Mark Knight 🍉

Keeping it empirical!
#MincePies

Very proud and happy to give the Dubois lecture tonight in the Studium Geberale series at @maastrichtunibxl.bsky.social
I will be talking about the long prehistoric occupation of Doggerland and what stories surface through modern science!
www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/archaeo...

Delighted that @sundance.org will world premiere 1st chapter of The Story of Documentary Film, about non-fiction cinema from 1880s - 1929!
4 years in the making, shot around the world, we hope to world premiere the different eras of the film across 2026 fests.
festival.sundance.org/program/film...

This is a photo of all the workers who have spent more than five years restoring the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

Cross section of a half eaten short crust pastry mince pie (untidy desk in the back ground).

How many mince pies is too many mince pies? Asking for a friend....

Boscawen Un field menhir
#StandingStoneSunday

#SundayScaffold Southwark

Archaeological Theory Summer School 2026 | Centre for Material Worlds Past and Present | University of Leicester Find out more about the summer school at the Centre for Material Worlds Past and Present.

Interested in archaeological theory? PhD or postdoc? Have a think if you fancy coming to our inaugural summer school next year! Lots of theory and lots of fun over three days

le.ac.uk/research/cen...

Marine Geoarchaeologist Marine Geoarchaeology

Come work with me! It's the most fun I've had in years - lovely team, and an exceptional opportunity to explore submerged human landscapes
Marine Geoarchaeologist | Wessex Archaeology share.google/MbXadGnfgrLB...

Last chance to see? The ‘Crisis of Preservation’ and pathways to a sustainable future for Europe’s peatland archaeology | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Last chance to see? The ‘Crisis of Preservation’ and pathways to a sustainable future for Europe’s peatland archaeology

Last chance to see? Thought provoking piece about the future of peatland archaeology

Open access and well worth a read!

This is a larch tree killed 8,175 yr ago by a glacier advance in the Alps - likely the regional expression of the well-known '8.2 ka event'! ❄️🧊⏱️

I could never tire of handling samples like these! 🌲💍

Pure Natural Art from the Holocene! 🥰

Early Bronze Age flint knife (dark grey Breckland flint) displayed on a peat stained palm

Wednesday's worked flint #BuriedSoil #Fenland #FlagFenBasin

Uralter Müll zeigt, wie Steinzeitbauern erstmals lernten, mit Abfall zu leben

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...

BA students from the archaeology programmes at Birkbeck on the fancy staircase at Senate House in their fancy graduation gowns!

Couldn’t grab them all for a staircase photo, but it was BA graduation day @bbkhistorical.bsky.social! Archaeology, it’s important!!

Together Alliance Together is an alliance of over 50 civil society organisations united against the far right.

www.togetheralliance.org.uk

A book cover featuring an image of a hole in the ground containing gold neck rings. The title is 'The Snettisham Hoards' and it is edited by Julia Farley and Jody Joy.

Congratulations to Jody Joy, our Senior Curator in European Archaeology, and British Museum curator Julia Farley, who co-edited 'The Snettisham Hoards' which has been nominated for the Current Archaeology Research Project of the Year Award! 1/3

It certainly has a lot more character and personality (also the stone actually does the job it was mandated to do!)

Memories of summer.
The Merrivale menhir on its platform.
A stone circle beyond, on the crest, from where the great double rows can be seen.
Fragmentary rows in front and right of menhir.
And shaded Mistor overlooking all.
Dartmoor

A grey-blue pebble with a white cross of other strata passing through the middle, looking like a Scottish flag.

For #StAndrewsDay, the beach pebble I found in Scotland in 2021.
We christened it Scotch on the Rocks. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Archaeologists say they have proof humans carved huge pits near Stonehenge Research team uses range of novel methods and equipment to analyse ‘extraordinary’ Durrington pit circle

Non- #FindsFriday
All together now: 'Oh no they don't!'

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Archaeologists say they have proof humans carved huge pits near Stonehenge Research team uses range of novel methods and equipment to analyse ‘extraordinary’ Durrington pit circle

Dig the fucking things!

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

I just tree ring dated this large stone pine cookie sampled in 2024 below the Argentière Glacier lateral moraine 🌲💍

It dates the Bronze Age Advance Period of this glacier to 1553+ BCE, which is conform to other calendar dates we have in the Alps at ~1550-1540 BCE (Mer de Glace and Gepatsch) 🧊⏱️

The Daily Rothno is a small rectangle of white paint on the footbridge at Whittlesford Parkway

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...

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Nice one, Dan! 40 plus years of Flag Fen Basin research in two tomes....hope you enjoyed your visit

Part of an ancient stone circle, set in wild moorland.

A #SilentSunday at Scorhill.

#Photography #StandingStoneSunday #Landscape #Dartmoor

BBC On Gaza-Israel: One Story, Double Standards - Centre For Media Monitoring

Actual analysis of the BBC’s coverage of Gaza is devastating for Prescott and the right wing attacks on the BBC. Ratio of Israeli-Palestinian deaths: 1 /34. Ratio of coverage of those deaths: 19 / 1.

cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-gaza-...

Trees. Tens of trees, perfectly preserved (oak, elm, ash & alder), all washed up in a Late Neolithic palaeochannel.