Jim Leary
@jimleary.bsky.social
Archaeologist & writer. Senior lecturer at Uni of York. Books: The Story of Silbury Hill; The Remembered Land; Footmarks, a journey into our restless past. Agent: JP Marshall.
As old as humanity.
September 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
As old as humanity.
That is a satisfied little face.
September 12, 2025 at 7:01 AM
That is a satisfied little face.
Perhaps there’s a deliberate ambiguity and the viewer inserts their own impression.
September 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Perhaps there’s a deliberate ambiguity and the viewer inserts their own impression.
For me it’s the wide eyes and mouth.
September 12, 2025 at 6:56 AM
For me it’s the wide eyes and mouth.
My personal favourite is this jaunty little wolverine stepping out of the past. Carved onto a bone pendant around 14,000 years ago and found in the Grotte de Eyzies in the Dordogne, France. 🏺
September 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
My personal favourite is this jaunty little wolverine stepping out of the past. Carved onto a bone pendant around 14,000 years ago and found in the Grotte de Eyzies in the Dordogne, France. 🏺
And here is a 12,500 year old engraving of three reindeer and a hairy headed ibex with a groovy goatee beard from Courbet Cave in the Midi-Pyrénées. 🏺
September 12, 2025 at 5:58 AM
And here is a 12,500 year old engraving of three reindeer and a hairy headed ibex with a groovy goatee beard from Courbet Cave in the Midi-Pyrénées. 🏺
That’s fantastic! I hadn’t seen that article.
August 26, 2025 at 7:26 AM
That’s fantastic! I hadn’t seen that article.
That’s great - thanks Claire!
August 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
That’s great - thanks Claire!
This is the peat face - the raised bog - the cuttings are taken from. A crucial carbon sink, an incredible archaeological record🏺, and wonderful biodiversity being moth eaten, gnawed away by ignorance.
August 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
This is the peat face - the raised bog - the cuttings are taken from. A crucial carbon sink, an incredible archaeological record🏺, and wonderful biodiversity being moth eaten, gnawed away by ignorance.
When I asked some peat cutters whether they’ve ever found any archaeology🏺, they told me some bog butter came out of this cutting a year or two ago. I asked what they did with it, and they laughed and said they had a cheese and wine party. Well-meaning but wrongheaded.
August 24, 2025 at 6:44 AM
When I asked some peat cutters whether they’ve ever found any archaeology🏺, they told me some bog butter came out of this cutting a year or two ago. I asked what they did with it, and they laughed and said they had a cheese and wine party. Well-meaning but wrongheaded.
I could work with those terms.
August 18, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I could work with those terms.
Ha! I’d happily be ruled by Conall!
August 18, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Ha! I’d happily be ruled by Conall!
That’s fabulous! I must visit!
August 13, 2025 at 7:50 AM
That’s fabulous! I must visit!