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...
"Science Museum, don't greenwash Adani!" 📢 We protested outside the @sciencemuseum.org.uk in London! The uncontacted Shompen people are facing complete annihilation because of a project to turn their island into the new 'Hong Kong of India'. Share now to up the pressure!
We’re raising £5,000 to build an experimental Iron Age chariot, working alongside @richardosgood.bsky.social, @timeteam.bsky.social and veterans from Operation Nightingale. If you can, please donate to the cause and help us bring this amazing project to life! www.gofundme.com/f/build-a-ch...
‘The Shells (and Crabs) of a Mesolithic Shell Midden: Port-Neuf, the island of Hoedic, Brittany’ Anna Stafford, PhD Student, Université Rennes 2. UCD Hunter Gather Research Group Seminar Series. Wed 4 Nov, 1pm, Barry Raftery Seminar Room, Ardmore Annexe. All Welcome. @univrennes2.bsky.social
Join us on Friday 27th November from 5-7pm for a festive evening of unique gifts, local mead, handmade jewellery, ancient craft kits and plenty of stocking fillers. Then head down to our ancient house for a warming drink and a mince pie for just £2 per person. ✨ Book your tickets on our website. ☃️
There's something so magic about autumn: misty mornings, falling leaves, and the gentle turn of the earth towards winter. We're now closed for general admission until February half term 2027, but we've still got a cosy lineup of festive events to see us through the season. ☕ 🍁 tinyurl.com/yc6fkw97
Like many authors, I’m bombarded by scam fan mail. I wasn’t prepared for what would happen when I wrote back www.theguardian.com/books/2026/n...
Like many authors, I’m bombarded by scam fan mail. I wasn’t prepared for what would happen when I wrote back
The novelist receives passionate AI-written emails almost every day – but when he decided to take up one sender’s offer to find him new readers, the story took a darker turn
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🧪Did Neanderthals treat human bones differently when using them to sharpen stone tools? New results by our PhD student @kellyanndesjardins.bsky.social co supervised with @lucdoyon.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... ☠️ @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
Retouchers made on human bones in Mousterian contexts: symbolic particularism or undifferentiated processing compared to other faunal remains? - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
Bone retouchers provide valuable insights into past technological behaviors, including the interaction between raw materials, the condition of the bone at the time of use, the types of lithic material...
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Just a reminder that booking is open for our upcoming Student Colloquium! Join us in person or online to hear exciting new research from students and early career researchers. Register for your place here: tinyurl.com/SMAStudentConf #medievalarchaeology #conferences #earlycareer
Timeline cleanse.. The mouth of the Vilaine from Le Govet. 📷 Toussaint 2026.
Timeline cleanse.. The mouth of the Vilaine from Le Govet. 📷 Toussaint 2026.
Cinq Britanniques d’ultradroite interpellés près de Dunkerque pour des « actions d’intimidation » contre des migrants
Cinq Britanniques d’ultradroite interpellés près de Dunkerque pour des « actions d’intimidation » contre des migrants
A l’issue de leurs gardes à vue, ces militants, qui étaient notamment en possession de quatre bombes lacrymogènes, devraient être placés en rétention dans la perspective de leur expulsion du territoire français, selon la préfecture.
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Bill Nordhaus has died. Notable for being one of two surviving people who successfully predicted the last 50 years of climate change in the 1970s (Manabe being the other). Both won (different) Nobel Prizes. news.yale.edu/2026/10/31/w...
William Nordhaus, Nobel laureate who integrated economics and climate change, devoted Yale citizen
William Nordhaus ‘63, Sterling Professor of Economics who won a Nobel Prize in 2018 for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis, died Oct. 30 at age 85.
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Could you help us make YAC more sustainable? 🌱 We’re looking for a consultant to assess the environmental impact of the Young Archaeologists’ Club and help us identify practical ways to make the network more sustainable for the future. Find out more 👉 shorturl.at/cKTRg
Decapitated bodies and coins in mouths among bizarre Roman burial discoveries near Catterick - Richmondshire Today www.richmondshiretoday.co.uk/decapitated-...
