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Looking forward to singing this wonderful music at Buckfast Abbey tomorrow evening.
Enjoyable afternoon singing Fauré’s Requiem at Tavistock Catholic Church.
Pleasant day trip to Exeter, with a browse in the University library and a visit to RAMM.
Donald Trump’s new State Department appointee.
We have just opened recruitment for the REF 2029 panels. There is no nomination process and we invite you to put yourself forward 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/ref-202...
The Ancient Greek noun ἰατρός 'healer' (as in English words like 'psychiatry') and the prefix ἀρχι- 'first' (as in 'archbishop') combined to form ἀρχιατρός, an official role of 'first physician'.
Put ἀρχιατρός through a few centuries of sound changes, and you get the German word for 'doctor', Arzt.
Map showing the location of Charterhouse Warren, Mendip, Somerset.
NEW Analysis of over 3000 human bones from Charterhouse Warren, England, indicates they were massacred, butchered, and likely partly consumed by enemies as a means to dehumanise them, questioning the idea that Early Bronze Age Britain was peaceful.
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Far from triumphantly breezing out of Africa, modern humans went extinct many times before going on to populate the world, new studies have revealed www.bbc.com/news/article...
#newscientistbandnames
Importing the archive:
The New Scientist is the only source of band names you’ll ever need.
#newscientistbandnames
Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
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Close-up image of a preserved, burnt textile fragment, highlighting the weave.
NEW Analysis of two surviving textile fragments from Bronze Age Beycesultan Höyük, Anatolia, finds they were made with unique techniques and dyed blue, providing a rare example of the textile industry and luxury fabrics in ancient Türkiye.
A stylish #AntiquityThread 1/14 🧵
Gorgeous!
Visible but anonymous, with the sun behind us.
Close-up inspection of Silbury Hill with fellow Oxford MSc students, seven years ago.
CAT ADVISORY: With temperatures remaining uncomfortably low and #StormBert on its way it's important that you find the warmest spot in the house and stay there. Tell your humans to keep the second warmest spot free in case you want a change of scenery.
The classic image of Colin Renfew. With trademark glasses and gentle smile.
Many of you will have heard of the sudden and sad loss of one of the foundation pillars of archaeology today. So much of our Heritage landscape was shaped by him. So let's take a moment to remember him, and what his legacy is.
Colin Renfrew . 25th July 1937 - 24th Nov 2024
⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed.
If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.
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I still treasure the handaxe I made at one of your workshops a few years ago.
Finally tried out my Roman oil lamp, repro of a find from mid 1stC London, beneath Borough High Street in Southwark. Original was in MoL. Has a beautiful hobnailed sole🤩. Olive oil, bright light with little smell or smoke. I write about the original find in #Echolands
After walking through a mini-blizzard to my singing lesson this morning, it was a rather lovely afternoon in Plymouth.
The copyright statement from Ephemeral City which reads in part: No part of this book may be used as data for ‘training’ any large language model or as part of any machine learning or neural network architeture. Human creaivity cannot be replicated by doing maths with stolen art. Altman, Andressen, and all their cronies can get fucked. Enquires should be made to the publisher.
Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement?
Me: Definitely. How specific can we get?
Publisher: As specific as you like.
So I’m going to start doing Old English Word of the Day posts on this platform very soon! Stay tuned…
A bright, confident Robin stands atop a log, its chest puffed out in full display of its orange-red breast. The bird tilts its head slightly upwards, as if preparing to take on the world with determination. Its slender legs are planted firmly, giving it the appearance of striking a victorious power pose. The surrounding mossy log and blurred green background provide a natural stage, emphasising the robin’s bold stance.
Strike a power pose, it's Monday.
#MondayMotivation
Weird #Archeaology.
The island of Samsø, Denmark, is home to a holy spring, that has been in use since the 12th century. This freshwater spring is located at the beach at Ilsemade.
Here's the weird bit: The tree trunk, the water is appearing from is C14-dated to the Bronze Age.
Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.
University of Plymouth Choral Society Christmas concert - all welcome!
Love this. ‘Queue’ is from the French word with the same spelling (but pronounced as ‘kuh’) meaning an animal’s long tail.
In the 18th and 19th centuries it also referred to a pigtail and was sometimes spelled as ‘cue’, which gave us the name of the long thin rod used in snooker.
