From Orkney To Australia…...The Cairns Dig Diary……From ‘Emergence’ Magazine….
by Bernie Bell - 08:39 on 27 June 2025
From Orkney To Australia…..
Dr. Antonia Thomas, of UHI Archaeology Institute, and Diane Eagles who worked with chalk graffiti at the Ness of Brodgar, travelled to Australia and presented talks about graffiti……
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2025/06/25/wac10/
My tuppenceworths – as previously posted in m’blog……
“Graffiti/Vandalism…..And on Graffiti…prompted by Kenny Brophy’s most recent look at when the modern world collides with the ancient…….
https://theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2023/09/07/the-v-word/
Here goes….
https://theorkneynews.scot/2019/02/07/the-brodgar-graffiti-project-sunday-3rd-feb-2019/
https://theorkneynews.scot/2020/08/12/remembering-the-covenanters/
See ‘Hoxa Head’….
http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=15892
Marks of Devotion in St. Magnus Cathedral….
Pretty much what the title says it is….
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2022/12/07/link-magnus-graffiti-project/
And, as usual, my tuppenceworth re. marks in cathedrals….
https://theorkneynews.scot/2020/01/28/making-our-mark/ “
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The Cairns Dig Diary……
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2025/06/24/cairns-d12-2025/
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2025/06/25/cairns-d12-2025-2/
On the subject of Kubiena tins (aka Spladongas)….
https://theorkneynews.scot/2019/07/29/jo-mckenzies-layers-of-colour/
A quernstone & its rubber – ready for use!.....
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2025/06/26/cairns-d14-2025/
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine….
by Liam Heneghan
"Impossible to embrace life without gathering an armful of death.”
In the 5th century BC, Greek philosopher Empedocles proposed that the living world emerges from the combination and separation of the four elements: earth, fire, water, air. The interaction of these elements, he said, is governed by two opposing divine forces: Love, which harmonizes the elements into unity; and Strife, which dissolves them into multiplicity. These two forces operate in an eternal cycle of creation and destruction—and in the balance between the two, the natural world endlessly flourishes and decomposes.
Keeping vigil by his father’s bedside, ecosystem ecologist Liam Heneghan turns to a council of philosophers and physicists to help reconcile our human experience of growth with the reality of decay. He contemplates how closely life sits at the margins of death—that the boundary between them is not clean, but rather entangled in “border skirmishes,” where one continually bleeds into the other. How to honor the dissolution of the whole into plurality when Empedocles’ “Strife” prevails, he asks? As his father passes—elements dispersing into air and soil—Liam recognizes that all that flourishes must return to Earth; that in decay, something always endures.
This essay is the third in a series of four we are sharing in partnership with the Center for Humans and Nature.”
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/is-paddy-heneghan-dead/
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