🏹A tiny petit tranchet arrowhead, possibly used as a composite projectile point, part of a larger hunting tool. Dating to the late Mesolithic-Early Neolithic C.6,000-3,000 BC made from cream coloured banded chert. #FindsFriday #Archaeology #Prehistory #ancientcrafts #PrehistoricWirral #Lithics

👣🐾The famous Formby footprints: groups of adults & children were discovered dating to 6,200 BC. Also animals: deer, horses, aurochs, wild boar, wolves & birds. It would be a similar picture in Mesolithic Wirral prehistoricwirral.com/mesolithic.h... #throwbackThursday #Archaeology #Mesolithic

📖👀‘NEW’ series launched ‘Bones, Tools and Traces: Reading the lives of animals and humans in Prehistory through what remains’. Based on the osseous material of prehistoric animals and birds recovered on Wirral www.prehistoricwirral.com/bones-tools-... 🦌🐦‍⬛🐢🐂🐗 #Archaeology #Zooarchaeology #Prehistory

🪨🦣A Mesolithic flint core 49x38mm that despite the best intentions of the knapper became unworkable due to the impurities and faults within it. On Wirral flint doesn’t occur naturally, it was found as river cobbles, that had mixed success. #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Wirral #Lithics

🤩☀️Amazing sight today, a Hummingbird Moth feeding on Red Valerian. First time I have ever seen one...only a fleeting visit but a fabulous appearance😊 #heatwave #moths #wildlife #nature #outdoors #Summertime

It's the summer solstice and the longest day of the year! The prehistoric megalith Stonehenge was designed to align with the sun on the solstices. On the summer solstice, the sun rises behind the Heel Stone and its first rays shine into the centre of Stonehenge.

Them: "Of course other cultures did not conceptualise childhood as we do." The Past: "Toys"

🦴🍖A brand new series in the Prehistory of Wirral: 'Bones, Tools and Traces'. First to be featured is the aurochs leg bone modified into a scoop/digging tool dating to the Mesolithic c.10,000-4,000 BC. Read more📖👀 prehistoricwirral.com/aurochs.html #FindsFriday #FossilFriday #Mesolithic #Wirral

New First Aid for Finds: www.firstaidforfinds.org

🪨A Neolithic c.4,000-2,500 BC brown and white flint pebble bifacially worked flint chopper. Retouch to the distal cutting edge and thumb grip on the lower dorsal side. #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Neolithic #PrehistoricWirral #Lithics #Wirral #Flint

We are a part of nature.

⚠️ Durotriges Big Dig OPEN DAY alert ⚠️ Sunday 28 June 10-4.30 Free Parking (on private land) at North West Farm Winterborne Kingston Dorset DT11 9AT The dig is a 20 min walk but minibuses are available Guided tours PLUS the Big Dig Brewhouse, cafe + chips!! Maybe see you there? #Durotriges26

🪨🦣An Oldowan c.900,000 BC black flint cobble chopper tool 75x60mm. It displays classic Oldowan morphology and weighs 322g. Part a Lower Palaeolithic landscape occupation of Wirral. #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Palaeolithic #Wirral #Lithics

We are looking forward to welcoming @annemiekemilks.bsky.social on the 19th June to deliver the keynote at Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2026. The lecture: From Sticks to Social Worlds: Rethinking Palaeolithic Technology through Wood will be the perfect end to the first day. Book your place! 🏺🦣

🪨🏹A Neolithic chisel tip/transverse arrowhead 37X31mm made from dark brown chert. This type of arrowhead is indicative of the middle Neolithic c.3,000-2,500 BC. #FindsFriday #Archaeology #Neolithic #Wirral #Lithics

🪨Greasby the oldest settlement in the region. Discovered in 1987 along with Irby, excavated 1987-92 by Museum of Liverpool, both dated from lithics alone to 7,800 BC. Subsequently Greasby dated in 2018 from burnt hazlenut shells to 8,500 BC. #ThrowbackThursday #Archaeology #Wirral #Mesolithic

Very exciting and disorientating to see this important (re) discovery from Nash et al. Important implications come with this. Why was it so comprehensively dismissed? Was late glacial recolonisation possible earlier than thought? What else are we missing? 🦣🏺 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Podcasting can bring #humanevolution research into public conversation - where more voices can be heard. Our podcast on the #TaungChild explores how the Taung fossil reshaped ideas about human origins in #Africa. 🎧 Listen to all 4 episodes FREE: www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...

I’ve just discovered that the BBC has some of my old documentaries - re-edited and served up on YouTube. Here’s a mash-up of my first landmark series on human evolution - The Incredible Human Journey - from 2008 but still holding up! youtu.be/1NWevQpcFIo?...

🪨Residual #Mesolithic core 25x20mm of orange flint with white outer cortex of a type found in Southern England. Indicating long distance travel. The core was discarded near a palaeostream as it became exhausted, last microlith removed 13mm. #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Wirral

🔥This discovery changed human history by 350,000 years youtu.be/_-ZuS0m1Oso?... #Archaeology #Palaeolithic #Prehistory

🪨Before and after. A brown flint notched scraper 48mm in length with retouch to the left ventral edge, used to plane wood. Along side a flint nodule that would have formed the raw material for the tool. Flint pebble found in glacial till. #Archaeology #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Prehistory

I'm going to be talking on Neanderthal structures and Middle Palaeolithic monuments in York, June 6th, as part of a day celebrating Prof Spikins and the adaptive success of these remarkable Ice Age peoples. 🏺🦣 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/europa-202...

