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Catherine Frieman
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D.Phil. Archaeologist. Co-Editor Current Anthropology. Previously Editor European Journal of Archaeology. Educator. Tattoo Enthusiast. World Traveller. Accident Prone.

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Catherine J. Frieman is an archaeologist and associate professor at the Australian National University. Her research investigates conservatism and innovation, and she is a specialist in material culture and technology. .. more

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · Jan 6
A reminder we’re accepting abstracts and registrations for the first #AusTAG conference to be held 22-23 May in Adelaide.

Call for Papers: austag.org/2025/11/04/a...

Registration: events.humanitix.com/austag-confe...

Can’t wait to see a bunch of archaeology folks there!
Call for Papers: AusTAG 2026
Submit an abstract to the first ever Australian Theoretical Archaeology Group (AusTAG), to be held at Adelaide University!
austag.org

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 18h
Deeply relatable!

Reposted by Margot C. Finn, Catherine J. Frieman, Joanna Brück

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 1d
New article! "Changing the Landscape of Archaeological Publishing" in Current Anthropology, by a giant collaborative group of coauthors fearlessly led by Jess Beck and including @bridgetalex.bsky.social @benmarwick.bsky.social @christinawarinner.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d
Oooh! Very interesting!

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Dr Lauren McIntyre 🏳️‍🌈 @noddinggoth.bsky.social · 1d
Full BABAO statement here (we need a Bluesky account!): babao.org.uk/bill-to-stop...
Bill to Stop Barbaric Practice of Buying and Selling Human Remains to be Introduced – BABAO
babao.org.uk

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.bsky.social · 1d
Sorting out my ppt for my public talk at the University of Leicester School of Heritage and Culture's Wednesday Seminar Series on the 11th of this month at 16:30.

If you'd like to attend either in person or online, then you can email the organisers for all the info: [email protected]
Photograph of a PowerPoint Title slide. The title reads "From 'mannish houswives' and 'Honorary males' to 'non-binary' and 'intersex' - A Tumultuous Tales of Terms in Gender Archaeology" and is accompanied by a meme of three spidermen pointing at eachother each labeled with a different term from 1990s Gender Archaeology

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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 1d
🏺

Just like modern goths, ancient goths came in all different kinds of shapes and sizes.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Cosmopolitanism in the depths of Barbaricum evidenced by archaeogenomic data from the Late Iron Age Goth community of the Masłomęcz group - Genome Biology
Background High mobility and extensive trade and military interactions are well recognized throughout the Late Iron Age Europe. The extremely rich archaeological record for the Masłomęcz group – a Got...
link.springer.com

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 1d
An important and tragic find. The events on Wandlebury Hill, close to the Iron Age Hillfort in the Gogmagog Hills (with optional hill figures), tells you something about how the high prehistoric places were used in 9th century 🏺
#HillfortsWednesday
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Reposted by Catherine J. Frieman, Mary James

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 1d
What's that you say!

It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women.

www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds
Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time
www.independent.co.uk

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 1d
Case in point. Here are my great-grandmother's home made remedies for coughs and indigestion #laudanum

Reposted by Cathy N. Davidson, Catherine J. Frieman

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 1d
Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition.

TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

Reposted by Brigitte Nerlich, Patrick Dunleavy, Andrew Livingstone , and 1 more

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 1d
Incandescent. One of the best pieces I've read about what university means to people and their communities - and what will happen to a city and people after one closes. The *Labour* government and Jaqui Smith in particular should be ashamed of themselves and shamed into doing something. Deplorable.
‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?
When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...
www.theguardian.com

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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 1d
I'm in Parliament today, presenting a ten-minute rule bill to ban the sale of human remains.

Human body parts are not curiosities to trade and decorate with.

We should ban this macabre trade for good.

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Melanie C. Green, Andrew Jacobs , and 2 more

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 1d
I've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever.

A thread.

Reposted by Catherine J. Frieman, Suzanne Conklin Akbari

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d
Some years ago, I was chatting with a Retropolis reader, a young history student, and I mentioned there were several dozen people enslaved in New Jersey up until the day the 13th Amendment kicked in in December 1865.

Y’all. He identified every one of them.
njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/nj...
njs.libraries.rutgers.edu NJS: An Interdisciplinary Journal Summer 2025 The New Jersey Miscount: The 1860 Census and the Accidental Humanization of Enslaved Individuals By Luke Voyles DOI: 10.14713/njs.v1112.362 Abstract: The 1860 census is the only example in U.S. history when the U.S. government systematically recorded the names and ages of enslaved individuals of a state. Because government officials underestimated the number of enslaved people in New Jersey, there was no slave schedule in the state. Therefore, the names of enslaved individuals appeared within the households of their enslavers in the regular 1860 census. The official census statistics only listed 18 individuals as enslaved in 1860, but a close examination of every 1860 census page for New Jersey uncovers 64 names tied to slavery. This essay explores the context behind the census, and how the census accidentally humanized people whom it often marginalized.

