Picture of Victorian geologist w text reading oh look another day where we celebrate an under represented group by asking them to do a bunch of work reminding us they have a legitimate reason to be. Elebrates
Happy no-longer-boycotting-#IWD -actively-protesting-it-day ;)
Shout out to everyone does this work anyway ❤️💪
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My ( @brennawalks.bsky.social ) talk, which was rather fabulously called ‘another dead lady : looking at women looking at women in archaeology ‘ has never been recorded or published, unless someone tells me different 😅
That piece of research by Colleen (why can’t I tag anyone??? ) is here middlesavagery.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
How do we lose the history of women in academia? Well, start by losing their citations to better networked groups…
This makes me think of the citation analyses of ‘who gets taught’ in archaeology that Colleen Morgan at York did (and I tried elsewhere)
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Article here the-past.com/feature/expa... (footnote ref to @trowelblazers.bsky.social)
Ah this looks like a great series; hybrid as well. www.bsa.ac.uk/events/women...
Including very helpful information on women lecturing on archaeology at the Institute that we used in @beyondnotables.bsky.social database!
I had no idea video of Margaret Murray existed! The one the only OG TrowelBlazer Witch 😍👑🙌 www.instagram.com/reel/DVRSsmZ...
This should be great. Send us a copy!!!! 😜
![Top left, portrait of Elizabeth Cobbold, her elbow on a table and her chin resting in her hand; bottom left, Nucula [now Acila] cobboldiae, a fossil bivalve illustrated by Sowerby; right, extracts from Sowerby's description of the species.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vcl75pfg74dsskrzvynq5rez/bafkreiceao6ik5mwz7gpwt32gdtsfmwvecn3qbdoyu4wuda5mqtvu4dpt4)
Top left, portrait of Elizabeth Cobbold, her elbow on a table and her chin resting in her hand; bottom left, Nucula [now Acila] cobboldiae, a fossil bivalve illustrated by Sowerby; right, extracts from Sowerby's description of the species.
11 February 1765, London: birth of Elizabeth Knipe, later Mrs Cobbold, poet, writer & pioneer fossil collector from the Plio-Pleistocene Red Crag Formation of Suffolk. From 1813 to 1824 she sent over 40 fossils to James Sowerby for his Mineral Conchology, one of which he named Nucula Cobboldiae.
Close up photograph of the bony plates of an ichthyosaur eye, a circle of buff-coloured bones in grey limestone.
#FossilFriday: Always worth keeping an eye out for this specimen if you visit @nhm-london.bsky.social, the ichthyosaur found at Lyme Regis by #MaryAnning and her brother in 1811–12, the first specimen to come to scientific attention, and its impressive ring of sclerotic plates.
marta with dyzio the feathered dilophosaurus from 1997
A protoceratops family from the museum of evolution
Muzeum Przyrody i Techniki w Starachowicach
It is International Day of Women in Science! For this ocassion, a thread on influential women that illustrate prehistoric life🧵
Marta Szubert. Creator of one of the first to-scale feathered dinosar models (1997). If you've been to Poland or Slovakia, you've probably seen her models on display.
And here's a video - Wild beaches! Cosy house! Gorgeous views! Ammonites galore! Gifts for #MaryAnning! The Cobb! Palaeontology-themed wine!
And here's a video - Wild beaches! Cosy house! Gorgeous views! Ammonites galore! Gifts for #MaryAnning! The Cobb! Palaeontology-themed wine!
Collage showing photos of MARY Anning statue, fireplace in Belmont, exterior of Belmont house with pink plaster and Coade stone, yellow observation tower with slate roof, stained glass memorial window for Mary Anning, giant icthyosaur skull in museum case, and a view of the Lyme River running down its narrow course between buildings.
Collage of 7 photos showing ammonites of various sizes in cobbles on the beach, in weather from cloudy to sunny.
