Hey #classics scholars! 👋🏺🏛️ My fellow Classical Review editors and I recently wrote this blog post on how to write review articles and profiles 👇 👉 If you are interested in writing one do get in touch! www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20... #publishing #academia #classics #archaeology #ancienthistory

📯🏺🏛️ Our @universitypress.cambridge.org book "Senses, Cognition and Ritual Experience in the Roman World" is #OPENACCESS ! 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/books/s... #archaeology #sensoryarchaeology #senses #cognition #cognitivescienceofreligion #ritual #religion #classics #ancienthistory #romanhistory

We are thrilled with the excellent set of papers that will form part of the Fluid Spaces Conference in Vienna. Please take a look at the programme, which features exciting keynote lectures by Lena Isayev and Erich Kistler, and join us. #Archaeology 🏺 klass-archaeologie.univie.ac.at/news-events/...

This is a continual gripe: there are so many amazing new edited volumes from Brill, but each is around $265 dollars. I just deeply wish that there was an Edict of Maximum Prices on book costs. Open access is so imperative in a world with fewer & fewer people with academic library access.

If you are in Vienna in January, you are warmly invited to attend the Austrian CVA Conference on pottery and its many contexts. It will be one of my highlights of the new year. Many thanks to the KHM and @oeai.bsky.social @uni-graz.at @univie.ac.at #Archaeology 🏺 www.oeaw.ac.at/oeai/veranst...

Interdisziplinäres Ausgrabungsprojekt um Archäolog*innen von #UniFreiburg & @unimainz.bsky.social entdeckt gut erhaltene griechische Skulptur in etruskischer Stadt Vulci 🇮🇹. Fund rückt kulturellen Austausch zw. Griechen&Etruskern in neues Licht. ➡️ ufr.link/vulci-skulptur @vulcicityscape.bsky.social

New report on how people engage with archaeology is out - Trowel and Error: A Public User Needs Survey. Lots to digest but key conclusions are: 1) archaeologists risk undervaluing and hiding ourselves, our practices and the role we play in society... www.archaeologyuk.org/our-work/tro...

I am passionate about southern Italian tombs, the history of archaeology, and all things miniature. When these interests overlap – as in the three 1820s cork models of tombs from Nola, Paestum, and Canosa – it feels like a perfect convergence. @soanemuseum.bsky.social #Archaeology 🏺 #Museum

Unterwegs zum Workshop "Sammlungen historischer Gipsabgüsse zwischen physischer Präsenz und digitaler Repräsentanz" am 6.-7.11. im Antikenmuseum @unileipzig.bsky.social - der krönende Abschluss unseres gemeinsamen Projekts zum Farnesischen Stier. Ich freue mich sehr und bin gespannt!

The Aphaia Temple pediment sculptures are getting a fresh clean – round two of our plaster-cast restoration is underway. #Archaeology 🏺 #Museum

Jeder Punkt ist in unbedingter Klarheit auch in Österreich zu fordern. @nuwiss.bsky.social

A sweet tooth caught in the act – a mouse ignores the fruit and goes straight for the tartlet. Terracotta plate from Taranto, 3rd century BCE. Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig #Archaeology 🏺

I admit that this marvellous sandwich gold glass bowl, which travelled from the eastern Mediterranean to Canosa in Apulia, is a clickbait image. Please take a look at the CfP for our 2026 conference on mobility and networks in pre-Roman Italy. #Archaeology 🏺London, BM 1871,0518.2.

Tomorrow, I present my research on quantitatve trends in teaching "Classical" archaeology in German-speaking countries. And this is how AI imagines us... So much irritation – where do I start? The gender, the clothing, the pose, the torch, this military-style leather thingy? #Archaeology 🏺

Here is another glimpse into our progress: 3D printing is advancing steadily, while high-resolution RTI imaging is successfully detecting and documenting fine painted details. It is rewarding to see the different parts of the project aligning so well. #Archaeology 🏺

📣 It is always a bit conceited to advertise a paper publication, but this project was great fun thanks to the fabulous team involved. If you are interested in miniature pottery, please take a look. doi.org/10.1177/1469... #Archaeology 🏺

