From my latest Digest: 🤔 “I order an oat latte and a Danish from the barista - and she says, “Sure!” with a smile. Then her smile diminishes as she looks down again towards my hands. “Are you ok?” she says.” www.digest.andymarsh...

The Inward Circles discography is half price over at Bandcamp today: theinwardcircles.bandcamp.com #richardskelton #theinwardcircles

After premiering at the Maeshowe visitor centre in Orkney, the Earthbound Orkney exhibition can now be viewed at the Custom Lane Gallery, Leith, until March 26.

Love to get a comment back on a paper that says "The results look fake, and the images of plastics also look like these were created by AI". We counted each and every piece by hand. I assure you they are not fake.

Netherton Cross, about a thousand years old, covered with mix of figurative & geometric designs including beast headed figures, snakes, boses & interlace patterns. An example of Govan School sculptural tradition relsting to the Kingdom of Strathclyde @archscot.bsky.social @govanstones.bsky.social

Waterlines by Marian Leven and Will McLean #Aberdeen #Scotland #StandingStoneSunday #ArtArchaeology #Art

Waterlines by Marian Leven and Will McLean #Aberdeen #Scotland #StandingStoneSunday #ArtArchaeology #Art

Netherton Cross, about a thousand years old, covered with mix of figurative & geometric designs including beast headed figures, snakes, boses & interlace patterns. An example of Govan School sculptural tradition relsting to the Kingdom of Strathclyde @archscot.bsky.social @govanstones.bsky.social

Managed to find the unusual X-shaped medieval artificial rabbit warren (often called pillow mounds because of shape) on Middleton Hill near Corndon. Easily missed and best found with lidar.

👀 @eddiecstewart.bsky.social's review of Richard Oram's latest, series completing book: tinyurl.com/4vru2tv2

Yes Kirrie is landlocked but North Sea Poets will be there, live, in a kirk on Good Friday. Poetry and music - join us! Details below.

Supernaturecultures. Folklorists from Ireland, Norway, Iceland & Scotland explore traditional ecological knowledge, encounter, & nature recovery in a more-than-human North Atlantic. @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @bealoideasucd.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social

🏺🗃️📚 Thanks to Emma Southon's ASTONISHING new book #Servus*, when I look at these objects (and pretty much everything else made "by" Romans), what I see are layers upon iayers of enslaved labour *out in May, pre-order it, you will not be disappointed

Kyle and Lochalsh Community Trust has acquired part of a commercial forest beside Loch Duich with a view to building an eco-village offering affordable housing, woodland crofts and business units. It hopes the development will attract young families to the area and help keep the local school open.

This evening I will be talking about the development of densely populated Bronze Age hillforts in Ireland and Temperate Europe for @tuatha.ie @neiljackman.bsky.social, a topic which has recieved some press after our @antiquity.ac.uk paper on Brusselstown Ring, a massive 41ha site with 600+ houses!

Applications Open: The Leven Programme Heritage & Archaeology Employability Course - a structured, practical programme designed to develop skills, confidence & real-world experience w/in heritage sector. Details: www.theleven.org/opportunities/ @archscot.bsky.social @greenactiontrust.bsky.social

CfP: Archaeological Research in Progress (ARP) 2026. Saturday 23 May 2026 in Dumfries & online. @archscot.bsky.social invites presentation proposals highlighting new findings & best practices from across Scotland & all periods. Submission deadline: 16 March 2026 Full details: tinyurl.com/mr3npe53

Myself and Colin Breen have written in "Maritime Ireland" about seaweed harvesting on Ireland's coastline, in 19th century. These are local rights, well known and established through built features (e.g. wrack walls, kilns, etc). There is no way that such rights be taken over by foreign companies.

People make Glasgow. And they've got strong views about how the next Scottish government should act to make their lives better and tackle the climate crisis. Watch the interviews with @lesswastelaura.bsky.social and find out what they had to say 👇 youtu.be/qKIBIpr1rHk?...

The @carantes.bsky.social online anti-fascist Celtic Studies reading group is back back back March 20th at 4-6pm Welsh time This time we are doing a series on GENDER, starting with freely accessible work by @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social and @finnlongman.com Join us here: carantes.org/contact/

I am the keeper of magic ... ... but happy to share Fabulous 2024 mural by Hera of Herakut in Aberdeen. Also sharing other pics, one smaller work that still survives; one of amazing piece on Aberdeen Market before demolition; one #ContemporaryArchaeology piece put up at Nuart 2019 #StreetArt

There is a popular assumption that if a building is listed then we know everything about it. Modern archaeology has shown that most listed buildings have never been meaningfully researched. I'll be looking at why this is during an online event on 26 Feb... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reinterpre...

I am the keeper of magic ... ... but happy to share Fabulous 2024 mural by Hera of Herakut in Aberdeen. Also sharing other pics, one smaller work that still survives; one of amazing piece on Aberdeen Market before demolition; one #ContemporaryArchaeology piece put up at Nuart 2019 #StreetArt

Please support the petition against the planned #closure of #Archaeology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Archaeology has been a part of Humboldt-Universität academic tradition for almost 200 years, so closing it would break a long-standing research tradition weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...

