We Didn't Start the Fire. With Bardot's passing three people mentioned in the song remain alive

A student's paper just described the interaction between Homo sapiens and Neandertals as "a situationship rather than a relationship" and I'm still laughing ten minutes later 💀🏺

So proud of @trowelblazers.bsky.social! This week, the four of us received the TAG Award for Outstanding Contribution to Archaeological Theory for all TrowelBlazers has done over the past 12 years @lemoustier.bsky.social @toriherridge.bsky.social @brennawalks.bsky.social @tag2025york.bsky.social and

Are you an Early Career Scholar? Do you want to learn how to publish in international journals? Together with Archaeological Dialogues & Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, we are hosting a publication workshop @tag2025york.bsky.social today, from 13.10-14.10 in room TFTV/109

Here's @brennawalks.bsky.social (who couldn't make it to the awards last night) opening her beautiful ceramic vase at the start of her lecture today

We've had quite a special 24 hours!

CONGRATULATIONS to the @trowelblazers.bsky.social for their incredible contributions to the field. Praxis baby, praxis

There in spirit!

I’m sorry do you know put live unboxing in your academic talks 😅🤘

Work (also) with me! Two years postdoc in the @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social project, based in Edinburgh. Will do transmission chain experiments to understand the spread of heritage-based hostility, online and elsewhere. More info ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Ps TAG uk! You’re getting 3/4 of us! Not at the same time natch 😅🤘 catch @lemoustier.bsky.social and @toriherridge.bsky.social today then stay for the angriest data activism paper you’ve yet seen from @brennawalks.bsky.social tomorrow

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

Hello! A little Sunday evening survey... 📝 We're looking for examples where info or resources concerning achievements of 🏺⛏️ #trowelblazing women in archaeology, geology or palaeontology have been removed or vanished from public sources in the past year due to external pressures... Pls repost!

A good time to mention that every time I’ve worked w/ Robin he’s gone 200% to make sure you hear voices and stories that don’t normally get a shot — for someone to do that kind of work and get hung out to dry for it is a joke, but not a good one :/

Which is why I tortured poor Greg out of a billion awesome jokes because ‘ah but that’s probably going to change’ 😂😂😂 archaeologists are the WORST ;)

Excellence means inequality, in case anyone was wondering what the direct translation is in policy-speak. & it means people like me, my post docs, my research students, my undergrads leaving homes and communities. Bc yeah we need to concentrate well-funded people more, and offer less opportunity.

Join us in York @tag2025york.bsky.social on 16 December for Dr Beatriz Marin-Aguilera's 8pm lecture, 'An Archaeology of Radical Tenderness'. The @postmedarch.bsky.social's Geoff Egan Memorial Lecture is followed by a drinks reception and seasonal snacks. Then go on to the TAG party!

Saturday is library day and look at this gorgeous choice! @lsmonster.bsky.social we are very excited to take this home for a bit

It was really fun working on this project as a consultant. Very much looking forward to watching it later (my 6yo is DESPERATE), and maybe seeing a couple of cameos of your's truly and @seismatters.bsky.social in the BTS bit at the end!

I mean, are you going to take gendered misrepresentation of archaeology LYING DOWN? Or will you be mattocking ;)

Greg is so, so good at this. Lucky us!

Well this 2,600-year-old clay letter was a journey. It comes from the archive of a goldsmith named Nabû-zeru-iddin in the heart of ancient Assyria. We’ve got someone left on read, a lawsuit, a mean step-mom, and people who get drunk and steal silver.

Hi! You can now watch me and archaeologist Professor Nicky Milner doing our Stone Age & Star Carr double act at York University last week And you can get signed copies of my Stone Age book, cowritten with @brennawalks.bsky.social, from the ace @foxlanebooks.bsky.social youtu.be/OzjiSlOWWug?...

