Dr Rachel Pope

Sadly, just as Hitler did.

Rape cases should not be resolved by jury but by experts.

Who sends a spreadsheet of 160 students in first name, last name format. Is it 1995.

The logical Beaker week

Just gave ‘not my best lecture’ on the very same 🤓

How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.

Beakers.

Make your contribution to #IWD be asking your employer what they’re doing to ensure a level playing field for mothers and WOC archaeologists.

What inspires me? More than 10 weeks bloody paid maternity leave, equal promotion, action on harassment.

Glad that another deeply patronising ‘here’s some images of women colleagues’ day is over.

My Long Covid kidney damage (caused by long-term hypoxia in 2020/21, critically with no medical care around it) now seems to be permanent, not acute. #DayOfReflection

Waterbirds, mustelids and bast fibres – evidence of soft organic materials in the Late Mesolithic Skateholm I and II cemeteries, Sweden - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences - Skateholm I and II cemeteries form the core of a notable Late Mesolithic activity area located in southern Sweden on the coast of the Baltic Sea. The...

A fabulous paper - fur, feathers and fibres from the Mesolithic. A reminder of why good sampling, excavation records and archives of more that just artefacts really matter.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Foundational to an evolved mind that doesn’t only think of the self.

Just a quick ‘bring back Shaun Keaveney’

What on earth is this then? A bundle of reeds suspended from the roof of an 18th century Lincolnshire house. An uncommon sight but we have testimony from a former landowner to explain it. To find out more, join me on 2 April for The Folklore of Ancient Buildings:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-folklo...

Remember, Musk is a genius.

Like clockwork.

‘A restless intellect’: Florence Dixie (1855–1905) - The Bottle Imp R.N.: ‘Lady Florence was an extensive traveller […] explored unknown parts of Patagonia, and […] afterwards wrote a book […] Lady Florence was engaged by the Morning Post as their special corresponden...

“Florence Dixie (1855-1905) was an extraordinarily active writer and campaigner, novelist, dramatist and pioneering war correspondent. Invariably controversial, she wrote about women’s rights and was outspoken in support for Irish and Scottish home rule.” www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2021/12/a-re...

Fem student with a lime green mohican. Yes.

Young Woman Being Harassed by a Man

This is Judith Leyster's amazing 1631 painting ‘Young Woman Being Harassed by a Man’.

She was well known in her day but SURPRISE! her works were later misattributed either to Frans Hals, her local contemporary, or her husband, Jan Miense Molenaer.
www.thetimes.com/article/f41d...

The finder kept one coin, the landowner kept another. At auction, two coins went to an anonymous buyer in the USA, one to Switzerland and the destinations of the rest are unknown.

#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺

If it’s true that the United States bombed an elementary school and killed scores of children it is an unfathomable crime. I have never been more disgusted to be an American.

Left can't resist being on wrong side of a war Whether it's Jeremy Corbyn or Zack Polanski, their foreign policy stances terrify voters outside core supporters

Well, here’s the thing about being antiwar as an ethical belief: it means you end up opposing most wars. Almost all of them, in fact. This is quite common in people who have consistent beliefs but looks insane to people who have none, or mostly just believe superior people should make the decisions.

"Air raids are not only wrong. They are loathsome and disgusting. If you had ever seen a child smashed by a bomb into something like a mixture of dirty rags and cat’s meat you would realize this fact as intensely as I do." - J.B.S. Haldane, 1938.

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Trial by jury for sexual assault is anti-justice.

Bright red sun. The ancients aren’t happy.

Who created this whole mess

US strikes on Iran ‘outside international law,’ says Macron Macron joins Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez in calling the legality of the strikes into question.

After four days of hesitating, the president of France has joined the prime minister of Spain in saying that the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran is a violation of international law.

But they are still the only 2 EU leaders to have done so. Will others join?

It’s not his party.