“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

Dutch late night TV has its take

I haven't been a member of the @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social for long, just a couple of years, but isn't it possible to call for a vote of non confidence in the existing board? Because this, and their statements since, are unbelievable.

This is exciting - a newly launched official Antonine Wall Trail that will help walkers to explore Britain's best Roman frontier! I will need to take a look and see how it compares to the route I took as I walked the Wall... storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/45fd... #WallsOnWednesday

Dear friends attending @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social conference. Is any of you brave enough to test the total ban of pro-Palestine stands? Will they really stop presentations or sessions? You can now take a stand!

Archaeologists Against Apartheid urgent call for action! We are not anonymous. We are members of both the EAA&global archaeological community and more committed than ever to holding our representative organisations to account and anti-democratic influences. aaaeaastatementseptember3rd.tiiny.site

Our new Landscape Observatory website went live today. Please check it out www.landscapeobservatory.org.uk

I had the great pleasure of writing an article about archaeology in horror fiction for @nightmare-magazine.com. It was tremendous fun & I hope you enjoy it, too! www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/p...

Heritage/history is important to fascists. They've invented an identity for themselves that they think makes them cool (they're not), and they need a history to anchor it. Where there is no history, they make it up. Fascists use archaeology to add a veneer of scientific legitimacy to their claims,

A colleague of mine just sent me this and I said "Even before clicking, I'll bet that this is @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social ". And I was right. XD The next question was "Did he skate?" So, Kenny, did you catch some air? Pull off a sick grind maybe? ;) www.bbc.com/news/article...

Okay, the Levantine Neolithic is officially scaring the pants off me.

@mikehall314.bsky.social I have a fruit fly problem in my kitchen every year. I work away from home and it is grim coming home to a kitchen full of the little bastards. Your fruit fly trap is *almost* spot on. If you take a cleaned out jam jar, pop a load of small holes in the lid.

in going to step in here and suggest that historians might find value in the rich archaeological literature about reconstruction drawings, their ethics and perils as well as the scholarly work they do. I'll list a few in skeets below for folks interested.

Mysterious Neolithic rituals. Over 5,000-year-old sacrificial pits of the Salzmünde culture discovered near Gerstewitz, Saxony-Anhalt. More information: idw-online.de/de/news856263 #archaeology

Horseflies can fuck off. Thank you for listening to my TED Talk. For more on this subject you can read my book, "No, really. They can fuck right fucking off". #justArchaeologyThings #archaeology

“The real conflict is not town v country, but money and power v people…” @georgemonbiot.bsky.social apple.news/AUbp2rpXzQq6...

The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000 The list is 1,227 pages long. The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months. The first 381 pages are all children. archive.is/2025.06.28-0...

Well done America, that is a level of dystopia that I never expected to see outside of a science fiction novel.

Join the jihad!

Oooh, this looks good

I agree with the sentiment here but all of the things that are mentioned only affect either the middle class or the wealthy. For the vast majority of the working class of the UK, none of these are lost as they weren't ours to begin with.

Safety for all – those living under threat of missiles, those being starved and displaced, those facing tanks and bullets at aid distribution sites – will only come once the US stops writing a blank check for the Israeli military, no matter what war crimes they commit.

@kellylink.bsky.social sent me some amazing swag! A dope shirt, books, and stickers! Go support Book Moon books! If you couldn't tell from the merch, they're good people!

Jesus wept, I know that some commercial archaeology units are cheapskates, but this lot are too cheap to even buy ranging rods! We really are the most exploited profession.

We're excited to announce our inaugural seminar. @lornarichardson.bsky.social presents a thematic analysis of the BNP’s 'Identity' magazine, interpreting the far-right misuse of archaeological science and narratives of indigeneity. Details and registration at archaeologistsrfa.wordpress.com/events/.

Yup, the supposed replacement for Canmore, the sites and monuments record for Scotland, is an absolute and basically useless travesty.

Is a stone circle cheating on #standingstonesunday? Beltany stone circle in Donegal.

@caaint.bsky.social hi, is anyone reading the membership@ email at the moment?

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

Play around in the mud and annoy developers.

Germany, standing proudly on the wrong side of history since 1933. www.dw.com/en/germany-d...

Archaeologists discover German megalithish manufacturing site c.a. 2018. Paper forthcoming. #FieldworkFriday #Archaeology

More CEO related thoughts. A lovely little old lady once said this. Old timey people were so quaint.

Reading the various posts about yon CEO who got his just desserts has really made me smile. The rich have ravaged this world and treat our lives as a means to maximise their revenue streams.

Highly recommend a read of this lovely paper by Richard Bradley and Aaron Watson on Neolithic monument complexes in Scotland and Ireland, and the connections between them. Journeying must have been a significant component of beliefs, social organisation and identity in the middle-late Neolithic:

The inherent connection between #archaeology, #prehistory, and bangin' techno. XD www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I think that there's a long way to advance - especially within organisations I work who see Nature vs Heritage rather than a holistic approach- I share this CIfA landscape meme at every opportunity and conversation - too many feel there is a natural arborial landscape hiding waiting to be found

@mikehall314.bsky.social it looks like you aren't alone with the Amazon shenanigans. www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdvic...

If only the @royalsociety.bsky.social and other Fellows had your moral compass, courage and integrity – thank you for taking a stand @deevybee.bsky.social 🌹🙏

I’m very sad to hear that Colin Renfrew, a giant in the field of Prehistoric Archaeology, has joined the realm of the ancients. An academic archaeologist with one foot firmly in the trench, he combined theory & fieldwork with flair - and had a knack for asking the right questions. His work lives on

New in IA67: The First Step towards FAIR-ness in Bulgarian Archaeology: the Archaeological Map of Bulgaria in ARIADNE & ARIADNEplus by Nadezhda Kecheva doi.org/10.11141/ia.... The article's focus is on the technical preparation of data shared through the ARIADNE portal🏺

An old blog post The End of Prehistory gives a sense of the decline of this heritage centre. heritagelandscapecreativity.wordpress.com/2013/08/12/e... #Archaeology #ArchScot

As a bit of a palette cleanser from the work I was supposed to be doing yesterday I slapped this together. All 4000+ #neolithic sites in Scotland and their mean elevation.

I don't know how many field #archaeology types that are on here, but I was wondering. How do you get your field data into your GIS software? Hand drawn in the field and then draw it into GIS? (1/2)