This is an important conversation to start here in Canadian archaeology 🇨🇦🏺 The discussion has started down south with @flintdibble.bsky.social, @miniminuteman.bsky.social, and others. But Canada has its own challenges to address, its own history of archaeology being abused, erasure, and denialism.

📷 is a frontispiece from the latest issue of Antiquity © Nathan Schlanger 🏺 #Archaeology 2/2 🆓 in our latest #AntiquityEditorial on the peer-review crisis doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Was the overturning of the Mound Builders mythology in the late 19th century a "triumph for science?" I argue, no, it wasn't, and that this narrative framing should be abandoned in my latest in the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Hot off the press! Check out the latest - open access - article by Maximilian Georg @bhajournal.bsky.social. Somewhere there, at the margins of the Mediterranean too, people were working on past remains... #MSCA #MMARe #HistoryOfArchaeology

New publication from the BHA! Check out Maximilian Georg on "The ‘New Romans,’ a Prestigious Museum, and a ‘Bosnian’ Identity: Archaeology and Colonialism in Austro-Hungarian Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1878–1918." Available #OpenAccess: archaeologybulletin.org/articles/10..... Abstract 👇 🗃️📚🏺

4th workshop on Women in the Archaeology of Greece CfP (31.12.2025) - Women Archaeologists and War Organized by @efathenes.bsky.social and @britschoolathens.bsky.social on 9 & 10 March 2026 www.bsa.ac.uk/events/call-... Shared for reference; opinions not my own. #MMARe #MSCA #HistoryOfArchaeology

It's that time of year--now accepting nominations for the Gene Stuart Award, given by the SAA "to the author of the most interesting and responsible original story or series about about any archaeological topic published in a newspaper, magazine, or online publication." 🏺 www.saa.org/career-pract...

American Indian Culture and Research Journal, ONLINE OPEN SOURCE, special guest editor Paulette Steeves. Pyroepistomology: Reclaiming Knowledge Histories, Lands and Relations escholarship.org/uc/aicrj

New publication from the BHA! If you're looking for a primer on the history of archaeological research in #Ethiopia, check out Alebachew Birru's "Archaeology in the Central Highlands of Ethiopia: Research Trends and Prospects." #OpenAccess: archaeologybulletin.org/articles/10.... 🗃️📚🏺🇪🇹

Coming up on December 8! Panel discussion on the Ottoman Aegean and antiquities @britschoolathens.bsky.social covering local communities, Ottoman officials, foreign diplomats & so much more: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/archa... Happy to have been part of this project! #MMARe #MSCA #HistoryOfArchaeology

Check it out! openaccess.ircica.org/collections/... 🏺🗃️🇹🇷

New publication from the BHA! If you're looking for a primer on the history of archaeological research in #Ethiopia, check out Alebachew Birru's "Archaeology in the Central Highlands of Ethiopia: Research Trends and Prospects." #OpenAccess: archaeologybulletin.org/articles/10.... 🗃️📚🏺🇪🇹

Fascinating thread! Always interested to read more on gendered labor in archaeology—check out this @trowelblazers.bsky.social post on Irene Mound, or these three recent BHA publications (#OpenAccess, as always!) 🗃️📚🏺🧵

#OnThisDay in 1953, the Piltdown man fossils were declared a “perfectly executed and carefully prepared fraud," concluding a hoax that had lasted over forty years. 🏺🧪

This is a important read on the challenges many African ECRs continue to face when doing archaeology or paleontology at home. Note that the authors are from Ethiopia, Sudan, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. 🏺🧪

🏺🗃️ And I'm done! Over 12 articles I've explored the #HistoryOfArchaeology, through histories of marginalised communities and actors, the role of antiquities dealers and multinational corporations or forced labour in fieldwork, collecting and research I've learnt a lot and hope readers have too!

📜🏺 Faience animals undoubtedly some of the cutest artefacts in all of archaeology.

⛏️ Dig through these updated collections of popular, free-access #research from the three journals of the #SAA: 🆓✅ 🟡 AAP - https://cup.org/4mXXmYW 🔴 AAQ - https://cup.org/4q5WaWq 🔵 LAQ - https://cup.org/3KMgEmM #archaeology #americanarchaeology @saa-aap.bsky.social#research

PUBLICATION DAY for In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico! Use discount code 6AF25 for 40% off—that's $18 plus taxes and shipping (paperback/ebook)! Thanks, @univnebpress.bsky.social! For more: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978.... 🗃️📚🇲🇽🏺

🏺🗃️ Brilliant few days in Cambridge w/ @toriherridge.bsky.social & Emma Pomeroy for #ExcavatingGarrod - some highlights as we work through archive material gathered so far - DG writing from Palestine field camp after Newnham fellowship award - Mary Kitson Clark on dig visitors - Belinda the donkey

On this #InternationalOpenAccessWeek (www.openaccessweek.org), let me share the link to #BulletinOfTheHistoryOfArchaeology (@bhajournal.bsky.social), the OA journal of which I am a co-editor. Many of the articles cover the Mediterranean: archaeologybulletin.org. #MSCA #MMARe #HistoryOfArchaeology

Iain Davidson AU Can I have some help identifying the people in this photo, please? I am there, Ghanim Wahida is there and the bloke with the neck brace is called Diamond and worked on Use Wear. Other than that I have drawn a complete blank. Knossos, Villa Ariadne late 1960s, probably 1969 🏺

🏺🗃️ 🤗 very excited to be at the @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social conference this week to talk abou the #HistoriansOfArchaeology online support group You can sign up to join our meetings, co-working sessions, reading group and #Discord server anytime via this link: forms.gle/KptYbPZ641Z8...

