My first job was as an usher in that odeon. Shocked to see and hear the building still stands empty.
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My first job was as an usher in that odeon. Shocked to see and hear the building still stands empty.
This is like that quote in an article about the property market in London from an estate agent whose surname was Jackson-Stops.
More Breaking Palaeo-news!
🐘 Boxgrove preserved oldest Elephant Bone beyond Africa.
🐘 Early Neanderthals using bone to shape beautiful tools.
🐘 New research from Simon Parfitt @uclarchaeology.bsky.social Silvia Bello of the @nhm-london.bsky.social.
🦣🏺🐘https://share.google/20WUjY5TybDAr4QoT
The Boxgrove archaeological site from the 1990s when the elephant bone tool was excavated. Credit: Boxgrove Project, UCL
An archaeologist excavates the Boxgrove archaeological site in the 1990s, when the elephant bone tool was excavated. The site yielded numerous handaxes and other flint tools as well as butchered animal bones, offering insight into the life of the human ancestors that lived there. Credit: Boxgrove Project, UCL
A closeup of the elephant bone tool’s striking surface, showing the marks of it being struck against flint tools. Credit: NHM Photo Unit
Photo of Simon Parfitt on a hill at Butser Ancient Farm, sept 2025. Credit: © Joseph Seresin Credits
‘This remarkable find reminds us that innovation didn’t begin with modern humans – earlier humans were already expert problem-solvers half a million years ago’
Simon Parfitt @ucl.ac.uk @nhm.org
📸 1 & 2 Boxgrove Project UCL
📸 3 NHM Photo Unit
📸 4 © Joseph Seresin Credits
Following up a reference to mysterious 'Prince Cimitilli' who attended a mummy unwrapping in London in 1833. He was Fabio Albertini, briefly ambassador of the short-lived Neapolitan constitutional government, and after its collapse an exile in London. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabio_A...
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The entire cast of the iconic Sergeant Pepper album cover, standing in Fishbourne Roman Palace's hypocaust.
@durotrigesdig.bsky.social is going to be gutted when he realizes he missed out on this.
#Hypocaustgate
Poster for the talk with the speaker and the title. The photo shows a skeleton being excavated at the bottom of a cylindrical pit.
This Friday (16/01/26) Miles Russell will be giving a talk entitled "The Durotriges Project: Life and death in Late Iron Age and Early Roman Dorset". The talk is sponsored by @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social. 7.45pm, United Reformed Church hall, Welwyn Garden City. All welcome (visitors £3).
Love this picture! An absolutely brilliant team of students, colleagues, friends and hounds.
My 15th and final ArchaeoTech and it was an absolute stunner…
Long may you experiment you bloom’in heroes! @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @butserancientfarm.co.uk
An image of one of the UCL buildings in winter 2024. The pink neon sign reads 'Happy Holiday Season' Photo by Charlotte Frearson UCL IoA
We would like to wish all our @ucl.ac.uk Institute of Archaeology (IoA) & @archsoutheast.bsky.social Archaeology South-East (ASE) friends & colleagues, past & current staff & students, Season’s Greetings & all best wishes for 2026 🎉
🎁 bit.ly/UCLIoAASE25 2025 UCL IoA Newsletter!
#LocalAndGlobal
#VoteKris
Photo of Prof David Wengrow in a grey suit sitting in an office with a book case behind him. He is looking away from the camera. Photo credit - jamieson_nyt
Prof David Wengrow @ucl.ac.uk Institute of #Archaeology has been awarded the prestigious J. I. Staley Prize for #Anthropological Excellence this year by @sarsf.bsky.social School of Advanced Research
Read More
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@davidwengrow.bsky.social
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Jeremy Deller on the Stone Club podcast stoneclub.rocks/podcast
🚨 Virtual Open Event tomorrow, Wed 12th Nov, 8-10am UK time.
📲 Register here - ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Check out the following video if you are keen to find out about some of the career destinations for our alum:
Careers with a degree in Archaeology youtu.be/Xr-eF_ncfeY?...
🏺$1 million is not even pennies to Musk yet it's netted him valuable PR.
Taking money from any source with extremely problematic ethical approaches that include promoting scientific & historical misinformation should be something archaeological organisations avoid.
Students and staff from the UCL Institute of Archaeology in a trench in Greenwich Park summer 2024. Most people are in yellow hi vis vest. You can see the London skyline in the distance. It is a sunny and cloudy day.
