Open access publication klaxon! I was really honoured to be asked to write a response chapter in Communities, Connectivity and Complexity in Roman Britain. It is SO GOOD. www.barpublishing.com/book/communi...

Hits different when you see your article in print Thanks to @souljaleonn.bsky.social for including me in this edited volume!

Watching war of the Rohirim

In a new article for @antiquity.ac.uk, we find that a quantitative analysis of housing at Mohenjo-daro, one of the world’s first cities, reveals that inequality sharply declined over time. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Publication Alert! Happy to announce the publication of the conference proceedings of the student showcase hosted by CBA Yorkshire in 2025. #archaeology It’s available open access here: cba-yorkshire.org.uk/1/monograph-...

www.cba-yorkshire.org.uk/CBAY_Monogra... Happy to be part of this fab peer-edited volume compiled by @souljaleonn.bsky.social My paper, ‘Towards an understanding of Craven: an Early Medieval kingdom of the Yorkshire Dales’ explores a typically overlooked pre-Norman polity (pp. 14-21)

On Saturday we went for a hike in the perk district, some nice historic landscapes, Turns out the ruins (top left) were the remains of an inn that sat alongside the bridle way for transporting salt

Why is digventutes, an organisation that charges £900 a week for people to excavate, hosting a talk on class exclusion in archaeology?

🎉 CELEBRATE SASA’S SIXTH BIRTHDAY WITH OUR MASTER CLASS LIVE EVENT! RSVP today! https://www.saveancientstudies.org/events 🌍📍 “Who were the first Vikings?, Hosted by Alex Harvey. 🗓 Apr 29, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM EDT

Chicken vs. pheasant — the bones look nearly identical. ZooMS molecular analysis just confirmed domestic chickens were raised on the Korean Peninsula 2,000 years ago, filling a key gap in East Asian dispersal history. #Zooarchaeology #AncientDNA #KoreanArchaeology

It’s real! It’s really real! Preorder at the link in my bio right now, it’s good, I promise!

Hidden Kingdoms: exploring South-West Britain in the early medieval period June 10, 2026 - From 7pm to 8:45pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hidden-kin...

Fantastic conference in York looking at the archaeology of Yorkshire

1/1 paper edition of Forum that I edited You can read it here: cba-yorkshire.org.uk/1/welcome-to... You need to be a member, join us here: cba-yorkshire.org.uk/1/new-member... #archaeology

Visited Darrowby

Final chapter of the edited volume is finally in and ready to be edited

£5 in a charity shop, good deal #booksky

Happy to announce the publication of Forum, a journal of the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social Yorkshire, I stepped up to work on this after editorial issues caused a year delay-completing the edition in 4 months The edition can be accessed here: cba-yorkshire.org.uk/1/welcome-to...

The Melsonby Hoards are "probably the largest deposit of Iron Age metalwork ever encountered in Britain"! In an #AntiquityBlog, Tom Moore and Sophia Adams discuss the hoards' exciting discovery and the next steps for research and display in the Yorkshire Museum 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People https://theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-ancient-race-of-skeleton-pe-1819565415/

📜 What can ancient astrological handbooks tell us about the lives of women around 2000 years ago? 🎙️ In this episode of Curiosity Meets The Past, Egyptologist, Dr. Lingxin Zhang, guides us through the inner workings of the zodiac in Roman Egypt 🏺  www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyMS...

£50 for a check up and £280 per tooth for removals… what a scam

When job rejections are unable to offer feedback on applications? Like are u not considering applications properly or not

Rereading fellowship of the ring

Wooohooo!!! 260 of you, in fivers, tenners and more have raised £10,000!! Well done everyone! 👏 I'm sure there will be stretch funding, but this is brilliant news, it really is. #Archaeology p🏺

So close!! Can we get it across the line and into the safety of Leicester Museums Service, where it can be researched, studied... and looked after in perpetuity! #Archaeology 🏺 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-...

Editing is tough but the journal is finally out

Lord of the rings

Currently reading Proto by Laura Spinney

Dr Sam Lucy is doing a public lecture on the recent publication of the cemetery site at the Bowl Hole Bamburgh do check out the details on our blog bamburghresearchproject.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/i...

@leicsarchhissoc.bsky.social tries to save to the locals the Leicestershire Bronze Age torc. The have started a crowdfunder with the target of £10,000. #Archaeology www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-...

I'm a little late today but wanted to contribute to #FindsFriday all the same This week we have the not-yet-famous Middleham Assemblage, which I'm hoping will one day see its time in the sun! This is, still, an informal(ish) moniker for BM-7C4457 (finds.org.uk/database/art...), + has not yet stuck!

Finally home after 20+ hours of travelling…

Call for Abstracts! We invite submissions for its 6th Annual Free Public Virtual Conference, Opening the Ancient World 2026, that will take place on Sunday–Monday, July 19–20, 2026 Conference Theme: Fashion Forward: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Apparel Abstract Deadline: March 31 2026

Weirdly, people in Beijing (where there’s actually foreigners) stare way more than in Urumqi

Any idea why my Bluesky won’t allow me to not post this photo

ICE breaking xenia/hospitium

Excited to share that our co-edited volume on the Iron Age Philistine cemetery from Ashkelon is now out! This volume presents the bioarchaeological findings from the c. 250 individuals, each with a dedicated catalogue entry that synthesizes their stratigraphic, osteological & artifactual contexts.

Discovered the most interesting coffee shop in Urumqi yesterday, like drinking coffee cocktails

There are 2 books which I would strongly suggest for people to read or re-read: The Hobbit. The Lord Of The Rings. This is from The Lord Of The Rings chapter is The Shadow of the Past.

'The editors of this volume have laid down a challenge, nothing less than the promotion of a new late antiquity: Eurasian Late Antiquity... the continental regions of Eurasia were subject... to forces bringing them together... a “hidden grid” of linkages connecting them.' Averil Cameron, p. 419

Snowstorm #Goals from the @squirrel_boxes instagram 🥰😴 #sqrlpix

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

I just thought everyone should see this

Spent yesterday in the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region museum. A really interesting and obvious demonstration of the political nature of museums. 🏺

Urumqi, Xinjiang

Very sceptical, how are these institutions use of the money being audited? Could be a great opportunity to fund and train some young curators, conservators etc to come and gain experience in national museums

This is a nice gesture