Oh please can someone do this!

… that writing about it is inherently decolonial

Absolutely, and there are some common problems it kicks up that I’ve started to see quite regularly. Still useful but certainly needs to develop beyond archaeologists discovwring that “their” site has some recent history to it and assuming…

@jenbaird.bsky.social you were meant to be tagged in that!

Ha yes @jenbaird.bsky.social and I were having just that conversation last week

.., of potential in that respect because as a city and a refugee site it’s hugely understudied

I get what you mean but I think there’s still some interesting thinking to be about the use of photographs. Also, as you know my interest isn’t so much the history of archaeology per se but how we can use archaeological archives for broader social histories and Jericho definitely has a lot…

.. I‘ve got a feeling there is another project in Jericho working with refugee families to record oral heritage of the archaeological digs too but I can’t remember details and maybe it’s an optimistic over-imagining on my part. Happy to be filled in on that one.

… think about Jericho because it’s super interesting but it’s somewhere near the back of a long line of projects that are wilting in the teaching-imposed drought. I’m very glad someone else is working on it because there are a lot of interesting things to say about it and research to be done...

Haha I like the fact this article cites me as part of the growing attempts to think about workers on Palestinian archaeological sites in the European colonial period but that “this work overlooks” Jericho - true, but in my case more like, I’ve had a pile of materials growing to start trying to…

I’m sure you already know about this but just in case and apropos of Friday’s chat ⬆️

And yes, I know that using the language of indigeneity and invas species etc is deeply problematic in a climate where these discourses are used about human beings racist fuckwits. But also many species are getting hammered by climate change and habitat destruction and biodiversity needs help

Tbh you don’t really need to go beyond that fact that it’s in the Torygraph, knowing who the author is is belt and braces