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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

My dad's copy of this (which I still have). There are photos of Bryn Celli Ddu and I spent hours trying to figure out how the chamber 'entrance' worked. Ended up starting my archaeological career there, and writing a PhD thesis about it...

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Thanks for your help with it, Nicola

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Free on our open library. All the works we undertook in an attempt to find somewhere to build the new visitor facilities at Stonehenge. wessexarchaeologylibrary.org/plugins/book...

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The report on our excavations at Cheeseman's Green, Ashord is now on our open library. A remarkable site with two Late Mesolithic cremation burials among a host of other evidence. wessexarchaeologylibrary.org/library/repository/view/233/

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Excavations at Cheeseman's Green: The Development of Prehistoric, Romano-British and Medieval Landscapes

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Thanks! I had no idea. Information about anything at Tara was frustratingly hard to come by.

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Virtually none now, either, but that meant I could sound knowledgeable without fear of contradiction!

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

the missing final word is 'values'

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Jacquetta Hawkes, of all people, pre-empting John Barrett by a good half century

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Glacial transport or you're dumped

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

It's your fault! At first I thought that was a Hawkwind bootleg I don't have. Looks ace.

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Any good? Sorry it's you-know-where related

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I apologise in advance for the five books about Stonehenge-related things I currently have in various stages of completion.

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The Prehistoric Society @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

❗️Save the date❗️ Europa Conference 2025: Landscape connectivity in Prehistory at Univ of Reading, Sat 7th June 2025. Conference honours achievements of Prof. Martin Bell, Prof of Arch Science at Univ of Reading. Call for papers now live. Info in link: www.prehistoricsociety.org/events/2025-...

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Landscape connectivity in Prehistory | The Prehistoric Society

The Prehistoric Society Europa Conference 2025: Landscape connectivity in Prehistory will be held at the University of Reading on Saturday 7th June 2025. This year the conference honours the achieveme...

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Happy new year, Rik. Hope you're quickly better

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

If I remember my Orwell, this was basically his argument in Part 2 of Wigan Pier?

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

of an audio-vusual reconstruction of a Bronze Age ceremony at a Scottish stone circle where the hairy fellows ran into the circle, arms aloft, bellowing 'Let the wife-taking begin!' 2/2

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

While I agree completely with the sentiment, and while I'm quite sure there are many thoughtful people producing excellent material, let's not pretend that shoddy crap is only a product of AI use. I still sometimes wake up in a sweat remembering my mid-1990's experience 1/2

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Still half convinced there'll be another one of those under Gop Cairn

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

That could have been done at any time though? If it was a standing stone in 3400 BC it could have been taken down, dressed, and moved in 2500?

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I would dearly love the Altar Stone to predate most other things at Stonehenge - this would suit me very well. But in the absence of any direct evidence for any date at all, I think it's best not to implicate it in any grand notions of the place's meaning.

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

"Archaeologists believe the altar stone may have been installed around 2500BC" [or at any other time that suits their hypothesis]

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Job Klaxon! 🚨 Our archaeology department here at @exeter.ac.uk is looking for a Database Manager to help create an open-access digital repository for the curation and sharing of digital 3D files. Initial contract 15 months, apply by 5 Jan: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... (search Database Manager)

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

It may be that - in cases of major infrastructure like this - the archaeological contractor isn't allowed to comment, either before or after the fact of misrepresentation in the press.

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Haven't had chance to read beyond the abstract yet, but sounds like some interesting later things happening there.

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Congratulations! It was an excellent paper - really keen to see where your research leads.

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

ANG 90 was my undergraduate training dig with Mark Edmonds and Julian Thomas so that one will always be a favourite. Otherwise, it's FFS 07.

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Penny Spikins - How Compassion Made Us Human Marianne Sommer - Bones and Ochre

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Oliver Harris & Craig Cipolla - Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium Rachael Crellin, Craig Cipolla, Lindsay Montgomery, Oliver Harris & Sophie Moore - Archaeological Theory in Dialogue Mark Edmonds - Orcadia Timothy Pauketat - An Archaeology of the Cosmos

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Two years ago this was the list: Mike Pitts - How to build Stonehenge Jonanna Brück - Personifying Prehistory Becky Wragg Sykes - Kindred Ben Alberti, Andrew Meirion Jones & Josh Pollard - Archaeology After Interpretation Keith Ray & Julian Thomas - Neolithic Britain

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

At my first @tag45.bsky.social in over 20 years seems like a good time to ask my periodic question. If you had to recommend one book about archaeology published this century, what would it be? (Yes, it can be your own book).

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Day 1 @tag45.bsky.social off to a great start. @richardosgood.bsky.social and @pauleverill.bsky.social showing yet again how archaeology can do real good. Still trying to decide where Ian Hodder's talk was on the scale of 'paradigm shifting intervention' to 'old man yells at cloud'...

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

It's a methodological treatise on how to make the grid pegs stay in

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Me. I think I'm supposed to be giving a paper...

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