Dr Susan Greaney
@suegreaney.bsky.social
Archaeologist | Neolithic Britain & Ireland | Heritage interpretation | Lecturer at University of Exeter
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Tres bien!
New reconstruction of a neolithic house at the Samara Parc Archéologique:
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New reconstruction of a neolithic house at the Samara Parc Archéologique:
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November 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Tres bien!
New reconstruction of a neolithic house at the Samara Parc Archéologique:
www.facebook.com/samaraparcar...
New reconstruction of a neolithic house at the Samara Parc Archéologique:
www.facebook.com/samaraparcar...
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The name was devised by our Youth Advisory Board and Young Associate Network @archaeologyuk.bsky.social to help the survey have a wider reach. They did a cracking job to help propel us to over 3000 engagements across our different research methods. Pays to listen to young voices.
November 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The name was devised by our Youth Advisory Board and Young Associate Network @archaeologyuk.bsky.social to help the survey have a wider reach. They did a cracking job to help propel us to over 3000 engagements across our different research methods. Pays to listen to young voices.
What better way to celebrate your birthday than by giving a talk about mammoths!
There was a great turnout yesterday to Prof Alex Pryor's (birthday) talk on 'Hunters of Giants: How to kill an Upper Palaeolithic mammoth, revealed by stable isotopes and DNA'. This was part of our Centre for Human-Animal-Environment Bioarchaeology (HumAnE) series of events, to which all welcome!
November 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
What better way to celebrate your birthday than by giving a talk about mammoths!
Repeat after me: artificial, made by humans, human-made, not natural
Novel scientific method proves pit circle near Stonehenge was man-made, say researchers
Novel scientific method proves pit circle near Stonehenge was man-made, say researchers
Archaeologists use multiple types of geophysics equipment to analyse ‘extraordinary structure’
The presence of an extraordinary circle of yawning pits created by Neolithic people near Stonehenge has been proved thanks to a novel combination of scientific techniques, a team of archaeologists is claiming.
While the architects of Stonehenge had the heavens in mind when they built the great stone monument in Wiltshire, the team believes the makers of the Durrington pit circle may have been more interested in an underworld. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Repeat after me: artificial, made by humans, human-made, not natural
New report on how people engage with archaeology is out - Trowel and Error: A Public User Needs Survey. Lots to digest but key conclusions are: 1) archaeologists risk undervaluing and hiding ourselves, our practices and the role we play in society... www.archaeologyuk.org/our-work/tro...
Trowel and Error
A Public User Needs Survey for Archaeology
www.archaeologyuk.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
New report on how people engage with archaeology is out - Trowel and Error: A Public User Needs Survey. Lots to digest but key conclusions are: 1) archaeologists risk undervaluing and hiding ourselves, our practices and the role we play in society... www.archaeologyuk.org/our-work/tro...
This is very intriguing! Must be something circular - stone circle, henge thing, circular building 😯
'The dig team at the Ness, one of the most important Neolithic sites in the British Isles, are not revealing what they believe the find to be until more work is done.
But they say it is like nothing else ever found at the site – and may not even be Neolithic.'
But they say it is like nothing else ever found at the site – and may not even be Neolithic.'
'Extraordinary discovery' at Orkney's Ness of Brodgar Neolithic site
Archaeologists are to resume digging at the site after 3D radar technology uncovered a mystery find.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is very intriguing! Must be something circular - stone circle, henge thing, circular building 😯
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Community Engagement and Social Value Project Manager
Oxford Archaeology
Salary: £42,846 - £54,713 per annum
Closing Date: December 9, 2025
Location: Oxford, Cambridge, Lancaster
www.bajr.org/job-ad/commu...
Oxford Archaeology
Salary: £42,846 - £54,713 per annum
Closing Date: December 9, 2025
Location: Oxford, Cambridge, Lancaster
www.bajr.org/job-ad/commu...
Community Engagement and Social Value Project Manager - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources
Salary: £42,846 - £54,713 per annumClosing Date: 09/12/25Location: Oxford, Cambridge, Lancaster
www.bajr.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Community Engagement and Social Value Project Manager
Oxford Archaeology
Salary: £42,846 - £54,713 per annum
Closing Date: December 9, 2025
Location: Oxford, Cambridge, Lancaster
www.bajr.org/job-ad/commu...
Oxford Archaeology
Salary: £42,846 - £54,713 per annum
Closing Date: December 9, 2025
Location: Oxford, Cambridge, Lancaster
www.bajr.org/job-ad/commu...
Reposted by Dr Susan Greaney
New open access publication: Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place: Was Patrilocality the Dominant Mode of Postmarital Residence across Later European Prehistory? Current Anthropology.
Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place : Was Patrilocality the Dominant Mode of Postmarital Residence across Later European Prehistory? | Current Anthropology
This paper questions whether forms of female mobility and their relation to kinship were uniform throughout later European prehistory. Patrilocality has become the primary way in which sex-based diffe...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
New open access publication: Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place: Was Patrilocality the Dominant Mode of Postmarital Residence across Later European Prehistory? Current Anthropology.
Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The longest running ongoing archaeological scientific research project in the UK, the South West Implement Petrology Group: swfed.org.uk/sw-implement...
SW Implement Petrology Group – South West Fed
swfed.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
The longest running ongoing archaeological scientific research project in the UK, the South West Implement Petrology Group: swfed.org.uk/sw-implement...