Decapitated bodies and coins in mouths among bizarre Roman burial discoveries near Catterick - Richmondshire Today
Decapitated bodies, skeletons buried face-down and a man laid to rest with nine coins in his mouth are among a series of unusual Roman burial discoveries made near Catterick. The discoveries, unearthe...
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SAVE THE DATE | 7–9 April 2027 | University of Glasgow Statues Also Die: Colonial Memory and the Afterlife of Monuments Colonial memory, monuments and public space. Programme and registration to follow placememory.net/statues-also... @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @stir.ac.uk #StatuesAlsoDie
URGENT 🚨 Guarani Kaiowá Indigenous people have been murdered in Brazil. In the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, there’s been a rush of violence against Indigenous people, after President Lula was voted back into power.
It's a fine Halloween morning. Sun-up at Rochefort-en-Terre.
Not my finds but it is #FindsFriday nonetheless. Perfume bottle and child’s necklace among treasures found in Pompeii wardrobe www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Perfume bottle and child’s necklace among treasures found in Pompeii wardrobe
Archaeologists uncover jewellery, cosmetics and coins in cabinet sealed since eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79
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Huge congratulations to @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social on the successful fundraising campaign to acquire the 3,800 hectare Rothbury estate
Wildlife Trusts hit £30m target to buy and rewild huge Northumberland estate
About 25,000 members of public chip in £17m towards 3,800-hectare Rothbury estate, described as ‘once-in-a-generation opportunity’
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#FindsFriday Such an important image from Irish rural history once shared by the late & great @justrena.bsky.social 😞 It shows a sled cart, saddle & bridle entirely made of perishable materials. Perhaps only the metal bit would survive in the archaeological record if excavated today 🤔 📷 From Rena
Hope they are sharing a good brandy together. The best of us. GNU Patrick Stewart.
Terry Pratchett & Rob Wilkins@terryandrob.bsky.social · 5d agoTwo unparalleled storytellers with a shared conviction that each of us should have a say in how our own story end. GNU Sir Patrick Stewart
Samhain in 1932 with a scooped out sheep's head often used as a mask. PIC: South Uist Guisers, 1932, from Margaret Fay Shaw Photographic Archive, NTS Canna House.
How rising seas transformed dry land into Venice lagoon www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
How rising seas transformed dry land into Venice lagoon
Scientists uncover ancient hills and swamps that disappeared as sea levels rose across northern Adriatic
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Today’s office. Firing the medieval kiln, and cooking supper in the heat. (The silver foil may not be entirely authentic, it’s true😀).
How did ancient people interact with their environments? Can #archaeology contribute to current conservation efforts? Learn all this and more in our collection of research on Nature and Archaeology: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🏺
The Archaeological Evidence – Identifying the Monastery of St. Moluag Thu 29 Oct 2026 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM GMT Online, Zoom www.tickettailor.com/events/groam...
Buy tickets – The Archaeological Evidence – Identifying the Monastery of St. Moluag – Zoom
The Archaeological Evidence – Identifying the Monastery of St. Moluag – Zoom, Thu 29 Oct 2026 - This lecture will be given by Dr Clare Ellis of Argyll Archaeology. Her talk will be about the work she ...
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Solving an ancient cold case: Roman was brutally murdered phys.org/news/2026-10...
Solving an ancient cold case: Roman was brutally murdered
This 2,000-year-old cold case offered a wealth of information, Leiden archaeologists Carol van Driel-Murray and Mark Driessen explain. Few skeletons from the late Iron Age and early Roman era have bee...
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Who’s profiting from Goldsmiths’ crisis? Goldsmiths has shed around 500 staff while spending millions on external consultants – including £2.8m on KPMG alone. Brenna Spain reports
Fall under the spell of The Norse Sorceress this #Halloween with this richly illustrated and comprehensive investigation into the iconic figure of the völva. Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/4BAPp4M
