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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Sometimes i make things (this is my first plate - please clap!)

3 ceramics on a dark stone surface. They are a small dark green plate, a small blue bowl, and a larger jade bowl

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Got a great bit of whimsy on the skyline

A screenshot of my dash. On top a post reading [DMing a mutual] hey man I'm imagining Dracula saying your latest post and it's framing me out. Could you possibly delete it"

The next post is the one this replies to

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Love to see the echoes of power in the landscape here's Restormel Castle and just south of it the Roman fort - both located on the tidal and navigable River Fowey (part of a N-S riverine route across cornwall), near iron mines, and S of the main road to w Cornwall and its tin (now the A30)

black and white lidar image imposed over an Ordnance Survey map. A river winds up the right of the image. Near the top on a headland is a large circular structure, just southeast of it is an equally large but much less pronounced square structure with a larger square enclosure projecting around the western end. These are the Castle to the north and the roman fort to the south.

Link for Restormel Castle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restormel_Castle
Link for Restormel Roman fort: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/heritage-gateway/results/record/0d636742-8028-4a8c-8b7c-e1f9aaf2d338/8e1831b8-f398-4fa1-af04-db794df82265

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Always the right time for the Gillian Anderson meme

A meme of a bubbly white woman slapping 5 high fives down a line. The white woman is labelled Hooligan Anderson made me gay. The five others are, in order, GenX-files, X-files bisexuals, elder millennials, millennials and late bloomers who watched The Fall, Gen Z Jean Milburn MILF cohort

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

20 years overseas, fully assimilated speaker of 2 further very different national dialects of English, an accent that confuses everyone who meets me and this thing clocks me as a new englander from boston every time

NY Times dialect map with a single red hot spot focused on new england between boston and maine.

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Important post from @ironspike.bsky.social Add a couple of spoonfuls of tahini and cocoa powder, maybe a bit of maple syrup to your frozen banana and boom is nutella nice cream.

Skeet from Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.so

Gotta check in from time to time to
make sure everyone knows about nice
cream.

Nice cream is just

Take three ripe bananas
Slice into coins
Freeze rock-solid
Slam through a Cuisinart/food
processor.

You get a low-effort, ice-cream-like
snack. Really good when it's hot, takes
mix-ins great,

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Love a sassy footnote (from Cunnington 1929 "Woodhenge", p184) (The joke here is that ogs crawford is the editor of @antiquity.ac.uk being referred to here as disagreeing with ogs crawford the author of Wessex from the Air)

NOTE ON DISC-BARROWS IN REFERENCE TO CIRCLE

In
dd 257-9, mention is made of the
Editorial Notes, Antiquity, September, 1929,
D
near Norwich.
Woodhenge
discovery Ka photography from the air of another
circle of nine dark
The site appears to consist S two concentric ditches surrounding
spots representing without doubt wooden post-holes.
If this prophecy as to wooden Post
holes proves
the
to ○ correct the site may indeed well be compared with Woodhenge
sense that any stone circle may be compared with Stonehenge.
is said
There can be no doubt
Near the new site there are smaller circles of which
that these circles represent a disc-barrow, and that the narrow inner ring surrounded ○
D
small central burial-mound.
similar and even closer association occurs
at the origi-
was found
nal Woodhenge
There, in the foreground, is ◦ disc-barrow in which
skeleton.'
1ater a beaker and
This refers to Circle I but in this volume it is not described as disc-barrow because
not cremated there
there appears no reason to think that it was one, and as the burial was
IS at least one good reason for thinking that it was not.
Mr. O. G. S Crawford in W'essex From The Air, page 13, describes disc-barrows as
.
a class, and says "The interment is in
cist, usually shallow, beneath the tump, and "
every instance at present known
the remains have been Cremated.'" A footnote adds:
Apparent exceptions are probably due to careless excavation.
This view appears to be
justifed by the evidence, ynq Mr. Crawford and the
Editor of Antiquity evidently differ on
this interesting point.
The grave containing the beaker and skeleton burial at Woodhenge
was surrounded by
two concentric
ditches, an extremely rare occurrence in any type of barrow, but so far as
observed at present apparently quite without parallel in connection with a disc barrow.

