Clare Burke
@thesherdnerd.bsky.social
#Archaeologist | Craft, Foodways & Identity: Where, How & Why pots were made & used in prehistoric #Aegean #Balkans 🏺🧪|Assoc ÖAI| Assist. Prof Arch Materials, Uni of Nottingham | Own views/Not endorsements https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Clare-Burk
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Don’t miss Prof Alex Mullen’s free webinar on November 26th at 7pm!
She’ll be presenting the Joan Pye lecture on ‘Tales from the Tablets: recovering the voices of Roman Britain’.
#archaeology #classics #roman 🏺
Book your tickets here: tinyurl.com/Romanvoices
She’ll be presenting the Joan Pye lecture on ‘Tales from the Tablets: recovering the voices of Roman Britain’.
#archaeology #classics #roman 🏺
Book your tickets here: tinyurl.com/Romanvoices
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Don’t miss Prof Alex Mullen’s free webinar on November 26th at 7pm!
She’ll be presenting the Joan Pye lecture on ‘Tales from the Tablets: recovering the voices of Roman Britain’.
#archaeology #classics #roman 🏺
Book your tickets here: tinyurl.com/Romanvoices
She’ll be presenting the Joan Pye lecture on ‘Tales from the Tablets: recovering the voices of Roman Britain’.
#archaeology #classics #roman 🏺
Book your tickets here: tinyurl.com/Romanvoices
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Read more about the #Roman dodecahedron currently on display at the University of Nottingham Museum of Archaeology 🏺
A multi-sided story: Examining the Norton Disney dodecahedron in its wider context – The Past
the-past.com/feature/a-mu...
the-past.com/feature/a-mu...
A multi-sided story: Examining the Norton Disney dodecahedron in its wider context | The Past
Around 130 dodecahedra have been found across the northern Roman Empire, but the purpose of these ornate objects is unknown, and few have been recovered fro ...
the-past.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Read more about the #Roman dodecahedron currently on display at the University of Nottingham Museum of Archaeology 🏺
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
October 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Job! 🧪🏺 #archaeology
I'm hiring! 4 year post doc on my Wellcome Trust grant -- come be inventive about isotopes in teeth with me in PPN Turkiye :) www.lancashire.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...
please share!
please share!
Post Doctoral Research Assistant - 1160-25
Thinking of the next step in your career? Take a look at our exciting new role, Post Doctoral Research Assistant based at our Other. Find out more and apply he…
www.lancashire.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Job! 🧪🏺 #archaeology
Love a bit of graffiti, this one from Pompeii from a fairly bored client archaeology.org/news/2025/09... 🏺🧪 #archaeology #pompeii
October 16, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Love a bit of graffiti, this one from Pompeii from a fairly bored client archaeology.org/news/2025/09... 🏺🧪 #archaeology #pompeii
Excellent and exciting work 👏👏👏 #archaeology 🏺🧪
Analysis of ancient birch bark tar from Neolithic settlements shows it was used for toolmaking, pottery repair, and chewing, preserving DNA that offers insights into daily life and diet. doi.org/g96xtk
Sticky secrets: What ancient chewing gum is telling us about Neolithic communities
Ancient bones, artifacts and texts offer numerous insights into the past, as does the chewing gum that Neolithic people chewed on and spat out long ago.
phys.org
October 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Excellent and exciting work 👏👏👏 #archaeology 🏺🧪
Heading off to the beautiful Trent building for this week's research lecture by
Dr Matthew Thompson on
Warfare in Archaic Sparta - Myths and Reassessments #archaeology 🏺
Dr Matthew Thompson on
Warfare in Archaic Sparta - Myths and Reassessments #archaeology 🏺
October 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Heading off to the beautiful Trent building for this week's research lecture by
Dr Matthew Thompson on
Warfare in Archaic Sparta - Myths and Reassessments #archaeology 🏺
Dr Matthew Thompson on
Warfare in Archaic Sparta - Myths and Reassessments #archaeology 🏺
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At almost 2,000 years old, this child’s wooden toy sword is a remarkable survival from Roman times!
Found in the living quarters of the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda fort in 2017. Dated c.120 AD. Chesterholm Museum 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
Found in the living quarters of the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda fort in 2017. Dated c.120 AD. Chesterholm Museum 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
October 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
At almost 2,000 years old, this child’s wooden toy sword is a remarkable survival from Roman times!
Found in the living quarters of the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda fort in 2017. Dated c.120 AD. Chesterholm Museum 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
Found in the living quarters of the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda fort in 2017. Dated c.120 AD. Chesterholm Museum 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
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New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#openaccess✅
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#openaccess✅
Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core
Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology
www.cambridge.org
September 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#openaccess✅
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#openaccess✅
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Very interesting! Colour has always been important to different societies but perhaps not so well understood by us looking into the past #archaeology 🏺🧪
Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵
Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
September 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Very interesting! Colour has always been important to different societies but perhaps not so well understood by us looking into the past #archaeology 🏺🧪
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Can share this again now that the paper has been published: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
People gathered for great meat feasts at end of British bronze age, study shows
Evidence of millions of animal bones at sites in West Country and Surrey points to ‘age of feasting’
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Can share this again now that the paper has been published: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Today's Keynote Lecture will be delivered by Liv Nilsson Stutz, Prof at Linnaeus University with title:
"What does it mean to be Ethical as an Archaeologist in 2025? Interrogating our relationship to Scientific Integrity, Activism, and Social Responsibility in uncertain times.
