Hugo Anderson-Whymark
@hugowhymark.bsky.social
Passion for prehistory! Flint and stone tools | 3D modelling | monuments | flintknapping | all things Orkney. Senior Curator of Prehistory (Palaeolithic to Neolithic), National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh | Visiting Associate Professor @ UHI
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FREE ONLINE MAGAZINE: Celebrating Archaeology in Scotland
Explore the links between archaeology and wellbeing in the 2025 edition from Scotland's Archaeology Strategy, featuring our @digitscotland.bsky.social and @scarf-scot.bsky.social projects: archaeologystrategy.scot/magazine/
#ScotArchStrat
Explore the links between archaeology and wellbeing in the 2025 edition from Scotland's Archaeology Strategy, featuring our @digitscotland.bsky.social and @scarf-scot.bsky.social projects: archaeologystrategy.scot/magazine/
#ScotArchStrat
November 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
FREE ONLINE MAGAZINE: Celebrating Archaeology in Scotland
Explore the links between archaeology and wellbeing in the 2025 edition from Scotland's Archaeology Strategy, featuring our @digitscotland.bsky.social and @scarf-scot.bsky.social projects: archaeologystrategy.scot/magazine/
#ScotArchStrat
Explore the links between archaeology and wellbeing in the 2025 edition from Scotland's Archaeology Strategy, featuring our @digitscotland.bsky.social and @scarf-scot.bsky.social projects: archaeologystrategy.scot/magazine/
#ScotArchStrat
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And it's here! Our very own Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal Volume 31 is now ready to download absolutely free. And it's a stoater, to use the technical Scottish term. Thanks to all our authors, illustrators, sponsors, typesetter and the editorial team.
www.tafac.org.uk/2025/11/volu...
www.tafac.org.uk/2025/11/volu...
November 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
And it's here! Our very own Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal Volume 31 is now ready to download absolutely free. And it's a stoater, to use the technical Scottish term. Thanks to all our authors, illustrators, sponsors, typesetter and the editorial team.
www.tafac.org.uk/2025/11/volu...
www.tafac.org.uk/2025/11/volu...
There's a great range of papers at the upcoming Lithic Studies Society conference on 7/8 November in Leicester. I look forward to catching up with some folk there! Book here: www.tickettailor.com/events/lithi... @lithicstudiessoc.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 9:22 AM
There's a great range of papers at the upcoming Lithic Studies Society conference on 7/8 November in Leicester. I look forward to catching up with some folk there! Book here: www.tickettailor.com/events/lithi... @lithicstudiessoc.bsky.social
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Here are some installation photos of our show currently on at The Reid Gallery - Glasgow School of Art
Even better in real life though, so if you are in Glasgow pop in for a survey of our Papay SurvØY.
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Even better in real life though, so if you are in Glasgow pop in for a survey of our Papay SurvØY.
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Saoirse Higgins and Jonathan Ford – SurvØY, 20 September – 1 November 2025 Reid Gallery
SurvØY was developed over four years as a contemporary artist ‘island almanac’, surveying and monitoring scales of change in the context of the island environment of Papa Westray, one of the most nort...
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October 3, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Here are some installation photos of our show currently on at The Reid Gallery - Glasgow School of Art
Even better in real life though, so if you are in Glasgow pop in for a survey of our Papay SurvØY.
www.flickr.com/photos/glasg...
Even better in real life though, so if you are in Glasgow pop in for a survey of our Papay SurvØY.
www.flickr.com/photos/glasg...
Scotland’s Archaeology Strategy is advertising for a new Chair. Take a look - It's a great role to help shape Scottish archaeology archaeologystrategy.scot/scotlands-ar...
Scotland’s Archaeology Strategy Committee Needs a New Chair! – Scotland’s Archaeology Strategy
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October 2, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Scotland’s Archaeology Strategy is advertising for a new Chair. Take a look - It's a great role to help shape Scottish archaeology archaeologystrategy.scot/scotlands-ar...
There's a new flintknapping workshop at Kilmartin Museum if you fancy learning an ancient craft www.kilmartin.org/introduction...
Introduction to Flintknapping — Kilmartin Museum
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October 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
There's a new flintknapping workshop at Kilmartin Museum if you fancy learning an ancient craft www.kilmartin.org/introduction...
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The annual Orkney Archaeology Review, published by Orkney Archaeology Society, has been dropping through members' letterboxes.
#archaeology #orkney
#archaeology #orkney
2025 Orkney Archaeology Review published
The annual Orkney Archaeology Review, published by Orkney Archaeology Society, has been arriving through members' letterboxes this week.
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May 26, 2025 at 6:46 AM
The annual Orkney Archaeology Review, published by Orkney Archaeology Society, has been dropping through members' letterboxes.
#archaeology #orkney
#archaeology #orkney
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New paper klaxon: pre print now available OA: muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti...
Thanks to everyone at @ria.ie for their work on this, and most importantly to Chantal for collaboration on the paper.
