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Amanda Chadburn 🏺

@amandachadburn.bsky.social

PhD FSA FSAScot Dear friends, I am very rarely here so I apologise in advance if I don't pick up DMs or comment much. Please contact me by other means. Thanks!

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Tom Booth@boothicus.bsky.social · 3w ago

🏺Back in 2021 I wrote a paper with colleagues about a series of Chalcolithic-Early Bronze Age genetic relatives that had been detected around Stonehenge and the unexpected way they related to each other spatially. We tried to put out a press release but it got… observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Meet the Bluestones: an ancient Stonehenge family reveale...

DNA taken from bones excavated in and around the stone circle reveal that migrants from continental Europe played a part in the henge’s creation

observer.co.uk

Tom Booth@boothicus.bsky.social · 2y ago

🏺 Felt cute so migrating a thread over here, might delete later… Me and my brother visiting Stonehenge in AD 2003. Speaking of relatives in and around Stonehenge, here’s a paper I co-wrote a while back… nature.com/articles/natur… cambridge.org/core/journals/ 

Bob Marshall@bobmarshall.co.uk · 2mo ago

Time flies! It's ten years exactly since I embarked on this long and enjoyable project with Steven Brindle to produce new visual reconstructions of Windsor Castle for his great book charting its thousand-year history. Here are some images of my developing model of the castle during the 1216 siege.

An untextured computer 3D model reconstruction of a castle under siege in the early thirteenth century.
Amanda Chadburn 🏺@amandachadburn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As I said elsewhere, this stretches credulity. It’s not an especially big stone, & could have been transported entirely by human agency. Ice took it to Doggerland in deep prehistory & then people took it to Norfolk by 7000BC, then others to Stonehenge in 2500BC?? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Unsolved Stonehenge mystery could be explained by forgotten land

Researchers made the findings with geological analysis and computer modelling.

bbc.co.uk

Amanda Chadburn 🏺@amandachadburn.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Woodhenge was discovered in Dec 1925. Delighted to see my article about this in @CurrentArchaeo’s December issue - fittingly for the 100th anniversary of this state monument. 🏺https://the-past.com/feature/100-years-of-woodhenge-tracing-an-archaeological-icon-from-discovery-to-new-dating-evidence/

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Alison Atkin@alisonatkin.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Behold... the 2025 face pumpkin! Inspired by many things, but first and foremost I went back to my jack o' lantern roots with an archaeology reference. The Undine / Vodena Vila sculpture from Lepensk Vir, from 6300 - 5900 BCE.

A carved pumpkin on a wooden countertop with grey tiles behind it. It's a tall oval orange pumpkin with a simple but expressive face; large circular eyes, with semi-circular shapes that curl underneath the eyes towards the nose. The nose is a rectangle that reaches up to join into the forehead and shape above the eyes. It has a wide downturned mouth. It almost looks upset. Below the face is a repeating pattern of vertical diamonds and triangles, almost like fish scales.A tall oval orange pumpkin in the dark, lit from within. It has a simple but expressive face; large circular eyes, with semi-circular shapes that curl underneath the eyes towards the nose. The nose is a rectangle that reaches up to join into the forehead and shape above the eyes. It has a wide downturned mouth. It almost looks upset. Below the face is a repeating pattern of vertical diamonds and triangles, almost like fish scales.A small stone sculpture on an acrylic plinth. It has been carved with small chips to create a simple but expressive face; large circular eyes, with semi-circular shapes that curl underneath the eyes towards the nose. The nose is a rectangle that reaches up to join into the forehead and shape above the eyes. It has a wide downturned mouth. It almost looks upset. Below the face is a repeating pattern of vertical diamonds and triangles, almost like fish scales. The bottom of this rounded stone has been broken off and it is flat on the plinth with a vertex of two faces visible on the front.