🏺 Can never get enough of this late prehistoric world where trees meant not just wood to people, but also bark/bast (and in other cases, roots) as a widely utilised material, likely with particular symbolic associations different to other fibres.

Please sign to get North Yorkshire council to save #knaresborough castle from ruin

Button osteomas

my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit. Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil. 1🧵 #PlaymobilÖtzi #PlaymobilInfestation

Overwhelmed Archaeologists Struggling To Keep Pace With Glut Of Early Humans Thawed Out By Climate Change https://theonion.com/overwhelmed-archaeologists-struggling-to-keep-pace-with-1841766142/

On 15 September 1977: J.R.R. #Tolkien's The Silmarillion was published. Edited by Christopher Tolkien, the book details the entire history of the world before The Hobbit, and goes into the legends that underpin the entire mythology including the creation of the world. #BookSky

Imagine tweeting the pope asking him to make Charlie Kirk a saint

It lives!!! 🦣🦣🦣🧪 Repeated climate-driven dispersal and speciation in peripheral populations of Pleistocene mastodons | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#findsfriday samien ware and worked flint from a Romano British enclosure site 🏺 #archaeology

Multiproxy study reveals equality in the deposition of flaked #lithic grave goods from the Baltic Stone Age cemetery Zvejnieki (Latvia) 🏺 #archaeology

Fascinating study, would’ve been great for my little review

NEW Britain's economy did not collapse after the #Romans left A new, unbroken timeline of British metal production from the 5th century AD to the present day questions the idea of a post-Roman 'Dark Age'. Strap in for an industrious #AntiquityThread 1/12 🧵 🏺 #Archaeology

This also continued into the Iron Age 🏺 #archaeology

Expanding frontiers: Celebrating the Mothers of Romano-British studies 🏺 #archaeology

Now I’m recovered from the dissertation, writing again

On Monday I handed in my MSc dissertation, I researched climate change and paleopathology in the Roman/early medieval periods.

Free event on public archaeology archaeology and the media including @flintdibble.bsky.social and @killgrove.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/x/public-arc...

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Please come to the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social Yorkshire section in Sheffield in October (or watch on zoom) Tickets are available to buy here: cba-yorkshire.org.uk/1/autumn-sho...

New #ROYSCast now available! In this episode, author @alexharvv.bsky.social joins @adamcook.bsky.social and @jfarley.bsky.social to discuss his love of archaeology, recent book 'Forgotten Vikings', and upcoming work 'Little Kingdoms: An A-Z of Early Medieval Britain' Listen here: bit.ly/4lV4SmQ

This comprehensive examination of the contents and characteristics of early Neolithic ‘Pit Burial’ graves in northeastern Iberia is one of over 80 books currently featured in our European Archaeology collection, created especially for #EAA2025. Start browsing and get your copy ➡ bit.ly/3VqN3kW

Animals don’t just live in their environments—they transform them. And in doing so, they may also shape their own evolutionary trajectories. Our new paper in Trends in Ecology & Evolution introduces a framework for zoogeochemical niche construction. A thread 👇

Ridiculous

Death dealers: The growing trade in human remains People are awful. #anthropology 💀🏺

New blog for KMA On the #Minoans 🏺 #archaeology

New temporal dimensions of the Linearbandkeramik cemetery horizon in Schwetzingen (Germany) 🏺 #archaeology 💀

Dissertation submitted ✅

Beyond the Binary? A Multi-Method Approach to Sexing Children at the #Viking Age Site of Ihre, Gotland 🏺💀 #archaeology

Bronze Age burial found in Yorkshire Dales quarry #archaeology 🏺

For the research article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Non-Adult Burials of Cabeço da Amoreira, Muge (Portugal): Recent Discoveries and New Insights into #Mesolithic Funerary Practices

I was trying to do some research in prep for Nolan's Odyssey next year, but this profile of Ulysses was just 700 pages about the sublime agony of being, the inherent fallibility of perception, and the tyranny of the British. Also my epub seems to be corrupted, a lot of punctuation is missing.

Remains of extinct Bronze Age cattle found in cave #archaeology

Ice Age Art exhibit at Keighley Museum! #archaeology

Was a great pleasure to have you!

Presented at the @northwestmedieval.bsky.social yesterday. An interesting day especially as the only archaeologist present

ACADEMIC BOOK SALE I am moving and want to move less books if at all possible... Please get in touch if you are interested in the following titles (all prices include postage and I am open to offers)

Like science? Then you better be interested when *someone* starts putting out hit pieces on scientists. This is beyond the pale ethically and honestly anyone who doesn’t want to slide to hell on a slick of ai generated content that benefits billionaire business, maybe now is the time to get angry.

Siberian ice mummies reveal the skill of prehistoric Pazyryk-culture tattooers, who were not unlike modern professionals! 🏺 #Archaeology Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Since its #Yorkshire Day you should support student and early career archaeologists in Yorkshire at the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social Yorkshire section student showcase #archaeology cba-yorkshire.org.uk/1/autumn-sho...

Ancient DNA reveals a two-clanned matrilineal community in Neolithic China www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEW How did ancient tattooers learn their craft? High-res, near infrared photography and collaboration with modern tattooers reveals the complex process behind tattoos on Siberia's 'ice mummies'. #AntiquityThread 1/14 🧵 Warning: this thread contains images of human remains

I finally preordered my copy of little kingdoms

And they didn't link the crowdfunder... I despair for journalism. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-...

In 2018 an Iron Age chariot burial was found in Pocklington in East Yorkshire. It featured a four-wheel Iron Age horse-drawn chariot. 18 months earlier another Iron Age chariot was found, along with two horses, at a different construction site in Pocklington. #TombTuesday

Woohoo, I have page proofs for my book!

The Heraklion Archaeological #Museum

🗣 Meet the Student and Early Career Speakers! 🗣 I'm a current Msc Funerary Archaeology student at the University of York, due to finish in September. Aside from this, I've excavated a number of sites around the UK and in Greece, as well as volunteering for Knaresborough Town Museum. 1/3

If you are in Manchester today, there is a free to attend public talk in Sackville Gardens at 14:00 all about the history (and future) of the Gardens. The talk is being held by The Freinds of Sackville Gardens. I'll also be talking about the upcoming excavations in the park! More information below!