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Naomi Sykes

@naomisykes.bsky.social

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Head of Department of Archaeology & History @UniofExeter

Naomi Sykes FSA is a zooarchaeologist and is currently the Lawrence Professor of Archaeology at the University of Exeter. Sykes researches human-animal relations in the past.

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University of Exeter Archaeology and History Department @uoearchhist.bsky.social · 8d

Has Halloween come early? No, last week some of our 3rd year archaeology and forensics students carried out a crime scene recovery exercise in our woodland on campus.

A woodland setting with trees in the background. A line of police tape is strung across the foreground, and a skeleton and rope can be seen beyond.

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University of Exeter Archaeology and History Department @uoearchhist.bsky.social · 10d

Step back to 1086 and explore the fascinating world behind the oldest surviving Domesday manuscript!📜

Dr Chris Lewis speaks on the mysteries, gaps and stories of Exon Domesday.

👉 When: 30 October 7:30pm
👉 Where: Exeter Cathedral and online
👉 Tickets: www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

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Naomi Sykes @naomisykes.bsky.social · Sep 9

Can’t wait to welcome you to the Department! Especially with such a glowing reference from Curator Rob!

Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · Sep 9

GUTTED to be saying goodbye to volunteer Mia today. 😭

She's off to study History @exeter.ac.uk, after which we have no doubt she will take over the world.

Good Luck Mia!! 🤗

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Exeter Cathedral @exetercathedral.bsky.social · Sep 8

This September we are hosting a Special Tour of the Bishop's Garden and Cathedral. Learn about the historic home of Devon’s bishops, who have lived here since the 13th century.

🌳 24 September | 10:30am
🌳 £20 (adults), £10 (under 18s)
🌳 Accessible tour

Tickets: bit.ly/special-tours

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Exeter Cathedral @exetercathedral.bsky.social · Sep 4

Increase your knowledge of Exon Domesday on 30 October with researcher Chris Lewis!

Book your tickets to learn all about the oldest of the three original manuscripts surviving from William the Conqueror’s Domesday Survey of 1086: bit.ly/2025-library-lecture

#ExeterCathedral #YourCathedral

2025 Annual Library Lecture: The secrets and silences of Exon Domesday

Explore the many secrets of Exon Domesday, and discover why, where and how it was written.

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · Aug 13

Glass furnace update! 🔥🍷

We've been building a glass furnace @butserancientfarm.co.uk. We've removed the PhD student from the hole and replaced her with Roman tile and (less Roman) brick. Looks like a Goldfish.

#CuratorRob has been helping make daub bricks and has in no way lost his mind.

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HCAatEdinburgh @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social · Aug 13

You want hillforts? We got hillforts! The AHRC-funded project 'An atlas of the hillforts of Britain and Ireland' was an HCA project with the University of Oxford,
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#HillfortsWednesday #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh #Edinburghuniversity

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · Aug 11

I'm fundraising for LauraLynn - Irelands Childrens Hospice
fundraise.lauralynn.ie/s/859/858/s

I’m taking part in “Run 100K in September” challenge to raise funds for LauraLynn, Ireland’s only Children’s Hospice, for children with life-limiting conditions, be grateful for your support

Aidan O’Sullivan

I'm fundraising for LauraLynn - Irelands Childrens Hospice and would love if you could support my challenge.

fundraise.lauralynn.ie

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University of Exeter Archaeology and History Department @uoearchhist.bsky.social · Aug 6

Such a lovely story this 😍 Jan Oke is an Exeter Archaeology alumnus and Fairlynch Museum’s Curator of Archaeology. She is a former recipient of the Angela and Tony Colmer prize 🏆 herself and was part of the team who awarded it to Phoebe Holland today ♻️ for outstanding Fieldwork in Local Archaeology👇

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Naomi Sykes @naomisykes.bsky.social · Jul 2

Very proud of Alisha and Jess who are that the launch of their co-authored book: Tails and Roots - a creative exploration of biodiversity in research @uoearchhist.bsky.social @frankieboyd.bsky.social

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University of Exeter Archaeology and History Department @uoearchhist.bsky.social · Jun 5

Some great finds fresh out of the ground today! In trench 6, we've been finding lots of animal bone and what some staff on site believe to be a key! We will need to x-ray to find out. Then in trench 3 we have found the remains of a wall, and also some beautiful Beauvais pottery from France!

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · Jun 5

Funded PhD on natural and cultural heritage on islands! www.mic.ul.ie/sites/defaul...

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University of Exeter Archaeology and History Department @uoearchhist.bsky.social · Jun 4

A lot of cobbled surfaces being revealed at Columbjohn! Trench 3 is also revealing some features such as a drainage system and a slumped wall!
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · May 31

Halfway through our fieldschool at Columbjohn! In terms of finds it's a tale of two halves - prehistoric (likely Iron Age) pottery and flints from one trench, masses of post-med pot and Elizabethan ceiling plaster from another!

A hand holding two small sherds of black pottery, over an excavation trench

A series of sherds of different post-medieval pottery with a variety of colours and glazes and patterns - some local and some imported

A finds tray with large chunks of plaster, some cornice pieces and oval shaped and a leaf is visible.

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University of Exeter Archaeology and History Department @uoearchhist.bsky.social · May 22

First day on site at Columbjohn for Fieldschool! A feature in Trench 3 and some new finds have already been discovered as the rubble layer is being revealed. Finds include a Victorian coin and 17th century pin! Follow this page to keep updated and visit the site at Killerton when you get a chance!

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · Apr 29

We're hosting Alisha from @uoearchhist.bsky.social all week this week.

Alisha is bothering our pig teeth for her PhD to find out wonderful things about the history of wold board at Fishbourne (and elsewhere, but who cares about all that?).

A woman with long straight hair, looking at the camera. Beside her is a a laptop and a camera on a fancy stand pointing at a pig mandible. We wouldn't say the woman looks a bit demented but there's something in her eyes that suggests she seen far too many pig teeth.

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University of Exeter Archaeology and History Department @uoearchhist.bsky.social · Apr 11

Were cats domesticated in the Neolithic? New research by Sean Doherty and Naomi Sykes suggests it was far more recent, and the result of religion, not rodents

Did cult sacrifices in ancient Egypt give rise to the cat?

“Murder pathway” may have tamed wildcats over several generations

www.science.org

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · Apr 5

Finally President Linda Hurcombe is bringing together multiple strands - Anthropocene, future periods of time, public engagement through experimental archaeology, and the future of @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social

Slide with title 'Will periods still have a place?' with images of a microchip and the plastic age.

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Naomi Sykes @naomisykes.bsky.social · Apr 4

Joy!

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University of Exeter Archaeology and History Department @uoearchhist.bsky.social · Apr 4

All welcome at dr Semih Celik's talk on the 15th of April 10:30 😊 'Exploring and Digitising the First Ottoman Natural History Museum and its Eco-Heritage'

Join us on in the Digital Humanities Seminar Room 1 (Streatham campus) or online!

More info and tickets👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sci-projec...

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Dr. Carly Ameen @carlydigsit.bsky.social · Mar 28

Brilliant way to end the term with some of our brilliant @exeter.ac.uk 3rd years and colleagues across the faculty showing off how Dead Important the humanities really are!!

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Naomi Sykes @naomisykes.bsky.social · Mar 28

Our Department is kicking off the first Dead Important Festival - students and staff showcasing how their humanities work is making positive changes for people, places and policy. And there are stickers!

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