Still digging in the desert at 85

Join us today for Session 8 in room 0.5 for talks on archaeology outreach and education in Africa, with a “show and tell” of outreach materials 4-5pm #SAfA2025

Day 1 of #SAfA and first day in my new permanent role as Principal Researcher in African Stone Age archaeology at ICArEHB.
Looking forward to seeing lots of friends and colleagues in Faro this week!

Memories of this time last year - some of the most fun I’ve had discussing rocks. An opportunity I will treasure. Have a fab field season, your lithics there are so interesting and what a great team

Sad to learn that C. Garth Sampson has passed away. He was a kind and encouraging man; as Janette Deacon commented, Garth "made an outstanding contribution to the Stone Age archaeology of the Karoo and southern Africa and will long be remembered." We are standing on the shoulders of these giants

We're excited to announce the next @icarehb.bsky.social Alt-Ac Paths conversation, with Luíseach Nic Eoin @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social and Tansy Branscombe @tansybranscombe.bsky.social, who now work at @natecoevo.nature.com and @barpublishing.bsky.social.
Thurs 19th June, 11am (GMT), Zoom link below.

Join us for the first seminar in ICArEHB's @icarehb.bsky.social new 'Alt-Ac Paths' series, tomorrow at 11am on Zoom, to hear from Rita Dias and Patrícia Monteiro on their move into commercial archaeology
videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/9355232390...
#AltAcPaths #BeyondAcademia #PhDLife #Archaeology

Something special for the lithophiles for #FlintFriday and #FieldFriday - two ends of the Levallois spectrum from my survey yesterday in Luxor. I’ve never seen anything quite like either of them 🤩

#FlintFriday in Luxor

📢🏺We are pleased to invite contributions to our session on community outreach and public engagement in Africa at SAfA 2025. Details below - deadline 31 January safa2025.icarehb.com/poster-and-o...
Please contact me for more information.
@icarehb.bsky.social #SAfA2025

Great work from @icarehb.bsky.social’s outreach team yesterday sharing archaeology activities with 150 visitors at the Centro Ciência Viva in Faro 🪨🔬🪼
Also it turns out that my Portuguese skills are better suited to explaining stone tools and 3D printing than smalltalk with my neighbours 🇵🇹

Byrd also enjoys blue skies 😸💙

Also an opportunity to share our children’s book for the local community about doing archaeology at this site and imagining the Stone Age people who made the artefacts.

You’re my desert surface archaeology kindred spirit - welcome to social media 😅