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Despoina V. Sampatakou @archaeobruja.bsky.social · 22h

Maki Wardle killing it up there. I love love love this presentation 👌
#TIPC4
@valuefnd.bsky.social

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VALUE Foundation @valuefnd.bsky.social · 22h

Penultimate presentation by Maki Wardle on Alternate reality games and London's archaeology!

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keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social · 1d

getting weird @ #TIPC4 this afternoon, and we're streaming all of today's wonderful programming over on twitch.tv/streamingthepast! come hang out at the event of the season 🎭🎮💀

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Despoina V. Sampatakou @archaeobruja.bsky.social · 1d

First talk of day 2 at the #TIPC4 conference by the @valuefnd.bsky.social
Csilla, @apolitopoulos.bsky.social, and @docrandom.bsky.social taking about their future plans on mixing archaeology and play :)
#past<3play

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VALUE Foundation @valuefnd.bsky.social · 1d

Katrine Haydock is wrapping up this session talking about photogrammetry and 3D objects and art!

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VALUE Foundation @valuefnd.bsky.social · 2d

We are SO back! Game developer panel for #TIPC4 with Leyla, @wisproy.bsky.social, and @colewehrle.bsky.social to talk about the development of historical video games! Tune in over at www.twitch.tv/streamingthepast

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VALUE Foundation @valuefnd.bsky.social · 2d

Second session of the day has just started! Louise Bedford will be talking about an archaeologist's journey into game design!

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Despoina V. Sampatakou @archaeobruja.bsky.social · 2d

Currently in Leiden for the Interactive Pasts Conference #TIPC4
So many exciting talks, can’t wait!

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 4d

If you work in a classics library, as the classics librarian in a general academic library, in any research library or heritage institution that contains some classics content, or are in any capacity involved in cataloguing or taxonomising ancient world data, you may be interested in…
#digiclasswiki

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Greek Myth Comix @greekmythcomix.bsky.social · 11d

A reminder that #ClassicsTober starts tomorrow on @classicstober.bsky.social and the overall theme is KATABASIS.

ClassicsTober25: Katabasis

1. Hypnos
2. Thanatos
3. Graeae
4. Shroud
5. Hermes Psychopompos
6. Moirai
7. φαρμακίς (pharmakis) - witch, sorceress
8. Erebos
9. Lampades
10. Hekate
11. Torch
12. Styx
13. Empousa
14. Cocytus
15. Τέρατα (Térata) - monsters
16. Typhon
17. Echidna
18. Kharon
19. Shade
20. Acheron
21. Kerberos
22. Judge
23. Lamia
24. Phlegethon
25. Tartarus
26. Punishment
27. Erinyes
28. Phobos & Deimos
29. Mysteries
30. Lethe
31. Elysian Fields

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · Sep 9

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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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 10d

Huge congratulations to a very deserving @gabemoshenska.bsky.social, newly Professor of Public Archaeology!

Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 10d

Tim Schadla-Hall mid-rant at Pizza P once told me "listen you little fucker, you're going to be professor of public archaeology one day" Well today is that day. I miss you Tim.

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Despoina V. Sampatakou @archaeobruja.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations Carl! Exciting read!

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Despoina V. Sampatakou @archaeobruja.bsky.social · 17d

Deepest condolences Lorna, so sorry for your loss, sounds like an amazing person.

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Despoina V. Sampatakou @archaeobruja.bsky.social · 22d

Sorry to hear that Lorna. I’m an only child and went through working and caring while still at uni before losing them. We had a nurse to help, especially for my mother as I was entirely alone. I took unpaid leave towards the end to care for my mother as.Just be kind to yourself as much as possible.

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Despoina V. Sampatakou @archaeobruja.bsky.social · 23d

Looking so forward to this and seeing many of you there!

VALUE Foundation @valuefnd.bsky.social · 24d

The Playful Archaeology panel (Oct.) 10 features @waltros.bsky.social, @clmorgan.bsky.social, and @archaeobruja.bsky.social! In this panel, archaeologists working with different forms of games and play will discuss the role of play, games and fun in archaeological theory and practice!

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The Black Trowel Collective @blacktrowel.bsky.social · Sep 2

BTC Call for Action - EAA

EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.

Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

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Despoina V. Sampatakou @archaeobruja.bsky.social · Aug 20

Now that’s on my list to find :)

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · Jul 17

And back to #DigiClass London:
Tomorrow: Ester Salgarella (Aarhus): Sort It, See It, Say It. Digital strategies to revive a Bronze Age Aegean Script
18 July 2025, 17:00 BST, in Senate House or stream live on Youtube: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/sort-...

#DigitalHumanities

Sort It, See It, Say It. Digital strategies to revive a Bronze Age Aegean Script

ics.sas.ac.uk

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ARIADNE Research Infrastructure @ariadne-ri.bsky.social · Jul 15

ATRIUM invites contributions to the session "Towards Adaptation: Environmental Sustainability in Archaeological Workflows" at TAG 2025 at University of York 15-17 December. More information: www.ariadne-research-infrastructure.eu/2025/07/15/t...
The Call closes on 1st August. #ATRIUM-EU

Call for Papers - TAG 2025, York, UK
ATRIUM

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Despoina V. Sampatakou @archaeobruja.bsky.social · Jul 2

So happy my research is out! I’ve developed a methodology for archaeologists to evaluate the impact of digital storytelling on public understanding of the past, using three different media to assess which is most effective for knowledge dissemination.

www.barpublishing.com/book/creatin...

Creating and Evaluating Digital Media for Archaeological Storytelling - BAR Publishing

Archaeologists strive to disseminate their research to audiences through various media, often with limited time and funding available as part of do-it-yourself (DIY) projects. However, there is a lack...

www.barpublishing.com

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · Jun 27

Congratulations Eva!!

Eva Mol🍉 @evamol.bsky.social · Jun 27

Coming (finally) with Oxford University Press this fall!

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Eva Mol🍉 @evamol.bsky.social · Jun 12

Working at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam this summer as co-curator on an exhibition about ancient and Transatlantic slavery. This is a sales contract of an enslaved; soul-crushing to see some of the objects we curate, but very grateful to be able to tell this story. More soon!

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Andrew Reinhorror, PhD, RPA @adreinhard.bsky.social · Jun 10

An #archaeology poem in four skeets

5R 2.5/6
June 9, 2025
(Tetractys)

My
trowel?
Marshalltown—
my ride or die.
No WHS for me, thank you.
Forged, tempered, ground, and polished steel so bright,
your glorious
five inches
never
fail.

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · Jun 5

I'm very happy to share my new game/publication, co-authored with Digital Archaeology MSc grad McKenna Crowe:

"Other Eyes: Choose your own digital archaeology paradata adventure" in @intarcheditor.bsky.social

You can read the intro and play the game here: intarch.ac.uk/journal/issu...

Other Eyes: Choose your own digital archaeology paradata adventure

This publication documents the exciting and complex decision-making processes during the course of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)-funded OTHER EYES project through a text-based interactive game...

intarch.ac.uk

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