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Ollie Harris @ojth.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I didn’t see the winning paper but I can definitely say Sam’s was excellent - one to watch for the future

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Ron @ronkilljoy.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Had a grand time @tag45.bsky.social, and especially enjoyed collaborating with @bromolloy.bsky.social for @owenexiehurcum.bsky.social and Niamh’s session! See y’all next year!

Two folks (Brodhie and Ron) happily presenting with a PowerPoint that reads, “MATES (make space for yourself, and others, try redefining resilience, embrace authenticity, shout about it)”.

A visual illustrated interpretation of a conference session, Ancestor? We hardly know her.

Drawing from a conference session exploring archaeologies of vegetal becoming.

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Kenneth Aitchison @aitchis1.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

@miasoulcoe.bsky.social #archaeology in #film production and #academic uptake. Delighted to see #ProfilingTheProfession data being used in reseach like this! And, separately, I now know I will never ever need to watch #bonekickers @tag45.bsky.social

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Xander King @transmascosteology.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Amazing time @tag45.bsky.social! Such a supportive environment for my first presentation and thanks to everyone there for being interested in my theory adjacent project. Onwards and upwards!

A small transgender man stood in front of a powerpoint stating "Plymouth Naval Hospital and Cemetery"

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Philolithia@bsky.social @philolithia.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

So very well-deserved - Heather’s talk was fascinating and also featured the Edderton standing stone and associated features (one of my favourite Scottish sites) 🙌 and she referred to skyscape archaeology in her talk - it was fab! An excellent decision by @tag45.bsky.social

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Philolithia@bsky.social @philolithia.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Thanks very much @tag45.bsky.social - so over the moon with this news! I really enjoyed the whole conference - and presenting my first paper. Looking forward to TAG46 in York next year!

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Philolithia@bsky.social @philolithia.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Well this was a huge and unexpected honour- and I even enjoyed presenting my first paper too. Thanks @tag45.bsky.social

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Mike Heyworth @mikeheyworth.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

A lovely annual reminder of the wonderful Don Henson who is sadly missed

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Sam Scott-Moncrieff @samscomo.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Thank you @tag45.bsky.social. This is really appreciated, what a great conference! Looking forward to next year!

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Alejandra Galmés-Alba @alejandragalmes.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

This past weekend I had the pleasure to be for the first time at @tag45.bsky.social. A great forum where I had the chance to talk about maps, experience, affect and difference in the Talayotic landscape.

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Kenneth Aitchison @aitchis1.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

@lornarichardson.bsky.social Getting to the Bottom of Things made me feel introspective. Child of the 70s? Named Kenneth? Wears a tweedy suit and tie, even to @tag45.bsky.social. Drives a RangeRover only because #LandRover was too expensive? Aieee, my career has been shaped by #CarryOn films!

Lorna-Jane Richardson presents her TAG45 paper, Getting to the Bottom of Things

Kenneth Williams as Professor Ronald Crump in Carry on Behind

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tag45.bsky.social @tag45.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Aaargh, one tweet went missing from that last thread ... which was to thank both our amazing keynote speakers, Ian Hodder and Gill Hey! Two incredibly thought-provoking addresses, we hugely appreciate their agreeing to come along!

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Alice Clough (she/her) @aliceclough.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

It was an honour!

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Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

So richly deserved, congratulations Rachel!

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Martyn Barber @martynjb.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Back from a weekend on the TAG Riviera (@tag45.bsky.social) with some photos that may or may not be represenative of the experience. Now to catch up with all those promised emails. Or Midsomer Murders. Or something.

A colour photo showing the view across the beach to the sea early Sunday monring. In the foreground, the beach is empty, but covered in footprints and other traces of mostly human and canine activity. The sea, across the middle of the photo, looks somewhat bracing. The cloudy sky is hiding the sun, whose presence is indicated by a bright white splodge just left of centre.

A coloour photo from a short presentation on behalf of the Black Trowel Collective on Saturday. It shows an early vertical aerial photo of Stonehenge, with a large A superimposed over the earthwork circle to create the familiar anarchist symbol. On the right is an image bearing startements such as "People are not just dots on a map".

A colour photograph looking vaguely eastish across the beach and sea at Bournemouth from a vantage point overlooking the coast. It looks pretty cold and empty from a distance, but was in fact surprisingly busy despite the early hour (about 9am on a Sunday in December).

A colour photo taken inside one of the lecture rooms in the Fusion Building at Bournemouth University, capturing the view out of the rather high windows of the car park and neighbouring buildings. In the centre, inside the room, is a screen containing two images of figures best described as priapic.