Went to the new Jewry Wall museum in Leicester today and really enjoyed it. Also really enjoyed getting to see the notebook and photos of Kathleen Kenyon, who excavated in the 1930s 🏺

There's something quite beautiful about Sir Mortimer Wheeler's box-system excavations at Maiden Castle. Such a fantastic photograph! Image Rights: Society of Antiquaries (held at Historic England Archive) #archaeology 🏺 #photography

I'm starting to work on designing my "Archaeology and the Public" course for next spring. Does anyone have syllabi, assignments, or lesson plans they'd be willing to share on the subjects of public arch, collaborative arch, pseudoarch, or journalistic & pop culture depictions of arch?🏺 #academicsky

(71) The Hidden History of Egyptian Labor in Abydos - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4TX...

#RepresentationMatters is published! Jo Zalea Matias, @archaeologiskop.bsky.social and I, together with our fantastic authors, are happy and proud that we finally made it! For more info and to order: link.springer.com/book/9783031... 🏺

Check out our Historical Archaeology collection, with FREE and #OpenAccess content such as: 🇵🇱 Forced labour camps of the 19th & 20th centuries 🇸🇹 The origins of plantation slavery 🇬🇹 The revival of Indigenous Maya religion following Spanish conquest 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🏺#Archaeology

It's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians and all other academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs) tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky 🗃️(pls boost to relevant feeds)

#OnThisDay in AD 1923, Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, was annexed by the UK. Following independence, the country was named after the Great Zimbabwe: capital of the medieval Zimbabwe Culture, famous for its monumental, freestanding dry-stone walls. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Okay, I think the first teaching of later prehistory in Britain is by P.G.H. Boswell at Liverpool from 1917. From Pamela Smith, early prehistory is first taught by Alison Quiggin in Homerton College, Cambridge by 1912.

Check out this important new paper, co-written by IPIA scholars Dr. Kisha Supernant ( @archaeomapper.bsky.social) and Solène Mallet Gauthier (@somag.bsky.social), on confronting and disrupting "grey zones" in Canadian archaeology 🏺

This point 💯 If you want to know more about the Ahnenerbe (the Nazi "heritage" research institute conducting archaeological work, incl. Atlantis stuff), read Pringle's book. If you want to know more about pseudoarch in among the more contemporary far-right, I wrote a little something about it. 🏺

Think—as the article basically states—that this is the next-step in the already extremely problematic use of satellites in archaeology. People really need to take a look at themselves. ‘Archaeology isn’t colonial’, they said…

With a great outline of her work on women scientists in America #histSTM

hey archaeosky 🏺 are you going to SAA in SF next year? are you working on archaeology or heritage projects that questions empire or explores growth after empire? do i have a session for you!

🏺 Really happy to see that @archaeocobb.bsky.social and @kayth.bsky.social’s edited volume on activism in #archaeology is now available for purchase in print or free to read online! And yours truly has a chapter in it as well on social media, of course. www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

📕 #ReviewArticle 🏺 Is interest in histories of #archaeology "a welcome sign of disciplinary success or a wake-up call for renewed relevance?" Nathan Schlanger explores 'the Oxford handbook of the history of archaeology' in our latest Review Article 1/2 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

FYI: Great, well-deserved recognition for Dr. Trinidad Rico in @foreignaffairs.com on her @cornellupress.bsky.social book "The Heritage State: Religion and Preservation in Contemporary Qatar": www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/heri... Intrigued? More here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

🏺🗃️ there's a lot of archaeology in those archives, adding your signature will hopefully enable everyone to continue using this material!

we are less than 1 mo to the deadline for this year's CA visual media competition!

📣Advances in Archaeological Practice is pleased to announce the #publication of Volume 13, Issue 1! “Caring for Culture in the Twenty-First Century” prompts discussion surrounding the #illicitantiquities trade and #culturalheritage preservation. Read the latest issue here:

No PhD admissions for Middle Eastern Studies at UChicago in 2026. MES includes modern and all aspects of the ancient Near East: cuneiform languages, Egyptology, archaeology 🏺 www.insidehighered.com/news/busines...

Sak-Bahlán, last Itza Maya city, found in Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve, Chiapas. Popular Mechanics: Archaeologists Used a 327-Year-Old Letter to Find a Lost Maya City in the Jungle www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch... #Maya #Mesoamerica #Chiapas

New volume, "Collecting the 'Other Americas': Ancient Americas Collections in American Art Museums" looks great—check out the ToC! Available #OpenAccess here: mayer2023.denartmus.org 🗃️🏺🏛️

Do you work on cultural heritage and security? Friend and colleague Simon Maghakyan is co-editing what promises to be a great Oxford handbook on this topic, please share widely!

This is an official Skype a Scientist HQ Mayday Alert to all Archaeologists. We've already gotten more requests for archaeologists than we have archaeologists. We have 38. We need a lot more than 38! Dig yourself into this database, we NEED ya www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Sarah Griswold’s book is published next month! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Call for participants! @apolitopoulos.bsky.social, @kjkillackey.bsky.social, Stu Eve and I are holding an Archaeology & Worldbuilding playtesting and discussion workshop at @tag2025york.bsky.social! We have limited spaces, please sign up: forms.gle/rbjeDGD68nXR...