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Almost Archaeology
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Archaeology in/of/as/through pop culture. Run by @archaeonado.bsky.social, writing at almostarchaeology.com
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Almost Archaeology @almostarch.bsky.social · Jul 27
NEW POST! The next level of videogame museums: OXO Madrid, by @archaeonado.bsky.social

The new OXO Madrid Museo del Videojuego provides historical context while sacrificing none of the fun, and invites into the display what had previously been a missing part of the puzzle: the players themselves
The next level of videogame museums: OXO Madrid
By Adrián Maldonado I recently happened upon a brand new videogame museum on a recent holiday to Spain. Like a glint of gold in river gravel, it popped up in the corner of my map app as I searched for...
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Almost Archaeology @almostarch.bsky.social · 2d
Future archaeologists: fertility cult
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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 2d
Strang goings on doon the watter...

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Bemusement as dozens of sex toys wash up on beach in Millport
Dozens of sex toys washed up on a beach in Millport.
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Almost Archaeology @almostarch.bsky.social · 4d
Telephonic archaeology
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Nerdist @nerdist.bsky.social · Aug 21
After 34 years, AOL is ending its dial-up internet service this September.
AOL's Dial-Up Internet Service Is Ending in September
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Almost Archaeology @almostarch.bsky.social · 9d
#hairchaeology
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Adrián Maldonado @archaeonado.bsky.social · 10d
Cool colleagues doing cool stuff again - that's Dr Blackwell @earlymedieval.bsky.social nearly blurred out back there in this story of cool medieval finds from excavations at Eliean Donan Castle www.thenational.scot/news/2550068...
Rare medieval hair-styling tool found during Highland castle excavation
A RARE 13th-century tool for styling hair has been acquired by a museum after it was discovered in an excavation ...
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Almost Archaeology @almostarch.bsky.social · 13d
#beerchaeology
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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 13d
A while back Historic England asked for my opinion on which was the oldest pub in London. The result is a new online article that outlines the variables, busts some myths, and points to a couple of genuinely ancient pubs in and around the city...

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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 22d
Patella regalia!
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 22d
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Elton John had his kneecaps baked, polished, and turned into jewelry
Elton John had his kneecaps baked, polished, and turned into jewelry
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Almost Archaeology @almostarch.bsky.social · 29d
#warchaeology
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Adrián Maldonado @archaeonado.bsky.social · Sep 8
Cool stuff by colleagues part 2: Bronze Age hoard from Carnoustie will go on display for the first time in the upcoming exhibition Scotland’s First Warriors (27 Jun 2026 – 17 May 2027) at NMS, on the origins and impact of conflict and warfare in prehistoric Scotland media.nms.ac.uk/news/rare-br...
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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.

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Archaeology as Worldbuilding | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge Core
Archaeology as Worldbuilding
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Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · Sep 3
I wrote a piece for the Guardian games newsletter this week on my PhD research into preserving play experiences, and why I think that the most archaeological games are those that that actually make you *think* like one 🏺

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...
Forget Tomb Raider and Uncharted, there’s a new generation of games about archaeology – sort of
In this week’s newsletter: an archaeologist (and gamer) on why we love to walk around finding objects in-game and in real life
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Almost Archaeology @almostarch.bsky.social · Sep 5
Ben Affleck: almost archaeologist
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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · Sep 5
If you were hoping to see a teenage Ben Affleck* talking to Dr Peter Reynolds @butserancientfarm.co.uk before the weekend, then don't worry: we've got you covered. 👍

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Ben Affleck visits Butser Ancient Farm (Archive Clip)
YouTube video by Butser Ancient Farm
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Almost Archaeology @almostarch.bsky.social · Sep 4
Archaeology of the Plastic Age (Plastocene? Plastozoic?)
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · Sep 4
Our new open access paper: how do we understand plastics as a contemporary archaeological record, and what does this mean for how we mitigate their environmental impacts? 🧪 🏺
Archaeological and systemic context for the plastic age: Theorising the formation of contemporary and future archaeological records | Cambridge Prisms: Plastics | Cambridge Core
Archaeological and systemic context for the plastic age: Theorising the formation of contemporary and future archaeological records - Volume 3
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Almost Archaeology @almostarch.bsky.social · Sep 4
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Almost Archaeology @almostarch.bsky.social · Sep 4
Revolutionary heritage
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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · Sep 3
A plaque commemorating the re-naming of Montgomery Terrace in the Mount Florida in Glasgow as Bolivar Terrace in 1933 to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Simon Bolivar.

