Leon 🏺
@souljaleonn.bsky.social
Archaeologist🏺/ Funerary Arch MSc, Uni of York/ Knaresborough Museum🏰/SASA🏛️/Human and Animal 💀🦴
Currently researching Elmet and Early Medieval West Yorkshire
Currently researching Elmet and Early Medieval West Yorkshire
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CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN LAUNCH: ‘Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland’
Please pre-order or donate before 6 December to enable us to print this book by Professor Gordon Noble FSAScot, which will have a major impact on the study of Pictish kingship and society: www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...
Please pre-order or donate before 6 December to enable us to print this book by Professor Gordon Noble FSAScot, which will have a major impact on the study of Pictish kingship and society: www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...
November 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN LAUNCH: ‘Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland’
Please pre-order or donate before 6 December to enable us to print this book by Professor Gordon Noble FSAScot, which will have a major impact on the study of Pictish kingship and society: www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...
Please pre-order or donate before 6 December to enable us to print this book by Professor Gordon Noble FSAScot, which will have a major impact on the study of Pictish kingship and society: www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...
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Today is the day! Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination is now widely available. I will be giving my first book talk at the University of Pittsburgh, with a specific focus on domestic violence. press.edu/books/gender-violence-in-late-antiquity/hardcover
September 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Today is the day! Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination is now widely available. I will be giving my first book talk at the University of Pittsburgh, with a specific focus on domestic violence. press.edu/books/gender-violence-in-late-antiquity/hardcover
Indiana Jones and the Unstrat Flint that may or may not be worked
October 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Indiana Jones and the Unstrat Flint that may or may not be worked
At the weekend I spoke on Elmet at the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social #Yorkshire student showcase
October 21, 2025 at 5:41 AM
At the weekend I spoke on Elmet at the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social #Yorkshire student showcase
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Millet and wheat grains from Neolithic Xinjiang #NationalBakingWeek
When millet was introduced to Central Asia from China, people didn't adopt the Chinese practice of boiling and steaming it, instead baking it into bread as they did with other grains.
(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
When millet was introduced to Central Asia from China, people didn't adopt the Chinese practice of boiling and steaming it, instead baking it into bread as they did with other grains.
(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
October 17, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Millet and wheat grains from Neolithic Xinjiang #NationalBakingWeek
When millet was introduced to Central Asia from China, people didn't adopt the Chinese practice of boiling and steaming it, instead baking it into bread as they did with other grains.
(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
When millet was introduced to Central Asia from China, people didn't adopt the Chinese practice of boiling and steaming it, instead baking it into bread as they did with other grains.
(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
My colleagues sang me happy birthday in the accommodation
October 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
My colleagues sang me happy birthday in the accommodation
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A quick look at the latest issue of our journal, Post-Medieval Archaeology, published under @tandfresearch.bsky.social. To publish your research with us, please check our website for more info and contact editor@spma.org.uk
#archaeology #postmedievalarchaeology #newresearch
#archaeology #postmedievalarchaeology #newresearch
October 14, 2025 at 5:44 AM
A quick look at the latest issue of our journal, Post-Medieval Archaeology, published under @tandfresearch.bsky.social. To publish your research with us, please check our website for more info and contact editor@spma.org.uk
#archaeology #postmedievalarchaeology #newresearch
#archaeology #postmedievalarchaeology #newresearch
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Urgent action needed: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Urgent action needed: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Submitted my revised manuscript, fingers crossed
October 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Submitted my revised manuscript, fingers crossed
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Join us in four weeks, on the 8th November at Sussex University, for a day of talks from leading archaeologists and historians on the origins of the Kingdom of the South Saxons. 1/4
sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...
sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...
October 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Join us in four weeks, on the 8th November at Sussex University, for a day of talks from leading archaeologists and historians on the origins of the Kingdom of the South Saxons. 1/4
sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...
sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...
