In case anyone wants to use it… we are adding this (along other stuff) in our PPT today (alt text available):

These Late Bronze Age wooden figures - echoing motifs found in contemporary Nordic rock art - are fantastic! Such finds add nuance to how we interpret the meaning and context of the #rockart itself. E.g. bringing 3D form to 2D rock art, and links different materials in #bronzeage symbolism.

www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/... @counteringcrime.bsky.social @museumofloot.bsky.social

Baby donkeys are so underrated... 😍

Ya hablan nazi abiertamente. Sin tapujos. elpais.com/espana/2025-...

It was a pleasure to be back in Aspadrantes, #Algarve, this week to conduct further OSL sampling and digital documentation for the #MegalithicOrigins project. The heatwave was challenging but I could go to the beach in the evening ;-) Big thanks to Ricardo Soares and the Museu de Vila do Bispo!

Happy #MulticulturismDay! #Archaeology shows us how our societies have long been cosmopolitan and multicultural. In #medieval Ethiopia, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, and Indigenous religious communities existed side-by-side 🏺 🔗 from 2021 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Yesterday, I had the priviledge of presenting key discoveries of our fieldwork in Cañaveral de León at the #MuseoAqueologicoNacional in Madrid. Major funding for this fieldwork came from the Maritime Encounters project, funded by the @riksjubileumsfond.bsky.social

The #Megalithic Origins project, funded by The #LeverhulmeTrust, has a new website! The project aims to clarify the origins of megalithic monumentality in Europe through the application of state-of-the-art OSL dating, micromorphological analysis and Bayesian modelling.

“The genocide we are witnessing today, is something that I recognize from my own experience as a Holocaust survivor… What is happening today in Gaza is an extreme form of repeat genocide, a holocaust in our own time, in front of our eyes.” — Stephen Kapos

Very happy to see our study of the late #prehistoric stela 2 of Cañaveral de León (#Huelva, SW Iberia), the first warrior stela in Iberia discovered in a funerary context during archaeological excavations, just been published! dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

In 2024, Paris banned cars from its city center to make room for cyclists and pedestrians with remarkable pollution reduction as a result. Earlier this year, Parisians voted to create even more car-free zones in the city. Visual: The Washington Post

This is good www.gov.uk/government/n...

The wonderful Aspadrantes menhir, Algarve, #Portugal. A standing stone with many secrets, and a case study of our Megalithic Origins Leverhulme Trust-funded project. #StandingStoneSunday (Photo: my own)

Portland, ME showed up. #HandsOff

Just walking down Main Street in Richmond, Virginia, with my fellow patriotic Americans. Sic Semper Tyrannis. #HandsOff

I’m just sayin’. St Augustine FL is a town of 14,000. In a red county. And we’re doing this. #handsoff #50501 #April5 AND we have some spicy signs!

Littleton, New Hampshire. Hundreds out there in the rain protesting Trump.

Over the past two weeks we conducted fieldwork in the Algarve for our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded Megalithic Origins project. Collaborating with partners from the Museu de Vila do Bispo, we documented the Aspadrantes menhir, collected samples, and explored features. Great teamwork, cuisine, landscapes!

And they used such a flattering photo

I’m finding it very hard to understand the stance of the Royal Society here. Science is part of society, not separate from it, existing in some strange metaphysical bubble. I look across the Atlantic, aghast at the damage being done to science and scientists. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Don't forget our talk tonight. You've still got time to register, you need to click on this link and click on RSVP to be sent the zoom details. orkneyarchaeologysociety.org.uk/event/talk-f...

If you use standardised feedback for student evaluation of teaching, it disadvantages women, the global majority, and other marginalised groups. Even if you add an "unconscious bias" statement. + link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Today we had a fieldtrip to the spectacular landscapes of Breamish valley in Northumberland National Park. The students were great at identifying archaeological features! We had great fun and wonderful weather 🌞 Students crowned Mery as the Archaeology Level 1 student mascot 🤩 @arcdurham.bsky.social

Read about female power in copper age Iberia by @martaguardamino.bsky.social et al in the run up to #InternationalWomensDay, available in DRO: durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3467389

There's never been a better time to choose to support an independent bookshop. I'm so delighted that the new paperback edition of my book CRYPT - Life, death and disease in the Middle Ages - is available in a beautiful, sprayed-edge special edition from these bookshops: linktr.ee/cryptpbindies

As an archaeologist I'm asking you...if you're eligible to vote in Germany today, go vote and do what Indiana Jones would do. 🏺💗🏳️‍⚧️ #wählliebe #GegenRechts #fckafd @luilog.bsky.social @prehistoryteller.bsky.social @drnwillburger.bsky.social

Other publishers should follow.

We are planning an exhibition on Ancient DNA at The Crick! If you are an artist and are interested in being involved please consider applying to lend us a hand. www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/exh...

DIGITAL LUNCH! 21 Feb, 1pm GMT: Dr Reb Ellis-Haken - Preliminary results of the Leverhulme Funded "Cults of the Head?" Project Reb has analysed <100 depictions of human heads from Dean Hall in Gloucestershire using advanced digital imaging techniques. 🏺 Zoom link here: forms.gle/qr74FJgHuuuC...

One may think that past clothes were only made of fibres👗 But in Copper Age Montelirio (Sevilla), they also had bead attires! Thousands of discoidal (99% seashell) beads were dressing the deceased: mostly elite women. For more on its new paper👇

Leonardo García Sanjuán et al (2025) "A multi-analytical study of the Montelirio beaded attires: Marine resources, sumptuary crafts, and female power in copper age Iberia" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I’m very sad to hear that Colin Renfrew, a giant in the field of Prehistoric Archaeology, has joined the realm of the ancients. An academic archaeologist with one foot firmly in the trench, he combined theory & fieldwork with flair - and had a knack for asking the right questions. His work lives on

Only to days to go for joining this exciting seminar at the University of Valladolid. I am looking forward to discussing with students the broad range of possibilities offered by #digital visualization techniques in the study of #prehistoric sculpture.

As Kemi Badenoch calls for 50,000 civil servants to be arbitrarily thrown in jail, a reminder that she still hasn't been asked about the time she openly admitted hacking into a Labour MP's website, which was an offence carrying up to five years in prison

The ADS has just announced the launch of the Heritage Science Data Service, providing digital research services for data preservation & re-use of UK heritage science data. ow.ly/k5Rg50TzlSg There are also 8 new roles (& more to come). An exciting time for #HeritageScience #DigitalPreservation 🏺

Extremely pleased to welcome Brenna Hassett to the Department of Archaeology, University of York for her public lecture on 18 October, World Menopause Day: "Past It? Digging up the radical evolution of menopause and the archaeology of women" 🏺 www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

#CFP Digital Creativity Special Issue on “Creative Digital Escape Rooms” wordpress.com/post/erikcha... Abstracts due: January 13, 2025. Full papers due: March 31, 2025. Final versions due: June 30, 2025. Expected publication: end of 2025.