Fancy playing a locative app-based Avebury game? logaculture.eu/news-events/...

More Israeli theft of archaeological artefacts from Gaza #🏺

Thanks to @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social and the @ansoc-erc.bsky.social team for a cracking Bronze Age Forum conference. Learnt lots and met some lovely people!

Monmouth 😢

Amazing to have a personal tour of the National Museum of Ireland's gold exhibition (aka the bling room) from expert Mary Cahill this evening 😍 Now for the rugby...

So my friend and colleague Carly Ameen just had a super cool paper on the history of dogs published with her collaborators. Dogs show considerable diversity in size and body shape from really early on! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Project Researcher (environmental policy) @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social Temporary 12 months post of Project Researcher as part of the @britishacademy.bsky.social funded ‘Prehistoric Policies’ project. Job Ref 019121, search www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo.... @iaiarchaeo.bsky.social, @cifa-ec.bsky.social

Bronze Age Forum in full flow here at UCD Dublin. Looking forward to learning lots about a slightly later period of prehistory than I normally get stuck into...

Had such a fascinating chat last night with Neil Carlin, Jessica Smyth and @suegreaney.bsky.social on society in Neolithic Ireland, touching on ancient DNA, kinship, mortuary practice, and how we understand and interpret the past, and so much more! Coming soon for Amplify Archaeology Podcast!

“Now, evidence is growing that, faced with a climate crisis, the civilization did not disappear but adapted and moved.” #climateheritage ways that #archaeology provides the long view for thinking about #climatechange www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

One strange thing about the BBC/Trump row is that the programme in question was actually made by an independent production company. Yes, the BBC producers and Panorama’s editor should have checked everything before it was broadcast. But… 1/3

Ugh I'm so tired of AI evangelicals. I want to work in a way that I trust and is reliable and builds knowledge.

Come join us (for a little while at least)! Associate Lecturer job at Exeter in archaeology (especially people with human osteology, zooarch or forensic skills), until 30 April 2026: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI165/a...

Loved seeing this material @nancesw.bsky.social, thanks for putting it together!

Excellent piece of journalism here. Puts the mainstream media to shame. The findings are what you might expect, and here's the proof. www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Amazing sunrise marking the start of the Celtic New Year on 1st November / Samhain, the Christian Feast of All Saints Day. At Carrowmore megalithic site, Sligo, the chamber at Listoghill faces the Ballygawley Mountains & sunrise in this position coincides with the start and the end of winter.

Had a great day immersing myself in mostly Iron Age, mostly Dorset things at the Maiden Castle conference. My paper was well received so that was nice. Two papers made fairly uncritical use of AI-derived imagery and one butchered radiocarbon dates but otherwise the talks were great!

Heading south to take part in the Maiden Castle: 40 Years On conference tomorrow. Let me know if anyone is about for a pint this evening! www.prehistoricsociety.org/events/2025-...

Always impressed (geddit?) by how quickly these volumes come out!

Rubbish 'from the bus' photo but I'm just back from a few days away and pleased to see that I haven't missed the best of the autumn colours along the Portway:

Just in time for our largely outdoors Masters fieldtrip to Stonehenge and the Ancient Technology Centre 😬

This might not feel like big news in 2025, but if you've experienced the male-dominated world of Japanese business and government, this is big news.

Wow, this is quite the story:

Like birds?! Like aquabirds!? Like drawings of aquabirds!? Like representations of aquabirds as processed through the mistletoe-addled imaginations of the Iron Age Britons!? Then boy is this the PhD for you! linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%...

Bit niche, but does anyone know of good publications or sources of information on historic aerial photography in India, for archaeological purposes? Presumably Archaeology Survey of India did a lot? cc @martynjb.bsky.social

This conference celebrates 50 years of the Norfolk Historic Environmenta Service, to be held at UEA, 1-2 Nov: www.norfolk.gov.uk/article/7070...

I'm hiring! 4 year post doc on my Wellcome Trust grant -- come be inventive about isotopes in teeth with me in PPN Turkiye :) www.lancashire.ac.uk/jobs/post-do... please share!

This story has reminded me of my own visit to Ladakh, 24(!) years ago. The stars were extraordinary. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Busy writing (late) book review - writes intro, gives overview of first few chapters, getting into gear... Checks word count - 622. Checks word count required - 500-700 total. Doh!

Wonderful project! Look at that stonking great ditch. Congrats to all involved: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Has anyone ever seen Phil Harding and Neil Young in the same room?

"[gen]AI allows any of us to feel like an expert, but it is risk, doubt, and failure that make us human. When I write, the process is full of risk, error and painstaking self-correction. It arrives somewhere surprising only when I’ve stayed in uncertainty long enough..." Full quote in this article:

‘I’m a composer. Am I staring extinction in the face?’: classical music and AI

Are you a student at a UK university and looking for support to come to TAG York? Did you know the Royal Archaeological Institute Cheney Bursary is available to support you? You can find more details here: www.royalarchinst.org/grants/bursa... @royalarchinst.bsky.social

ICON - The Instute of Conservation - Launches 4th Edition of 'First Aid for Finds'

As archaeologists we bear witness to the destruction of the natural environment. Up close. In real time. We are entangled in that destruction and it impacts us. A callous and uncaring approach to planning behind Reeve's comments should be sickening to everyone involved in such grave undertakings. 🏺

In an aim to keep up with the times, we've just started watching Yes Minister. It's very good.

Non-humans are archaeologists too now huh?

Today is the 89th anniversary of The Battle of Cable Street when the people of the East End of London halted the march of Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts through Stepney.

Chuffed that the project I nominated has been shortlisted! Fingers crossed for the award night now🤞

Got to meet these cute cows today on a post-work pre-sunset walk

Director of QUEST and Lecturer in #Archaeology (Teaching-Research) University of Reading - Department of Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOW165/d...

We have lost an absolute trailblazer and heroine of science www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Owls owls hooty owls 🦉🦉🦉 #Devon

Fab for freelancers, self-employed, independent researchers:

Families Join us for an Open Day: Words on the Wave – Ireland & St. Gallen exhibition 🗓️ Sat 4 Oct | 11.00–16.00 📍 NMI, Kildare St Talks: Maeve Sikora (11:30), Dr Ó Riain (12:30), Prof Ó Cróinín (14:30) Take part in free Workshops & handle replica artefacts 🎟️ Free admission museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

Start of one of the busiest teaching weeks of my career so far, by Friday I'll have taught 13hrs of lectures and practicals across 6 different modules. Doesn't sound much but in HE level that's a lot. Plus a first aid training day and numerous tutor meetings, dissertations chats etc. Wish me luck!

Come on England!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (Context is everything with this flag folks)

This is very scary. Don't think this sort of thing won't happen here.

New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #openaccess✅