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Established in 1991, the BHA is a peer-reviewed #OpenAccess journal focused on global histories of archaeology, published by Ubiquity Press. See more at archaeologybulletin.org, and follow us here for updates on articles, research, & events!

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Bulletin of the History of Archaeology @bhajournal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
New publication! Here, we have Roy Marom and Yosef Garfinkel on "The Murder of J. L. Starkey According to Local Palestinian Sources: Anti-Colonial Struggle and Local Intrigues." Here's an abstract, and the piece is available #OpenAccess here: archaeologybulletin.org/articles/10.... 🏺 🗃️
This article reexamines the 1938 assassination of British archaeologist James Leslie Starkey near Tell ed-Duweir in southern Palestine, challenging longstanding interpretations that have framed the killing as a random act of violence committed during the Arab Revolt. Building on the hypothesis proposed by Yosef Garfinkel in 2016, this study draws on overlooked local petitions, oral history interviews, British Mandatory records, and Zionist intelligence sources to argue that Starkey’s murder was a targeted response to unresolved land disputes between the excavation team and landowners from the nearby village of al-Qubayba. The article documents how Starkey’s acquisition of village lands (at times through expropriation) generated intense resentment, particularly among disenfranchised landowning families excluded from employment by the expedition. Oral testimonies, petitions, and archival evidence point to the involvement of local actors and rebel commander ʿĪsā al-Baṭṭāṭ...
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Bulletin of the History of Archaeology @bhajournal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New publication! See Vincent Engelhardt and Jakob Wigand on "The Politics of Provenance Research: Reassessing the Appropriation of Finds from the Samarra Excavations," available #OpenAccess here: archaeologybulletin.org/articles/10.... . Check out the abstract below. 🏺 🗃️
Publications by the Berlin State Museum have justified the presence of archaeological objects from the Abbasid residence of Samarra in its collections by referring to a supposed legal division of finds between the excavators and the Ottoman authorities. However, despite the institution's refusal to grant access to external researchers, this article reexamines the archaeological excavations in Samarra conducted between 1911 and 1913 under the direction of the German archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld. By critically engaging with existing scholarship and drawing on new archival evidence, we argue that a significant number of artefacts were unlawfully exported from the Ottoman Empire to Berlin and that no such legal division of finds ever took place. Additionally, we interrogate the institution's exclusion of independent provenance research...
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Bulletin of the History of Archaeology @bhajournal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New publication! See Vincent Engelhardt and Jakob Wigand on "The Politics of Provenance Research: Reassessing the Appropriation of Finds from the Samarra Excavations," available #OpenAccess here: archaeologybulletin.org/articles/10.... . Check out the abstract below. 🏺 🗃️
Publications by the Berlin State Museum have justified the presence of archaeological objects from the Abbasid residence of Samarra in its collections by referring to a supposed legal division of finds between the excavators and the Ottoman authorities. However, despite the institution's refusal to grant access to external researchers, this article reexamines the archaeological excavations in Samarra conducted between 1911 and 1913 under the direction of the German archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld. By critically engaging with existing scholarship and drawing on new archival evidence, we argue that a significant number of artefacts were unlawfully exported from the Ottoman Empire to Berlin and that no such legal division of finds ever took place. Additionally, we interrogate the institution's exclusion of independent provenance research...
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Dr Hélène Maloigne @hmaloigne.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
🏺🗃️ 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
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Bulletin of the History of Archaeology @bhajournal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Society for American Archaeology meeting deadline is coming up on September 10th! The History of Archaeology Interest Group always puts on interesting panels—check out this CfP from Fernando Armstrong-Fumero:
Untold Stories of Excavations Past: Oral History as a Tool for Understanding the History of Post-World War II Archaeology.
Some of the most important stories in the history of science focus on the changing political, social and economic contexts in which key ideas evolve.... research on the context of post-World War Il archaeology offers distinct opportunities. Chief among these is the possibility of using oral history.
In this session, we would like to unite a group of papers that examine the potentials of oral history research for understanding the evolution of archaeology since the second half of the twentieth century... 
