Stuart Brookes

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Beacons and Military Communication from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period New open-access book, Beacons and Military Communication, explores pre-modern signalling systems and landscapes of defence.

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It's Open Access!

My House? Crowded.
My Chili Peppers? Red Hot.
My Lizzy? Thin. (These are all literally true.)

This was fun! #ScholaGladiatoria #SocAnt #UCL

Murujuga's rock art is over 40,000 years old, and contains what could be the very first depiction of a human face in history.

And it's currently under threat of destruction from Woodside's North West Shelf gas export terminal expansion.

@markogge.bsky.social #auspol

Digging for Britain

Looks like BBC needs geography lessons
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/.... Norton is very definitely in Suffolk

1306 downloads in the first month. Thanks everyone! Hope you enjoy it

Our very own Prof Mike Parker-Pearson quoted by @nickabbot.bsky.social. Tis indeed the season to be jolly! @uclarchaeology.bsky.social

And Merry Christmas to you too. Thanks for another year of great posts

Lordship and Landscape in East Anglia AD 400-800 A new volume on the Royal Centre at Rendlesham, Suffolk, co-edited by Stuart Brookes and Christopher Scull (UCL Institute of Archaeology), is now available.

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It's now also available Open Access:
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Wondering what to get yourself for Christmas? Wonder no more. www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Lordship-and...

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Probably not. It is also older than AD 625 on account of the repairs

Fancy doing a PhD on the archaeology of medieval Europe, c. AD 400-1500 at Oxford? Scholarship available here:
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Just putting this here now it has a lovely new landing page (thanks ADS team). Of particular interest to those looking for GIS data of England historical geography
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Lordship and Landscape in East Anglia AD400-800 This is an inter-disciplinary study of pathways to regional rulership and territorial lordship in early post-Roman Britain which takes as its starting point the East…

Our monograph on the elite centre at Rendlesham is now available for pre-order at www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Lordship-and...

Lordship and Landscape in East Anglia AD 400—800. The Royal Centre at Rendlesham, Suffolk, and its Contexts.
Eds C Scull, S Brookes and T Williamson

New issue of The Antiquaries Journal is out now

One by one the Brexit lies come home to roost. Cornwall Council has confirmed that the money it receives from the UK government to replace EU grants will run out in December, leaving more than £230m of fund applications by Cornish communities and businesses unmet.

The Cassette-Tape Revolution The disruptive power of the cassette anticipated the even greater tectonic shift that the digital age would bring to music.

Archaeology of cassettes: “The Cassette-Tape Revolution”https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-cassette-tape-revolution

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Wicker Man Terrifying audio adaptation of the cult 1973 film. With Brian Blessed.

Good for spooky winter nights
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Epic fail day. Spent the morning fiddling about with a session abstract for www.e-a-a.org/eaa2024 only to find the deadline was yesterday

Good meeting today mapping out the next 5+ years' digging roman villas in Suffolk