Collage with photos of museum archives trip, including woman looking at exhibition display centred on Mary Anning; woman and man leaning over case with large fossil in; old album cover with handwritten label; inside a fossil ID book owned by Anning with crinoid image; two women looking at the album with pasted cuttings and written comments; three women in a room talking, behind them is the sea; close-ups of a page from the album showing old newspaper image of a fossil shop with a woman inside the door.
Well what a week at Belmont in Lyme Regis!
Thanks to Landmark Trust Futures, we had a fully in-person, extended AGM, with time to think through & plan our future.
We also kicked off our new project on women connected with #MaryAnning, inc museum archives 🗃️, & really got into the fossiling vibe 🐚!
As a Gates Cambridge Scholar, my MPhil & PhD research were supported by the Gates Cambridge Trust. This month they're featuring scholars' impact in archaeology, including my work in understanding adaptation to climate and environmental change in past societies. www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/g...
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This Victorian observatory tower was 👌 www.instagram.com/reel/DUadfGP...
Everyday is a Jurassic adventure on our epic Landmark Trust stay at Belmont House in Lyme Regis. Today: damn the tides, damn the busses; we’re going to Charmouth! (And meeting a fossil shop dog 😍)
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It’s all Very Serious here ;)
Incredibly grateful to Landmark Trust for the opportunity for all four of us to come together in iconic #TrowelBlazers territory, Mary Anning’s Lyme Regis, to reflect on the last 13 years and figure out the next ;)
Extremely excited to be down in Lyme for the first time (for me !). Utterly gorgeous house, and wonderful to have all four of us back together in one place - first time in over 6 years...
Photo of a large late 18th century house painted pink. It has decorative Coade stone detailing including urns on the roof. It's in a garden with tree, in which behind the house is a 19th century observation tower painted yellow with a slate roof.
Photo of interior of sitting room, a fireplace with fire burning in raised grate, above which is a decorative Coade stone mantel, with candlesticks on it, and a large oval mirror above. In front of the fire is a coffee table with a tea set on it.
Photo of the sitting room, with three women, two in armchairs by fire and one standing in front of a large wooden bookcase. The room is decorated in Regency style with paintings.
Photo from outside front of house, zoomed in looking past the decorative gates down towards Lyme bay, the sea is visible and beyond that large cliffs and hills. It's cloudy and misty.
We're down on the Jurassic Coast at Lyme Regis for a week of @trowelblazers.bsky.social work inc planning new writing project on #MaryAnning, and some epic fossiling - staying at the stunning late 18th-early 19th century Belmont House thanks to Landmark Trust Futures grant
Black and white inked plan of an Iron Age hillfort showing areas of excavation and roundhouse hollows
The Iron Age hillfort of Chalbury in #Dorset was investigated by archaeologist Margaret Whitley in 1939
Her report, with this excellent site plan, was published in the Antiquaries Journal (23) in 1943 🤩
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#HillfortsWednesday
My love of stone anchors is all down to my mini obsession with Honor Frost, the trowelblazer who pioneered underwater archaeology. If you don’t know her, then check out @gabemoshenska.bsky.social’s fabulous troweltoon
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Buckland wrote this despite understanding that women of his time, whether his wife Mary, or #MaryAnning whose work he benefitted from, were serious, skilled palaeontological fieldworkers & thinkers...
Here's the @trowelblazers.bsky.social article on Mary Buckland
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In preposterous gen- #AI news, a grokipedia (ugh) entry on us ENTIRELY INVENTS an inaugural TrowelBlazers meeting
"over drinks in a London pub in 2013".
This never happened (we only all met IRL years after forming) 🙄
plus, it makes up criticism of our work...
p.s. not giving it traffic by linking
Also three people wearing skirts in the trenches!
No sign of Mortimer Wheeler in this photo (maybe he took it himself?) but that’s almost certainly Tessa Verney Wheeler at the top right. #TrowelBlazers #archaeology
