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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

The ‘Sappho’ fresco from Pompeii. A beautiful Roman portrait of a young woman for #InternationalWomensDay She holds a writing tablet, and raises a writing stylus to her lips in thoughtful contemplation. 55-70 AD. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a famous wall painting from Pompeii known as the Sappho fresco. It shows the head and upper body of a young woman framed inside a painted circular border. She faces forward. Her eyes are large and dark, gazing to one side with a calm and thoughtful expression, as if pausing mid-thought. Her skin is pale, and her hair is dark brown and tightly curled, forming small ringlets around her face. A thin golden hairnet holds her curls in place. She wears small gold hoop earrings, and a brown cloak over a green garment. In her right hand she holds a thin dark metal stylus (writing tool) up against her lips, as if thinking about what to write. In her left hand she holds a small rectangular wooden wax writing tablet. The fresco is now on display at the Muso Archeologico Nazionale in Naples

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Things We Threw Away @twtapodcast.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

2/2 We both agree the exhibition is worth visiting if you’re in Amsterdam before March 1st. Listen to the newest episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Substack! Links are in the bio Please share, review (5⭐ ), and click subscribe, so you never miss an episode! #objectbiographies #ancientglass

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Things We Threw Away @twtapodcast.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

We have been a bit sloppy when it comes to sharing our #archaeologyjournaling results🙈 So, here is the result of the Roman cradle, mastered by Jona! If you don't know what we're talking about, listen to episode 5 and share your drawing 📝 with us! #twta #archaeology #objectbiographies 📷️ by Jona

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration. All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts. JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

screengran of figure from paper showing four different generated images of a "day in the life of a Neanderthal". All images contain significant inaccuracies from physical characteristics (extremely primitive) to material culture (glass containers), and the lack of women and children is also obvious.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Happy International Archaeology Day! #InternationalArchaeologyDay 🏺 #Archaeology

A book cover design with the title “The Desire to Be an Archaeologist (and Other Diseases of the Brain)” by Antique Christie. The cover has a vintage style with a red and beige color scheme, the publisher name “Great Auk Books” at the top, and a small illustration of an auk bird near the bottom.

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 16/10/2025

prompt 10 of #archInk2025: palimpsest walls can keep stories in the form of graffiti by unknown graffitists. layers of paint, posters, and tags overlap, shaping the memory of a place and adding to the stratigraphy of a city. a living and active palimpsest

A torn poster with black and white figures of a rock band pasted on a wall covered in overlapping graffiti tags. The poster reads “Rock n’ Roll always about spirit and fun,” with faded text and marks from later tags and paint layers.

A city wall layered with street art, stickers, and posters. Blue-painted faces appear above, with bold text reading “STOP WAR” and various smaller artworks below. Older posters peek through torn edges and paint drips.

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David Bez Artist @davidbezartist.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Neolithic people practiced astronomy to align megalithic stone structures with celestial events, using them as complex calendars and ceremonial sites. tp948 Celtic Alignment acrylic and oil on paper 17x11 inches £200 unframed. #art #painting #archaeology

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Louise Bedford | Archaeology @louisearchaeology.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

#ArchInk Day 13 Pseudoscience I found this a strange prompt so I just decided to draw this incredibly archaeologically accurate building of Stonehenge #ArchInk2025 #Archaeology #Stonehenge

Cartooony drawing in pencil crayon of Stonehenge with a light greenish glow and an alien and a UFO

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Artist’s painting of a hippo on a flake of limestone 🦛❤️ Perhaps a practice sketch, or just for the joy of painting 3,500 years ago! From Deir el-Bahri, Thebes, Egypt, c. 1479–1425 BC. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 13/10/2025

The Nunalleq Digital Museum is a museum of Yup’ik archaeology in Alaska. Placing sovereignty in the hands of the descendent communities, it makes the #archaeology accessible whilst ensuring it is relevant to the community today #IndigenousPeoplesDay Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺

The digital museum home screen; an illustration of a coastal area with a village during four seasons.

