Impact of the drought on our garden. Plum harvest this year: one. Tiny apples falling from the tree in huge numbers, a month early.

Today I got a new desk. I had to clear all my crap from when I moved house in 2005 onto the new desk. Among the crap was this notebook labelled ‘PhD ideas’. I submitted my PhD in 1999. I don’t want to give the idea that I don’t clean my desk often. Archaeologists are allowed stratigraphic layers. 🙄😳

Communities around the world remember the Roma & Sinti victims of genocide in Nazi-occupied Europe on 2 August. This year is even more meaningful for @gillycarr.bsky.social who has just returned to @cam.ac.uk from excavating at Hodonín Memorial in the Czech Republic. 1/2 📸: Prof. Carr

Oh look, @emilydubious.bsky.social, the Coven are on holiday in #Guernsey! But there are no shells, sea glass or bits of ceramic on this particular beach. I’m unsure what this tells us.

Is it just me or does anyone else find seagull footprints cute? ❤️

Pray silence for the Guernsey fig. 🤫

The best de-stressed I know: picking up shells - specifically, yellow periwinkles!

Status update. Not often the sea in Guernsey is lovely and warm! ❤️

I don’t expect to do much better than this! Anthropeum.com · Jul 29 2026 🟩🟩🟩🟦🟩🟩🟩🟨🟦🟨 73,812 · top 7% of players today!

Has anyone tried both #Duolingo and #Jumpspeak and can tell me how they fared with each? I’ve been doing Duolingo for a month and apart from the ads, I think I’m doing ok. But it’s early days.

Prehistoric beads that look like minions!! ❤️❤️

Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · last wk.

Beads with #Minion eyes 👀 Made of yellow, blue and white glass. Found in Vicenice, Czech Republic, dating late 6th/5th century BC. So far, it has not been possible to determine whether the pearls were imported from the Mediterranean region or produced locally. 🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺

I’m doing #Duolingo and did not need to see the owl twerking to celebrate a successful exercise 🫣🫣

Can I just say that the ‘angry croissant culture’ was not one I ever encountered as an archaeology student #anthropeum #archaeology 🤨🤷🏻‍♀️🧐

Some artefacts are just so stunning that seeing them in the flesh is an entirely different experience to seeing pictures of them. So it is with the Vix torc. Today I read the news of its theft from the Musee du Pays Chatillonais. This is one of the greatest pieces that survives from Iron Age Europe.

Asking for a friend. How terrible is it to give one’s husband chocolate almonds and then eat most of them oneself? 😳🫣

@alisonfisk.bsky.social I see your flappy helmet and raise you 1980s deeply boppers.

Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 2w ago

Celtic chieftain’s bird helmet! An astounding military helmet from some 2,200 years ago! The bird’s wings are hinged so that they flapped when the wearer moved! From Ciumești, Satu Mare County, Romania 📷 by me #Archaeology

The Gundestrup Cauldron is a thing of beauty to behold in the flesh. It is mesmerising and pics can’t do it justice! Thanks for posting, @alisonfisk.bsky.social

Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 2w ago

In the 1st century BC, the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus described Celtic clothing including helmets with large attached figures such as birds, which gave the wearer an appearance of enormous stature. The C1st BC Gundestrup Cauldron from Denmark depicts a Celtic horseman wearing a bird helmet!

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Can I just say: LOOK AT OUR BEAUTIFUL STRATIGRAPHY from #Hodonín #Roma Memorial. That white band felt like concrete to hack through: it was the phase where the site was landscaped to create a memorial, and also damaged some of the #archaeology below. But we’re very proud of our hard work.

I totally love this video. So interesting! I wonder who spotted this?

Wiltshire Museum@wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 3w ago

In light of our new DNA evidence on our Upton Lovell Shaman, we were asked what animal bones were used. So for #FindsFriday this week, here is our Director, David Dawson talking about the bones! You can see more on our Upton Lovell Shaman pieces here: www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/search-the-c...

Ah, @ullamr.bsky.social, I do love Rome and even if it’s sweltering with billions of tourists, there’s still something special about visiting. After my last conference in Rome, I treated myself to a single-afternoon holiday and sat in a cafe in Piazza Navona and chilled. ❤️

Ulla Rajala@ullamr.bsky.social · 3w ago

It is #RomanSiteSaturday and I am in hot and humid Rome. Thus an air photograph of Colisseum and the Forum. Here only for a week but so happy after a 7-year hiatus. Already planning the next summer's trip!

My eyes might be leaking a little …

Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 3w ago

A deaf man's cat figured out that meowing was pointless, so he taught himself sign language to communicate with his owner. No training. Just observation.

Short 🧵: 1/2: The soil has been like concrete on this dig. We’re grateful to Tomas for swinging the pickaxe for us but my female students point out that our role is then to shovel up his ‘mess’ rather than working collaboratively as an (all female) team to remove the soil.

Look at the depth of that trench! This week we’ve been hacking through concrete-like dried clay and the thought of hacking through that depth makes my eyes water. But I spy some lovely aluminium picks at the bottom of the trench - we had only a pickaxe that weighed a ton.

Antiquity Journal@antiquity.ac.uk · 3w ago

Archaeologists excavating at the 100 BC-AD 100 Tamir necropolis in Mongolia. Used by the Xiongnu confederation, ancient DNA suggests genetic relatedness was just one of many factors influencing a person's social status in the nomadic imperial world. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Today several Czech TV crews arrived to see the site (here they are filming 2 Cambridge @cam-archaeology.bsky.social students; they were on telly later!) #Hodonín #Roma

Today we found two buttons from the wartime layers of #Hodonin #Roma concentration camp in Czechia. It’s true that we have not been blessed with many wartime finds, but the site had so many post-war layers of uses. The landscaping in the creation of the memorial site made our job harder.

At the #Roma contraction camp of #Hodonin in #Czechia, we have found a definitively wartime find at last.

Anyone know what this is? We’re in #Hodonín #Roma concentration camp, #Czechia. It’s been suggested that this is a Soviet-era battery but I’m not so sure. Zoom in on the top - it has concentric circles.

We found a coin. A coin, everybody! A COIN! Archaeologists are easy to please. It’s heavily corroded, mind, but we think it’s a communist era coin, so still post-war. #Hodonin #Roma #Czechia

We found a piece of barrack block floor board with a nail on it (by my thumb). This is a part of the #Roma camp so we’re very pleased. #Hodonin #Czechia #ConflictArchaeology