mattpope.bsky.social
Archaeologist & Associate Professor in Palaeolithic Archaeology at UCL, where we run the PaPa MSc programme.
Researching Neanderthal archaeology in La Mancheland & Western Doggerland, from Boxgrove to La Cotte.
Provide Geoarch expertise to ASE.
He/Him 🏺
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TBF the Rozzers are welcome to Cacophonix
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“No, Confiscateafix, I am your father!”
“NOOOOOOOOOOO!”
#Solstice
#Stonehenge
#1980s
#TheseRomansAreCrazy
#PlaymobilInfestation
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That sound like top advice, I'll go look
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My first jump in made me think they we a bit much for a humid summer morning!
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I had a listen just now on a drive, maybe a little 'too' lots of things. But they seemed to be having fun!
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I am just grateful and excited to learn there is a heavy metal band called Mastodon who wrote a metal opera called Leviathan. I want it to be my summer soundtrack.
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isnt it!
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Out of my wheelhouse a bit but there is a case for H. longi too.
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We'll experiment with bigger, spikier cones
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When she's chipped, jabbed and neutered she will
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Actuality
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Great idea
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Niels Nørkjaer Johannsen - clearly showing how late TRB 'stony graves' on Jutland peninsula, Denmark are likely to be cart burials, laid out alongside routeways. Later round barrows also alongside these same routes. #Europa2025Reading
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Sally Taylor demonstrating clear differences between lowland and upland early Neolithic enclosures in Cumbria - lowland are associated with Langdale axes, upland are not but are strung out along the Eden Valley #Europa2025Reading
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Coo!
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Tom Lawrence from Newcastle Uni is explaining his analysis of flint assemblages from Meso-Neo transition in south England and northern France. Network analysis of knapping 'traditions' seems to indicate fascinating cross-Channel connections during this period #Europa2025Reading
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Post-caffeine we are listening to Chantal Conneller exploring Mesolithic activity and routes through the Pennies, and also in the Cherhill/Avebury area. Some beautiful test pits! Possible placed deposits include aurochs skull, a lovely antler mattock and an engraved rib #Europa2025Reading
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I hope you had a great second week!
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Now Molly Masterson explaining her approach of 'plantiness' using the example of the species timbers used at Flag Fen and other Neolithic sites #Europa2025Reading
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Kicking things off in our first session on hunter-gatherer landscape connectivity is @mattpope.bsky.social ‘Landscapes of connection and separation in the Palaeolithic records of the Doggerland and La Mancheland regions’
Reconstructing human activity in submerged regions is just 🤯😍