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TrowelBlazers @trowelblazers.bsky.social · 15d

Congratulations to this #trowelblazer, a specialist in prehistoric shafting and adhesives!
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Marco Langbroek @marcolangbroek.bsky.social · 15d

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It gives me much pleasure to be able to announce that, on my suggestion, the Working Group on Small Body Nomenclature (WGSBN) of the IAU announced yesterday the naming of asteroid:

(732272) Langejans

...after TU Delft scientist Geeske Langejans.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Aug 6

Learn more via @trowelblazers.bsky.social
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Maria Ludwika Bernhard - Trowelblazers

BILINGUAL POST! Polish text below! Polski tekst poniżej! To simply say that Maria Ludwika Bernhard was a pioneer in Greek archaeology and art history is an understatement; she was much more than just…

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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · Aug 14

Also, @trowelblazers.bsky.social, are you able to amplify this call for aid?? @skypeascientist.bsky.social is the best!

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L (she/her) @lauren-writes.bsky.social · 16d

@500womensci.bsky.social @trowelblazers.bsky.social @ad-of-aaa.bsky.social can anyone help out? Skype a Scientist is super cool!

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 16d

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches.

This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists!

Archaeologists! Please volunteer
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

a woman is smiling and holding a cup that says help me .

Alt: a woman is smiling and holding a cup that says help me .

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 16d

If you’re in the Preston area and fancy talking palaeo-parenting or primate placenta, well aren’t you in luck ;) come to this totally free talk at the University of Lancashire, kick off at 17:40 on October 8th www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/growing-up...

Growing Up Human

This talk will look at the incredible evolutionary story of how humans came to spend quite so much of our time playing around.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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TrowelBlazers @trowelblazers.bsky.social · Aug 1

So gdm angry about this. And not just a little scared. They have new ways to silence scientists now

Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · Aug 1

Like science? Then you better be interested when *someone* starts putting out hit pieces on scientists. This is beyond the pale ethically and honestly anyone who doesn’t want to slide to hell on a slick of ai generated content that benefits billionaire business, maybe now is the time to get angry.

New scientist headline critics of de extinction hit by mystery smear campaign

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TrowelBlazers @trowelblazers.bsky.social · Jul 28

Was really nice to speak to people who have done so much for representation in archaeology. Out soon! www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress... 20% discount code 006120

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · Jul 3

Happy #PublicationDay to @gregjenner.bsky.social @rikinparekh.bsky.social and… me! This has been the most fun I have ever had writing a book, hands down — exactly the way archaeology ought to be ;) (otherwise I’d get a real job, wouldn’t I) www.walker.co.uk/978152952249...

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · Jul 1

Due to a non-serious yet unignorable Health Thing, I'm unable to go to Musée d'Archéologie Nationale in Paris this week for our first #ExcavatingGarrod 🗃️ archive trip.
Amidst 😭 at missing out, I'll hopefully also share tidbits on what @toriherridge.bsky.social & Emma Pomeroy find there!

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · Jul 2

Early doors for me today as I whizz off to Paris on the Eurostar in search of treasures hidden in the archive of Dorothy Garrod.

Garrod was a major hub in the networks of women archaeologists who pioneered the palaeolithic (and beyond), and I cannot wait to see what we will find

#ExcavatingGarrod

Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · Jul 1

Due to a non-serious yet unignorable Health Thing, I'm unable to go to Musée d'Archéologie Nationale in Paris this week for our first #ExcavatingGarrod 🗃️ archive trip.
Amidst 😭 at missing out, I'll hopefully also share tidbits on what @toriherridge.bsky.social & Emma Pomeroy find there!

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · Jul 2

In honour of #ExcavatingGarrod I’m resurrecting a @trowelblazers.bsky.social post from 2014 and asking you all: What’s Your Garrod Number?

If we are being strict mine is actually 5:

Garrod>Bate>Mary Leakey>Maeve Leakey>Eleanor Weston>me!

Networks matter!

