THREAD: Delighted that Peterborough Museum has received £250k, to further explore the amazing Bronze Age assemblage from Must Farm. One of my favourite projects of the past few years was creating replicas of the pots, to better understand the technology behind them 🏺 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Check out this fine #Pleistocene-themed wall art photographed by my buddy Paul Stewart in Kennington, Oxford

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

Honestly. We all need to read this. The amount of money apparently being spent, which could instead be being invested in our museum services is horrific. Next figures from DCMS/PAS are due in the next month or two. How bad will they be? #Archaeology 🏺 #Torcs #Detecting

How does immunotherapy work, and why do some patients respond while others don’t? Book our free talk by Samra Turajlic, head of the Cancer Dynamics Lab here at the Crick, Director of @cruk-mi.bsky.social and head of the UK-wide MANIFEST programme. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crick-cras...

Hunger Games!? Frankly one egg is un oeuf.

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...

Some fabulous talks at this FREE day symposium on Thursday 20th November. You can even hear me chatting about how some tiny tool marks can give us some big insights into the torc makers of the Iron Age. #Archaeology 🏺

Take your herbarium lessons! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A thread following yesterday’s Neolithic Studies Group fantastic conference in London on the theme of kinship in the Neolithic of Europe. Over 150 folk in the room or online, and many, many friendly faces. Watch out for news of our 2026 events!

Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath the Giant will be released this Saturday. A trailer for the @timeteam.bsky.social Special on @hugh-willmott.bsky.social's Cerne Abbey Research Project. So excited to finally share this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Tm...

🏺 Nice to see folks bringing #StandingStoneSunday to this site! Here’s my favourite photos at the Standing Stones of Stenness - first as a newbie archaeology undergrad on her first dig, and then again as a postgraduate researching for my dissertation.

The police continue to investigate the motive for last night's stabbings. Their initial statement is they don't have grounds to believe it was a terrorist motivated attack Elected Reform Durham county councillor Darren Grimes posted this political attack on the assumption it was an Islamist attack

Highlight of my athletic career. Still sub-20 you’ll be reassured to hear…

My article in tomorrow's @theobserveruk.bsky.social now online. But go and buy a copy!

Updated thread on The Lost King film: I’m digging over old ground but I have to challenge Steve Coogan's line. He claims it’s all true (as has Philippa Langley): Langley will be celebrated for her achievement, Richard Taylor & his personal gripes will be forgotten So what’s the real story? 1/15

Hello, people of Yorkshire! On November 11th, I'm doing a joint event with archaeologist Professor Nicky Milner at the University of York about the Stone Age. It's suitable for kids, but adults will learn stuff too! Tickets FREE! 6.30pm event, but book signing before www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Can we also please retrospectively strip him of the title of ‘baby grumpling’ because that was also what my mum called me as a babe and I would quite like not to have that association.

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Probably posted a preprint version of this before but good to see some formal testing of different hypotheses of descent/residence in prehistoric cemeteries of Europe, rather than just eyeballing the trends.

🧪 Here's the radio encounter between Ben & @toriherridge.bsky.social a year ago (7:40➡️) which covered many mammoth de-extinction issues, but didn't get into the major one for me which is how sustainable is it to create arctic-adapted elephants for a vanishing ecosystem? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

A new Duo for the Ages!

New #Archaeology TV show alert!🚨 Hidden Wonders starts Tuesday 4th Nov 9pm on More 4 Available for download on @channel4tv.bsky.social 4OD #newtv #documentaryseries #History 🏺

When they figure it out they could make a website to register who owns what. They could call it…MySpace…

Sold out in person but zoom access available. Looks great.

The largest study on late life virginity, based on >400k individuals, out now in @pnas.org Open access link: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Shoutout to shared first author @laurawesseldijk.bsky.social ❤️ Thread below 👇🏽

Crick group leaders work across disciplines, supported by core funding and mentoring to build ambitious, curiosity-driven research. Apply now to join us ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Get a hit of that sweet Nobel-gilded Pääbogenetics at The Crick.

Tune in on Tuesday 4 Nov 9pm on More4 !! 👇👇 #HiddenWonders with #SandiToksvig and @rakshadigs.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Good.

Another deep slice of time #Holocene #Flandrian #Fenland #FlagFenBasin #SundayStratigraphy

Mên-an-Tol is probably from the Bronze Age, making it around 3,500 years old (little evidence has been found). It consists of four stones, the most unusual being the circular and pierced upright stone. The other three stones are more regular granite pillars. #StandingStoneSunday

One of the clashes I’ve encountered most working between archaeology and genetics is around the unwritten rules of first and last authors of papers in the latter - many archaeologists I knew were perplexed by it. Even if that’s less the case now, how would it deal with papers retrospectively?

Same story, three different headlines… 🧪👩‍🔬🏺

FINALLY

I am correct in thinking aren’t I that ‘gang-banging’ means something totally different in the US than the UK?

Loved doing this, with clever people, and Brian, talking ancestry, ancient DNA coalescence theory: these are some of my favourite things.

NEW EPISODE: Who are our ancestors and why does it matter? Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about ancient DNA. Listen on your favourite podcast platform: lnk.to/AQOSAncientD...

🏺🧪Me? Promote a podcast in the full knowledge I appear on a future episode, thereby ensuring I promote myself!? Preposterous. Anyway here’s a chat with @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social @poojaswali.bsky.social and @adamrutherford.bsky.social about ancient DNA and ancestors spotify.link/pJ2h5n4pFXb

This week marks the centenary of the announcement of the discovery of the London skull, aka the Lady of Lloyd's. Who's that, you ask? Here's the story of the most famous hominin you've never heard of... 🦣🏺

Looking forward to discussing this graphic with my MSc students next week, as we consider the Pirenne thesis.

A hearty Denisovan stew ripe with stories of mixing and more mixing, even with a third more ‘archaic’ hominid. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

So, is John Hines right that there isn't after all good evidence for plague before c. 541 at Edix Hill? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Reading up on some Conquest-era history and there’s an awfully suspicious number of Royals or semi-royals dying in hunting accidents in the New Forest.

Have you ever wondered what it's like being a mineralogy curator? I wrote a blogpost for @originalgcg.bsky.social about what I get up to at work 🧪⚒️ #geology #minerals #museums geocollnews.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/s...

🏺 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Interesting ancestry from probable Roman soldiers buried in a mass grave in Mursa (Croastia) in mid-3rd Century CE. The Eastern Mediterranean-related ancestry turns up wherever you have Roman urban centres, including Rome itself, so could be from various places.

Great review on The Genetics of Human Handedness: Microtubules and Beyond www.cell.com/trends/genet... - handedness is such an interesting phenotype!

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%...

Analysis of ancient birch bark tar from Neolithic settlements shows it was used for toolmaking, pottery repair, and chewing, preserving DNA that offers insights into daily life and diet. doi.org/g96xtk