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Louise Bedford | Archaeology @louisearchaeology.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I am honored to have received an Open Research Award for my undergraduate dissertation 'No Stone Left Unturned: Archaeogaming, Archives, Audiences'. Thank you @uoyopenres.bsky.social🪨 #Archaeology

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

What's this? An announcement of a second keynote speaker for TAG 2025? That's right! Dr Sadie Watson will be talking about what archaeological theory can mean for commercial archaeology, and how the two can be better integrated! Check it out here: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/keynote-spea...

Title of talk: Just Do Something: Fieldwork as Action against a Backdrop of Inaction

Sadie Watson FSA MCIfA is a leading proponent of embedding social value in developer funded archaeology. She is Site Director at Museum of London Archaeology, a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leader Fellowship holder, an Honorary Research Associate at the University of York and has played leading roles in the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA). Sadie is not only noted for her work on social value in archaeology, but also in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in archaeology, and Roman London.

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Don't forget to submit your session to the Theoretical Archaeology Group 2025 conference, hosted here in York in December 2025: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk I am absolutely threatening you with a good time

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Bristol Anthro & Archaeo @bristolantharch.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Time to get to know more of our staff! 📺 Next up is Fiona Jordan, a Professor of Anthropology at our department. Warning: snake 🐍 Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendock-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The language in these announcements (‘best size and shape’) is always the same

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Agent of Chaos @fionacoward.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Really looking forward to representing @buarchanth.bsky.social at the Royal Anthropological Institute's annual London Anthropology Day (londonanthropologyday.co.uk) - at Senate House on the 25th April this year. See you there?!

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London Anthropology Day (LAD) is a FREE annual university taster day for Year 12, 13, FE students, undergraduate or graduate students interested in Master's degrees, careers advisers and teachers, org...

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Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Ghost scissors in the archive

Part of a page from a massive press cuttings album relating to the 1893 miners' strike. The outline of a long gone pair of scissors can be seen, marked on the page in rust.

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Bristol Anthro & Archaeo @bristolantharch.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Today’s BAARS with Ines Ruis Alvarado (Universidad Cientifica del Sur), ‘Defenders of the Territory: Amazonian Women-Leaders and the Way to Gender Equality’ 👇🏽 #Anthropology

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Mark Gillings @mgprolix.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

What a lovely day to be digging with friends in the Avebury Manor gardens

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Bristol Anthro & Archaeo @bristolantharch.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Successful Offer Day today with parents and potential students 🙌🏽 Thanks to everyone for coming out! We hope you enjoyed all the events 🙏🏽

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 07/03/2025

Needles weren't the only thing ancient people made from bones! In Neolithic China, everything from chisels to hairpins and even arrowheads were made on a household level, with dedicated industries coming later. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Bone, antler and teeth products, shell tools and stone tools excavated at Pingliangtai. Bone products: A) chisels; B) awls; C) spatulas; D) hairpins and needles; E) arrowheads; F) gorge hooks; G) other products; and H) broken products. Other finds include: I) animal teeth; J) antler arrowheads; K) other antler products; L) oracle bones for divination; M) shell tools (1–4 are knives, 5 is an arrowhead); and N) stone tools (6, axe; 7, adze; 8, blade; 9–10, arrowheads; 11–13, chisels) (figure by Xiaochen Pei).

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 15/02/2025

Archaeologists excavating a beautifully-preserved wooden mask at the pre-contact Nunalleq site, located just south of the Indigenous Yup'ik village of Quinhagak, Alaska. A new digital #museum makes this important #archaeology accessible. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.235

Two people lifting a wooden mask from the ground.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

Panel One:

A man is cooking in a kitchen. Behind him, his partner unpacks books from a cardboard box and puts them on shelves. He says to here “Your library can't spread in here as well! The books will get damaged by oils and steam from my cooking.”

“Good point.” She replies.

Panel Two:

The woman now sits at the kitchen counter reading. Her books fill every shelf and cupboard in the kitchen. Through the window we can see that outside, in the rain, the man is attempting to cook on a barbecue.

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Agent of Chaos @fionacoward.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Thoroughly cheered this morning to discover a petition I signed and promoted ages ago has completely infuriated some idiot fascists. Petitions may not be enough in and of themselves but they're surprisingly useful little acts of resistance, and the bad guys are total snowflakes

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Uh oh...TAG York 2025 logo and theme just dropped! 🏺

A bullhorn on a circle background with the Ouse and Foss. Around the outside it says "Theory in Action TAG York 2025"

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Word of the day is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to have a distinct sense of going backwards.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 25/01/2025

These engraved plaques from the island of Bornholm, Denmark, are Neolithic miniature art, engraved with plant and field motifs. Excavation found they were scattered evenly in ditches. Could they have been 'sown' like seeds to ensure a good harvest? 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.217

Two stone plaques, engraved with lines that appear to represent furrowed fields and plants.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 13/01/2025

Underwater archaeologist examining one of England’s only 13th-century AD shipwrecks #MedievalMonday Large, multi-stage trade networks provided many jobs, so this wreck provides a unique opportunity to examine peoples' livelihoods in medieval England. 🆓 buff.ly/4a7HvCx

Diver pointing at underwater timber, the remains of the Mortar Wreck.

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Mark Gillings @mgprolix.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

You know its getting chilly when your cat goes full tribble

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

CONGRATULATIONS to Dr Fran Allfrey for receiving the UK Wikimedian of the Year award! The award cited her publication on medieval wikipedia with Lucy Moore and Richard Nevell and her tremendous work using wikidata as part of the Avebury Papers project. 🏺 www.aveburypapers.org/avebury-pape...

Several images from the Avebury Papers archive including photographs of the Avebury stones, drawings of a flint artefact, letters, team photographs, lists, and diaries.

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Mark Gillings @mgprolix.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Thanks to colleagues at the Pufendorf Institute of the University of Lund for such a warm welcome. I'm meeting old friends and making new ones (as well as eating way too many pastries). I do so love archaeological research

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