Christopher Hervez
@christopher-hervez.bsky.social
"No stone unturned, no pound unearned". Archaeology, human behaviour, philosophy. The Morbihan and the Cotswolds. I'm so unphotogenic that I enhanced my photo with ChatGPT. It's one of the hallucinations that occur with increasing frequency...
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Jardins d'huitres exposed as low tide. The ria at Port Pénerf, Morbihan. Coffee and fig biscuits while sitting on the wall.
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Scholar Uncovers Secret Lost for 1,500 Years Hidden on the Back of a Roman Glass Cup
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Scholar Uncovers Secret Lost for 1,500 Years Hidden on the Back of a Roman Glass Cup
A flipped Roman glass cup revealed symbols once thought decorative but now understood as ancient makers’ marks. In the quiet atmosphere of a museum gallery, Hallie Meredith noticed an unexpected detai...
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November 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Scholar Uncovers Secret Lost for 1,500 Years Hidden on the Back of a Roman Glass Cup
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In case anyone's wondering, this is what a pink sea fan looks like when it's not entangled in marine debris (see earlier post). This specimen's probably nearly 30 years old. #Eunicellaverrucosa
November 29, 2025 at 7:07 AM
In case anyone's wondering, this is what a pink sea fan looks like when it's not entangled in marine debris (see earlier post). This specimen's probably nearly 30 years old. #Eunicellaverrucosa
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FINAL REVEAL: A brand new Benin bronze plaque, titled "Looting of the Oba's Palace in 1897".
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
FINAL REVEAL: A brand new Benin bronze plaque, titled "Looting of the Oba's Palace in 1897".
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
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Finally the research has been published to prove that wild cat (Felis silvestris) lived in Ireland 5,500 years ago. Many claims over the years but the backup genetics was needed and a good number of bones have been recovered to provide enough material www.rte.ie/news/munster...
Wildcat bones found in Co Clare dated to 5,500 years ago
The first directly dated wildcat bones found in Ireland have been identified, confirming that the species inhabited the island more than 5,500 years ago.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Finally the research has been published to prove that wild cat (Felis silvestris) lived in Ireland 5,500 years ago. Many claims over the years but the backup genetics was needed and a good number of bones have been recovered to provide enough material www.rte.ie/news/munster...
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A late medieval pocket sundial from Freiburg. The portable sundial once contained a small compass in the circular recess, helping to align the sundial along the north–south axis so the correct time could be determined.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM
A late medieval pocket sundial from Freiburg. The portable sundial once contained a small compass in the circular recess, helping to align the sundial along the north–south axis so the correct time could be determined.
📷 @aws-almbarak.bsky.social
📷 @aws-almbarak.bsky.social
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New radiocarbon dates reveal the Pecos River murals formed a 4000-year tradition, linking Archaic foragers to later Mesoamerican worldviews. A rare case of cultural endurance written on canyon walls. #Archaeology #RockArt #Anthropology #Mesoamerica www.anthropology.net/p/canyons-of...
Canyons of Memory: How a Four-Millennia Painting Tradition Rewrote the Deep History of North American Thought
New radiocarbon work on the Pecos River murals reveals an artistic and philosophical lineage that outlasted empires, climate swings, and entire ways of life.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:23 PM
New radiocarbon dates reveal the Pecos River murals formed a 4000-year tradition, linking Archaic foragers to later Mesoamerican worldviews. A rare case of cultural endurance written on canyon walls. #Archaeology #RockArt #Anthropology #Mesoamerica www.anthropology.net/p/canyons-of...
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Nearly every day, we find pink sea fans tangled in marine debris. This one has a covid mask attached. A soft coral, pink sea fans are nationally scarce and globally vulnerable. In the UK, they are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. #seafangle #covidarchaeology #hornycoral
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Nearly every day, we find pink sea fans tangled in marine debris. This one has a covid mask attached. A soft coral, pink sea fans are nationally scarce and globally vulnerable. In the UK, they are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. #seafangle #covidarchaeology #hornycoral
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A stunning late #Roman glass goblet
Probably made in Egypt around AD 400
Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk
📷 May 2024
An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling
Probably made in Egypt around AD 400
Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk
📷 May 2024
An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
A stunning late #Roman glass goblet
Probably made in Egypt around AD 400
Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk
📷 May 2024
An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling
Probably made in Egypt around AD 400
Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk
📷 May 2024
An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling
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Oh. My. Goodness.
It is really real. Museum theft advent calendar!!
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#Archaeology 🏺
It is really real. Museum theft advent calendar!!
www.playmobil.com/en-gb/advent...
#Archaeology 🏺
November 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Oh. My. Goodness.
It is really real. Museum theft advent calendar!!
www.playmobil.com/en-gb/advent...
