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Established in 1991, the BHA is a peer-reviewed #OpenAccess journal focused on global histories of archaeology, published by Ubiquity Press.

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bhajournal.bsky.social
Fascinating thread! Always interested to read more on gendered labor in archaeology—check out this @trowelblazers.bsky.social post on Irene Mound, or these three recent BHA publications (#OpenAccess, as always!)

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November 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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fossilhistory.bsky.social
#OnThisDay in 1953, the Piltdown man fossils were declared a “perfectly executed and carefully prepared fraud," concluding a hoax that had lasted over forty years. 🏺🧪
Old newspaper clipping titled “The skull that never was.” Large illustration of a skull being measured with calipers and two hands pointing at its eye sockets, next to an oval portrait photograph of an older man in a suit and tie. The headline suggests a scientific hoax being exposed, referring to the Piltdown skull. Small columns of text fill the page in typical mid 1900s newspaper layout.
November 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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robertpatalano.bsky.social
This is a important read on the challenges many African ECRs continue to face when doing archaeology or paleontology at home. Note that the authors are from Ethiopia, Sudan, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.
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View of Against All Odds: An Archaeologist's Journey in Africa
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November 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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hmaloigne.bsky.social
🏺🗃️ And I'm done!

Over 12 articles I've explored the #HistoryOfArchaeology, through histories of marginalised communities and actors, the role of antiquities dealers and multinational corporations or forced labour in fieldwork, collecting and research

I've learnt a lot and hope readers have too!
November 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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animalarchaeology.com
📜🏺 Faience animals undoubtedly some of the cutest artefacts in all of archaeology.
garstangmuseum.bsky.social Garstang Museum of Archaeology @garstangmuseum.bsky.social · 14d
Today we are sharing one of our favourite digitised glass plate negatives. The original photo was taken during Garstang’s excavations at Abydos and shows two ancient Egyptian faience hippos!

#glassplatenegative #digitisation #ancientegypt #excavations #Abydos #museum
November 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org
⛏️ Dig through these updated collections of popular, free-access #research from the three journals of the #SAA: 🆓✅
🟡 AAP - https://cup.org/4mXXmYW
🔴 AAQ - https://cup.org/4q5WaWq
🔵 LAQ - https://cup.org/3KMgEmM

#archaeology
#americanarchaeology
@saa-aap.bsky.social
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November 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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sholleykline.bsky.social
PUBLICATION DAY for In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico!

Use discount code 6AF25 for 40% off—that's $18 plus taxes and shipping (paperback/ebook)! Thanks, @univnebpress.bsky.social!

For more: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978....

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Flyer for book, IN THE SHADOW OF EL TAJIN: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico. "Immensely important.... Sam Holley-Kline reframes the archaeological site of El Tajín as a location of recent, rather than just ancient, Indigenous history. In the Shadow of El Tajín makes a significant contribution to the emerging field of the history of archaeology in Mexico and beyond, as well as to our understanding of Mexican political economy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries." -LISA PINLEY COVERT, author of San Miguel de Allende: Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site. Located in the Papantla municipality of the Mexican state of Veracruz, El Tajín is a UNESCO World Heritage site but a lesser-known tourist destination and national symbol. The Indigenous Totonac residents of the region know well that the site's relative absence from discussions of global archaeology and heritage belies a century of wide-ranging labor, extractive industries, and commodity exchange. In the Shadow of El Tajin tells the story of how a landscape of ancient mounds and ruins became an archaeological site, brings to light the network of actors who made it happen, and reveals the Indigenous histories silenced in the process. By drawing on the insights of Indigenous Totonac peoples who have lived and worked in El Tajín for more than a century, Sam Holley-Kline explores historical processes that made both the archaeological site and regional historical memory. In the Shadow of El Tajín decenters discussions of the state and tourism industry by focusing on the industries and workers who are integral to the functioning of the site but who have historically been overlooked by studies of the ancient past. Holley-Kline recovers local Indigenous histories in dialogue with broader trends in scholarship to demonstrate the rich recent past of El Tajín, a place better known for its ancient history. SAVE 40% with code 6AF25 at nebraskapress.unl.edu
November 2, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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lemoustier.bsky.social
🏺🗃️ Brilliant few days in Cambridge w/ @toriherridge.bsky.social & Emma Pomeroy for #ExcavatingGarrod - some highlights as we work through archive material gathered so far
- DG writing from Palestine field camp after Newnham fellowship award
- Mary Kitson Clark on dig visitors
- Belinda the donkey
Photo of letter written in ink, addressed from Wdy el-Mughara, nr. Athlit, Palestine. Screen grab of dig diary in ink, text: "Miss Bate arrived on the 12.29 pm. At tea time Henry Field turned up in an enormous car which was laden with all sorts of queer horrors - snakes, bugs, skulls, corpses etc". Screen shot of a black and white photo of donkey foal lying flat out asleep outside a building. Photo of a framed pencil portrait of Dorothy Garrod, wearing glasses, her hair drawn back.
October 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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artemis-p.bsky.social
On this #InternationalOpenAccessWeek (www.openaccessweek.org), let me share the link to #BulletinOfTheHistoryOfArchaeology (@bhajournal.bsky.social), the OA journal of which I am a co-editor. Many of the articles cover the Mediterranean: archaeologybulletin.org. #MSCA #MMARe #HistoryOfArchaeology
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October 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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archaeoiain.bsky.social
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Can I have some help identifying the people in this photo, please? I am there, Ghanim Wahida is there and the bloke with the neck brace is called Diamond and worked on Use Wear. Other than that I have drawn a complete blank. Knossos, Villa Ariadne late 1960s, probably 1969 🏺
October 23, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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hmaloigne.bsky.social
🏺🗃️ 🤗 very excited to be at the @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social conference this week to talk abou the #HistoriansOfArchaeology online support group

