Natalie Boyd
@natalieboyd.bsky.social
Archaeologist @SWARCH | PhD student @uwtsd | Near Eastern Archaeology | Materiality
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If we can take one thing from the way lynch talks about art I think it should be to never again dilute your vision and don't put off any art you want to make because it all dies with you, there's no other way, there's no one else
January 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
If we can take one thing from the way lynch talks about art I think it should be to never again dilute your vision and don't put off any art you want to make because it all dies with you, there's no other way, there's no one else
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This so interesting. Crafts and art can really enhance the lived of those living with #dementia.
Dr Jodi Watt sheds light on the power of textile crafts in supporting memory and motor skills for those with dementia. Read more in their latest guest blog. #ArtTherapy #DementiaSupport
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-textile...
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-textile...
Dr Jodi Watt - Blog – Textile Arts and Dementia - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER
Explore the intersection of textile arts and dementia care with Dr Jodi Watt. Discover therapeutic crafts that blend tradition, memory, and community.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
January 17, 2025 at 10:25 AM
This so interesting. Crafts and art can really enhance the lived of those living with #dementia.
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#FindsFriday metal detected,mid 2020. Detectorist did the right thing so a friend and I went out to record and lift what turned out to be a scattered hoard. Excavation under pandemic rules was tricky. Better photos now exist but I like this one as it shows the crappy supplies which were all I had
January 17, 2025 at 8:06 AM
#FindsFriday metal detected,mid 2020. Detectorist did the right thing so a friend and I went out to record and lift what turned out to be a scattered hoard. Excavation under pandemic rules was tricky. Better photos now exist but I like this one as it shows the crappy supplies which were all I had
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Beloved #toys: a pair of #Roman ivory #dolls with articulated arms and legs found in a tomb of a little #girl from a wealthy family in Emona, Ljubljana/#Slovenia.
The majority of the dolls in Roman times were made of less valuable materials such as clay, wood or linen. 🧵1/2
🏺 #archaeology
The majority of the dolls in Roman times were made of less valuable materials such as clay, wood or linen. 🧵1/2
🏺 #archaeology
January 17, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Beloved #toys: a pair of #Roman ivory #dolls with articulated arms and legs found in a tomb of a little #girl from a wealthy family in Emona, Ljubljana/#Slovenia.
The majority of the dolls in Roman times were made of less valuable materials such as clay, wood or linen. 🧵1/2
🏺 #archaeology
The majority of the dolls in Roman times were made of less valuable materials such as clay, wood or linen. 🧵1/2
🏺 #archaeology
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Come to our seminars in February and March - you can attend online!
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Seminars on the Ancient Levant and Greece
We have two events this term, each held on Wednesdays at 16.00 in hybrid mode: in room 1.11, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge (with tea for in person attendees at 16.15), and online.26th February (do…
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January 17, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Come to our seminars in February and March - you can attend online!
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#FindsFriday 🏺 #archaeology #crete #minoan Lots of incredible miniature vessels laid out in a tripod tray from Phaistos. These may have been used for cosmetics, spices, or as toys. Dating between 1800 and 1700 BC. On display in the Heraklion Museum. Photo by me.
January 17, 2025 at 10:08 AM
#FindsFriday 🏺 #archaeology #crete #minoan Lots of incredible miniature vessels laid out in a tripod tray from Phaistos. These may have been used for cosmetics, spices, or as toys. Dating between 1800 and 1700 BC. On display in the Heraklion Museum. Photo by me.
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No you don't understand this is literally SO exciting 🤩
This research suggests that wealth and lands were passed down the female line, and instead of women leaving to join their new husband's family, the exact opposite was true.
This research suggests that wealth and lands were passed down the female line, and instead of women leaving to join their new husband's family, the exact opposite was true.
This is the exciting paper drop. New aDNA science out of Dublin.
Matrilineal descent systems demonstrated for Late Iron Age Dorset.
Building on the work of Mel Giles (2012) who first spotted the potential for it in the archaeology of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Matrilineal descent systems demonstrated for Late Iron Age Dorset.
Building on the work of Mel Giles (2012) who first spotted the potential for it in the archaeology of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain - Nature
An analysis of ancient mitochondrial and nuclear DNA shows evidence of matrilocal communities in Iron Age Britain.
www.nature.com
January 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
No you don't understand this is literally SO exciting 🤩
This research suggests that wealth and lands were passed down the female line, and instead of women leaving to join their new husband's family, the exact opposite was true.
This research suggests that wealth and lands were passed down the female line, and instead of women leaving to join their new husband's family, the exact opposite was true.
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We have several bits from Fishbourne, but we always thought it was smurf poo.
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January 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
We have several bits from Fishbourne, but we always thought it was smurf poo.
😳
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#thiccthursday #archaeology 🏺 #israel These lovely ladies, who look to me as though they’re sharing gossip, are from the Neolithic Sha’ar Hagolan site in Israel, dating to around 8000 years ago. Now in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Photo taken by my friend, Cathy Graham.
