Dr Matt Pope “It can’t be?!”
“What did you do Raymond?”
“Oh shit!”
“It’s Fred the Homepride man”

At the British Museum for the second day of the Palaeolithic Mesolithic Meeting 2024. It is just so good to be here in person with everyone. We've missed this.

Dr Matt Pope If there is something peculiar in your manorial estate....

Dr Matt Pope One does so enjoy busting phantasms..

Dr Rob O'Toole (powered by Kate Bush & Lavazza) Dr Matt Pope Homepride Fred as the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.

Euston Fire Station. Slightly gothic feel, great early-20th century typeface. If you were scouting for a location for a British Ghostbusters film, this wouldn't be a bad place to start. 'To whom would one place a call?'

The tip of what would have been a very elegant and symmetrical Moustetian scraper. Made over 50,000 years ago in a stunning red jasper. Lost or discarded in the cave of La Cotte de St Brelade, where a hearth fire consumed and fractured the tool.
#FindsFriday #IceAgeIsland

The reason why there was an open letter - because the whole discussion around the rights and wrongs of the tunnel (... and the archaeology) is skewed...

#Stonehenge #Archaeology

John Adams, chair of Stonehenge Alliance: 'If Stonehenge were to be delisted [by Unesco as a World Heritage Site] it would be an international embarrassment'
No it wouldn't, it'd be an indication that Unesco had lost its way. This article is misleading 1/2
bbc.com/travel/article…

It's today! Looking forward to seeing lots of early prehistoric colleagues at the first Pal-Mes meeting since the pandemic.

Malak Amer, a ten-year-old girl from northern Gaza who was injured by Israeli bombardment at the beginning of the war, is seeking treatment and reconstructive surgery abroad.

And no article revisions have appeared in the ten months since initial publication. researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-africa…

Thinking about the Middle Palaeolithic

Day 8 Castlepook cave 2024 excavations - Piper from LJMU Biological & Environmental Sciences doing the registry this morning of all our finds thus far. Warmer today and dry so far and calm, plenty of midges out! Others gone into the team in search of more ice age #IrishCaveBones !

The UCL Institute of Archaeology has been ranked 3rd in the world in the QS World University Rankings by Subject for 2024.

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I'm looking forward to seeing lots of Palaeo & Meso folks at the British Museum tomorrow and Friday for two days of amazing-sounding talks!

🌤️For April’s challenge of ‘nature’ we found this photograph taken during a LSS visit to sunny Boxgrove in Sussex in 1985.

Outdoor activities have been a key part of the LSS and we continue to hold events outside when we can (weather dependent!)

#EYANature #Boxgrove

Congratulations to our friends in Armorique 🇫🇷
on becoming a UNESCO Global Geopark!

Daily News review of ‘Downland Pathways’ 100 years ago: “Mr Allcroft writes like a master of the subject… who has little patience with those who are less so. The pose is not unuseful to the reader for it teaches him a scepticism towards all archaeologists… #HillfortsWednesday

The Verne – the story of a lost (and largely forgotten) Iron Age #hillfort in #Dorset , southern England

🛰 NASA / public domain
📷 April 2024
🎨 © J Rendell and J Goode 1857

A short thread for #HillfortsWednesday 1/7 👇👇