Prehistoric archaeologist and hunter-gatherer of interestingness ๐น๐พ | Sharing my love of all things ancient ๐บ๐๏ธ | PhD student at Cambridge studying the Neanderthals of Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan
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Oscar Lozada
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The 16th century door of the village pump house at Walsingham in Norfolk. ๐ธ My own. #AdoorableThursday #Walsingham #Norfolk
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#UnholyHistories is the top 'activism' podcast of the month on @goodpods.bsky.social ๐
Amazing news, and welcome to thousands of new listeners. This week, we explore ancient Greek and Roman atheism. Available now on all major platforms.
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Wooden remains of a later prehistoric trackway at Lisheen, Ireland, damaged during industrial peat extraction.
Peatlands preserve organic archaeological remains but face many threats. We need to act now to save this fragile heritage.
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Cleaning two Iron Age roundhouse gulleys in Trench S at #Durotriges26 as rhe rain, hail and thunder diverts to the north...
...for the moment at least ๐งโ๏ธ
#Archaeology
The outer defences of Barbury Castle in Wiltshire, still remarkably well preserved on this northern side
#HillfortsWednesday
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#archaeology #photooftheday
This is HUGE! Blasphemy laws still exist in Northern Ireland, but (hopefully!) not for long. If the Bill passes, it would mean humanists will have successful abolished blasphemy as a crime throughout the whole of the UK. Huge win for free speech. Read more on our website
humanists.uk/2026/06/09/s...
A #TombTuesday from #PrideMonth! ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
The view after the rains from Cuween chambered tomb (the mound to the left), a 5000 year old Neolithic tomb in Orkney, Scotland
๐ธ Mine
#archaeology #pride #photooftheday ๐บ
What is that, lurking in the forest?!
Giving serious folk horror vibes, this is the weird carved stone known as 'Le Babouin' (the Baboon) in the woods near Trรฉdion in Brittany.
No-one knows who made it, or when, or indeed why.
#StandingStoneSunday
For #StandingStoneSunday #Stunday... Three of the cross pillars at Reask monastic site, Dingle, Kerry, Ireland
Image: 2018
#IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #EarlyChristian #Photography #Infrared #Black&White #Monochrome #PhotographersOfBluesky #Art #BlueSky #BlueSkyArt #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono
This is the Plain of Jars in Laos. It features hundreds of stone urns containing human remains #AncientSiteSunday
Often seen as one of Southeast Asia's most mysterious ancient landscapes, new research proposes how it was used for ancestral rituals.
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Today, Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) voted 57 to 24 in favour of repealing blasphemy laws in Northern Ireland. Alliance MLA Connie Egan tabled the amendment to the Justice Bill, which is ...