Pottery is popping out! The larger brown sherd is Medieval while the jazzy black and white fragment came from a Victorian layer (but we haven’t dated it formally!) #archaeology #pottery #ceramics

Archaeology selfie 🩷🪏🤩 @archsengage.bsky.social @dodoarchaeology.bsky.social #torrington #digthecastle #archaeology

So excited to be back with the brilliant volunteers on the 2025 fieldwork season of Dig The Castle! @archsengage.bsky.social #archaeology #DigTheCastle #community #socialvalue

We made a tiktok account for the Dig the Castle archaeology project in Great Torrington, Devon. Give us a follow to get the latest updates - we start digging again with the local community on Friday! www.tiktok.com/@digthecastle 🪏 #archaeology #castles #history @archsengage.bsky.social

Terret rings were rein guides on chariots or carts in late Iron Age/early Roman period. They were set in a line along the yoke in groups of 5. Examples are known from 3rd or 2nd century BC East Yorkshire chariot burials as well as the later 1st century AD. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...

NASA's Mysterious Announcement: "Clearest Sign Of Life That We've Ever Found On Mars" www.iflscience.com/nasas-myster...

You can sign this if you have an #EAA ID, whether you are a currently active member or not.

#EAA Executive Board Omnishambles News The Belgrade Organising Ctte of #EA2025 claims it was not consulted by the #EAA Executive Board regarding the Israel/Gaza votes and states using student volunteers to enforce rules on political statements during sessions was "particularly inappropriate".

As a member (for now!) I have emailed the EAA Executive Board to protest against this immoral debacle. I would strongly encourage others to do this same. #EAA2025

This just gets worse and worse and worse. Those poor students. As if they haven't been through enough... #Archaeology 🏺 #EAA2025 #EAA

Just a reminder that not only did gay dinosaurs exist, there were probably transgender dinosaurs too :)

Thank you and goodbye to Great Torrington! Our July weekend-season has ended - we look forward to seeing the community again for larger excavations in September! @archsengage.bsky.social @dodoarchaeology.bsky.social #archaeology #digthecastle #publicengagement #festivalofarchaeology

Archaeologist Naomi Trott tells us the results from Trench 2! #digthecastle #devon #greattorrington #archaeology #communityengagement #socialvalue #househistory

Archaeologist Belinda Tibbetts tells us what's happening at Trench 1! #digthecastle #devon #greattorrington #archaeology #communityengagement #festivalofarchaeology #socialvalue #househistory

Archaeologist @dodoarchaeology.bsky.social brings us up to speed on Trench 2! #digthecastle #devon #greattorrington #festivalofarchaeology #archaeology #communityengagement #socialvalue

ArchaeologistsEngage now unofficially provide wildlife relocation services! This poor guy was lost on the high street, we are glad to report he was safely rehomed :) #digthecastle #archaeology #ecology #communityengagement #greattorrington #devon

A local resident found this piece of beauty while digging his vegetable patch on Castle Street, a small metal stick concealer “erace” by the brand Max Factor, dated to 1954. #archaeology #digthecastle #festivalofarchaeology #greattorrington #devon #makeup #beauty

I can't wait to get digging with the lovely folk of Great Torrington again!

Here it is, our case study on how to combine a century of deep (and building) archaeological knowledge around prehistoric social traditions with the new and exciting aDNA data, to help avoid interpretive pitfalls. I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed the process of writing it 🎁

Feel really privileged to have been involved in this documentary. Airs this coming Tuesday at 9pm on ITV Cymru Wales and ITV X

We'll be speaking about the Dig the Castle project at Devon County Council's 'Archaeology in Devon Day'. Project Director Emily Wapshott and Archaeology Lead Belinda Tibbetts wil be giving the presentation. It's a great opportunity to connect with others across the region - come and say hi!

Stunning!

