V pleased that our Prehistoric Policies project (w/@archsoundscapes.bsky.social, @drclairenolan.bsky.social) funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social, will be in the RIA Discourse on "Contemporary biodiversity & the deep time past" (18/5/27) w/ Meriel McClatchie & Anwen Cooper @rewildarch.bsky.social

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The RIA Discourse Series is the oldest and most renowned series of public talks in Ireland. The 2026/27 Discourse Series will focus on the theme of 'Diversity', in its many forms. View the programme for the 2026/27 Discourse Series: www.ria.ie/2026/06/23/d...

The Knepp Accord has launched! Supported by the National Trust & representatives from 30+ orgs, it sets out shared principles for collaboration between archaeology, heritage & the nature sector to support nature recovery. We're proud to have played a key role in developing it. shorturl.at/KxRF7

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The National Trust, Oxford Archaeology and Knepp Castle Estate have launched the ‘Knepp Accord’, a new framework to tackle the nature and climate crisis.

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Wander back through time on Knepp’s 'Wilding With Archaeology' safari 🌿 Thursday 23 July |11:00-13:30 Part of the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social #FestivalOfArchaeology, join Knepp ecologist Tony Whitbread and the ‘Rewilding’ Later Prehistory team. More information here: shorturl.at/PZ5Bq

Wilding With Archaeology: How past human practices shape wilding now

<p>Knepp&rsquo;s inspiring wilding journey over the last 20 years has been shaped in surprising ways by the past. Take a journey back in time to unearth the extraordinary archaeological details that u...

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We're delighted that Dr Anwen Cooper, who heads the @rewildarch.bsky.social project, will be delivering this year's de Cardi lecture for the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social AGM! 📍 The Milner York 📅 21st February | 12:20 🎟️ FREE Read more about the AGM and how to book tickets here: tr.ee/CBA-AGM

We brought the wild with us 🐾 to last week’s Bronze Age Forum! Grateful to our hosts @ucddublin.bsky.social for an engaging programme and warm welcome! #Archaeology #BronzeAgeForum #WilderPasts

🚀 New open‑access article! “People and time in nature: Positioning archaeology in an ecoclimate crisis.” 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #OpenAccess #Archaeology #ClimateCrisis #WildWednesdays

What happens when archaeology meets rewilding? 🦴🌿 Our recent 'Archaeology in Wilding' workshop @kneppwilding.bsky.social explored how nature recovery and archaeology can thrive together. Read the story here 👉 www.oxfordarchaeology.com/news/archaeo... @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social @wildwednesdays

Archaeology in Wilding @ Knepp

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Great to meet such a diverse and lively group of archaeologists, ecologists, farmers, geographers etc at our 'Archaeology in Wilding' workshop earlier this month. Thank you @kneppwilding.bsky.social for the beautiful venue, Guerilla Archaeology and all others who contributed! #WildWednesdays

Last week we were on the road again at the International Working Group for Palaeoethnobotany, Groningen. Topics ranged from experimental pit storage, prehistoric food crusts, community-designed Roman gardens & wild plant fibres & recipes-looking forward to IWGP Berlin 2028! #WildWednesdays

The project team have been out and about quite a bit lately, but here's our most professional looking photo of Lou assessing stored monolith samples from the 1980s Fenland Survey project! Fingers crossed they deliver the goods! #WildWednesdays #Archaeology #HardCoreLife

Rewilding Later Prehistory visited beautiful Rewilding Coombeshead last week and discovered a talent for pig whispering! #WildWednesdays

What can be happier than zooarchaeologists among red deer?? Adrienne shared this great photo from their ‘road trip’ to collect reference material at @kneppwilding.bsky.social -including Tamworth pig remains (a better match for archaeological pig than our modern breeds) #WildWednesdays #Archaeology

Project lead Anwen Cooper and archaeologist and artist Rose Ferraby chat to Pete Leeson about nature, farming and archaeology in the latest @treeamblepodcast Check it out here: shorturl.at/6DzSy #WildWednesdays #archaeology #naturerecovery @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social

The fish bones found in this Later Bronze/Iron Age burial from Stanground, Peterborough came from a pike of estimated 1m length, but are they trash or treasure? A fish of this considerable size may well have been considered a worthy funerary offering (ref: Boismier 2021) #WildWednesdays #Archaeology

From the archives: Ferraby, R. 2017 Geophysics: creativity and the archaeological imagination, Internet Archaeology 44. doi.org/10.11141/ia.... 🏺 Rose explores archaeology as a creative practice by engaging specifically with the processes and visuals of geophysics.

