Reposted by Tom BoothDr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 29/09/2026average day doing prehistoric funerary archaeology tbh 381
Reposted by Tom BoothTim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I've put a new tool online: a 3D flyover of the Stonehenge landscape, not just Stonehenge but also Woodhenge and the new Bulford post alignment. It runs in your web browser, no app to download. Details: www.sarsen.org/flyoversarsen.orgStonehenge Landscape FlyoverFly over the Stonehenge landscape, and watch the sun rise in 2500 BC I've put a new tool online: a 3D flyover of the Stonehenge landscape... 093
Reposted by Tom BoothDr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Solid critical review 10/10 0154
Reposted by Tom BoothHugh Willmott @hugh-willmott.co.uk · 25/09/2026A little late for #FindsFriday but I’ve finally started working through this year’s artefacts from #CerneAbbey At 22mm it's tiny but this fragment of Anglo-Saxon window glass is not only unusual but also really important for our interpretation of the site Just goes to show, size isn’t important 0377
Reposted by Tom BoothDr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is why you don't just dig things up. Look at the amazing info we've got now: We know how it was all placed in ground & we have all of it, none damaged & conservation possible both as excavated & after. We can also look at the soil, for organics, pollen etc. #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure 🏺 416651
Reposted by Tom BoothTim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The claimed solstitial alignment of Woodhenge is not supported by the layout of its posts. Details: www.sarsen.org/2026/09/wood... 052
Reposted by Tom BoothAylwyn Scally @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Faculty position in pathogen genetics here with us in Cambridge: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...cam.ac.ukAssistant/Associate Professor in Pathogen GeneticsApplications are invited for an Assistant or Associate Professorship in Pathogen Genetics to be held in the Department of Genetics. We are searching for a talented individual with a track record of fu... 042
Reposted by Tom BoothCambridge Archaeological Unit @cambridgearch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The 2020-21 Over Needingworth excavations revealed an area of preserved wooden stakes/posts and stake/postholes, with 58 being fully excavated and recorded. Dating to the Roman period the stakes and posts reflected use of the land when the area had transformed from a prehistoric dry land to fen. 24911
Reposted by Tom BoothTerry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I nearly didn't post this one from Private Eye. Then thought 'Go on. @justrena.bsky.social would have loved it'. I hope so. 05116
Reposted by Tom BoothPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Outstanding new review of ALL of the currently available DNA evidence for the peopling of the Americas, led by Bethany Potter (and the amazing @jenniferraff.bsky.social!): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.com 722353
Reposted by Tom BoothSimon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Remarkable collection of papers out today from PsychAD, a consortium studying biological mechanisms in dementias & serious mental illnesses. They created a single-cell brain atlas of 6.3 million nuclei from ~1,500 donors. Datasets, analysis tools & resources freely available to research community.🧪👇nature.comPsychAD ConsortiumThe PsychAD Consortium investigates the biological mechanisms behind neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease, related dementias, and serious mental ... 0197
Reposted by Tom BoothScott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026New paper on the first two intact human burials found at Göbekli Tepe. These burials have been known about for some time; information on them has been presented at conferences and lectures over the last several years, but it's nice to finally see them in print 🏺 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...journals.plos.orgFirst burials give insights into mortuary rites at Göbeklitepe, Early Neolithic TürkiyeSince the beginning of excavations at Göbeklitepe, a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) site in southeastern Türkiye, fragmented human bones have been recovered from the fill of the special (monumental) buil... 36919
Reposted by Tom BoothDr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 23/09/2026From 18 October there will be a new exhibition at the Museum of Cambridge devoted to folklore (and supported, among others, by the @folkloresociety.bsky.social) 419054
Reposted by Tom BoothSociety of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026OCTOBER LECTURE: History in Our Bones: Uncovering Stories of Disability Through Time Through Pictish case studies, discover a project which is restoring disabled people as participants in the social worlds of the past at this free hybrid event on 15 October: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-in... 02211
Reposted by Tom BoothCambridge Archaeological Unit @cambridgearch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The first phase of Over Needingworth’s Barrow 20 involved an in-situ cremation event followed by the construction of a turf mound. The cremation took place directly on the buried soil surface and left traces of the pyre remains. 77517
Reposted by Tom BoothKristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The newly discovered cuneiform tablet fragment contains text from a section of the Treaty of Kadesh related to the treatment of Hittite and Egyptian refugees in the Bronze Age (circa 1269 BC). 🧪🏺livescience.com'We have found traces of peace, thousands of years old': Fragment of world's oldest known peace treaty found in TurkeyArchaeologists excavating in the ancient Hittite capital of Hattusha have uncovered a fragment of the world's oldest peace treaty, signed around 1269 B.C. 111068325
Reposted by Tom BoothDr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Registration for TAG is now open! 075
Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Ancient🧪🐝 Bee Gee-nomes. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...academic.oup.comMuseum specimens reveal the genomic consequences of long-term population decline in an insect pollinatorAbstract. Global insect pollinator populations are under threat, with reported declines attributed to increasing habitat loss, pesticide use, and disease. 081
Reposted by Tom BoothAdam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I’m back on Start the Week on BBC Radio 4 at 9: Carlo Rovelli on philosophy and physics, Lavinia Greenlaw on difficulty in poetry, and James Graham’s new play about John Maynard Keynes. Stick that heady mix in yer podcast pipe. How lucky we are to have the BBC. 612411
Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026How did we ever figure out who was English before DNA sequencing technology? 150
Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Yemeni Anthropomorphic Stele ain’t saying nothing to no copper, see? 1110
