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Howard Williams BSc MA PhD FSA Aʀᴄʜᴀᴇᴏ𝖉𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍 Blogger & Vlogger
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CFP: ODJ8 - Deadline for submissions to this diamond open-access interdisciplinary journal's volume 8 is rapidly approaching:
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Call for Papers: Offa’s Dyke Journal 8 for 2026. Deadline: 1 Feb 2026
Researching linear monuments, borderlands and frontiers? The Offa’s Dyke Journal is an innovative interdisciplinary open-access and peer-reviewed academic journal dedi…
https://offaswatsdyke.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/call-for-papers-offas-dyke-journal-8-for-2026/
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars, series 1-3. An Archaeodeath Guide
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars, series 1-3. An Archaeodeath Guide
What are the Archaeodeath dimensions of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and what is their overriding significance for popular culture understandings and appreciations of mortuary archaeology and mortuary…
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/star-wars-the-clone-wars-series-1-3-an-archaeodeath-guide/
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Viking Archaeologies of Death: my public talk at the 2025 Jorvik Tattoo Moot
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Viking Archaeologies of Death
YouTube video by Archaeodeath
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Sometimes, just sometimes, it is a tad frustrating to see peer-reviewed articles parrot things I've already published 25 years ago and without a glimmer of recognition of my work. But then again, that's British archaeology.
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Mel Roxby-Mackey
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This is such a brilliant find. Port talbot on the map for all the best reasons
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Margam park Roman villa find could be 'Port Talbot's Pompeii'
The largest Roman villa ever found in Wales lies less than a metre under Margam Country Park.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgk8j1gkxelo
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Ben Stanley
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“Deepfake child pornography is fine as long as only adults get to see it” is a curious place for the modern Conservative Party to find itself, but here we are
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Relics of a Lost England: Archaeology in Robin Hood (2010)
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Relics of a Lost England: Archaeology in Robin Hood (2010)
In times of tyranny and injustice when law oppresses the people, the outlaw takes his place in history. England at the turn of the 12th century was such a time. Archaeologies are prominent dimensio…
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/relics-of-a-lost-england-archaeology-in-robin-hood-2010/
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Sweet Child of Mine: Perinatal Burials in Iron Age Mallorca with Marga Coll Sabater
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Sweet Child of Mine: Perinatal Burials in Iron Age Mallorca with Marga Coll Sabater
YouTube video by Archaeodeath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPwvpa181WA
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Almost Archaeology
17 days ago
I spent the holiday break thinking about Andor, and so should you! The latest post on
#AlmostArchaeology
by
@archaeonado.bsky.social
, with a sequel to follow
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Luthen and the Louvre: How Andor foretold 2025 (part 1)
By Adrián Maldonado It is long ago, and we are far away. In the imperial capital of Coruscant, the gallery of Galactic Antiquities and Objects of Interest receives some visitors. One of them admires.....
https://almostarchaeology.com/post/804632900954882048/luthen-and-the-louvre-how-andor-accidentally
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Almost Archaeology
11 days ago
Shout out to
@archaeodeathprof.bsky.social
for the quote on a Star Wars galaxy that is "both saturated in pastness but also bears an uncanny amnesia...a near-complete ignorance" of its archaeological heritage
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Ahsoka Archaeology
The Star Wars universe introduces us to a fictional deep-time and complex set of societies and species spread over thousands of inhabited worlds. In their representation, built up through art, book…
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2024/09/29/ahsoka-archaeology/
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What is an ‘archaeologist’ and what are the alternatives?
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What is an ‘archaeologist’ and what are the alternatives?
Archaeology is dead awesome… That’s because archaeology is about dead people and how they lived in the past. It’s about dead ruins – overgrown and abandoned to the bats and …
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/what-is-an-archaeologist-and-what-are-the-alternatives/
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Archaeodeath public talk! 💀📢 Unearthing 'Sad and Sepulchral Pitchers': The Untold History of Cremation' 1pm-2pm - Friday 30th January 2026, Leeds Library Book your ticket(s) here:
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Ian Carrillo
15 days ago
A major use-case for AI is reality destabilization.