I talked to Nature Methods about fieldwork and @trowelblazers.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... -- never say no to two many chandeliers, hey

I’m excited for #tag2025 because I plan on doing 100% more world building alongside my normal @trowelblazers.bsky.social screaming into the void 🤘

Went to see this most beautiful collection of Ursula K LeGuins maps in the word for world exhibit. Wandering around thru ritualised imaginings of unreal worlds; it’s archaeology and anthropology (and turtles) all the way down. Massive ht to @kjkillackey.bsky.social Let’s go play world building ;p

Got kids aged 8+? Get them my latest book! It's a chaotic rollercoaster ride through the Stone Age -- it's tonnes of fun, full of the latest scientific discoveries, is cowritten with the expert archaeologist @brennawalks.bsky.social, and is illustrated by @rikinparekh.bsky.social. Cheers!

🏺🧪🦣 Was more than happy to speak to @killgrove.bsky.social for this: even if you ignored the horrendous, insurmountable ethical issues, what we'd learn would do almost nothing to advance our understanding of prehistoric #Neanderthal lives, nor our encounters with them. There's zero justification.

And today I learned that in 1962 the BBC let Jaquetta Hawkes imagine the archaeology of apocalyptic Britain. As a short film 👀10/10 Will weird your day youtu.be/c8yEIe69M4k?...

I wrote a human skeleton quiz -- filled with terrible puns -- for your Spooky Season enjoyment. 🧪🏺💀

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!

Oops...Ran out of space! This audiobook is published by the brilliant @wfhowes.bsky.social who are wonderfully collaborative in giving me choices about sound fx, music, and style. Massively enjoyable to work with them and @brennawalks.bsky.social www.audible.co.uk/pd/Totally-C...

Thrilled to share a clip from our funny new children's audiobook about the Stone Age. I had such fun writing and narrating this with the brilliant archaeologist @brennawalks.bsky.social In this clip, join Homo Erectus on a scavenging hunt... but they're in for a nasty, LOUD surprise! (Sound on!)

PhD-opening in our ancient genomics lab this year, apply below! We work on: 1. Genetic history integrated with archaeology and history 2. Natural selection and trait genetics 3. Evolutionary genomics of dogs and wolves 4. Ancient pathogen genomics 5. Hominin evolution and ancient proteomics

This was stupidly fun to record 😂🤘

Right and also! Free talk tomorrow! www.lancashire.ac.uk/events/listi...

See you there!

See you there!

**DONATIONS FOR BURSARIES** TAG over the last few years has been trying to increase the accessibility of the conference by offering bursaries. We are now welcoming donations support these via our website. tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/

so... the wellcome trust gave me a £1,000,000? and i didnt even have to hold the world to ransom. i am super excited, going to be recruiting SOON for a phd and a postdoc, and could not do anything without my amazing collaborators <3 www.lancashire.ac.uk/news/grant-t...

I should also perhaps mention, in the context of h longi or is it really, that I’ve just reviewed a book about denisovans for science, and am in fact entirely academically serious about can we just call everything erectus and that includes us because i just really CANT

I think I could have done us all a favour and called everything erectus and walked away ;) (I am still not team Longi, with apologies to chris who I generally believe on everything 😂

We’re celebrating, and you’re invited! October 4th we’re hosting a 20th Anniversary party for… ourselves! Free event with talks and lots of alumni, register on the eventbrite and we’ll see you there 🎉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...

If you’re in the Preston area and fancy talking palaeo-parenting or primate placenta, well aren’t you in luck ;) come to this totally free talk at the University of Lancashire, kick off at 17:40 on October 8th www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/growing-up...

I will be talking to my new home crowd on October 8th about all things odd and evolutionary about our very funny little human children! come say hi, its free :) www.lep.co.uk/community/fr...

Thanks! This book was co-written by the fab archaeologist @brennawalks.bsky.social and, as ever, illustrated by the hilarious @rikinparekh.bsky.social And the previous books are cowritten with Roman historian @emmasouthon.bsky.social and Egyptologist and curator Dr Campbell Price

Looking for some fab kids' books ahead of the new school year? Check out @gregjenner.bsky.social's riotous Totally Chaotic History series! The latest book, The Stone Age Runs Wild!, is out now 💥 youtu.be/OULXpXL6Tek?...

Great write up of research we can finally share: two unrelated individuals with west African ancestry have been identified in early medieval sites excavated by Duncan Sayer and our team www.newscientist.com/article/2492...

The stunning landscape of mastic country μαστιχοχώρια as seen from the Chios mastic museum to present recent research 😍

Wowwwwww