Taking a precious curse tablet from Kegworth Heritage Centre to the University of Nottingham for examination. The XRF machine says it is definitely lead and we are waiting for the results from scanning using the impressive machines at Advanced Manufacturing. Hoping to reveal more of its text!

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

📰 600-year-old anaesthetic residue uncovered in the tomb of a Chinese surgeon indicates Ming China's medical professionals knew a great deal about reducing pain during surgery. 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @newscientist.com institutions.newscientist.com/article/2527...

As an archaeologist working on aspects of materialised identity I think about this probably too much but ... we literally make & break the world and systems around us #archaeology

Dr David S Anderson@dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 3mo ago

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

On 31 March 2025 the Office for Students employed 475 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff.

What a load of 💩 #archaeology #Romans 🧪🏺

The Classics Library@theclassicslibrary.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Poop-encrusted chamber pots from the Roman Empire reveal oldest known human cases of Crypto parasite www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Noms! So much fascinating work being done - An independent center for the origin of bread wheat in the Neolithic period of Georgia in the South Caucasus #archaeology #Neolithic 🏺🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Ah the long standing question...I love #archaeology because it's a beautiful marriage of everything. Human behaviour is mind bogglingly complex so we need a whole suite of conceptual & analytical approaches 🧪🏺🔬

Peer Community Journal@peercomjournal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Now published in Peer Community Journal, #archaeology section: Replication report for Marwick (2025) “Is archaeology a science?”, including new data from OpenAlex

"Archaeologists don't find fancy treasure"... German Archaeology "hold my drink" 👀 #archaeology #Prehistory 🏺

Archaeology Magazine@archaeologymag.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A cache of stylish jewelry is the latest exciting find from the Bronze Age in Germany. Archaeologists discovered 3,000-year-old neck collars, arm spirals, disc pins, and a necklace made with more than 150 amber beads! archaeology.org/news/2026/04/20/bronze-age-jewelry-unearthed-in-northern-germany/

The state of governance now 🫣 Another great looking talk in the WELHMA series as part of the Institute of Medieval Research 👇 #archaeology #history #Nottingham 🏺🏛

So excited to play with this! #archaeology 🧪🏺🔬

Dept of Classics & Archaeology, Nottingham@uonclassarch.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Huge thanks to Jordan & Evident Microscopy who custom designed our new DSX2000 digital microscope, developing a whole new interchangable rotating stage to meet our requirements. We can now run a whole suite of analysis on items including ancient coins, ceramics, metals and bone objects. 🏺🔬🧪

Super looking collection of work, congrats! 🏺🧪 #kinship #archaeology #anthropology

Sabina Cveček@sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🌸 Kinship Trouble isn’t a crisis—it’s an opportunity: to rethink kinship through collaborative and interdisciplinary research across archaeology, ancient DNA, and socio-cultural anthropology. With @pennybickle.bsky.social & Maanasa Raghavan @genscapelab.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🏺🧪 More Question of Science podcast Tom-Boothelry on ancient DNA with @profbriancox.bsky.social and @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social youtu.be/RmvmLH44NCQ?...

Ancient Egyptian DNA, Cheddar Man and Wolves as Pets – More Questions of Science

YouTube video by The Francis Crick Institute

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A study based on tree rings claimed that droughts played a role in events that led to the Roman withdrawal from Britain, but other researchers say that isn't backed up by historical evidence

Historians dispute link between drought and rebellion in Roman Britain

A study based on tree rings claimed that droughts played a role in events that led to the Roman withdrawal from Britain, but other researchers say that isn't backed up by historical evidence

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Sounds like the contents of my lower desk drawer...you know the one, full of all the bits of important paper for 'filing'... #archaeology 🏺

Jennifer Ouellette@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Archaeologists Unearth 43,000 Ancient Egyptian Receipts, Notes, and ‘To Do’ Lists gizmodo.com/archaeologis...

