With Scotland v Morocco coming up, here is an 11th-century connection. About the time the Almoravid ruler Yusuf ibn Tashfin cofounded Marrakesh, the Scottish king Máel Coluim III founded a monastery at Monymusk. And there, in modern times, a gold dinar from Marrakesh, minted c.1097, has been found!
Bigger and better than ever - the Annual Day of the Picts at Burghead will be on the 22nd of August this year. Get it in your diaries!
Did you miss my talk for Archaeology Scotland on the risks that affect rock art?
Fear not! Now you can catch up and watch it in your own time. Link below!
Oof! This pulls no punches. Recommended read.
Ben Potts
Starting now: Introducing the Heritage Now! Campaign with @climateheritage.bsky.social and @savingplaces.bsky.social ❤️
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New Drystone Diary: Whose History Is Worth Knowing? From Great Zimbabwe to Sacsayhuamán to the famine walls of the Scottish Highlands. Who gets recognised and who gets erased is still a story told by the same people about the same people.
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Anthropological research on subsistence is offered in the dangerous and authoritarian “report” on the humanities as a key example of supposed ideological weakening of scholarship. This critique begins to show how the key example cited actually proves the opposite. Let’s go into it in some depth 1/
#OtD 18 June 2017, a new sculpture in Midleton, Ireland, was dedicated to the Native American Choctaw nation, in recognition of support from the Choctaw people during the great famine in 1847. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9014...
Just saw Time and Water, an excellent and sobering documentary about time, glaciers, family and memory. Currently screening at Edinburgh Filmhouse (@Filmhouseedinburgh.bluesky.social). Next, read the book that inspired it! timeandwaterfilm.com
From Great Zimbabwe to Sacsayhuamán to the famine walls of the Scottish Highlands, this week's Drystone Diary explores the global craft that built some of the world's most extraordinary structures.
Renowned Icelandic poet and author, Andri Snær Magnason, is chasing something elusive. As the glacial ice of his homeland melts, he constructs a cinematic time capsule to hold onto this moment and sen...
