Ooh, new #DiggingForBritain incoming! #archaeology #BBC @BBCTaster https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014hl0d/broadcasts/upcoming
Tag Archives: archaeology
Croft and Jones are assisting police with their enquiries. #archaeology https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/20/italian-police-seize-etruscan-princesses-treasures-from-suspected-tomb-raiders
#Archaeology theories of C29th: Finger torc (missing terminals); cockroach trap; mouse comb; #ritual tattoo needle; homeopathic antenna.
Is your ritual really a ritual if it’s not apotropaic? #Archaeology #Doom https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/babylon-tablets-eclipse-doom-prediction-b2596020.html
Nice brooch on #DiggingForBritain! #archaeology
It’s #D4B11 #DiggingForBritain day. Am I going to tediously repost my TV #archaeology bingo card? Yep!
![TV Archaeology Bingo card, with a 5x5 grid of entries. Get 5 in a row, or drink a slug for each one spotted:
1. Carbon dating; Vikings; But first we need to dig through this layer of [Victorian/Tudor/Saxon/Roman] remains; facial reconstruction; They were just like us.
2. Pottery shards or mammoth; Treasure hoard or metal detector(ist); Sutton Hoo or Doggerland; Human femur; Tidal erosion (fighting against/revealed by).
3. Skull on shelf in lab/studio; Well preserved due to soil conditions; Very rare find; Roman coin or tessera; Race against time.
4. Diggers in shorts and wellies; D.N.A. extraction; Presenter/crew goes to pub; Some kind of ritual significance; Ancient queen.
5. Neolithic; Stone Henge or Skara Brae; "Trade routes stretching as far as..."; Battlefield site; Shedding new light on](https://wptest.tlmb.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/f012622cbee13002-1024x1024.webp)
I'm definitely not pronouncing "Stony Brook" like they would in #Absolutely, oh no. Anyway, #archaeology: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/20/oldest-wooden-structure-discovered-on-border-of-zambia-and-tanzania
Who watches clocks
for the sniggering diggers
of Nineveh or Assyria?
A sarky Iraqi archeologist’s horologist.