Prehistoric landscapes, skyscapes, cosmology, folklore, nature. Meirionnydd #StandingStones PhD researcher Bournemouth Uni. Cymraes dw i & like Other Places too
Very excited to announce my book STONE LANDS which Robinson (Little, Brown) are publishing just before summer solstice 2025 ... thank you everyone who shared stories of megalith hunting with me, you really did inspire me to keep going with this!
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It's been snowing in the UK and the road gritters are out in force, begging the question:
Have you ever wondered where that grit actually COMES from?
The answer is more magical, beautiful and fascinating than you probably realised.
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Our latest issue 10.1 is out now https://t.co/vbfdHHbVx9 Latest skyscape research articles (£) and #OpenAccess book & conference reviews. Image of shamanic rock art Cerro La Silla from Moyano et al.
Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing.
The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos.
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Danaverney flesh hook
its a work in progress, but making it a second time is an even more enjoyably process with more time to focus on the small details.
Fascinated by birds in the #BronzeAge icons which there are many, maybe its their ability to cross liminal spaces
The stones are engines of mystery, engines of folklore. The lithic tongues they speak in range from the technical – orthostat, dolmen, capstone – to the poetic – ghost-holder, time-spine, story-teller. – Dr. K. Brophy, 1982 #StandingStoneSunday
Happy #TombTuesday 🎉 Extraordinary & different from every angle...🥰
The incredible coastal Coetan Arthur #Neolithic chambered tomb in Pembrokeshire, standing proudly among the rockscape of @NatTrustArch Penmaen Dewi/St David's Head
📷 My own, 2022
Cambridge Archaeological Journal is flipping to #OpenAccess!
All content published in the journal from January 2025 will be permanently and freely available to read, download and share around the world 🌎. Find out more at: https://t.co/Cvy0pZzuW6
@UCamArchaeology
For my first #StandingStoneSunday of spooky season, I present one of the most haunting archaeological monuments I’ve personally encountered: an anthropomorphic Menhir on display at the Laténium, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
📍 Treytel-A Sugiez in Bevaix NE, Switzerland
⏳ 4600-3700 BC
The menhir of Kerhouézel in Porspoder (Finistère) is 6.6m tall above ground and like some others in this region has been worked and smoothed over most of its surface. At an unknown time on an unknown day it went down to sea to bathe. #StandingStoneSunday.