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Dr Charles Mount

@cmount1.bsky.social

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Dr Charles Mount, Bord na Móna Project Archaeologist. Jottings on archaeology (especially the Bronze Age), history, culture, heritage & occasionally film & music. Based in Ireland. 🏺

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Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Mar 16

Our worldview is shaped by how we compare what we know to recorded history. But history has unknown unknowns we don’t even realize exist, making our worldview provisional.

Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Jun 11

The grid goes down. The Wi-Fi dies. Somewhere in a field, an experimental archaeologist calmly lights a fire with horse dung and flint.

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Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Apr 26

Trenchsmart
A smart archaeological trenching tool that uses Bayesian probability to optimize archaeological testing. App components. Total project cost using LLM to generate code and Developer to stitch together €3000-€4000.

Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Mar 27

Imagine being by the side of Duke William

Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Mar 18

A bakery near me needs to make this

Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · Mar 18

I remember it being unpleasant & a lot less fudge-y.

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Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Mar 18

Classic

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Mar 18

this is supposed to be about FDR but i don't think the Heritage guys realized what else this headline could mean

Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · Mar 18

Hmmmm

Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Mar 18

It was like that for older people too but when they said they were mentally ill they were stigmatized so they kept quiet.

Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Mar 16

Our worldview is shaped by how we compare what we know to recorded history. But history has unknown unknowns we don’t even realize exist, making our worldview provisional.

Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Mar 15

She look like a staff member Hogwarts.

Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Mar 15

No your fine, didn’t come across that way

Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Mar 15

It’s Wikipedia Creative Commons commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ag... (I should have credited it). I really like it.

Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Mar 14

I read this in a biography of Christie when I was in college. I didn’t realise it was now unattributed.

Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Mar 14

Agatha Christie was married to Max Mallowan for 46 years. She once said, "An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her."

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Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Mar 13

Why was this Irish house abandoned? Modernity trumps tradition, city jobs outshine rural life. Kids left this generational farm for cities—maybe the US or Australia. Parents gone, no one stayed to tend it. A grand two-storey stone house, abandoned but ripe for restoration, if anyone cared.

Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Mar 12

Achill, Co. Mayo, Ireland, overlooking Purteen Harbour and the Atlantic.

Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Mar 12

I was trying to help him with French and taking him through the word tables in Jim Mallory’s book on the Indo-Europeans. Trying to point out he could do the word predictions like you said.

Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Mar 12

I’m blue in the face showing him identical words across all the languages but he says he just doesn’t see it!?

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Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Mar 11

My son won’t acknowledge the relationships between Indo-European languages. I feel like I’ve failed as a parent😞

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Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Mar 10

Ireland faces a seemingly unsolvable housing crisis, yet thousands of abandoned homes sit empty. Peering inside feels like glimpsing another world.

Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Mar 10

How your email reaches me.

I said I’d write the report, but I didn’t say when I’d finish it.

Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Mar 10

New drone arrived DJI Mini 4 Pro🤩. It feels like Christmas. Every boy should have their own drone.

Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Mar 7

The universal belief in the supernatural has been a defining aspect of all human cultures and societies. Like language and tools it is one of the defining characteristics of humanity.

Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Mar 6

Ireland has so many abandoned churches, falling into decay and ruin. This is St. Schiria’s Church, Crossakeel, Co. Meath, built with a loan of £466 given by the Board of First Fruits in 1822.

Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Mar 5

I think one of the problems is that Grimes is on Twitter X and so many archaeologists have left the platform that it’s now dominated by pseudoarchaeology.

Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Mar 5

Ireland stands apart with its abundance of abandoned and ruined churches, a poignant testament to a complex history.

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Dr Charles Mount @cmount1.bsky.social · Mar 4

Pretty sure I’ve got age dysphoria—I don’t identify with my birth-assigned age. So I’m coming out as 25.