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It's Solstice Eve. Be more Asterix and Resist and Rebel authoritarian nonsense wherever you find it. 🏺☀️

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#archaeologynews The face of a Mesolithic woman who died in Belgium 10500 years ago Take with a pinch of salt of course, as hair and adornments are largely speculative But still these reconstructions are always fascinating! #archaeology #humanevolutionnews #news #discoveries🏺 tinyurl.com/2fwkf2en

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Traffic, crowds, Druids and, of course, the sun: all talking points of Solstice '25 at Stonehenge - that's 1925, by the way. Read more about an eventful morning here: open.substack.com/pub/prescape... 🏺

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And I worry when I accidently leave a lightbulb on www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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The highlight of this week was running a field trip for our @uclarchaeology.bsky.social MSc Palaeolithic and Palaeoanthropology students. Site Formation 🏕️ Quaternary Environment 🌳 Early Humans ☠️ Geomorphology ⛰️ Ancient Climate Change 🌊 #PaPa #FieldworkFriday 🏺🦣

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Talking yesterday evening with @jonathanrgoodman.bsky.social at the launch of his new book Invisible Rivals (yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... )

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White Sands' Footprints Confirmed as the Oldest Evidence of Humans in the Americas - a new study confirms ancient footprints in New Mexico are over 21,000 years old, rewriting the history of the Americas www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences...

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We will fight anyone who says these walls weren't painted by the same person who painted the Palace's walls. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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🚨Archaeo-Science Job Klaxon🚨Please Share! We're hiring an interim Lab Manager here at @uclarchaeology.bsky.social. Would be esp suited to someone with experience of running Archaeobotany, Human Osteology or Zooarchaeology lab. £53-64k in a great department. 🏺🧪🦴🌱🔬🦣 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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This is wonderful. So now Harbin can be grouped with the Denisovans and we can finally meet this population face to face, what shall we call them? 🏺🦣 arstechnica.com/science/2025...

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And consistent with this: 'a second wave of modern human–to-Neanderthal gene flow occurred ~100 to 120 thousand years ago' Recurrent gene flow between Neanderthals and modern humans over the past 200,000 years www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Pointing is an essential archaeological skill and, as our team pointing skills were getting rusty, we called on @hillfortian.bsky.social to provide a masterclass in the latest archaeological pointing techniques Here's stage one (elementary pointing) 🏆 👇👈👆👉

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Did you know that WAC-10 World Archaeology Congress (next week) is free for students to attend online? Register here: worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/

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Conférence au Paléosite de @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social : 27 juin 2025 à 19h, les dernières actualités du site de la Roche-à-Pierrot (St Césaire). www.hominides.com/les-derniere... Conference by @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social (2025-06-27 7pm) about the research on the site La Roche-à-Pierrot.

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Our little Cooper causing trouble in the plant pots. #DailyKitten

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In this episode Dan is joined by Chris Stringer from London's Natural History Museum to talk about how Homo sapiens managed to outlive other human cousins like Neanderthals and Denisovans podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

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We have a new heritage guide folks, this time we're looking at Heritage Crime in the Marine Environment. This has been written collaboratively with experts and professionals. Take a look at our guides here : davidbexhill.wixsite.com/sussexherita... ##HeritageCrime

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Great to see @archsoutheast.bsky.social on the cover this month with a great project!

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As we head into Full on Fieldwork or #FoF we ask again 'Where on Earth are our Students?' 🌏 PhD student Stefano Cecatiello is in Uzbekistan working with the Uzbek-Italian Archaeological project on the UNESCO site of Kafir Kala. linktr.ee/unibosamarca... #LocalAndGlobal

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⚠️🚨 SAVE THE DATE ALERT 🚨⚠️ We are having a Durotriges Big Dig OPEN DAY on: SUNDAY 29 JUNE Free entry - Everyone welcome!!! 🎉🤹💃🕺🎉 Details to follow - watch this space #Durotriges25 #Dorset #Archaeology

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Here’s the local seabed neighbourhood for #LaCotte de St Brelade Neanderthals, Jersey. Showing clifflines, grid systems of paths through the granite and a dead-end valley ending at the cave itself. #WorldOceanDay

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And now to the main event - the Europa lecture from Martin Bell - route-ways and paths as ‘entanglement made manifest’ for human and non-human entities. Movement is the ‘connective tissue between sites’ - inspirational! @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social

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Now landscape connectivity and lithics at @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social’s Europa meeting with Nick Barton - wonderful insights into the Mesolithic, complete with refits, at Welsh lake sites

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Closer to home again at the Thatcham Reedbeds with Catherine Barnett. Lovely to see multiple lines of env arch evidence integrated to paint such a vivid picture of these rich marsh environments that were centres of human and animal interaction in the mesolithic @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social

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Nick Barton kicking off the afternoon with a quote from Martin Bell and @jimleary.bsky.social on how we need to understand movement in prehistory at human scales. #EuropaReading2025

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Now it's @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social on how isotopes have transformed our understanding of connectivity in prehistory. #Europa2025

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The @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social Europa Conference has begun! It’s lovely to see so many folks at the University of Reading to honour Prof Martin Bell and I’m so pumped for the lineup of talks 🤩

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Really excited to be at the Europa 2025 Conference with many other prehistorians honouring a great archaeologist and human-being. A great day of talks ahead. @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social #Europa2025

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Memorial to the Free French Marine Commandos who fought and died alongside British, Commonwealth and U.S. Forces on the beaches of Normandy and elsewhere. My contempt for anyone risking the values they fought for knows know bounds.

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Been trying my hand lately at the 'coup de tranchet' ("slicing blow") technique that's famously abundant on Boxgrove handaxes. A tricky detail that testifies to complex cultural transmission 500,000 years ago!

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I'm delighted that British Archaeology has published my article about cave art in cartoons, and in the same edition as ginger cat wrangler @mattpope.bsky.social discussing the Sussex Archaeological Society! @archaeologyuk.bsky.social @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social

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Where's his hi viz vest ? 🤣

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I’m delighted to have been elected as a Fellow @antiquaries.bsky.social . Huge thanks to @heather1576.bsky.social for nominating me.

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