Clare Burke

The complicated nature of genetics and human behaviour...🏺 #archaeology

New #jobs at @uni-kiel.de within the @clusterroots.bsky.social advertised: one doctoral & two postdoctoral positions. The postdoc positions are for any projects relating to archaeological science and are explicitely looking for for applicants from Africa and Asia: www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-r...

Absolutely beautiful

Stunning! 🏺 #art #archaeology #prehistory

Close up of a rim sherd of grey prehistoric pottery with a wavy line decoration, held in the hand of an archaeologist

For #FindsFriday, a decorated sherd of Iron Age pottery found in the upper fill of a chalk-cut storage pit in a banjo enclosure at Winterborne Kingston #Dorset

Photographed at the moment of discovery in June 2022

What will we find when #Durotriges26 starts later in the year?

Summer is coming...

Super interesting work 👏 👏👏 #archaeology #vikings 🏺

Testing Clay Bodies for Tea — The Road Less Travelled Chinese machine-made pot (left); Vietnamese handmade teapot (right)

Testing Clay Bodies for Tea

Side by side comparison of the taste of tea in different clay teapots. It is clear that unglazed clay has an impact on flavour, colour and aroma. My personal results.

#tea #pottery #clay

www.debborahdonnelly.ca/blog/testing...

Isotopes reveal how social status shaped diet in medieval England Isotope analysis reveals that social status and wealth had a profound impact on diet in medieval England, showing that people from different social groups in medieval Cambridge ate markedly different food.

Isotope analysis of medieval Cambridge skeletons indicates that social status strongly influenced diet, with wealthier individuals consuming more animal protein than poorer townspeople.

Archaeological finds push Castlegate scheme £8m over budget Council is bidding for more funds to complete the public park and events space in Sheffield city centre.

Terribly misleading headline. I suspect the cost is more to do with "Technical challenges in uncovering the River Sheaf have been the other main reason for the programme extensions and cost increases"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🏺 #archaeology

Poster for new exhibition on Anglo-Saxon Saxon finds. Image of gold brooch

New exhibition opening tomorrow curated by @uonclassarch.bsky.social Prof. Chris Loveluck and Ann Inscker from Nottingham Museums and Galleries. Free entry www.lakesidearts.org.uk/exhibition/t... 🖼🏺🧪 #archaeology #history #Nottingham

hesitating between buttons meme; one says, "start on to do list", other says, "sit here frozen in anxiety staring at to do list"

Advert for lecturer in Claasical Studies

JOB! www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... 🏺 #archaeology #classics

Ancestry, admixture, and pathogens in contemporaneous Neolithic farmers and foragers on the Island of Gotland Two archaeological cultural complexes coexisted on Gotland for over 500 years, between ~3300 and 2800 calBCE, i.e. the Neolithic Funnelbeaker culture (FBC), and the Pitted ware culture (PWC). The ance...

Oh, look! My friends around Magdalena Fraser & Federico Sanchez-Quinto et al have a new study analyzing more high-coverage Neolithic #aDNA genomes from the Baltic island of Gotland (including pathogens!!!) 👀 🧪 🏺

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

😳 every time I think things can't decline further theres a new rock bottom.

Study Group for Roman Pottery The Study Group for Roman Pottery (SGRP) was formed in 1971 to further the study of pottery of the Roman period in Britain. The group is a registered charity (no. 1185560) that provides a forum for th...

If you didn't make it to the SGRP 2025 Conference in Gloucester earlier this year, or maybe you did but want to watch the talks again, then check out our YouTube channel! 🏺🎥👩‍💼

www.youtube.com/@studygroupf...

An image with a book cover on the left, showing rows of jars of dirt. The book title is in yellow, and reads 'Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning: Past and Present' Edited by Robert Spinelli and Robyn S. Lacy.

Friends, the book is out!! If you are interesed in #deathstudies from an interdisciplinary perspective, please consider checking it out:
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Spinel...

ALSO we have a 50% off discount code! Use SPIN2909 for 50% off the print version of the book, til Jan 31st! Yay! 🏺

The picture shows six needles of different sizes. They were made of bone resemble their modern descendants with an eye at one end and a tapered end.

Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2

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Person smiling whilst taking part in a workshop

Person with glasses creating a collage

New landmark research out today: We've just launched Trowel and Error, the most in-depth look in 25 years at how audiences want to engage with archaeology. The findings are clear: people want human, accessible, story-led archaeology.

Read the report here 👉 www.archaeologyuk.org/our-work/tro...

Photo of terracotta tile with imprint of a boot

My favourite of course was the Roman tile with a boot imprint...I can hear the potter cursing 2000 years later 🤣
#archaeology #Nottingham #Romans

Photo of glass cases containing Archaeological pottery

Photo of a metal dodecahedron

Had a fabulous time talking and making plans with colleagues at the University of Nottinghams museum... well worth a visit if only to see the mysterious Norton Disney dodecahedron! nortondisneyhag.org?page_id=2406 #archaeology #Nottingham

Poster for a free webinar - the Joan Pye annual lecture to be presented by Alex Mullen. November 26th, 7pm. Hosted by Cotswold archaeology and the Roman Research Trust. The image is of lots of people in togas in a market place.

Don’t miss Prof Alex Mullen’s free webinar on November 26th at 7pm!

She’ll be presenting the Joan Pye lecture on ‘Tales from the Tablets: recovering the voices of Roman Britain’.

#archaeology #classics #roman 🏺

Book your tickets here: tinyurl.com/Romanvoices

Its very interesting!

Peterborough Museum gets £250k for Bronze Age project The two-year initiative will explore the discoveries made at Must Farm in Whittlesey.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🏺🧪 #archaeology #Prehistory

Read more about the #Roman dodecahedron currently on display at the University of Nottingham Museum of Archaeology 🏺

A photograph of pink cloudy sky with trees and buildings

Stunning scenes as I left the office today!

#nottingham #archaeology #pinksky

A job advert for a digital curator/archaeologist at the American school of classical studies corinth

Job! 🏺🏛

#archaeology #Greece

"Archaeologists were able to make out a date but not the year, and part of the man’s name—Bassus—from the etching"

Job! 🧪🏺 #archaeology

Image of graffiti scratched on a wall at Pompeii

Love a bit of graffiti, this one from Pompeii from a fairly bored client archaeology.org/news/2025/09... 🏺🧪 #archaeology #pompeii