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Horse sacrifice in Viking Iceland - a discussion on Archaeodeath with Dr Irina Manea
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Horse Sacrifice in Viking Iceland
YouTube video by Archaeodeath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX4ii6o26lo
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Zack Polanski
16 days ago
The PM and Foreign Secretary should be condemning this illegal strike and breach of international human rights law. After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
17 days ago
"Don’t you like it, Hamas whore?" Per the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, that's what Israeli guards said to Flotilla member Vincenzo Fullone as they horrifically sexually assaulted him. He was one of at least 3 members of the Flotilla who were subjected to sexual violence by Israeli authorities.
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Sharon Greene
19 days ago
Congrats and happy new year 🥳
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Mel Roxby-Mackey
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Good news from
@archaeodeathprof.bsky.social
! Offa’s Dyke Journal volume 7 for 2025 has been published online: (
revistas.jasarqueologia.es/index.php/od...
). The journal is proudly open access so available to all. There is excellent work in this volume that encompasses
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Vol 7 (2025)
- ODJ promotes high-quality research in the archaeology, history and heritage of the Anglo-Welsh border and also comparative investigations of frontiers and borderlands elsewhere around the globe from...
http://revistas.jasarqueologia.es/index.php/odjournal/issue/view/ODJ7
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I'm delighted to announce the publication of 'Offa's Dyke Journal 7' for 2025 containing an Introduction, three original articles, two reports, an interview and a 'classics revisited' article.
revistas.jasarqueologia.es/index.php/od...
offaswatsdyke.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/o...
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Archaeodeath Review for December 2025
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December 2025 Archaeodeath Review | Archaeodeath
Get more from Archaeodeath on Patreon
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For the next 25 months, I'm a father of 5 teenagers. The world is a scary place.
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Clare Downham
20 days ago
With permission to share from
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Offa's Dyke Journal open access interview between Prof Howard Williams, Paul Sherman (Director NW Heritage CIC) and me
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#medievalsky
#wirral
#cheshire
#merseyside
#archaeology
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Viking Wirral in Public Archaeology and History An interview with Clare Downham and Paul Sherman
Edited interview conducted by Prof Howard Williams (Chester) with Paul Sherman and Clare Downham
https://works.hcommons.org/records/6765p-5b714
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It's official. My following on TikTok is now equivalent to the 2021 ONS population of ... TELFORD!
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List of ONS built-up areas in England by population - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ONS_built-up_areas_in_England_by_population
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Clare Downham
23 days ago
Special offa.
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I hate Wales, especially its archaeology
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Could she be your ancestor? Vertical Viking death at Historiska Museet, Lund
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Could she be your ancestor? Vertical Viking death at Historiska Museet, Lund
In my ongoing explorations of the ways in which the archaeological dead are displayed in museum, a common feature is the retention of the horizontal plane for laying out skeletons and mummies as we…
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/25/could-she-be-your-ancestor-vertical-viking-death-at-historiska-museet-lund/
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Latest from Archaeodeath on YouTube: " King and Conqueror 2: Harold's Grave"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxIf...
linked to my Archaeodeath blog post:
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King and Conqueror 2: Harold's Grave
YouTube video by Archaeodeath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxIfxwOjI1g
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Archaeodeath “Я” Us
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Archaeodeath “Я” Us
What does a dead retail park in the UK look like? The answer: something out of The Walking Dead. I present a case study in the contemporary archaeology of retail death. Toys abound and shops are bu…
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/archaeodeath-%d1%8f-us/
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Egtved Girl’s Avatar
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Egtved Girl’s Avatar
Discovered in 1921, the so-called ‘Egtved Girl’ has become an international celebrity corpse of archaeological derivation. She was buried aged 16-18 together with the cremated remains o…
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/egtved-girl/
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Katherine CM Cross
28 days ago
This is great. I love your point about how early medieval stones can become timeless (especially when knowledge of the early medieval period is vague?) Hope you publish a similar commentary on Durham cathedral’s display sometime!!