We hope to unite papers that both provide case studies and theoretical or conceptual reflections on the importance of oral history in advancing the historiography of archaeology. If interested, please send a title and abstract to Fernando Armstrong-Fumero (farmstro
Demail.smith.edu) by 3 September, 2026
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Bulletin of the History of Archaeology @bhajournal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Society for American Archaeology meeting deadline is coming up on September 10th! The History of Archaeology Interest Group always puts on interesting panels—check out this CfP from Fernando Armstrong-Fumero:
Untold Stories of Excavations Past: Oral History as a Tool for Understanding the History of Post-World War II Archaeology.
Some of the most important stories in the history of science focus on the changing political, social and economic contexts in which key ideas evolve.... research on the context of post-World War Il archaeology offers distinct opportunities. Chief among these is the possibility of using oral history.
In this session, we would like to unite a group of papers that examine the potentials of oral history research for understanding the evolution of archaeology since the second half of the twentieth century... 
We hope to unite papers that both provide case studies and theoretical or conceptual reflections on the importance of oral history in advancing the historiography of archaeology. If interested, please send a title and abstract to Fernando Armstrong-Fumero (farmstro
Demail.smith.edu) by 3 September, 2026
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Bulletin of the History of Archaeology @bhajournal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New publication! Check out Susan M. Dixon's "The Roman Forum Excavation Under Lanciani and Boni: Classical Archaeology in Flux," available #OpenAccess here: archaeologybulletin.org/articles/10.... . Abstract follows:
This article reconsiders the Roman Forum excavation in the four decades after the Unification of Italy with the purpose of observing changes in the discipline of classical archaeology. It evaluates more than just the shift in what was considered normative skills for an excavator, such as those of the first director of excavation Rodolfo Lanciani (1845–1929), with his humanistic approach, to those of the second, Giacomo Boni (1859–1925), with his scientific methods. Rather, it highlights the institutional frameworks within which these men operated: the governmental offices, the academic community, and the social and public media networks which facilitated, interpreted, and disseminated the emerging archaeological knowledge. Additionally, it charts how these bodies worked to shape the excavators’ thoughts and habits, even as those bodies themselves were evolving.
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Bulletin of the History of Archaeology @bhajournal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New publication! Check out Susan M. Dixon's "The Roman Forum Excavation Under Lanciani and Boni: Classical Archaeology in Flux," available #OpenAccess here: archaeologybulletin.org/articles/10.... . Abstract follows:
This article reconsiders the Roman Forum excavation in the four decades after the Unification of Italy with the purpose of observing changes in the discipline of classical archaeology. It evaluates more than just the shift in what was considered normative skills for an excavator, such as those of the first director of excavation Rodolfo Lanciani (1845–1929), with his humanistic approach, to those of the second, Giacomo Boni (1859–1925), with his scientific methods. Rather, it highlights the institutional frameworks within which these men operated: the governmental offices, the academic community, and the social and public media networks which facilitated, interpreted, and disseminated the emerging archaeological knowledge. Additionally, it charts how these bodies worked to shape the excavators’ thoughts and habits, even as those bodies themselves were evolving.
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Antiquities Coalition @combatlooting.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
🏺 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. ow.ly/QGle50ZsoNC
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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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Artemis Papatheodorou @artemis-p.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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
The first page of the 1906 Ottoman nizamname on antiquities.
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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...
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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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Robin Peters @robinpeters85.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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 🏺
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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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...
Above) interior view of Ashkawty Tarik Cave showing exposed stratigraphy during Dorothy Garrod’s 1928 excavation (after Garrod Reference Garrod1930, fig. 12b); below) present-day surface conditions in the cave; three Kurdish archaeology students stand in approximately the same locations as the individuals in the earlier photograph (photograph by S.H. Guran).
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Morgan L. Ventura (they/she) @morganvl.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
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. 🏺🧪
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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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Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This is the special issue: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cerh20/3...
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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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Bulletin of the History of Archaeology @bhajournal.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Point well taken—and check out that ToC! This one is definitely on our reading list: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
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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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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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...
