Ollie Harris

Nesrine Malik remains the Guardian’s best writer by some considerable distance

Book cover - Archaeology for Today and Tomorrow

Now open access: Archaeology for Today and Tomorrow.

www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

#archaeology
#openaccess

Avebury standing stones

Visiting some old friends for #standingstonesunday

So, if you are an @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social (EAA) member from 2025-2026, you received yesterday your email for the per-rollam vote of the past Special Meeting and the documentation attached to it… if you still doubt what to vote, please read all the documents. My short digest:

Title page of manuscript for a book called Urban Deep Time

Contents page of manuscript for a book called Urban Deep Time

Doing final edits on the text of my forthcoming book, Urban Deep Time: the contemporary archaeology of prehistory. Hopefully it should be out by the end of the year, published by Bloomsbury. #UrbanPrehistory

The Narco-Terrorist Elite - The American Prospect Why is Marco Rubio so hell-bent on making Iran-Contra again?

This is incredibly worth reading in light of what is happening now and the basis on which Trump and Rubio are pursuing charges against Maduro.

Also to add I was really proud of the brilliant sessions and papers run @tag2025york.bsky.social by all our Leicester staff and students, some absolute corkers out there. Very lucky to think and work with such a committed bunch of talented theorists

Safely home after a brilliant few days at @tag2025york.bsky.social thanks so much to the whole team there for all their efforts including @pennybickle.bsky.social @evamol.bsky.social and @clmorgan.bsky.social ace work guys.

Archaeological Theory Summer School 2026 | Centre for Material Worlds Past and Present | University of Leicester Find out more about the summer school at the Centre for Material Worlds Past and Present.

Interested in archaeological theory? PhD or postdoc? Have a think if you fancy coming to our inaugural summer school next year! Lots of theory and lots of fun over three days

le.ac.uk/research/cen...

Ha ha this was my exact reaction as well!

Oh that is late teaching! Hopefully Exeter next year instead?

In shock news — I’ll be there!

My partner is both a massive @helleborezine.bsky.social fan and works in Westminster and about five people have sent her this today asking if she was involved 😹

Huge congratulations to @sinskip.bsky.social, Anna, and the whole THH team! Celebratory cigars don't seem too appropriate though 🤣

Lunch time quick read is a new blog @archscot.bsky.social: "This is the first in a series of blog posts where I will take you with me as I follow in the footsteps of Audrey Henshall & other women who pioneered archaeological research into the Neolithic of the west coast of Scotland." bit.ly/3IVkxWb

Drystone facade with large megalithic stones forming entrance to passage entering large cairn

Passage of cairn with large stone side slabs all covered incised decoration and with stone slab floor and capstones

Large standing forming side slab of passage. Covered in incised decoration comprising rainbow 🌈 shaped forms, large ones in middle and smaller to side.

View into large square chamber at end of passage. Two large decorated backslabs and massive single paving stone.

Gavrinis is the most amazing megalithic site I have been privileged to visit. Taking a boat to reach, you encounter a remarkable concentration of #Neolithic rock art at a single megalithic monument. A deeply powerful & inspiring place.

@megalithic.bsky.social #rockart #archaeology #TombTuesday

📢 Registration is now open! 📢

Sign up for in-person attendance before 31 October 2025 to get Early Bird prices.

Waged delegate fee is £110
Unwaged delegate fee is £40

More information and links to register can be found on the TAG York website: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/registrat...

Donate to Help FT Stay Here...Or Start over, organized by F Theory Short version first: I’m an undocumented freelancer/gig worker with no health insu… F Theory needs your support for Help FT Stay Here...Or Start over

I’m trying to post my gofundme link consistently but not too much. Tbh I’m probably not posting it enough but I don’t want to harass you all.

Repost/share/signal boost greatly appreciated! 🙏

As ever, thank you, friends, for helping us fight the algorithm and supporting independent presses 🙏🏼🖤✨

Screenshot of first page of multi-authored American Antiquity forum, "Questions Worth Asking"

Just out, #openaccess forum, "Questions Worth Asking: Un-Disciplining Archaeology, Reclaiming Pasts for Better Futures." Download here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Please share. #archaeology

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...

Hamilakis, Y. 2026. Archaeology as a hauntology of remains. In Shadow Archaeologies In the Shadow of Antiquity or For Other Modes of Archaeological Worldmaking, edited by A. Nativ and G. Lucas. London... In this chapter, I propose a hauntological archaeology, not as a subdiscipline, a subfield, or a method but as an affect, as a way of allowing or rather enabling material remains to haunt us. This is ...

Archaeology defined as a hauntology of remains. A theoretical statement grounded on my work on ruins as well as my recent work on the remnants of contemporary migration. Part of a great volume! Grateful to the editors and to many colleagues who helped out!

www.academia.edu/143309448/Ha...

Geographers of the ancient Greek world. Selected texts in translation – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.07...

I am really enjoying these lectures from FT — well worth the money and this week it’s Empedocles, Deleuze’s favourite pre-Socratic philosopher (according to one of his seminars). A must listen for my long Sunday drive! We all need distractions at the moment and this series is a great one.

Sure?! Shows my proof reading skills are not where they should be 😹

A poster showing a fist and encouraging people to send in abstracts for a TAG session

Come and chat power with us @tag2025york.bsky.social in December!

Living Amongst and with Trees: Botanical Agency and the Archaeology of Plant-Human Relationships The last decade has seen a significant change in the way the humanities have approached the study of botanical life. Termed ‘the plant turn’, this questions traditional views of plants as a largely...

New paper on the nature of plant life and its relationship to human life during the Mesolithic! Thanks to @ojth.bsky.social, Amy Gray Jones and @graemewarren.bsky.social for comments and advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Outcome is my best guess!