Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Archaeologist, word-witcher, scicomm, consultancy
📚 KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death & Art
🖋️ MATRIARCHA: Prehistory Re-imagined
🏛️ Honorary Researcher U. Cambridge & U. Liverpool
1/4 @trowelblazers.bsky.social
Rep: PEW Literary
- Extremely excited to be down in Lyme for the first time (for me !). Utterly gorgeous house, and wonderful to have all four of us back together in one place - first time in over 6 years...
- Buckland wrote this despite understanding that women of his time, whether his wife Mary, or #MaryAnning whose work he benefitted from, were serious, skilled palaeontological fieldworkers & thinkers... Here's the @trowelblazers.bsky.social article on Mary Buckland trowelblazers.com/2014/05/09/m...
- [Insert joke about contemporary masculinity crisis]
- 🦣🏺 Wow I did not realise Levallois appears so late in this region. Interesting to consider in terms of potential interaction or not between East Eurasian hominins & #Neanderthals, out at their eastern-most range (which is often assumed to be Denisova based on skeletal remains, but need not be...)
- 🏺🧪🦣 Huge thanks to Steve Burrow of @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social for my little revisit yesterday to the Coygan Cave collection - so nice to see the beautiful #Neanderthal bifaces again, and furtle in the hyaena coprolite box - look at that little one, must be from a pup who pooped +40,000 years ago 💩
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- 🏺 Great @henebtwa.bsky.social panel, I championed #archaeology as crucial for helping people engage with cynefin & placemaking for community identity, and argued that it should at the centre of how children learn about & encounter the past - history has been privileged in curriculums for too long!
- This looks interesting!
- This thread is humorous but just so predictably depressing. Govt pouring money into #AI "support" that is not only full of corporate presence, but also virtually pointless for users AND those who have to encounter what users then produce. And all of it could be delivered by humans, helping humans.
- 🏺 Great visit yesterday to St Fagan's Amgueddfa Cymru /Museum of Wales. Inventive themed galleries, including a close encounter with Pontnewydd #Neanderthals of 270,000 years ago.
- Good morning from Senedd Cymru /Welsh Parliament 🏴 Here for @henebtwa.bsky.social launch event, speaking about why #archaeology matters. (Love that there's a giant torc here at the centre of Welsh political power!)
- 🧪 Press release was from Geol Soc Am, but they apparently did not provide an image. Lesson? If you're putting out research to media, give them pics. And consider a "no #AI" requirement, whether images or text, in media coverage of your work...
- 🏺🧪 Very exciting new wooden artefacts, and I think the first ID of alder and willow species being used in earlier Palaeolithic contexts 🌳
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- 🏺 Any archaeologists who are based in Crete? Planning a trip in May and would love to connect with people to potentially meet for museum/site visit...
