“we cannot assume that our contemporary understanding of gender would have applied to ancient societies” An article via @trowelblazers.bsky.social on the BJ 581 grave & the (continuing) arguments about gender & gender roles in ancient societies #archaeology trowelblazers.com/2023/01/18/t...

Cc @trowelblazers.bsky.social !

Elevation Science Institute for Natural History Exploration@elevationscience.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Women in paleontology! Last week, we happened to notice that we had a group of incredible women working in the same area of the quarry. Each of these people, and all those we get to work with, are the picture of grace, good humor, hard work, and intelligence. We're honored to work alongside them!

Australian archaeologist Isabel McBryde has passed away. Our bio of her on @trowelblazers.bsky.social (over ten years ago, already!) Isabel McBryde - Trowelblazers share.google/uw3IB1qvMhca...

Lady Mary Bailey #Irish aviator. 1931 "personally guided from England to nether tip of S Africa & back", prob'ly 1st woman 2 take aerial photos of archaeological sites in #Egypt d. #OTD 29 Jul 1960 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ba... & @trowelblazers.bsky.social post trowelblazers.com/lady-mary-ba...

Today i attended the funeral of Isabel McBryde, a giant of Australian archaeology. So many former students, friends and colleagues stood up with tributes that it ran over time. It was humbling to be present and hear all the ways she changed peoples lives with kindness and care. An inimitable woman.

‘Why hasn’t Brenna kept up with the tb socials’ finally answered 😅😅😅😘

Brenna Hassett@brennawalks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I am soooo excited for #tx of my little radio show! First ep tonight, starting with the beautiful voice of my uncle chris hassett. it’s #prehistory it’s #voice it’s #archaeology and just a bit family. What a joy to make ❤️ on bbc radio 3 every night this week at 21:45! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Remembering Professor Dame Rosemary Cramp, born #OnThisDay in 1929. The first female professor at @durham.ac.uk, she is best known for her ground-breaking work on Anglo-Saxon England. Read some of her research from 1987 in Antiquity (£) doi.org/10.1017/S000... @trowelblazers.bsky.social

This #FossilFriday, Lyme Regis Museum is aiming to buy a handwritten letter by #MaryAnning. To help raise the funds, an auction featuring an original piece of art by palaeoartist Lee Brown is now live. Please consider bidding and helping the museum raise these funds :) www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticket...

WOW! What a find - Anning writing to someone unknown, potentially referencing another female collector... "But was so worn out after you saw me that I almost wish'd that I might never see a Lady again and the name of fossils makes me sick with its concominants [sic]..." Pls support!

Tori Herridge@toriherridge.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨HELP NEEDED! The Lyme Regis Museum needs to raise another £5,900 by 26th March to buy a rare letter by Mary Anning. There are so few tangible records of Anning, and NONE in her home town (AFAIK all are elsewhere). Please share (& donate if you can)! www.lymeregismuseum.co.uk/help-to-brin...

For anyone at #aaba2026 there is a great women’s networking and mentorship group — happy hour later today too! bawmn.org

Biological Anthropology Women's Mentoring Network

Creating Connections and Supporting Women across Bioanthropology

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Making a map of Maud Cunnington’s eleven Iron Age excavations, so that she can finally reclaim her rightful place in our disciplinary history.

#MaryLeakey 👀 at M. Wheeler... Quoted in this fab review of her 1984 book: “I can’t help wondering whether many of the achievements in archaeological discovery and methodology that are so often attributed to him did not rightly belong to his charming and extremely able first wife, Tessa”... p. 37)."

Darren Naish@tetzoo.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The new Tet Zoo article on Mary Leakey's 1984 biography now has 16 reader comments. Thanks to those who've visited and left comments so far. I've been thinking about doing a follow-up article on competing views about australopithecine taxonomy. tetzoo.com/blog/2026/3/...

Happy no-longer-boycotting-#IWD -actively-protesting-it-day ;) Shout out to everyone does this work anyway ❤️💪 www.instagram.com/reel/DVnkI0R...

How do we lose the history of women in academia? Well, start by losing their citations to better networked groups… This makes me think of the citation analyses of ‘who gets taught’ in archaeology that Colleen Morgan at York did (and I tried elsewhere) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Article here the-past.com/feature/expa... (footnote ref to @trowelblazers.bsky.social)

Expanding frontiers: Celebrating the Mothers of Romano-British studies | The Past

The early days of Romano-British research are often thought to have been dominated by male excavators, but many female archaeologists also made vital contri ...

