Really important study that should catalyse some innovative integrated landscape scale approaches to developing sustainable communities in Ireland.
Great to see so many references to community empowerment / wealth building agenda in Scotland too.
People digging small trenches in a mountain landscape with overlaid text that reads: Upcoming conference
UPCOMING CONFERENCE: Archaeological Research in Progress
Tickets are now available for this year's conference hosted by @archscot.bsky.social in collaboration with the Society on 23 May in Dumfries & Galloway and online, with discounts for Fellows: www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk/get-involved...
I’m very excited about our @radhumslab.bsky.social event on Friday 25 April @ucc.ie! We have an array of amazing speakers dealing with the big issues of radical humanities research. It’s a free event (booking required) and everyone is welcome! www.eventbrite.com/e/radical-hu...
Monochrome photograph of a rolling Highland hillside, its surface textured with peat hags and tussock grass. The hill rises to a broad, rounded summit against a flat grey sky. No human presence, the landscape fills the entire frame.
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Most of you here know me as a writer, but first (and maybe foremost) I am a photographer. So on that note, I have an announcement.
#Art #Photography #Scotland
It seems so long since I last saw you on the LRG critical field study trip, would be great to catch up. All good wishes too.
Good thanks, grand parenting since we last met has kept me on my toes !
It was a few years ago now when developing a deep time event with Timespan but went over wire bridge down from Achinnearin - not sure if it is accessible still.
Looks Great Tim
Birdseye view of a tall brick building in a wide green landscape
There are still a couple of places left for the Kairos Spring Residency in Devon. It's subsidised, so very good value for a week away in a beautiful spot with interesting people! www.kairos.london/event/kairos...
This article on indigeneity in popular British nature writing is now officially out in the latest issue of @theoryculturesociety.org
There is some great campaiging work being done by the likes of @righttoroam.bsky.social. Here I address the nativism that it has to contend with.
Delighted that @drclairenolan.bsky.social has joined @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social as Project Researcher for @britishacademy.bsky.social funded Prehistoric Policies project.
PP examines how deep-time past, is used in environmental policy. Claire is a fabulous addition to the team!
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Congratulations Claire look forward to seeing the results of this important project
Flat slab like standing stone, wider face toward us, will small patch of windblown snow clinging on its surface. The inscribed shape of a simple cross still visible. It stands in moorland, with Heather covered ground , and distant snow patched hills beyond.
And how,
shall we now,
mark what matters ...
Learable Hill, Caithness, is part of a larger monument group, including stone row and cairn. On one face, a simple cross has since been incised, over 2000 years after the stone was first erected.
#StandingStoneSunday #Archaeology #Scotland
A carved stone pillar by the artist Neil Paterson, depicting a medieval style foliate head or "Green Man." The stone is dotted with moss and lichen.
A contemporary one for #StandingStoneSunday.
It's by the artist Neil Paterson and can be found in Templeton Woods (Dundee.)
Free download or paperback purchase of Sonic Detection - expanded eavesdropping from sonic detectives Rebecca Collins and Johanna Linsley
punctumbooks.com/titles/sonic...
Flat slab like standing stone, wider face toward us, will small patch of windblown snow clinging on its surface. The inscribed shape of a simple cross still visible. It stands in moorland, with Heather covered ground , and distant snow patched hills beyond.
And how,
shall we now,
mark what matters ...
Learable Hill, Caithness, is part of a larger monument group, including stone row and cairn. On one face, a simple cross has since been incised, over 2000 years after the stone was first erected.
#StandingStoneSunday #Archaeology #Scotland
Photograph of a small auditorium where a speaker, standing on a podium in front of a projected presentation slide, is talking to a seated audience.
One of the most inclusive, accessible & affordable events of its kind, @archscot.bsky.social has released the programme for Scotland's 'Archaeological Research in Progress' conference & it's another excellent group of projects/speakers! 👍
23 May 2026
Dumfries & Online
Details: tinyurl.com/mr3npe53
Hooray! Our @britishacademy.bsky.social Prehistoric Policies project now has a website 👇👇👇👇.
PP examines how & why contemporary environmental policy makes claims about the deep time human past, and why that matters!
That would be great to do...
Wow would love to hear it sounds !
The Handbook of Heritage Ethics is finally out! Thanks to my co-editors and all the many contributors for their hard work. I hope the framing essay and themed chapters will be useful for your reading lists and research projects!
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
Geoff Mulgan April 14th, 2026 The myth of STEM only growth holds back the UK
‘Why did the USSR, with its fantastic scientists and engineers and heavy investment in STEM, nevertheless stagnate?’
Excoriating from @geoffmulgan.bsky.social on the undervaluing of social science and humanities research
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Exciting news - we found this copper alloy collar at the illicit whisky still site at Lochan nan Cat on #NTS Ben Lawers. Looks like part of a still apparatus. Perhaps for linking lyne arm to the still head? #PioneeringSpirit
Six people removing turf from a ruin close to a burn in a mountain landscape.
We've been working at Ben Lawers this week on an ilicit whisky bothy and a shieling hut. Great location up the Lawers Burn close to Lochan nan Cat. #PioneeringSpirit
When we first decided to carry out a geophysical survey at Crookston Castle, none of us thought we’d be rewriting history.
Watch our short flim to find out more
youtu.be/B1Z2RZSvAfs?...
@castlestudies.bsky.social @archscot.bsky.social @nts-archaeology.bsky.social @glasgowheritage.bsky.social
Diagram of genetic relationships between - blue outlined oblongs representing different labelled tombs with internal squares and circular representing lelle buried within goose tombs. Lines of red green blue and orange represent genetic relationships.
🏺New paper on web of close (although mostly more distant) genetic relationships between people buried in tombs in Orkney and northern Scotland 3700-3500 BCE, in the Early Neolithic.
Dr Antonia Thomas features in a new Time Team video on prehistoric rock art, contrasting that found on Ilkley Moor with the Neolithic carvings in Orkney and the Ness of Brodgar.
The registration for CHAT HOPE 2026 is now open!
More you'll find here: hopechat.chat-arch.org/registration/
Recent storms have brought more falls of the former Michael Colliery bing and bits of old infrastructure onto the beach, East #Wemyss #Fife #Coal coast #MiningLandscapes
Monoprint Mountains
#michelebrownart
#michelebrownearthpainter
#landscapeart
#collage
#monoprint