A short 🧵 on what we argue...
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@eaapam.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone at @ria.ie for their work on this, and most importantly to Chantal for collaboration on the paper.
A short 🧵 on what we argue...
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@ucddublin.bsky.social
@eaapam.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
New paper klaxon: pre print now available OA: muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti...
Thanks to everyone at @ria.ie for their work on this, and most importantly to Chantal for collaboration on the paper.
A short 🧵 on what we argue...
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
@ucddublin.bsky.social
@eaapam.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone at @ria.ie for their work on this, and most importantly to Chantal for collaboration on the paper.
A short 🧵 on what we argue...
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
@ucddublin.bsky.social
@eaapam.bsky.social
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We find fingerprints, cord, basketry and other impressions left in damp pottery while pieces were made in the Neolithic but some new examples have left us puzzled and intrigued.
#archaeology #Orkney #Neolithic #Ceramics #NessOfBrodgar
#archaeology #Orkney #Neolithic #Ceramics #NessOfBrodgar
Puzzling but precise – intrigued by impressions on pottery sherds
We find fingerprints, cord, basketry and other impressions left in damp pottery while pieces were made in the Neolithic but a new example has left us puzzled and intrigued.
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April 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
We find fingerprints, cord, basketry and other impressions left in damp pottery while pieces were made in the Neolithic but some new examples have left us puzzled and intrigued.
#archaeology #Orkney #Neolithic #Ceramics #NessOfBrodgar
#archaeology #Orkney #Neolithic #Ceramics #NessOfBrodgar
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Hooray! Our paper on kinship in Neolithic Ireland is out. Such a pleasure to write this (and draw fancy maps) with a team of fabulous and inspiring prehistorians: Neil Carlin, Jess Smyth, @cjfrieman.bsky.social, Dani Hofmann, @pennybickle.bsky.social, Kerri Cleary and @prehistorian.bsky.social:
"Social and Genetic Relations in Neolithic Ireland: Re-evaluating Kinship"
A major contribution to debates on Neolithic kinship, genetic relatedness & monuments like Newgrange. Led by Dr Neil Carlin & Dr Jessica Smyth at UCD Archaeology & international team
Cambridge Arch J
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
A major contribution to debates on Neolithic kinship, genetic relatedness & monuments like Newgrange. Led by Dr Neil Carlin & Dr Jessica Smyth at UCD Archaeology & international team
Cambridge Arch J
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
April 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Hooray! Our paper on kinship in Neolithic Ireland is out. Such a pleasure to write this (and draw fancy maps) with a team of fabulous and inspiring prehistorians: Neil Carlin, Jess Smyth, @cjfrieman.bsky.social, Dani Hofmann, @pennybickle.bsky.social, Kerri Cleary and @prehistorian.bsky.social:
OUT NOW!
The Early Neolithic of Northern Europe: New approaches to migration, movement and social connections. www.sidestone.com/books/the-ea...
#prehistory #monuments #NeolithicScandinavia
The Early Neolithic of Northern Europe: New approaches to migration, movement and social connections. www.sidestone.com/books/the-ea...
#prehistory #monuments #NeolithicScandinavia
The Early Neolithic of northern Europe @ Sidestone Press
In Britain, Ireland and Southern Scandinavia, the Early Neolithic is characterised by monumental constructions (e.g. causewayed enclosures, dolmens) and by specific traditions of depositional practice...
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March 31, 2025 at 9:07 PM
OUT NOW!
The Early Neolithic of Northern Europe: New approaches to migration, movement and social connections. www.sidestone.com/books/the-ea...
#prehistory #monuments #NeolithicScandinavia
The Early Neolithic of Northern Europe: New approaches to migration, movement and social connections. www.sidestone.com/books/the-ea...
#prehistory #monuments #NeolithicScandinavia
Wonderful flintknapping!
A figurine of a hartebeest, made of flint, found in a cemetery at Hierakonpolis. It dates to the Naqada II period, 3650–3450 BC.
The Naqada culture was a Chalcolithic Predynastic Egyptian culture. Hierakonpolis is a major site for studying this period.
On display at Neues Museum Berlin.
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The Naqada culture was a Chalcolithic Predynastic Egyptian culture. Hierakonpolis is a major site for studying this period.
On display at Neues Museum Berlin.
📷 me
🏺
March 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Wonderful flintknapping!
The fundraiser to reopen Tomb of the Eagles is at 80%. Can you help get it over the line? www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/tomb-of-th...
Tomb of the Eagles
The Tomb of the Eagles is one of Orkney's best-loved Neolithic sites. We aim to re-open and restore it as a community hub and tourist locale
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March 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The fundraiser to reopen Tomb of the Eagles is at 80%. Can you help get it over the line? www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/tomb-of-th...
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Orkney Archaeology Society's next public talk is an online event with Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark, outlining further discoveries at Blomuir Passage Grave, Holm. The talk will be on 20th March, starting at 7pm.