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

#ArchInk 4: bronze; 5: flint; 9: ivory #archaeology #illustration 🏺🏛️🗃️ Combining three prompts to look at early-19th century views of early Bronze Age artefacts.

Ink and graphite sketch of a dagger and arrowhead. Text reads: #ArchInk
The early Bronze Age was a time of remarkable transformation in material and social lives. People and materials came together in new ways.
I’m interested in how early observers interpreted these changes. The early-19th century excavators of these artefacts, Colt Hoare and Cunnington, were not afraid to draw parallels with continental Europe.
“Some may think it derogates from the dignity of our country to allow a Gaulish (i.e. foreign) original; but, be the consequences what they will, whenever we are in search of truth, although we discover her in ruins and rubbish, we must acknowledge and revere her.” Richard Colt Hoare, 1812
*Colt Hoare and Cunnington were, by the standards of the day, pretty good at recording. But in a sheepish footnote in their discussion of barrows in the severely area of Wiltshire, Colt Hoare admits that he’s not sure which of the barrows this dagger came from!
#5 flint One of four arrowheads within a burial in a bowl barrow: Which Show affinity with those from Armorica, NW France.
FLINT ARROWHEAD, WIMBORNE ST GILES.
4: Bronze BRONZE DAGGER, SILK HILL MILSTON*
9: ivory The pommel is ivory from a marine mannal, possibly a walrus. It is very worn, suggesting it might have adorned other artefacts before this dagger
The wooden handle was re-constructed based onCunnington's dig notes.
* Or is it ? Colt Hoare and Cunnington - and their illustrator /surveyor Philip Crocker- were pretty good at recording their f, by the standards of the day. But in a sheepish footnote in their discussions of barrow-digging in the Everley area of Wiltshire, Colt Hoare admits the dagger was "in one of these, but I cannot specify which!'

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I have strong feelings about stratigraphy. I have stronger feelings about the schematic examples that we use to teach stratigraphy. Artefacts shouldn't float in the middle of the layer, for example. No colour-coding, obscure symbols to indicate difference, etc. #archink #archink2025 #inktober +

A hand holding a drawing of schematic strategraphic layers. The order of the layers is two tweets down.

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

#inktober2025 6)pierce. Ok confession: I’m a massive coward. Hate needles. So am full of wonder for my friends that have been pierced for tattoos. Going back to prehistory & the most astonishing Scythian Iron Age tattoos: mythical beasts preserved by permafrost in human skin at Pazyryk. #archaeology

A sketch of mythical beasts on the form of tattoos

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mhoyle.bsky.social @mhoyle.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

WIP on a small diorama using some existing assets and some new ones recently created. I I wanted to test them out in a low light setting, and utilised a new sky rig node setup #blender #illustration #vikings #archaeology

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 09/10/2025

Day 9 of #archInk: Ivory A bit of meditation practices: drawing one curved line after the other. Cross-section of a tusk, which forms a dense network of intersecting lines known as Schreger lines. They tell growth, material, and history at once. #archaeology

Digital illustration of an ivory cross-section in warm beige tones. A fine network of dark intersecting lines radiates from the centre, forming geometric Schreger patterns characteristic of ivory

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

#ArchInk 2: shell; 3: residue; 6: horn; 7: textile; 8: stratigraphy #inktober #medievalsky #skystorians 🏺🏛️🗃️ Combining a few prompts to tell the story of Worcester Cathedral’s Cockleshell Pilgrim.

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Ink and graphite sketch of a grave. Accompanying text labels read:

The Cockleshell Pilgrim
In 1986-7, Excavations within Worcester Cathedral uncovered the body of a man wearing woollen clothing and leather boots, and artefacts suggesting an association with pilgrimage. Research by Katherine lack points to his identity: Robert Sutton, c15th Worcester dyer

6: horn
Decayed remnants of a horn tip were found at the top of a 1.55m wooden staff buried next to the body.

