More than a thesis…
On Monday and Tuesday of this week the Archaeology Department held its annual postgraduate workshop. Over the two days current first- and third-year PhD students present their projects to other […]
Monthly Archives: January 2014
‘Breaking’ News: Four (January 25th – 31st)
It’s a smallish link round-up this week due to busyness. OSTEOLOGY “We’re experts in water pipes not human bodies…” ‘Medieval’ skull found during Huntingdon drain repair. More details unearthed about […]
‘Breaking’ News: Three (January 18th – 24th)
OSTEOLOGY The body snatchers: corpse and effect. Piers Mitchell on the history and archaeology behind it all. Fascinating. Unusual tomb belonging to the Złockie culture found in Poland. Skeptical face. […]
‘Breaking’ News: Two (January 11th- 17th, 2014)
Here linkies, linkies, linkies! OSTEOLOGY Interesting article on Hatemui (‘the boy priest’) mummy that is on display in Swindon. Who are the dead Maya in this underwater cave and why […]
Multiply this ad campaign by zero.
Riiight… On Monday Coca-Cola re-launched their zero sugar and zero calorie drink Coke Zero in the UK. The company says that the new ‘Just Add Zero’ campaign is “designed to […]
Breaking news “blogpost”.
Yesterday a news article came up in my reader with the headline: Historic ‘skeleton’ found as Stockton footpath is dug up by workmen ‘Skeleton’? Consider me intrigued. From the article: […]
The Plague House: Bringing History Home
In Warrington, there is a wall. I mean, of course there are many walls in Warrington, but there is one wall in particular that I find intriguing. On July 10, […]
‘Breaking’ News: One (January 1st- 10th, 2014)
Many of you (some of you) will have noticed that lately I have begun tweeting a great many more (than usual) new links. These are mostly related to archaeology and […]
Burke and Ha…aaang on a minute!
Right. I was going to write about life tables this week*. But then this happened. Yeah, that’s right! Headline: “Shallow grave bones linked to Burke and Hare.” [Cue Osteologist Me] […]
Sherlock Bones*
[WARNING: Contains minor spoilers from Sherlock Season 3 Episode 1: The Empty Hearse.] On Wednesday I, like 9199999 other people, sat down to watch the much anticipated Season 3 opener […]
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