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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · Nov 11

Hi, I’m Jona Schlegel 👋
Archaeologist, web developer, and founder of archaeoINK

I focus on science communication, engaging visuals and digital tools to make archaeology accessible. Skilled in web solutions, scientific and conceptual illustration

Based in Amsterdam, looking for connections in NL

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David Bez Artist @davidbezartist.bsky.social · 1d

Neolithic people practiced astronomy to align megalithic stone structures with celestial events, using them as complex calendars and ceremonial sites.
tp948 Celtic Alignment acrylic and oil on paper 17x11 inches £200 unframed. #art #painting #archaeology

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Louise Bedford | Archaeology @louisearchaeology.bsky.social · 1d

#ArchInk Day 13 Pseudoscience

I found this a strange prompt so I just decided to draw this incredibly archaeologically accurate building of Stonehenge

#ArchInk2025 #Archaeology #Stonehenge

Cartooony drawing in pencil crayon of Stonehenge with a light greenish glow and an alien and a UFO

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · Aug 27

Artist’s painting of a hippo on a flake of limestone 🦛❤️

Perhaps a practice sketch, or just for the joy of painting 3,500 years ago!

From Deir el-Bahri, Thebes, Egypt, c. 1479–1425 BC. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#Archaeology

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 1d

The Nunalleq Digital Museum is a museum of Yup’ik archaeology in Alaska. Placing sovereignty in the hands of the descendent communities, it makes the #archaeology accessible whilst ensuring it is relevant to the community today #IndigenousPeoplesDay

Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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The digital museum home screen; an illustration of a coastal area with a village during four seasons.

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 3d

#ArchInk 4: bronze; 5: flint; 9: ivory
#archaeology #illustration 🏺🏛️🗃️
Combining three prompts to look at early-19th century views of early Bronze Age artefacts.

Ink and graphite sketch of a dagger and arrowhead. Text reads: #ArchInk
The early Bronze Age was a time of remarkable transformation in material and social lives. People and materials came together in new ways.
I’m interested in how early observers interpreted these changes. The early-19th century excavators of these artefacts, Colt Hoare and Cunnington, were not afraid to draw parallels with continental Europe.
“Some may think it derogates from the dignity of our country to allow a Gaulish (i.e. foreign) original; but, be the consequences what they will, whenever we are in search of truth, although we discover her in ruins and rubbish, we must acknowledge and revere her.” Richard Colt Hoare, 1812
*Colt Hoare and Cunnington were, by the standards of the day, pretty good at recording. But in a sheepish footnote in their discussion of barrows in the severely area of Wiltshire, Colt Hoare admits that he’s not sure which of the barrows this dagger came from!
#5 flint One of four arrowheads within a burial in a bowl barrow: Which Show affinity with those from Armorica, NW France.
FLINT ARROWHEAD, WIMBORNE ST GILES.
4: Bronze BRONZE DAGGER, SILK HILL MILSTON*
9: ivory The pommel is ivory from a marine mannal, possibly a walrus. It is very worn, suggesting it might have adorned other artefacts before this dagger
The wooden handle was re-constructed based onCunnington's dig notes.
* Or is it ? Colt Hoare and Cunnington - and their illustrator /surveyor Philip Crocker- were pretty good at recording their f, by the standards of the day. But in a sheepish footnote in their discussions of barrow-digging in the Everley area of Wiltshire, Colt Hoare admits the dagger was "in one of these, but I cannot specify which!'

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 3d

I have strong feelings about stratigraphy. I have stronger feelings about the schematic examples that we use to teach stratigraphy. Artefacts shouldn't float in the middle of the layer, for example. No colour-coding, obscure symbols to indicate difference, etc.

#archink #archink2025 #inktober

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A hand holding a drawing of schematic strategraphic layers. The order of the layers is two tweets down.

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 8d

#inktober2025 6)pierce. Ok confession: I’m a massive coward. Hate needles. So am full of wonder for my friends that have been pierced for tattoos. Going back to prehistory & the most astonishing Scythian Iron Age tattoos: mythical beasts preserved by permafrost in human skin at Pazyryk. #archaeology

A sketch of mythical beasts on the form of tattoos

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mhoyle.bsky.social @mhoyle.bsky.social · 4d

WIP on a small diorama using some existing assets and some new ones recently created. I I wanted to test them out in a low light setting, and utilised a new sky rig node setup #blender #illustration #vikings #archaeology

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 5d

Day 9 of #archInk: Ivory
A bit of meditation practices: drawing one curved line after the other.

