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Leon 🏺 @souljaleonn.bsky.social · 3h

At the weekend I spoke on Elmet at the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social #Yorkshire student showcase

Me talking at the CBA Yorkshire student conference on Elmet

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 4d

Millet and wheat grains from Neolithic Xinjiang #NationalBakingWeek
When millet was introduced to Central Asia from China, people didn't adopt the Chinese practice of boiling and steaming it, instead baking it into bread as they did with other grains.

(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Grains of common millet and bread wheat exposed beneath one of the bodies at Xiaohe cemetery, Xinjiang. Credit: Wenying Li.

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Leon 🏺 @souljaleonn.bsky.social · 5d

My colleagues sang me happy birthday in the accommodation

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Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology (SPMA) @postmedarch.bsky.social · 7d

A quick look at the latest issue of our journal, Post-Medieval Archaeology, published under @tandfresearch.bsky.social. To publish your research with us, please check our website for more info and contact [email protected]

#archaeology #postmedievalarchaeology #newresearch

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 8d

Urgent action needed: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Leon 🏺 @souljaleonn.bsky.social · 8d

Submitted my revised manuscript, fingers crossed

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 9d

Join us in four weeks, on the 8th November at Sussex University, for a day of talks from leading archaeologists and historians on the origins of the Kingdom of the South Saxons. 1/4

sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...

Poster advertising
The Sussex Archaeological Society Conference – Sūþseaxna: New Research from the Early Medieval Record. 8th Nov Sussex University

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 10d

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 10d

In video games, you will often find a fully roasted chicken abandoned on the ground, and eating it extremely quickly makes you feel better. What's less known is that this is also true in real life

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 10d

Just arrived. The posthumously published book of my late colleague, Dr Colmán Etchingham. Thanks to everyone who saw it through to publication. We plan to hold an event in Maynooth to mark its publication (details to follow). Available to order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/vikings...
#MedievalSky

A copy of Colmán Etchingham, Vikings in Early Medieval Ireland: Church-raiding, Politics and Kingship (Boydell and Brewer, 2025).

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Leon 🏺 @souljaleonn.bsky.social · 11d

Just seen a stag run through the morning mist like some forgotten dirty or forest spirit

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Leon 🏺 @souljaleonn.bsky.social · 11d

Yeah this one was 13.5 hours a week with that as an FTE

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Leon 🏺 @souljaleonn.bsky.social · 11d

What’s the Uk minimum wage? Just seen a museum advertising for a role with a salary of £22,500, Surely this js below the minimum

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 19d

Sadly, Jane Goodall has died. But her legacy - in conservation and chimp studies - will live on. 🧪

Jane Goodall, famed primatologist who discovered chimpanzee tool use, dies at 91

Dame Jane Goodall, the world's preeminent chimpanzee expert, died of natural causes.

www.livescience.com

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Leon 🏺 @souljaleonn.bsky.social · 25d

Someone today found a mushroom on site and took it home and made dinner with it

🏺 #archaeology

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Leon 🏺 @souljaleonn.bsky.social · 27d

Had the pleasure of presenting my poster at @babao2025meeting.bsky.social

My research focused on #climate and maxillary sinusitis in #roman and early medieval populations

#BABAO2025 #Archaeology #paleopathology #climateheritage

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 28d

🏺 Can never get enough of this late prehistoric world where trees meant not just wood to people, but also bark/bast (and in other cases, roots) as a widely utilised material, likely with particular symbolic associations different to other fibres.

Photographs of both sides of an open armed bronze ornament, with wide cup-shaped finials. Around the central portion is a knotted piece of tree bast.

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Leon 🏺 @souljaleonn.bsky.social · 28d

Please sign to get North Yorkshire council to save #knaresborough castle from ruin

Sign the Petition

SAVE KNARESBOROUGH CASTLE!

www.change.org

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Leon 🏺 @souljaleonn.bsky.social · 29d

Button osteomas

Arlan Skellington (scary) 🦇 @thehell.zone · 29d

only semi-related but this skeleton frog has skull warts, which is a disgusting concept

badass Skeleton Frog with bumpy warts on its skull. sickening.

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Arlan Skellington (scary) 🦇 @thehell.zone · 29d

my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”

several SnailBonez™️ skeleton snails with a skull for a shell that actually look pretty sick but I mean,

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Leon 🏺 @souljaleonn.bsky.social · Sep 20

Such an interesting project, thanks for taking the time to explain to me

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · Sep 19

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation

Playmobil figure kitted out as prehistoric iceman Ötzi.

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The Onion @theonion.com · Aug 25

Overwhelmed Archaeologists Struggling To Keep Pace With Glut Of Early Humans Thawed Out By Climate Change https://theonion.com/overwhelmed-archaeologists-struggling-to-keep-pace-with-1841766142/

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Tolkien Society @tolkiensociety.org · Sep 15

On 15 September 1977: J.R.R. #Tolkien's The Silmarillion was published. Edited by Christopher Tolkien, the book details the entire history of the world before The Hobbit, and goes into the legends that underpin the entire mythology including the creation of the world. #BookSky

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Leon 🏺 @souljaleonn.bsky.social · Sep 13

Imagine tweeting the pope asking him to make Charlie Kirk a saint

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