#Archaeology 🏺
It is really real. Museum theft advent calendar!!
www.playmobil.com/en-gb/advent...
#Archaeology 🏺
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It wasn't all wretched though. These documents record a religious festival (possibly the oldest written evidence for a midsummer celebration in England) at the fort, where beer, wine, pork, fish sauce and more was consumed!
Learn how Roman fish sauce was made in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Learn how Roman fish sauce was made in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
November 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It wasn't all wretched though. These documents record a religious festival (possibly the oldest written evidence for a midsummer celebration in England) at the fort, where beer, wine, pork, fish sauce and more was consumed!
Learn how Roman fish sauce was made in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Learn how Roman fish sauce was made in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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Dating a North American rock art tradition that lasted 175 generations ⛏️🎨🌎 phys.org/news/2025-11...
Dating a North American rock art tradition that lasted 175 generations
The Pecos River murals are a stunning collection of monumental, multicolored rock paintings in limestone rock shelters across southwest Texas and northern Mexico. They depict human-like figures that r...
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November 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Dating a North American rock art tradition that lasted 175 generations ⛏️🎨🌎 phys.org/news/2025-11...
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Spot the find. An easy one. Mudlarking is about ‘getting your eye in’, i.e. looking for perfect shapes & colours of artefacts that don’t appear naturally among the stones, gravel, mud, sand and rubble of the Thames Foreshore. Scanning as I walk, a pop of green grabs my attention. A child’s marble.
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Spot the find. An easy one. Mudlarking is about ‘getting your eye in’, i.e. looking for perfect shapes & colours of artefacts that don’t appear naturally among the stones, gravel, mud, sand and rubble of the Thames Foreshore. Scanning as I walk, a pop of green grabs my attention. A child’s marble.
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Life ring return crates are now at Tower & Westminster Pier giving crews a central place to return life rings recovered from the Thames so they can be safely reused.
If you find a life ring, please return it to a crate 💙
A joint initiative with Transport for London.
#PortOfLondon #SaferThames
If you find a life ring, please return it to a crate 💙
A joint initiative with Transport for London.
#PortOfLondon #SaferThames
November 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Life ring return crates are now at Tower & Westminster Pier giving crews a central place to return life rings recovered from the Thames so they can be safely reused.
If you find a life ring, please return it to a crate 💙
A joint initiative with Transport for London.
#PortOfLondon #SaferThames
If you find a life ring, please return it to a crate 💙
A joint initiative with Transport for London.
#PortOfLondon #SaferThames
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Our Co-Chair @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social said:
“Using PFI to make it seem spending is off the balance sheet is considered a ‘fiscal illusion.’ Embracing this zombie policy demonstrates only the bankruptcy of govt thinking and the power of corporate lobbying.”
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/camp...
“Using PFI to make it seem spending is off the balance sheet is considered a ‘fiscal illusion.’ Embracing this zombie policy demonstrates only the bankruptcy of govt thinking and the power of corporate lobbying.”
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/camp...
Campaigners warn of PFI 2.0 as government backs private funding for neighbourhood health centres
A “PFI 2.0” will divert money away from patients and into shareholders’ pockets, campaigners warned today as the government announced plans to use private finance to fund new neighbourhood health cent...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Our Co-Chair @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social said:
“Using PFI to make it seem spending is off the balance sheet is considered a ‘fiscal illusion.’ Embracing this zombie policy demonstrates only the bankruptcy of govt thinking and the power of corporate lobbying.”
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/camp...
“Using PFI to make it seem spending is off the balance sheet is considered a ‘fiscal illusion.’ Embracing this zombie policy demonstrates only the bankruptcy of govt thinking and the power of corporate lobbying.”
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/camp...
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To celebrate #HillfortsWednesday, here's a fantastic recreation of the ramparts of Cadbury Castle in #Somerset under construction in the Iron Age, painted by the late great Victor Ambrus 🤩
From the cover of *Drawing Somerset's Past* published by #HistoryPress and @museumofsomerset.bsky.social
From the cover of *Drawing Somerset's Past* published by #HistoryPress and @museumofsomerset.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
To celebrate #HillfortsWednesday, here's a fantastic recreation of the ramparts of Cadbury Castle in #Somerset under construction in the Iron Age, painted by the late great Victor Ambrus 🤩
From the cover of *Drawing Somerset's Past* published by #HistoryPress and @museumofsomerset.bsky.social
From the cover of *Drawing Somerset's Past* published by #HistoryPress and @museumofsomerset.bsky.social
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New article in IA69 by Vince Gaffney and colleagues on the Neolithic pit structure at #Durrington Walls Henge includes new #OSL dates and #sedaDNA environmental studies. Results indicate a cohesive pit structure at a massive scale.
doi.org/10.11141/ia....
doi.org/10.11141/ia....
