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Brian Buchanan

@archaeobuchanan.bsky.social
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Associate professor, Landscape archaeologist, early medieval and Roman landscapes, frontiers and borders, spatial arrangements of the built environment, GIS, remote sensing, human-environment interactions.

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Brian Buchanan @archaeobuchanan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
‘Royalty and Ritual: The landscape of power in early medieval Scotland and Europe’ has published and I am excited to be part of it with a co-written chapter on the visual characteristics of Yeavering. Congrats to the editors and other authors! Open access: www.sidestone.com/books/royalt...
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Royalty and Ritual @ Sidestone Press
Medieval kings and kingship, and the rituals that define them, continue to captivate both scholars and the wider public. This interdisciplinary volume offers a Europe-wide perspective on early medieva...
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The Gefrin Trust @gefrintrust.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The TillVAS Archaeology group came and visited our site today. Thanks for the visit! We’re in the last days of the 2025 #Yeavering dig and are readying for tomorrow’s Trustees meeting.
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The Gefrin Trust @gefrintrust.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Amy (PhD researcher at Durham) and Brian (Associate Professor at Eastern Washington University & Durham grad) are hard at work cleaning back the trenches here at #Yeavering. What might they find today? Free site tours run daily at 3pm from now until 18 September. #Northumbria #GefrinTrust
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Brian Buchanan @archaeobuchanan.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Recently got to revisit one of my favourite early medieval artefacts, the Ruthwell Cross in SW Scotland. Located today in Ruthwell Kirk, this (probable) 8th century high-cross is covered with Biblical events.
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Dr Emily Hanscam @emilyhanscam.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Hey bluesky #archaeology 🏺, the latest issue of TRAJ is online! Congrats to all the editors, @patlowinger.bsky.social, @henryhbclarke.bsky.social, @archaeobuchanan.bsky.social, @dr-bone-lady.bsky.social, @bigfridge224.bsky.social & co!
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Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal @traj-journal.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🎉 #TRAJ Volume 8 is launched! Check out the first paper of our Cosmologies Special Issue on pilgrimage routes to Hayling Island in Britain, a review of ancient wine archaeology & more! FREE traj.openlibhums.org/issue/1682/i...
A cover for a journal showing the mosaic floor of the Guildhall in London.
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Q @gameovermike.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
New from the SHA climate microblog series. 🏺 sha.org/invisibility...
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Invisibility Cloaks Do Not Protect - Society for Historical Archaeology
US federal funding freeze targets cultural resource programs like Historic Preservation and NAGPRA. How will the erosion of support affect heritage management?
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Brian Buchanan @archaeobuchanan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Come publish with us! Call for special issue proposals for the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal.
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Raksha Dave @rakshadigs.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Well that statement blew up on the oxen musk hell site - I stand by it and how the effects of being underpaid and undervalued can have ripple effects into later life - do read BAJR poverty impact report on #Archaeology 🏺and the profession it’s pretty stark 👇🏽
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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 12/11/2024
I also started one on Digital Archaeology go.bsky.app/AHnKjhD
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Bill Farley @archaeologytube.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I made an archaeology starter pack - please feel free to share and follow the folks on here, I'll definitely add people as they start to pop up on BlueSky! 🏺🧪 go.bsky.app/6g4xDfm
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Brian Buchanan @archaeobuchanan.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Hello all. Nice seeing familiar and new faces. Like what I am seeing so far here! For introductions I am an archaeologist that focuses on Roman and early medieval landscapes of Britain, loves public archaeology and education, and spends time doing GIS and remote sensing.
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Brian Buchanan @archaeobuchanan.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Trying out this platform as cannot do Twitter anymore
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