Kenny Brophy
@urbanprehistorian.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, Archaeology, University of Glasgow, the Urban Prehistorian, and Keeper of Hookland’s Stones. Glasgow’s Archaeologist in Residence (self-appointed)
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Another beautiful example of how archaeology and heritage knowledges and their unique deep time affordances can transform understanding and drive action. 🙌
Working on archaeological landscape regional studies and looking at the evidence over millennia really makes you appreciate the significance of how rivers form and inform how we live in the world. It also makes you passionate about not passing them on to future generations as abused open sewers
November 27, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Another beautiful example of how archaeology and heritage knowledges and their unique deep time affordances can transform understanding and drive action. 🙌
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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
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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...
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Out now! The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Creative Practice explores the role of creativity as a tool for critical engagement with heritage. It explores how heritage and creative practice intersect, in research, in practice and in a transnational context.
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The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Creative Practice
The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Creative Practice explores the role of creativity as a tool for critical engagement with heritage. It provides a comprehensive study of ways in which heritage an...
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November 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Out now! The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Creative Practice explores the role of creativity as a tool for critical engagement with heritage. It explores how heritage and creative practice intersect, in research, in practice and in a transnational context.
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
A brief visit to the Caiy Stane in South Edinburgh today.I left the back of a van in the photo for scale.
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@megalithic.bsky.social
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November 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This is also represents a perpetuation of a weird obsession with big monuments & sites that were totally anomalous in the Neolithic. That tell us virtually nothing about the everyday lifeways of people who lived in the 3rd millennium BCE.
2 high profile Neolithic stories in the media today. Yet again focused on the Stonehenge landscape & Orkney. As usual everything in between receives a fraction of the investment, time & media coverage. Neolithic studies in Britain is no better balanced now than it was 50 yrs ago
November 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This is also represents a perpetuation of a weird obsession with big monuments & sites that were totally anomalous in the Neolithic. That tell us virtually nothing about the everyday lifeways of people who lived in the 3rd millennium BCE.
2 high profile Neolithic stories in the media today. Yet again focused on the Stonehenge landscape & Orkney. As usual everything in between receives a fraction of the investment, time & media coverage. Neolithic studies in Britain is no better balanced now than it was 50 yrs ago
November 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
2 high profile Neolithic stories in the media today. Yet again focused on the Stonehenge landscape & Orkney. As usual everything in between receives a fraction of the investment, time & media coverage. Neolithic studies in Britain is no better balanced now than it was 50 yrs ago
Really pleased with this set of shelves I made from old scaffolding boards to hold my Blu-ray collection. It’s a bit rudimentary but it does the job!
November 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Really pleased with this set of shelves I made from old scaffolding boards to hold my Blu-ray collection. It’s a bit rudimentary but it does the job!
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Last year‘s Archaeological Conference of Central Germany was on „A Stone Age History of Clothing“. We had the honour to welcome great colleagues to Halle - roughly one year later, the proceedings are hot off the press!
Soon available also in OA on books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeum/c...
Soon available also in OA on books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeum/c...
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Last year‘s Archaeological Conference of Central Germany was on „A Stone Age History of Clothing“. We had the honour to welcome great colleagues to Halle - roughly one year later, the proceedings are hot off the press!
Soon available also in OA on books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeum/c...
Soon available also in OA on books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeum/c...
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Somebody posted an old photo in a Facebook local group and asked if anyone could clean it up. Well-meaning people turned to #AI. Lots of responders seemed happy with the results, but this is how you destroy historical records.
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Somebody posted an old photo in a Facebook local group and asked if anyone could clean it up. Well-meaning people turned to #AI. Lots of responders seemed happy with the results, but this is how you destroy historical records.
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So very excited to announce our new project - From Reuse to Resource - joint with the Freie Universitaet Berlin, funded by DFG-AHRC. Starting early 2026, we're going to be analyzing the wastescapes of Neolithic settlements to rethink ontologies of rubbish nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/11/25/u...
Uralter Müll zeigt, wie Steinzeitbauern erstmals lernten, mit Abfall zu leben
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November 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
So very excited to announce our new project - From Reuse to Resource - joint with the Freie Universitaet Berlin, funded by DFG-AHRC. Starting early 2026, we're going to be analyzing the wastescapes of Neolithic settlements to rethink ontologies of rubbish nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/11/25/u...
Curiously Civilized, Old Rock Creations, Childproof, Easter Island, Stonehenge by Agathe Snow https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/28556
November 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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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...
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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/...
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Very pleased and proud to announce 📣 that we have another prehistorian in our midst! Dr Sally Longworth passed her viva today with very minor corrections. Her thesis, a contextual study of Bronze Age Farming in Scotland, will be submitted for publication (once she’s had a rest)!
