Tom Booth

@boothicus.bsky.social

6064 Followers 3435 Following

Bioarchaeologist. Amateur Scarecrow. Ancient DNA Lab @ The Francis Crick Institute Associate Lecturer in Quantitative Archaeology and Later European Prehistory @ UCL Institute of Archaeology

A modern looking sitting room with brown cylindrical tables a red settee and a screen. A couple of glasses sit on a small precarious table.
A bespectacled man in a bright t shirt stands behind a bright orange cardboard cutout of the same man around 2/3 the size
A advertisement on the tube for the ‘We Go Way Back’ Exhibition at The Francis Cricket Institute. White tiles at a tube station. Mead up to a portrait advertising poster of a line several multicoloured faces in profile. Next to a red fire extinguisher and a green poster.
Simpsons meme of fidel Castro taking the trillion dollar note from Mr Burns and claiming no knowledge of it when asked for it back
Orange tiled wall of the Francis crick institute behind a silver railing a grey tamp and an ale stone floor tiles. On the wall is a multicoloured image of superimposed side-on human faces and text reading ‘free exhibition We Go Way Back’.
Front of The Francis Crick Institute. Pale stone paving leads underneath Red and white stripy warning tape in front of the Institute’s main sign. Above the sign is another sign black writing on white background reading ‘Free exhibition - discover how ancient ancestors live on in our DNA’. Behind is the orange facade and glass foyer of the Francis Crick Institute.
A filling up Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Rows of empty seats side on in the foreground. Fuller seats and people standing on the floor of the arena in the background. Two pink screens on either side show the Gorillaz Characters and Gorillaz logo respectively.
‘The monument at Bulford dates to the same time as the earliest phase of activity at Stonehenge, when the earthworks were first built half a millennium before the stones were placed.
Prat in a blue vest and shorts stood with his arms outstretched on some rounded lumps and bumps making up a Bronze Age ring cairn in a grassy field with hills in the background.
A colourful child’s drawing of some bees around a flower with trees in the background. A blazing unforgiving sun burns in the background, igniting the sky around it.
Diagram of genetic relationships between - blue outlined oblongs representing different labelled tombs with internal squares and circular representing lelle buried within goose tombs. Lines of red green blue and orange represent genetic relationships.
Two men running in a field, one in the foreground and one in the background. The main in the foreground is wearing a floral multicoloured running kit. The man in the background is wearing an orange t shirt and black shorts.
A path next to a grey way running by a sea front. Houses telegraph poles and a brick tower in the background.
Historic images of Queen Elizabeth II projected onto Stonehenge in celebration of her diamond jubilee. ARCL0078: Age of Stonehenge written in yellow across the sky.
Mike Parker Pearson (foreground) and Ramilisonina (middle distance) standing amongst the stones at Stonehenge.
Blue tinted image of a metal fence
Blue tinted image of some houses and lots of blue sky
Blurry blue jaunty tinted image of a road lined by houses and trees and a wooden fence
John Piper's painting of Stonehenge - the ruins of the trilothon horshoe up close rendered in greys, yellows and blacks. Made of streaks and lines it almost looks abstract. the ARCL0078: Age of Stonehenge title is in the grey sky in yellow.
16th-century watercolor illustration of Stonegenge by Lucas de Heere, made for an early guidebook for England. Watercolour painting of the Stonehenge monument with the surrounding ditch. A person id depicted lying on a green hill in the foreground. Another person stands by one of the stones and anoth (slightly our of proportion) rides a horse in the middle of the stones.
Greyscale diagram of northwestern Europe with arrows detailing movement and interaction of material cultures linked to Bell Beaker and Corded Ware around the Rhone-Rhine corridor.
Archer meme half finished presumably it was supposed to say “do you want mentions full of clay pipes, because this is how you get mentioned full of clay pipes!”
An image of a lecture slide. The automatic transcription of the lecture reads 'And. uh. Um. Yeah. Um. You know.'
A dramatic colourful image of Stoneghenge. The stones are sillouetted in black against a firey-covered sky. The grass is a luminescent green. A robed druid-like figure stands in shadow in front of the stones holding a staff. On a hill in the distance (which does not exist in reality) are a group of shadowy men on horseback, one wielding what can only be described as a long 'thing'.