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d
Mind altering substances were a totally normal, regular thing to consume for most people over all the history of our species. We're the freaks with no tolerance who think a little sugar and caffeine is a wild mix
cjfrieman.bsky.social Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d
What i want people to grapple with is that that Victorian child likely consumed ungodly quantities of alcohol, opium and cocaine as well as many other substances in cough meds, pain meds and other formulations from its infancy. It would be fine with 4loko. Modern folks are the ones who might die
spacetwinks.bsky.social Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 1d
thinking about that "(x) could kill a victorian child" trend and how the more interesting thought is "which eras of history could you make significantly worse by introducing original formula 4loko"

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d
What i want people to grapple with is that that Victorian child likely consumed ungodly quantities of alcohol, opium and cocaine as well as many other substances in cough meds, pain meds and other formulations from its infancy. It would be fine with 4loko. Modern folks are the ones who might die
spacetwinks.bsky.social Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 1d
thinking about that "(x) could kill a victorian child" trend and how the more interesting thought is "which eras of history could you make significantly worse by introducing original formula 4loko"

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d
Oh no. Pinioned.

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Annelise Baer @annelisebaer.bsky.social · 1d
Fellow archaeologists! Has anyone come across ceramics that match this sherd? Findspot was SW Afghanistan. Dating is potentially 1st cent CE. Any/all leads are appreciated!

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Advances in Archaeological Practice @saa-aap.bsky.social · 2d
A new issue out now in Advances in Archeological Practice! Featuring work on digital archaeology, computational methods, public engagement, and innovative field and lab practices.

Explore Volume 13, Issue 4 here:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Advances in Archaeological Practice: Volume 13 - Issue 4 | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Advances in Archaeological Practice - Volume 13 - Issue 4
www.cambridge.org

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Ida Olson 🌱 Little Eden Pottery @idaolson.bsky.social · 2d
Oh my god. 🧜‍♀️
A side shot of a handmade pottery mermaid mug showing off the blue green glaze.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 2d
We would love for @jaytoddgla.bsky.social’s and my critical response to be read widely, given the Sullivan Review’s potential for far-reaching implications across the social and health sciences — and indeed well beyond the academy
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New Intervention in TIBG:

'A critical response to the UK's "Sullivan Review" into sex and gender in research and data' by @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & @felicitycallard.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/tran...
Screenshot of an intervention abstract in Transactions by Jay JD Todd & Felicity Callard (2026) entitled: 'A Critical Response to the UK's ‘Sullivan Review’ Into Sex and Gender in Research and Data' with a red banner at the top. This intervention argues that the UK Government-commissioned independent review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender (the ‘Sullivan Review’) implicitly promotes the erasure of trans and gender diverse people from research and data collection protocols and carries worrying implications for the inclusion of trans people within UK institutions and for critical social science research. Set in a context where trans and gender diverse people's rights are being rolled back in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, the Review attempts to install a singular model of binary, immutable, ‘biological’ sex as incontrovertible across data gathering on sex and gender across public bodies including government, universities, the health service and research organisations. It does so via appeals to science and to ‘clarity’, and by proposing to limit or even in certain cases remove default ethical review processes. The intervention argues that the Review can be situated within broader attempts to erase critical inquiry into the complex, intersectional production of social categories including sex, gender and sexuality, as well as inquiries that extend what ethical principles and governance involve. In sum, we contend that the Review carries deleterious consequences for geography and other social scientific disciplines and call upon scholars to refuse its vision and implications.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d
Once all of the other, uh, things are settled we really need a serious public health campaign around everything involved in being part of a society.

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2d
YES

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Peter Reavill @peterreavill.bsky.social · 2d
An important piece that looks not just at the Shirehall, Shrewsbury but at the wider problem of values of heritage and it's futute reuse. Well worth 5 minutes of your time
Why is it so hard to reuse buildings in Britain?
Shropshire Council’s push to demolish its former HQ, the late-1960s Shirehall in Shrewsbury, encapsulates everything wrong with how we treat our existing buildings, argues Leanne Tritton
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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2d
I'm pretty sure gibralter falls is presently closed for safety works unfortunately because it's lovely there

Reposted by David Underdown, Catherine J. Frieman

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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 2d
The @ads-update.bsky.social Archeology Data service (ads) are looking to recruit a Digital Archives Assistant.

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/digi...

#digipres #digipresnorth #archivejobs
Jobs - The University of York
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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2d
Dairy road in fishwyck is sneakily great for food and drinks - canteen does the best vegan ramen I've ever eaten, capital brewery/brod burger is always excellent, lots of good coffee/cafe places down there too - also a really great queer friendly barbershop if you need a new look

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2d
If you're here over a weekend, fishwyck market has good food and a nice people watching vibe, plus a very decent lifeline secondhand book shop

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2d
There's a lot of good food at different prices scattered across town. Lonsdale st in braddon has lots of options (and good bars), dickson has a range of great asian places, don't trust anyone who tells you cartel taco in queanbeyan is good

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2d
The kangaroos are abundant they hang out on the school field by the war memorial most evenings, also usually a ton at Weston Park in yarralumla. If you have a car, drive down to Tidbinbilla national Park (ca 45 min from town)