Dr Susan Greaney

There is an interesting question here of how to track the long-term impact of a specific research study or paper, and how that knowledge becomes embedded in wider understandings over many years, but that would be a research study in itself.

Dude. Archaeology existed before academic archaeology and probably will outlast academic archaeology. Not everything has to be REFable.

Ah of course! Brain not working. Richard Bevins and Rob Ixer. I hope they will feature a lot!

I don't know who you are referring to, sorry!

Yes, same company. This one is to be presented by Tracey Borman and some actor I hadn't heard of but I think is quite famous.

Oh goodness! It's only a very short bit, if anything 😬

5 to air Lion Stonehenge doc - Televisual 5 is to air new Lion Television doc, Stonehenge: Secrets of the New Stone, fronted by Jason Watkins.

New Channel 5 documentary on Stonehenge (cos we were short of them) airs Tuesday 9pm. Let's see if my interview makes the final edit: www.televisual.com/news/5-to-ai...

Very much the same as an academic here keeping many plates spinning. Just that most employment contracts (at least here) stipulate the working hours, even if (in my case) they're 'unlimited'.

Do you have set working hours in your contract?

Realistically this means I get about a week at Christmas and a few weeks in the summer when I can actually try to do research.

I would probably watch a show that had that kind of realistic commentary

Just updating Friday's lecture on 'Archaeology and heritage: who benefits?' to include the current consultation on NPPF and last year's Trowel and Error PUNS report. Don't say we don't keep our students up-to-date!

Interesting. Mine is one of fascination, about how different cultures and societies view what forms respectful treatment of the dead.

In the seminar the students are asked to role play museum curators who have been asked by a particular community to rebury someone deceased who is currently on display (both are real examples). They get a set of information, ask questions, get more info based on those & then decide.

Whether or not to display human remains is an ethical dilemma that is entirely culturally specific. Sometimes it is an insult, sometimes the utmost respect. For me, for societies far removed from our own time/place, we cannot be sure of what display would have meant to them.

Great example to add to my ethics of the display of human remains seminar in a couple of weeks:

For some reason Bruges popped into my head before I realised where your photo was taken.

Piffle. You and your team discovered huge amounts about the date, sequence and construction of the hill. Plus it was an extraordinary engineering project, undertaken at considerable risk, to save an iconic monument.

Why a set of gold coins have divided British archaeologists In 2024 a detectorist found some gold coins in Suffolk. The discovery was declared legally treasure. If a museum wanted the coins, the finder would have been rewarded with a sum equivalent to their ma...

Here’s my take on that Suffolk coin hoard, thanks to all the commenters here on BlueSky!
spectator.com/article/why-...

[An Archaeologist’s Guide to British Species] #106: Cockle, Dog In 2026, I am continuing to blog an A-Z compendium of human interactions with species in the British landscape. A list of references for information used in this series can be found here. An index …

matthewlaw.wordpress.com/2026/02/21/a...

Schließung des Instituts für Archäologie an der HU-Berlin Die Archäologie gehört seit fast 200 Jahren zur wissenschaftlichen Tradition der Humboldt-Universität. Ihre Schließung bedeutet den Abbruch einer gewachsenen Forschungstradition und eine dauerhafte Sc...

The Institute for Archaeology at the Humboldt University of Berlin is threatened with closure and with it a two-century long tradition of archaeological research that shaped the entire discipline. Please sign the petition to oppose this plan: weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...

#medievalsky

🤣🤣 Stonehenge Archer might be a better comparison - overstepped his privilege, shot in the back, dumped in a ditch...

If you didn't watch these three figure skating last night, I recommend seeking out their routines and seeing their support for each other afterwards - amazing!

Archaeology folks, I'm looking for a georeferenced plot (geophys or otherwise) of the pit alignment at Warren Field, Aberdeenshire and am drawing a blank. "A Tale of the Unknown Unknowns" (Murray et al 2009, ISBN 978-1-84217-347-3) has a layout plan, but no coordinates so I can't GIS it.

Anyone?

Section perfection 🤩

There's this intense drip zone near some of the canopy edges. Like some of kind of game if you don't carefully watch the spatter patterns!

Nooo!! Honestly, I think if everyone was told 20 yrs ago that climate change would just be increasingly wet winters rather than just a little bit warmer people might have taken more action.

No idea if it'll do any good but more voices can't hurt.

Sorry Tess 😔 If it makes you feel any better I've been writing emails (prompted by @mattpope.bsky.social) this week to the big heritage/archaeology organisations about getting a taskforce going to address the issues you've been raising.

Brb I'm just suing my (previous, non-university) employer for making me work at home and under intense pressure for two years... 😲