True rescue archaeology in action, amazing response from @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social and team to my urgent call for help! The work certainly shows the power of partnership working. The question now is, as we face more coastal change, what else will emerge in the future #scotland #archaeology #IronAge

“it is well to hear, to become aware of, the operations of water among whose spider lacings by chance we live…” James Agee in 1941, superb on the life and liveliness of rivers. A river as a “huge, casual and aloof creature”. That trifecta of adjectives (not to mention the choice of noun)…

Between 2017-22 I was a Post-doc researcher with Scotland's Rock Art Project. The project was funded by the AHRC and recently the @ukri.org invited us to feature their new Future Makers series. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPsR... 1/

Workshops, talks, celebration of member and student work, walks, storytelling, art and song—bringing people together in connection with land, place, and one another. More details coming soon!

Another new article! "From Leaky Pipelines to Watering Cans: Feminist Recommendations for Change" in @saa-aap.bsky.social by Samantha Fladd, Sarah Kurnick, and a bunch of other awesome feminist archaeologists! 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚀 New opportunity: Grants for Mexican heritage projects We are offering $10,000–$50,000 USD for cultural heritage projects across #Mexico’s northern border states 🇲🇽 Organizations, collectives & community initiatives are invited to apply by April 15, 2026. 👉 heritagemanagement.org/hermap-mexic...

A medieval cross head in the Kilberry sculptured stone collection, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. This collection is thought to have come from the site of a medieval church on the Kilberry Castle estate. #MedievalMonday

Anthropology the Gathering #3: From Blade Runner to Luis Arraez Edition (plus Star Wars and power, democracy, anthro community, coastal anthropology, and the value of drawing cell phones): anthropologia.org/2026/02/15/a... #anthrosky #anthropology #roundup

The oldest Mesolithic human remains yet found in Britain belonged to a 2.5-3.5-year-old girl. Found in a cave in Cumbria. Stretches the Mesolithic cave burial ‘tradition’ back a bit and pretty far north given looks to be just after the end of the Younger Dryas.

This is a fascinating read from Hannah Booth on substack: practically all my work involves collapsing the boundaries of sea versus land, to think about regressive hunter-gatherer landscapes open.substack.com/pub/northsea...

Gop Cave has served as a burial site since the Neolithic period. It feels sacred, safe, and powerful, a threshold between life and death, shaped by ritual and remembrance. It is a human place of love and memory. Neolithic sites remind us that all that separates us from the past is time. #prehistory

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@lukemurphy.bsky.social I’m sure you’re bored of me emailing you all the time but this is very concerning! Hampshire is full of important historical sites and also full of plans for housing and infrastructure - surely a County Archaeologist is essential?

🧪🏺 Authors assert: "archaeologists must evaluate these implications to proactively shape the foundations of our engagement with [gen- #AI]" My take? We should we should boycott & call out its use in #scicomm as something which *by its nature* diminishes accuracy, nuance & educational benefit.

Beautiful day yesterday to go up Meall Mor, beside the NTS visitor centre in Glencoe, to inspect this millstone rough out up at 400m OD in Coire nan Cuilc. Thanks to @eddiecstewart.bsky.social for coming along.

🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration. All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts. JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Yay! It's a new series of Digital Lunch, hosted by the DAH Lab at the @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social. Check out the fantastic series of speakers we have below. To sign up for the zoom link, fill out this form: forms.gle/GkbwzVZwBH3G...

I've been scaling my own wuthering heights since a momentous move to York last autumn to start a PhD investigating landscape change in the North York Moors #moorviews Read more about the aims of my research in this blog post for @anthropocenebio.bsky.social www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...

I am squeeing with delight at the cover for our new book! It's SO SHINY! Out in August.

Discovery of 4,500-year-old Paleo-Inuit settlement on the Kitsissut Islands, north of Greenland, shows the first people in the High Arctic were skilled seafarers, deeply entangled with Arctic ecosystems from the beginning of glacial retreat. #AntiquityThread 1/13 🧵 🏺 #Archaeology

The longlist for the 2025 Duais Leabhair na Gàidhealtachd | Highland Book Prize has been announced. The Prize celebrates the talent, landscape, & cultural diversity of the Scottish Highlands & is open to works of fiction, non-fiction, & poetry 💙📚 www.highlandbookprize.org.uk/longlist/

Great to see our debates on the future of #archaeology (and #humanities) and the extent of our role within policy and actionable science published by @antiquity.ac.uk this week. @radhumslab.bsky.social @ucc.ie

Beautifully dramatic lighting effect in this altar depicting the god Sol found near Edinburgh. In the low light of the temple, worshippers would see Sol’s eyes, mouth and the rays of his solar crown glowing. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

We are signing-up Supporting Partners for a new Heritage Adapts! Campaign to support locally-led climate adaptation for heritage sites & cultural practices. Led by @preservinglegacies.bsky.social & supported by @icomos.bsky.social, @ifla.org & others. DM me for a sign-up link #climateheritage

Mark your calendars! Roman Scotland: Life on the Edge of Empire 14 November 2026 to 28 April 2027 at National Museums Scotland