#Glasgow Don't forget your tickets for Christopher Caldwell and Elaine Gallagher on Thursday! An Evening of Scottish Speculative Fiction also features Lorraine Wilson and Angie Spoto. Link below. @theelaineg.bsky.social @seraph76.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social

I am thrilled to announce this upcoming volume from The European Megalithic Studies Group. Megalithic Societies: Old Questions, New Narratives Edited by Gail M. Higginbottom, Jadranka Verdonkschot, Chris Scarre, A. César González-García, Felipe Criado-Boado I shall announce when it is published!

Thank you, Liam Eunsom of MIDLOTHIAN VIEW for covering the drone survey at the beginning of the CALTON HILL ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT. The Trust are working with HEADLAND ARCHAEOLOGY who are using photogrammetry to map the hill. 1/ www.midlothianview.com/news/search-...

There is something particularly special about stones placed on top of monuments, like at Tumulus de Kercado. I also love the contrast with the funnel shaped water tower which overlooks the monument. #StandingStoneSunday #Archaeology

I'm collecting children's folklore for a forthcoming podcast theme - what do you remember believing as a kid, or what games did you play? And what do YOUR kids do for rites, games, and stories they pass on? Let me know! forms.gle/D8mLW7q2um5Z...

Love Caught by the River? Wish you could undertake a paid membership to read our delicious bonus content, but just can’t afford it at the moment? We’re making a year’s worth of paywall access available to 15 people free of charge. More info: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/01/stea...

Next online seminar from @livingmaps.bsky.social "The Waterways Collective is a Scotland-based art-science collaboration, currently following Atlantic salmon and their migrations into local landscapes, distant seascapes, multi-species histories, and possible futures." tinyurl.com/mry8zw7u

Brand new from @sit-gsa.bsky.social, a longer format in-depth video exploring our MSc in Heritage Visualisation. It covers a lot of ground, research, experience and destinations. Applications are open for a Sept 26 start. #digitalheritage #heritage #visualisation www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbaZ...

Project update @archscot.bsky.social: "A journey through the Real Wild West. Our Project Assistant Dr Eleanor Harrison continues her exploration of Audrey Henshall’s work in the latest blog: Return to the Real Wild West and Goodbye to Ardnamurchan.” www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk/return-to-th...

Happy 50th Anniversary year to AHF 🎉 2026 marks a major milestone for HEF member the AHF, celebrating half a century of championing community‑led regeneration. As part of the celebrations, a touring exhibition will showcase five decades of impact across the UK - which will you visit? 👇

Join us for our first podcast! We talk with the amazing Alexandra Cotofana about landscape sentience in the Romanian Carpathians and the concept of xenophobic mountains. shorturl.at/DfOrj @graemewarren.bsky.social @mcornelissen.bsky.social @subfossilguy.bsky.social @farsouthhistory.bsky.social

When I finished my undergrad I did an internship in archaeology but based at a contemporary art museum in the town of Amarante, the birth place of the amazing Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. I spent a bit of time looking at his work. He accomplished so much and was only 30 when he died of influenza.

A massive multi-stem oak which #Dendrochronology revealed has an early 19th C stem origin date. It looks much older. This is in the wood pasture ‘Dairy Wood’ at Borders Forest Trust’s Corehead estate near Moffat. #ThickTrunkTuesday #treeclub #trees

👋 Archaeology community, we have some fun news! Archaeologists Engage is pleased to welcome leading social media expert Annelise Baer for our inaugural public talk covering the benefits and pitfalls of public engagement on social media. Free tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/archaeolog... #archaeology

Stormy weather inspired mark making, remembering all those standing stones over looking Atlantic seascapes #ArtArchaeology #ArchaeologyLife #StandingStoneSunday #archaeology #art

You can now read all of Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage for free via Open Access www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Mull / Cornwall Artist Exchange: We are inviting applications from artists based in Cornwall (incl. Isles of Scilly) & on the Isle of Mull, Iona, & Ulva to take part in a new cross-regional artist exchange exploring creative practice in rural places. associates.creativekernow.org.uk/mull-cornwal...

Callanish , no drama , recent snow #StandingStoneSunday

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

Women's work in embroidery globally can act as a powerful form of preserving culture, heritage and identity. Examples include Hausa (Northern Nigeria) left, Palestinian tatreez (top right), Kantha (Bangladesh, West Bengal) and Ukrainian Vyshyvanka #Womensart

1/ Necklace and bracelet from the Balgay Cist burial discovered in 1870s. Reconstructed with some replica beads, the jet jewellery dates to the Bronze Age (4000 years old), belonged to a high status woman. #FindsFriday #Archaeology 📸 my own, McManus Museum, Dundee.