January 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
#thiccthursday #archaeology 🏺 #israel These lovely ladies, who look to me as though they’re sharing gossip, are from the Neolithic Sha’ar Hagolan site in Israel, dating to around 8000 years ago. Now in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Photo taken by my friend, Cathy Graham.
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Discovered in 1994 at South Africa’s Drimolen site, DNH 7, known as “Eurydice,” is the most complete Paranthropus robustus skull found, dating between 2.04 and 1.95 million years ago. 
This rare female specimen offers invaluable insights into early hominin anatomy and evolution.
#FossilFriday
This rare female specimen offers invaluable insights into early hominin anatomy and evolution.
#FossilFriday
January 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Discovered in 1994 at South Africa’s Drimolen site, DNH 7, known as “Eurydice,” is the most complete Paranthropus robustus skull found, dating between 2.04 and 1.95 million years ago. 
This rare female specimen offers invaluable insights into early hominin anatomy and evolution.
#FossilFriday
This rare female specimen offers invaluable insights into early hominin anatomy and evolution.
#FossilFriday
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January 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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BRISTOL FREE talk - 7.45pm 27 Jan 2025 "Lifting the lid on ancient diet: organic residue analysis of lipids from pottery" by Dr Lucy Cramp, Dept of Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Bristol bgas.org.uk/events/event...
Tracing Ancient Diet in Britain through Preserved Molecules in Pottery
Speaker: Dr Lucy Cramp, University of Bristol Organic residue analysis involves extraction of preserved biomolecules absorbed into the fabric of pots, ...
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January 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
BRISTOL FREE talk - 7.45pm 27 Jan 2025 "Lifting the lid on ancient diet: organic residue analysis of lipids from pottery" by Dr Lucy Cramp, Dept of Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Bristol bgas.org.uk/events/event...
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Here are the contents of an elite Minoan burial on the island of Aegina. They date to between 1850-1550BC and show the skill, delicacy & beauty of Minoan craftsmanship. The jewellery is of the very finest quality - dazzling & breathtaking in equal measure.
🏛️BM
📷mine
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
🏛️BM
📷mine
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
January 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Here are the contents of an elite Minoan burial on the island of Aegina. They date to between 1850-1550BC and show the skill, delicacy & beauty of Minoan craftsmanship. The jewellery is of the very finest quality - dazzling & breathtaking in equal measure.
🏛️BM
📷mine
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
🏛️BM
📷mine
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
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Signed this one as well. Smaller campuses needed as cultural hubs and local centres of research
Lampeter is such an important part of Cultural, Academic, Scientific and Theological life.
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We call on UWTSD & the Welsh Government to create a viable, sustainable plan for the future of the campus
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Sign, Share and Help save it.
We call on UWTSD & the Welsh Government to create a viable, sustainable plan for the future of the campus
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January 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Signed this one as well. Smaller campuses needed as cultural hubs and local centres of research
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Lampeter is such an important part of Cultural, Academic, Scientific and Theological life.
Sign, Share and Help save it.
We call on UWTSD & the Welsh Government to create a viable, sustainable plan for the future of the campus
petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...
Sign, Share and Help save it.
We call on UWTSD & the Welsh Government to create a viable, sustainable plan for the future of the campus
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January 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Lampeter is such an important part of Cultural, Academic, Scientific and Theological life.
Sign, Share and Help save it.
We call on UWTSD & the Welsh Government to create a viable, sustainable plan for the future of the campus
petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...
Sign, Share and Help save it.
We call on UWTSD & the Welsh Government to create a viable, sustainable plan for the future of the campus
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Today I'm finishing Roman cooking jars, by burnishing the, almost dry, clay surface and incising the lattice-work decoration. They will be fired in a kiln where they will be starved of oxygen, to produce much loved, black burnished cooking jars. Https://potted-history.co.uk
January 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Today I'm finishing Roman cooking jars, by burnishing the, almost dry, clay surface and incising the lattice-work decoration. They will be fired in a kiln where they will be starved of oxygen, to produce much loved, black burnished cooking jars. Https://potted-history.co.uk
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Something lovely for the weekend! A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping hunting dog opens and closes its mouth, as if barking, by using a lever below its chest. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping hunting dog opens and closes its mouth, as if barking, by using a lever below its chest. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
January 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Something lovely for the weekend! A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping hunting dog opens and closes its mouth, as if barking, by using a lever below its chest. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping hunting dog opens and closes its mouth, as if barking, by using a lever below its chest. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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WAKE UP BABE, THE FIRST NEW HUBBLE IMAGE OF 2025 DROPPED!!!
January 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
WAKE UP BABE, THE FIRST NEW HUBBLE IMAGE OF 2025 DROPPED!!!