8:stratigraphy
The burial post-dates construction of the choir wall in 1374. The head and neck were missing: cut by a brick wall that truncated the west end of the grave.

3: residue
Remnants of soft tissue, skin, spinal cord, ligaments and muscle were found on the spine and pelvis.

2: Shell
Next to the Staff, and a bronze lace end, was a 5cm cockle shell, pierced at the top. Shells were a common Symbol of
pilgrimage, but usually Scallop Shells
associated with St James'Shrine at Santago de Compostela.
The cockle is therefore odd - it may have been intended as a general SymboLof pilgrimage

7: textile
He was buried wearing an undershirt and a fine cloak made from a type of woollen cloth called 'worsted'
They were of good quality, but plain and undyed -Befitting a pilgrim.

Sutton's 1454 will contained a wish to be buried “before the image of StJames in the cathedral.”
The man was in his sixties, at least - but had been fit and active before arthritis set in.

After anillustration by Helen Lubin, 1990

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 08/10/2025

day 8 of #archInk: stratigraphy I reworked an older drawing from when the prompt was “written”. And here the trowel still “writes” the site’s stratigraphy in a way: layer by layer, deposit by deposit and interface by interface. #archaeology

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Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Me (to The Internet, everybody listening, or just looking my way for more than 5 sec): „Look what we did!“ I received the prints of our #RepresentationMatters publication yesterday evening. It’s not only a collection of papers on the way we reproduce and communicate our knowledge towards audience.

A middle aged white Woman with an red updo and big glasses holding a large book, title says diversity in visual representations of the past. Representation matters.

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

#ArchInk 1: pigment #inktober #medievalsky #skystorians 🏺🏛️🗃️ Not sure how much I’ll be able to contribute this year, but I’ll try to chip in when I can.

Ink and graphite sketch showing a woman in medieval dress, holding writing implements in each hand and an expression of intense focus, sat in front of a writing desk with an open manuscript.
Text reads:

# archink I: pigment
Medieval writers and artists used a huge range of compounds & colours - you can find out more abort their techniques at fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/illuminated. The staple of the medieval manuscript was the deep purple-black of iron gall ink, made by mixing iron sulfate with tannic acid, usually sourced from fermented oak galls.

MARIE DE FRANCE, LATE CI2th WRITER
After a late c13th illustration of her from BnF Arsenal Library, MS 3142 fol 256

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 07/10/2025

day 7: textiles They rarely survive, but their traces do: loom weights, needles, fragments stuck to metal. This piece looks at those fragments and the ancient depictions of weaving/fabric creation on vessels that still show these practices. #archInk #archaeology

orange and black. The vase shows two women holding spindles beside a central triangular weaving pattern. Decorative motifs run around the upper section, and loom weights are depicted on the lower part

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L.R.S. Hagerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Doodle Day 1: archaeological evidence suggests that women were the majority of the world's first artists. #Art #Doodle web.archive.org/web/20131008...

Pen and ink sketch of a woman squatting in front of a cave wall as she finishes painting a prehistoric horse.

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

A horn core is: A) a ska band B) the bony part under the keratin sheath on bovids C) a source of terrible puns and innuendos on an archaeological site “Horn” #archink #inktober #archink2025

An ink drawing on a piece of paper of a horn core with a scale.

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 06/10/2025

day 6 of #archInk2025: horn I did a kind of archaeology journaling page, where I focused on exploring the texture of the horn, noting down functions and anatomy. #archInk

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 05/10/2025

This is beautiful! Just shows also how complex a reconstruction drawing can become.

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

“Bronze is brilliant!” #archink #inktober - bronze & flint youtu.be/nyu4u3VZYaQ

Drawing of a skeuomorphic spear head made of flint. It says, “bronze bronze bronze bronze…what’s wrong with stone?” And hashtags in the tweet.