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A network diagram showing collaborations between pioneering women archaeologists. Dorothy Garrod is a central hub.

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · Jul 2

I am wondering if I can get this shorter—paging my fave trowelblazing collaborators who may be even closer to DG

@gevemac.bsky.social
@elliescerri.bsky.social
@neaarlab.bsky.social

Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · Jul 2

In honour of #ExcavatingGarrod I’m resurrecting a @trowelblazers.bsky.social post from 2014 and asking you all: What’s Your Garrod Number?

If we are being strict mine is actually 5:

Garrod>Bate>Mary Leakey>Maeve Leakey>Eleanor Weston>me!

Networks matter!

trowelblazers.com/2014/05/09/d...

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · Jul 2

If I'd been able to go (😭), Tori, Emma & I would be channeling this exact #trowelblazers vibe right now: L - Germaine Henri-Martin, R - Dorothy Garrod, C - Suzanne de Saint-Mathurin (from whose archive this photo comes, & within which Garrod's archive was found, only in the 1990s!)
#ExcavatingGarrod

Image of three senior prehistorians sitting around a table, intensely focused and speaking, around the 1950s. They're in a richly furnished apartment with a huge bookshelf behind them and paintings in gilded frames on the wall. From the Saint-Mathurin archive, Musée d'Archéologie Nationale, Paris. Photo of original by Lee Miller

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TrowelBlazers @trowelblazers.bsky.social · May 21

It’s also our birthday, probably our 12th? Which I am planning on celebrating by checking the guilt inducing unread email stack … in a week or two 😅🤘

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · May 21

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

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Uroš Matić @urosmatic.bsky.social · May 6

Our booklet on Gender stereotypes in archaeology has been downloaded or read online 13079 times! You can check out for free @sidestone.bsky.social and also look up for some other great books!
#gender #archaeology

www.sidestone.com/books/gender...

Gender stereotypes in archaeology @ Sidestone Press

Were men the only hunters and producers of tools, art and innovation in prehistory? Were women the only gatherers, home-bound breeders and caregivers? Are all prehistoric female depictions mother godd...

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TrowelBlazers @trowelblazers.bsky.social · Apr 26

Here’s that link www.arqueologas.es/herstory/

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TrowelBlazers @trowelblazers.bsky.social · Apr 25

And now Claire smith with a video talk on women in archaeology in Australia based on work published in Lopez et al

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TrowelBlazers @trowelblazers.bsky.social · Apr 25

Someone get this woman a PhD place ;)

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TrowelBlazers @trowelblazers.bsky.social · Apr 25

Tian very much showing the effort needed to reconstruct these histories and how personal connections inspire them

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TrowelBlazers @trowelblazers.bsky.social · Apr 25

Tian with a very fun presentation on Liu Hulan all-female 1958 archaeological team — 9 high school students w no experience but big impact

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TrowelBlazers @trowelblazers.bsky.social · Apr 25

Ps if you don’t know about Zhen Zhenxiang then please enjoy this gorgeous student project including video and #troweltoon trowelblazers.com/2021/08/11/z...

Zheng Zhenxiang TrowelToon - Trowelblazers

TrowelToon Animation by Genevieve Cheung and Sara Duckworth. Check out this amazing new TrowelToon of Zheng Zhenxiang, the first female archaeologist in China, created by Genevieve Cheung and Sara D...

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TrowelBlazers @trowelblazers.bsky.social · Apr 25

Some recent work on this in China I was unaware of plus a good set of historical names

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TrowelBlazers @trowelblazers.bsky.social · Apr 25

Dong looking at women in field and museum contexts in Chinese archaeology. What are they and why are they lost?

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TrowelBlazers @trowelblazers.bsky.social · Apr 25

Speaking from serious experience, Diaz-Andrew w controversial opinion: things have changed in how we talk about women in archaeology since first session 1993- contra the @brennawalks.bsky.social opinion that nothing much has gotten better since 2015;)

(Optimism is good)

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