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Academics looking for a God image for your AI policy slide, look no further

The state dept map of Africa with all the countries mis-labelled

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Gotta love the reuse of ancient monuments - cc @gabemoshenska.bsky.social this could be your stonehenge

screen shot of a short phrase from a scholarly article: "The barrow 5h had 200 tins of corned beef inserted into it"

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Playing with it a little, here's archaeology

a line graph showing enrolment in archaeology programs ranging between 4300 and 4700 students. It is about 4700 in 2015/16, drops fast to 2018/19, then starts rising again to about the same as 2015/16 by last year

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Really enjoyed this extremely scholarly but very readable account of genealogical practices in 17th-19th c America

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I'm fundamentally a prehistoric specialist, but I've always loved industrial archaeology. Canals, mines, factories, all super super cool

The industrial archaeology of the isle of man by T A Bawden et al

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

One of the joys (to me) of working in Europe is that one must be multilingual or willing to work towards multilinguality. Even just reading academic archaeology, reading in many languages opens you to so many ways of seeing the world

Rojo-Guerra et al eds. El campanoforme en la península ibérica y su contexto europeo

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Fascinating site. Excellent book.

JDG Clark's book excavations at star carr

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Lovely bit of research on sw British later prehistory

Siân Alyce Thomas's book On the edge of empire

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I bought this kind of impulsively but i did enjoy reading it

Richard E Nrustadt and Ernest R May. Thinking in time

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I had to read this as an undergrad and i hated it, but i so keep coming back to it over and over for different things

Analytical Archaeology by David L Clarke

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I love teaching. I got into the game for teaching. This was the first book i found on pedagogy specifically in archaeology

Archaeology to delight and instruct edited by Heather Burke and Claire Smith

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Ok so this is also a classic, but it was so important to me as a doctoral student that when i met Robin Torrence years later i felt like I was meeting a rock star

What's New, edited by SE van der Leeuw and Robin Torrence

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I picked this up as part of my research into innovation - a classic for a reason

Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger's book Situated Learning

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

This is one i regularly recommend

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I'm inordinately upset that i missed seeing this exhibition, but the book is wonderful

Cover of The world of Stonehenge by Duncan Garrow and Neil Wilkin. The book accompanying the British museum exhibition

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Unsurprisingly I've got two copies of this one

Jan Apel's book Daggers knowledge and power

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Self promo time? Somehow despite being open access this book sold enough copies for a paperback edition which is just out this year!

My book Negotiating Migrations. First author Daniela Hofmann. This is the hardback edition

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Another small book but very powerful. Emma is such a brilliant thinker and scholar

Cover of Emma Kowal's Haunting biology: science and indigeneity in Australia

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

This one very justifiably won prizes. Very very recommended

Cover of Gabriel Cooney's "Death in Irish Prehistory" cover image is a beautiful drawing of a dressed white person in a small hole and crouched on their side

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Lived this bio of childe. I meet Terry Irving back in December and we talked about how to do politics with scholarship. Really inspirational stuff for me

Cover of Terry Irving's biography of VG Childe titled "the fatal lie of politics. The life and thought of vere gordon childe"

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I have a pretty big collection of French language archaeology books - this one has been on my shelves since i was a student

A black cover with white text and a white sketch of an engraved megalithic standing stone. The title is L'age du bronze en Europe Barbare. Des mégalithes aux Celtes. Author is Jacques Briarde

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Strong recommend for this excellent comic book recounting the excavation and occupation of a 19th c queer quarter in Sheffield England

I am holding up a thin graphic novel. The cover is a drawing of a white man in workman's clothes carrying a bag and walking towards an industrial city. The title is "Hollis Croft. A matter of time" on the bottom text reads "a historical comic book by Miki Rajic illustrated by Dave Howarth"

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I haven't seen it in the replies or quotes, maybe because it's applicable well beyond hockey, but i think about this one from @actingthefulemin.bsky.social constantly

Screenshot of a tweet from Acting The Fulemin.

Text reads "i think a lot of people think the point of sports is that your team will win and then you will be happy. That is not the point of sports. The point of sports is to be sad in a group."

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

This is why my bsky experience is so peaceful

A close up of several related clusters of the cloud map. The clusters are green doors on a black background. They are labelled classic studies scholars, academic archaeologists, palaeoecological and archaeology researchers, ancient dna researchers

A zoomed or view of the map with the tiny peaceful archaeology archipelago circled in red. It is at the far left edge of the map

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

The flag of the Capital Territory is not bad, but i do think it's got a rather over inflated sense of self

The flag of the ACT is a blue yellow and white landscape rectangle. The left quarter is blue with a white southern Cross. The right three-quarters is yellow with a modified crest of the city of Canberra centred. Two swans flank a blue sheild. The left Swan is blue (ie, black) the right Swan is white. On the shield a white castle is centred. Below it is a white rose (the york rose). Above it in white is a crossed mace a sword.

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The blue tongue lizard that lives under my house came out to say hi

A green and olive striped, very fat lizard suits partially in the shade of some pink flowering weeds ona cement path. the sun is bright. The grass is overgrown

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