CFP: Digital Methods as the Key to Open Archaeological Collections for Research and Teaching https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157981 Wien, 31.03.2026-04.04.2026, Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Bewerbungsschluss: 26.10.2025

Save the Date: Am 30. Oktober startet die digitale Veranstaltungsreihe "Neue Wege alter Fächer: Lehre gestalten in den Altertumswissenschaften"! Programm und Infos unter www.kleinefaecher.de/beitraege/bl... @univie.ac.at @kleinefaecher.bsky.social @unimainz.bsky.social #AcademicSky #AncientBlueSky

Come work with us!🏺 Together with my brilliant colleague Georgia Barker we are looking for a project curator to research how childhood is represented in the collections of our two departments at the British Museum, Egypt & Sudan and Greece & Rome. 👇👇👇 bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com//templates/C...

📣 In February next year, the "Etruscan and Italic Communities" network will meet in Vienna to discuss various forms of networks and mobilities in pre-Roman Italy. We would love to hear your paper, so please check out the Call for Papers. ➡️ www.academia.edu/143782531/Ca... #Archaeology 🏺

#Ancientbluesky #Skystorians #history #swearing #archaeology This article is cool because I can legitimately say 'fuck' a lot and claim that this is all part of academic discourse. So fucking read it, please. Oh, and please fucking subscribe to my shit. Thanks! open.substack.com/pub/jamescov...

This Etruscan guttus - a vessel used to store and pour liquids in small amounts, or to refill oil lamps - is shaped like an elephant. It may have been inspired by the elephants first seen in Italy during the invasions of Pyrrhus and of Hannibal of Carthage in the 3rd c. BCE. 🏺 300-200 BCE.

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

CfP for early career researcher ➡️ Fluid Communities: Concepts of Social Mobility and Identity Construction between textual evidence and materiality in Antiquity, December 5-6, 2025 @univie.ac.at #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics altegeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/news-even...

We have a new #HEASBlog on our website! Students from @dominik-hagmann.bsky.social's #AI and Interdisciplinary Research course at @univie.ac.at's Department of #EvolutionaryAnthropology got hands-on experience with cutting-edge robotics at #general_laser.at in Vienna. www.heas.at/activities/b...

It was fascinating to see the 3D printer in action. This support structure will soon be proudly carrying the fragments of the Polygnotos Krater in the @univie.ac.at Archaeological Collection. Many thanks to www.archaeo-perspectives.at for their enthusiasm. #Archaeology 🏺

I thought I had a vague idea of Hellenistic Apulia, but this new tomb painting surpasses all expectations. Seized from the infamous Symes collection, it is now on display in Canosa. Its vivid colours and striking scene are breathtaking. #Archaeology 🏺 www.ilgiornaledellarte.com/Articolo/A-C...

A high-impact article on the employment situation of essential staff members in Italian archaeological parks. #Archaeology 🏺 #cats www.artribune.com/arti-visive/...

📷 Taken by our editor Robin Skeates, it is a frontispiece from our latest issue. Check out the associated Editorial on the theme 'Linguae francae, present and past' to explore languages and language inequality in #archaeology 🆓

After touring around Basilicata and Calabria for four weeks, I am heading back to Napoli, but I could not leave southern Italy without spending a night in Sala Consilina in the Vallo di Diano (Campania). #Archaeology #photography #ThePhotoHour

Tiriolo, located in Calabria, boasts majestic views of both the Ionian and Tyrrhenian coasts, as well as incredible archaeology such as the early Hellenistic 'Palazzo dei Delfini', the chamber tomb, and the iconic helmet with its fancy hairstyle (today in Catanzaro). #Archaeology 🏺

Many thanks to the colleagues at Metaponto. Despite the museum being a huge construction site, they found time to browse their storerooms with me. It is hard to imagine such enthusiasm, effort, and hospitality outside of southern Italy. #Archaeology 🏺

Oxford chemists identify honey offering in a 2,500-year-old shrine | University of Oxford www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-07...