Sunny Image of Gordon Square taken from the 6th floor balcony of the Institute of Archaeology. A concrete path lines a green grass park with a yellow gravel path winds through the park. The white Senate House tower rises on the horizon against a bright blue sky.
17th Century drawing of Stonehenge from Atlas van Loon. Coloured drawing of the stones of Stonehenge surrounded by a low orange wall. Three people stand with long poles in the middle. Green rolling hills and an orange coloured castle are in the background.
Greyscale diagrams of genealogical trees representing patterns of genetic relatives found in multiple burials at a Pitted Ware site in Gotland. Each genealogy is labelled a, b and c. Grey rectangles surround those individuals who were buried togther.
The cover of a box of a 'build your own Stonehenge' kit on a background of 'ARCL0078: The Age of Stonehenge' repeated text in a slanted orientation in yellow. The box has a yellow and black picture of a Stonehenge trilithon with more stones in the background and reads 'Warning: choking hazard' at the bottom.
A man running down a muddy hill in the woods. Cheesy grin and double thumbs up combo.
A picture of Dr Who's tardis, a navy blue police box in front of Stonehenge, an arrangement of grey stones into 'trilothons' - two vertical stones supporting a horizontal lintel stone on top. 'ARCL0078: The Age(s) of Stonehenge is in navy blue bubble writing in the sky.
Members of the Skoglund Ancient Genomics Laboratory at The Francis Crick Institute. A group of intrepid young (ish in some cases) researchers staring together on a walkway with heavily lit brown orange and white panels on the background.
Morden park - the sun rises over a misty grassy field, against a blue sky. The horizon is made up of the dark outline of trees and the Baitul Futuh mosque.
Victorian portrait photograph of Stonehenge, the earliest photograph of Stonehenge that exists. An older woman in a shawl and a young girl in a dress and sun hat sit on one of the fallen stones with one of the massive trilothons in the background. The photograph is yellower with age. The course title 'ARCL0078: The Age(s) of Stonehenge is emblazoned in blue across the top of the photograph.
Title slide for the Age of Stonehenge module. Dark green text reading 'ARCL0078: The Age(s) of Stonehenge' sites on a background of Thomas Cole's 'The Course of Empire: Arcadian or Pastoral State' painting of a pastoral scene on a coast with a Stonehenge-like monument in the background mean to depict a pre-urban idealised Greek landscape.
A Waluigi Hotwheels Mariokart toy. He’s in the pink Cadillac. A bit like Rude Dog and the Dweebs. Remember that? I member.
The churchyard of Winchester cathedral. In the foreground brick paths mark the footprint of the Old Minster. Mist surrounds a dark tree and gravestones in the background. Part of the north side of Winchester cathedral can be seen on the left.
A frosty field full of mist at sunrise. The Baitul Futuh mosque in Morden is in the background against the orange sunrise.
Title slide of a lecture series. Children play on Jeremy Deller's 'Sacrilege' work, i.e. Stonehenge bouncy castle in an urban park with a high rise building in the background.
Graph of number of ancient individuals from who we have genetic data from 2011 to 2023. A red trend line begins at 0 in 2011, rises slightly at 2015 then shoots up exponentially from 2018.
A ferrous blocky sculpture of a despondent-looking human form in front of a Christmas tree elaborately decorated with pink-themed decorations. It stands in a large atrium of a building.
A new feature in the ‘Spotify Unwrapped’ end of year package telling you your ‘listening age’. A big orange ‘54’ sits on a patterned black and white background.
A reddish orange sun setting on the horizon taken through the sky in Dow of an airport with RyanAir aeroplanes in the middle distance.
“Grooved Ware for pottery of the quinmillenial”
A man dressed as Waluigi running across a field with runners behind resolutely not in costume at a HALLOWEEEN Parkrun.
Sign saying ‘welcome to York’
The Francis Crick Institute from above. Aerial view of a long modernist building in the shape of a pair of chromosomes.
Halloween costume named ‘Juice Demon’, clearly a knock off of Beetlejuice.
Decorated late Bronze Age flesh hook from Dunaverney, Northern Ireland. Made of bronze and decorated with images of corvids and water birds.
Stone circle in Gorsedd Gardens, Cardiff. A low black fence surrounded a stone circle made of reddish-brown stone on mown grass. A large green connifer tree sits at the centre. There is a brick path in the foreground.
A man in a bright shirt and glasses convincingly appearing to run as fast as a series of red Ferrari race cars.
Billboard in front of a road with a giant picture of a burger and the words ‘got McDonalds hunger? BIG ARCH’
A maned wolf - half wolf half fox - bandy-legged canid with bandy legs, orange fur and large ears. Posing in front of some lush green vegetation and red-tinted mountains