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 05/10/2025

For day three of #archInk prompt: flint I created a digital collage of tools used during flint knapping and the by products spreading around the production zone: flakes and blades. #archaeology #archInk2025

Digital collage showing hands reaching upward among flintknapping tools such as antler tines, hammers, and scrapers. Flint flakes are scattered across circular green and ochre shapes. The word “FLINT” appears in cut-out letters near the bottom right

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

We have a new series of "Digital Lunch"- free, hybrid talks hosted by the Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab at the University of York. Don't be fooled by the name, we've asked experts on the very cutting edge of the field to talk to us about their research. Sign up: forms.gle/qeRcHHe5z3Kf...

26 September James, Colleen, Peter, Guy Current digital research at York
3 October Ahmed El Antably Nubian Chronicles: You've been talking to the wrong people
10 October Stephanie Döpper Co-creating smartphone tours at archaeological sites with the ArchaeoTrail App
17 October Mariana Lopez Sound Heritage: methods and considerations
24 October Maki Wardle Moonlighting at ESA: A Postcard from a Digital Archaeologist in Space
31 October off off
7 November Despoina Sampatakou Cultural objects in reality and virtuality: a comparative study in XR
14 November Florence Smith Nicholls (Not) Dying of Anticipation: Video Game Archaeologies of Contemporary Play
21 November ADS What's new at ADS/HSDS
28 November Mark Altaweel AI for palaeoclimate research
5 December Marta Diaz-Guardamino TBA

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 04/10/2025

day 4 of #archInk2025: bronze. tin meets copper, and new colours are created based on the mixture, from gold, green, brown, red. i drew them circling between two hands, an acknowledgement of how innovative humans are and bronze meant exchange and shared skill #archInk #archaeology

A digital illustration showing two hands reaching toward a circle of bronze artefacts, including swords, spearheads, and axes. Each object has a different shade of bronze — from golden yellow to deep reddish-brown — representing the varied colours of Bronze Age metalwork

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 04/10/2025

day 3 of #archink2025: residue. what's left inside a pot can say a lot. grains, fats, traces of meals long gone. drew that chain in a kind of comic style: pot in use, pot buried/excavated, pot in the lab. Small remains lead to past recipes. #archInk #archaeology

A three-panel digital illustration showing the archaeological process of residue analysis.
In the first panel, a clay pot sits over a small fire surrounded by stones.
In the second, a broken pot is uncovered in the ground with a trowel nearby.
In the third, gloved hands hold a sherd and take a sample with a small tool. Two circles highlight what residue analysis can reveal: plant grains and a goat

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 03/10/2025

#archInk is not only drawing but can also be a haiku!

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 03/10/2025

day 2 of #archInk: #shell. a watercolour scallop in the centre, with digital pen sketches of shell artefacts and tools around it. shells are versatile in archaeology, and this page is also a mix of drawing techniques, from watercolour to digital. #archaeology #archInk2025

day two of archInk 2025: shell.

the central piece today is a scallop shell painted in watercolour. around it i sketched different shell artefacts — scrapers, spoons, containers, ornaments. it shows how versatile shells are as archaeological finds, and how many uses they once had.

this page is also a small experiment in drawing itself. mixing digital work with watercolour and pen sketches makes it feel layered, like different notes on the same theme.

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Quick one today after the pub. So we’d find these spots covered in tiny white shells in the desert on survey. The only problem was that this also a contemporary practice so you couldn’t always easily tell if the shell floor was archaeology or last week’s family campsite #archink #inktober “shell”

Drawing of a tiny white shell with the text, “in Qatar you could find sites where there wasn’t much left besides a surface of the tiniest white shells used as a floor” with tags that are in the tweet.

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ama @amasugiru.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

#archInk2025 Day 2: Shell During prep, the Conch of Teleportation reminded me of oracle bones, divinatory records from the Shang. They feature some of the earliest writing in China. I thought dragon turtles, taken from Chinese mythological creatures, would help expand a focus on Chinese archaeology.

