Dr Matt Pope

Pazyryk Swan — an elaborate, intricate bird with extraordinary details on its beak, wings and long sweeping feathers

my goodness, I've never seen these before

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Especially given these coins will rattle louder in the deeply buried halls of you conscience year on year for the rest of your life

Photo of two small replica pottery vessels with tealight candles lit inside them. One with slot openings casts a radial pattern of light outwards onto the desk

Yep well done most of you - thinking about the purpose of early Bronze Age miniature cups/incense cups/accessory vessels using @pottedhistory.bsky.social replicas! Managed not to set off the smoke alarm.

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Thankfully yes it is

Heading home after giving a talk on Ice Age archaeology in London. Lots of interest and stories of local discoveries shared and great to have some professional geoarchaeologists in the audience 🏺🦣

Very odd, I don't know why he feels the need to defend them, it's not their ethics under scrutiny here.

Honour isnt a word id associate with this infamous episode in our national heritage narrative. 🏺😥

Bury St Edmunds Iron Age coin hoard sells for more than £33,000 Finder Prof Tom Licence plans to use some of his share to fund archaeological work in eastern England.

"It was an honour to see expert collectors taking these coins into their care,"

Really?? REALLY? and there was me thinking you just enjoyed making a fast buck, with at least two of the most important coins now off to the USA...

#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure 🏺

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Strong Bagpuss Elephant Vibes

Oh god yes, I am ready to give someone my £££ for a little stuffed Vogelherd mammoth

Does he have a message for us?

A monochrome tattoo in the style of an archaeological illustration of one of the Vogelherd mammoths, on the forearm of a middle aged woman, juxtaposed against some very natty red Christmas pyjamas with lynxes in green jumpers on them

Like this guy?!

I'd like to read your PhD. I'm also now thinking about having some aurignacian stitching as tattoos

Excited we are going to be discussing this at Palaeounch next week. In this Aurignacian ivory mammoth I can't get away from seeing a model of a stitched up toy mammoth. Did Auriganican kids have cuddly toys sewn from megafaunal hide? 🦣🏺

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Possible Arrowheads from 80,000 Years Ago in Uzbekistan Are Rewriting Where Homo sapiens Came From Tiny stone fragments in a Central Asian rock shelter are challenging the standard story of how our species first entered Europe

Possible Arrowheads from 80,000 Years Ago in Uzbekistan Are Rewriting Where Homo sapiens Came From
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Like the Neronian might be below a Neanderthal layer at Grotte Mandrin?

Is there any certainly at all that these were made by Neanderthal people? 🦣🏺

we need a mash up of our photos for the perfect dusty tropical moonset 🌕🏝️

Great colour to yours!

The Full Moon setting out west

Well given they drew on their previous research in this one, they might oblige us next year

We muddled through but we did at one point say "if only Tom was here"

Ha!

It's very cool stuff, his dating work is so transformative, his and Rogers impact on the British Upper Pal is still being felt.

Happy to help, research frameworks need solid, enforceable specifications to go with them, otherwise rarely anything happens and cheaper options prevail.

"It is worth at this point taking a look at our nearest European neighbours. In Northern France new Palaeolithic archaeological sites are being found on a regular basis,unlike in southern England, despite having broadly analogous capture points. How
and where are these being found?"

"They often work to minimum guidelines in order to win the job; therefore, those minimum guidelines need to set the bar at an appropriate level to gain maximum value from the resource while still being economically viable. That is why the nested
approach is advocated."

"The absence of statements regarding the need to discover new sites at this time (19thc) emphasises that discovery of sites was a de facto" but "since the 1940s the rate of discovery has all but collapsed, leaving archaeologists with no option but to re-examine the same aging sites and datasets."