We're underway here at #UTP26 with @uclarchaeology.bsky.social with Caitlin Withnell welcoming everyone to the Institute. 🦣🏺
Mike Efstathiou
@mikeef.bsky.social
PhD Researcher into prehistoric British avenues. A lover of landscapes and all things Mesolithic and Neolithic. Formerly a live music Sound Engineer and Studio/Live Outside Broadcast Producer with an additional career as an IT Service Architect
Not a prototype. And not “an earlier version of Stonehenge “ as reported on the BBC!
Archaeologists unearth 'prototype' for Stonehenge stones
Archaeologists have discovered a 5,000-year-old structure that may have served as an early "prototype" for the alignment for the solstice at Stonehenge.
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I would love to try and catch one of these events!
Fiona Robertson@stonelands.bsky.social · 2mo agoAll these STONE LANDS events still to come this summer! I'm looking forward to talking about these incredible survivals from prehistory, exploring what we can tell about the preoccupations of the people who built them and what they mean to us today. Hope you can join and share your thoughts too!
This marvellous new book on Stonehenge, written by Sue Greaney (@suegreaney.bsky.social) is full of lush photos. The text isn't bad either!
It’s many years since I was last in Cairo. Time to go back!
The Grand Egyptian Museum isn’t the world’s best museum. It’s not even the best museum in Cairo
The new £1bn landmark is a startling attraction. But it’s the old place – shorn of its most famous treasure – that now really glitters
thenewworld.co.uk
An addition to #FocusFriday #FuturesFriday highlighting the taught Postgraduate Degree: 📜 Palaeoanthropology & Palaeolithic Archaeology MSc 📲 bit.ly/IoAPAPA Coordinated by @mattpope.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk 🎥 filmed on 1st April 2025 at London Zoo. #LocalAndGlobal
A lovely example from the Callanish II stone circle, for #StandingstoneSunday. Isle of Lewis, May 2024.
The remaining Drumtroddan standing stone, Near Port William, Dumfries and Galloway. #StandingStoneSunday
Rainbows and Mike Allen during a walk along the standing stones of the West Kennet Avenue in March 2024. #standingstonesunday
One of the stones of the Ring of Brodgar, Orkney. Visited in May 2024 during my PhD search for Scottish avenues. #StandingStoneSunday
On Machrie Moor, with the Neolithic Studies Group, enjoying the megaliths. Arran, May 2023. #StandingStoneSunday
A large standing stone at the Prehistoric Burial Cairns of Bulnuaran of Clava. Clava Cairns, near Inverness. Visited in May 2024 during my search for Scottish avenues. #StandingStoneSunday
In the foreground stones of the Callanish 3 circle, with in the background those of the Callanish 2 stone circle. Visited in May 2024. #StandingStoneSunday
A single stone a short walk from the Barnhouse Settlement on Orkney. Just by the Loch of Harray. Visited on my 2024 Avenues tour of Scotland. #standingstonesunday
The Cop Stone, on Moor Divock, Cumbria. Photographed July 2024 during a search for prehistoric avenues…. #StandingStoneSunday #prehistory #archaeology
The lone standing stone just to the south of the stone rows of Merrivale, Dartmoor. #StandingstoneSunday #archaeology #prehistory
A beautiful stone at Stanton Drew, photographed during the Stukeley 300 weekend in July 2023. #standingstonesunday #prehistory #archaeology
The remaining standing stones at the henge and stone circle of the Broomend of Crichie, near Inverurie, Scotland. Recorded by James Richie in 1920, and partly excavated by Richard Bradley in 2011. #StandingStoneSunday #archaeology #prehistory
This is definitely the video I am most proud of to date. A video exploring the prehistory of Avebury and is perfect to watch today for the #WinterSolstice youtu.be/KVmZCth3izs #Avebury #Archaeology #AncientSky Please like and repost if you can!
Mysterious Prehistory of Avebury
YouTube video by Louise Bedford
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The recumbent stone and it's flankers of the East Aquhorthies Stone Circle near Inverurie, Scotland. Visited during my Spring 2024 tour of Scotland and the Isles in search of prehistoric avenues. (PS, there isn't one here that we know of....) #standingstonesunday #archaeology #prehistory
Bournemouth University studies the Major Lunar Standstill at Stonehenge. #archaeology #prehistory #skyscapes #archaeoastronomy
Study of the moon sheds light on the secrets of Stonehenge
bournemouth.ac.uk
The Claire and Frank online show (that’s Tuffy and Prendergast, respectively) was wonderful this Solstice morning, waxing lyrical about the Neolithic of Ireland and the passage grave of Newgrange. #archaeology #prehistory
'G' is for Girdle Stanes, a partially destroyed stone circle in Dumfries and Galloway. I recently walked the landscape here in search of the supposed avenue. Did I find it? #archaeology #prehistory #prehistoricavenues
Carolyn Kennett’s interesting research. #archaeoastronomy #skyscapearchaeology
Kenidjack Holed Stones, Skyscapes, Shadows and Sun-casting
Were the holed stones a cosmological calendar? Written after the April 2023 archaeological investigation of the stones Adjoining the ritual landscape of Tregeseal near St Just, Cornwall lay a curio…
archaeoastronomycornwall.com
The central stone of the Stripple Stones, an unusual circle within a henge on Bodmin Moor, close to Hawks Tor. #standingstonesunday
F is for Forteviot, a late Neolithic palisaded enclosure in Perth & Kinross, Scotland. Somewhere in this field are traces of a timber avenue leading to the enclosure. #archaeology #prehistory #prehistoricavenues
