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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 51m

I haven't seen this posted here, but thank you to Jona Schlegel (archaeoink on Instagram) for making this #archink #inktober list. Not sure I'll be able to contribute this year, but I always love to see more archaeology drawings.

Archink prompts: 1. figurine 2. midden 3. hand axe 4. flotation 5. ditch 6. leather 7. Indus/Harappan 8. dating 9. antler 10. pXRF 11. Lapita

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Throwback to when I got so annoyed at the destruction of a shed (and of misuse of my friends) I co-authored a whole article about the contemporary archaeology of dig houses: doi.org/10.1558/jca....

A decrepit shed next to two more recently built structures and a firepit. The vegetation is brown and there are big agricultural fields behind the structure. It's the notorious "chicken shed," a building that was torn down at Catalhoyuk.

Morgan, C., & Eddisford, D. (2015). Dig Houses, Dwelling, and Knowledge Production in Archaeology. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, 2(1), 169–193.

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trying to finish a book chapter, write a proposal for a new article and finalise proofs all at the same time, it'd be very cool if my brain wasn't like this but okay let's goooooooo

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I spy with my little eye, distinguished @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social PhD, Dr Christopher Wakefield. ☺️

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Solidarity with folks at Edinburgh!

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#OnThisDay in 1940, the philosopher, literary critic, and essayist Walter Benjamin died by suicide in the Spanish border town of Portbou whilst on the run from the Nazis. Here's Anca Pusca on the relevance of Benjamin’s oeuvre in a digital age: publicdomainreview.org/essay/o... #otd

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have a new article out today in the Journal for the Study of Radicalism called "Building the American Anarchist Movement: Radical Collectives and Continental Convergences in the 1980s." 1/ Access it for free with my author link: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/msup/jsr/art...

Screenshot of the beginning of an article called "Building the American Anarchist Movement: Radical Collectives and Continental Convergences in the 1980s" by Spencer Beswick. Text reads:

“Bowl a strike, not a spare—Revolution everywhere!” Members of the Revolutionary Anarchist Bowling League (RABL) chanted bowling-themed slogans as they marched against President Ronald Reagan's threat to invade Nicaragua in 1988. Acting within a broad progressive coalition, RABL helped shut down major sections of downtown Minneapolis for three days in an outpouring of rebellion against the Reagan administration's covert wars in Central America. Events reached a dramatic climax when a masked protester threw a bowling ball through the window of a military recruitment office.1 The crash of the broken glass marked the beginning of a new era of anarchist militancy in the United States. The rage of a generation of young people raised in Reagan's America threatened to explode.

Reflecting this mood, the pilot edition of what became the Love and Rage anarchist newspaper (published from 1990 to 1998) was simply called RAGE! The pilot, which was distributed at an action at the Pentagon in 1988, reflected growing anger at the Reagan administration's wars at home and abroad, including the war on drugs. Promised a “new morning in America,” a generation of disaffected young people raised in the alienation

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just going to put this here, for the people who like reenactments www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/...

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The Battle of Cable Street

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you see fascists marching in the streets and your first impulse is to email your MP or Prime Minister I have bad news for you. And if you are an archaeologist or historian, you should know better.

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CAA UK @caa-uk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

⏰ Still time to submit! The deadline for CAA-UK 2026 posters and demos is now 24 September. We’d love to see work from across digital archaeology and heritage — including community, commercial, postgraduate and ECR projects. uk.caa-international.org/call-for-pap... #CAAUK2026

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Call for Papers 2026 – CAA-UK

The organisers of CAA-UK 2026 would like to invite papers, posters, and demos for the 2026 meeting, to be held at the University of Glasgow on the 26th and 27th of November 2026.

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’ve written almost 20k words about this, but yeah. Drawing is a forcing function. Remove it from your methodology at your own peril.

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Booked a blood donation. The confirmation said that only 3% of the eligible population donate. It's so easy, basically painless & makes such a difference. If you're eligible & you haven't donated before, why not check it out? If it's been awhile why not look up the next clinic near you?

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We’ve been told that we need to wear ID at all times.

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

How is your university dealing with Martyn’s Law? www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025: Overarching Factsheet

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I can’t imagine what you have to do to a human’s soul to make them believe that this is justified or worse yet to lie about it being pretend.

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just lodging my biannual complaint about long meetings in another place being called "away days"

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We are hosting the amazing Mo'min Swaitat at @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social as part of the Gaza on the Shelf project. He is presenting preserved and remixed Palestinian audio history during a live performance on 28 October. Sorry, in person only. www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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My beautiful side of the archive

Explore Palestinian audio history with the Palestinian Sound Archive. This event features an introduction, short documentary, talk, DJ set, and vinyl/merch sales exploring music as resistance.

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Another archaeology/anarchism intersection

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CAA UK @caa-uk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

📢 Deadline extended! There’s still time to submit a posters and demos for CAA-UK 2026. New deadline: 24 September. Posters, VR/AR/XR, games, interactive experiences and more welcome. 📍 Glasgow, 26–27 Nov linktr.ee/caa_uk #CAAUK2026

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Call for Applications: Chair of CAA UK – CAA-UK

CAA UK is seeking a new Chair to lead the national chapter of the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology association. The Chair plays a vital role in guiding the direction of…

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Picking lingonberries and digging up burst Mauser cartridges.

