Adam Markham A lovely, simple, bird head on an early 7th century BC pottery fragment from Megara Hyblaea in eastern Sicily. A wader or a gull perhaps. On display at Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi in Siracusa. #archaeobirds 🏺
Birds in archaeology
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Bodleian Libraries 🐦 For bird-lovers! Tomorrow (12 June), Prof Andrew Gosler will give the talk 'From Ornithology to Ethno-ornithology' at the Weston Library and online. 13.00–14.15 (UK time) £5, booking required https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/a-guided-walk-from-ornithology-to-ethno-ornithology
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For World Environment Day, sign up for our upcoming talks on birds, from ethno-ornithology, to swifts, to an account of British POWs-turned-birdwatchers in wartime Germany. All talks are available in person and online via Zoom. Entry: £5 https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/events-exhibitions
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Great to welcome @harbourbirds.bsky.social Young Birders Club into our Zooarchaeology Lab 👍 A chance to look at, and identify, a range of bird bones from archaeological sites with @buosteo.bsky.social @peoplepuffins.bsky.social Even a Great Auk on loan from @portlandmuseum.bsky.social 🐦🐦⬛🦢
Adam Markham #MosaicMonday finds two giant pigeons pulling a chariot - and one of them looks none to happy. Meanwhile a chap with a very large sprig of rosemary is confronting the charioteer. Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily. #WorldHeritage #archaeobirds 🏺
Adam Markham A totally adorable little terra cotta dove(?). Part of the grave goods from a double burial in Hellenic Siracusa, Sicily - 650-625 BC. 🏺#archaeobirds
Adam Markham A lovely swan’s (?) head from the House of the Antefixes at Morgantina, Sicily. #archaeobirds 🏺
British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) Ethno-ornithology: science and society in dialogue - Andrew Gosler kicks off day 2 session 1 with his keynote talk. We are joined by chair James Hoggett. #BOU2026 #ethnoornithology #ornithology