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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 15h

What happens when archaeology meets rewilding? 🦴🌿
Our recent 'Archaeology in Wilding' workshop @kneppwilding.bsky.social explored how nature recovery and archaeology can thrive together.

Read the story here 👉 www.oxfordarchaeology.com/news/archaeo...

@oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social @wildwednesdays

Archaeology in Wilding @ Knepp

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 14d

Great to meet such a diverse and lively group of archaeologists, ecologists, farmers, geographers etc at our 'Archaeology in Wilding' workshop earlier this month. Thank you @kneppwilding.bsky.social for the beautiful venue, Guerilla Archaeology and all others who contributed! #WildWednesdays

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · Jul 30

Last week we were on the road again at the International Working Group for Palaeoethnobotany, Groningen. Topics ranged from experimental pit storage, prehistoric food crusts, community-designed Roman gardens & wild plant fibres & recipes-looking forward to IWGP Berlin 2028! #WildWednesdays

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · Jun 18

The project team have been out and about quite a bit lately, but here's our most professional looking photo of Lou assessing stored monolith samples from the 1980s Fenland Survey project! Fingers crossed they deliver the goods! #WildWednesdays #Archaeology #HardCoreLife

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · May 14

Rewilding Later Prehistory visited beautiful Rewilding Coombeshead last week and discovered a talent for pig whispering! #WildWednesdays

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · Apr 30

What can be happier than zooarchaeologists among red deer?? Adrienne shared this great photo from their ‘road trip’ to collect reference material at @kneppwilding.bsky.social -including Tamworth pig remains (a better match for archaeological pig than our modern breeds) #WildWednesdays #Archaeology

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · Apr 16

Project lead Anwen Cooper and archaeologist and artist Rose Ferraby chat to Pete Leeson about nature, farming and archaeology in the latest @treeamblepodcast
Check it out here: shorturl.at/6DzSy
#WildWednesdays #archaeology #naturerecovery @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social

Series 5 Episode 2 Archaeologists Rose and Anwen | Tree Amble

Rose, Anwen and I met at a farming conference and very quickly hit it off. We were all wondering why a tree lover and two archaeologists would spend a weekend talking about mob grazing and soils. Yet ...

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · Apr 9

The fish bones found in this Later Bronze/Iron Age burial from Stanground, Peterborough came from a pike of estimated 1m length, but are they trash or treasure?
A fish of this considerable size may well have been considered a worthy funerary offering (ref: Boismier 2021) #WildWednesdays #Archaeology

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Internet Archaeology @intarcheditor.bsky.social · Apr 3

From the archives:

Ferraby, R. 2017 Geophysics: creativity and the archaeological imagination, Internet Archaeology 44. doi.org/10.11141/ia.... 🏺
Rose explores archaeology as a creative practice by engaging specifically with the processes and visuals of geophysics.

Thwing, 2009. A screen print by Rose Ferraby. The composition features a mix of geometric and organic shapes. A large, elongated, triangular shape dominates the centre, and is textured to echo the steep sided valleys of the Yorkshire Wolds with a mix of dots, lines, and solid areas. Other shapes include rectangles, circles, and free-form elements. The image has a layered quality and different textures and colours have been applied in stages. The primary colors are various shades of green, ranging from light pastel to darker, more saturated tones. These are contrasted with a soft, warm beige background. A few small elements are rendered in white and a dark, almost black, line.
A circular motif in the upper right corner consists of a series of concentric rings resonant of barrows in plan form. The image has a calm, contemplative quality due to its soft colors and abstract composition. The use of texture and layering adds visual interest and depth.

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · Apr 2

Resident geoarchaeologist Dave Kay has been out in the sunshine at @kneppwilding.bsky.social looking at the effects of rewilding on soil structure - accompanied by the usually pretty elusive ponies! #WildWednesdays

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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · Mar 31

Tonight!!! See link below 👇

UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · Mar 31

Ulster Archaeological Society lecture tonight!

Prof. Joanna Brück of UCD, “The social worlds of Bronze Age animals.”

Monday 31st March at 7.30 pm in the Elmwood Building, QUB. lecture streamed on YouTube

Hot drinks & biscuits from 7 pm in the Elmwood Common Room

www.youtube.com/live/GfU1IFV...

