📢 ICS Seminar | 21 January 2026 Dr Amy Styring (University of Oxford) Isotopic insights into past cultivation and dietary practices How can plant isotope analysis transform our understanding of ancient agriculture and diet? 🕔 17:00 (UK) 💻 Online | 🏛 In person: Senate House, Room 264 🔗 Register here👇

🍞🍯🍷 Food Experimental Archaeology Libum (small bread), an energy snack with seeds, nuts & honey, and white wine cooked with dates, bay leaves & pepper. The Greeks and Romans used lots of honey, and wine was drunk in many different (and tastier!) ways than today #archaeology #food

📣 ICS Seminar & Greek/Roman nibbles. Join us tonight 👇 🍽️ The Integrated Table: Reconstructing Ancient Foodways From the Adriatic to the Danube — exploring ancient diets through archaeology, science & texts. 🗓️ 14 Jan 2026 | 📍 Senate House / Online 🥂 5 pm 🔗 Register: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

While the weather in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 is gloomy and cold, I hope these photos from archaeological excavations on the island of Šćedro 🇭🇷bring a smile to your face. Some very specific excavation skills for working on karstic Dalmatian islands 😄 More about project 👉 prijatelji-otoka-scedro.hr/en/projects

📣 ICS Seminar: 🍽️ The Integrated Table: Reconstructing Ancient Foodways From the Adriatic to the Danube — exploring ancient diets through archaeology, science & texts. 🗓️ 14 Jan 2026 | 📍 Senate House / Online 🥂 Greek–Roman drinks & nibbles after the event! 🔗 Register: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

📣 Call for Contributions | #EAA2026 Islands don’t isolate — they connect. Session #111 invites papers rethinking Mediterranean islands as bridges within wider networks of movement, materiality & exchange. 🎤 Keynote: Cyprian Broodbank 🗓 Deadline: 5 Feb 📤 Submission 👉 www.e-a-a.org/eaa2026

Winter sunset in Split 🇭🇷 🌅

It’s a blue Christmas 🎄 ☀️ Season Greetings from the Adriatic

Christmas Eve by the sea 🌊 #home 🇭🇷

💫New research out now!💫 Hutson and colleagues demonstrate that men get hired as faculty in archaeology PhD programs more often than women, putting strain on women PhD mentors. And they have some suggestions about what to do about it, too. Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Finally a great news! 🙌 EU’s Erasmus scheme to reopen to UK students for first time since Brexit

Excellent talk on network analysis of archaeometallurgical data (copper) from the Balkans (c.6200-3200 BC) by Miljana Radivojevic @ Senat House It showed what can be achieved by implementing computer science and archaeological data. 💻🪏⛏️ 📊

🔔 ICS Archaeology Seminar – 10 Dec, 5pm (hybrid) Dr Miljana Radivojević: “Community Detection in Archaeology: Early Copper Networks in the Balkans.” See how network science reveals prehistoric copper exchange (6200–3200 BC) & past social dynamics. 📍 Senate House, Room 264 | 💻 Online 🔗 Register 👇

#MosaicMonday from the Archaeological Museum Split 🐚 Stunning 3rd c. AD Triton from the villa of the Roman provincial consul in Salona. Once part of 10m² floor, the preserved panel shows Triton rising from the sea, with seaweed, crab pincers and octopus arms in his hair. www.armus.hr/en/collectio...

Of course we get England. Here we go again!

Today Komiža on the island of Vis celebrates St Nicholas (locally called Mikula), the protector of sailors and fishermen. Every 6 Dec an old wooden boat is burned in front of the hilltop church of St Nicholas — a powerful ritual of gratitude, renewal, and respect for the sea. 🔥⛵️🌊

✨ #ThrowbackThursday ✨ Nelly’s brilliant talk on organic residue analysis in Greek decorated pottery @ Institute of Classical Studies last Wednesday 🏺🧪 We leaned what these vessels once held—not only wine and olive oil, and what that tells us about daily life in the ancient world.

Sunny day in Cambridge ☀️😎

I made a mistake by sharing a cat photo, and now my feed is full of cats. 🙀🐾

🪦 #TombTuesday: An Illyrian helmet from Zakotorac, Pelješac 🇭🇷 (good luck with pronunciation 😀). Placed in a drystone mound, not a tomb, it may have been a ritual/votive object. With Greek pottery, it shows Iron Age Adriatic trade & social organisation. More here: www.e-a-a.org/EAA/EAA/News...

🐬 #MosaicMonday from ancient Issa (Vis) 🇭🇷 This mosaic of two dolphins, found in the Roman baths at Issa, reflects the site’s long-standing connection to the sea and its blend of Greek origins and later Roman culture. A simple but striking piece from the Adriatic. 📷 Zavicajni Muzej Vis

Senate House at night looks even more ominous.

