Dr Stephen O'Brien
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Dr Stephen O'Brien
@rhipsaspis.bsky.social
An archaeologist of no importance.

independentresearcher.academia.edu/StephenOBrien
I'm just back from a week of carrying out portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry in Greece. 🏺🏛
June 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
May 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
An author copy! 🏺🏛
December 12, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Ritual deposition: A skateboard graveyard on one of the footings of the Hungerford Foot Bridges, London. 🏺🏛
November 18, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Looking out for trouble at the British Museum's "Legion: Life in the Roman Army" exhibition.🏺🏛
April 23, 2024 at 2:54 PM
I'm pleased to announce that my journal article "The Sword is a Ploughshare? Interpreting the ‘armed woman’ in Late Bronze Age Aegean art" has been published online by the Annual of the British School at Athens, and can be accessed through Cambridge Core: bit.ly/48fGplx
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February 14, 2024 at 2:31 PM
My chapter "Warfare and 'Social Complexity' from LH III to the Early Iron Age" has just been published in Brill’s Companion to Warfare in the Bronze Age Aegean.

If you would like a copy of the chapter, please just send me a message. 🏺🏛
January 23, 2024 at 3:52 PM
One of my favourite Halloween artefacts: an Irish "Ghost Turnip" carved in the 1940s, on display in the National Museum of Ireland. 🏺🏛
October 31, 2023 at 9:37 AM
World Archaeological Congress statement on the current situation in Gaza. 🏺
October 20, 2023 at 11:17 AM
Starting as I mean to go on.🏺
September 20, 2023 at 1:17 PM