You can sign up to join our meetings, co-working sessions, reading group and #Discord server anytime via this link:

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October 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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unevendays.bsky.social
Went to the new Jewry Wall museum in Leicester today and really enjoyed it. Also really enjoyed getting to see the notebook and photos of Kathleen Kenyon, who excavated in the 1930s 🏺
A Roman wall, quite high, with two arch windows. Behind is the square tower of a church and trees. Grass in front and some ground level Roman remains. Overcast sky Black and white photo of a woman in a long skirt and blazer/ jacket, holding a trowel I'm a trench with high sides Page of Kenyon's notebook with sketches of the fill and walls excavated Roman mosaic floor with geometric patterns
October 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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chrisseddon.bsky.social
There's something quite beautiful about Sir Mortimer Wheeler's box-system excavations at Maiden Castle. Such a fantastic photograph!

Image Rights: Society of Antiquaries (held at Historic England Archive)

#archaeology 🏺 #photography
An historic black & white image of the box excavations at Maiden Castle during Sir Mortimer Wheeler's excavations in 1937. Image Rights: Society of Antiquaries (held at Historic England Archive)
October 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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lheathstout.bsky.social
I'm starting to work on designing my "Archaeology and the Public" course for next spring. Does anyone have syllabi, assignments, or lesson plans they'd be willing to share on the subjects of public arch, collaborative arch, pseudoarch, or journalistic & pop culture depictions of arch?🏺 #academicsky
October 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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rogueclassicist.bsky.social
(71) The Hidden History of Egyptian Labor in Abydos - YouTube
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The Hidden History of Egyptian Labor in Abydos
YouTube video by Penn Museum
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October 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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prehistoryteller.bsky.social
#RepresentationMatters is published! Jo Zalea Matias, @archaeologiskop.bsky.social and I, together with our fantastic authors, are happy and proud that we finally made it! For more info and to order: link.springer.com/book/9783031...
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Cover of a book, the upper half a drawing of a diverse group of people engaging in every day tasks, in blue and red colour. The names of the editors are embedded in white: Jo Zalea Matias, Nicola Scheyhing, Doris Gutsmiedl Schümann. The lower half is a golden brown, with the title printed in dark blue: diversity in visual representations of the past. Representation matters. At the lower rim there is the logo of the European Association of archaeologists on the left side, and the logo of the publisher Springer press on the right.
September 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Check out our Historical Archaeology collection, with FREE and #OpenAccess content such as:

🇵🇱 Forced labour camps of the 19th & 20th centuries
🇸🇹 The origins of plantation slavery
🇬🇹 The revival of Indigenous Maya religion following Spanish conquest

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View of Dunyvaig castle and the Lagavulin distillery in Lagavulin Bay on the Scottish island of Islay, with the text 'Historical Archaeology, Antiquity'.
September 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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hpsvanessa.bsky.social
It's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians and all other academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs) tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky 🗃️(pls boost to relevant feeds)
September 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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#OnThisDay in AD 1923, Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, was annexed by the UK. Following independence, the country was named after the Great Zimbabwe: capital of the medieval Zimbabwe Culture, famous for its monumental, freestanding dry-stone walls.

