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UHI Archaeology Institute @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social · 21d

'Animating the Dead: An #Archaeology of Bronze Age Burial Practices in #Orkney' by Professors Jane Downes and Colin Richards follows decades of research and incorporates new excavation results and radiocarbon dates from sites across the county. Available to pre-order now.
#BronzeAge #Prehistory

October release for institute director’s book on Bronze Age burial practice

'Animating the Dead: An Archaeology of Bronze Age Burial Practices in Orkney' by Professors Jane Downes and Colin Richards follows decades of research and incorporates new excavation results and radiocarbon dates from sites across the county.

archaeologyorkney.com

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University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · 18d

Stephen Mullen's excellent book on this topic, The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775–1838 is available to read for free from our website:

uolpress.co.uk/book/the-gla...

#OpenAccess #History #Slavery #Scotland

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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 2d

Thread of the week! Superb!

Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 2d

British folk horror and occult characters to be on Halloween, a thread.

1. Mr Fisher from Robin Redbreast (1970).
Catchphrase: “The study of religions is one of my many interests.”
You’ll need:
- Tweed trilby
- Mutton chops
- Cracked spectacles
- A copy of The Golden Bough

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 2d

It was surplus to requirements in the bowels of a regional museum somewhere in Scotland 😬

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 2d

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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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 5d

OK I’ve got this thing in my office. What should I do with it?

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The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social · 5d

🎯 Our #totaliser reaches 83%!

Can YOU help us get over the line?

🎯 tghts.enthuse.com/cf/graveyard...

Fundraiser target, with £8,255 of £10,000 raised.

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 5d

That’s a given.

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 5d

I’ll ask Gareth to do that for me!

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 5d

Animate it with augmented reality

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 5d

OK I’ve got this thing in my office. What should I do with it?

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 7d

Good turnout on a dreich night for a talk I did this evening on the archaeology of the @glasgowgardenfestival.org
project to the Bearsden & Milngavie Heritage Society. Nice to see so many familiar and friendly faces!

Audience for a talk about After the Garden Festival project by Kenny Brophy in Bearsden.

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 8d

Late Neolithic / Early Bronze Age, 3000 - 2000 BCE

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 8d

Always a pleasure to visit the incredible Ballochmyle rock art panel in Ayrshire. I visited today with the Dundonald Castle YAC and the kids enjoyed doing some rock art recording! This is truly a hidden gem of Scottish archaeology.

YAC members recording rock art at Ballochmyle

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 8d

Everyone should have a lunchtime megalith

thebotmakes.bsky.social @thebotmakes.bsky.social · 8d

The Gogar Stone in Edinburgh. Not the biggest stone but close enough to my work to make it a lunchtime megalith, and i was grinning like an idiot on the way back to work at the thought of that 😀 #StandingStoneSunday @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 9d

I can’t believe Peter Cushing made Star Wars and Shock Waves in the same year. Two fascist roles!

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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 10d

Calling all hillfort folk and ex diggers from Maiden Castle excavation 1985 and 1986. There will be a small display and film from the excavations. Bring any stories, photos etc for archive gathering.

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 10d

First week of term, first year of study, evening teaching, from Birkbeck to British Museum, from gallery to study room, from Neolithic Cumbria to Bronze Age Cambridgeshire through the connection of Langdale stone, from gold cup to gold-makers hoard.

Birkbeck students in gallery 51, hearing (and seeing in materials) stories of deposition and things with Neil Wilkin.

Birkbeck students around a table watching and listening to Petra Jones describe the objects (their connections and biographies) that she brings out of small plastic boxes onto the table.

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 10d

Professor Bernard Quatermass handling a Beaker (from Quatermass IV, 1979)

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 10d

a muppet with red hair and a white coat is standing with his arms outstretched .

ALT: a muppet with red hair and a white coat is standing with his arms outstretched .

media.tenor.com

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 10d

The mind boggles

Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 10d

Professor Bernard Quatermass handling a Beaker (from Quatermass IV, 1979)

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Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social · 12d

Scotland’s Archaeology Strategy is advertising for a new Chair. Take a look - It's a great role to help shape Scottish archaeology archaeologystrategy.scot/scotlands-ar...

Scotland’s Archaeology Strategy Committee Needs a New Chair! – Scotland’s Archaeology Strategy

archaeologystrategy.scot

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Clonehenge @clonehenge.bsky.social · 12d

That's the World Park #Stonehenge near Beijing! A pretty good one in my opinion.

老马 @macleoid.co · 13d

世界公园

Olympus E-M1 Mk II
Olympus M.40–150mm

A woman taking a photo on her phone. In the background is a replica of the Twin Towers, formerly of New York City.

A worker attaching red lanterns to a lamppost.

A replica of Stonehenge. A giant inflatable moon hovers ominously in the background.

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Derek Johnston @drdjohnston.bsky.social · 15d

@johnpower.bsky.social gave me a look at the newest issue of Wyrd Science, which includes a kind and thoughtful review of the academic collection Nigel Kneale and Horror which I edited. As far as I’m aware, this is the first published review; anyone wanting to review it can contact LUP!

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