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Reader in European Prehistory & Archaeology Lead at UoL • VP The Prehistoric Society • Chair AGE (EAA) Digs hillforts and Celts • working out the structure of prehistoric society • unpicking patriarchal assertion from present to past. Personal a/c #NUFC
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I hope there’s a gender audit ongoing regarding all of this. Because that’s what it’s about.

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We are fundraising to support #archaeology #students in #Gaza to settle their tuition fees & complete their degrees. We've worked with them at the #GAZAMAP project monitoring vulnerable #culturalheritage. Please donate and share: gogetfunding.com/help-gazan-s...

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Currently free online: Insularity and Identity Prehistoric Britain and the Archaeology of Europe www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Worrying stuff at this point in the year.

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🏺 Submerged stone tools and stone circles discovered off the coast of #Scotland show that people were settling farther north than what was previously thought 11,000 years ago #Archaeology #SubmergedLandscapes #AncientBlueSky

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@netflix.com I’m already paying £12 a month so I can do the admin. for my elderly mum, and you now want to increase it to £18 - when we could just have two accounts for £12. What am I not understanding?!

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Really interesting Viking paper (but what else from the Body Politics team). Lots of bellies on Early Iron Age daggers… absence of certain groups in combat deposits.

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Appalled that Chester Storyhouse have withdrawn Kneecap from their forthcoming events. Very worrying.

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Marking.

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Dorset Museum @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social is fundraising to acquire, conserve and display the Bronze Age *Crichel Hoard* www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... which includes a twisted gold ribbon torc Fundraising details here: www.dorsetmuseum.org/the-crichel-...

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I’m sure the next few weeks are going to throw up some marvellous ideas for the new club crest. I’m personally hoping for some quality Greggs ideas. #NUFC #newcastleunited

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

This was in my living room. My neighbour had one in her garage. We don’t know if it’s the same one. We have at least one local hornet.

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Average mark at the end of today: 67. Very happy with that.

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Meanwhile, female weaponry burials in La Téne N Italy. #Celts

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“the supra-regional megalithic phenomenon may not reflect deep social integration, but rather a shared cultural expression without strong underlying biological connections.” Clarke was right (on that at least). Not everything maps. There is no such thing as a ‘culture’. @boothicus.bsky.social

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🏺 New preprint on the genetics of people buried in 5000-year-old Neolithic funerary monuments linked to Wartburg and Westen Funnelbeaker traditions in present-day Germany. Stresses close genetic relatedness between as well as within tombs, reproductive... www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

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Confirmation. They are that good.

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Hornet.

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A student prefixed their Celts essay question ‘It’s not all Greek to me’. Dying.

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The centre left should stop being afraid of accurately describing and countering the global far right threat we now face, argue Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar

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Hope Mr Loverman clears up tonight #BAFTA

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