The social worlds of Bronze Age animals

YouTube video by The Ulster Archaeological Society

www.youtube.com

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · Mar 20

For #WorldRewildingDay, some pictures from a recent visit to @kneppwilding.bsky.social - the animals roam a landscape that looks very different from its more agricultural days but is nevertheless still shaped by historic patterns of routeways, boundaries and structures

Cattle grazing by the River Adur, with Knepp Castle ruin in the background

A distant view of two fallow deer by a pond of recent origin

A beaver dam on the edge of woodland, holding back the water behind it

Three Tamworth pigs sleeping next to a tree

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · Mar 17

Very exciting news 🪶

@whitestorkproject.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Storrington in West Sussex named UK’s first European stork village

Village joins continental network alongside nearby Knepp estate, as birds previously extinct in Britain flourish

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · Mar 12

How do we imagine human’s place in nature in prehistory? Most reconstructions center on settlements, with nature fading into the backdrop, a hazy periphery. This image of Grim’s Bank by Peter Lorimer takes a different approach, as a woman in the countryside looks on from outside #WildWednesdays

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Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · Mar 11

Amazing ‘Voices’ gallery tour @themerl.bsky.social today with the brilliant Anwen Cooper from @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social / @rewildarch.bsky.social, discussing rewilding, early farming, more-than-human histories and prehistories, @kneppwilding.bsky.social, and much more!

Anwen Cooper talking and gesticulating, with a large wooden fish trap in the foreground.

The interior of a wooden eel trap, with circular lines of weaving, tying lengths of wood together.

A stack of books including (top to bottom) Ladybird ‘Stone Age Man in Britain’, Jake Fiennes ‘Land Healer’, Jacquetta Hawkes ’A Land’, Jacquetta Hawkes ‘Early Britain’, Nick Hayes and Jon Moses (eds) ‘Wild Service’, and Isabella Tree ‘Wilding’.

Detail of a model wattle hurdle with a museum label (MERL 68/100).

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · Mar 5

Anyone for a pint? The roughly 2000 year old Langstone Tankard is one of several examples of Iron Age/Roman tankards made of (potentially toxic) yew wood.
It can hold four pints, so if the taxins don't finish you off, the ale might do!
museum.wales/articles/120...
#WildWednesdays #Archaeology

Ancient Drinking Culture: The Langstone Tankard

. . . In December 2007, Craig Mills discovered a complete wooden tankard while metal-...

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · Feb 26

We have several more upcoming talks, including alongside a stellar line-up at the 'Where the Wild Things Were' rewilding symposium in Lifton, Devon 🐻🐌🐸🦅
www.ticketsource.co.uk/keep-it-wild...
See also our website: rewilding.oxfordarchaeology.com/publications...
#WildWednesdays #Archaeology #Ecology

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · Feb 19

Artist Miranda Creswell has been out at @kneppwilding.bsky.social and shared these lovely working shots with us on the theme of ‘What lies beyond’- bringing together the past and present, visible and invisible 😍😍😍
#WildWednesdays #Archaeology #Ecology

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · Feb 12

Project palynologist Lou has been out at Lye Valley Fen, hearing about the challenges faced in rescuing alkaline fen and its underlying peat when surrounded by urban conurbation - as outlined by expert ecologist and palynologist, Judy Webb #WildWednesdays #Archaeoecology

A view facing south down the Lye Valley Fen walkway in Oxford. The raised walkway bisects two areas of sloping valley fen with short green winter vegetation on its surface. Two people stand on the walkway facing the camera.

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · Jan 29

Antler rake/pick from Early Bronze Age pit at Moulsford, excavated by TVAS. Found alongside other remains including aurochs, amphibian & cattle. Molluscs suggest the pit was dug shortly after surrounding woodland was cleared. Perhaps returning to the earth some of what had been taken?#WildWednesdays

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · Jan 22

Rose Ferraby and project PI Anwen Cooper head to Hepple Wilds in Northumberland in search of prehistoric rock art and landscape connection on Monday’s episode of BBC Radio 3's ‘The Essay’- check it out here! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
#WildWednesdays #Archaeology #Prehistory

The Essay - EarthWorks - Stone - BBC Sounds

Archaeologist Rose Ferraby explores rock art in Northumberland.

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David Connolly BAJR @bajr-badger.bsky.social · Jan 15

All about understanding Matrilineal society in what is now Britain. Brilliant and careful work using multi disciplinary research
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain - Nature

An analysis of ancient mitochondrial and nuclear DNA shows evidence of matrilocal communities in Iron Age Britain.

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · Jan 15

Excavated in 1960, this Early Bronze Age barrow burial at Amesbury contained a number of wood, antler and bronze implements including an oak 'club' or beater. These were interpreted as the toolkit of a leather worker, but perhaps other interpretations are possible?
#WildWednesdays #Archaeology

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · Jan 8

A beautiful shot of (?Ceratodon purpureus) moss at Fountains Abbey by @roseferraby. Heathland mosses can often be identified in prehistoric samples, such as those from this Early Bronze Age turf-built burial mound at Pen-y-Fan, at the highest point of the Brecon Beacons. #WildWednesdays #Archaeology

'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · Dec 18

Some yuletide (archaeo)botany to send you on your way: Iron Age mistletoe fragments from Wardy Hill Ringwork, Ely &
a recent article on the UK's big mistletoe 'comeback' (possibly thanks to warmer winters & the Eurasian blackcap!)
shorturl.at/vEEUC #WildWednesdays #Archaeobotany #Archaeology

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