This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Patinated commemorative plaque reading "AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL To commemorate 25 years working for human rights..." with the remainder of the inscription obscured by the roots of the tree it commemorates, Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow
Commemorative plaque/handy tree growth indicator
No idea!
Hobbit Hoard! Tolkien archaeology! Cassette excavation!
"The discovery occurred during routine track renewal work when maintenance crews came across a set of cassette tapes buried at the base of an overhead line mast."
Fragments of sweet wrappers.
Four pieces of plastic cutlery.
Plastic drinking straws and straw wrappers.
Enjoying a treat this #NationalSnackDay? Don't forget to dispose of your waste! Archaeological survey at the Iron Age hillfort of Castell Henllys found lots of plastic waste from modern visits, suggesting we now live in the 'Plastic Age'.
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#HillfortsWednesday🏺#Archaeology
I'd also delete the whole "civilisation" bit, comb homeboy's hair and beard, and maybe add some women
The long 2010s are finally over
Fantastic, thanks so much
Thanks. You, Fimi and others have written a great deal about his archaeological knowledge, and it's always made me wonder if he ever had much interaction with archaeologists at Oxford, or spent any time in the Ashmolean or the Pitt Rivers
Newly published short story by JRR Tolkien, The Bovadium Fragments, which makes 'gentle fun at the pomposity of archaeologists' - I wonder who he had in mind? His former co-author Mortimer Wheeler perhaps? @richove.bsky.social @johngarthwriter.bsky.social tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Bov...
Punch-card prehistory
YouTube is archaeology
“The V&A has acquired a reconstructed early webpage and the first video ever uploaded to the platform by co-founder Jawed Karim”
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TV show pitch: ‘Tome Team’, where a group of rare books librarians and book historians are sent to investigate an uncatalogued library for interesting incunabula, marginalia and provenances - and they have just three days to do it.
we live in the ruins of a greater civilization
The Archaeology of Discworld
Thoroughly enjoyed this double episode despite being a Pratchett noob. Got a lot more books on the queue now, thanks Tilly and Ash!
Brutal heritage
#archaeocolouring
Gate in a field with designs depicting the raising of standing stones.
#StandingStoneSunday I'm in #Lewis #Leòdhas and it's littered with megaliths, both standing and 'resting'. How to choose? So here's a nice gate I saw at #Callanish #Calanais interpreting the raising of the stones.
On today's episode we’re reviewing Cavegirl (1985), a movie about a teenage incel and his manic pixie cave girl, which Wikipedia misleadingly describes as a “sex comedy”, since it fails to deliver on both fronts 🧪🏺 youtu.be/4bfJsO3frI4
New post: A Prehistory of Digital Archaeology
introspectivedigitalarchaeology.com/2026/02/01/a...
#digitalarchaeology #digitalhumanities
Roman #parkaeology
"...no archaeologists, just antiquarian explorers and adventurers. Likewise, there are museums, no sense of heritage protection, no deep-time stories, no sense of a coherent shared past beyond vague fables. This is a Galaxy shrouded in amnesia...this is a Galaxy without a sense of its own past."
#archaeofashion
I have been remiss in not highlighting Logie Baird objects @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social today. Here's one, from 90 years ago, which is on display www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c... #histSTM 📜
#archaeogolfing
New career path: Curator of Bovine Material Culture
🏺📽️ With the follow-up to '28 Years Later' now in theatres, I wrote about the Bone Temple and how it fits as part of a longstanding tradition of funerary practices from later prehistoric Britain.
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars, series 1-3. An Archaeodeath Guide howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/s...
A collage by Rose Ferraby with prehistoric. Items including stone axe heads (lower left) and the bones and tusks of the Upton Lovell shaman top left
An early Bronze Age beaker pot in the Wiltshire museum. Highly decorated with rejoined sherds visible through white line repairs at the top
A Rose Ferraby collage of green hills and trees in the background and beaker pots in the foreground
A Rose Ferraby collage of Early Bronze Age artefacts with a beaker pots in the centre being the most prominent . Stratigraphy of layers shown either side
Hopefully you all know how I love the mixture of archaeology and art. Today I visited the @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social & saw the spellbinding collection of Rose Ferraby work. Of so many things precious to me - landscapes, sites, artefacts. One week left - go and see it! #archaeology #art #wiltshire
