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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

.. and it is wilder and weirder than I ever hoped 🥰 episodes with @donomeara.bsky.social @boothicus.bsky.social out soon!!

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Andy Roddick @aroddick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Archaeology of futurities…

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Registration for TAG is now open!

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Our Parish Priest once spoke from the pulpit to remind us not to rise from our places in society. A very bright pal was kept from college cos her Dad said it was ‘not for our sort’. The idea that education is not for everyone is currently rife in UK and US: may we be preserved from such ignorance!

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Home time home time home time bye bye turkish archaeology see you next year :)

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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The River Ribble conveniently deposited these human skulls from lots of different periods in one place to give us an excellent time transect of DNA samples. Respect your rivers and they will deliver.

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Do you know how many people in this world suddenly care about the ancient world and our sources of information on it nope sorry there is no such thing as peak ea-nasir ;) Ps I love @gabemoshenska.bsky.social on this journal.equinoxpub.com/JCA/article/...

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The Legend of Ea-Naṣir: How a Babylonian Businessman Became an Internet Meme | Journal of Contemporary Archaeology

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Race scientists are like asbestos: unwisely built into the fabric of universities many years ago, will absolutely kill people, and require careful but total removal. Also, mostly harmless if embedded in concrete.

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

[waits nervously in bone kickers]

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Just maybe apropos of nothing but also possibly my email inbox could we maybe look at the trend for centralizing admin and them outsourcing administrative labour in higher education right back out to academics and come up with a fun new term for it? I’ll go first! ‘Rentier Bureaucracy’ 🫠

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Hello let’s do archaeology 😍😍😍 it’s Asikli Hoyuk season! Check out Hasan Dag in the background looming all Mordor-y

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Running inside joke being that there are Very Good Reasons there aren’t many people crazy enough to write a book about human evolution ;)

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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

From shaman to metalworker to Guardian Editorial.

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Oh my loving and actual god, someone (Jonathan Witcoski) made a PLAYABLE antikythera survey project. If this is not the best use of open data for world building in #archaeology idk what is. jwitcoski.github.io/raiders-of-a... one for @clmorgan.bsky.social

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Raiders of Antikythera — Field Journal

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

But Brenna you’re a bioarchaeologist why do you do survey in Greece GEE GUYS I WONDER 😘🏺

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The overbearing cicadas of Chios, as featured in episode one ;) γεια σου παιδιά!! Είμαστε εδώ… 😘🇬🇷 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Extraordinarily fitting that the last goat themed episode of my little adventure in bbc radio programming airs right before I go out to η νησί μου, chios 🐐🇬🇷🐐. There Will Be Pots 🏺 (honestly v low goat ratio, certainly no antikythera) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, The Dawn of Music

Archaeologist Dr Brenna Hassett examines how over the millennia we have come to make music

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Completely wonderful seeing Oliver Beer's show with him, and exploring together many shared ideas of #art & #archaeology, around what caves do to humans and humans do to caves... This exhibition of sound-paintings, music & film is just gorgeous, go see it at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London! 🏺

À woman and man standing osé together in front of a huge canvas painted with pigment that's moved across the canvas by sound. It is swirling and brown and red and white, looking like the exit from a cave or maybe a planetary nebula.

Woman in front of a text describing an exhibition by artist Oliver Beer.
Text:
"Oliver Beer
The Sky in the Cave

In his paintings, Oliver Beer makes sound visible. Working without a brush, he uses the resonant frequencies
of specific sites, spaces and objects to conduct fine powders of natural pigment across the canvas. The
resulting fields of pulsating colour are not representations of sound but its direct physical impression: each
work a composition of up to one hundred individual frequencies.

This exhibition grows from a discovery Beer made inside Font-de-Gaume, one of the best-preserved
Palaeolithic painted caves. His research in archaeoacoustics established that its ancient image-makers
were likely working in dialogue with the cave's sonic properties, painting at precise points of heightened
acoustic resonance. As Jean-Michel Geneste, former curator of Lascaux, has written, Beer's work showed
that the cave was not only a medium for images, but also a sounding board, an amplifier of experience.

The Resonance Paintings emerged directly from Beer's experience of the
cave,
and image-making may have been entwined since the origins of human creativity. Blacks and ochres - the same
mineral pigments used by Palaeolithic artists - give way to luminous terracottas, blues, pinks and
yellows, tracing a passage from subterranean depth towards open sky. The exhibition's title evokes this
paradoxical journey through sound, from darkness into light.

