Rhiannon Jenkins

She/Her 💕 Longsword fighter 🤺
cat owner 😺 archaeologist. Lover of isotopes 🔬 Video games fangirl 🎮 Arms and armour nerd 😍

[Rhiannon Jenkins @GeneralRhivous]

Also works by Pablo Picasso that got the backlash™️

[Rhiannon Jenkins @GeneralRhivous]

Okay so went to the strangest museum in Barcelona I've ever really been in.

Museum of forbidden art works

[Rhiannon Jenkins @GeneralRhivous]

Museu de l'Art Prohibit seemed to be relevantly low on tourists which meant my visit was very quiet. seeing actually damaged art works was surreal as well

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@MisrememberedY it was slashed deliberately and its been left like it (for now!)

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saving this for a cosy day in

[flynn slicker @flynnslick]

Alright tell me a movie that made you stare blankly at a wall for 20 minutes after it finished. One that you couldn’t stop thinking about and made you question everything.

[People's Collection Wales @pplscollection]

Have you seen the Mari Lwyd out and about?

The Mari Lwyd was once a lively tradition of welcoming the Welsh Hen Galan (or 'the old new year') and has been resurrected in some parts of Wales.

The Mari Lwyd - a horse's skull - was carried on a pole and decorated with rosettes and coloured ribbons. During the ceremony, the Mari Lwyd party would go from door to door, singing traditional songs in an attempt to gain entry into the house.

Learn more about the Mari Lwyd in this article on our website.
🔗 https://t.co/DqLSe78rEC
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📷 The 'Mari Lwyd' in the Llangynwyd area
🔗 https://t.co/wzVM3wKuh7
Via @AmgueddfaCymru

[Rhiannon Jenkins @GeneralRhivous]

I think being terrible at CV writing is part of my nature

[Rhiannon Jenkins @GeneralRhivous]

@SarahjayneC88 Anglesey is high on my list!!

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Okay, archaeology people, especially Welsh archaeology people - you've got 5 days for a road trip.. where are you heading?

[Rhiannon Jenkins @GeneralRhivous]

Inspired by my intense need to visit the Cwmystwyth mines near Aberystwyth and Bryn Celli du (which I amazingly still haven't managed to visit) I am actually making the plans to start

[Nation.Cymru @NationCymru]

A long-awaited revised book will offer an up-to-date account of the Neolithic period in Wales through a detailed exploration of its chambered tombs and monuments
https://t.co/rj7xvahe0y

[Rhiannon Jenkins @GeneralRhivous]

Happy Spooky season to fellow zooarchaeologists. Whilst many use this season to look at terrible fake bones I want to highlight some real scary bones. Such as this parasphenoid which looks like a witches broom

[Rhiannon Jenkins @GeneralRhivous]

If any Romanists can help me, I would like a tiny nugget of information about the new "mega fort" that was discovered in Pembroke, I've seen news articles and a go fund me but no papers or anything (yet!)

[Dr! Adelle Bricking @archae_delle]

However you may feel about the Romans, you have to admire the cojones it took to build Isca Augusta smack dab in the middle of several prominent (and scrappy) Iron Age settlements 😬 Here is a view of Twmbarlwm hillfort from the amphitheatre! Quite a statement #RomanFortThursday

[Alison Fisk @AlisonFisk]

Something beautiful for the weekend!

An extraordinary c. 500,000-300,000 year-old Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell. The shell’s central placement has often been described as an example of early artistic intent.

Aesthetically pleasing to our modern eye, recent research suggests the handaxe ‘was likely an average utilitarian tool’ in the eyes of the Acheulean toolmaker. Read more: https://t.co/P0kZN6lx7q

From West Tofts, Norfolk. 📷 Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge https://t.co/8psldM5ZQy

#Archaeology

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I loved doing this do much

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Taking later with and @bethprice654 about meteorites in archaeology at @CifA_EC

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I think we need to consider more of this type of archaeology on display

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A lidl opened in Dublin whilst keeping the archaeology underneath in tact and viewable through glass panels. MORE OF THIS PLEASE.

[Rhiannon Jenkins @GeneralRhivous]

Perfect time to be playing Valheim I guess

[Alexander Vandewalle @Alex_Vandewalle]

CfP alert! 📢 Mythological Game Studies Conference

@maciejwpaprocki and I are organizing an online conference on mythology & video games (May 2025). We're interested in everything games, myth, mythology & mythologies! Abstract deadline: Feb 2!

For more: https://t.co/hvqGbHoUUr

[Dr Toby Driver @Toby_Driver1]

On the following Thursday 28th November I'll be delivering an in-person talk about my @LogastonPress book & selling & signing books 📚

Sarnau lies on the A487 north of Cardigan, Ceredigion - in the shadow of the second largest hillfort in the county: the famous Castell Nadolig!

[🧹 Princess Flannel 🧹 @Flannel_Kat]

I've learned today that players in Valheim are noticing their boats missing or flying.

The truth - birds (like seagulls) are landing on boats and a bug accidently places the boat under bird control - which means the bird lands on a boat and flies away with it, stealing it.