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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

V pleased that our Prehistoric Policies project (w/@archsoundscapes.bsky.social, @drclairenolan.bsky.social) funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social, will be in the RIA Discourse on "Contemporary biodiversity & the deep time past" (18/5/27) w/ Meriel McClatchie & Anwen Cooper @rewildarch.bsky.social

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The Knepp Accord has launched! Supported by the National Trust & representatives from 30+ orgs, it sets out shared principles for collaboration between archaeology, heritage & the nature sector to support nature recovery. We're proud to have played a key role in developing it. shorturl.at/KxRF7

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Press Release | Media

The National Trust, Oxford Archaeology and Knepp Castle Estate have launched the ‘Knepp Accord’, a new framework to tackle the nature and climate crisis.

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Oxford Archaeology @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

We're delighted that Dr Anwen Cooper, who heads the @rewildarch.bsky.social project, will be delivering this year's de Cardi lecture for the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social AGM! 📍 The Milner York 📅 21st February | 12:20 🎟️ FREE Read more about the AGM and how to book tickets here: tr.ee/CBA-AGM

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

We brought the wild with us 🐾 to last week’s Bronze Age Forum! Grateful to our hosts @ucddublin.bsky.social for an engaging programme and warm welcome! #Archaeology #BronzeAgeForum #WilderPasts

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

What happens when archaeology meets rewilding? 🦴🌿 Our recent 'Archaeology in Wilding' workshop @kneppwilding.bsky.social explored how nature recovery and archaeology can thrive together. Read the story here 👉 www.oxfordarchaeology.com/news/archaeo... @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social @wildwednesdays

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Archaeology in Wilding @ Knepp

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Great to meet such a diverse and lively group of archaeologists, ecologists, farmers, geographers etc at our 'Archaeology in Wilding' workshop earlier this month. Thank you @kneppwilding.bsky.social for the beautiful venue, Guerilla Archaeology and all others who contributed! #WildWednesdays

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Last week we were on the road again at the International Working Group for Palaeoethnobotany, Groningen. Topics ranged from experimental pit storage, prehistoric food crusts, community-designed Roman gardens & wild plant fibres & recipes-looking forward to IWGP Berlin 2028! #WildWednesdays

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The project team have been out and about quite a bit lately, but here's our most professional looking photo of Lou assessing stored monolith samples from the 1980s Fenland Survey project! Fingers crossed they deliver the goods! #WildWednesdays #Archaeology #HardCoreLife

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Rewilding Later Prehistory visited beautiful Rewilding Coombeshead last week and discovered a talent for pig whispering! #WildWednesdays

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

What can be happier than zooarchaeologists among red deer?? Adrienne shared this great photo from their ‘road trip’ to collect reference material at @kneppwilding.bsky.social -including Tamworth pig remains (a better match for archaeological pig than our modern breeds) #WildWednesdays #Archaeology

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The fish bones found in this Later Bronze/Iron Age burial from Stanground, Peterborough came from a pike of estimated 1m length, but are they trash or treasure? A fish of this considerable size may well have been considered a worthy funerary offering (ref: Boismier 2021) #WildWednesdays #Archaeology

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Internet Archaeology @intarcheditor.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

From the archives: Ferraby, R. 2017 Geophysics: creativity and the archaeological imagination, Internet Archaeology 44. doi.org/10.11141/ia.... 🏺 Rose explores archaeology as a creative practice by engaging specifically with the processes and visuals of geophysics.

Thwing, 2009. A screen print by Rose Ferraby. The composition features a mix of geometric and organic shapes. A large, elongated, triangular shape dominates the centre, and is textured to echo the steep sided valleys of the Yorkshire Wolds with a mix of dots, lines, and solid areas. Other shapes include rectangles, circles, and free-form elements. The image has a layered quality and different textures and colours have been applied in stages. The primary colors are various shades of green, ranging from light pastel to darker, more saturated tones. These are contrasted with a soft, warm beige background. A few small elements are rendered in white and a dark, almost black, line.
A circular motif in the upper right corner consists of a series of concentric rings resonant of barrows in plan form. The image has a calm, contemplative quality due to its soft colors and abstract composition. The use of texture and layering adds visual interest and depth.

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Resident geoarchaeologist Dave Kay has been out in the sunshine at @kneppwilding.bsky.social looking at the effects of rewilding on soil structure - accompanied by the usually pretty elusive ponies! #WildWednesdays

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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Tonight!!! See link below 👇

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

For #WorldRewildingDay, some pictures from a recent visit to @kneppwilding.bsky.social - the animals roam a landscape that looks very different from its more agricultural days but is nevertheless still shaped by historic patterns of routeways, boundaries and structures

Cattle grazing by the River Adur, with Knepp Castle ruin in the background

A distant view of two fallow deer by a pond of recent origin

A beaver dam on the edge of woodland, holding back the water behind it

Three Tamworth pigs sleeping next to a tree

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

How do we imagine human’s place in nature in prehistory? Most reconstructions center on settlements, with nature fading into the backdrop, a hazy periphery. This image of Grim’s Bank by Peter Lorimer takes a different approach, as a woman in the countryside looks on from outside #WildWednesdays

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Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Amazing ‘Voices’ gallery tour @themerl.bsky.social today with the brilliant Anwen Cooper from @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social / @rewildarch.bsky.social, discussing rewilding, early farming, more-than-human histories and prehistories, @kneppwilding.bsky.social, and much more!

Anwen Cooper talking and gesticulating, with a large wooden fish trap in the foreground.

The interior of a wooden eel trap, with circular lines of weaving, tying lengths of wood together.