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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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Sam Holley-Kline @sholleykline.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
¿Ya viste el nuevo dossier de Dimensión Antropológica? Se trata de estudios sobre Leopoldo Batres, José Reygadas Vértiz, José García Payón, Ponciano Salazar Ortegón, John Charles Kelly, Carlos Basauri y Jorge Vivó. Disponible #AccesoAbierto aquí: revistas.inah.gob.mx/index.php/di... 🇲🇽🗃️
Portada de Dimensión Antropológica, año 80, vol. 87, enero-abril, 2023

• Leopoldo Batres: al encuentro con la antropología francesa y sus consecuencias
• José María Reygadas Vértiz (1886-1939), inspector y gestor de la arqueología en México
• José García Payón y el manejo de la arqueología durante la Época Dorada (1930-1970)
Ponciano Salazar Ortegón, incansable arqueólogo
• John Charles Kelley, el gran navegante del Mar Chichimeca. Del litoral del Suroeste Americano al de la frontera norte-centro de Mesoamérica
• Carlos Basauri y la educación indigena en México, 1920-1940
• Jorge Vivó (1906-1979). Un etnólogo cubano-mexicano
• Enfermedad y miradas etnográficas: Oaxaca y Chiapas, 1945
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Jen Baird @jenbaird.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
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...
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Pathways to Inclusive Digital Archaeological Archives | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core
Pathways to Inclusive Digital Archaeological Archives
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 19/05/2026
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...
Archaeologists studying tent rings in the desert, the remains of an Ottoman encampment.
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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
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/...
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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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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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 🏺
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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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Rachel King @rachelking.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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
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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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Royal Asiatic Society @royalasiaticsoc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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...
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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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Bulletin of the History of Archaeology @bhajournal.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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....
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The Historiography of Prehistoric Archaeology in Britain: A Brief Outline | Bulletin of the History of Archaeology
Research Papers
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A.L. McMichael @byzcapp.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
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
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Campus as Laboratory – An Oral History of MSU's Campus Archaeology Program
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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
#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… 🏺
Cutting from the Hampshire Telegraph and Post, Friday, Apr 16, 1926, with a photo captioned 'Garden showing the Roman paving, beneath which the remains were discovered' and text that begins: 
"DISCOVERY OF ROMAN REMAINS. Portion of Villa and Mosaic Paving Beneath Havant Garden.
Some time ago Mr. Walter Owen Adames, a commercial traveller, of Spes Bona, Langstone Avenue, Havant, was digging around in his garden for the purpose of planting perennials, when he had the good fortune to come across a quantity of broken Roman pottery. The finding of this accounted most probably for his inability to grow trees in the garden, and it induced him to explore further. As a result he unearthed an old foundation wall two feet thick (similar to one which was discovered only last Saturday), a stone floor composed of fine Roman cement, and a very interesting drain made of perfectly preserved red tile.
The drain, which was broken up by what was probably the hypocaust for heating the water, led to a Roman bath, the floor of which is in an almost perfect state of preservation..."
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Steph Halmhofer @cultarchaeo.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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 👀 🏺
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 07/04/2026
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...
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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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Artemis Papatheodorou @artemis-p.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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
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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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Archaeology Data Service @ads-update.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
🏺 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/...
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Dr Hélène Maloigne @hmaloigne.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
👋 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. 🧵
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Bulletin of the History of Archaeology @bhajournal.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The BHA is now on LinkedIn! In case you're interested: www.linkedin.com/company/bull...
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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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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
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. 😬 👷🏻‍♀️🏺
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
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
long stretch of worked roman stone on Hadrian's Wall.
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Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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 🏺
Black and white photo of Barbara Laidler washing a stone on West Kennet Avenue. Photo ©Alexander Keiller Museum.Black and white photo of Margaret Stewart at the Carse Farm excavation in 1964. Photo from: https://breadalbane-heritage.org.uk/about/history/margaret-e-c-stewart-in-breadalbane-heritage-society/
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I helped edit this super cool story of a dude from India who wrote his name on Egyptian tombs 2,000 years ago! 🏺🧪
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Advances in Archaeological Practice @saa-aap.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
📣 New issue is out now! As Women’s History Month begins, this issue brings attention to gender bias in #archaeology. These articles examine persistent inequities in visibility, citation, and leadership, and offer concrete strategies for change. Explore more here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Advances in Archaeological Practice: Volume 14 - Beyond Leaky Pipelines: Exploring Intersectional Gender Inequalities in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Advances in Archaeological Practice - Volume 14 - Beyond Leaky Pipelines: Exploring Intersectional Gender Inequalities in Archaeological Practice
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Advances in Archaeological Practice @saa-aap.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
How inclusive is archaeological data? Carrie Heitman’s latest digital review examines #feminist data science. She highlights how power and bias shape everything from collection to interpretation, outlining approaches for more transparent and equitable #research. 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Feminist Data Science in Archaeology? | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core
Feminist Data Science in Archaeology?
