Postdoctoral Research Associate (Archaeology) at Durham University Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Postdoctoral Research Associate (Archaeology) on jobs.ac.uk!

👀 Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bioarchaeology (with particular experience in the analysis of infants) @durham.ac.uk

Closes: 14th May

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH266/p...

The salutation/visitation - an excellent 15th century wall painting depicting Elizabeth, pregnant with John the Baptist and Mary, pregnant with Jesus. Apparently quite rare - and it’s amazing how well it’s survived! 🤩
St. Mary’s and All Saints, Willingham, Cambridgeshire

NOTING THIS. 🫤

Happy birthday!

Photograph showing the poster for the archaeosexism exhibition. A blue background with the exhibition title in the top left corner. The rght and centre of the poster is filled with a line drawing of black and yellow lines with a white infill of a woman, side on, holding her hand up in which she hold a trowel. Across the bottom of the poster are the logos of the organisations supporting the exhibition.

Photograph of 5 posters from the exhibition on display. Each poster has a different example of sexism illustrated. The sides of each poster are covered in orange and green post it notes, placed by delegates if they have witnessed or expreinced that type of behavior in an arhaeological setting.

3 years ago this week I took the #Archaeosexism exhibition to the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists #CIfA conference. Three days of observing & listening to people recounting their expereinces of workplace #sexism & engaging with those rarely 'in the room' for these type of events.

The front full length view of a long sleeved 1840s dress in deep pink silk. It has a skirt pleated into the waistband and some gathered pleats along the sleeve but is otherwise plain

A similar view of the deep pink silk 1840s gown but this time worn with a matching plain shoulder cape

A partial view of the pink 1840s pink silk gown which shows the detail of the pleating at the skirt and the inverted pleating running along the outside of the upper arm

I like the strict unfussiness of this #1840s rose pink silk gown. It lets the construction do all of the talking, drawing the eye to the sharp pleats, the neat seams and regimented folds. And the matching cape! @mdhistory.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Honey! New sheep genomes just dropped!

Jæger, et al. (2026): Mitochondrial genomes reveal maternal lineages of Late Iron Age sheep (Ovis aries) in Denmark

Can we talk about how harassment and borderline stalking of trans women by gender critical activists has become entirely normalised?

Why can’t a trans woman do a bloody Parkrun without having her privacy violated and her data amassed on a website?!

The Fish Remains Working Group is holding their 23rd meeting from September 28 to October 4, 2026, in Nice, France. Call for papers closes on the 15th of May. Follow the link for more information!
#ICAZ #Zooarch
www.cepam.cnrs.fr/icaz-frwg-20...

Do you like sheep? Do you like isotopes? Then here’s a little treat for you:

Jæger, et al. (2026): Stable isotopes (δ13C, δ15N, δ34S) suggest eelgrass (Zostera sp.) foddering of Late Iron Age sheep (Ovis aries) in Denmark

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our cats Roscoe, Jim and Professor Charles Cardigan watching some wood pigeons on the telly.

It's so impossible to drag under-18s away from the TV nowadays.

A dog stands on a table, posing next a basted peak lapel sport coat. The jacket is being displayed on a dress form.

A dog sitting on the floor, posting next to a basted blue tweed sport coat with notch lapels. The jacket is being displayed on a dress form.

A dog sitting on the floor, posing in front of a wall where three tailored jackets are hanging.

A dog poses on a table. He's surrounded by a tailor's measuring tape.

Every time this tailor posts a photo of their workspace, it looks like their dog is a tailor and he's showing off the garments he made.

IG z.o.e.y.a.t.e.s

Come join our aDNA community at Trinity College Dublin and explore medieval ruminant genomes!

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Me, lecturing at the front: "The Black Plague would end up killing as much as 50% of Europe's population. And do you know what else is a plague? Having all your browser activity tracked by your employer - use promo code YERSINIA..." (a single sob escapes) "...to get that 50% off NordVPN today!"

