🏺 A miner's cart of dirt-encrusted antiquities. 💼 A shell company. 🤐 A confession. For Hyperallergic, Erin L. Thompson examines the Aboutaam network—and asks what responsibility museums have to report suspicious objects. https://ow.ly/QGle50ZsoNC

Why Do So Many Museums Hold a Convicted Antiquity Dealer’s Treasures?

After The Met returned a Roman bust connected to Phoenix Ancient Art, the question of what will happen to other works sold by the gallery to dozens of US institutions remains open.

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We tend to think of 1923 as the year all things Ottoman came to an end. And yet, the 1906 Ottoman antiquities law remained in force for decades after the establishment of the Turkish Republic . Did you know that? Let me know in the comments! #MSCA #MMARe #HistoryOfArchaeology #Mediterranean

Should I do a 🧵 on my just-published article on how one of the most trusted - and most expensive - antiquities dealers was faking the paperwork to make freshly looted artifacts look like they had long, legal ownership histories? I should. But I'm so tired. Tomorrow! hyperallergic.com/why-do-so-ma...

Why Do So Many Museums Hold a Convicted Antiquity Dealer’s Treasures?

After The Met returned a Roman bust connected to Phoenix Ancient Art, the question of what will happen to other works sold by the gallery to dozens of US institutions remains open.

hyperallergic.com

Despite ‘hydration breaks’ and parasols providing artificial shade, our fieldwork and excavations are being significantly hampered by the current #heatwave 😰. Archaeological fieldwork, too, will have to adapt to the #ClimateCrisis in order to protect those involved. #archaeology 🏺

In 1928, Dorothy Garrod pioneered excavations at Hazar Merd Cave Renewed investigations are now refining the site's sequence Revisiting Hazar Merd Cave: 100 years after Dorothy Garrod’s excavations🏺🧪 Saman Heydari-Guran, Stefano Benazzi @boneslab.bsky.social et al www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Lena’s an amazing scholar & wonderful person. She chose our repatriation project in Mitla for funding thru her ‘Imagining Futures through Un/Archived Pasts’ initiative (@exeter.ac.uk). It’s in part bc of her that we finished the Zapotec translation of our book & the community can access its heritage

Katherine McDonald@katherinemcdon.bsky.social · last mo.

Next, Elena Isayev. Lena is honestly a scholar who has profoundly changed my work, and changed it for the better. She was, and is, an unbelievable mentor to me. We share an interest in ancient Lucania, but she's also the best role model for women in Classics.

Happy 45th to Raiders of the Lost Ark! Here’s a piece I wrote 5 years ago on what real archaeologists think about Indiana Jones. 🏺🧪

The Enduring Myths of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'

Forty years later, archaeologists look back at what the first Indiana Jones movie got wrong about their profession

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This is the special issue: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cerh20/3...

European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire

Special Issue: Digging in the Eastern Mediterranean: antiquities, workforce and identities in Ottoman and post-Ottoman times/ Creuser en Méditerranée orientale: antiquités, main-d'oeuvre et identités à l'époque ottomane et post-ottomane. Volume 31, Issue 6 of European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire

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Point well taken—and check out that ToC! This one is definitely on our reading list: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

Excavating Power | Archaeological Labour, Imperial Narratives, and Ide

This book analyses archaeological excavations and the use of antiquities in the eastern Mediterranean from a unique and original perspective, that of power

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Dr Sarah Irving@drtermagant.bsky.social · 2mo ago

FYI, if you’re in a journal special issue with T&F they might propose turning into a book. They will also say that contributors only get digital copies. Here’s proof that a couple of stroppy emails will turn those into hard copies:

I received an email this morning from a fellow working with Alice Beck Kehoe about digital archaeology but he found me through this old post. Click through if you want old school Binford Americanist archaeology drama, wherein Alice replies herself! 🏺 middlesavagery.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/f...

Flaming the Dead – Alice Beck Kehoe vs. Lew Binford

Lewis Binford and His Moral Majority is an excoriating article that attacks the late Lewis Binford on a primarily professional but also a profoundly personal level. All of the inset quotes are Keho…

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Lovely to see "Pathways to Inclusive Digital Archaeological Archives" available now via firstview in Advances in Archaeological Practice (open access). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

British colonel & archaeologist T.E. Lawrence (aka Lawrence of Arabia), best known for his role in the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, died #OnThisDay in AD 1935. 🏺 Explore the #archaeology of the Arab Revolt (£) in Antiquity doi.org/10.1017/S000...

I had an article out recently on the complex ways in which ‘post-colonial’ (archaeological) knowledge moved, the conditions that allowed it, and why it’s important to finally move beyond that old Bruce Trigger article characterising types of archaeological work: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Developing Indian pasts? The Archaeological Survey of India, ‘postcolonial’ archaeology, and technical assistance in Nepal - William Carruthers, 2026

This article examines archaeological assistance provided to Nepal by the Archaeological Survey of India as part of India’s aid efforts there in the 1960s. It de...

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Snettisham finds in Norwich Castle are mainly from the first discoveries from 1948 ploughing - hoards A (the tubular torcs), B and C (which were mixed hoards of broken material). You can read about the torc finders here: bigbookoftorcs.com/2020/07/15/t... 1/2 #Archaeology 🏺

The torc finders of Snettisham

Since we started working with Iron Age torcs, we’ve always been fascinated by Ray Williamson and Tom Rout, the two East Anglian ploughmen who first found torcs at Snettisham. Usually mentione…

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Ian Kikuchi@curatorian.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Some amazing items from the Snettisham Hoard, dating to around 70 BC, and excavated from 1948 to the 1990s.

Our paper on archival approaches to large digital cultural resource databases is now out open access! 🏺🗃️: doi.org/10.15184/aqy... We describe a method derived from #archive science as a complement to #BigData approaches to #development-led datasets, applied to #SouthAfrica but relevant globally

Project biography: an archival approach to large digital cultural resource management datasets | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Project biography: an archival approach to large digital cultural resource management datasets

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Thank you! Professor Kaner will be delivering a second lecture dedicated to the same topic on Monday 18th May at 10am (BST) / 6pm (JST), hosted online by the Asiatic Society of Japan. Register for your attendance here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: 【ASJ】Online Lecture by Dr. Simon Kaner, Executive Director and Head of Centre for Archaeology and Heritage, SISJAC, ‘Archaeology and the Asiatic Societies: ...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: 【ASJ】Online Lecture by Dr. Simon Kaner, Executive Director and Head of Centre for Archaeology and Heritage, SISJAC, ‘Archaeology and the Asiatic Societies: ...

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New publication from the BHA! Check out Tim Murray's "The Historiography of Prehistoric Archaeology in Britain: A Brief Outline," just published online and #OpenAccess: archaeologybulletin.org/articles/10....

The Historiography of Prehistoric Archaeology in Britain: A Brief Outline | Bulletin of the History of Archaeology

Research Papers

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Sharing this in memory of Lynne Goldstein, a colleague whose mentorship shaped my career in many positive ways. Lynne had so many great stories that Autumn Painter and I recorded an oral history of her work with MSU's Campus Archaeology Program. oralhistory.campusarch.msu.edu

#OTD 100 years ago the Hampshire Telegraph reported the discovery of a #Roman villa (with baths) in a garden in Havant. 'Spes bona' indeed, unless you were trying to plant an orchard, as the homeowner was. Instead, he ended up creating something rather like the Blue Peter Italian sunken garden… 🏺

I am giving a virtual talk today (details for joining in the link) about pseudoarch! I'll share a few Canadian examples, but [spoiler alert] my deepest dive will be about the Native Sons of BC and their politically influential use of pseudoarch in the 1920s and its impacts on archaeology in BC 👀 🏺

NEW Skeletal remains of almost 25,700 people, excavated in the UK between 1869 and 2008, are unaccounted for. As well as limiting our understanding of past lives, it also poses ethical issues. A central human remains database is needed to correct this 🏺#Archaeology 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Lost or overused: legal, ethical and research imperatives for a centralised human-remains database in the UK | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Lost or overused: legal, ethical and research imperatives for a centralised human-remains database in the UK

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Interested in the history of archaeology? The Historians of Archaeology (HoA) Online Support Group has a new website: historiansofarchaeology.wordpress.com Check it out to connect, learn and contribute! Shared for reference only; opinions not my own. #MMARe #MSCA #HistoryOfArchaeology

Historians of Archaeology Online Support Group

An online community for historians of archaeology of all backgrounds, ages, abilities and career stages

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🏺 Collection Highlight🏺 We would like to highlight the Unlocking Old Windsor archive. Based on six seasons of excavation in the 1950s, this archive brings together resources previous divided between organisations for the first time. To read more visit: archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/news-events/...

👋 It's great to welcome so many new members recently! We are more than a research network, we are a support group. 🗃️🏺We connect scholars at all career stages and independent scholars and students, working on the #history of #archaeology in a variety of settings and in different formats. 🧵

Dr Hélène Maloigne@hmaloigne.bsky.social · last yr.

🏺🗃️ Historians of archaeology are always welcome to join our online support group! Sing up here: forms.gle/7UVKDmfRhJXB... ✅ Don't forget to tick yes on the form to receive a link to our #Discord server! 👋the group is open to all career stages

The BHA is now on LinkedIn! In case you're interested: www.linkedin.com/company/bull...

Bulletin of the History of Archaeology | LinkedIn

Bulletin of the History of Archaeology | 5 followers on LinkedIn. Open-access journal for the study of the history of archaeology, worldwide. Founded 1991 and published by ]u[ Ubiquity. | The Bulletin...

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This picture freaks me out for another reason: US archaeology has OSHA requirements. These chuckleheads look like they’re digging down with zero consideration for safe egress or cave-in protections. 😬 👷🏻‍♀️🏺

Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨 Do not do this! 🚨 “Amateur archaeology” without someone actually trained in the field is just digging, y’all. Let professionals do what they were trained for many years to do. Also these object aren’t “ancient”—they are 18th century. people.com/amateur-arch...

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

Fun fact about us for #InternationalWomensDay - our 1st graduating students were women - Margaret Crichton Mitchell (later Stewart), 1st ever class🥇in #Archaeology MA 1930, PhD 1934 (Childe's only PhD student) & Barbara Laidler our 1st ever BSc Archaeology (c. 1930s)! @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 🏺

I helped edit this super cool story of a dude from India who wrote his name on Egyptian tombs 2,000 years ago! 🏺🧪

Live Science@livescience.com · 5mo ago

'Cikai Korran came here and saw': Visitors from India graffitied dozens of Egyptian tombs 2,000 years ago www.livescience.com/archaeology/...