Great to catch up with some old friends and hear thought provoking presentations at #CIfA2026.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

This afternoon at #Cifa2026 is the Women in Commercial Archaeology Session. The room is very full.

If you are at #CiFA2026 please come say hello!

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. 1/

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Jay Hulme@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

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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Human Evolution Research Institute at University of Cape Town@heriuct.bsky.social · 9mo ago

105,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left their mark at Gamohana Hill North Rockshelter in the Kalahari. They crafted points from galaxy tuff, a 2.4-billion-year-old glass-like stone. Not just a rock, but evidence of skill, planning, and ingenuity. 📖 Read more at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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

🧪 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...

The (Entirely Inaccurate, Completely Nonsensical) Plastic Skeleton Wars Continue

Let’s be real – you know exactly what this blog post is about. I’ve been writing about these cursed plastic objects for years now. After doing an overview of the worst iterations …

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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...:

Martyn Barber@martynjb.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Is it time to do a top ten modern myths* about Stonehenge? Saw a lot of this yesterday. Cecil Chubb did not go to the auction to buy chairs (or curtains) for his wife, who had a name - Mary; and the money used to buy Stonehenge was hers. [*by 'modern myths', I of course mean utter b*ll*cks]

What is Happening at HES????

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?

Communications Officer of #SquirrelTeamSix@squizzradical.bsky.social · 11mo ago

@jwhoopes2.bsky.social This is so fantastic!!! globalnews.ca/news/1148957...

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...

Dan Hicks@profdanhicks.bsky.social · last yr.

the situation at EAA conference is getting worse by the minute — we’re committed to your freedom of speech but don’t speak up is a nonsense whoever is leading this needs to resign www.e-a-a.org/EAA/News___P...

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...

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The Black Trowel Collective@blacktrowel.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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. 🏺

The Black Trowel Collective@blacktrowel.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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.

Steph Halmhofer@cultarchaeo.bsky.social · last yr.

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. 🏺

📢 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....

2025 Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Australasia Third Online Conference

The Australasian chapter of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology is hosting our third free online conference later this year and invites contributions from archaeologists base...

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Nyamakop has now had multiple museums reach out now to ask if we need more artifacts for Relooted, and if we'd like to 3D scan parts of their African collection. It was very much not on my bingo card that real life museums would be asking us to fictionally steal their artifacts lol