Channeling this classic XKCD comic (with apologies to Randall Munroe for my edits here) as I review my chapter comments that read "include a map, no one but you knows where these sites are"

Reminder that Rigsby WI is Eisner-nominated, and for good fuk'n reason

Two terracotta tiles with white slip design. The design of the two adjacent tiles forms half of a circle. Half a small circle in the centre is surrounded by top half of an 8 pointed star form. Between the points of the stars can be seen 4 small 5 petal flowers. On the visible corners of each tile, at the top left and right are fleur de lis designs. Eltham Palace would have been in countryside during its royal habitation, but now in greater London south of Greenwich / Woolwich. Much later in 20th C converted by Courtaulds to stylish Art Deco residence.

#TilesOnTuesday
From decorative pavement of 1290s Great Hall, the earliest building at Eltham Palace, built for Bishop Bek of Durham.
Bek presented Eltham to Edward II in 1305, and it remained a royal residence, enhanced, altered and used by monarchs through to Charles I. Henry VIII grew up here.

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Having to empty the house of my former partner who died in late 2024. Lots of amazing books, journals free to rehome but also rare books for sale including ‘Monumenta Palaeographica Vindobonensia’ vols 1 and 2. Please comment on this post if interested #booksky #palaeography

Different strokes: changing identities and connectivity between Iron Age Ireland and Northern Britain The rich decoration of Irish and British Iron Age metalwork once conveyed complex symbolic meanings, though its language has long since been lost. Ornamentation remains a vital avenue for interpret...

The wee paper Different Strokes is here, and Open Access!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

”Water horse” is so good!

Don't despair if you don't speak Dutch: the research on the 'Dane saga' itself was published in English in Open Access (🔓), along with the first English translation of this brilliant work of premodern imagination 📖

blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/08/12/d...

www.brepolsonline.net/content/jour...

The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery We are delighted to announce that The Friends of The Potteries Museums & Art Gallery, helped by generous public donations, have raised £10,000 towards the acquisition Ellastone Dress Fastener. Thank you everyone who has donated towards this fantastic milestone. We are now closing this strand of the funding campaign.

Some great news - thank you to everyone who contributed their hard earned cash!

(Just a reminder that had the finder/ landowner donated the dress fastener, it would have cost £0 instead of £150,000...)

#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure 🏺

Textiles of the Viking North Atlantic An interdisciplinary study of the uses, meanings, and social impact of Viking Age textiles.

New in paperback.
Textiles of the Viking North Atlantic: Analysis, Interpretation, Re-creation. Edited by Alexandra Lester-Makin, Gale R Owen-Crocker boydellandbrewer.com/book/textile...

just write it terrible for five minutes and see where it goes. or write questions to yourself into the draft—“what the fuck goes here, i don’t know, but it’s something about blah blah this will sound smarter later” is acceptable rough draft material

The cover, featuring a picture of a multi coloured glass bead (blue, red, white), hack-silver and a reindeer standing in profile against a blue sky.

New publication by Birgit Maixner:

”Three Miniatures on Raw Material
Exploitation and Long-Distance
Trade in Central Norway During
the Early Viking Age:
A Regional Study of the Viking Economy Based on Archaeological Evidence” (Gunneria 84)

🏺🥳🇳🇴

Free here 👇

www.ntnu.no/documents/10...

extremely random: I fielded a rec for more dice recently and I could've sworn I remembered seeing someone making them on here (or a repost of their dice). Anyone else recall this, or have a fav maker?

Green "poison" book cake

Edible Books!

I don't have any real books to share today, so here is the glorious lineup of faux-folios from April 1! Most photos were by Ben Greer, and featured on @newberrylibrary.bsky.social instagram. First up, The Poison Princess, by Conservation, a Swedish Princess cake with a dire twist! 1/?

She was the quiet, plain, "boring" kid at school who none of the other Herons noticed.

They all want to be her now.

1/2 🧵