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 03/10/2025

Turns out the Palaeolithic had a splash of blue already too. Guess pigment isn’t only red and yellow after all. And I just love how the timing of this news actually matches with the first #archInk2025 prompt "pigment"

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Super cool to learn that I was huffing cinnabar while laboriously excavating paintings at Çatalhöyük. #archink #pigment #inktober

A drawing with a finger held up and red pigment on the fingertip. Next to it is written “cinnabar, treasured world-wide for its fiery red hue, is toxic and poisoned those who sought its beauty.” Hashtags are in the tweet.

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Louise Bedford | Archaeology @louisearchaeology.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Day 1 #ArchInk2025 - Pigment. Bison cave art from the Cave of Altamira. Trying to use this challenge to improve my illustration skills on Photoshop. I double brushed areas to show cracks in the cave walls and added an aged paper texture background. #ArchInk @jonaschlegel.com #Archaeology

A watercolour illustration of a cave art bison inspired by the cave of altamira,

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ama @amasugiru.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

#archInk2025 Day 1: Pigment Back at it with a D&D bend. Today’s piece is Nolzur’s Marvelous Pigments. The item text says you can dip a brush right in, but pigments are technically the colorant. You can use them dry, but painting needs a binder. So I imagined some natural sources and the medium.

An illustration of a box of pigments and a bottle of binder. It reads from top to bottom: ArchInk Day 1. Nolzur's Marvelous Pigments. Includes: Fire beetle, Sussur Bark, Merrow Coral, Residuum, Glowcap Phospher, Infernal Iron Soot.

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 01/10/2025

starting archInk 2025 with pigment. i kept it digital today, a bit like field journal notes, an archaeology journal. pigment feels small, but it made the first colours on stone. minerals: grounded, mixed with a binder, painted on a surface and suddenly there’s an image. #archInk #inktober

A hand-drawn illustration showing the archaeological Inktober prompt "Pigment". In the centre is a large stone with a prehistoric bull painting in brown and black. On the left, a flat stone holds red, yellow, and black mineral pieces. On the right, another flat stone shows brown mineral lumps ready for grinding. Labels identify bright red, golden yellow, black (charcoal), and rich brown pigments. Text explains that pigments are minerals ground on flat stones and mixed with water to paint.

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Things We Threw Away @twtapodcast.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

🎙️ Episode 3 - Drawing a Hammer In this episode, we are visiting the Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht (Netherlands), where an object stands right at the entrance, which Jona picked to take a closer look at: a medieval (ceremonial?) hammer built up based on an axehead from around 1000 BCE.

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Things We Threw Away @twtapodcast.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Now that we're two episodes in, we thought we'd give you a little insight into our workflow! The drawings are from Jona. She made them while Stefanie was editing her show notes. Any questions about the steps? Let us know! Listen to the newest episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Substack!

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 09/09/2025

What exactly is #archInk? It started in 2018 by Dr. Katherine Cook with daily drawing prompts exploring archaeological themes. The goal is not to create perfect "art" but should be rather seen as a daily practice connecting with archaeology and each other through creative practices 1/3

Hand-drawn explanation of archInk on lined paper with archaeological artifacts in margins including a classical face mask, brushes, and pottery.
Title asks 'what is archInk?' The text explains that archInk connects archaeology with ink (drawing), started in 2018 from Inktober, providing archaeological prompts for October. It emphasizes the goal is daily practice to explore archaeology and connect with others, not perfect art. Instructions to use #archInk2025 and #archInk hashtags, signed @archaeoInk.

