🏺 The fact Mel came to #Chalke2026, did 3 fantastic stage events AND then composed & performed on the spot an archaeologically-inspired, incredibly beautiful and moving poem for our Iron Age chariot burial re-enactment just underlines why she deserves this award - congrats! bsky.app/profile/lemo...

We are delighted to announce Prehistoric Society award & prize winners for 2026/7. 🎉 The Europa 2027 honouree is Prof. Mel Giles, Univ. of Manchester. I am sure Mel needs no introduction as a well known & respected researcher of the Iron Age. Congratulations Mel! #Archaeology 🏺 #Prehistory 1/6

Apologies for delay in paper copy of Spring PAST 112 newsletter. Due to circumstances beyond our control, we are trying to get this sent ASAP, but it may arrive with Summer PAST 113 (which will include piece on Bulford alignment that has been all over the press this week!). #Archaeology 🏺 1/2

A new, *open access*, paper from PPS: #Archaeology 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#SarsenSunday #stonehenge @stoneclub.bsky.social @ehstonehenge.bsky.social @artefactual.eurosky.social @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social @martynjb.bsky.social @richardosgood.bsky.social Weather gods, said Yay! Looking NE nr the solstitial alignment from the verge of the A303. Quiet at 0500hrs. Phew. 🙂

Some of the speakers from the @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social conference yesterday. Jenni French, Chris Stringer, Silvia Bello and, the Europa Medallist, Penny Spikins. Such a great day celebrating a great Prehistorian. 🦣🏺

I'm at York today for @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social EUROPA 2026, honouring Prof Penny Spikins. What can we learn from Neanderthals. 🏺🦣

Ahead of #Europa2026 tomorrow, we’ve put together a selection of books showcasing all things Prehistory. With exciting forthcoming publications, the latest addition to Oxbow’s Reflections series and more, you’re sure to find something you love. Start browsing ➡️ bit.ly/4vA0Jua

📝 New directions. New challenges. A renewed mission. In their latest #blog, the editors of Cambridge journal 'Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society' unpack a transformative year - ahead of #Europa2026: 🔗 https://cup.org/4v2yALU @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social#blog#Europa2026#prehistory #archaeology

Lots of lovely new PPS articles, many open access, ready for the weekend! Enjoy 😊 #Archaeology 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

With #Europa2026 approaching, explore curated prehistory research from #Cambridge! Articles are free to read through June where not already #openaccess. 📚 https://cup.org/4ulQbO5 #archaeology #prehistory @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social#Europa2026

📝 New directions. New challenges. A renewed mission. In their latest #blog, the editors of Cambridge journal 'Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society' unpack a transformative year - ahead of #Europa2026: 🔗 https://cup.org/4v2yALU @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social#blog#Europa2026#prehistory #archaeology

REMINDER

Anna was a council member of the Prehistoric Society and will be greatly missed. We send our condolences to Anna's family and friends. www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/knap-of-howa...

The @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social Europa conference will be held in York, 6th June, focused on Neanderthals in honour of Prof Penny Spikins. Details and booking here: www.prehistoricsociety.org/events/2026-...

Europa 2026, in honour of Prof. Penny Spikins, York Univ & online, Sat 6th June! Tickets £20-£40 Speakers: Richard Wilson, Robert Ashby, Jenni French, Chris Stringer, Matt Pope, Sylvia Bello, Professor Penny Spikins Details & booking: #Archaeology 🏺 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/europa-202...

Bank holiday challenge 👇 #Archaeology 🏺

PAST 112 is now online. Some lovely reading for bank holiday weekend: Bronze Age lunula, struck quartz, Bronze Age awls, a reflection from wonderful Tom Björklund & a response to the PAST 111 article on recumbent stone circles. Enjoy! :) #Archaeology 🏺 www.prehistoricsociety.org/publications...

*Call for papers extended to 18th April* Europa 2026, 6th June online and in York. Call for papers for the 2026 Europa, honouring the work of Professor Penny Spikins. The topic will be: What can we learn from Neanderthals? Further details here: www.prehistoricsociety.org/events/2026-...

It’s that night of the year when Obelix visits every stone circle to synchronise the clocks. Busy night! Jump forward, people! I know @danherb10.bsky.social LOVES this stuff #DontBlockMe #ClocksGoFoward #TheTimesTheyAreAChangin #BritishSummerTime

It's taken a few years, but we've finally trained Dan to remind everyone that tonight's the night, when the stones do their dance... ...and we all get one hour's less sleep! THANK YOU DAN! ❤️ #Archaeology #ClocksGoForward

📣 Reminder 📣

This looks like a fantastic fieldtrip, The @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social Balearics trip in May 1982. A week of sun, sangria and megaliths all for less than £300! Materials from the Ronald Morris archive held by HES in Edinburgh. @tessmachling.bsky.social

The first of many papers about Melsonby, I'm sure. #Archaeology 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Call for papers for the 2026 Europa, 6th June at Uni of York honouring work of Professor Penny Spikins. The topic will be: What can we learn from Neanderthals? (Please note change in previously advertised title) Further details here: www.prehistoricsociety.org/events/2026-... #Archaeology 🏺

Looks fabulous! Well done to our wonderful editorial team! #Archaeology 🏺

Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society Vol. 91 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social

The oldest Mesolithic human remains yet found in Britain belonged to a 2.5-3.5-year-old girl. Found in a cave in Cumbria. Stretches the Mesolithic cave burial ‘tradition’ back a bit and pretty far north given looks to be just after the end of the Younger Dryas.

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

If you are in #Hampshire please write. #Archaeology 🏺

*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