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Gavin MacGregor @gavinmacgregor.bsky.social · 11d

Gavrinis is the most amazing megalithic site I have been privileged to visit. Taking a boat to reach, you encounter a remarkable concentration of #Neolithic rock art at a single megalithic monument. A deeply powerful & inspiring place.

@megalithic.bsky.social #rockart #archaeology #TombTuesday

Drystone facade with large megalithic stones forming entrance to passage entering large cairn

Passage of cairn with large stone side slabs all covered incised decoration and with stone slab floor and capstones

Large standing forming side slab of passage. Covered in incised decoration comprising rainbow 🌈 shaped forms, large ones in middle and smaller to side.

View into large square chamber at end of passage. Two large decorated backslabs and massive single paving stone.

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · 18d

📢 Registration is now open! 📢

Sign up for in-person attendance before 31 October 2025 to get Early Bird prices.

Waged delegate fee is £110
Unwaged delegate fee is £40

More information and links to register can be found on the TAG York website: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/registrat...

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 21d

I’m trying to post my gofundme link consistently but not too much. Tbh I’m probably not posting it enough but I don’t want to harass you all.

Repost/share/signal boost greatly appreciated! 🙏

Donate to Help FT Stay Here...Or Start over, organized by F Theory

Short version first: I’m an undocumented freelancer/gig worker with no health insu… F Theory needs your support for Help FT Stay Here...Or Start over

www.gofundme.com

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 24d

As ever, thank you, friends, for helping us fight the algorithm and supporting independent presses 🙏🏼🖤✨

Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 24d

Ready for a new issue? Pre-orders for The Mirror Issue are now open worldwide! ✨🪞✨

Mirror magic, ritual masks, films that cast a spell, doppelgängers and fetches, changelings, evil portraits, spirit traps and much more.

👉🏼 helleborezine.com

Cover of Hellebore: The Mirror Issue, showing a woman with eyes closed and her reflections in two mirrors, both with open eyes

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Archaeo-CNC @cncipolla.bsky.social · Sep 9

Just out, #openaccess forum, "Questions Worth Asking: Un-Disciplining Archaeology, Reclaiming Pasts for Better Futures." Download here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Please share. #archaeology

Screenshot of first page of multi-authored American Antiquity forum, "Questions Worth Asking"

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · Aug 27

I just published my article Archaeology as Worldbuilding, an effort that grows out of 20+ years of digital (and analog) archaeological making. Adjacent to recent arguments about storytelling, I broaden our scope to make past worlds & tell stories in community with others.

doi.org/10.1017/S095...

Archaeology as Worldbuilding | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge Core

Archaeology as Worldbuilding

doi.org

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Yannis Hamilakis 🍉 @yannisham.bsky.social · Aug 8

Archaeology defined as a hauntology of remains. A theoretical statement grounded on my work on ruins as well as my recent work on the remnants of contemporary migration. Part of a great volume! Grateful to the editors and to many colleagues who helped out!

www.academia.edu/143309448/Ha...

Hamilakis, Y. 2026. Archaeology as a hauntology of remains. In Shadow Archaeologies In the Shadow of Antiquity or For Other Modes of Archaeological Worldmaking, edited by A. Nativ and G. Lucas. London...

In this chapter, I propose a hauntological archaeology, not as a subdiscipline, a subfield, or a method but as an affect, as a way of allowing or rather enabling material remains to haunt us. This is ...

www.academia.edu

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · Jul 31

Geographers of the ancient Greek world. Selected texts in translation – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.07...

Geographers of the ancient Greek world. Selected texts in translation – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

bmcr.brynmawr.edu

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Ollie Harris @ojth.bsky.social · Jul 18

I am really enjoying these lectures from FT — well worth the money and this week it’s Empedocles, Deleuze’s favourite pre-Socratic philosopher (according to one of his seminars). A must listen for my long Sunday drive! We all need distractions at the moment and this series is a great one.

FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · Jul 18

This week in Lectures on the Early Greek philosophers: Empedocles!

The guy who invented the concept of the “four elements,” Empedocles wrote in verse and was one of the kookiest early Greek philosophers, walking around in purple robes claiming to have magical powers.

