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Stuart Brookes
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Fieldwork Tutor, UCL Institute of Archaeology, Associate Professor in Medieval Archaeology, Editor: Antiquaries Journal,
Wiltshire Magazine, Secretary Internationales Sachsensymposion
February 23, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Reposted by Stuart Brookes
Murujuga's rock art is over 40,000 years old, and contains what could be the very first depiction of a human face in history.

And it's currently under threat of destruction from Woodside's North West Shelf gas export terminal expansion.

@markogge.bsky.social #auspol
February 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Looks like BBC needs geography lessons
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/.... Norton is very definitely in Suffolk
Digging for Britain
www.bbc.co.uk
January 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Our very own Prof Mike Parker-Pearson quoted by @nickabbot.bsky.social. Tis indeed the season to be jolly! @uclarchaeology.bsky.social
December 24, 2024 at 8:33 AM
It's now also available Open Access:
library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
Lordship and Landscape in East Anglia AD 400–800
library.oapen.org
December 10, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Wondering what to get yourself for Christmas? Wonder no more. www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Lordship-and...
November 29, 2024 at 9:54 PM
Reposted by Stuart Brookes
FUNDED heritage PhDs at Nottingham Trent 👇
4 funded heritage science PhDs at Nottingham Trent University. Due date: 14 February 2025.

1. Creative Approaches to the Representation of Crisis Heritage in the Museum using Digital Means (tinyurl.com/ymfnja7b)

Cont...
November 29, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Reposted by Stuart Brookes
Fancy doing a PhD on the archaeology of medieval Europe, c. AD 400-1500 at Oxford? Scholarship available here:
www.stx.ox.ac.uk/st-cross-son...
November 15, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Just putting this here now it has a lovely new landing page (thanks ADS team). Of particular interest to those looking for GIS data of England historical geography
archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/col...
Early Medieval Atlas Projects
The Early Medieval Atlas is a long-term collaborative venture which is collating and analysing spatial evidence for early medieval Britain. Major funding has been provided by the Leverhulme Trust sinc...
archaeologydataservice.ac.uk
November 16, 2024 at 8:42 AM
Our monograph on the elite centre at Rendlesham is now available for pre-order at www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Lordship-and...

Lordship and Landscape in East Anglia AD 400—800. The Royal Centre at Rendlesham, Suffolk, and its Contexts.
Eds C Scull, S Brookes and T Williamson
Lordship and Landscape in East Anglia AD400-800
This is an inter-disciplinary study of pathways to regional rulership and territorial lordship in early post-Roman Britain which takes as its starting point the East…
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk
November 13, 2024 at 2:24 PM
New issue of The Antiquaries Journal is out now
December 5, 2023 at 7:35 AM
Reposted by Stuart Brookes
One by one the Brexit lies come home to roost. Cornwall Council has confirmed that the money it receives from the UK government to replace EU grants will run out in December, leaving more than £230m of fund applications by Cornish communities and businesses unmet.
November 17, 2023 at 7:05 PM
Reposted by Stuart Brookes
Archaeology of cassettes: “The Cassette-Tape Revolution”https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-cassette-tape-revolution
The Cassette-Tape Revolution
The disruptive power of the cassette anticipated the even greater tectonic shift that the digital age would bring to music.
www.newyorker.com
November 17, 2023 at 7:58 PM
Good for spooky winter nights
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Wicker Man
Terrifying audio adaptation of the cult 1973 film. With Brian Blessed.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2023 at 10:47 PM
Epic fail day. Spent the morning fiddling about with a session abstract for www.e-a-a.org/eaa2024 only to find the deadline was yesterday
November 14, 2023 at 6:36 PM
Good meeting today mapping out the next 5+ years' digging roman villas in Suffolk
November 13, 2023 at 3:53 PM