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In video games, you will often find a fully roasted chicken abandoned on the ground, and eating it extremely quickly makes you feel better. What's less known is that this is also true in real life
October 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
In video games, you will often find a fully roasted chicken abandoned on the ground, and eating it extremely quickly makes you feel better. What's less known is that this is also true in real life
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Just arrived. The posthumously published book of my late colleague, Dr Colmán Etchingham. Thanks to everyone who saw it through to publication. We plan to hold an event in Maynooth to mark its publication (details to follow). Available to order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/vikings...
#MedievalSky
#MedievalSky
October 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Just arrived. The posthumously published book of my late colleague, Dr Colmán Etchingham. Thanks to everyone who saw it through to publication. We plan to hold an event in Maynooth to mark its publication (details to follow). Available to order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/vikings...
#MedievalSky
#MedievalSky
Just seen a stag run through the morning mist like some forgotten dirty or forest spirit
October 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Just seen a stag run through the morning mist like some forgotten dirty or forest spirit
What’s the Uk minimum wage? Just seen a museum advertising for a role with a salary of £22,500, Surely this js below the minimum
October 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
What’s the Uk minimum wage? Just seen a museum advertising for a role with a salary of £22,500, Surely this js below the minimum
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Sadly, Jane Goodall has died. But her legacy - in conservation and chimp studies - will live on. 🧪
Jane Goodall, famed primatologist who discovered chimpanzee tool use, dies at 91
Dame Jane Goodall, the world's preeminent chimpanzee expert, died of natural causes.
www.livescience.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Sadly, Jane Goodall has died. But her legacy - in conservation and chimp studies - will live on. 🧪
September 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Had the pleasure of presenting my poster at @babao2025meeting.bsky.social
My research focused on #climate and maxillary sinusitis in #roman and early medieval populations
#BABAO2025 #Archaeology #paleopathology #climateheritage
My research focused on #climate and maxillary sinusitis in #roman and early medieval populations
#BABAO2025 #Archaeology #paleopathology #climateheritage
September 24, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Had the pleasure of presenting my poster at @babao2025meeting.bsky.social
My research focused on #climate and maxillary sinusitis in #roman and early medieval populations
#BABAO2025 #Archaeology #paleopathology #climateheritage
My research focused on #climate and maxillary sinusitis in #roman and early medieval populations
#BABAO2025 #Archaeology #paleopathology #climateheritage
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🏺 Can never get enough of this late prehistoric world where trees meant not just wood to people, but also bark/bast (and in other cases, roots) as a widely utilised material, likely with particular symbolic associations different to other fibres.
September 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🏺 Can never get enough of this late prehistoric world where trees meant not just wood to people, but also bark/bast (and in other cases, roots) as a widely utilised material, likely with particular symbolic associations different to other fibres.
Please sign to get North Yorkshire council to save #knaresborough castle from ruin
Sign the Petition
SAVE KNARESBOROUGH CASTLE!
www.change.org
September 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Please sign to get North Yorkshire council to save #knaresborough castle from ruin
Button osteomas
only semi-related but this skeleton frog has skull warts, which is a disgusting concept
September 22, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Button osteomas
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my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”
September 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”
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#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
1🧵
#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation
September 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
1🧵
#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
1🧵
#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation
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Overwhelmed Archaeologists Struggling To Keep Pace With Glut Of Early Humans Thawed Out By Climate Change https://theonion.com/overwhelmed-archaeologists-struggling-to-keep-pace-with-1841766142/
August 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Overwhelmed Archaeologists Struggling To Keep Pace With Glut Of Early Humans Thawed Out By Climate Change https://theonion.com/overwhelmed-archaeologists-struggling-to-keep-pace-with-1841766142/
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On 15 September 1977: J.R.R. #Tolkien's The Silmarillion was published. Edited by Christopher Tolkien, the book details the entire history of the world before The Hobbit, and goes into the legends that underpin the entire mythology including the creation of the world. #BookSky
September 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
On 15 September 1977: J.R.R. #Tolkien's The Silmarillion was published. Edited by Christopher Tolkien, the book details the entire history of the world before The Hobbit, and goes into the legends that underpin the entire mythology including the creation of the world. #BookSky