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the urban prehistorian

the contemporary archaeology of prehistory.

  • Based in United Kingdom
  • Roughly six posts per year
  • First post on

Posts per year

Data for this chart is available in the table below
Posts per year
Year starting Posts
2022 3
2023 9
2024 5

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

Lot 172
Me, tracing my fingers in and out of the coarse surface of cupmarks on a stone in the sun, with red paint marks on the rock beside me. Again. Not in Faifley, but Oslo. To …
On , by balfarg, 1,651 words
The ‘Spoons stone
“Why does that Wetherspoons have a drawing of a standing stone outside?” I asked incredulously a few months back during a visit to the soon-to-be levelled down (funded by levelling up money) Cumbernauld Antonine shopping …
On , by balfarg, 2,019 words
Stone cult
What if standing stones were not erected in the Neolithic period as a focal point for ceremony and ritual, but rather the stones themselves were the object of worship? This startling thought (not an original …
On , by balfarg, 1,725 words