Just found some 1986 rates for archaeologists. Supervisors get £7481, the equiv. of c.£29,302 today. That’s almost exactly the same as the min. rate for G4 supervisors recommended by BAJR today -£29,858! Pay increases have been hard fought in recent times, but it was it just for it to stay the same!

I am looking through old archaeological archives at the moment, mostly from the 90s, and feeling intense pangs of sadness every time I see Sheffield mentioned. An absolute power house of archaeological science then… only to have its heart ripped out in recent times. Ugh.

New Doctor Who villain just dropped:

Erin L. Thompson@artcrimeprof.bsky.social · last yr.

To haunt your dreams, here's a late 2nd c. fragment of a portrait bust of the emperor Commodus once the face added in the early 19th century was removed... (Liverpool, Merseyside Museum, from the collection of Henry Blundell)

🚨 The call for submissions for the next issue of Geological Curator, titled 'Moving towards equitable Geoscience collections', is now open! 🚨 The purpose is to consolidate current research and initiatives that aim to improve the environment, accessibility, and future of geological collections.

Am I the only one who finds blocked up doorways and windows really pleasing? Look at the archaeology of this! (I started a new job at Fort Cumberland, it is aesthetically very enjoyable!)

Hail hail the Queen of the May!

What a fun question! 🪨 I usually lay my hands on them and close my eyes (I largely do this in the vague hope a time slip will trigger and I’ll find myself somewhen else… 🤷🏼‍♀️)

Kenny Brophy@urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’d really like to get some answers to these questions: Do you hug standing stones? If so, why? Please share for a wide range of responses! @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social

*groans in archaeologist* 🦖

Had a real influx of followers in past couple of days… no idea why, but… hi! 👋 I am still finding my groove here, but suffice to say it’s mostly archaeology and screaming into the void. Occasionally both at same time.

I wrote a brief article on the challenge that AI presents to archaeological visualisation. Check it out here: theconversation.com/how-ai-image... Though I have done a lot of scicomm, it was the first time I'd written for The Conversation. 🏺 +

How AI imagery could be used to develop fake archaeology

Even before the use of AI, it was widely accepted within archaeology that visualisations of the past are highly fraught and should be treated with caution.

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a man wearing glasses and a leather jacket is standing in front of a lamp and a microphone .

Alt: Life uh finds a way gif

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Auke-Florian 🪹@aukeflorian.nl · 2y ago

Bird nests made from anti-bird spikes?! 🤯 Hi, I'm a nest researcher 👋 and new here on BlueSky, sharing the craziest #bird nests I've ever found. 👀 Today, I’m sharing my discovery of rebellious birds that build nests out of anti-bird spikes. And honestly, it's like telling a joke... A thread. 🧵

Is it #TileTuesday? No. Am I going to post the 13th century tiles I saw at Titchfield Abbey at the weekend anyway? Yes! (They are mostly covered by burlap and sandbags at the moment, but whatever was covering this section had flipped up in the wind so… behold!)

Super interesting study on facial piercing and stretching in early prehistory! #archaeology #bodymodification

Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes@lemoustier.bsky.social · 2y ago

🏺🧪🦣 Immensely interesting new, detailed and OA study suggesting cultural cheek piercing - like B in the image here, but one sided & potentially progressively enlarged from adolescence onwards - in a European 'Ice Age' culture 31.5-29.5 ka BP

You know what’s a joy? Listening to the dulcet tones of @noddinggoth.bsky.social talking about archaeology & the mid-COVID excavation of the Castle Street burial ground in Hull. What a challenging project for @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social & everyone who worked on it shows.acast.com/627bb65a6cf5...

Ep 15 the A63 and Castle Street Burial Ground with Osteoarchaeologist Dr Lauren McIntyre | ROYSCast

The process and some of the stories of the largest excavation of a post-medieval burial ground in the North of England.

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Here are the late Bronze Age ramparts of Chanctonbury Ring in the snow last weekend. It's weathered way over 2000 years of winters but the white stuff is now a much rarer visitor to the hill. #HillfortsWednesday 🏺

Tom Booth and Pontus skoglund sampling the human remains from the Poulton project for aDnA data. Both young boys, probably brothers and may well have died from the Black Dearh Incredible what we can now learn #diggingforbritain #drawingdiggingforbritain #archaeology

What an incredible object. Showed how even the periphery could be an intersection

This carved whale bone box was one of wonderful things in the #SilkRoads exhibition at the British Museum… 8th century, made in Northumbria, depicting Wayland the Smith, the Adoration of the Magi from New Testament along with an Old English rune dedication to the dead whale! 😍

If you listen to Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of The Moon’ on repeat and put on BBC2 at 8pm I will eerily appear on your screen accompanied by the maniacal laughter from ‘On The Run’. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Two - Digging for Britain, Series 12, Roman Crime and Ancient DNA

A Roman crime is uncovered, and ancient DNA solves a medieval mystery.

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Not the best Tripadvisor review we've ever had. We're thinking of updating our Bio, though... 🤔

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social

Sometimes you look at a stone and it’s kind of unassuming… until you hold it and it falls perfectly into to your grip and suddenly it’s all HOW IS THIS SO PERFECT IN MY HAND??* *I can’t be the only person who picks up stone tools and is astounded by their ergonomics every time, right?

Yesterday Curator James Sainsbury was kind enough to show me the small biface currently on display in Worthing Museum. The story of it's discovery, found on the beach at Shoreham-by-Sea by then six year old Ben Witten, has travelled the world. 🧵 1/3 #FlintFriday #FindsFriday

Happy New Year! If you are interesting in teaching & learning about #Archaeology 🏺 #Heritage #TeachLearnSky #AcademicSky come & join our online global roundtables! archaeologytandl.wordpress.com Our first 2025 session is on "Enhancing educational practices in archaeology" Tues 21st Jan 2-3pm GMT.

Teaching and Learning in Archaeology & Heritage

Virtual round table discussions

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When life gives you unspeakable, eldritch lemons… make fhtaganade! 🍋 🐙

#TombTuesday -Incredible Callanish, a prehistoric monument so unusual & exhilarating that it has a chambered tomb crammed into it's central circle I found the tall stones & avenues here weather-beaten, mesmerising & disorientating. Just an incredible place in the Outer Hebrides 📷 My own, June 24

Another day, another all encompassing urge to go admire a massive rock. Or walk around a hillfort.

BLOG POST: What to watch next if, like me, you wish there were at least a hundred more of those 1970s BBC ghost stories for Christmas. 🎞📽 precastreinforced.co.uk/2024/11/24/t...

The infinite supply of BBC ghost stories for Christmas

There are only eight episodes of the BBC Ghost Story for Christmas, produced between 1971 and 1978. That’s not enough. Here are some suggestions for where to go next. First, let’s address a technic…

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You… you left what on the tube?! 💀 A rather throwaway sentence from this 1995 monograph on archaeological human remains being lost on the London Underground!