#FlintFriday. Amazing sticker made by one of my students!

That’s actually a really interesting question. I have no idea. The only thing I’d add is that the Venus of Brassempuoy is pretty life like. But yeah, why no realistic humans?? 🧐🧐🧐

The amazing Roman pharos (lighthouse) at Dover, still standing after almost 2,000 years! The tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire. 1st-2nd century AD. 📷 by me #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology

The names of these bills are getting kind of ridiculous

The social media golden ratio

Any ceramic that has appeared in my channel came from potted history. Ancient stuff made in ancient ways, they’re the best!

Is there a feed where you can see tiny stuff under a microscope? I love that

Also, if you're an archaeologist 🏺 who for whatever reason is looking for a conference setting outside the US, the Canadian Archaeological Association annual conference will be held in St. John's, NL, April 30-May 4 2025. Paper submission deadline is Feb. 28 🇨🇦 canadianarchaeology.com/caa/annual-m...

Join me this evening as I host another @sussexpast.bsky.social lecture. We welcome Dr Reb Ellis-Haken talk about the evidence for a Cult of the Boar, or Pig, in Iron Age Sussex. Link to tickets below 🏺 sussexpast.co.uk/event/spring...

This is a Swiss army knife from the Roman period (about 200-300 A.D) It looks so modern 🤯 Apparently it’s made of silver so would probs suck at doing anything too hard.

The Great Viking Survey is still open for responses! No matter where you live, we want to hear your opinion about the vikings. Find us at vikingsurvey.org.

Every Trey video is always a surprise

This is one of the best things I’ve watched this year youtube.com/watch?v=65_D...

In other news, fruity Cheerios taste soooo DISGUSTING it’s actually astonishing anyone tasted them and thought “yep, that’s the one, that’s going to be popular” (I say this as a long time fan of Cheerios)

This was the site that my Bronze Age plague video was about. Cannibalised plague victims 🤢

Wow beautiful shot

So incredible!

Two super interesting papers out today about Neanderthal admixture. Showing it happened less than 49kya. So any modern human remains outside Africa before that date must have belonged to other populations which we presumably don’t descend from??? (I might be wrong though)

🎬 Watch the feature-length documentary on the Brookside Meadows #Roman villa and Aisled Building complex discovered recently in Grove. youtu.be/eohPVq1xirs?...

Christmas presents to myself

Will it help reach the right audience if I throw in this 🔭

I think I have no choice, I must start doing some amateur astronomy. By any chance does anyone have a beginner telescope recommendation???

This ~2,000-year-old clay tablet has Sumerian and Akkadian words on one side, spelled out in Greek on the other. Such “Graeco-Babyloniaca” texts may tell us scribes who knew Sumerian and Akkadian (both dead languages by this point) were at least experimenting with learning Greek

If you work in UK #Archaeology and have ever used a local authority archaeological service or #HER, please can you fill in this survey? Repost and shares with your contacts would be very helpful! Thank you. #CIFA forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Beautiful country Wales. Hiked all over it but never here. Next time.

Another population of hominins found in East Asia. It’s getting so complicated out there I can’t keep up. It definitely feels like our labels aren’t accurately representing the complexity of evolution. Are they all distinct groups? Or are they boinking each other?

That’s my book!

We need more historical dramas set in different times. I demand Hittite dramas

Got to try and see these one day

Consular diptych of Rufus Gennadius Probus Orestes, Rome 530AD; Sutton Hoo sceptre c. 600AD. When I first came across Rupert Bruce-Mitford's idea that the Sutton Hoo whetstone might be an East Anglia version of a late antique sceptre, it seemed far-fetched; now, I'm not so unconvinced! #silkroads

I bloody love these starter packs. A big reason I haven’t left Twitter is I follow thousands of archaeologists on there who were always sharing cool stuff. But thanks to these packs I’m finding everyone again

The absolutely scandalous treatment of Flint after this debate is honestly insane.

A group of researchers have recreated the clothing of medieval Nubian royalty and clergy from the wall paintings in the cathedral of Faras, which sits at the border of modern Egypt and Sudan.

Omg 💀

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Our new study out in @ScienceAdvances shows human presence in Tasmania at least 41,600 years ago, nearly 2000 years earlier than previously thought, and Aboriginal people burned and used wet forests. Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

There’s something extraordinary about this otherwise pretty standard Late Bronze Age axehead: A human fingerprint. A real, visible and tangible connection to someone from 3000 years ago. If that doesn’t give you goosebumps, idk what will. 🥹 #FindsFriday Link to record: finds.org.uk/database/art...

If you're into archaeology, the ancient world, and related fields, here are some starter packs you will like 🧵 1/? go.bsky.app/J2BAdwu

Love everything Dmanisi. I’ve got to make a video on them next year.

New video on a prehistoric outbreak of the Black Death. Did it happen? Absolutely Did it cause the collapse of Neolithic Europe? Highly debated. youtu.be/_u3mul4gaPE?...

Hi all, I am an archaeologist and historical anthropologist working the San Francisco Bay Area. Check out some current collaborative research with the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe detailing how their ancestors saw new futures amid the collapse of the California mission system: doi.org/10.1017/aaq....

I made an archaeology starter pack - please feel free to share and follow the folks on here, I'll definitely add people as they start to pop up on BlueSky! 🏺🧪 go.bsky.app/6g4xDfm

I’ve been waiting for this!

If you’re up for a fun few mins, check out the new History page for Penrith Castle. It contains a ‘slider’, allowing you to move between the site today and the new reconstruction - how much of the the castle today can you see in the new reconstruction? www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places...

Beautiful Iron Age site from where I’m from. British Camp on the Malvern Hills.

If you are in Brighton on Wednesday you can catch me talking about the Neanderthal archaeology of the English Channel region, La Mancheland. 🏺🦣 www.meetup.com/brighton-caf...

Apparently I live in a bubble

Hey, don't forget this weekend to check out all the amazing content coming from #RealArchaeology science communicators! There's something for everyone coming. #Archaeology #Archeology 🧪🧪 real-archaeology.com

Might go as Graham Hancock for Halloween