Handful of lingonberries with green forest floor in background

Hand holding five corroded burst bullet casings

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is exactly the time to bring a union rep.

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Jen Baird @jenbaird.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Our Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies Seminar this year is "Activating/Excavating Archives", and we're thrilled that @clmorgan.bsky.social will be kicking it off with Archives as Playworlds: The Avebury Papers and Digital Creativity All welcome! Abstract and sign-up linked below!

Archival illustration of people positioning a megalith

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There’s a school group on the train and they all scream every time we go into a tunnel and it makes me smile. Feel those gaps in existence, brief darkness, reemergence.

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

💪💪 Solidarity with Edinburgh Uni staff who are trying to prevent compulsory redundancies:

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 17/09/2026

Did people in Bronze Age Cyprus keep pet pigeons? #NationalPetBirdDay 🕊️ Analysis of rock dove remains from the mid-2nd millennium BCE found their diets were almost identical to the humans there, indicating they lived in close contact with each other. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Graph of δ13C and δ15N isotope values for animal remains from Bronze Age Cyprus. The values for Columba livia (rock dove) and Homo sapiens (human) are almost identical, indicating they had very similar diets.

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm headed to Southampton for a lecture, "Avebury and Worldbuilding" about the Avebury Papers. I'll discuss the incredible creative work that students & community members have produced & how this has shaped my thinking about archaeological data. southamptonmuseumsandgallery.co.uk/events/avebu...

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Avebury Papers Talk: Avebury and World-building - Ticketing

A talk by Dr Colleen Morgan (University of York) exploring how archaeologists are utilising digital tools and approaches in the present in order to access and communicate the worlds of... Read more »

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Open Research at York @uoyopenres.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Intricate designs engraved across the surface of 18,000-year-old female figurines carved from mammoth ivory were inspired by the distinctive growth patterns visible in the tusks, a new study has revealed 🦣 @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social Open access paper in Heritage Science doi.org/10.1038/s404... 🔓 📄

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Ice Age carvers used mammoth tusk patterns to create unique art, study finds

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wait I didn't know Widow's Bay was set at Star Carr

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is when you start pulling the bricks out of the walls. Solidarity with folks at Brighton.

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Does anyone have any fav places to stay near the University of Glasgow?

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A reminder that news cycles are going to be (even more) intense from now until mid-November—take breaks & don’t boost clickbait. Organising with your community keeps the dread goblins away. 🖤

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Lots of rage bait news out there, my thanks to the people screenshotting and not driving traffic back to the articles.

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The women's revolution in Myanmar goes largely unremarked upon in the legacy media, but these young women struck a decisive blow against the junta yesterday. They have built a world in the mountains where they could be free in a way the state there would never have allowed them to be.

Two young women in woodland fatigues, one wears a set of PV goggles and the other is sitting next to her watching a screen.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Deescalate all conflict that isn’t with the enemy. The enemy wants us fighting each other. We want each other fighting the enemy. Support people who have different ways of fighting than you.

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

First year of greenhouse wrapping up! 🍅 - did almost too well, many handfuls of small tomatoes every day! Next year I want to add a bigger variety 🫑 - Padron peppers, probably got 30 from one plant, incredible! 🍈 - Grew one tiny melon 🥒 - loads and loads of tiny pickling cucumbers

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I know we complain about the grey literature but a well written, organised archaeological report with good illustrations is a beautiful thing.

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Digging out caves in Texas to try to find endangered blind cave spiders that'd let the landowner get money for preservation. When you found one you'd kill it, put it in a vial, and send it back to the lab. The spiders weren't rare, but evolved in separate cave systems so were therefore endangered.

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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 08/09/2026

How do you feel about payment for house chores? We all have a different ratio of time and money available, and this way you can give your available money for someone’s available time. gfsc.community/society-begi...

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Society Begins at Home: Do the Dishes, Change the World

The home is the smallest unit of society. If you want to change the world, maybe take the bin out. After all, if we can't be mutually supportive in our own household, how can we dream of a workable…

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Pig Latin is older than you think. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_Latin

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Pig Latin - Wikipedia

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Ahh this is great, I love teaching early computing archaeology through punch cards.

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There’s no real universals in archaeology, but there’s quite a few cultures across time periods that looked at snakes and said, yup, let’s worship that.

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Small Snake: 'I Am Evil, I Am Death'

ALT: Small Snake: 'I Am Evil, I Am Death'

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Today I'm writing about fitting the immense body of data about Çatalhöyük into a framework informed by worldbuilding and cultural presence. It's always weird to revisit stuff about Çatalhöyük, as it has so much personal and intellectual baggage.

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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

As a buildings archaeologist, I enjoy meeting my clients...

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

So I had a friend bring back some fig newtons from the US and they are now postage stamp sized! And the cake isn't how I remembered it. You can never go home, etc

A hand holding a fig newton (biscuit) that is very small.

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Today I’m making tamales, Mexican rice, refried beans, & tomatillo salsa. T is making stuff for a bake sale she wants to run tomorrow to raise money for the RSPCA. Much kitchening going on.

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