Posts Tagged ‘Lincolnshire’
Bolingbroke Back in Time 2023 – Tickets on Sale Now!
The Return of the King at Bolingbroke Back in Time 12th-13th August 2023 11am – 4.30pm Bolingbroke Castle, Old Bolingbroke, Spilsby, Lincolnshire PE23 4HH Join Heritage Lincolnshire and the Friends…
Read MoreThe Holocene Extinction by Jim Snee
There aren’t many Mammoths roaming around Lincolnshire these days. Other forms of glacial megafauna are pretty thin on the ground as well. So as archaeologists, we have to ask the…
Read MoreA New World by Jim Snee
The millennia that followed the last period of glaciation over northern England was a time of significant environmental change. As temperatures rose, the ice retreated further to the north and…
Read MoreChanges in Technology, Changes in Society by Jim Snee
In 1816, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen was appointed to curate Danish Royal Commission for the Collection and Preservation of Antiquities’ first exhibition. After careful study he displayed the objects by period,…
Read MoreLayers of History Project Awarded Prestigious Lincolnshire Award
Heritage Lincolnshire are delighted to announce that the Layers of History Project has won the 2020 Flora Murray Award from The Society for Lincolnshire Heritage and Archaeology. Cola (Senior…
Read MoreWhat are Hunter Gatherers? By Jim Snee
One thing that persistently, and understandably, annoys people is the use of jargon. In this archaeology is as guilty of that as the next discipline, and it is sometimes useful…
Read MoreHomes for Nomads by Jim Snee
It is considered hard for people who have only experienced a sedentary lifestyle to understand what a nomadic lifestyle truly means. Yet the circumstances in which I am writing, a…
Read MoreNew Arrivals by Jim Snee
When I was young, I was fascinated by an old book called “Beyond the Bounds of History” which contained thirty-one (rather naïve) colour illustrations of the old stone age (Palaeolithic). …
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