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Minoan art has probably the finest depictions of sealife of the whole European Bronze Age. Faience inlay in the form of a flying fish. Knossos, around 1600 BCE. #Archaeology
January 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Minoan art has probably the finest depictions of sealife of the whole European Bronze Age. Faience inlay in the form of a flying fish. Knossos, around 1600 BCE. #Archaeology
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#FindsFriday
This beautiful barbed & tanged flint arrowhead found in east Devon. So named for its triangular shape with a central projection at base (tang) flanked by two points (barb) to the sides. A proper time travel find.
#flint #prehistory #arrowhead #archaeology #history
This beautiful barbed & tanged flint arrowhead found in east Devon. So named for its triangular shape with a central projection at base (tang) flanked by two points (barb) to the sides. A proper time travel find.
#flint #prehistory #arrowhead #archaeology #history
January 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
#FindsFriday
This beautiful barbed & tanged flint arrowhead found in east Devon. So named for its triangular shape with a central projection at base (tang) flanked by two points (barb) to the sides. A proper time travel find.
#flint #prehistory #arrowhead #archaeology #history
This beautiful barbed & tanged flint arrowhead found in east Devon. So named for its triangular shape with a central projection at base (tang) flanked by two points (barb) to the sides. A proper time travel find.
#flint #prehistory #arrowhead #archaeology #history
#FindsFriday 🏺 #archaeology #iran this beautiful conical jasper conglomerate beaker with a bronze pin in its base was recovered as part of the excavations of Hasanlu, Iran in the 1960s. Dating to the 9th Century BC. Now at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, 65.163.51.
January 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
#FindsFriday 🏺 #archaeology #iran this beautiful conical jasper conglomerate beaker with a bronze pin in its base was recovered as part of the excavations of Hasanlu, Iran in the 1960s. Dating to the 9th Century BC. Now at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, 65.163.51.
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Totally out of my period, but I really enjoyed this - written in such a wonderfully accessible & yet learned, way & raises a lot of possibilities.
We still don't look at the one offs, those who travelled for work, family, military action...
#Archaeology
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We still don't look at the one offs, those who travelled for work, family, military action...
#Archaeology
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January 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Totally out of my period, but I really enjoyed this - written in such a wonderfully accessible & yet learned, way & raises a lot of possibilities.
We still don't look at the one offs, those who travelled for work, family, military action...
#Archaeology
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
We still don't look at the one offs, those who travelled for work, family, military action...
#Archaeology
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A gorgeous Late Iron Age / Early Roman copper alloy enamelled clothing accessory from the Cotswold Water Park #Gloucestershire @coriniummuseum.bsky.social for #FindsFriday
Described as *a double owl* all we can see is a muscular (and vaguely disappointed) looking #Batman 😳
#DarkKnight 🦇
Described as *a double owl* all we can see is a muscular (and vaguely disappointed) looking #Batman 😳
#DarkKnight 🦇
January 10, 2025 at 7:31 AM
A gorgeous Late Iron Age / Early Roman copper alloy enamelled clothing accessory from the Cotswold Water Park #Gloucestershire @coriniummuseum.bsky.social for #FindsFriday
Described as *a double owl* all we can see is a muscular (and vaguely disappointed) looking #Batman 😳
#DarkKnight 🦇
Described as *a double owl* all we can see is a muscular (and vaguely disappointed) looking #Batman 😳
#DarkKnight 🦇
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The jaw dropping early C16th angel roof at St. Wendreda's in March, Cambridgeshire - Sir John Betjeman said it was "worth cycling forty miles into a headwind to see." It's hard to believe that this beautiful example of medieval craftsmanship is under threat #thread
January 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
The jaw dropping early C16th angel roof at St. Wendreda's in March, Cambridgeshire - Sir John Betjeman said it was "worth cycling forty miles into a headwind to see." It's hard to believe that this beautiful example of medieval craftsmanship is under threat #thread
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A French-Swiss archaeological team in Egypt has uncovered the tomb of a “wizard-doctor”
Inscriptions on the tomb identifys its owner as "Tetinebefou", a physician during the reign of King Pepi II of the Sixth Dynasty, 2305 BC to 2118 BC. 🏺⚱️
www.euronews.com/culture/2025...
Inscriptions on the tomb identifys its owner as "Tetinebefou", a physician during the reign of King Pepi II of the Sixth Dynasty, 2305 BC to 2118 BC. 🏺⚱️
www.euronews.com/culture/2025...
January 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
A French-Swiss archaeological team in Egypt has uncovered the tomb of a “wizard-doctor”
Inscriptions on the tomb identifys its owner as "Tetinebefou", a physician during the reign of King Pepi II of the Sixth Dynasty, 2305 BC to 2118 BC. 🏺⚱️
www.euronews.com/culture/2025...
Inscriptions on the tomb identifys its owner as "Tetinebefou", a physician during the reign of King Pepi II of the Sixth Dynasty, 2305 BC to 2118 BC. 🏺⚱️
www.euronews.com/culture/2025...