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Rapid climate change revealing the creatures that were done for the last time it happened... #FindsFriday 🦣

For #HillfortsWednesday here's Ivinghoe Beacon, as seen last Sunday: the approach from the south; the view south-westwards along the Chiltern Scarp; and hints of a rampart under the long grass. It's a meeting place of allegedly ancient routes...

Tinseltown in the rain... that was quite something, even in Gaelic 😉

Perhaps the first photograph of the summer solstice sunrise at Stonehenge, advertised for sale #OTD 150 years ago: only a shilling (£6.60 today in terms of RPI) - I wonder if there are any copies still around...?

I also wonder how being short-sighted would have affected me in prehistory - less hunting and herding, more knapping or potting I guess. And whether we’ll ever pick up these conditions from aDNA…

6-4 is the new 1-0 😆

Western Sydney Wanderers 4-6 Chelsea: Joao Pedro scores hat-trick as Xabi Alonso marks first game with bonkers 10-goal thrillerReport as Xabi Alonso marks first Chelsea game with victory in 10-goal thriller; Joao Pedro nets nine-minute hat-trick off bench; 17-year-old Dastan Satpaev scores opener; Chelsea trailed three times...www.skysports.com

I wonder what they'd have thought of rewilding and the Knepp Accord? Effigies on the tomb of Sir Thomas Caryll, ironmaster of the Knepp furnace c 1600, and his wife Margaret, in Shipley church "Aske not who lyes intoombd, that crime Argues you liv’d not in his time..." (see alt text) #TombTuesday

Megaloceros providing a useful reminder that the ‘dinosaurs’ also include some Pleistocene fauna!

I guess the cultural significance of places doesn’t carry too much weight with UKRI; there are only 20* post-war structures in England that are listed at Grade I - two of them are telescopes at Jodrell Bank

Richard Parker's memorial at Pear Tree Church, Southampton, a modern replacement for an earlier memorial stone #OTD

One more for the list of #Odyssey adaptations is Robert Graves’ ‘Homer’s Daughter’ which asks what if it was written by a woman, what if she placed herself in the narrative (as Nausicaa), and how’d she feel if cut from the movie entirely (ok not quite, but she’s a feisty character so we can guess!)

An odd precursor to the Knepp Accord and the Festival of Archaeology’s Nature theme is a 1925 psychic time-travel novel written by a fridge salesman: what it lacks in archaeological accuracy it makes up for by its vivid description of the wild landscapes of prehistoric Sussex and Surrey

"Mixed up with today and yesterday": prehistory and the wild in 'The Amulet of Tarv'As a part-time member of the excellent ‘Rewilding’ Later Prehistory project, based at Oxford Archaeology, I’ve been privileged to make a number of visits to the equally wonderful Knepp Wilding in Suss...prescapes.substack.com

It’s that time again - the annual discovery that there are more archaeologists on Bluesky than people who want to ask them questions 😉

Endlessly pandering to the climate-denying right…

Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drillingDrilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences.www.bbc.co.uk

Image made for the @rewildarch.bsky.social project by Rose Ferraby - check out her Instagram feed for more of this sort of thing!

A week today - sign up to join a walk through the lovely Low Weald and chat about how archaeology and the historic landscape contribute to rewilding and nature recovery #FestivalOfArchaeology

HT 0-0 in the second place playoff 😉

Well that was a big let down. Time to take the 50 over comp seriously for a change…?

Worth noting that the polished flint axes with the Upton Lovell burial, shown in the headline photo and captioned as "Artefacts dating to about 1,800 BC..." would probably have been at least 500 years old at that time, so a deeper past was also being referenced in her metalworking practice.

Ancient DNA analysis reveals Wiltshire’s Upton Lovell Shaman was a womanExclusive: Analysis offers ‘smoking gun evidence’ that overturns previous assumption that bronze age individual was malewww.theguardian.com

I enjoyed this morning’s dog walk listening to a lovely chat with the author about the great Gianluca Vialli on the latest @socobhampod.bsky.social