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Very pleased and proud to announce 📣 that we have another prehistorian in our midst! Dr Sally Longworth passed her viva today with very minor corrections. Her thesis, a contextual study of Bronze Age Farming in Scotland, will be submitted for publication (once she’s had a rest)!
Festival of Lights at Longleat. One for @clonehenge.bsky.social to enjoy.
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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A rare opportunity: Professor of Cultural and Natural Heritage @durham.ac.uk. Part of the impressive Heritage 360 program: tinyurl.com/33bt5mu3
Professor of Cultural and Natural Heritage
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
A rare opportunity: Professor of Cultural and Natural Heritage @durham.ac.uk. Part of the impressive Heritage 360 program: tinyurl.com/33bt5mu3
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Re-opening our sign-ups for the @tag2025york.bsky.social Archaeology as Worldbuilding game-playing session. It's on 15 December from 9-12, so it doesn't conflict with other sessions. Hope to see you there:
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TAG 2025 Worldbuilding Sign Up
This form is for you to sign up to participate in the TAG2025 Worldbuilding session. The session requires a 3 hour commitment and the slots are limited to 30 people. We will be playing an archaeology-...
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November 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Re-opening our sign-ups for the @tag2025york.bsky.social Archaeology as Worldbuilding game-playing session. It's on 15 December from 9-12, so it doesn't conflict with other sessions. Hope to see you there:
forms.gle/bcMCZNZUJPUq...
forms.gle/bcMCZNZUJPUq...
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Udo Kier - cinema’s fallen angel and an embodiment of the screen’s delicious power to corrupt - is gone. "I would live like the hero of Huysman's A Rebours,” he once told me. “Have no clocks, and hire two nuns to go by my window and pray at 12 o'clock each day."
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Udo Kier - cinema’s fallen angel and an embodiment of the screen’s delicious power to corrupt - is gone. "I would live like the hero of Huysman's A Rebours,” he once told me. “Have no clocks, and hire two nuns to go by my window and pray at 12 o'clock each day."
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'Ahead of the autumn budget on 26 November, Universities UK (UUK) has calculated that funding per student for teaching in 2025-26 is at 64 per cent of the level it was in 2015-16.' 1/3
University teaching income ‘£6.4 billon less’ than 10 years ago
UUK says shortfall in teaching money is ‘baked in’ to higher education funding system as institutions brace for new tax in upcoming budget
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November 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
'Ahead of the autumn budget on 26 November, Universities UK (UUK) has calculated that funding per student for teaching in 2025-26 is at 64 per cent of the level it was in 2015-16.' 1/3
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If in need of a harmless Christmas film ‘The Bishop’s Wife’ with Cary Grant and David Niven is on BBC I-player.
November 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
If in need of a harmless Christmas film ‘The Bishop’s Wife’ with Cary Grant and David Niven is on BBC I-player.
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A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
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Sharing a landmark TikTok moment for my Archaeodeath public education and engagement project. After 5-and-a-half years posting daily videos, I've just hit 150k followers!
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Sharing a landmark TikTok moment for my Archaeodeath public education and engagement project. After 5-and-a-half years posting daily videos, I've just hit 150k followers!
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The Belfast walls prove more enduring than the Berlin Wall bit.ly/4p8ykYY more than a quarter of a century after the Good Friday agreement Belfast is still a (physically) divided city
97 ‘peace walls’ still divide Belfast. Will they ever come down?
Twenty-seven years on from the Good Friday agreement, miles of ‘peace walls’ still separate Protestants and Catholics in Belfast. Some people want them built higher
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November 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The Belfast walls prove more enduring than the Berlin Wall bit.ly/4p8ykYY more than a quarter of a century after the Good Friday agreement Belfast is still a (physically) divided city
A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
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Stanbury Hill 07: Drastic brush cutting with heavy machinery has damaged this lovely rock art panel - the photo shows chipping to the right of the main carving, and scratch marks around the top three cups.. One of the cup marked stones on Stanbury Hill, Bingley Moor, also known as the Lunar Stone.
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Stanbury Hill 07: Drastic brush cutting with heavy machinery has damaged this lovely rock art panel - the photo shows chipping to the right of the main carving, and scratch marks around the top three cups.. One of the cup marked stones on Stanbury Hill, Bingley Moor, also known as the Lunar Stone.
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Those solitary stones that keep silent watch, that persist across the rise and fall of our own petty kingdoms, are storytellers. When we learn the language of the Long Neolithic they speak across time. It is beholden on us to listen. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Those solitary stones that keep silent watch, that persist across the rise and fall of our own petty kingdoms, are storytellers. When we learn the language of the Long Neolithic they speak across time. It is beholden on us to listen. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday