Ollie Harris
@ojth.bsky.social
Professor of Archaeology | Fan of archaeological theory and Neolithic and Bronze Age stuff | Co-director of the Ardnamurchan Transitions Project | Collaborator on the New History of Bronze | Likes a bit of Deleuze at the weekend
The sessions for @tag26exeter.bsky.social are available, check them out! I’m running two, one looking at the last 25 years of studying emotion in archaeology with @jrosantos.bsky.social & one on the potential for archaeological fabulation with @rachelcrellin.bsky.social tag2026.square.site/sessions
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Like microwear analysis? Like Deleuze-inflected theory? Like the Neolithic & Bronze Age? Like hundreds of object studies? Given that is a Venn diagram that doesn’t even include all the authors, probably not. But indulge me & download this anyway link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
‘A Life Proper to Matter’: Re-Animating Museum Collections Through New Materialism and Microwear
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Congrats to David, a really excellent piece of work bringing archaeological science and theory together, and easily one of the most fun PhD’s I’ve supervised (not least because his main guide @palaeohan.bsky.social kept all the science on track so well)
Dr David Osborne@daosborne.bsky.social · 3mo agoPleased (amazed, delighted, astonished) to announce that last week I passed my PhD viva (thesis defence) with no corrections! I’m grateful to Professor Joanna Brück, University College Dublin, and Professor Mark Pearce, University of Nottingham, for an enjoyable discussion of my thesis.
What is the relationship between kinship and bodies in ancient Egypt? Olabarria (yours truly!) shows that we cannot take our intuitive distinction between nature and nurture for granted and uses the notion of body worlds to shed light on the Egyptian category of ‘bodily son’. #EgyptologyInDialogue
I need FT’s next set of anti-Oedipus lectures the same way I need Oxygen so please support if you can (and help a good person make a new home if that matters to you more I suppose)
FT@fucktheory.bsky.social · 3mo agoWell, it’s official - I’m moving to Europe end of May. Everything is booked. Folks have already been extremely generous, but expenses are many, costs are crazy, and my income will be limited for the foreseeable future. So I’m doing one more round of GFM boosting. Shares greatly appreciated!
My first foray into Ancient Egypt!
Leire Olabarria@leireolabarria.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe question is not what an ancient Egyptian body is but, rather, what can an ancient Egyptian body do? In this commentary, @ojth.bsky.social explores the potential of archaeological and philosophical theories to redefine our understanding of ancient Egyptian bodies #EgyptologyInDialogue
What does it mean to be in dialogue? In what ways can Egyptology constructively engage with other disciplines? This introduction brings Egyptology in dialogue with archaeological and anthropological theory by presenting four key concepts, namely body worlds, relations, comparisons, and negotiation.
TAG 2026 is go! Excited to be hosting in Exeter this year, 14-16 December. Get those session proposal thinking caps on!
@tag26exeter.bsky.social · 5mo agoWelcome to TAG 2026, the 47th Annual Meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group! The Department of Archaeology and History at the University of Exeter is thrilled to be hosting the conference this year, 14-16 December. Our call for sessions is now open! tag2026.square.site
Nesrine Malik remains the Guardian’s best writer by some considerable distance
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 7mo agoWhat links Jeffrey Epstein and Keir Starmer’s government? A thick seam of contempt | Nesrine Malik
Now open access: Archaeology for Today and Tomorrow. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon... #archaeology #openaccess
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:
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
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.
The Narco-Terrorist Elite - The American Prospect
Why is Marco Rubio so hell-bent on making Iran-Contra again?
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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.
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...
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.
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In shock news — I’ll be there!
Antiquity Journal@antiquity.ac.uk · 9mo agoJust under a month until the Theoretical Archaeology Group meeting @tag2025york.bsky.social! This year's theme is 'Theory in Action', so come along from the 15th-17th December to explore how archaeological theory can make an impact on the world. Learn more: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/ 🏺
Huge congratulations to @sinskip.bsky.social, Anna, and the whole THH team! Celebratory cigars don't seem too appropriate though 🤣
Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · 9mo ago#THEAwards Research Project of the Year: Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences goes to the University of Leicester for an interdisciplinary study, led by Dr Sarah Inskip, which uncovered the long-term health impacts of tobacco use in historical populations. Leicester’s second win tonight! 🤩
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
Setting Sail: Henshall Project Beginnings and the Journey to Ardnamurchan | Archaeology Scotland
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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...
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! 🙏
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As ever, thank you, friends, for helping us fight the algorithm and supporting independent presses 🙏🏼🖤✨
Hellebore@helleborezine.bsky.social · 11mo agoReady for a new issue? Pre-orders for The Mirror Issue are now open worldwide! ✨🪞✨ Mirror magic, ritual masks, films that cast a spell, doppelgängers and fetches, changelings, evil portraits, spirit traps and much more. 👉🏼 helleborezine.com
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...
Archaeology as Worldbuilding | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge Core
Archaeology as Worldbuilding
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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...
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 ...
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