Cross-section of a tusk, which forms a dense network of intersecting lines known as Schreger lines. They tell growth, material, and history at once.

#archaeology

Digital illustration of an ivory cross-section in warm beige tones. A fine network of dark intersecting lines radiates from the centre, forming geometric Schreger patterns characteristic of ivory

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 5d

#ArchInk 2: shell; 3: residue; 6: horn; 7: textile; 8: stratigraphy
#inktober #medievalsky #skystorians 🏺🏛️🗃️
Combining a few prompts to tell the story of Worcester Cathedral’s Cockleshell Pilgrim.

#ArchInk
Ink and graphite sketch of a grave. Accompanying text labels read:

The Cockleshell Pilgrim
In 1986-7, Excavations within Worcester Cathedral uncovered the body of a man wearing woollen clothing and leather boots, and artefacts suggesting an association with pilgrimage. Research by Katherine lack points to his identity: Robert Sutton, c15th Worcester dyer

6: horn
Decayed remnants of a horn tip were found at the top of a 1.55m wooden staff buried next to the body.

8:stratigraphy
The burial post-dates construction of the choir wall in 1374. The head and neck were missing: cut by a brick wall that truncated the west end of the grave.

3: residue
Remnants of soft tissue, skin, spinal cord, ligaments and muscle were found on the spine and pelvis.

2: Shell
Next to the Staff, and a bronze lace end, was a 5cm cockle shell, pierced at the top. Shells were a common Symbol of
pilgrimage, but usually Scallop Shells
associated with St James'Shrine at Santago de Compostela.
The cockle is therefore odd - it may have been intended as a general SymboLof pilgrimage

7: textile
He was buried wearing an undershirt and a fine cloak made from a type of woollen cloth called 'worsted'
They were of good quality, but plain and undyed -Befitting a pilgrim.

Sutton's 1454 will contained a wish to be buried “before the image of StJames in the cathedral.”
The man was in his sixties, at least - but had been fit and active before arthritis set in.

After anillustration by Helen Lubin, 1990

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 6d

day 8 of #archInk: stratigraphy

I reworked an older drawing from when the prompt was “written”. And here the trowel still “writes” the site’s stratigraphy in a way: layer by layer, deposit by deposit and interface by interface.

#archaeology

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Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 6d

Me (to The Internet, everybody listening, or just looking my way for more than 5 sec): „Look what we did!“
I received the prints of our #RepresentationMatters publication yesterday evening. It’s not only a collection of papers on the way we reproduce and communicate our knowledge towards audience.

A middle aged white Woman with an red updo and big glasses holding a large book, title says diversity in visual representations of the past. Representation matters.

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 7d

#ArchInk 1: pigment
#inktober #medievalsky #skystorians 🏺🏛️🗃️

Not sure how much I’ll be able to contribute this year, but I’ll try to chip in when I can.

Ink and graphite sketch showing a woman in medieval dress, holding writing implements in each hand and an expression of intense focus, sat in front of a writing desk with an open manuscript.
Text reads:

# archink I: pigment
Medieval writers and artists used a huge range of compounds & colours - you can find out more abort their techniques at fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/illuminated. The staple of the medieval manuscript was the deep purple-black of iron gall ink, made by mixing iron sulfate with tannic acid, usually sourced from fermented oak galls.

MARIE DE FRANCE, LATE CI2th WRITER
After a late c13th illustration of her from BnF Arsenal Library, MS 3142 fol 256

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 7d

day 7: textiles

They rarely survive, but their traces do: loom weights, needles, fragments stuck to metal.

This piece looks at those fragments and the ancient depictions of weaving/fabric creation on vessels that still show these practices.

#archInk #archaeology

orange and black. The vase shows two women holding spindles beside a central triangular weaving pattern. Decorative motifs run around the upper section, and loom weights are depicted on the lower part

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Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 13d

Doodle Day 1: archaeological evidence suggests that women were the majority of the world's first artists. #Art #Doodle web.archive.org/web/20131008...

Pen and ink sketch of a woman squatting in front of a cave wall as she finishes painting a prehistoric horse.

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 8d

Oh yes! And so functionally designed as well!