The Perils of Pits: further research at Durrington Walls henge (2021–2025)
In 2020, a series of large features were identified, set within two arc-like structures, to the north and south of Durrington Walls henge (Gaffney et al. 2020). Based on geophysical survey and borehol...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
New article in IA69 by Vince Gaffney and colleagues on the Neolithic pit structure at #Durrington Walls Henge includes new #OSL dates and #sedaDNA environmental studies. Results indicate a cohesive pit structure at a massive scale.
doi.org/10.11141/ia....
doi.org/10.11141/ia....
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May I interest people in a little Dispute with the Secretary of State? www.universityrankandfile.org.uk
Because whoa it's bananas out there and we need an entire overhaul and focusing of minds.
Because whoa it's bananas out there and we need an entire overhaul and focusing of minds.
November 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
May I interest people in a little Dispute with the Secretary of State? www.universityrankandfile.org.uk
Because whoa it's bananas out there and we need an entire overhaul and focusing of minds.
Because whoa it's bananas out there and we need an entire overhaul and focusing of minds.
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a relatively small point, I guess, but given the underlying right wing politics behind reducing ‘international’ students its grating to see the I using ‘foreign’ instead of that usual term
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
a relatively small point, I guess, but given the underlying right wing politics behind reducing ‘international’ students its grating to see the I using ‘foreign’ instead of that usual term
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Bientôt à 50% de l'objectif de ventes des places, et quelque chose me dit qu'un palier a été dépassé, je vous en dit plus bientôt ;)
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Super Table Ronde : les 9 ans de Passion Médiévistes
Venez fêter l'anniversaire du podcast le 11 avril 2026 à la Bellevilloise à Paris !
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November 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Bientôt à 50% de l'objectif de ventes des places, et quelque chose me dit qu'un palier a été dépassé, je vous en dit plus bientôt ;)
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Charles Darwin visited Stonehenge not too long after this, in 1877. He was more interested in the worms than the monument, however, speculating that worms' gradual shifting of the earth over time would eventually bury Stonehenge 1/3
This is the oldest known family photo taken at Stonehenge. c 1865, back when you could picnic on the great sarsens themselves.
The original photo is owned by Queen Guitarist Brian May!
#stonehenge #wiltshire #stonecircle
The original photo is owned by Queen Guitarist Brian May!
#stonehenge #wiltshire #stonecircle
November 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Charles Darwin visited Stonehenge not too long after this, in 1877. He was more interested in the worms than the monument, however, speculating that worms' gradual shifting of the earth over time would eventually bury Stonehenge 1/3
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This makes us unbelievably happy 😊
#DoctorWhoDay #StandingStoneSunday
www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/2564341...
#DoctorWhoDay #StandingStoneSunday
www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/2564341...
Tardis arrives at Stonehenge to mark Doctor Who Day and entertain crowds
Fans of the long-running BBC sci-fi drama will be able to see the Doctor’s police box-shaped spaceship at the Unesco World Heritage Site in…
www.salisburyjournal.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This makes us unbelievably happy 😊
#DoctorWhoDay #StandingStoneSunday
www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/2564341...
#DoctorWhoDay #StandingStoneSunday
www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/2564341...
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A 12,000-year-old clay sculpture found in Israel depicts a goose on the back of a woman, and archaeologists suggest it may be a depiction of an animistic mythological scene
Ancient figurine may show sexual encounter between woman and goose
www.newscientist.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
A 12,000-year-old clay sculpture found in Israel depicts a goose on the back of a woman, and archaeologists suggest it may be a depiction of an animistic mythological scene
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NEW: This is worth your time.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
November 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
NEW: This is worth your time.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
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An intentionally destroyed #BronzeAge #sword found in a burial at Blaubeuren-Asch. Bronze Age weapons deposited in burials were often bent or hacked into pieces before placed into the grave, in this way they 'died' with the owner. Dating 9th century BC.
📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg
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📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg
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November 22, 2025 at 8:23 AM
An intentionally destroyed #BronzeAge #sword found in a burial at Blaubeuren-Asch. Bronze Age weapons deposited in burials were often bent or hacked into pieces before placed into the grave, in this way they 'died' with the owner. Dating 9th century BC.
📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg
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📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg
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'UK shouldn't pilot cruelty - my fears over asylum shake-up' writes Lord Alf Dubs
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'UK shouldn't pilot cruelty - my fears over asylum shake-up'
Labour peer Lord Alf Dubs, who fled Nazis as child as part of the Kindertransport, writes for The Mirror on the government's proposed shake-up of the asylum system
www.mirror.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
'UK shouldn't pilot cruelty - my fears over asylum shake-up' writes Lord Alf Dubs
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...