📜Fascinated by the #past?
🎓Yes to #Archaeology @ University!
🚨Join us for 1 of our Virtual #OpenDays
1. Wed 12 Nov 8 - 10am
2. Thurs 20 Nov 2-4pm
3. Wed 26 Nov 6-8pm
Meet current staff & students online (zoom) to find out more about our degree programmes!
📩 Charlotte c.frearson@ucl.ac.uk
It’s #InternationalArchaeologyDay and we’re celebrating #experimentalarchaeology and the wonderful collaborations we have @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @durhamuniversity.bsky.social @cam-archaeology.bsky.social @romanpalace.bsky.social
Photo by Joseph Seresin of a staff member metal working at Butser Ancient Farm
Photo by Joseph Seresin of staff members metal working at Butser Ancient Farm
Photo by Joseph Seresin of a resident goat at Butser Ancient Farm
Photo by Joseph Seresin of sheep skull adorning a roundhouse at Butser Ancient Farm
Yesterday, for #ThrowbackThursday we looked at the 2025 ArchaeoTech course #ATech25 @butserancientfarm.co.uk with some brilliant and evocative photos from Joseph Seresin one of our new Archaeology Undergraduates who had this to say about the course [1/3]
#LocalAndGlobal
A group of happy archaeology students from UCL's Institute of Archaeology post in a trench in a grassy area. The text states that UCL Institute of Archaeology is one of the largest centres for archaeology, cultural heritage and museum studies in Britain, offering undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. image advertises University Archaeology Day on the 27th October 2025 where UCL will be represented. The QR code links to a website where you can book free tickets for in-person attendance at the British Academy in London OR for virtual attendance of the livestream.
Also represented at #UAD University Archaeology 2025 will be @uclarchaeology.bsky.social! Visit our Linktree to book your FREE tickets for in-person attendance @britishacademy.bsky.social or to sign-up to livestream our panel events!
I of course welcome the recognition of the state of Palestine.
And there won't be a Palestinian state left if government's continue enabling Israel's unfolding genocide.
Labour can't credibly support Palestinian statehood whilst also continuing to arm Israel.
Get your diaries at the ready! #SuffArch25 Open Day!
📅 Sat 12th July
🏺Alpheton, Suffolk address on poster
🕚11am🕑2pm🕓4pm Tours of the Site & Finds Talks from the #Archaeologists!
All info on the poster attached! #LocalAndGlobal
A. This made me laugh out loud in a lovely pub.
B. Now we are questioning how to pronounce Lesotho.
These three are the best!
Very almost nearly live updates from #SuffArch25
4 people stand in a field with cloudy skies overhead. They are all looking at the camera and 1 of them is holding a black bin liner.
A member of the dig team cleaning out the slip on site next to a row of portaloos. The sky is very cloudy.
A member of the dig team in a supermarket with a full trolley of food and kit. You can just see their head.
4 people stand around some boxes of kit looking for the instructions on how to build the tent structure.
Fieldwork has kicked off in the east angles…with this mighty team!
Some sneaky #BTS shots from the setup of #SuffArch25
A team of students in yellow hi vis vests stand in an open trench holding tools. The sky is cloudy and they are surrounded by fields.
Another team of students and staff stand in a trench in Suffolk. They are surrounded by crops.
A small group of students and staff stand in a huge open trench in the middle of a field. The sky is blue!
From the team who gave you #SuffArch23…
…and then #SuffArch24…
We now give you #SuffArch25!
Follow along on here & Instagram for all the updates from “Romans Unearthed: Suffolk’s Hidden Villas” read more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/...
Viene un tormenta
Isn’t he just!
Students and staff from the UCL Institute of Archaeology on the foreshore or beach of the Thames working at the bottom of a staircase. They are cleaning a former 17th century staircase. Behind them is the Thames and beyond that is the Tate Modern.
A group of Students pose by an open trench at the Greenwich Royal Park excavations 2025.
Four students post with surveying equipment on top of one of the sunken second world war bunkers in Elephant and Castle at the Rockingham Estate.
A group of students and members of the public stand at the view point in Greenwich Royal Park overlooking the Naval College and the Thames and City of London in the background.
We are absolutely delighted to announce the renewal of professional accreditation for all our undergraduate degrees from the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA) and Universities Archaeology UK (UAUK) for the next 5 years.
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#FieldworkFriday
There are SOOOOO MANY!!!