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 8d

A horn core is:

A) a ska band
B) the bony part under the keratin sheath on bovids
C) a source of terrible puns and innuendos on an archaeological site

“Horn” #archink #inktober #archink2025

An ink drawing on a piece of paper of a horn core with a scale.

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 8d

day 6 of #archInk2025: horn

I did a kind of archaeology journaling page, where I focused on exploring the texture of the horn, noting down functions and anatomy.

#archInk

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 9d

This is beautiful!
Just shows also how complex a reconstruction drawing can become.

Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social · 9d

Surprisingly yet pleasingly complex - the tile elements required to reconstruct a Roman roof over the House of the Faun, #Pompeii. Beautiful watercolour, pencil, and ink illustrations by Pasquale Maria Veneri dating to 1843 on display in the National Archaeological Museum
In Naples.

Watercolour showing different tile elements both flat (tegulae) and curved (imbrices) and antifixes and water spouts needed for a Roman roof

Plan of the House of the Faun in watercolour showing the reconstructed rooflines.

Reconstruction of a roofline in plan and section

Full image of the three elements as one watercolour illustration

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 10d

“Bronze is brilliant!” #archink #inktober - bronze & flint
youtu.be/nyu4u3VZYaQ

Drawing of a skeuomorphic spear head made of flint. It says, “bronze bronze bronze bronze…what’s wrong with stone?” And hashtags in the tweet.

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 9d

For day three of #archInk prompt: flint
I created a digital collage of tools used during flint knapping and the by products spreading around the production zone: flakes and blades.

#archaeology #archInk2025

Digital collage showing hands reaching upward among flintknapping tools such as antler tines, hammers, and scrapers. Flint flakes are scattered across circular green and ochre shapes. The word “FLINT” appears in cut-out letters near the bottom right

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DAH Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 14d

We have a new series of "Digital Lunch"- free, hybrid talks hosted by the Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab at the University of York. Don't be fooled by the name, we've asked experts on the very cutting edge of the field to talk to us about their research.

Sign up:

forms.gle/qeRcHHe5z3Kf...

26 September James, Colleen, Peter, Guy Current digital research at York
3 October Ahmed El Antably Nubian Chronicles: You've been talking to the wrong people
10 October Stephanie Döpper Co-creating smartphone tours at archaeological sites with the ArchaeoTrail App
17 October Mariana Lopez Sound Heritage: methods and considerations
24 October Maki Wardle Moonlighting at ESA: A Postcard from a Digital Archaeologist in Space
31 October off off
7 November Despoina Sampatakou Cultural objects in reality and virtuality: a comparative study in XR
14 November Florence Smith Nicholls (Not) Dying of Anticipation: Video Game Archaeologies of Contemporary Play
21 November ADS What's new at ADS/HSDS
28 November Mark Altaweel AI for palaeoclimate research
5 December Marta Diaz-Guardamino TBA

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 10d

day 4 of #archInk2025: bronze. tin meets copper, and new colours are created based on the mixture, from gold, green, brown, red.

i drew them circling between two hands, an acknowledgement of how innovative humans are and bronze meant exchange and shared skill

#archInk #archaeology

A digital illustration showing two hands reaching toward a circle of bronze artefacts, including swords, spearheads, and axes. Each object has a different shade of bronze — from golden yellow to deep reddish-brown — representing the varied colours of Bronze Age metalwork

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 10d

day 3 of #archink2025: residue. what's left inside a pot can say a lot. grains, fats, traces of meals long gone.
drew that chain in a kind of comic style: pot in use, pot buried/excavated, pot in the lab.

Small remains lead to past recipes.

#archInk #archaeology

A three-panel digital illustration showing the archaeological process of residue analysis.
In the first panel, a clay pot sits over a small fire surrounded by stones.
In the second, a broken pot is uncovered in the ground with a trowel nearby.
In the third, gloved hands hold a sherd and take a sample with a small tool. Two circles highlight what residue analysis can reveal: plant grains and a goat

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 11d

#archInk is not only drawing but can also be a haiku!

LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 12d

#Archlink2025
#Haiku
#Shell

Around fish or fowl,
Dumped in middens when done,
Still contains, stories.

archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · Sep 9

Here's the official #archInk2025 prompt list - 31 days of archaeological (illustration) prompts for October.

From pigment and bronze to provenance and afterlife, each prompt open to be explored through drawing or other techniques and mediums.

Ready to join in?
#archInk