We're doing it again!! ☺️
As part of the work that Tertia Barnett and I are doing with @scarf-scot.bsky.social, we'll be running another event to celebrate rock art research and launch brand-new sections of the Scottish Archaeological Research Framework.
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I have no mouth but I must tweet
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Every year I hope in vain for a list of the Worst Archaeological Discoveries of the Year.
Maybe one year we will get it
#Archaeology
What noise does a death metal sheep make?
Blast Bleats
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We need to come up with smart casual lithic tool types
It's time for another episode of The Archaeology Show!
There’s a lot of Neanderthal research in the news these days and the first two articles highlight some of those achievements.
If you want the #BLOPS7 endgame experience but don't want to buy it, can I suggest that you play the amazing Mass effect 2 to the end
Multiple times I needed to stage an intervention
Plus I'm hilarious 😂
🧪 Another Halloween, another batch of highly inaccurate and horrifying plastic skeleton decorations to look at in this year’s seasonally spooky blogpost.
And yes, the snail skeleton is addressed. Kinda. Ugh.
animalarchaeology.com/2025/10/30/t...
Overview of the current and multiple issues happening at HES, written up by @bajr-badger.bsky.social
To echo David's sentiments, solidarity with the staff who are trying their best in this environment
Interest has perked up in this again, so... here's an extract from the Wiltshire Times' report on the auction, published 25 Sept 1915 - the purchaser was Mrs Chubb, not Mr...:
What is Happening at HES????
Our discovery is just a matter of time and culture we live in. It would not surprise me if future archaeologists look upon us as we do those antiquarians that came before.
it's such a shame that creative works are leveraged to demonstrate the wonderful inaccuracy and lack of knowledge we have
Let me get my hands on some of that immaterial culture please
Again let us remember that repatriation is not really the return of physical items but rather the transfer of power of who decides ownership and place of those items.
If these items are illicitly stolen or stolen by conquest what demands exist in negotiation?
The Platner discourse now being used not only as a cudgel to beat leftists with (despite most of the quick condemnations - if not complete dismissal long before this - coming from communists and other leftists) but also as a means of painting all leftists as “white” and “privileged” is really shit.
Archaeology is a mess and like I don't know how to convey that without sounding delusional
Not like conspiracy wise but like we dig through rubbish and infer human behaviour, it's messy and unsure and ultimately human.
The Smeds and the Smoos is an allegory for the Troubles and no one can convince me otherwise, do you see how many times "never" is used?
As someone who grew up in Northern Ireland, the flag discourse in the UK is giving me serious flashbacks to my youth
The EAA debacle is becoming a teachable moment in real time www.e-a-a.org/EAA2025/Home...
I just published my article Archaeology as Worldbuilding, an effort that grows out of 20+ years of digital (and analog) archaeological making. Adjacent to recent arguments about storytelling, I broaden our scope to make past worlds & tell stories in community with others.
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
🏺 With alt-text added.
BTC Call for Action - EAA
EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.
Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
Utterly disappointing decision by @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social to reverse this decision, and really gross to see intimidation tactics being instructed for session monitors. Support colleagues who speak up and who refuse to enforce the EAA's instructions. 🏺
It's really sinking in that the EAA are requiring session volunteers, the least powerful people at a conference, to enforce their anti democratic decision to curb the academic free speech of presenters. It's despicable.
It's dead internet theory isn't it? My filters are getting more useless by the day
📢 Conference alert! CAA Australasia are holding their third online conference, from Thurs 2nd to Sat 4th October, 2025. We're currently calling for abstracts on digital and computational archaeology (15-min presentations or 5-min lightning talks), due Tues 19th Aug: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F....