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#glasgow #simonbolivar #bolivarterrace #mountflorida #plaque
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Almost Archaeology @almostarch.bsky.social · Sep 1
Heads up @drspacejunk.bsky.social who was just posting about flaked glass this morning! Cosmic! bsky.app/profile/drsp...
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · Aug 31
My PhD wasn't about space. It was a usewear and residue study of flaked glass artefacts that had been used for body modification, in the Pitt Rivers Museum. I made a bibliography of flaked glass and posted it to the Lithics-L back in 1998. Here it is if anyone is interested! 🧪 🏺
Flaked glass bibliography: a resource for lithics studies
I put this together for my PhD years ago, and sent it to the lithic email discussion list. Until recently it was still available online but ...
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Almost Archaeology @almostarch.bsky.social · Sep 1
Stumbled on this incredible bit of colonial archaeology wandering through Melbourne. It's a piece of European bottle glass flaked into a scraper by Kulin Nation First Peoples, excavated from the 1855-70 settlement at Wesley Place, now displayed at 130 Lonsdale www.wesleyplace.com.au/content/news...
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Almost Archaeology @almostarch.bsky.social · Aug 31
Skate #parkaeology
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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · Aug 27
This is a truly beautiful section! It’s cut through the Cobra slalom run at #KelvinWheelies. Hats off to @owenexiehurcum.bsky.social for overseeing a cracking piece of archaeology in this trench!
Archaeological excavations at Kelvin Wheelies skatepark
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Aug 28
“Disappointment is the most common response to time capsule openings”
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 28
A time capsule that Princess Diana buried in March 1991 was set to remain in its tomb for hundreds of years. Instead it has been dug up and opened after just 34 years.
Buried by Princess Diana, Time Capsule Brings Back the ’90s Far Too Soon
The capsule was opened early because of a construction project. It revealed a Kylie Minogue CD, a pocket television and other ephemera from its time.
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Ambi @jerseyshade.bsky.social · Aug 25
We live in the ruins of a greater civilization
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memes from outside fedi/atmosphere @nonfedimemes.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy · Feb 8
A tweet from Thinkwert that reads "we live in the ruins of a greater civilization". Attached is a photo of a Wii Sports Resort disc with its half being rotten and covered in dirt.
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Almost Archaeology @almostarch.bsky.social · Aug 27
Hot Fuzz Heritage
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · Aug 26
Getting the essential buildings history done in Wells tonight 😉👮

#HotFuzz #Hoodies
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Almost Archaeology @almostarch.bsky.social · Aug 26
Magnetic memories: Callum Preston's Video Land, a recreated VHS rental store as art installation at Melbourne's Immigration Museum
Entrance label to art installation Callum Preston's Video Land at Melbourne Museum 80s and 90s comedy VHS tapes as displayed in art installation Callum Preston's Video Land at Melbourne Museum
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Andrew Reinhorror, PhD, RPA @adreinhard.bsky.social · Aug 24
Hey, kids. My eponymous #Archaeogaming book (2018) paperback is on sale for 50% off this week. I only need 12 more people to buy the book to crack 1,000 lifetime sales! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Reinha...
Archaeogaming: An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · Aug 24
Those lithic balancing acts, those stone nexi holding landscape in their thrall, refuse to be relics. They exist as complexities, fierce engines of the imagination. They manifest the Long Neolithic as ongoing pilgrim destination, as conversation with the now. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
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Almost Archaeology @almostarch.bsky.social · Aug 21
#archaeosnack
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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · Aug 20
"We’ll have skateboarders on site who used the park as teenagers and will be re-living that experience at the end of a trowel".

Archaeologists to excavate 1980s Glasgow skatepark – with help from skaters

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Archaeologists to excavate Glasgow skatepark – with help from skaters
Kelvingrove park is site of Scotland’s first skatepark, Kelvin Wheelies, which has been covered in rubble for decades
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