$2 text
$5 audio

LEGP LXII Empedocles | FT

Get more from FT on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Ollie Harris @ojth.bsky.social · Jun 27

Sure?! Shows my proof reading skills are not where they should be 😹

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Ollie Harris @ojth.bsky.social · Jun 27

Come and chat power with us @tag2025york.bsky.social in December!

A poster showing a fist and encouraging people to send in abstracts for a TAG session

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mesoplants.bsky.social @mesoplants.bsky.social · Jun 25

New paper on the nature of plant life and its relationship to human life during the Mesolithic! Thanks to @ojth.bsky.social, Amy Gray Jones and @graemewarren.bsky.social for comments and advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Living Amongst and with Trees: Botanical Agency and the Archaeology of Plant-Human Relationships

The last decade has seen a significant change in the way the humanities have approached the study of botanical life. Termed ‘the plant turn’, this questions traditional views of plants as a largely...

www.tandfonline.com

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Ollie Harris @ojth.bsky.social · Apr 29

Outcome is my best guess!

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Ollie Harris @ojth.bsky.social · Mar 7

This event featured a brilliant, emotive, passionate and funny speech by my colleague Alice Samson. She represented the fabulous and talented women I am so lucky to work with. Our School is such a special place on days like today

School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · Mar 7

📢Today, the home of our Schools of #Archaeology & Ancient History & Museum Studies has been renamed the Kathleen Kenyon Building, the first academic building on campus to be named after a woman.

🏛️ le.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...

📷 UCL Institute of Archaeology, CC BY 4.0

#InternationalWomensDay

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School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · Mar 7

📢Today, the home of our Schools of #Archaeology & Ancient History & Museum Studies has been renamed the Kathleen Kenyon Building, the first academic building on campus to be named after a woman.

🏛️ le.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...

📷 UCL Institute of Archaeology, CC BY 4.0

#InternationalWomensDay

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Sussex Portable Antiquities Scheme Team @sussexflo.bsky.social · Mar 1

Time for a #FindsFriday with a late Bronze Age socketed hammer dating between 1000-700BC.
This hammer is made from copper alloy, and has been cast, in fact, it is possible to see the casting seam along the length of the hammer!
Follow the record link here:
finds.org.uk/database/art...

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Rune Nyord @runenyord.bsky.social · Mar 1

It is a great pleasure to announce that my book Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife is now available in Open Access: bit.ly/3Xn9HfB

Please download, read, and share with anyone who might be interested in new ways of thinking about Egyptian religion.

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Howard Beck @howardbeck.bsky.social · Feb 28

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downtownathensga.bsky.social @downtownathensga.bsky.social · Feb 28

so this happened last night and tbh we don't know if Athens will ever recover. pure magic.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFCg...

Pretty Persuasion - R.E.M., Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy and friends. February 27, 2025

YouTube video by Jason Billips

www.youtube.com

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Ollie Harris @ojth.bsky.social · Feb 25

He’s also 45 whatever nonsense he says about the Covid year not counting

HM @hindumonkey.bsky.social · Feb 25

I'm 44 years old and FPL is the worst thing to ever happen to me

Goodnight

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · Feb 13

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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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Feb 11

An entirely new financial settlement is needed in Higher Education - as many of us have been saying all along. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | Editorial

Editorial: The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed

www.theguardian.com

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Tony Potter @tony-potter.bsky.social · Jan 21

I’ve been thinking lots recently about the concept of ‘monumentality’ in #Etruscan necropoleis & its impact on multi-sensory experiences, or rather, the multi-sensory experiences that contribute towards the perception of ‘monumentality’.

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Ollie Harris @ojth.bsky.social · Dec 28

Yeah very tough indeed!

Ollie Harris @ojth.bsky.social · Dec 28

“Sometimes, Ollie, you just have to tell them to go and read a fucking book”

Words to live by. RIP John.

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Ollie Harris @ojth.bsky.social · Dec 28

He also offered me excellent advice including to go to Cardiff for my MA.

At a conference some years later I was nervous that my paper (an early engagement with material vibrancy) would go down badly with the scientists in the audience. John’s reassurance was typically combative: 2/3

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