Unfortunately, the Black Trowel Collective Microgrants is paused again due to the program losing its non-profit status in the US. This status was required for maintaining our US PayPal Business account, which we use to accept, hold and disburse funds. Without it, we’re unable to manage the account or process any payments. We’re currently exploring how to get our non-profit status reinstated, but until that happens, we’re unable to accept new applications.

We’re happy to announce that the BTC Microgrants program is now accepting applications again. After a brief pause while we resolved account access issues, we’re ready to continue supporting archaeology students. While applications are usually open from the 1st to the 10th of each month, this month will be an exception. Because we want to reopen as soon as possible, …

Intimidation Tactics Force Archaeological Association to Abandon Gaza Solidarity Last week the executive board of the European Association of Archaeologists took the decision, in light of the ongoi…

Find our various zines here, ready to download and distribute! Trans Liberation Beak Zine Trans Liberation beakzineDownload Running Safer Sessions safer_sessionsDownload Don’t Panic! Zine Don…

Hablemos del elefante en la habitación. Pongamos sobre la mesa los dilemas y los predicamentos del ejercicio profesional en el sistema cultural mexicano.

Hey, archaeologists! As archaeologists, we tend to be the doing sort, the busybodies shovelling and sorting, keeping and caring, custodians of time, places, people. It’s time to lean into that, to …

The Black Trowel Collective stands in solidarity with Palestinian archaeologists and acknowledges the continual violence that archaeology has contributed toward the historic and ongoing genocide of…

Experts warn that the bill, which expands the Israel Antiquities Authority’s jurisdiction, violates international law and could lead to sanctions against Israel