My review of Amanda Chadburn and Clive Ruggles' book Stonehenge: Sighting the Sun has been published in @royalarchinst.bsky.social Archaeological Journal. Let me know if you want to read it but don't have institutional access; I've got some free 'offprint' links: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NJ7DZ...
Stonehenge: Sighting the Sun
Published in Archaeological Journal (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
My review of Amanda Chadburn and Clive Ruggles' book Stonehenge: Sighting the Sun has been published in @royalarchinst.bsky.social Archaeological Journal. Let me know if you want to read it but don't have institutional access; I've got some free 'offprint' links: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NJ7DZ...
Hard agree. This is horrendous teaching practice:
I've said it before and I will say it again many times, people using "AI" to design and deliver 'teaching' to students, to mark their work, and in this case to (!) generate literal voice overs are risking their jobs, and frankly they *should* be at risk if they do this sort of thing:
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Hard agree. This is horrendous teaching practice:
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🐦🔎The University of British Columbia hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp: Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
UBC hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp
Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
sparrows4palestine.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🐦🔎The University of British Columbia hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp: Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
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Released today, the ‘Who Stays and Who leaves: Mapping Arts, Culture and Heritage Careers’ report.
@ncace.bsky.social
pec.ac.uk/state_of_the...
@ncace.bsky.social
pec.ac.uk/state_of_the...
Who Stays and Who Leaves? Mapping Arts, Culture and Heritage Careers - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre
Read the latest State of the Nations research report from University of Sheffield on mapping arts, culture and heritage careers.
pec.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Released today, the ‘Who Stays and Who leaves: Mapping Arts, Culture and Heritage Careers’ report.
@ncace.bsky.social
pec.ac.uk/state_of_the...
@ncace.bsky.social
pec.ac.uk/state_of_the...
Here at Exeter we are offering three fully funded AHRC PhD places in humanities subjects. Please get in touch if you are keen to come and do research with us! Closing date 23 February 2026: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
PhD: AHRC Studentship | University of Exeter
Project descriptionThe University of Exeter is offering up to three fully funded AHRC doctoral studentships and training and development opportunities across a range of the AHRC’s disciplines for cand...
www.exeter.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Here at Exeter we are offering three fully funded AHRC PhD places in humanities subjects. Please get in touch if you are keen to come and do research with us! Closing date 23 February 2026: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
My eyes.
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
My eyes.
Fancy playing a locative app-based Avebury game? logaculture.eu/news-events/...
Avebury - LoGaCulture
Case Studies Case Studies 1 and 2The Avebury World Heritage Site, UK Partners: UOS, BU and NTProject Themes: Ethical Design for Access and Engagement; Creation and Authoring; Transmedia, Tourism, and ...
logaculture.eu
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Fancy playing a locative app-based Avebury game? logaculture.eu/news-events/...
Thanks to @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social and the @ansoc-erc.bsky.social team for a cracking Bronze Age Forum conference. Learnt lots and met some lovely people!
November 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Thanks to @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social and the @ansoc-erc.bsky.social team for a cracking Bronze Age Forum conference. Learnt lots and met some lovely people!
Monmouth 😢
In the early hours of this morning, following 119.6mm of rainfall in 12hrs, the River Monnow burst its banks and flooded Monmouth. The usual river level is just under 2m, this morning it was 6.63m- even higher than the record-breaking level during the floods in 2020 (6.57m). Absolutely devastating.
November 16, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Monmouth 😢
Amazing to have a personal tour of the National Museum of Ireland's gold exhibition (aka the bling room) from expert Mary Cahill this evening 😍 Now for the rugby...
November 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Amazing to have a personal tour of the National Museum of Ireland's gold exhibition (aka the bling room) from expert Mary Cahill this evening 😍 Now for the rugby...
So my friend and colleague Carly Ameen just had a super cool paper on the history of dogs published with her collaborators. Dogs show considerable diversity in size and body shape from really early on! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The emergence and diversification of dog morphology
Dogs exhibit an exceptional range of morphological diversity as a result of their long-term association with humans. Attempts to identify when dog morphological variation began to expand have been con...
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
So my friend and colleague Carly Ameen just had a super cool paper on the history of dogs published with her collaborators. Dogs show considerable diversity in size and body shape from really early on! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Project Researcher (environmental policy) @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
Temporary 12 months post of Project Researcher as part of the @britishacademy.bsky.social funded ‘Prehistoric Policies’ project.
Job Ref 019121, search www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo....
@iaiarchaeo.bsky.social, @cifa-ec.bsky.social
Temporary 12 months post of Project Researcher as part of the @britishacademy.bsky.social funded ‘Prehistoric Policies’ project.
Job Ref 019121, search www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo....
@iaiarchaeo.bsky.social, @cifa-ec.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Project Researcher (environmental policy) @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
Temporary 12 months post of Project Researcher as part of the @britishacademy.bsky.social funded ‘Prehistoric Policies’ project.
Job Ref 019121, search www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo....
@iaiarchaeo.bsky.social, @cifa-ec.bsky.social
Temporary 12 months post of Project Researcher as part of the @britishacademy.bsky.social funded ‘Prehistoric Policies’ project.
Job Ref 019121, search www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo....
@iaiarchaeo.bsky.social, @cifa-ec.bsky.social
Bronze Age Forum in full flow here at UCD Dublin. Looking forward to learning lots about a slightly later period of prehistory than I normally get stuck into...
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Bronze Age Forum in full flow here at UCD Dublin. Looking forward to learning lots about a slightly later period of prehistory than I normally get stuck into...