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Ollie Harris @ojth.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

@rachelcrellin.bsky.social is a brilliant theorist and @aliceclough.bsky.social is an amazingly talented artist, amazing to see these guys doing incredible work at @tag45.bsky.social over the weekend

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

A big thank you to all who came to @tag45.bsky.social in Bournemouth and especially to all those who spoke, ran stalls, volunteered, organised and generally helped out over the 3 days (and more) You're all brilliant 🥂 Hope to see you in York next year!

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 16/12/2024

This year's TAG is over, huge thanks to all the people @tag45.bsky.social for putting together an awesome event! Our collection of 'Contemporary Archaeology and Theory is still completely FREE for the rest of the month, though. Check it out now: buff.ly/31TPDr9

A scientist wearing a radiation protection suit with the text 'Contemporary archaeology and theory: Antiquity'.

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 16/12/2024

🏺 For those who missed out on this weekend's @tag45.bsky.social, you can view a transcript/slides of my talk, "F*ck Your Civility, I Want Change! On Subversive Anger as an Asian American Archaeologist" at the links below! www.researchgate.net/publication/... www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Kenneth Aitchison @aitchis1.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Excellent @tag45.bsky.social keynote from #GillHey telling the story of #commercial #archaeology's chaotic ride though the 90s, tough times in the 2000s and where we are today. And a good chance to remember #TimDarvill, and how important his contributions were

Mrs Thatcher and the privatisation of knowledge: the evolution of archaeological practice 1990.
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Two pictures showing Professor Tim Darvill, at his desk and with a shovel

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 16/12/2024

Congratulations to the winners of this year's Antiquity pub quiz @tag45.bsky.social, whose score of 31/40 won them a set of coveted Antiquity mugs!

A team of six people smiling and holding Antiquity mugs. Incoming Antiquity Editor Prof. Robin Skeates stands next to them smiling.

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tag45.bsky.social @tag45.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The only thing left for us to say is a huge thanks to our lovely sponsors @antiquityj.bsky.social , our brilliant volunteers and everyone from Bournemouth Arch&Anth, as well as the brilliant catering teams from BU food & Drink and Dylans bar/SUBU and everyone from BU events and research teams!

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tag45.bsky.social @tag45.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The moment has come .... [drum roll please!] ... The winner of the Don Henson Prize for best debut paper is ... Heather Ford University of Glasgow, for her paper "Monuments and the Past-Present-Future Nexus". Heather wins free registration at next year's TAG & £200 towards accommm/travel!

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tag45.bsky.social @tag45.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Look out for the Don Henson prize award announcement shortly, but in the meantime we're delighted to hand over the torch to York who have amazing plans for next year - can't wait! See you all there?!

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Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.eurosky.social · 15/12/2024

Day 3 @tag45.bsky.social and we are done! Thanks to @durotrigesdig.bsky.social and the U Bournemouth team for their welcoming hosting and to Prof Laura McAtackney for an excellent Geoff Egan Memorial Lecture. #archaeology 🏺

Colour photo of Laura, who has blond hair and is wearing a black outfit and glasses standing to the right of a lecture screen showing photos of two men, Geoff Egan and Mark Leone.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Hi Katy - thank you and thanks for the excellent input from all at The Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology. So glad you enjoyed @tag45.bsky.social 😊👍

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Alice Clough (she/her) @aliceclough.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Thank you @tag45.bsky.social for a wonderful few days, and the opportunity to share some early stage experiments from my PhD.

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tag45.bsky.social @tag45.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

It's also been a privilege this morning to send out a bunch of emails to the winner of the Don Henson prize for the best debut paper, and a number of other highly commended presenters ... .... But we don't want to tell you until they know, so watch this space!

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tag45.bsky.social @tag45.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

A highly of course is that we are delighted to announce this year's TAG prize winner is Rachel Crellin from the University of Leicester. Huge congratulations, very well deserved!

Rachel Crellin of the University of Leicester accepting her TAG prize

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tag45.bsky.social @tag45.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Woah, what a weekend! HUGE thanks to the TAG community for pitching up with such enthusiasm and making it such an amazing event at Bournemouth this year!

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Had a wonderful time at @tag45.bsky.social - such a fun, generous, and collaborative vibe this year, and a great venue. Thank you to all the organising team.

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Rob Hedge @robhedge.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

My @tag45.bsky.social highlight was seeing my brilliant friend @rachelcrellin.bsky.social receive the TAG award for her outstanding contribution to archaeological theory. The acuity, clarity and compassion in her work is a constant source of inspiration.

