Ellery Littlewood
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Ellery Littlewood
@paleomagpie.bsky.social
Geoarchaeologist @GeogDurham | Painter/illustrator | Rock hoarder | they/them 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Part 2 of how I do digital lithic illustration is now up!

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July 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Want to see a bit of how I do digital #lithic illustration? I've started a new series over on Instagram:
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#digitalillustration #tutorial #archaeology #palaeolithic
July 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I've been thinking about what pride month means in terms of research and #trans -ness, and sometimes it's stumbling across a photo from last year's fieldwork and going "ohh, that's me"

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June 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Finally got round to finishing this drawing of a 300,000 year old #handaxe from Stoke Newington, London, found by S.H. Warren in 1894. Now this little-un, along with others from Stoke Newington that I've drawn, lives at the British Museum
June 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Not usually my style, but I made a very little #comic last night about feeling rubbish followed by a little moment of reflection and hope
June 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Scruffy lil (slightly bashed) pointy handaxe, probably made on the spot as it was needed. Perhaps even to help butcher a horse or elephant for someone's dinner c.300,000 years ago.

This handaxe lives in the British Museum collections, and was found in Stoke Newington, London, in the late 1800s.
June 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Little work in progress of a lovely Lower Palaeolithic (c.300,000 years old) #handaxe from Stoke Newington, London.

#palaeolithic #digitalillustration #workinprogress
June 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
More delightful flint fingerprints, c.300,000 years old.

#handaxe #lowerpalaeolithic #illustration
June 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
One of my favourite things about digitally illustrating #handaxes is removing the flake scar outlines and looking at all the little flint fingerprints left behind.
June 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM