📢 CALL TO ACTION | EAA Leadership Overturns Democratic Vote Following Threats Intimidation tactics forced the EAA to abandon solidarity with Gaza. Archaeologists: Cancel membership | Speak up | Share Full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b... #EAA2025 #Archaeology #Gaza

🧪🦣🏺 Who wants to hear a story about biotech billions, unscientific claims, and shoddy smear tactics attacking women in science*? Thread 🧵 *which, for legal clarity, are totally denied as being connected

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrxV... Our team's talk at the ARP2025 conference is now on Youtube! #archaeology #scottisharchaeology #communityarchaeology #GovanOld

CANMORE is going - much to the dismay of many - and here is a tribute to its incredible, far-reaching contribution. CANMORE is part of our heritage and it’s loss will have lingering effects. #DigitalArchaeology #Heritage #History ##Scotland

Pleased with my first artifact #photogrammetry model - a "c'önc' " or "füsèla" used to secure bundles of hay and the like ( threading a thin rope through the holes and twisting/wrapping it around the elongated bit). Done with Polycam as I am learning how to use it for community heritage purposes.

On Thursday (22 May, 5 pm UK time) in person and online at the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies: 'Twentieth-Century Radical Scottish Gaelic Magazines and Contacts with Wales', including the latest findings about Welsh contributors and content in Erskine's magazines. All welcome! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

This is an important thread - I haven't used Trove yet but I use several of these functions on Canmore and, boy, I'll miss them!

A really important thread. Users of #Canmore arise and protest!

An interesting (and very worrying) thread for those of us who rely on Canmore for our research - I thought Trove was going to be just one more resource, rather than replacing Canmore ://

It was a pleasure to work on this one!

THIS!

Look, it's one of my favourite swords of all times, mostly because a dear friend noted, during a uni study sesh, that handle and pommel kinda look like a mushroom. No words were added to my essay that day, but I do have a wee colourful sketch of a mushroom-hilted sword somewhere still.

‪Dealbh no dhà a thog mi ann an Leòdhas a' mhìos sa chaidh. Teampull Pheadair, Dùn Èistean, Sgiogarstaigh agus Rubha Robhanais. Le taing dhan Dr Aonghas MacCoinnich son an sgìre a shealltain dhomh a dh'aindeoin na sìde mì-chàileir!

Apparently Sunday was Covid day of reflection in the UK, and I would love if those who reposted stuff on the mental health impact of lockdowns would spare a thought for all the chronically ill, immunosuppressed, or otherwise vulnerable people for whom these impacts are very much still not over.

PLAY THIS (archaeology) GAME! Katrine Haydock, one of our brilliant undergraduates has developed a video game for her dissertation to understand the impact of archaeological methods on gameplay. Please play it and take the survey. 🏺 katrinehaydock.itch.io

Feumaidh Bile nan Cànanan Albannach a bhith nas treasa agus nas soilleire a thaobh planadh cànain aig ìre choimhearsnachdan. Bu chòir don Bhile a bhith a' mìneachadh mar a bhios Sgìrean Sònraichte Cànain ag obrachadh. Cuir taic ri athchuinge Misneachd: www.change.org/p/strengthen...

It's been a very hectic February, so here's a belated post from SSASC 2025 in Edinburgh, chatting all things gannets, Guga and Gaelic to my fellow student attendees. My poster also got a prize which was a nice surprise considering how early stages my research project it.

Happy 10th birthday to the Ea-Nasir complaint tablet meme! A glorious decade of memes, mashups, merchandise, erotic fanfic, real-life copper fraud, and pilgrimages to the British Museum. Thread 🧵:

Seachdain na Gàidhlig aig Seann Eaglais Bhaile a' Ghobhainn! Nach tig sibh ann? @sngaidhlig.bsky.social

Dr Paul Everill’s work on the therapeutic potential of archaeology @uniwinchester.bsky.social is making an impact in Ukraine where it being used to help soldiers traumatised by their experiences in the war with Russia. Find out more here tinyurl.com/5f3uuy39

On behalf of the Diggers' Forum Group, if you have experience working in Field Archaeology please spare a couple of moments to fill in our questionnaire- “Wellbeing and Archaeology: Can focusing on social value have benefits for archaeologists too?” docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Showing my students some medieval pottery from Yemen at the ROM today, including this one with a cat's paw impression in it! #MedievalSky #Archaeology #ArchaeologyOfStuff 🏺

Dsb a dh'èist ri Feasgar air RnG na bu thràithe an-diugh - an dòchas gun robh mi soilleir gu leòr (bha mi cho nearbhasach!). Adhartas is leasachadh tèicneolais gan cur gu feum ann an àrc-eòlas = math, ach adhartas is leasachadh air a mhaoineachadh le Roman Fanboy beairteach faisisteach = ...uill...😶

Love zines? Love the Black Trowel Collective? We've added many of our zines to our webpage for you to download and distribute. 🏺 blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/zine-library/

Hah! That bowl may indeed be super, but NMS has a whole Hoard (a St Ninian's Isle Hoard if you will) of Super Bowls, in several Pictish flavours

The Festival of Archaeology 2025 is Here! 🏺 We’re thrilled to officially launch this year’s #FestivalOfArchaeology, running from 19th July to the 3rd August 2025, and we can’t wait to explore this year’s theme: Archaeology and Well-being. Find out more 👉 https://buff.ly/3xarIzI

For folks interested in learning more about the fascism + ancient Rome stuff, I definitely recommend starting historically (oops, banned word!) with a look at Mussolini's obsession with ancient Rome and his fascist uses of archaeological propaganda. 🏺 This article is a good little read:

I wish that more people understood that while we do sign up for degrees and careers which are highly likely to expose us to human remains, it really doesn't cost much to give a heads-up in relatively controlled environments such as a classroom.

A stunning visualisation of one of my favourite sites!

Cultural heritage is on the list 🏺

🏺 Re: prehistory & intersections with right-wing ideas, it may be of interest that the new exhibition I was Science Consultant for, at the #Neanderthal Museum, has been called "a politically motivated woke whirlpool" because we dared, for the 1st time, to centre women & discuss gender stereotypes.

I love archaeology-themed poetry / using poetry to talk and think archaeology. I also dislike greenwashing, and while I don't know much about this specific case...argh.

A beautiful photo of Roundway Hill Fort - the very one mentioned in my poem! I’m not sure how visible it will be anymore from here with the solar farm that’s being proposed. #poetry #blueskypoets #hillfortswednesday

This pleases both my current self, and child Moira who so wanted to be a palaeontologist she thought rummaging through stones on the way to school searching for fossils was the next sensible step (bless my primary school teacher for forgiving my rather late and very dusty arrival that day)

An ammonite fossil, probably carved into a face during the Late Iron Age / Romano British period, with hair ingeniously styled from the shell A #FindsFriday / #FossilFriday crossover 🤩 📷 Feb 2022 Found at Great Bedwyn and a favourite find in the always excellent @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social

Just boosting this again, from a couple of weeks ago, because it is such a striking - and to me, deeply moving - analogy. "Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind"

A preliminary report on what we've done at Govan Old this year, brought to you by Prof. Driscoll and many student contributors! www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma... Was great to be able to contribute to it with my summary of our new On-Site Wellbeing approach (plus a sketch).

It would be lovely if you could help us identify challenges and research gaps for prehistoric rock art in Scotland while we work on a new research framework. Let us know your favourite sites and what questions you have by filling out his (very) short survey! THANK YOU! www.surveymonkey.com/r/GQCQ77N

I didn't think it could get worse. It got worse. 😫 "#Stonehenge was built to unify ancient Britons during a “legitimation crisis” caused by the migration of people from mainland Europe, researchers have suggested." www.independent.co.uk/news/science... #Archaeology

This semester's programme for the Archaeology Research Seminars at UofG is now live! Looking forward to contributing to the talk "A view from the trenches" on 22nd January, alongside other members of the Govan Old Research Group * Venues and streaming information on: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...

I would really like to be able to join the new community for archaeology and storytelling set up via the EAA but I simply don't have a spare £100 for the EAA membership fee. I would love to see a free-to-join, no-to-low cost archaeology & storytelling network for the UK though

Wonderful to see #JoinIn here too - if you're in need of company/chat/distraction over the next few days, just add #JoinIn and someone will be there. Also check out the feed below...😊 #Christmas bsky.app/profile/did:...

Winter is often Tolkien re-read time for me, so finding this article on my feed felt really appropriate! I also plead guilty to imagining Middle Earth while on walks... though experiencing the winter in the Alps meant that Caradhras was a favourite scenario of mine (included wondering if...

The tension between Scandinavian culture in the North west and incoming Norman power and influence is reflected in folklore. At Rannerdale (Cumbria) a fanciful story is the bluebells grow where the blue blood of Norman’s was shed in battle #medievalsky #vikingsky #cumbria

survey.app.do/cscs-card-an... In January 2024, were were informed by CSCS that archaeologists were removed from the Construction Related Occupations list. This survey is to gauge the impact of this decision - and to look at possible solutions. The survey is short, sweet and anonymous

While I enjoy occasionally complaining about good old Canmore being a bit clunky to use, I shall forever be grateful for its functionality after trying (and failing) to access the heritage inventory of Canton Ticino. I was trying to find out something more about this guy here in the picture...

One of my favourites, so of course I had to include it on my Lascaux embroidered basket (picture to follow - of the embroidery rather than the finished basket, as I haven't sewn it up yet!)

Friends who understand the challenges of hard to predict, fluctuating energy levels/crashing and related shenanigans, but still suggest plans and adaptations and support measures to make sure I'm included. Not quite so tiny a joy, actually. More like onion-cutting levels