Dig The Castle won the heritage award at the Northern Devon Flourishing Culture Awards! The community was at the heart of the planning and delivery, using archaeology to create a sense of purpose, build cross-generation connections, boost wellbeing and community pride. 🏺 #community #archaeology

Dig The Castle won the heritage award at the Northern Devon Flourishing Culture Awards! The community was at the heart of the planning and delivery, using archaeology to create a sense of purpose, build cross-generation connections, boost wellbeing and community pride. 🏺 #community #archaeology

We are over the moon for Dig The Castle to be nominated for this award! The amount of recognition for the community over the last year has been phenomenal.

I’m talking about Peggy Piggott in Dorchester this Saturday. On how a combination of post-war politics (promoting m/class men + the archaeological wife) + gendered higher education + 1990s archaeologists and the back-projection of sexism into interwar history, wrote her out of our discipline.

Oooooh!

New archaeology horror movie?! Will have to watch it next week.

New episode! This week on BBC You’re Dead To Me we turn our hands to Arctic Exploration and go in search of the deadly Northwest Passage With expert historian @hpsvanessa.bsky.social and comedian @stuartgoldsmith.bsky.social Listen now on BBC SOUNDS www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

📢 Attn #archaeology & #HumanOrigins #evolution - our work is already and will continue to be exploited & twisted by those whose interests are align in ways to damage our community as a whole and as individuals, amd wider society. Professional orgs/learned socs should start to talk to each other now

If you like nerdy things, you may enjoy me talking with @gwspodcast.bsky.social about a game series that includes everything from Roman centurions to samurai to dragons! #podcast #history #gaming #archaeogaming #totalwar #warhammer #strategy #rts open.spotify.com/episode/6ZmK...

This is a great episode!

Come dig w/ our wonderful team-Derek Hall, Dar Brooks-Hedstrom, Alison Beach, & me- at the medieval abbey of Lindores. Application information or to request a chat about the field school are found ⬇️ mafs-scot.org Earn credit & learn historical, archaeological, & heritage skills. #medievalsky

Repeat after us the message from the past: “This is the community’s wealth”

This video breaks down the evidence lost civilization theorists should be looking at, if they were good researchers. Since they're not, this is the evidence they hope you will ignore since it proves them full of shit Link: youtu.be/2YWi0YmXqNQ?...

UK folks 👇

Tomorrow at 6pm UK/1pm EST, join @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social and myself for a livestream discussion: "Crisis at UK universities. Lessons from Save Sheffield Archaeology" youtube.com/live/-PICWDM...

Happy St Brigid’s Day everyone, today, 1st February Lá Fhéile Bríde sona daoibh go léir In Ireland, it’s our traditional beginning of Spring; the light is coming come back, and birds are singing outside the window here www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/S...

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

My piece is out! A history of archaeological scholarship on the potential for matrilineal societies in Iron Age Europe.

Does anyone know of any literature about Irish people in Tudor England and Wales? I can find lots of books about Tudors in Ireland, but not thhe other way around and I'm quite interested to learn more! #skyhistorians #Tudor #Tudorhistory

The salary benchmarking results are out from CIfA. That's great. What's not so great is what it shows. Compared to comparable sectors the salary progression is laughable. We should be furious. Join a Union, join CIfA, study the sector, it's history and identify who has held us back. #Archaeology

#Vikings! Did you know that there's a #Viking Starter Pack, featuring oodles of brilliant Vikingists? #MedievalSky go.bsky.app/K7xLh7S

Parc le Breos Neolithic Chambered Tomb in the Gower Peninsula, Wales. It seems to be aligned to the midwinter sun as you can see from my squinty face in this photo! #archaeology #realarchaeology #heritage #Wales #Gower ⚱️ #Neolithic #megalithic

For everyone coming over here from TikTok, welcome to the archaeology party! go.bsky.app/6g4xDfm

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The mosaics of Piazza Armerina in Sicily are ones of the most famous in the world. They date to the early 4th century AD. This mosaic, 'Bikini girls', with ladies doing athletics is iconic. Photo: The Penn Museum. #MosaicMonday

Please sign and share if you live in the UK: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... #transrightsarehumanrights