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Archaeology Art
January 7, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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📕 #BookReview 🏺

Brent K.S. Woodfill & Lucia R. Henderson (ed.)'s 'Archaeology in a living landscape' explores the non-human persons, such as landscape features endowed with vitality and veneration, that populate the Indigenous Americas 1/2

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January 7, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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I think Kit Boyd is one of the most underrated artists in the universe right now. I truly don't understand why people aren't yelling about his prolific psychedelic brilliance from the rooftops. www.greenwichprintmakers.co.uk/kit-boyd
December 19, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Really looking forward to this one - there's still time to join the @pictishartssociety.bsky.social if you'd like to attend this and the other lectures coming up in the series.
We've a great series of lectures coming up in the next few months - starting Friday 16 Jan with a lecture from Heather Ford of @glasgow.ac.uk on the Pictish re-use of prehistoric standing stones. Find out more at www.thepictishartssociety.org.uk/lectures-202....
January 5, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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Online talk by @amandachadburn.bsky.social coming soon! 100 years of Woodhenge - 14 Jan, 7.30pm. Hosted by @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social and tickets available here: www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-article...
www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk
January 5, 2026 at 9:12 AM
1935, Quai d’Auteuil by Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) - Excavated Beaker pits in the snow by Cambridge Archaeological Unit (2026)
January 5, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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Want a heritage job? In beautiful usually-there’s-not-this-much-snow #Orkney?

As part of our community project to reopen the Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles to visitors, we now have three paid positions advertised for 2026.

For more info follow the link. Applications close 5pm, 18 January.

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Work with us
We are happy to announce that we are now advertising three (3) paid positions at the Tomb of the Eagles for 2026. The positions are a Heritage Manager who will oversee day-to-day running of the site…
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January 5, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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The first Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies Seminar series, on Collaborative Archaeologies in (Post)Conflict Contexts, kicks off next week with Hiba Alkhalaf. All welcome! Sign up via the link: www.bbk.ac.uk/events?tag=1...
January 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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A quick reminder to you all that my online shop is open again, and is stocked with prints of my photography, original drawings, books of my artwork, and the last few copies of Rituals & Declarations:
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December 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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And rock and water,
flows with time...

#TombTuesday #archaeology #prehistory #ArtArchaeology #art
December 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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As a terminus ante quem, a twix wrapper isn’t perfect but it can give OSL a run for its money…

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How a chocolate bar wrapper solved an archaeological mystery - BBC News
A team from the University of Glasgow team worked with volunteers and students to excavate the former Kelvin Wheelies park.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 10:43 AM
And rock and water,
flows with time...

#TombTuesday #archaeology #prehistory #ArtArchaeology #art
December 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Thanks so much to the 5 of you that booked places over the holiday season for the Christmas Lecture... See you on Tuesday!

If anyone else wants to join us, you can sign up here...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
December 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Can you help a local historian locate and map examples of historic Gaelic inscriptions on Scottish gravestones?

Read the latest blog on our website here that explains more about this interesting project 👇
www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/blog/in-sear...
December 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Linda Connor / Untitled, 1976
December 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Let's celebrate women's historic, contemporary & global creativity & achievements in the Arts! ❣️
The Womensart book series tells their fanrastic, often untold, stories in textile arts, paint and print!!
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November 1, 2025 at 6:53 AM
New print drop: Flint Arrowheads, a Neolithic collection from around the world.

🛍️ tephraarts.etsy.com/listing/4430...

#neolithic #archaeology #archeology #prehistoric #Flint
December 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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#4 of our #Top5 2025 - A new date for Newark, Sanday.
Fish, whale & dolphin bone, recorded here over many years, suggested a specialised fish processing site.
In early 2025 Storm Éowyn exposed stone buildings buried in sand. We sampled fish bone for radiocarbon dating. The result? ...
December 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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New print drop: prehistoric symbols & figures
🛍️ tephraarts.etsy.com/listing/4429...

#prehistory #archaeology #archeology #rockart #caveart
December 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Pre-Christmas present... 🤪

The APPAG Inquiry into Detecting report is out.

#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure 🏺 1/3

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December 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Wishing you a wonderful #wintersolstice

A time of rest, reflection and renewal, today was spent playing with images of standing stones and cycles of time.

#StandingStoneSunday #Art #ArtArchaeology #Archaeology #prehistory
December 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Something new is taking root in Scotland 🌱

Over the past six months, the Discover Nature Award (DNA) has been taking shape. Co-designed by young adults, it is a two-day journey for 18 to 28 year olds to reconnect with the Scottish landscape and find their place in tackling the climate crisis 🌍💪
December 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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My memoir essay on Stonypath, Little Sparta, in latest issue of The Little Review. thelittlereviewuk.substack.com/p/growing-up...
Growing Up in Little Sparta
Pan-galactic poetry, reviewed
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December 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM