s, kindly donated to the Society's archive by David Powell, son of TGE Powell (who was President in the early 70s). We hope to publish some in PAST soon... #Archaeology 🏺

Some very sad news from Cornwall. Our thoughts go to Andy’s family and friends.

24th Sara Champion Memorial lecture 21st October, 5pm online & in-person. Dr Barbara Oosterwijk: 'Traces of Touch: From Palaeolithic Embodied Markings to Amazonian Decorated Hands'. Lecture preceded by awards & drinks reception follows: www.prehistoricsociety.org/events/2025-... #Archaeology 🏺

I wrote a review of Deborah Hallam's Neolithic Life and Death in the Yorkshire Dale's for the @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social. www.prehistoricsociety.org/publications...

The work on the stunning Rosemarkie Bronze Age hoard, discovered in Scotland, has been published - #Archaeology 🏺 www.guard-archaeology.co.uk/GALNews/?p=792

Opens today!! We've seen the exhibition and it's definitely well worth a visit! #Archaeology 🏺 www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/muse...

🆓 Download free-access articles on #EuropeanArchaeology, for #EAA2025Belgrade: 📲✅ https://cup.org/42bmHqP Free access (where not already OA) until 30/09/25. @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @antiquity.ac.uk @cam-archaeology.bsky.social @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social @saa-aap.bsky.social#EuropeanArchaeology#EAA2025Belgrade#EAA2025

Some real gems in here including Alasdair Whittle laying the smack down on scholars of the Neolithic North Atlantic Archipelago for playing down connections between Britain and Ireland.

Four First View papers ready for the weekend, and 3 are open access! From hafting adze heads and African houses to piggy pannage and Neolithic relations between Britain and Ireland, there's something for everyone... #Archaeology 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

From the Museum of Liverpool: 'Treasure: History Unearthed' will feature largest collection of archaeological treasure ever shown in the region, with finds from the North West & Wales, celebrating archaeology & the work of Portable Antiquities Scheme. www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/muse...

What a fabulous paper to kick off with! Well done Sue, and of course the @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social team! 👏

This is the first paper I've seen through to completion as editor of @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social journal. It's a fantastic study, showing feasting on pork took place at Newgrange over the winter period in the late Neolithic, when all those timber monuments & henges were being constructed nearby:

@prehistoricsociety.bsky.social @chrisbstringer.bsky.social Lady Smith Woodward's preface to SW's The Earliest Englishman 1948: "Miss Tassert re-drew the illustrations". These include: "Imaginary portrait of Piltdown Man by John Cooke frontispiece". Any clues to Miss Tassert or the Cooke original?

Do you have exciting prehistoric research you want to share? Deadline for submission to newsletter PAST (Autumn) is 12th Sept. Articles c. 800 words (with 1-2 images) or c. 1200 words (with 3-4 images). Please send contributions to [email protected] & we look forward to reading them!