Get your free tickets here,
orkneyarchaeologysociety.org.uk/event/talk-f...
Get your free tickets here,
orkneyarchaeologysociety.org.uk/event/talk-f...
Talk: Further discoveries at Blomuir Passage Grave, Holm
By Hugo Anderson Wymark National Museums Scotland In 2023 a new Neolithic passage grave was discovered at Blomuir, Holm. Excavations in 2024 fully excavated the chamber and side cells, revealing fu…
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March 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Orkney Archaeology Society's next public talk is an online event with Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark, outlining further discoveries at Blomuir Passage Grave, Holm. The talk will be on 20th March, starting at 7pm.
Get your free tickets here,
orkneyarchaeologysociety.org.uk/event/talk-f...
Get your free tickets here,
orkneyarchaeologysociety.org.uk/event/talk-f...
The Lithic Studies Society is now on Bluesky, for all your stone tool lovers: @lithicstudiessoc.bsky.social #lithics #flint
January 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The Lithic Studies Society is now on Bluesky, for all your stone tool lovers: @lithicstudiessoc.bsky.social #lithics #flint
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Free one day symposium @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social exploring case studies of Collecting Environmental Change, 13 March. More info and booking here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collecting... 📜 #envhist
Collecting Environmental Change: Case Studies from Scotland and Europe
This symposium explores how museums are collecting objects that represent the impact of and response to environmental change.
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January 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Free one day symposium @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social exploring case studies of Collecting Environmental Change, 13 March. More info and booking here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collecting... 📜 #envhist
Tonight's the night that Blomuir #Neolithic Passage Grave in #Orkney is on #DiggingForBritain - BBC 2 8pm. Victorian diggers removed enough stone for a house, but still left us some amazing archaeology!
January 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Tonight's the night that Blomuir #Neolithic Passage Grave in #Orkney is on #DiggingForBritain - BBC 2 8pm. Victorian diggers removed enough stone for a house, but still left us some amazing archaeology!
All of the new Digging for Britain episodes have dropped on Iplayer, so you can catch up on new discoveries at Blomuir Passage Grave!
'Digging for Britain' episode featuring Orkney excavations online now - Archaeology Orkney
The Digging for Britain programme featuring the Orkney excavations at The Cairns and Blowmuir is now available on BBC iPlayer.
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January 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
All of the new Digging for Britain episodes have dropped on Iplayer, so you can catch up on new discoveries at Blomuir Passage Grave!
Well, that's my Twitter/X account deleted for good. I've imported my old tweets across as there are a few good images
January 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Well, that's my Twitter/X account deleted for good. I've imported my old tweets across as there are a few good images
I'm looking forward to the new series of Digging for Britain, which starts tomorrow! But you've have to wait until Thursday for news of exciting new discoveries in our Neolithic passage grave at Blomuir, Orkney
January 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I'm looking forward to the new series of Digging for Britain, which starts tomorrow! But you've have to wait until Thursday for news of exciting new discoveries in our Neolithic passage grave at Blomuir, Orkney
Some objects speak for themselves! This heart shaped facing stone of finest 'Brandon black' flint dates from c.1930. #flintfriday
December 6, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Some objects speak for themselves! This heart shaped facing stone of finest 'Brandon black' flint dates from c.1930. #flintfriday
Fred Snare's gunflint work c.1910. As the demands for gunflint fell, building flints became an important part of the business - the patterns in this postcard show some of the intricate designs they produced
November 29, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Fred Snare's gunflint work c.1910. As the demands for gunflint fell, building flints became an important part of the business - the patterns in this postcard show some of the intricate designs they produced
Herbert Edwards knapping gunflints behind the Flintknappers Arms, #Brandon, Suffolk, c.1940s. #flintfriday
November 22, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Herbert Edwards knapping gunflints behind the Flintknappers Arms, #Brandon, Suffolk, c.1940s. #flintfriday
An interesting distribution map of archaeology in Scotland, though I'm not sure the work on Orkney is accurate
In 1947, the Scottish Group of the Council for British Archaeology published its first report on archaeological activities in Scotland. In 1955, this became Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, now published by @archscot.bsky.social. Adding grid references in 1956 means we can map these activities.
November 21, 2024 at 8:10 AM
An interesting distribution map of archaeology in Scotland, though I'm not sure the work on Orkney is accurate
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Yet more! Lucille Rodrigues started her SGSAH CDA project last month, working with me, @hugowhymark.bsky.social, and Dr Nyree Finlay. She will be looking at collections at the NMS and a series of regional museums to characterise lithic traditions in Orkney, Northeast Scotland, and The Borders.
November 20, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Yet more! Lucille Rodrigues started her SGSAH CDA project last month, working with me, @hugowhymark.bsky.social, and Dr Nyree Finlay. She will be looking at collections at the NMS and a series of regional museums to characterise lithic traditions in Orkney, Northeast Scotland, and The Borders.