🚨🧵on Venezuela

While the final US military operation last weekend might have been under cover of darkness, the build-up to it was out in the open for all to see.

I've constructed some timelines of the immediate build-up covering both the strikes and the supporting actions...

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John-Henry Phillips on X: "Our new documentary on the archaeology and historic human rights abuses of Romany Gypsies is out now! You can watch it here: https://t.co/BBwvgxSZSy The culmination of five years of hard graft, dogged determination and the help of many friends. E Enjoy and please spread far!" / X Our new documentary on the archaeology and historic human rights abuses of Romany Gypsies is out now! You can watch it here: https://t.co/BBwvgxSZSy The culmination of five years of hard graft, dogged determination and the help of many friends. E Enjoy and please spread far!

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I've just launched by first Crowdfunder campaign to acquire an Iron Age Hoard for Oxfordshire Museums Service. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-.... Please support us by donating and/or sharing the link. Thank you @justrena.bsky.social for all your help thus far.

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Thank you @durotrigesdig.bsky.social for having me. The site is amazing, the students, staff and other volunteers are a joy to work with. Will miss my weekly fix very much. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Love you Nance

Two archaeologists in hi vis vests stand before a circular gulley, probably the outer wall of a roundhouse. Behind, a third archaeologist waves

At the SE edge of the #Durotriges25 trench, Amanda and Steve seem to have found a roundhouse !!

They are happy (as is Holly) 😊

Buckets for feet ? How could I not be

Archaeologists excavating sections across a v shaped Prehistoric ditch

Archaeologists excavating sections across a v shaped Prehistoric ditch

Life's a ditch

A lovely Early Iron Age ditch

#Durotriges25

My favourite lecturer ❤️

Rain stops play #Durotriges25

7 hours of research for 100 words ✅
Frozen neck and shoulder ✅
Word salad insomnia ✅
Someone give me a fieldwork job

Good luck brrrrr!

Colchester Vase/cup/urn/memorabilia?

Still haven’t got around to watching number 2 so here’s an OG for #FindsFriday

A mosaic of three naked cupids playing on the left, with plant fronds in their hands and shadows stretching out to the left. On the right Venus reclines mostly nude on a rock with arm outstretched towards them

#MosaicMonday 3 cupids playing as Venus watches, 2nd Century AD from Utica, Tunisia, now in the Bardo Museum

Curiously it uses very large and very few tesserae, so appears almost 'pixellated'. It's also an uncommon example of its subjects casting shadows

📸Roberto Piperno 🏺 #archaeology #arthistory

Apparently you get married here if anyone is offering #MosaicMonday

If you’re surprised and upset by this news, let us know:

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In the final episode of the latest Digging for Britain series, I visited John Henry Phillips as he led excavations at a 1960’s-70s ‘Gipsy Rehabilitation Centre’ in the New Forest. An exhibition linked to the dig will opens this Friday:
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Okay. I’ve written 800 words for @theconversation.com on why archaeologists aren’t shocked or baffled by the evidence for matrilineal descent in Late Iron Age Dorset.

Also HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Sort of 10 mins from Maiden Castle is Grey Mare & Her Colts because Neolithic . There is a small parking bit and it’s not too far a walk

Oooo where are you going next ? Can recommend Wiltshire Museum Devizes which totally isn’t in Dorset I’m told .

I see Tony fucking Blair is at it again, then; with his now characteristically lenient grip on reality

A large conch shell with flint stones in a museums display

A #Neolithic conch shell horn (charonia nodifera) found in Ösel, Lower Saxony, dating 5300-4900 BC - the oldest known musical instrument in this region. It's an evidence of early contacts with the Mediterranean region.
The shell was found filled with flint tools in a settlement pit.

🏺 #archaeology

You too Dan :)

Hands and knees ! Squeezed in Avebury on the ‘way home’

Happy New Year Tomb Fans #TombTuesday

Part of a 3rd century AD Roman mosaic floor from London depicting the god Bacchus reclining on the back of a tiger

Bacchus, the #Roman god of wine, having had a drink or 10 (and naked apart from socks and a cloak) gets a lift home on a tiger

Discovered in Leadenhall Street #London in 1803, this central panel of a 3rd century mosaic was given to the British Museum in 1880

📷 March 2022

Happy #MosaicMonday!

To be fair I rarely make sense. So maybe bewilderment is more accurate 😬

#StandingStoneSunday
Aikey brae