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Dr Hélène Maloigne @hmaloigne.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
🏺🗃️ The #Historians of #Archaeology group website launches soon! historiansofarchaeology.wordpress.com We welcome submissions for the blog from everyone working on any aspect of the history of archaeology (excavations, object provenance, community, popular histories, histories of science...) 1/2
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Sam Holley-Kline @sholleykline.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Can't wait to dig into this one! Sandra Rozental's work is top-notch—check out the documentary she did with Jesse Lerner here: vimeo.com/154258509
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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Via @sarahebond.bsky.social and Pasts Imperfect, the 🌟 Heba Abd el-Gawad speaking Saturday afternoon (Pacific time) - online as well, details and registration in link below. #Egypt #museums🏺📜🗃️
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Whose Egypt? Challenging How Museums Portray Egypt | Getty Events
Examine how Egypt's heritage and identity have been shaped into a museum commodity and how this approach is finally being challenged.
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Sam Holley-Kline @sholleykline.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Given... everything, I especially appreciate folks' interest in my work. In case you're curious, I've shared the introduction to my book, In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico, here: works.hcommons.org/records/hv9r... 🗃️📚🏺🇲🇽
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In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico (intro)
Located in the Papantla municipality of the Mexican state of Veracruz, El Tajín is a UNESCO World Heritage site but a lesser-known tourist destination and national symbol. The Indigenous Totonac resid...
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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Including a link to this recent piece by Heba Abd el-Gawad, senior curator of anthropology at the Horniman Museum. How museums store, treat, and enable 'non-invasive' (ahem) research on ancient Egyptian human remains is a surprise only if you've never worked in a museum or read up on the subject.📜🏺🗃️
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Ancestors’ dignity cannot wait for repatriation - Museums Association
The Horniman's Heba Abd el Gawad on the ethics of storing human remains
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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
New article! "Changing the Landscape of Archaeological Publishing" in Current Anthropology, by a giant collaborative group of coauthors fearlessly led by Jess Beck and including @bridgetalex.bsky.social @benmarwick.bsky.social @christinawarinner.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
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Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The original Neanderthal fossils were first presented to the scientific world #OnThisDay in 1857, at a meeting in Bonn. The partial skull was then thought to be Homo sapiens; it would be another six years before it was designated Homo neanderthalensis. 🏺🧪
Black-and-white scientific illustration of the Neanderthal 1 fossil skullcap from the Neander Valley discovery, shown in two views. The top drawing shows a side (profile) view of the elongated, low cranial vault with a sloping forehead and thick brow ridge area. Below it, a frontal view shows the broad, arched brow ridges and wide, low shape of the skull. The bone surface is cracked and incomplete along the edges, indicating the specimen is a partial cranium.
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Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
“Unnamed, uncaptioned: archaeological photography and colonialism at Jericho, as seen in the Kenyon Archive” by Elianna Ausdahl, open access in Archaeology International from @uclpress.bsky.social : journals.uclpress.co.uk/ai/article/i...
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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 31/01/2026
Who are the rightful #custodians of artifacts, and what is the responsibility of museums to local #communities? The film "Binnigula’sa’ (Ancient #Zapotec People)" asks pressing questions: 🏺🎬 hyperallergic.com/jorge-angel-... by @hrag.bsky.social for @hyperallergic.com
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Who Are Museums Really For? And Can We Change Our Minds?
The film Binnigula’sa’ (Ancient Zapotec People) asks the questions: Who are the rightful custodians of artifacts, and what is the responsibility of museums to local communities?
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Sam Holley-Kline @sholleykline.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Looking forward to the February release of Sandra Rozental's The Absent Stone: Mexican Patrimony and the Aftershocks of State Theft. Check out the introduction here: www.dukeupress.edu/the-absent-s.... Thanks, @dukepress.bsky.social! 🗃️📚🇲🇽🏺
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The Absent Stone: Mexican Patrimony and the Aftershocks of State Theft
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