Titel ohne Zukunft? Privatdozenten sind habilitiert, hochqualifiziert – und oft ohne Einkommen, Stelle oder Perspektive. Eine neue Initiative will ihnen Gehör verschaffen. Wer steht hinter "PD Prekär"? Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/07...

Mon livre est sorti de presse ! Il faudra tout de même attendre la rentrée pour vous le procurer, ou venir directement au Livre sur la place à Nancy le 13 septembre pour que je vous le dédicace.

My second stop was Cirò and Cirò Marina. Huge thanks to many people, including the amazing Soprintendenza di Catanzaro e Crotone, for giving me access to materials, making countless calls to organise things, showing me around the region, and sharing their knowledge and passion. #Archaeology 🏺

We are deeply grateful for the funding. To celebrate this, some photos from San Chirico Raparo. One of the Lucanian tombs there contained this extravagant black-gloss fountain model, and they also had an abundance of lead barbecue equipment that we are going to analyse. #Archaeology 🏺 #AcademicSky

Whenever I have time, I try to visit the burial plots that I work on, and the ones in Lucania never fail to amaze me with their views of the landscape. San Martino d'Agri, Tempa Cagliozzo; with some of the assemblages displayed in the Museum of Grumento Nova. #Archaeology 🏺 #AcademicSky

This is Susi, my new local collaborator this year. Her constant efforts are very much appreciated. #dogsofbluesky #Archaeology 🏺 #AcademicSky

As seen here from the Sacro Monte di Viggiano, the Agri Valley embodies everything I love about Basilicata: majestic mountains, deep oak woods, rivers, hillside towns, and incredible archaeology. #Archaeology 🏺 #AcademicSky

Driving through the oak forests of Basilicata's Agri Valley feels like coming home. The first stop on this summer's trip is Grumento Nova, and I am extremely grateful to the Museum for opening its doors wide to support my current research and future collaboration. #Archaeology 🏺 #AcademicSky

📣 Vienna's Institute of Classical Archaeology is recruiting a Full Professor of Roman Archaeology. It is one of the largest and most international departments in German-speaking countries, with a strong fieldwork profile and a rich blend of academic traditions. #Archaeology 🏺 #AcademicSky

Working in academia is not always fun, but when you collaborate with welcoming, warm-hearted colleagues like I did today at the splendid Museo Barracco archive, you are reminded of the reasons behind your work. Many thanks! #Archaeology 🏺 #AcademicSky

There is so much to say about the 3rd-century Capena plate, but for me, the baby elephant is still the star, albeit a poor one. Archaeological escapism at a time that feels like the eve of the next world war. 📷 by me #Archaeology 🏺 Rome, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia

📣 Save the date and join us to discuss Classics pedagogy in German-speaking countries. How can we organise study programmes, address professional diversification, and strike a balance between research-oriented education and vocational training? #Archaeology 🏺 🔜 www.kleinefaecher.de/beitraege/bl...

Now for the negative: a beautifully detailed mould of a terracotta banqueter lying on his bed with his shoes underneath, and a table with plates, fruit and food. Taranto, first half of the 5th c. BCE, 📷 by me #Archaeology 🏺

Another example of the perfection of southern Italian terracotta artefacts: a polychrome female head, the findspot and identification of which are unknown. Taranto, 4th c. BCE (?), 📷 by me #Archaeology 🏺

As someone with a soft spot for turtles, I have mixed feelings about this one, but I am also interested in tortoiseshell lyres, such as this 5th-century BCE piece from Taranto. 📷 by me #Archaeology 🏺

For #MothersDay, the great hall of the Matres Matutae, votive statues of mothers, typically holding infants in swaddling clothes, at the Museo Campano, Capua. The statues were excavated in the 1870s/1880s at a sanctuary near Capua. #AncientBlueSky

A highlight of early Hellenistic Taranto is the stunning terracotta group of Orpheus and the Sirens, recently returned from the Getty to Italy. While striking, their original setting, possibly on a funerary monument, remains a mystery. Taranto, late 4th c. BCE, 📷 by me #Archaeology 🏺