Resident geoarchaeologist Dave Kay has been out in the sunshine at @kneppwilding.bsky.social looking at the effects of rewilding on soil structure - accompanied by the usually pretty elusive ponies! #WildWednesdays

Tonight!!! See link below 👇

UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · last yr.

Ulster Archaeological Society lecture tonight! Prof. Joanna Brück of UCD, “The social worlds of Bronze Age animals.” Monday 31st March at 7.30 pm in the Elmwood Building, QUB. lecture streamed on YouTube Hot drinks & biscuits from 7 pm in the Elmwood Common Room www.youtube.com/live/GfU1IFV...

For #WorldRewildingDay, some pictures from a recent visit to @kneppwilding.bsky.social - the animals roam a landscape that looks very different from its more agricultural days but is nevertheless still shaped by historic patterns of routeways, boundaries and structures

How do we imagine human’s place in nature in prehistory? Most reconstructions center on settlements, with nature fading into the backdrop, a hazy periphery. This image of Grim’s Bank by Peter Lorimer takes a different approach, as a woman in the countryside looks on from outside #WildWednesdays

Amazing ‘Voices’ gallery tour @themerl.bsky.social today with the brilliant Anwen Cooper from @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social / @rewildarch.bsky.social, discussing rewilding, early farming, more-than-human histories and prehistories, @kneppwilding.bsky.social, and much more!

Anyone for a pint? The roughly 2000 year old Langstone Tankard is one of several examples of Iron Age/Roman tankards made of (potentially toxic) yew wood. It can hold four pints, so if the taxins don't finish you off, the ale might do! museum.wales/articles/120... #WildWednesdays #Archaeology

Ancient Drinking Culture: The Langstone Tankard

. . . In December 2007, Craig Mills discovered a complete wooden tankard while metal-...

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We have several more upcoming talks, including alongside a stellar line-up at the 'Where the Wild Things Were' rewilding symposium in Lifton, Devon 🐻🐌🐸🦅 www.ticketsource.co.uk/keep-it-wild... See also our website: rewilding.oxfordarchaeology.com/publications... #WildWednesdays #Archaeology #Ecology

Artist Miranda Creswell has been out at @kneppwilding.bsky.social and shared these lovely working shots with us on the theme of ‘What lies beyond’- bringing together the past and present, visible and invisible 😍😍😍 #WildWednesdays #Archaeology #Ecology

Project palynologist Lou has been out at Lye Valley Fen, hearing about the challenges faced in rescuing alkaline fen and its underlying peat when surrounded by urban conurbation - as outlined by expert ecologist and palynologist, Judy Webb #WildWednesdays #Archaeoecology

Antler rake/pick from Early Bronze Age pit at Moulsford, excavated by TVAS. Found alongside other remains including aurochs, amphibian & cattle. Molluscs suggest the pit was dug shortly after surrounding woodland was cleared. Perhaps returning to the earth some of what had been taken?#WildWednesdays

Rose Ferraby and project PI Anwen Cooper head to Hepple Wilds in Northumberland in search of prehistoric rock art and landscape connection on Monday’s episode of BBC Radio 3's ‘The Essay’- check it out here! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #WildWednesdays #Archaeology #Prehistory

The Essay - EarthWorks - Stone - BBC Sounds

Archaeologist Rose Ferraby explores rock art in Northumberland.

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All about understanding Matrilineal society in what is now Britain. Brilliant and careful work using multi disciplinary research www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain - Nature

An analysis of ancient mitochondrial and nuclear&nbsp;DNA shows evidence of matrilocal communities in Iron Age Britain.

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Excavated in 1960, this Early Bronze Age barrow burial at Amesbury contained a number of wood, antler and bronze implements including an oak 'club' or beater. These were interpreted as the toolkit of a leather worker, but perhaps other interpretations are possible? #WildWednesdays #Archaeology

A beautiful shot of (?Ceratodon purpureus) moss at Fountains Abbey by @roseferraby. Heathland mosses can often be identified in prehistoric samples, such as those from this Early Bronze Age turf-built burial mound at Pen-y-Fan, at the highest point of the Brecon Beacons. #WildWednesdays #Archaeology