Just over 1 week til our #BurnsSupper225 conference. We’re thrilled that Derek Alexander (@n-t-s.bsky.social) will deliver the 2026 Burns Scotland lecture: ‘“That curst restriction”: The Archaeology and History of Illicit and Legal Whisky-Making in Scotland’ 🥃 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...

Book Launch: Katrina Navickas, "Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England." Housman's Books, London, 21 Jan housmans.com/events/

🆕Foresight in heritage: fostering future consciousness to proactively face change”, by Hana Morel, Gustav Wollentz, Sarah Forgesson, Amy Iwasaki and Alison Heritage. 👉https://blogg.lnu.se/unesco/?p=4457 #heritagefutures #futuresliteracy

A new #UrbanPrehistory blog post, Close to home, considering the impact of development-led archaeology on the story of the Lanarkshire town I grew up in, Larkhall. 'This deep time dive took on something of an investigation into my own prehistory' theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/c...

Greenland seems to be in the news. Inuit people have lived there since around 2400 BCE and continue to do do. Our contributor Drew visited and has also posted photos of artefacts in Ilulissat Museum as well as other sites. 1/

📕 #BookReview 🏺 Brent K.S. Woodfill & Lucia R. Henderson (ed.)'s 'Archaeology in a living landscape' explores the non-human persons, such as landscape features endowed with vitality and veneration, that populate the Indigenous Americas 1/2 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

I think Kit Boyd is one of the most underrated artists in the universe right now. I truly don't understand why people aren't yelling about his prolific psychedelic brilliance from the rooftops. www.greenwichprintmakers.co.uk/kit-boyd

Really looking forward to this one - there's still time to join the @pictishartssociety.bsky.social if you'd like to attend this and the other lectures coming up in the series.

Online talk by @amandachadburn.bsky.social coming soon! 100 years of Woodhenge - 14 Jan, 7.30pm. Hosted by @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social and tickets available here: www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-article...

Want a heritage job? In beautiful usually-there’s-not-this-much-snow #Orkney? As part of our community project to reopen the Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles to visitors, we now have three paid positions advertised for 2026. For more info follow the link. Applications close 5pm, 18 January. 🏺

The first Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies Seminar series, on Collaborative Archaeologies in (Post)Conflict Contexts, kicks off next week with Hiba Alkhalaf. All welcome! Sign up via the link: www.bbk.ac.uk/events?tag=1...

A quick reminder to you all that my online shop is open again, and is stocked with prints of my photography, original drawings, books of my artwork, and the last few copies of Rituals & Declarations: shop.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/products

And rock and water, flows with time... #TombTuesday #archaeology #prehistory #ArtArchaeology #art

As a terminus ante quem, a twix wrapper isn’t perfect but it can give OSL a run for its money… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And rock and water, flows with time... #TombTuesday #archaeology #prehistory #ArtArchaeology #art

Thanks so much to the 5 of you that booked places over the holiday season for the Christmas Lecture... See you on Tuesday! If anyone else wants to join us, you can sign up here... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...

Linda Connor / Untitled, 1976

Let's celebrate women's historic, contemporary & global creativity & achievements in the Arts! ❣️ The Womensart book series tells their fanrastic, often untold, stories in textile arts, paint and print!! 🧡💛❤️ bookshop.org/beta-search?...

#4 of our #Top5 2025 - A new date for Newark, Sanday. Fish, whale & dolphin bone, recorded here over many years, suggested a specialised fish processing site. In early 2025 Storm Éowyn exposed stone buildings buried in sand. We sampled fish bone for radiocarbon dating. The result? ...

New print drop: prehistoric symbols & figures 🛍️ tephraarts.etsy.com/listing/4429... #prehistory #archaeology #archeology #rockart #caveart

Pre-Christmas present... 🤪 The APPAG Inquiry into Detecting report is out. #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure 🏺 1/3 appgarchaeology.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Wishing you a wonderful #wintersolstice A time of rest, reflection and renewal, today was spent playing with images of standing stones and cycles of time. #StandingStoneSunday #Art #ArtArchaeology #Archaeology #prehistory

Something new is taking root in Scotland 🌱 Over the past six months, the Discover Nature Award (DNA) has been taking shape. Co-designed by young adults, it is a two-day journey for 18 to 28 year olds to reconnect with the Scottish landscape and find their place in tackling the climate crisis 🌍💪