For Beer, sound functions as connective tissue: a shared, bodily experience through which to move beyond a
fixed ideas of time, culture and identity. The exhibition foregrounds listening as a perceptual act, and the urgency of, as he puts it, 'being silent long enough to hear what comes back when you put your voice out and into the world."

The vinyl in the exhibition is the soundtrack from The Cave, Beer's video opera, composed for the eight
voices recorded inside Font-de-Gaume and based
of inheritance. on
each singer's earlies…

Close up of part of a painting by Oliver Beer, the colours are browns and blacks and reds, with some pink and white. The forms produced by sound waves look like flowstone formations in caves.

Photo of a large white room with very large paintings hung on all the walls. They are all done using the sound wave and pigment method, but have varying shades.

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Please understand that my cats are called enkidu and Gilgamesh 😅

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Look, I know Zelda was n64. And that IS important to me. Mostly because I lost like most of 1999 to it (the rest was to goldeneye) 😂😅 but how wild is it that ocarinas hang around for so many thousands of years, hey??

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Dolni DONII — because @trowelblazers.bsky.social don’t do ‘Venus’… but we DO do #realorauel www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Tonight! The prehistory of clay, our good friend Zelda, and my beautiful (fake) Harappan bird. Oh the sounds that were made 😂 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Clay bird whistle preparing to record on bbc radio 3 branded sound studio

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Somehow I feel like maybe people were not paying much attention to fun little prehistory programmes last night. But you’ve got another chance! It’s up online, and fresh new episode coming at 21:45 on bbc radio 3!

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Absolutely no one in the country is listening to r3 right now, and that’s ok. But please do experience the majesty of the Victorian lithophone craze www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Also honestly who knew that my 400,000 year old #clacton reference was going to be so of the moment hey 😅 🗑️ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, The Dawn of Music

Archaeologist Dr Brenna Hassett examines how over the millennia we have come to make music

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

If anyone is listening along with me on radio 3 just please know how much I love the trois freres sorcier

Cave drawing of black line figures of deer and aurochs in front of flute player dressed as/ actually an aurochs

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Tune in tonight for episode 2 of the Dawn of music! 21:45 on bbc r3 — bullroarers and a lovely bit of Bowie. The prehistory of the music of green and growing things www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, The Dawn of Music, Whispers of Wood

When did we learn to make music from plants? Brenna Hassett unearths our musical origins.

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

My voice is on the actual broadcast radio telling stories. I am soooo happy 😂😂🤘

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I am soooo excited for #tx of my little radio show! First ep tonight, starting with the beautiful voice of my uncle chris hassett. it’s #prehistory it’s #voice it’s #archaeology and just a bit family. What a joy to make ❤️ on bbc radio 3 every night this week at 21:45! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, The Dawn of Music, A Secret Chord

When did we, as a species, start to sing? Dr Brenna Hassett unearths our musical origins.

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Is #englandfootball legend #harrykane… actually also the world’s best #neanderthal impersonator??? 😂🙏 youtu.be/yqzp0Fg1Feg?...

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

My most incorrect of beliefs, rendered exquisitely 😘

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Incredibly specific and potentially highly relevant information is the BEST information 😂🤘 #speakingofwhich

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

🏺 Very very excited about this coming soon - explorations of sound and music in prehistory!

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I am THRILLED to announce that BBC Radio 3 have let me make 5 whole episodes w the incredibly talented producer Becky on prehistoric instruments. They are ‘sound illustrated’ contemplations, so they are wild and personal as well as archaeological. And I get to open with my amazing uncle singing :)

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

In honour of #worldcup #englandvsghana… why we are not a football podcast 😅 youtu.be/yqzp0Fg1Feg?...

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I am sooooooo excited about this. And you can be too. My big absolutely not even a secret project 😂😂😂 🎶🌱🦴🏺🐐

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

#seasonfinale! The #archaeology of… Neanderthal World Cup?!? #spainvswales might not have happened recently bit why not bring the middle Palaeolithic into it? #friendoftheshow dr jen & dr rick go Neanderthal skull to, well, teeth in our increasingly chaotic season finale 🙌❤️ youtu.be/yqzp0Fg1Feg?...

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Most fun project ever, pretty sure you can tell if you pick it up ;)

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