Panoramic views from Burton Point across the River Dee to Wales, a view that never tires. #HillFortsWednesday #IronAge #Wirral

The Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2026 (preliminary) conference program is now available! Join us 19th/20th June for two days of excellent presentations on all things Palaeolithic, Palaeoanthrolopology, and Pleistocene. Tickets on sale until 7th June. sites.google.com/view/unravel...

✝️The Romans brought Christianity to Britain after 43 AD and so to Wirral this early Christian cross 70x80mm was possibly a votive offering. Evidence of the earliest Christian worship in Wirral🙏 #FindsFriday on #Sunday #RomanBritain #Archaeology #Christianity #Religion #Wirral

Full of the joys of Spring! 🦊🐾 A new cub out and about, the parents nearby. #Fox #Nature #Wildlife #Wirral #Spring

The Esbeek handaxe reminds me of this tanged spearhead from Wirral, also of banded quartzite and with a similar aesthethic appeal to it. Thought also to be Middle Palaeolithic. #Archaeology #Palaeolithic #Wirral

Join us as we step back into the Iron Age This recreation roundhouse @butserancientfarm.co.uk is based on CS1, excavated at Danebury hillfort #Hampshire It has a thatched roof, oak plank walls and a central hearth complete with iron firedogs It is also quite wonderful 😍 #HillfortsWednesday

🪨👁️A Bactrian banded agate ‘eye’ amulet thought to have protective properties. Dating to the Iron Age c.800 BC-43AD showing wide ranging trade networks in luxury goods of the local Cornovii people that reached as far as Central Asia. #FindsFriday #Archaeology #Wirral #IronAge

🌸💚The beauty of nature, looking good at the moment native wildflowers Cowslip (Primula veris) and Common Dog Violet (Viola riviniana) #Nativeflowers #Nature #Beauty #Outdoors #Wildflowers #Wirral

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-...

✍️🪦The Anglo-Saxon Athelmund Stone dating to c.600 AD. The first evidence of writing in Old English runes, proving the community there were cultured and literate prehistoricwirral.com/overchurch-s... The original stone is in the Grosvenor Museum. #MuseumMonday #AngloSaxon #Wirral #Medieval

‘The moorhen builds her nest of reeds and sticks’ (What to Look for in Spring, 1961) Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

📝PSA: We are aware of untrue social media posts and false claims that have been circulating for some time about this project, by one person using multiple accounts across multiple platforms. Here's our response: prehistoricwirral.com/official-sta...

Happy May Day, Beltane! Native Hawthorn (Cretageous monogyna) a sacred tree with mystical and protective properties since Prehistory. The leaves, flowers and berries are edible and still used by herbalists for it's health benefits 💚 #Beltane #MayDay

🪨🐢A Neolithic c.4,000-2,000 BC turtle back scraper 34X30mm made from pale grey banded chert with iron leeching from within the fabric, of a type found in North Wales. #FindsFriday #Archaeology #Neolithic #Prehistory

Please join us this Thursday, 30th April, at 13:00 BST, for our final talk of the semester. We will be joined by Prof Nick Ashton (British Museum), and Dr Sally Hoare (University of Liverpool). If you'd like to attend, please register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/1342a8...

🪨🔪The cutting edge of archaeology! Two Neolithic stone knives; small flint knife 45mm in length, larger shale knife 130mm. Found in 2 very different localities and displaying great human ingenuity. #Archaeology #Neolithic #Lithics #Prehistory

🪨From a time when there were no countries as such. Lower Palaeolithic Acheulean unifacial hand axe 150x110mm dating to c.250,000-425,000 BC still with sharp cutting edge, made by another species of human.Homo sapiens didn’t appear in Britain until c.40,000 BC. #Archaeology #Palaeolithic #Prehistory

“The larch branch is expanding its young green leaves which look like small, green shaving brushes” Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

🪨Part of the tool making process, quartz debitage pieces found with the quartz arrowhead (right of photo) from a Late Mesolithic-Early Neolithic lithic workshop. Kanpping sites usually have a mixture of finished tools as well as waste. #Archaeology #Lithics #Prehistory

🏹🪨A white quartz Late Mesolithic-Early Neolithic arrowhead 31x26mm. Possibly made for a special occasion/ceremonial purpose rather than everyday use. Found on the floor of a lithics workshop. #FindsFriday #Archaeology #Neolithic #Mesolithic #Lithics #Prehistory

It's a lovely time of year to go exploring some of Ireland's old woodlands to discover carpets of beautiful bluebells. Do you have a favourite place for a Spring walk in Ireland? #Ireland #SpéirGhorm

I’ll be giving a public lecture on mineral pigments in art @geolsoc.bsky.social on the evening of 21st July. You can attend in person or watch online. Registration details in the link below www.geolsoc.org.uk/events/miner...

Lilies of the Valley, Albert Durer Lucas, 1888.

An arc of air acrobats #SuperSeabirdSunday #Sundayvibes

🪨🪓✨ It’s got axe factor! A Bronze Age 85x60mm axe made from mudstone created around pyrite inclusions. The chopping edge has use wear so it was actually used not just decorative/ceremonial. #FindsFriday #Archaeology #BronzeAge #Lithics #Prehistory

🏖️🏞️It's true Thurstaston is beautiful and Benty Tearooms is excellent ☕🫖🧋🍰🥪😌😊 manchestereveningnews.co.uk/trips-and-br... #Thurstaston #Wirral #outdoors #beauty #nature #coast #countryside

🏹🪨Two identical elongate triangular arrowheads 30mm in length. Left, made from copper alloy metal and right, from grey quartzite. Dating to Late Neolithic-Chalcolithic c.2,500-2,200 BC. From 2 different localities in Wirral #FindsFriday #Archaeology #Neolithic #Chalcolithic #Wirral