A stack of books including (top to bottom) Ladybird ‘Stone Age Man in Britain’, Jake Fiennes ‘Land Healer’, Jacquetta Hawkes ’A Land’, Jacquetta Hawkes ‘Early Britain’, Nick Hayes and Jon Moses (eds) ‘Wild Service’, and Isabella Tree ‘Wilding’.

Detail of a model wattle hurdle with a museum label (MERL 68/100).

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Anyone for a pint? The roughly 2000 year old Langstone Tankard is one of several examples of Iron Age/Roman tankards made of (potentially toxic) yew wood. It can hold four pints, so if the taxins don't finish you off, the ale might do! museum.wales/articles/120... #WildWednesdays #Archaeology

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Ancient Drinking Culture: The Langstone Tankard

. . . In December 2007, Craig Mills discovered a complete wooden tankard while metal-...

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

We have several more upcoming talks, including alongside a stellar line-up at the 'Where the Wild Things Were' rewilding symposium in Lifton, Devon 🐻🐌🐸🦅 www.ticketsource.co.uk/keep-it-wild... See also our website: rewilding.oxfordarchaeology.com/publications... #WildWednesdays #Archaeology #Ecology

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Artist Miranda Creswell has been out at @kneppwilding.bsky.social and shared these lovely working shots with us on the theme of ‘What lies beyond’- bringing together the past and present, visible and invisible 😍😍😍 #WildWednesdays #Archaeology #Ecology

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Project palynologist Lou has been out at Lye Valley Fen, hearing about the challenges faced in rescuing alkaline fen and its underlying peat when surrounded by urban conurbation - as outlined by expert ecologist and palynologist, Judy Webb #WildWednesdays #Archaeoecology

A view facing south down the Lye Valley Fen walkway in Oxford. The raised walkway bisects two areas of sloping valley fen with short green winter vegetation on its surface. Two people stand on the walkway facing the camera.

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Antler rake/pick from Early Bronze Age pit at Moulsford, excavated by TVAS. Found alongside other remains including aurochs, amphibian & cattle. Molluscs suggest the pit was dug shortly after surrounding woodland was cleared. Perhaps returning to the earth some of what had been taken?#WildWednesdays

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Rose Ferraby and project PI Anwen Cooper head to Hepple Wilds in Northumberland in search of prehistoric rock art and landscape connection on Monday’s episode of BBC Radio 3's ‘The Essay’- check it out here! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #WildWednesdays #Archaeology #Prehistory

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The Essay - EarthWorks - Stone - BBC Sounds

Archaeologist Rose Ferraby explores rock art in Northumberland.

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David Connolly BAJR @bajr-badger.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

All about understanding Matrilineal society in what is now Britain. Brilliant and careful work using multi disciplinary research www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain - Nature

An analysis of ancient mitochondrial and nuclear DNA shows evidence of matrilocal communities in Iron Age Britain.

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Excavated in 1960, this Early Bronze Age barrow burial at Amesbury contained a number of wood, antler and bronze implements including an oak 'club' or beater. These were interpreted as the toolkit of a leather worker, but perhaps other interpretations are possible? #WildWednesdays #Archaeology

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

A beautiful shot of (?Ceratodon purpureus) moss at Fountains Abbey by @roseferraby. Heathland mosses can often be identified in prehistoric samples, such as those from this Early Bronze Age turf-built burial mound at Pen-y-Fan, at the highest point of the Brecon Beacons. #WildWednesdays #Archaeology

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Some yuletide (archaeo)botany to send you on your way: Iron Age mistletoe fragments from Wardy Hill Ringwork, Ely & a recent article on the UK's big mistletoe 'comeback' (possibly thanks to warmer winters & the Eurasian blackcap!) shorturl.at/vEEUC #WildWednesdays #Archaeobotany #Archaeology

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

A great conference session filled with fascinating talks on the archaeology of wolves, falconry birds, deer, pigeons, rabbits, puffins and much more - big thanks to the conference speakers! @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social

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Dr. Oliver Dietrich @oliverdietrich.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Another personal highlight from today‘s museum visit: a Late Bronze Age bowl with three waterbirds. When filled, the birds would have appeared to swim. Birds are highly important symbols in LBA religion. Klein Döbbern, 10th-9th century BC. Archäologisches Landesmuseum Brandenburg. #archaeology

A shallow clay vessel with three clay birds attached to the inside.

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

On 21 Nov 1924 the Daily Express reported lyrically on ‘London of By-Gone Age’: “Did the giant mammoth once rove the deep forest glades of Piccadilly and Pall Mall? Did the monster hippopotamus slough and wallow in the ooze of the river as it meandered through the jungle of Trafalgar Square?" #OTD 🧵

Cutting from the Belfast Telegraph (original story in the Daily Express) headlined 'London of By-Gone Age. Pictured by mammoth find.'

Drawing by Amédée Forestier in the Illustrated London News (29 Nov 1924) showing hippos, mammoths and woodland with Nelson's column behind, headlined 'Trafalgar Square in the Ice Age: a vision of past and present'

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Thank you! People can see our website for future talks- more to be added soon! rewilding.oxfordarchaeology.com/publications... #WildWednesdays

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Publications and Talks | Rewilding later prehistory

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European Association of Archaeologists @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Archaeologists from Wessex Archaeology have uncovered a #BronzeAge wooden spade at the bottom of a circular ditch in Dorset (#UK). It was cut out from one solid piece of wood and found in waterlogged conditions which helped its preservation. #Archaeology

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Archaeologists uncover one of the oldest and most complete wooden tools ever found in Britain

Today we're delighted to announce the discovery of one of the oldest and most complete wooden tools ever found in Britain. The spade was discovered during archaeological excavations by Wessex Archaeol...

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