Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes

@lemoustier.bsky.social

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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

Blue sky filled with high wispy cloud, and tiny black swallow silhouettes.
Photo showing a drawing on blue paper of a cave plan in white, with many tiny annotations in pencil recording musical notes in particular areas of the cave.
Video looking from a painting in a gallery to an old projector and film on the wall.
À woman and man standing osé together in front of a huge canvas painted with pigment that's moved across the canvas by sound. It is swirling and brown and red and white, looking like the exit from a cave or maybe a planetary nebula.
Photo of a man standing in a London underground corridor, a brightly lit curving space with stairs going down beyond. He is humming but you can't tell.
Photo from train window of rural landscape with pasture and hills beyond with some woods. The morning sun is low and the pale blue sky has thin cirrus cloud.
Screen grab of twitter where Elon Musk calls historian Tom Holland a cuck because he said The Odyssey is a good film it's worth watching before you judge it.
Photo looking out from a hill into a valley where the sun has neatly set over a hill. The sky is orange and the hills look purple, and in the foreground is silhouetted trees and a hedge.
Short film made up of many photos and small film segment focusing on different events taking place around a modern megalith at a festival. Includes a runic poem and ribbon, fire lighting demonstration and yarn wrapping.
Photo of two women standing inside a burial pit in front of a disassembled wooden chariot. One is dressed as an Iron Age female leader, the other is wearing 21st century clothing. Behind them rises a grassy hill with partially visible large letters spelling CHALKE. Other people stand behind the pit, looking on.
Photo of a woman standing in front of a sign with "PREHISTORY" painted on it in shades of red and brown with handprints. Behind it is a hwitw tent roof and grass, trees and a blue sky with clouds. She is wearing a hat and smiling happily.
Photo of a festival entrance tent, striped white and blue, in a field flanked by large trees. It's low evening sun and a blue sky with pale grey clouds.
Photo of a hot-looking woman sitting in front of a hessian hanging, holding a large piece of venison jerky in one hand and smiling.
Photo of a woman standing in front of a tent with a blackboard behind her, listing "Hearth OF Science" events. She is also wearing a Hearth of Science logo on her red vest.
Two women standing and talking about stone tools in front of a table full of various archaeological objects and replicas including skull, ceramic bowl, bone. One of the women is dressed in worked skins.
Photo of a woman in a field, the sun is behind her and she is smiling.
Photo of a large tent in the process of detection, on a festival site also being set up. The sunlight is low and giving long shadow to a man bending over.
Photo of a woman outside a medieval themed blue and white striped tent gateway. A painted fairground-style sign says Chalke History Festival.
Photo of woman standing in Palaeolithic clothing holding an axe. She's smiling with a painted face.
Photo of large standing stone with low evening sun cutting across it.
Screenshot of events listing for festival
Photo of woman in a field, behind her is a festival site. Closer behind her is a purple flag with text EARTH Experimental Archaeology Research & Teaching Hub.
Photo of a person inside an archaeological excavation, in front of a section, carefully removing up an abalone shell from the sediment. Brushes and other kit are visible.
Photo of a woven basket against which five wooden spindles with various yarns and whorls are resting. The yarns are wools and linen.
Photo of two woodpigeons sitting on a wire, behind them is a valley with an orange sunset on the horizon. The sky is a mix of blue and grey scattered cloud and everything is glowing orange.
Image of two birds that resemble grouse painted amongst vegetation, with probable rivers running past.
Image of painted scène showing women and men bearing containers and musical instruments towards a large container between two posts on stone bases, with double-headed axes on top, and dark coloured birds on top of that.
Video looking through many yachts towards sunset behind hills in a small harbour. A Greek flag on one boat gently flaps on the breeze.
Video of a sunset behind distant hills, in foreground is a small harbour enclosed by castellated Venetian wall. A small yacht glides into view.
Photo of a festival in a valley against a hill with fields. In the foreground is a standing stone, behind it are festival tents, a vintage big wheel and shelter skelter.
Photo of a marble table with coffee cup and open laptop, in the background is a raised seating area and plunge pool, behind which is a view of the Santorini caldera. Sitting by somr stairs looking at us is a slender sandy tabby cat.
Temple of Nike, looking towards Pireus. Photo of two Greek temples, situated high above the city, the sea is visible in the horizon. It's sunny, low morning light, and the sky is blue.
Photo of a woman in a preposterously large bath on a city balcony at night.
Photo of a woman in a preposterously large bath on a city balcony at night.
Photo grid showing a woman in an Athenian street with a little hint of Acropolis behind her; a tasty looking Greek dinner; a tabby cat in street; a view of Acropolis, moon, planets and sunset light behind street buildings; a 1000 year old church; view from the air of the city.
Book cover of SERVUS: How Slavery Made The Roman Empire. Red background with fresco of a serving woman looking out at us.
Screengrab, text: "This week was an abattoir for dreams. Every day, the same breathless churn of opinion. Every day, more rumours and innuendo, more gossip, more unconfirmed reports and best guesses. Ceaseless baseless noise and gibberish. And then behind it all, past the cameras and the news reports and the resignation letters, just this one screaming thought in your head: You’re fucking it up. You’re fucking it up. You’re fucking it up. This is our one chance and you’re fucking it up."
Photo of a stream flowing through a mini-gorge whose walls are covered in forest and wild garlic. Everything is Évry green and textured. A large tree cuts across the top, crossing the stream cut.
Photo of multi-coloured scribble