TAG45 @ Bournemouth

@TAG45BU @SamScomo @EdinArch Was lucky enough to hear papers from all these three highly commended runners up; all excellent papers. Ingrid and Anna spoke at the Skyscapes session organised by @FSilva_skyscape and I; really enjoyed all the papers at that session. Great conference 🙏 #TAG45BU!

@TAG45BU @AntiquityJ @BU_ArchAnth @BUunifood @DylansSubu @BUeventsleisure @BU_Research Thank you for a stimulating conference.

It means a lot to be recognised in this way, there were so many fascinating papers. Thank you to the judges, & @TAG45BU for putting on such a great event. Looking forward to York!

Aaargh, one tweet went missing from that last thread ... which was to thank both our amazing keynote speakers, Ian Hodder and Gill Hey! Two incredibly thought-provoking addresses, we hugely appreciate their agreeing to come along!

Ahem, I meant of course - "a highlight"! [disclaimer: I may be slightly hungover...]

A highly of course is that we are delighted to announce this year's TAG prize winner is Rachel Crellin from @ArchAncHistLeic @uniofleicester. Huge congratulations, very well deserved!

Thank you @TAG45BU @bournemouthuni for a great 3 days of inspirational and engaging presentations! Thank you @kirstylilley and @ArchaeoLu for inviting me to present my @portsmouthuni PhD research about WW1 sub chaser ML286. #gratitude #archaeostorytelling

This past weekend I had the pleasure to be for the first time at @TAG45BU. A great forum where I had the chance to talk about maps, experience, affect and difference in the Talayotic landscape.

@FordHev I totally missed that our Don Henson Prize award winner is on Twitter - here she is!

My greatest thanks to the organisers of @TAG45BU and everyone who ran a session or submitted a paper. It's been an excellent weekend!

@FlintDibble Calm yourselves. Gather yourselves. Write whatever response you like. But do so by taking a step outside yourselves and evaluating the situation and addressing what he actually said, not what you think he said.

A big thank you to all who came to @TAG45BU and especially to all those who spoke, ran stalls, volunteered, organised and generally helped out over the 3 days (and more) You're all brilliant 🥂 Hope to see you in York next year!

@Sussex_Heritage @romanpalace @Durotrigesdig You could have presented a paper at @TAG45BU “Island Gigantism in the imported Oryctolagus cuniculus of Britannia” 🐰🐰🐰

I was very delighted to present my preliminary doctoral research this weekend at the 45th annual meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group @TAG45BU the atmosphere was not only encouraging but I greatly enjoyed listening to great minds coming together to share their thoughts.

Congratulations to the winners of this year's Antiquity pub quiz @TAG45BU, whose score of 31/40 won them a set of coveted Antiquity mugs!

This weekend, Kevin and @emlthom presented at @TAG45BU (with a bonus @VikingBodiesBM for moral support!) 🗣🌊

🎉 Congratulations @SamScomo!!! Brilliants news! @HCAatEdinburgh #EdinArch #PhDlife

... If we've forgotten anyone, please remind us! I can't emphasise enough how much of a team effort this all was. But most of all, we want to thank YOU, the TAG community, for a genuinely lovely end to a difficult year. Here's to 2025!

The only thing left for us to say is a huge thanks to our lovely sponsors @AntiquityJ, our brilliant volunteers and everyone from @BU_ArchAnth, as well as the brilliant catering teams from @BUunifood and @DylansSubu and everyone from @BUeventsleisure and @BU_Research.

Highly Commended in the Don Henson prize for debut paper, Sam Scott-Moncrieff @SamScomo, of @EdinArch for his paper "A building lineage? Palimpsests, brochs, and complex identity in the Scottish Iron Age".

Highly Commended in the Don Henson prize for debut paper, Ingrid O'Donnell of @BU_ArchAnth for her paper "Assembling Land and Sky".

Competition for the Don Henson Prize was stiff and the judges were so impressed with all the debut papers they saw they insisted we list some 'highly commended' scholars ... So in no particular order ...