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Rebecca Jones@drbecjones.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Delighted to attend #CALive26 yesterday and speak with Tatiana on our project researching women pioneers of Roman archaeology in the 19th & 20th centuries

Ah this looks like a great series; hybrid as well. www.bsa.ac.uk/events/women...

British School at Athens : Women Archaeologists and War

Women Archaeologists and War Fourth workshop on Women in the Archaeology of Greece By the École française d’Athènes and the British School at Athens, with the support of the British […]

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Including very helpful information on women lecturing on archaeology at the Institute that we used in @beyondnotables.bsky.social database!

UCL Institute of Archaeology@uclarchaeology.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Day 9 of 200: Annual Report of the Institute of Archaeology. Volumes 1-13 of the Annual Report of the Institute of Archaeology now available online as open access journal through the Internet Archive and UCL Digital Collections. 📲 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo... #UCL200 @uclspeccoll.bsky.social

I had no idea video of Margaret Murray existed! The one the only OG TrowelBlazer Witch 😍👑🙌 www.instagram.com/reel/DVRSsmZ...

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This should be great. Send us a copy!!!! 😜

Katherine Harloe@katherineharloe.bsky.social · 7mo ago

That exciting feeling when you notice you have a new book out (even though you haven't quite finished it yet!) press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... @amalexathorn.bsky.social @sharonhoward.bsky.social @corabeth.bsky.social

11 February 1765, London: birth of Elizabeth Knipe, later Mrs Cobbold, poet, writer & pioneer fossil collector from the Plio-Pleistocene Red Crag Formation of Suffolk. From 1813 to 1824 she sent over 40 fossils to James Sowerby for his Mineral Conchology, one of which he named Nucula Cobboldiae.

#FossilFriday: Always worth keeping an eye out for this specimen if you visit @nhm-london.bsky.social, the ichthyosaur found at Lyme Regis by #MaryAnning and her brother in 1811–12, the first specimen to come to scientific attention, and its impressive ring of sclerotic plates.

It is International Day of Women in Science! For this ocassion, a thread on influential women that illustrate prehistoric life🧵 Marta Szubert. Creator of one of the first to-scale feathered dinosar models (1997). If you've been to Poland or Slovakia, you've probably seen her models on display.

And here's a video - Wild beaches! Cosy house! Gorgeous views! Ammonites galore! Gifts for #MaryAnning! The Cobb! Palaeontology-themed wine!

TrowelBlazers@trowelblazers.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Well what a week at Belmont in Lyme Regis! Thanks to Landmark Trust Futures, we had a fully in-person, extended AGM, with time to think through & plan our future. We also kicked off our new project on women connected with #MaryAnning, inc museum archives 🗃️, & really got into the fossiling vibe 🐚!

And here's a video - Wild beaches! Cosy house! Gorgeous views! Ammonites galore! Gifts for #MaryAnning! The Cobb! Palaeontology-themed wine!

TrowelBlazers@trowelblazers.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Well what a week at Belmont in Lyme Regis! Thanks to Landmark Trust Futures, we had a fully in-person, extended AGM, with time to think through & plan our future. We also kicked off our new project on women connected with #MaryAnning, inc museum archives 🗃️, & really got into the fossiling vibe 🐚!

Well what a week at Belmont in Lyme Regis! Thanks to Landmark Trust Futures, we had a fully in-person, extended AGM, with time to think through & plan our future. We also kicked off our new project on women connected with #MaryAnning, inc museum archives 🗃️, & really got into the fossiling vibe 🐚!

As a Gates Cambridge Scholar, my MPhil & PhD research were supported by the Gates Cambridge Trust. This month they're featuring scholars' impact in archaeology, including my work in understanding adaptation to climate and environmental change in past societies. www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/g...

Gates Cambridge: Impact in Archaeology - Gates Cambridge

Gates Cambridge Scholars have been doing outstanding work to shed light on our early history, from climate change to ancient snakes.

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This Victorian observatory tower was 👌 www.instagram.com/reel/DUadfGP...

Everyday is a Jurassic adventure on our epic Landmark Trust stay at Belmont House in Lyme Regis. Today: damn the tides, damn the busses; we’re going to Charmouth! (And meeting a fossil shop dog 😍) www.instagram.com/reel/DUYj0RE...

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