Reposted by Tom BoothRachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Bronze Age hillfort in Morocco: theconversation.com/history-is-b...theconversation.comHistory is being rewritten at an archaeological site in Morocco. What the discovery of an ancient wall tells usCommunities in the north-west Maghreb were able to coordinate large construction projects thousands of years ago. 06316
Reposted by Tom BoothDr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Honestly FFS. All context, all organics, anything of any archaeological significance gone. Just like that. But hey, it's shiny, eh? This has to stop. 🤬 This is why: bigbookoftorcs.com/2024/09/11/d... #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure 🏺 1918567
Reposted by Tom BoothJames Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Somehow this bluesky post now has a date of transmission (29th October) and official artwork. 1933093
Reposted by Tom BoothSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Former PM Rishi Sunak in the Sunday Times challenges the rise of ethno-nationalism in British politics, as an argument within the right about Britishness being about ancestry, DNA and ethnicity www.thetimes.com/article/e89d... 37578119
Reposted by Tom BoothTim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Deceptively simple: Stonehenge as blocks on the real contoured surface — orbit on your phone, tap for coords, sun & moon for today or c. 2500 BC. A lot of work so it feels easy. timdaw37.github.io/stonehenge-b... 03015
Reposted by Tom BoothDr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 18/09/2026🏺 🦣 Nice paper on later E. European Upper Palaeolithic mammoth ivory figurine production & aesthetics. The Mezin-type geometric designs are so beautiful, and their placement on the (apparently) female figurines might indicate tattooing or scarification traditions. www.nature.com/articles/s40... 14310
Reposted by Tom BoothDan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is excellent news flagfen.org.uk/news/funding...flagfen.org.ukFunding secured for excavation to unlock secrets of Bronze Age Flag Fen site in Cambridgeshire - Flag Fen 0344
Reposted by Tom BoothDurotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It's not always that quiet at #Tinkinswood 👼 😱😱 #DoctorWho #Archaeology 5689
Reposted by Tom BoothRuth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026One for your list of admirable women in archaeology @prehistorian.bsky.social 2286
Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ah, Bonnie - strong memories of this and I’ve discussed it a fair bit since given it was one of the earliest, very public attempts by a UK far right politician to use ancient DNA in service of their ideology. 1114
Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026‘Driving past Stonehenge’ playlist being activated on BBC 6Music later for those who are interested in indulging. 7100
Reposted by Tom BoothKenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Booking has opened for the 2026 Neolithic Studies Group conference in London on 16th November. Theme? Farmers, farming practices and farming tools. Loads of great papers and posters, and you can attend in person or watch online. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/nsg2026-fa...eventbrite.comNSG2026: Farmers, farming practices & farming toolsThe theme of the 2026 Neolithic Studies Group day conference is farming - from practice to ideology - drawing on new research & discoveries. 0157
Reposted by Tom BoothDaniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes: 13597706
Reposted by Tom BoothTim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Which Neolithic megaliths were hauled long-distance, and which just used the nearest outcrop? An interactive gazetteer of every petrographically-matched haul in Europe — Stonehenge included, easy to exclude. www.sarsen.org/2026/09/euro... 13210
Reposted by Tom BoothDr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026I’ve not seen this before @reblambert.bsky.social 181
Reposted by Tom BoothMark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 12/09/2026##BlueSkyArtShow #Undulating The Fen Basin (after Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures) 1343
Reposted by Tom BoothAntiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 10/09/2026Exciting news on the #BoxOfficeBears project! You can read more of the team's research on bear baiting in Antiquity, where they explored its importance in Shakespearean England 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...doi.orgWhat does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Modern ‘sport’ | Antiquity | Cambridge CoreWhat does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Modern ‘sport’ - Volume 99 Issue 404 1274
Reposted by Tom BoothGraham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding 2119183
Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026So satisfying to see my mortal enemy forced to study psychotherapy at the tallest building in London. It’s Shard and Freud-er 5132
Reposted by Tom BoothDr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 10/09/2026🏺 🧪 🦣 Very cool, at this stage in our knowledge every new site is genuinely impactful. I'm not sure we can make predictions about precision of technological capabilities from a piece of forearm, but these (v. nice) lithics are what I'd expect from the wide range we see in #Neanderthals 04514
Reposted by Tom BoothGreger Larson @gregerlarson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026So you found the remains of a complete pelagic shark buried with clear intention. Is that shark domestic? No? What if you found a buried canid? Definite dog! Right? Or maybe not. Congrats to Ali Siegenthaler and Sophy Charlton on this super fun paper! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.com 1175
Reposted by Tom BoothMarc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Spat out my tea reading this review of The Uprising. The what of what now? Popular understanding of medieval history has taken a hell of a pounding in recent weeks. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se... 2021050
Reposted by Tom BoothSimon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 09/09/2026“These findings establish Bianfu Cave as a Denisovan locality yielding the most abundant remains of this hominin group outside Denisova Cave in Siberia. The results fill a critical geographic gap in the documented distribution of Denisovans & refine understanding of their evolutionary history.”🙌💀🔬🧪👇nature.comAncient proteins identify various Denisovan remains from Southwest China - NatureIdentification and proteomic analysis of bone fragments and teeth from an excavation in Southwest China provide insight into the evolution and phenotype of Denisovans and fill a geographical gap in th... 13011
Reposted by Tom BoothTerry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026For a change, some Really Good News. 032
Reposted by Tom BoothAlex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Delighted to be kicking off some 1400 year anniversary talks for the conversion of Deira (Yorkshire) in Pocklington on the 30th October For £5 you get to enjoy a talk about what Yorkshire was like before Christianity! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/little-kin... + you’ll be supporting a small museumeventbrite.co.ukLittle Kingdoms of YorkshireRenowned author, Alex Harvey, is giving a talk entitled 'Little Kingdoms of Yorkshire: Post-Roman Pocklington & Beyond 2448