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UHI Archaeology Institute @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social · 19d

'Animating the Dead: An #Archaeology of Bronze Age Burial Practices in #Orkney' by Professors Jane Downes and Colin Richards follows decades of research and incorporates new excavation results and radiocarbon dates from sites across the county. Available to pre-order now.
#BronzeAge #Prehistory

October release for institute director’s book on Bronze Age burial practice

'Animating the Dead: An Archaeology of Bronze Age Burial Practices in Orkney' by Professors Jane Downes and Colin Richards follows decades of research and incorporates new excavation results and radiocarbon dates from sites across the county.

archaeologyorkney.com

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Roy van Beek @royvanbeek.bsky.social · 10h

Proud to have been part of an international research team to investigate the fascinating landscape history of Lolland (Denmark), and what we can learn from it. This is the paper we wrote:

doi.org/10.1080/0142...

Lolland’s changing landscapes: insights from long-term interactions between people and the environment

Many parts of Europe are today facing a wide range of societal and environmental challenges that demand a high degree of resilience and adaptability. Archaeology has an important role to play by pr...

doi.org

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moorsandedges.bsky.social @moorsandedges.bsky.social · Aug 10

“The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from the goose”.
Reclaim the Moors walk from Redmires on the #IngloriousTwelfth

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 22h

Or perhaps a Daily Suginoto?

Hiroshi Sugimoto
Opticks 115, 2018

Hiroshi Sugimoto
Opticks 115, 2018.
Square digitally altered Polaroid image of blue light from a prism

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 1d

A slice is nice! #Fenland #FlagFenBasin #Dendrochronology

A slice through a bog oak from - clearly visible growth rings and preserved sap wood.

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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 2d

Are you going to be our new colleague at @au.dk @auarcher.bsky.social? Full professorship in #archaeology, deadline November 9.

international.au.dk/about/profil...

Full Professorship(s) in Archaeology - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University

international.au.dk

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 3d

#Fenland #FlagFenBasin
#Archaeology

Exposed peat, flat horizon and blue sky with small white fluffy clouds.

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 4d

And save the environment that saves the snails!🐌🌳🌿

Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 4d

Save the snails!!! 🐌🐌🐌

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Sleaford Mods @sleafordmods.bsky.social · 4d

10 years since we turned up to Later… with Jools Holland with just a laptop and a mic. The silence in the room when we dropped the first fuck was deafening.

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 5d

Tilled silt fen and wind turbine shadow #Fenland

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#Fenland

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#Fenland

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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John @maenhir.bsky.social · 6d

Mabesgate
#StandingStoneSunday

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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 6d

Tube Portraits: Vienna

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · Jul 20

Peaceful protesters yesterday, writing the words on their placards which will convert them from ordinary citizens to terrorists in the eyes of the government and the law. Words which put them in the same legal group as Osama bin Laden. The rank absurdity of Cooper’s decision captured in one photo.

Protesters writing on blank placards during a protest

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 6d

The desire of the British state to curtail and prevent protest on ongoing social injustice issues is not new but their desire to legalize their authoritarian turn is worrying and should be resisted. #FreePalestine

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 6d

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 6d

Let's not diminish how nasty Margaret Thatcher was.....

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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 6d

Am at the Portobello book festival today, talking - with others more eminent - about the great Scottish painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and her epic series of galcier pictures.
1.30pm, library downstairs.
She's so inspiring
portobellobookfestival.com/2025/09/05/t...

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 6d

The exhibition at the Wiltshire Museum in Devizes consists of screenprints, paintings and relief prints, alongside books, lithographs, prints, paintings, drawings and maps drawn from the museum's own collection.

Art meets archaeology in new exhibition about Wiltshire landscape - BBC News

Artist and archaeologist Dr Rose Ferraby's exhibition aims to show Wiltshire's influence on art.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 7d

The best of us

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Police make almost 500 arrests at Palestine Action protest in London

Officers arrest activists at silent vigil in support of banned organisation, as demos go ahead despite PM’s pleas

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 7d

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 7d

www.royaleijkelkamp.com/academy/know...

#FlagFenAugerSurvey

Auger core sample: white plastic gutter holding soil samples retrieved with a Dutch auger. Auger point 189: unoxidised silts below pale brown oxidised plougsoil and peat.

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 8d

A very big thank you to Jill Cook, Neil Wilkin and Petra Jones. Archaeology, its knowledge and stories, it’s important!

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 8d

First week of term, first year of study, evening teaching, from Birkbeck to British Museum, from gallery to study room, from Neolithic Cumbria to Bronze Age Cambridgeshire through the connection of Langdale stone, from gold cup to gold-makers hoard.

Birkbeck students in gallery 51, hearing (and seeing in materials) stories of deposition and things with Neil Wilkin.

Birkbeck students around a table watching and listening to Petra Jones describe the objects (their connections and biographies) that she brings out of small plastic boxes onto the table.

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