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🏺 #Archaeology
Monumental dry-stone wall with chevron patterns made from the bricks.
September 12, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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prehistorian.bsky.social
Okay, I think the first teaching of later prehistory in Britain is by P.G.H. Boswell at Liverpool from 1917. From Pamela Smith, early prehistory is first taught by Alison Quiggin in Homerton College, Cambridge by 1912.
September 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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uofa-ipia.bsky.social
Check out this important new paper, co-written by IPIA scholars Dr. Kisha Supernant ( @archaeomapper.bsky.social) and Solène Mallet Gauthier (@somag.bsky.social), on confronting and disrupting "grey zones" in Canadian archaeology 🏺
Confronting Archaeology’s “Gray Zones” | American Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Confronting Archaeology’s “Gray Zones” - Volume 90 Issue 3
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September 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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cultarchaeo.bsky.social
This point 💯

If you want to know more about the Ahnenerbe (the Nazi "heritage" research institute conducting archaeological work, incl. Atlantis stuff), read Pringle's book. If you want to know more about pseudoarch in among the more contemporary far-right, I wrote a little something about it. 🏺
Book cover for heather pringle's book, called "The Master Plan." First page of a chapter I wrote called, "Manufacturing History: Atlantis, Aryans, and the Use of Pseudoarchaeology by the Far-Right"
August 31, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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williamcarruthers.bsky.social
Think—as the article basically states—that this is the next-step in the already extremely problematic use of satellites in archaeology. People really need to take a look at themselves. ‘Archaeology isn’t colonial’, they said…
morganvl.bsky.social Morgan L Ventura (Dr Hilary M V Leathem) @morganvl.bsky.social · Aug 31
This makes me uncomfortable. Not only is this a question of ethics & respect, but perhaps these two archaeologists should ask themselves WHY a tech titan from Meta would want to locate heritage sites in resource-rich, Indigenous regions like the Amazon.

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Where should archaeologists dig next? The winners of this OpenAI contest can tell them.
Archeological sites, like those in the Amazon, are disappearing faster than we can find them. Can AI help?
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August 31, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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rhiggitt.bsky.social
With a great outline of her work on women scientists in America #histSTM
williamthomas.bsky.social Will Thomas @williamthomas.bsky.social · Aug 30
Good to see the New York Times has a lengthy obituary for Margaret Rossiter
Margaret W. Rossiter, 81, Dies; Wrote Women Scientists Into History
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August 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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cjfrieman.bsky.social
hey archaeosky 🏺 are you going to SAA in SF next year? are you working on archaeology or heritage projects that questions empire or explores growth after empire? do i have a session for you!
this is the poster cfp for the saa session renewing worlds: Archaeology and heritage against empire 2 Our shared pasts, particularly in Western and colonial retellings, are dominated by empires. The Assyrian empire, the Inca Tawantinsuyu, the Aztec Ēxcān Tlahtōlōyān, and the Roman empire, among many others, are all commonly reanimated within popular and academic history. For many, empires are considered inevitable in global history; linear developments of powers that grow and aspire to global domination. The cultural imprint of empires is also central to archaeology and heritage. Palaces, temples, and lavish burials have been sought from the misty mornings of our discipline up to the present. National identities are built on grandiose imperial pasts as palaces-come-museums display artifacts justifying the tidy fiction of linear progress from the distant uncivilized past to the present day. This session grows from an EAA2024 session organized by the Black Trowel Collective and colleagues, titled And So Falls the World: Archaeology and Heritage Against Empires. We build on their exploration and scrutiny of imperial narratives, asking: what futures are being imagined and grown when members of a society tear down empires, or even just allow them to fall? How can those societies' pasts create resurgent practices that contest “empire-mentality”? What can we learn about surviving empire and thriving in its shadow? Poster: We are looking for papers within the broader themes of the archaeology of equality and its resistance to power and empire(s), related but not limited to: Archaeology of equality Indigenous archaeologies Intersectional archaeologies Gender and queer archaeology Anarchist archaeological perspectives Heritage & Museum Studies particularly those focusing on axiologies Archaeology of all periods and regions, including contemporary archaeologies Futurities Whatever beautiful thing you are working on that we haven’t thought of. alt text continues next skeet
August 29, 2025 at 4:49 AM