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 09/09/2025

Here's the official #archInk2025 prompt list - 31 days of archaeological (illustration) prompts for October. From pigment and bronze to provenance and afterlife, each prompt open to be explored through drawing or other techniques and mediums. Ready to join in? #archInk

Hand-drawn archInk 2025 prompt list on lined paper with archaeological tools scattered around the margins including pottery sherds, flint tools, brushes, and an ink bottle. The title 'archInk 2025' is written in orange and green lettering. Below are 31 numbered prompts organized in three columns:
1 Pigment, 2 Shell, 3 Residue, 4 Bronze, 5 Flint, 6 Horn, 7 Textile, 8 Stratigraphy, 9 Ivory, 10 Palimpsest; 11 Transformation, 12 Echo, 13 Pseudoscience, 14 Network, 15 Bioarchaeology, 16 Gatekeeping, 17 Ownership, 18 Exclusion, 19 Preservation, 20 Visibility; 21 Embodiment, 22 Provenance, 23 Absence, 24 Toolmark, 25 Reclamation, 26 Ephemeral, 27 Justice, 28 Looted, 29 Temporality, 30 Becoming, 31 Afterlife

signed by @archaeoInk

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 08/09/2025

Monday workspace thoughts. Sketched these motivational words around an archaeological vessel while navigating office tasks. Dedication, authorship, motivation - the qualities needed to keep pursuing archaeology alongside daily work. #archInk

Overhead photo of a wooden desk workspace showing a laptop, black wireless mouse, small potted succulent plant, and digital stylus pen. On a tablet screen is a digital illustration featuring the word 'Monday' in large script lettering with a classical archaeological vessel (amphora or urn) in the center. Around the vessel are handwritten words including 'motivation', 'dedication', 'authorship', 'navigation', 'office work', 'archaeology', and 'you' on a watercolor wash background in muted pink/brown tones.

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 07/09/2025

Drew this as part of my A-Z archaeological disciplines exploration. Settlement archaeology examines spatial organisation and architecture of past communities. From house layouts to community planning, these patterns show how people lived and interacted. #archInk

Educational illustration on teal background showing settlement archaeology. Features the letter 'S' in a white rounded square, followed by text defining settlement archaeology as studying spatial organization, architecture, and social structure of past human settlements. Below are illustrations of various historical buildings including round thatched houses of different sizes, a rectangular structure with a thatched roof, and a detailed roundhouse showing construction techniques. Additional text explains the field focuses on understanding community structure, space usage, and environmental interaction.

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 06/09/2025

Made this for #Inktober2024 about archaeological discovery in popular media. Magazine covers focus on treasure and sensational finds, but there's always more to the story. How do these headlines influence what people think archaeology is about? #archInk #Discovery

Illustration showing overlapping archaeological magazines and newspapers with sensationalized headlines including 'ARCHAEOLOGY 25° Years of Discovery - Shaping how the world sees archaeology', 'Archaeological Discovery - The headlines shape the story', 'Hidden history revealed', 'Stuns archaeologists', and 'Dig reveals golden treasure'. The publications feature images of pyramids, artifacts, and archaeological sites. Signed '2.Discovery #INKTOBER2024 #archINK'.

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 05/09/2025

This illustration from 2022 show how archaeologists should balance subjectivity and objectivity in interpretation. One side shows personal bias and perspective, the other empirical evidence. The Xanten Crown is a good example: thought to be a crown, now reinterpreted as a bucket fitting. #archInk

Conceptual illustration showing scales of justice labeled 'Archaeological Interpretation' with 'Subjectivity' on the left side showing an archaeologist holding a crystal ball, and 'Objectivity' on the right side showing an archaeologist with a laptop and notebook. Below are archaeological artifacts including what appears to be the Xanten Crown shown in two interpretations - as a crown on the left and as a bucket fitting on the right, along with a human skull. Labeled '14 Objectivity #archInk #DataDriven'.

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 04/09/2025

Made this during #archInk 2020 to break down what field archaeologists do, in a comic page structure style and completely handdrawn back then. Surveying excavating, documentating, and post-excavation processing. Basically trying to show the whole archaeological fieldwork workflow. #archaeology

Hand-drawn comic-style illustration titled 'What does a field archaeologist do & work on' showing six panels: field surveys with GPS equipment and survey markers, archaeological excavations with tools and finds, documentation through surveying equipment, photography and written records on stratigraphic unit sheets, post-excavation processing with finds being cleaned and archived in record books, and report writing on laptop. Signed Jona Schlegel.

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