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Clare Burke
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#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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hesitating between buttons meme; one says, "start on to do list", other says, "sit here frozen in anxiety staring at to do list"
December 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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JOB! www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... 🏺 #archaeology #classics
Advert for lecturer in Claasical Studies
December 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Oh, look! My friends around Magdalena Fraser & Federico Sanchez-Quinto et al have a new study analyzing more high-coverage Neolithic #aDNA genomes from the Baltic island of Gotland (including pathogens!!!) 👀 🧪 🏺

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Ancestry, admixture, and pathogens in contemporaneous Neolithic farmers and foragers on the Island of Gotland
Two archaeological cultural complexes coexisted on Gotland for over 500 years, between ~3300 and 2800 calBCE, i.e. the Neolithic Funnelbeaker culture (FBC), and the Pitted ware culture (PWC). The ance...
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December 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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If you didn't make it to the SGRP 2025 Conference in Gloucester earlier this year, or maybe you did but want to watch the talks again, then check out our YouTube channel! 🏺🎥👩‍💼

www.youtube.com/@studygroupf...
Study Group for Roman Pottery
The Study Group for Roman Pottery (SGRP) was formed in 1971 to further the study of pottery of the Roman period in Britain. The group is a registered charity (no. 1185560) that provides a forum for th...
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December 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Friends, the book is out!! If you are interesed in #deathstudies from an interdisciplinary perspective, please consider checking it out:
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Spinel...

ALSO we have a 50% off discount code! Use SPIN2909 for 50% off the print version of the book, til Jan 31st! Yay! 🏺
An image with a book cover on the left, showing rows of jars of dirt. The book title is in yellow, and reads 'Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning: Past and Present' Edited by Robert Spinelli and Robyn S. Lacy.
December 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2

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The picture shows six needles of different sizes. They were made of bone resemble their modern descendants with an eye at one end and a tapered end.
November 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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New landmark research out today: We've just launched Trowel and Error, the most in-depth look in 25 years at how audiences want to engage with archaeology. The findings are clear: people want human, accessible, story-led archaeology.

Read the report here 👉 www.archaeologyuk.org/our-work/tro...
Person smiling whilst taking part in a workshop Person with glasses creating a collage
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Had a fabulous time talking and making plans with colleagues at the University of Nottinghams museum... well worth a visit if only to see the mysterious Norton Disney dodecahedron! nortondisneyhag.org?page_id=2406 #archaeology #Nottingham
Photo of glass cases containing Archaeological pottery Photo of a metal dodecahedron
November 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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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
Poster for a free webinar - the Joan Pye annual lecture to be presented by Alex Mullen. November 26th, 7pm. Hosted by Cotswold archaeology and the Roman Research Trust. The image is of lots of people in togas in a market place.
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🏺🧪 #archaeology #Prehistory
Peterborough Museum gets £250k for Bronze Age project
The two-year initiative will explore the discoveries made at Must Farm in Whittlesey.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Read more about the #Roman dodecahedron currently on display at the University of Nottingham Museum of Archaeology 🏺
November 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Stunning scenes as I left the office today!

#nottingham #archaeology #pinksky
A photograph of pink cloudy sky with trees and buildings
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Job! 🏺🏛

#archaeology #Greece
A job advert for a digital curator/archaeologist at the American school of classical studies corinth
October 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Job! 🧪🏺 #archaeology
October 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Love a bit of graffiti, this one from Pompeii from a fairly bored client archaeology.org/news/2025/09... 🏺🧪 #archaeology #pompeii
Image of graffiti scratched on a wall at Pompeii
October 16, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Excellent and exciting work 👏👏👏 #archaeology 🏺🧪
October 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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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 🏺
October 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Real life culture vultures...🤯 www.popsci.com/environment/... #archaeology #nature 🏺
Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts
Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.
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October 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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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
My photo shows a Roman-era wooden toy sword made from oak. It is dark brown in colour, displayed against a cream and pale green background. It is carved to look like an adult sword, with a semi-circular handle, a blade with pointed tip, and a semi-circular guard embellished with a centrally-set oval polished stone. The wood is remarkably well-preserved except for a break across the hilt. Excavated in 2017 from the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda, a fort on the Roman Empire’s northern frontier. Dated c. AD 120.
October 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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JOB! au.career.emply.com/ad/teaching-... 🏺 #Archaeology #classics
Teaching associate professorship in classical archaeology (part-time) - au.dk
The School of Culture and Society, Department of History and Classical Studies, invites applications for a part-time teaching associate professorship in classical archaeology (Studielektor). The posit
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October 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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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✅
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
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Photo of an empty, muddy, old plastic bottle with a single handle. The bottle is lying on soil surrounded by stones of varying shapes and sizes. The side of the bottle with handle is uppermost. The mouth end of the container points towards bottom left of the picture. There is text above the image of the plastic bottle which reads “Ancient skull found on archaeological dig is proof of our alien origins”. Having read the text, at first glance the plastic bottle looks similar to an alien skull. The body of the bottle looks like a long skull,the handle looks like a nose, and the indents with shadow either side of the handle look like eyes. An example of pareidolia!
September 28, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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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 🏺🧪
izzywisher.bsky.social Dr Izzy Wisher @izzywisher.bsky.social · Sep 29
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...
Close-up image of a sand coloured stone, with a diagonal crack. The sand rock has a textured surface, and small spots of blue can be seen towards the centre of the stone. The background is grey. Microscopic photo of the blue spots, that are irregular in shape and size and positioned diagonally across the image. The rest of the photo shows the rough sand coloured texture of the stone.
September 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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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
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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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September 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM