Will

//Flintknapper & Experimental Archaeologist // Ancient Skills // Hands-on Heritage Education //

(All opinions my own)

[Will @ThePointyEndUK]

A few pics from various bits of a busy Summer!

Now to crack on with some large commissions before the days get too brief!

[Will @ThePointyEndUK]

An axe to grind

[Will @ThePointyEndUK]

Topping up the later prehistoric arrowheads today

[Will @ThePointyEndUK]

A wild red kite taking a look at the flying display at @HawkConservancy

👀 @BBCSpringwatch

[The Lithic Studies Society @LithicSociety]

We were incredibly fortunate to have this great display table at our recent Butser weekend.

The display featured a variety of stone tools, animal hides and organic artefacts. Thank you so much to our committee (particularly @ThePointyEndUK @jonathan_cope) for organising it 🙌

[Archaeodiscovery @playwiththepast]

✨Today we embraced our inner warrior and had a go at some prehistoric hunting techniques!

@thepointyenduk gave us an excellent flint knapping demo and we made our own throwing sticks🌈

#archaeologyforkids #easterholisays #schoolholidayfun #archaeologyforall #heritageeducation

[Archaeodiscovery @playwiththepast]

🌈Here's what we got up to at @hale.farm.campsite 🐓EASTER DIG SCHOOL 🌱

https://t.co/iFQlkpgJL3

#juniorarchaeologist @thepointyenduk #archaeologyforkids #archaeologyforall #outdoorlearning #schoolholidayfun #activelearning #creativekids #thingstodoinsussex

[The Lithic Studies Society @LithicSociety]

We have got a *reel* treat for #FindsFriday 📷 This Timelapse is courtesy of Thames Valley Archaeological Services and shows the illustration of a Mesolithic adze taking shape.

📷 credit: @UKTVAS and @ThePointyEndUK

#FindsFriday #Illustration #Lithics #Mesolithic

[Will @ThePointyEndUK]

@aitchis1 You've just ripped the safety net out from under the feet of the same staff you state need more investment. How is that helpful, ethical or anything more than an effort to allow deeper exploitation of the archaeological workforce?

[Will @ThePointyEndUK]

@LithicSociety @explorearchives Small but mighty. #Scottish #Mesolithic

[The Lithic Studies Society @LithicSociety]

This month we are taking part in @explorearchives theme which is secrets!

Excavation can be an exciting way to explore secrets and uncover new evidence within lithics.

What’s the best stone artefact you have found whilst excavating? Add them below!

#Fieldwork #EYASecrets

[The Lithic Studies Society @LithicSociety]

Meet our committee members🙌Our new events team is made up of Jonny as Events Secretary, and Yvonne and Helen as Event Assistants. Both Yvonne and Helen are also ordinary committee members.

#LSS #Lithics #Committee #ArchaeologyEvents

[The Lithic Studies Society @LithicSociety]

1/2🧵We are really happy to reveal our new committee. We will expand on each role/individual soon but we are happy to announce:

Chair Ann Bojko and Vice Chair Dr Josie Mills
Committee Secretary Becky Vickers
Publicity Officer Tabitha Gulliver Lawrence

#Lithics #LSS

[Graeme Warren @GraemeMWarren]

A new paper by Noa Lavi, @alice__Rudge & me is just published in Current Anthropology: *Rewild…* examines how hunter-gatherers are imagined in popular culture in Britain and Ireland. 1/5

https://t.co/8u7ZhWxDDs

[UofG Archaeology @UofGArchaeo]

This is exciting - this week's seminar will be given in person by the legend that is @GraemeMWarren on Wed 17th from 4pm. Link below will -we hope- include livestream information before his talk starts! More info about venue & this semester's programme:
https://t.co/mAr7mw7v9m

[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

Can someone please explain to Tories telling us all how grateful we should be about inflation falling that IT DOES NOT MEAN PRICES ARE FALLING! In fact they’re still going up twice the target rate and that’s on top of the previous rises. And food inflation is still at 9%.

[Graham Taylor @Pottedhistory]

My research has shown.... that Late Neolithic, Grooved Ware pottery makers of the Stonehenge area.... had too much time on their hands! #NeolithicXbox #StoneAgeNetflix #Archaeology

[Sally Pointer @sallypointer]

The current oldest scrap of extant Sprang is a late Neolithic fragment in plant fibre (Etton Woodgate, UK), though most people are more familiar with examples from Bronze Age Denmark. Today I'm sending an undyed wool hairnet inspired by these prehistoric finds off to its new home