#EAA2025
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"What does it mean to be Ethical as an Archaeologist in 2025? Interrogating our relationship to Scientific Integrity, Activism, and Social Responsibility in uncertain times.
#EAA2025
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September 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Today's Keynote Lecture will be delivered by Liv Nilsson Stutz, Prof at Linnaeus University with title:
"What does it mean to be Ethical as an Archaeologist in 2025? Interrogating our relationship to Scientific Integrity, Activism, and Social Responsibility in uncertain times.
#EAA2025
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"What does it mean to be Ethical as an Archaeologist in 2025? Interrogating our relationship to Scientific Integrity, Activism, and Social Responsibility in uncertain times.
#EAA2025
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It includes a link to the annual EAA survey so you can make known your views on the 31st (this) conference 🏺
September 3, 2025 at 8:12 AM
It includes a link to the annual EAA survey so you can make known your views on the 31st (this) conference 🏺
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Also, for EAA members here is the link to the meeting on Friday and relevant papers
www.e-a-a.org/EAA/News___P...
www.e-a-a.org/EAA/News___P...
AMBM 2025
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September 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Also, for EAA members here is the link to the meeting on Friday and relevant papers
www.e-a-a.org/EAA/News___P...
www.e-a-a.org/EAA/News___P...
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📢 CALL TO ACTION | EAA Leadership Overturns Democratic Vote Following Threats
Intimidation tactics forced the EAA to abandon solidarity with Gaza.
Archaeologists:
Cancel membership | Speak up | Share
Full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
#EAA2025 #Archaeology #Gaza
Intimidation tactics forced the EAA to abandon solidarity with Gaza.
Archaeologists:
Cancel membership | Speak up | Share
Full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
#EAA2025 #Archaeology #Gaza
CALL TO ACTION | EAA Leadership Overturns Democratic Vote Following Threats
Intimidation Tactics Force Archaeological Association to Abandon Gaza Solidarity Last week the executive board of the European Association of Archaeologists took the decision, in light of the ongoi…
blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com
September 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
📢 CALL TO ACTION | EAA Leadership Overturns Democratic Vote Following Threats
Intimidation tactics forced the EAA to abandon solidarity with Gaza.
Archaeologists:
Cancel membership | Speak up | Share
Full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
#EAA2025 #Archaeology #Gaza
Intimidation tactics forced the EAA to abandon solidarity with Gaza.
Archaeologists:
Cancel membership | Speak up | Share
Full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
#EAA2025 #Archaeology #Gaza
Oooo looking forward to reading this new research! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🏺🧪 #archaeology #Neolithic
New temporal dimensions of the Linearbandkeramik cemetery horizon in Schwetzingen (Germany) | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
New temporal dimensions of the Linearbandkeramik cemetery horizon in Schwetzingen (Germany)
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September 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Oooo looking forward to reading this new research! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🏺🧪 #archaeology #Neolithic
Pleased to have written a little about the Neolithic pottery with my colleague Marija in this new book about the interesting site of Svinjarička Čuka. The book is open access verlag.oeaw.ac.at/en/product/s... 🏺🧪 #archaeology
Svinjarička Čuka in Serbia. Свињаричка чука, Србија. Highlights from 8000 to 3000 years ago. Вишеслојно налазиште од пре 8000 до пре 3000 година | 978-3-7001-9717-1 | Verlag der ÖAW
Bestellen sie jetzt Svinjarička Čuka in Serbia. Свињаричка чука, Србија in unserem Verlagswebshop.
verlag.oeaw.ac.at
September 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Pleased to have written a little about the Neolithic pottery with my colleague Marija in this new book about the interesting site of Svinjarička Čuka. The book is open access verlag.oeaw.ac.at/en/product/s... 🏺🧪 #archaeology
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Posts about research on Bluesky receive substantially more attention than similar posts on X, formerly called Twitter
go.nature.com/45Ftiw4
go.nature.com/45Ftiw4
Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement
Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.
go.nature.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Posts about research on Bluesky receive substantially more attention than similar posts on X, formerly called Twitter
go.nature.com/45Ftiw4
go.nature.com/45Ftiw4
Connections have always been a key part of our history 🏺🧪 #archaeology #stonehenge
📰 Analysis of a cow jawbone from Stonehenge finds it originated in Wales, the same region the monument's iconic bluestones were quarried, adding to evidence for connections across Neolithic southern Britain.
🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @archaeologynews.bsky.social
archaeologymag.com/2025/08/neol...
🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @archaeologynews.bsky.social
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Neolithic cow tooth links Stonehenge to Wales and supports the origin of its bluestones
5,000-year-old cow tooth links Stonehenge to Wales, revealing clues about how its massive stones were transported.
archaeologymag.com
August 30, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Connections have always been a key part of our history 🏺🧪 #archaeology #stonehenge
Well this is it. My last day at York & as a post doc but for sure not the end of working with fabulous colleagues here. Monday, I head the other way on the M1 to start my new adventure at Nottingham!
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August 29, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Well this is it. My last day at York & as a post doc but for sure not the end of working with fabulous colleagues here. Monday, I head the other way on the M1 to start my new adventure at Nottingham!
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