Photograph of a woman with dark wavy hair, spectacles, and a dark green long-sleeve dress, holding a piece of artwork by Alice Clough: a paper embossing of a design inspired by an Iron Age mirror.

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Well @tag45.bsky.social was fantastic, leaving feeling inspired! Lots of stimulating talks and interesting thoughts. Rewilding, reworlding, awe, landscapes, fear, difference and power. Thanks to the organisers!

Anna Collar stands at the front of a seminar room next to a slide showing Longhorn cattle roaming at Knepp estate during her talk on reworlding.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Lunch time day 3 @tag45.bsky.social Second floor: carpets Travel goods and beddings Materials and soft furnishing Restaurant and teas Going down #AreYouBeingServed (for those of a *certain age*)

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Brian Costello @archaeoboxer.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

What can be better after the @tag45.bsky.social party to have a paper on hops! Thanks to Kate and Ben for a great session on 'Thinking through Plants'

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Annapaola Fedato @pannap91.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I'm really happy that my first post here is about #TAG45 Thanks @helenshampton.bsky.social for organising such a wonderful session! It was a real pleasure to participate. @tag45.bsky.social

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Annual migration to @tag45.bsky.social Excellent fun as always catching up with old friends and having my brain melted by the very best thinkers.

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Hanna Steyne (she/they) @hlsteyne.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Superb end to @tag45.bsky.social with the SPMA Geoff Egan Memorial lecture given by @lauramca.bsky.social on the materiality of the North of Ireland Troubles. Thank you @bournemouthuni.bsky.social for a super TAG!

Laura talking about the impact of Bobby Sands' bed in the Maze prison.

SPMA committee members and TAG delegates enjoying festive snacks and drinks in the Bournemouth University Fusion building.

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Matt Leivers @leivers.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

At my first @tag45.bsky.social in over 20 years seems like a good time to ask my periodic question. If you had to recommend one book about archaeology published this century, what would it be? (Yes, it can be your own book).

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Philolithia@bsky.social @philolithia.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Carreg y Big standing stone (Meirionnydd) that I used in Skyscapes in Prehistory session @tag45.bsky.social yesterday to present my PhD research on applying Assemblage Theory to single standing stones to examine direction(s) with which they may be most robustly connected: for #StandingStoneSunday 🏺

A tall single grey standing stone, lit by the camera flash to reveal patches of bright white lichen, stands under a blue night sky with stars and white clouds. There are gentle rolling hills in the background.

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Hanna Steyne (she/they) @hlsteyne.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Day 3 @tag45.bsky.social starting, appropriately after the TAG party with the archaeology of cosiness. Kate & Emma in pyjamas asking can we make academic conferences cosy?

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Come see the @thesanctuary.bsky.social stall @tag45.bsky.social #TAG45 where ancient craft and bodily movement theory meet wellbeing 😊👍

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James Clark @jclark997.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Had a great time presenting at #TAG45 in the experimental archaeology session fantastically organised by @helenshampton.bsky.social and Andy Needham! I used the Oldowan-Acheulean transition to argue we shouldn’t forget macroevolutionary patterns have microevolutionary roots! @tag45.bsky.social

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tag45.bsky.social @tag45.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Quick reminder to all TAG-nauts, please take a moment to complete this quick survey on access and inclusion at TAG. We really value your input! tinyurl.com/yc7tj3vb

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Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.eurosky.social · 14/12/2024

Day 2 @tag45.bsky.social. It was fabulous to hear from Suzanne Taylor about ML286 again and to catch up with Alice Clough about her soundscapes from commercial archaeology contexts, amongst many others in the storytelling sessions. And Emma Stockley’s soil column socks are wonderful!

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Jessie Slater PhD @subbasegirl.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I want to claim that 41 is too old to dance at full force to Darude - Sandstorm, but I can't be shown up by the sexagenarians on the dance floor. @tag45.bsky.social #tag45

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Blue sky thinking today at @tag45.bsky.social

Blue sky with clouds over a modern university building

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Philolithia@bsky.social @philolithia.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Fabio Silva introducing the session Skyscapes and Archaeology: a reflection on the last decade @tag45.bsky.social

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Philolithia@bsky.social @philolithia.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Carolyn Kennett at the Skyscapes in Prehistory session at @tag45.bsky.social talking on Bridging the Gap Between Archaeology and Archaeoastronomy: Overcoming Barriers Through Education and Outreach

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solangenoel.bsky.social @solangenoel.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

If you're a commercial archaeologist or an academic researcher curious about how to responsibly share 3D models of human remains, please check out my virtual talk on the Mortuary Memes #Tag45 session blog post on Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social @tag45.bsky.social #archaeology #scicomm

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