Abducted. Not captured. Words matter folks.

we have not "apprehended" the president of venezuela. we have invaded a foreign country and kidnapped its leader. what the fuck are we doing here, i am going to lose my mind

The US has, consistently, been the biggest source of pain and suffering in the World since WW2.

Taken by the sea in Horsey. #photography #ruins #bythesea #mine #edit

Psst…👉there’s still time to submit for our @tag2025york.bsky.social session: ✨In theory, it was a great idea💡!✨ Me and my dear friend @tmcasimiro.bsky.social hope you’ll join the convo around the untold challenges of public-facing, community-engaging and real life archaeology projects! Cya there😎

The call for papers for @tag2025york.bsky.social‬ is now OPEN!! 🏺 Abstracts for all sessions are available at tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-... Contact individual session organisers to submit your paper abstract by AUGUST 1st! #TAG2025 #tag2025_york #YorTAG

This shows how archaeological data has been manipulated to promote racist politics & how archaeological expertise can be mobilized in service of ‘genetic indigenisation’. It highlights archaeology’s vulnerability to misuse & challenges assumptions about anti-expert discourse in far-right spaces

Out this morning & Open Access! 📢 My new article in Public Archaeology on the entanglement of archaeology, the far right and ancient genetic studies, using the British National Party as a case study: ‘In Our Blood’: Archaeology and ‘Indigeneity’ in the British National Party’s Magazine Identity'

More information will follow 👀

And it's gone... (not until after somebody had clearly filled in the prior removed part with pen mind you!) I only hope whomever put it there in the first place can come and replace it...

I, and several others, have written an open letter to the UK's largest archaeological organisations requesting they take a stand and publicly affirm their support for the trans community. This open letter was signed by over 700 archaeologists before it was sent today. Read it in full below 👇

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Announcing our plans for a new #community #archaeology project in #Hexham

Call for papers 🗣️ Excited to announce our themed issue for #PublicHumanities ‘The World Beyond the Trowel’🌏 Exploring creative approaches to community and archaeology beyond inclusion in excavation practice. CfP closes 31 August 2025 🗓️ Learn more here: tinyurl.com/Beyondthetro...

📢Today, the home of our Schools of #Archaeology & Ancient History & Museum Studies has been renamed the Kathleen Kenyon Building, the first academic building on campus to be named after a woman. 🏛️ le.ac.uk/news/2025/fe... 📷 UCL Institute of Archaeology, CC BY 4.0 #InternationalWomensDay

🎉And here's Brodhie Molloy's winning #TRAC poster, fully deserving of the Lisa Lodwick award. 🏆Congratulations!

🎉🎉🎉Massive congratulations to SAAH's Brodhie Molloy who has been awarded the Lisa Lodwick Award for the best poster presented at the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference for her poster ‘Bodies in and out of archaeology’.🎉🎉🎉

Had the best time working with my mate on this paper and contributing to such an impactful session! Thanks to all involved 🥰

A highly of course is that we are delighted to announce this year's TAG prize winner is Rachel Crellin from the University of Leicester. Huge congratulations, very well deserved!

Amazing artist rendition of my own TAG session from my good friend Ron

Great second day at @tag45.bsky.social Fantastic session from @rachelcrellin.bsky.social @ojth.bsky.social and Julian Thomas looking at the work of Chris Tilley and the many directions we can take it. Here are a few of my favourites from Roy, @bromolloy.bsky.social, Galmés Alba, and Collar.