Don Walker

Human osteologist working for MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology). All views my own.

[MOLA @MOLArchaeology]

Breaking news from our excavations at Holborn Viaduct!

We’ve uncovered the first complete Roman funerary bed found in Britain - and there's more. This fascinating site covers an incredible 2000 years of London's history.

Read more HERE: https://t.co/da72Qtfj9g

[English Heritage @EnglishHeritage]

Built around 1130, this tiny pink church is an extraordinary time capsule to the Norman world 🕰️

#DYK that St Mary’s Church has the oldest timber roof of any building in England? 🌳

📍 Kempley, Gloucestershire

[Tom Booth @Boothicus]

Possible Sarmatian in Roman Britain you say?

[Pallab Ghosh @BBCPallab]

DNA detectives solve the mystery of a 2,000-year-old corpse. https://t.co/0w2W2mjbKg

[Tom Booth @Boothicus]

People reaching for the DNA like it’s the shark repellant bat spray when they’d be better off going for the good old fashioned batarang.

[Chris Stringer @ChrisStringer65]

My Huxley lecture, November 2023 Mostly out of Africa https://t.co/3TfVm7wsox

[Tom Booth @Boothicus]

Previous work that had discussed the burial in these terms was in good faith and based on the analysis that was available at the time, but techniques improve and sometimes results change.

[Tom Booth @Boothicus]

Swali Time!

Plague in Britain 4000 years ago.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Cast of Star Wars out of costume in 1977.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Animals that went extinct because of humans

[𝙃𝙚𝙙𝙡𝙚𝙮 𝙏𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙚 @thorneh]

Evening shadows piercing the farmland at Chilton in South Oxfordshire.

[Chris Stringer @ChrisStringer65]

One of the oldest churches in Britain - the Saxon church of St Mary sub Castro, Dover

[Don Walker @_donwalker]

that’s wizard https://t.co/sir8aJN1Mt

[Mike @TheRealVonHorst]

@Dr_Fishbones So to summarise, you’re having a wizzard kind of a day? 🤣 https://t.co/HD1SsB2hjF

[Chris Stringer @ChrisStringer65]

Neanderthals lived in groups big enough to eat giant elephants | Science https://t.co/nTM5Fe8ndt

[Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 @robert_lyman]

This is my sort of football…

[Prof Alice Roberts💙 @theAliceRoberts]

Very excited that this is out in time to be a stocking filler!

[Nigel Jeffries @nigeljeffries]

Look at these bad boys

[Nance Grace @NanceSw]

Lovely 😊

[Stephen (Стівен Ральф) 🔶🐟🇺🇦🇪🇺 #SlavaUkraini @TheStephenRalph]

One of my childhood heroes. He made everything easy to understand: compelling to watch and learn. 🤗

Judith Hann, Raymond Baxter, Johnny Ball, Maggie Philbin, Brian Cant and of course @FloellaBenjamin and Valerie Singleton - forever thankful to all of you. 🤗