High performing degrees taught by dedicated experts which support loads of students to be culled in the name of governmental shrugging and “adding value” managerial parasites bluffing their way through the next generic PowerPoint
Reconstruction of the Bedale enclosure overlaid on an aerial photo of the site during excavation.
Slot through the enclosure ditch, showing stones tumbled from the bank into the cut, with distinct fills visible above.
The heated room of the Aiskew Roman villa during excavation, with pilae stacks that once supported a much higher floor. An area of burning at top right marks the location of the furnace that heated the room.
Construction of a new road revealed something already written into the landscape.
An Iron Age enclosure and a Roman villa lay 1km apart, on slightly higher ground above the floodplain. Between them ran a route, a precursor of the modern bypass.
The same route, reused and redefined across centuries.
The paper offers a thorough methodological critique of unreflected use of archaeological and historical sources. It also shows how aggregating historical data is not a neutral act and requires careful consideration of interpretations derived from databases that result from this process.
Nominations for the 2026 Marsh Charitable Trust Community Archaeology Awards are open, with just two months remaining to submit.
💚 Community Archaeologist of the Year
💚 Community Archaeology Project of the Year
Nominations close at 12 noon on Monday, 25 May 👉 shorturl.at/pr1aP
Read the original research in Antiquity 🆓 Vehicles of change: two exceptional deposits of destroyed chariots or wagons from Late Iron Age Britain -
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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@arcdurham.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk
Greater Manchester? Terry Pratchett?? Wtf???
Draw of pottery shards in individual boxes. Grey in colour
We are delighted to share that @cotswoldarch.bsky.social have just completed a new and exciting project, creating a pottery type series for Wiltshire, dating from 400AD to the 1700s
I don't know, sorry!
Don't tempt me - would be a lovely project!
Great reconstruction! Very evocative.
Because I'm a fool who takes on too much, I'm speaking at this exciting day conference on digital approaches to sacred space in RB, the day before RAC2026 starts. Great programme, to be fully announced soon. Organised by Maxime Guénette , Gabriel Bodard & John Pearce
ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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'Roper said she was also drawn to the UK’s “fantastic universities”...“It was a wonderful environment to grow as a scholar, so to see this being harmed by cuts – with no clear sense of how this process might end, I’m very worried about this,”'
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/lyndal-...
The EU Heritage Volunteer scheme has just released this year's dates and venues
Note that some are training courses, some are volunteering (eg doing maintenance)
Prices incl accommodation & meals
You don't need to be a EU resident to attend.
www.heritagevolunteers.eu/EuropeanHeri...?
Fake references make Waite’s job as a librarian “so much harder,” she added.
“I expect this on the wider internet, but not in reputable scientific journals,” she told us. “…It’s really worrying.” retractionwatch.com/2026/03/06/l... #medlibs
✨️ New discoveries at the Poseidon sanctuary in #Samikon
The campaign 2025 focused on the excavation of the NW hall of the large temple. The thick deposit of collapsed of Laconian roof tiles was removed, revealing numerous traces of the fire that destroyed the building.
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The bid to establish a legally binding Sector Employment Order (SEO) for commercial archaeology in Ireland is heading for the Labour Court in April.
If successful the order would impose minimum rates of pay, sick pay and pensions across the sector.
You can read the submissions in the case here...
Such a dismal tale about the UK govt: so obsessed w competing with far-right to keep out foreigners that it won’t let in the brightest & best from war-torn countries even when they’re hand-picked by the FCDO, lest they ask to stay. Soft power sacrificed, but how many Reform voters will it convert?
March is here — and so is ASOR’s March Fellowship Madness! Our goal is to raise $6,000 by March 31, funding scholarships for three more students. Please support archaeology’s next generation by making a gift online and selecting “Fieldwork Scholarships”: www.asor.org/news/2026/03...
Little primer on quantifying human remains, using some of my work as an example. A thread.
As a commercial bioarchaeologist I use three primary ways of quantifying remains: Number of identified specimens (NISP), Minimum number of individuals (MNI) and weight (1/5)
On this International Women’s Day, I cannot stop thinking about all the girls in Iran, in Sudan, in Gaza, and so may places — girls whose lives were snuffed out in conflicts they played no part in, before they could ever become women.
And I am thinking about their mothers.
Wrote this on human remains in British museums this time last year and stand by it: it’s a slow process that many collections have been trying to deal with for a while and—above all else—one that needs time and resourcing: theconversation.com/new-report-c...
AI agents pose untold risk to humanity. We must act to prevent that future | David Krueger www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Closure of language courses is 'national catastrophe, warns VC By Fiona Mcintyre Picture of Adam Tickell
There is a “national catastrophe” unfolding as universities close modern languages courses and important “cultural assets” across the humanities more broadly are lost “by stealth”.
Coverage of Adam Tickell’s remarks at our conference yesterday
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
34 month PDRA position on my Roman Britannia: Mobility and Society project, based with fab project co-lead Dr Sophy Charlton at @york-bioarch.bsky.social - come join our interdisciplinary Cardiff-York team and reshape narratives of the Roman period in Britannia.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQT035/p...
Archaeologists have to call out the destruction of cultural heritage wherever it’s done - e.g. 6th century Bamiyan statues in Afghanistan, Ukraine, Gaza (extensive destruction of museums, archaeological sites, libraries) or here, a UNESCO world heritage site in Tehran
Book cover with painting of a mosaic showing Orpheus in the centre surrounded by animals.
Bonus post no. 2 for this #MosaicMonday: a new book on mosaics is always exciting, and this one by Steve Cosh - which is about to be published - should be illustrated with lots of lovely pictures. Looking forward to getting my copy soon! 1/2
Men studying a dragon
ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE
My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Two Roman lead pigs on a forklift in a farmyard
This was the scene when I arrived to collect the lead pigs from the landowner in Oct 24, for safe transfer to the National Museum 😮
It's not often Roman finds are so heavy they're carried on a forklift
The pigs are extraordinary..each weighed around 85kg & had to be lifted by two people 💪
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: Half of UK universities face a deficit next year. Up to 50 could close.
That is a sector in crisis. Simply blaming a tuition fee freeze and nudging fees up with inflation is not a plan. Where is the long-term strategy for higher education?
#Universities #HigherEducation