I love paw prints, foot prints and now chicken prints in tiles! #archaeology 🏺

Dr Jo Ball@drjeball.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A #Roman tile , impressed with the footprint of a chicken that walked across it some 1600+ years ago 🐔 #AncientBlueSky

The complicated nature of genetics and human behaviour...🏺 #archaeology

Dr Huw Groucutt@huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Beware the claims for bottlenecks and the new fashion for admixture/hybridisation! Population structure is harder to model, and messes up some nice simple narratives, but it is fundamental. Important new publication by. Chikhi et al 2026 (link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...)

New #jobs at @uni-kiel.de within the @clusterroots.bsky.social advertised: one doctoral & two postdoctoral positions. The postdoc positions are for any projects relating to archaeological science and are explicitely looking for for applicants from Africa and Asia: www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-r...

Stunning! 🏺 #art #archaeology #prehistory

Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉@reblambert.bsky.social · 6mo ago

For #FindsFriday, a decorated sherd of Iron Age pottery found in the upper fill of a chalk-cut storage pit in a banjo enclosure at Winterborne Kingston #Dorset Photographed at the moment of discovery in June 2022 What will we find when #Durotriges26 starts later in the year? Summer is coming...

Super interesting work 👏 👏👏 #archaeology #vikings 🏺

Antiquity Journal@antiquity.ac.uk · 6mo ago

NEW Fish was a key part of early medieval Scandinavian diets, but lipid analysis of ceramics from Viking Age England found little evidence for aquatic products. Did Scandinavian settlers conform to Anglo-Saxon culinary traditions? 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Testing Clay Bodies for Tea Side by side comparison of the taste of tea in different clay teapots. It is clear that unglazed clay has an impact on flavour, colour and aroma. My personal results. #tea #pottery #clay www.debborahdonnelly.ca/blog/testing...

Testing Clay Bodies for Tea — The Road Less Travelled

Chinese machine-made pot (left); Vietnamese handmade teapot (right)

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Isotope analysis of medieval Cambridge skeletons indicates that social status strongly influenced diet, with wealthier individuals consuming more animal protein than poorer townspeople.

Isotopes reveal how social status shaped diet in medieval England

Isotope analysis reveals that social status and wealth had a profound impact on diet in medieval England, showing that people from different social groups in medieval Cambridge ate markedly different food.

phys.org

Terribly misleading headline. I suspect the cost is more to do with "Technical challenges in uncovering the River Sheaf have been the other main reason for the programme extensions and cost increases" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🏺 #archaeology

Archaeological finds push Castlegate scheme £8m over budget

Council is bidding for more funds to complete the public park and events space in Sheffield city centre.

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New exhibition opening tomorrow curated by @uonclassarch.bsky.social Prof. Chris Loveluck and Ann Inscker from Nottingham Museums and Galleries. Free entry www.lakesidearts.org.uk/exhibition/t... 🖼🏺🧪 #archaeology #history #Nottingham

JOB! www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... 🏺 #archaeology #classics

Oh, look! My friends around Magdalena Fraser & Federico Sanchez-Quinto et al have a new study analyzing more high-coverage Neolithic #aDNA genomes from the Baltic island of Gotland (including pathogens!!!) 👀 🧪 🏺 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Ancestry, admixture, and pathogens in contemporaneous Neolithic farmers and foragers on the Island of Gotland

Two archaeological cultural complexes coexisted on Gotland for over 500 years, between ~3300 and 2800 calBCE, i.e. the Neolithic Funnelbeaker culture (FBC), and the Pitted ware culture (PWC). The ance...

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If you didn't make it to the SGRP 2025 Conference in Gloucester earlier this year, or maybe you did but want to watch the talks again, then check out our YouTube channel! 🏺🎥👩‍💼 www.youtube.com/@studygroupf...

Study Group for Roman Pottery

The Study Group for Roman Pottery (SGRP) was formed in 1971 to further the study of pottery of the Roman period in Britain. The group is a registered charity (no. 1185560) that provides a forum for th...

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Friends, the book is out!! If you are interesed in #deathstudies from an interdisciplinary perspective, please consider checking it out: www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Spinel... ALSO we have a 50% off discount code! Use SPIN2909 for 50% off the print version of the book, til Jan 31st! Yay! 🏺

Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2 🏺