Clare Burke

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How were ochre pigments sourced and used in prehistory? 🏺

Check out our review of 'The usage of ochre at the verge of Neolithisation from the Near East to the Carpathian Basin' in our #NewBookChronicle on the 'Scientific search for a colourful past'

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🚨DEADLINE ON FRIDAY!🚨 Do you do art-related archaeological research? Are you itching to discuss how we identify individual artists in the past, or the agency art had in societies? Then make sure to get your abstracts in for @tag2025york.bsky.social! You can send them to me at: izzywisher@cas.au.dk 🏺

Venus and Cupid by Shane A. Johnstone. Venus and Cupid Arts Trust, Morecambe. © Historic England Archive, Alun Bull

🎉 The Festival of Archaeology 2025 is here!🏺
To celebrate the role of open knowledge in wellbeing, we’re highlighting a selection of projects that showcase how archaeology can support personal and community wellbeing in diverse and meaningful ways.

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4,000-year-old Ancient Egyptian handprint discovered by Cambridge museum Researchers at the Fitzwilliam Museum, UK, found the marking on an artefact due to go on display in an exhibition this autumn

I love finding finger prints in ceramics www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/27/a... #archaeology 🏺

Pristine Etruscan tomb discovered in Italy contains more than 100 untouched artifacts Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a rare 2,600-year-old Etruscan tomb that somehow escaped looters over the centuries.

'A rare find for Etruscan archaeology': Archaeologists discover sealed, untouched tomb in central Italy | Live Science
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Millet Mystery Unveils Complex Ancient Japanese Farming New research into ancient Japanese rice farming suggests that significant technological development does not always mean 'abandonment' of cultural

Press article summary here outlining the key points (Spoiler: people don't suddenly stop what they've been doing when they take up farming) www.miragenews.com/millet-myste... 🏺 #archaeology

Lipid residue analysis reveals divergent culinary practices in Japan and Korea at the dawn of intensive agriculture | PNAS The dispersal of millet and rice agriculture from Korea to Japan from around 3,000 y ago has been well documented through radiocarbon analysis of b...

Congrats to the team on this! Lipid residue analysis reveals divergent culinary practices in Japan and Korea at the dawn of intensive agriculture | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🏺 #archaeology #Neolithic

Banner with an image of archaeologists wearing orange hi-vis clothing answering questions. The CBA Festival of Archaeology and Antiquity logos sit on the bottom, next to the text '#Ask An Archaeologist Day. 25 July 2025. Got a question?'

#AskAnArchaeologist Day is on Bluesky this year! 🏺

Get your questions ready for this Friday, when tons of archaeologists will be on hand to answer your #archaeology queries.

@archaeologyuk.bsky.social

Lake Ohrid is a very special place with important and exciting archaeology on both the Albanian and Macedonian sides #archaeology #neolithic 🏺

Looks really interesting! Sadly the shipping to the UK looks too painful 😒

A group of ducklings sitting on a green lawn in the sun. A tree in in the background standing in front of a stone covered walkway with windows.

The ducklings at work today. Kings Manor, York 😍

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#archaeology #York #ducklings

Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Assistant Professor in Roman History The Department of Classics and Archaeology seeks to appoint an Assistant Professor in Roman History from 1 September 2025 (or as soon as possible thereafter).We are delighted to offer this exciting op...

📢JOB!📢 Assistant Professor in Roman History jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
🏺 #archaeology #classics #Romans

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Northumberland Roman Fort mystery over large shoes Eight of the Roman shoes are at least 30cm (11.8in) long - the equivalent of a UK size 13 to 14.

You know what they say about big shoes...yes that's right they leave Archaeologists 'baffled'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🏺🧪 #archaeology #Roman #baffled

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I like Elbow but it was the trumpet check that did it for me 🙉

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A few days ago, the closing slab of an untouched Etruscan tomb was removed by archaeologists in the necropolis of San Giuliano (Barbarano Romano, Lazio). The burial chamber is from the 7th century BC.

Can you imagine the emotion entering this tomb, untouched for 2600 years ?

#PaleoSky #TombTuesay🏺

A women wearing glasses, clear goggles, a white lab coat, a white ventilation mask over her nose and mouth, and blue nitrile lab gloves. Her fingers are giving the peace sign.

The frazzled lab look: drilling samples in 30 degrees wearing full PPE 😅
#inthelab #hottestday #archaeology 🏺🧪👩‍🔬

Photo of a mosaic comprised of a large circle with stripes fanning outwards from its center.

This beautiful moasic on display in Zadar Archaeological museum. Happy #mosaicmonday

Men traded wares – but women traded knowledge: what a new archeological study tells us about PNG sea trade Archaeologists once assumed that men were responsible for seafaring trade in Papua New Guinea. New research shows how women played a fundamental role.

Delighted to share our #archaeology 🏺 research in @theconvo-bot.bsky.social

Men traded wares – but women traded knowledge: what a new archeological study tells us about PNG sea trade

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Ooooo what a super topic, im excited for this!

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Thanks, everyone seems great I'm really looking forward to working with them

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