Tom Booth
@boothicus.bsky.social
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Bioarchaeologist. Amateur Scarecrow. Ancient DNA Lab @ The Francis Crick Institute Associate Lecturer in Quantitative Archaeology and Later European Prehistory @ UCL Institute of Archaeology
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gingerhowley.bsky.social
The Animal #aDNA Research Community is looking for new members to its steering committee!

If you are an ECR and interested in the field, we would love to have you on board. We particularly would value committee representation from outside of Europe.

@aarc-community.bsky.social
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kenfollettauthor.bsky.social
I had the pleasure of speaking to Amy Matthews & Dr Jennifer Wexler about my latest book, #CircleOfDays, on the English Heritage Podcast. You can listen to the full episode here: playlist.megaphone.fm?e=EHE4085886...
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classicalalan.bsky.social
This is my ink drawing of Wayland's Smithy, a Neolithic long barrow close to the Ridgeway in Oxfordshire. It is said that if you leave your horse there with a coin then Wayland will magically reshoe it.
The original artwork is now available on my Etsy shop here: shorturl.at/HDzSI
#TombTuesday
A black and white ink drawing of the neolithic tomb known as Wayland's Smithy
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tessmachling.bsky.social
Awful news! Following the theft of the Ely Bronze Age torc & a Bronze Age bracelet in 2024,now more Bronze Age gold has been stolen from St Fagans Museum in Cardiff. 😔

#Archaeology 🏺 #Gold #Torcs

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Bronze age gold jewellery stolen in raid on St Fagans museum in Cardiff
South Wales police issue public appeal for information after burglary at one of Wales’s most beloved museums
www.theguardian.com
boothicus.bsky.social
As always with C14, you’ll get what you’re given!
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megalithic.bsky.social
Druids Circle (Penmaenmawr): This fantastic ring of around 30 stones #StandingStoneSunday stands on the headland of Penmaenmawr above Conwy, close to a prehistoric trackway and three other stone circles.
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suegreaney.bsky.social
Chuffed that the project I nominated has been shortlisted! Fingers crossed for the award night now🤞
archaeologyuk.bsky.social
We are thrilled to reveal the shortlist for the #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards 2025. 🎉

Every shortlisted project demonstrates how archaeology connects people and places, and how it can spark fresh ideas about our shared past and future.

Congratulations to all shortlisted! 👉 shorturl.at/DbaPk
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patrickwyman.bsky.social
Today's the big day, friends - my new book, Lost Worlds: The Rise and Fall of Human Societies from the Ice Age to the Bronze Age, is available for preorder! Smash that link and purchase from your retailer of choice, if that's the kind of thing you're into. www.harpercollins.com/products/los...
Lost Worlds
The creator of the hit podcast Tides of History offers a new look at humanity’s deep past, showing us how our world was built not by inevitability, but by t...
www.harpercollins.com
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mcodlin.bsky.social
Excited to share our new study in @natcomms.nature.com. It reveals surprising protein variability in birds 🐦, reshaping how we use ancient proteins to reconstruct the past. Curious about the implications? Read the paper here: rdcu.be/eJi3h. With @beademarch.bsky.social
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durotrigesdig.bsky.social
The chunky, tile-embedded stone bastions of Roman ANDERITVM (Pevensey in East #Sussex) date from the late 3rd century AD

Today, these towers of the coastal fort protrude menacingly out into the road, threatening unwary motorists

📷 May 2010

#RomanFortThursday
Towers of a huge stone and tile wall with a tarmac road and central white painted line in front. Red car and small modern buildings in the distance
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crick.ac.uk
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boothicus.bsky.social
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boothicus.bsky.social
Always good to have options.
boothicus.bsky.social
If a penchant for naming subtly different types of road crossings after famously mostly black-and-white animals is weird, then I don’t know what’s right.
boothicus.bsky.social
I maybe have cleared out my last ancient lug hole (for a little while at least). One last malleus located for DNA sampling today, first day teaching at @uclarchaeology.bsky.social tomorrow.
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natasha-reynolds.bsky.social
Early Gravettian lithics do look wildly similar the whole way across Europe. It's from about 30 cal kya that an obvious east-west difference appears. I'm not sure about Isturitz being a major crossroads for people though, so I wonder if their alternative explanation will win out in the end...
boothicus.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

30,000-year-old Gravettian-associated people, moving and mixing over considerable distances, plus a dollop of further discoveries from sedimentary DNA. 1.15 billion reads for 16,000 human SNPs though...eeeeeessh.
www.biorxiv.org
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suegreaney.bsky.social
Fab for freelancers, self-employed, independent researchers:
post-doc-club.bsky.social
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...