🌟New in Advances in Archaeological Practice!🌟 How does modern agricultural land use affect the results of archaeological survey? Plekhov et al. explore how the intensity of farming in Sardinia impacts artifact distributions on the surface. Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Tomorrow! 🍷✨ Don’t miss “Containing Commodities: Organic Residue Analysis of Greek Decorated Pottery” 🗓 26 Nov 2025 | 5:00–6:30 pm 📍 Room 264, Senate House, London (hybrid: join in person if you’re in London, or online via Zoom/webstream if not) Link for registration in 👇

Underwater research near Pašman island 🇭🇷 reveals new Neolithic site (ca. 4700 BC) with dry-stone structures and wooden piles ~5 m below sea level—evidence of Holocene shoreline shifts and early Adriatic settlement. The second submerged Neolithic site in Dalmatia after Soline on Korčula. #archaeology

Interesting paper, recommend for all dog lovers and owners 🐶🐾

Highly recommend Corinna Riva’s new OA article—an insightful look at how local, regional, and Mediterranean-wide perspectives reshape our understanding of connectivity, mobility, and social change in the first millennium BC. A great read that reframes the ancient Mediterranean. #archaeology

I guess this is Minouche’s chair now. #Caturday

On a cat sitting duty. Very good boy Minouche 🐱🐾

The @ucl.ac.uk Open Day is in full swing, and the brilliant Dr Kris Lockyear, @welwynarchsoc.bsky.social is giving our taster lecture… If you’re here and fancy a scavenger hunt here are also two nods to the IoA in Gordon Square! #LocalAndGlobal

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Today, five years ago, I lost my best friend. Bepo, I still talk about you. From Adriatic, Aegean to North Sea and Swiss Alps, we had the best adventures! You were the best dog ever ❤️‍🩹🐾

When you build a palace in Split for retirement and end up haunting it for eternity — Emperor Diocletian 👀 #Romans #hometown

Join us for our next Archaeological Science Seminar! 🏺 “Containing Commodities: Organic Residue Analysis of Greek Decorated Pottery” Discover how residue analysis reveals what once filled ancient vessels. 📍 ICS, Hybrid event 📅 26 Nov 2025 🕓 5:00 PM (UK time) Sing up 🔗 ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Island of Hvar 📸 Ivo Pervan

🚨 New results: Corinna Riva just delivered a standout presentation on our latest findings from Vulci 🇮🇹— shedding new light on Etruscan amphorae production🏺🔍🔬 Part of our broader project on the economy + agricultural intensification in the 1st millennium BC Central Mediterranean. More to come! 🌾🌍

We’re excited to launch a new hybrid seminar series - Dialogue Between Classical Archaeology and Archaeological Science at the Institute of Classical Studies, co-organised with UCL Institute of Archaeology. 🗓️ 26 Nov 2025, 17:00 Nelly von Aderkas (UCL & The British Museum) 🔗 Register in the link 👇

“The Adriatic has forged the history and spirit of Croatia” - what a beautiful and true statement. Watch Treasure of the World- Croatia on Channel 4. From submerged Neolithic site to Roman Emperor Palace. How stunning my hometown of Split is💙❤️ #archaeology #adritic

My favourite pot: Minonian jar with an octopus 🐙 #archaeology

New archaeological findings in Roman Salona, the capital of the Dalmatia province, reveal a large olive oil production complex—shedding fresh light on the region’s economy and its role in ancient Mediterranean trade. 🌿🏺 #Archaeology #RomanEmpire #Salona #Dalmatia #OliveOil

1/2 Exciting news! 🎉 My Oxford Classical Dictionary entry on Pre-Roman Dalmatia is now (finally) published. 🏺✨ It explores how local communities + Greek settlers shaped the Dalmatian islandscape long before the Romans. No access? DM me for a PDF. #archaeology doi.org/10.1093/acre...

Organic residue analysis confirming honey as offerings in a shrine at Paestum in 520 BCE #archaeology 🐝🍯 www.newscientist.com/article/2490...

🚨 New publication alert! 🧵 1/3 We’re excited to share the first-ever analysis of Neolithic pottery from a permanently occupied, open-air settlement in Dalmatia — now submerged beneath the Adriatic Sea. 🌊 📹 The site of Soline (Korčula, 🇭🇷) #archaeology www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC9L...

Just opened: a new exhibition on the Iron Age necropolis of Kopila at the Archaeological Museum in Split 🇭🇷 Part of my ongoing collaboration with the University of Zadar, it features unique architecture and burial rites—from child burials to elite graves. 👇 #archaeology #IronAge

Here we go! I love Nolan’s films—most of them, I’ll admit. But the classicist in me screams: The whole point of the Odyssey is—do not defy the gods! Still... I can’t wait to see what he does. #filmsky

Mentally I am here 🔊

We’re cooking up something special. 🌍 Behind the scenes of our book cover photo shoot for the upcoming publication “Digging Into pottery.” #archaeology I think we successfully recreated the world of sherds. Inspired by Croatian designer Boris Ljubicic

The book about ancient diet on Stari Grad Plain (Pharos) on the island of Hvar 🇭🇷- with recipes. Fantastic achievement by Ivana Ozanic Roguljic and her team A must read for anyone interested in archaeology & food. (You can download the book from Ivana’s Academia page, available in English)

Charming Nottingham

Bronze - Iron Age cave sanctuary on the Peljesac peninsula in Dalmatia 🇭🇷 Fascinating finds! #cave #archaeology This can be linked to other cave sanctuaries in southern Dalmatia-Dubrovnik region. ☝️