At the opening of the excellent new introducing Must Farm exhibition at #PeterboroughMuseum

I think we must be close to industry-leading pay and conditions and leading the way to even better in the future. Come at work at a leading university, leading university archaeology department and leading archaeological unit.
Come and work with us!

So #SecretsOfTheNeanderthals is out in ONE WEEK- I was a consultant for doc's producers BBC Studios, and I'll be in Cambridge Archaeology on 2nd May with Dr Emma Pomeroy (Shanidar team palaeoanthropologist)
for a live watch-along 5-7pm BST & taking Qs on here!

Why did World Health Organization (WHO) want to change the definition of airborne? Read this: thegauntlet.news/p/the-whos-cla…

In 2019, Ellie Grigsby created the world's first memorial to the facially disfigured soldiers of WWI. Her work inspired me when writing THE FACEMAKER. Now, Ellie is struggling to finish the final year of her PhD due to a lack of funding. Please help - justgiving.com/crowdfunding/e…

This is a terrible outcome for health, recreation, & wellbeing, and not just an environmental catastrophe & financial outrage. The sewage scandal - or rather water companies are stealing life experiences of the nation. 🚨

📰| A new way of quickly distinguishing between illegal elephant ivory and legal mammoth tusk ivory could prove critical to fighting the illegal ivory trade. Research led by University of Bristol and Lancaster University and co-authored by Prof Alice Roberts💙
College of Life and Environmental Sciences
birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/lase…

Did you know it is legal to sell mammoth ivory? 🦣

This has been making it hard for customs officials to know if an ivory product is legal or not. Scientists now may have an answer.

Find out how 👇
nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…

Hey everyone! Check out the new video from Michael Granado taking a look at the Hancock/Dibble debate. I always appreciate Michael's takes, as a historian and philosopher of science, he always has great perspectives.
youtu.be/fxdbNeqR84I

Also, you can read about it at theconversation.com/our-laser-tech…

I’m very pleased to have been a co-author on this research paper on telling apart mammoth and elephant ivory. We hope it helps in the fight against the illegal ivory trade.

Just stunning! Blown away by this piece of anatomical art from a year 6 student!

I have a postdoc position available on our 'COREX: From correlations to explanations: towards a new European prehistory' grant: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…
... working at the intersection of archaeology, ancient DNA, computational modelling and stats

My position on violence and genetic change in 3rd Mill BC Europe is not that violence couldn't have been responsible, but that it isn't necessary to explain genetic change, and that other explanations may be equally or sometimes more plausible (esp. w/ archaeological evidence).

Seen some excitement over the location of Plato’s possible burial place in terms of digging him up and sequencing his DNA…but why?? Getting past the practicalities, what would it achieve? Are there some major outstanding questions about the life of Plato that DNA could answer?

On 28th April, parents and friends of this gorgeous girl, Tansy, will be walking 23 miles in the Kiltwalk to raise money for accommodation for parents near Glasgow hospital - where she received emergency treatment in November 2020.
Please help if you can.
And the first 100…

Today was my first day filming for a brand new series of Digging for Britain. It’s great to back out in the field! #D4B12

So the Rwanda bill becomes law, with Britain an inspiration to the extreme right across Europe. Summary deportation with no right of appeal, some manacled in 21st century convict flights. If the ECHR dares to challenge, we leave that. All to reflect “ the people’s will”. Not mine

1/Let's chat about Hancock's no evidence for an ice age civilisation due to lack of spatial coverage argument. Handcock said not enough coastal regions/continental shelves have been studied by archaeologists. Maybe that's where the giant ice-age civilization buildings are?

Part of the argument that archaeologists hide evidence for an advanced ice age civ is to protect our reputations by maintaining the dogmatic status quo.

But what about archaeologists without a reputation? Why would a 24 year old archaeo hide the biggest find of the century?