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Early medieval stones as archaeology and pseudoarchaeology at holy sites of memory: 'Mnemonic citations at a sacred site of memory: the Early Christian archaeology of St Patrick’s Cathedral'
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Mnemonic citations at a sacred site of memory: the Early Christian archaeology of St Patrick’s Cathedral
Early medieval stones operate as mnemonic citations to early Christian history at the holy site of St Patrick’s Cathedral. This post shows how the simple display of Viking-period recumbent gr…
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/mnemonic-citations-at-a-sacred-site-of-memory-the-early-christian-archaeology-of-st-patricks-cathedral/
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The Roman dead of Catalonia: An Archaeodeath review of the Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya in Barcelona
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The Roman dead of Catalonia: An Archaeodeath review of the Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalunya in Barcelona
The display of the dead in museum contexts is a repeated theme on this blog and now it is December I want to return to this theme and to reflect on my first experience as a researcher of going arou…
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/the-roman-dead-of-catalonia-an-archaeodeath-review-of-the-museu-darqueologia-de-catalunya-in-barcelona/
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Walking Lines and Marking Times - reviewing my TAG 2025 presentation
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Walking Lines and Marking Times
I recently attended the University of York’s Theoretical Archaeology Group conference for 2025. I benefitted immensely from the sessions and talks, as well as discussions with other delegates, on t…
https://offaswatsdyke.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/walking-lines-and-marking-times/
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Rethinking Viking Archaeologies - my recent talk to the Cornwall Archaeological Society
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Rethinking Viking Archaeologies
YouTube video by Archaeodeath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QioUis0Q-vc
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Interpreting Wat’s Dyke at Erddig
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Interpreting Wat’s Dyke at Erddig
In recent years, I conducted a critical evaluation of the public archaeology and heritage interpretation of Britain’s third-longest ancient linear earthwork – Wat’s Dyke. I argued…
https://offaswatsdyke.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/interpreting-wats-dyke-at-erddig/
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A Campsite Sign, Boot and a Wheel Barrow on Offa’s Dyke
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A Campsite Sign, Boot and a Wheel Barrow on Offa’s Dyke
To coincide with the impending release of my article in Offa’s Dyke Journal 7 entitled ‘The Contemporary Archaeology of Offa’s Dyke’, let us be reminded that the linear eart…
https://offaswatsdyke.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/a-campsite-sign-boot-and-a-barrow-on-offas-dyke/
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about 1 month ago
This was a huge cock up seemingly based on preliminary results and a desire for headlines... Now its feeding into this sort of trash take on social media. The inferred difference between 'black' and 'local girl' is unfortunate. Regardless of phenotype, these people would not recognize Britishness.
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The Dalai Farmer
about 1 month ago
Of course modern Vikings, mindful of their carbon footprint, now use the Park and Raid
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Very excited to be heading to York tomorrow to discuss public archaeology and heritage interpretation for early medieval linear earthworks! My first four slides to whet appetites.
@tag2025york.bsky.social
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Antiquity Journal
about 1 month ago
@tag2025york.bsky.social
starts next Monday
@york.ac.uk
! We'll be there, so make sure to say hello, get your hands on some coveted
#Archaeoswag
and learn how you can publish your
#archaeology
research in Antiquity! 🏺
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Ste Lingard
about 1 month ago
"...the neglect and redundant heritage interpretation panel induces sadness – a sense of how these initiatives rapidly fade and are obscured. While only c. 25 years old, the panel...has faded from apprehension but also materialises the lack of sustained interest and engagement..." Too true. 😔
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Digging the Heritage of Wat's Dyke
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Digging the Heritage of Wat’s Dyke
Archaeologists can dig up the past, but we can also dig out old heritage interpretations! A few years ago, I took the law into my own hands to conduct an impromptu ‘excavation’ of a haw…
https://offaswatsdyke.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/digging-the-heritage-of-wats-dyke/
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Alice Roberts
about 1 month ago
A small victory, perhaps. The Guardian replaced the word “Man” with “Humans” in this headline. After I pointed out the misogynistic anachronism. I’m not saying the two things are causally linked, but it happened.
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes
about 1 month ago
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#Palaeolithic
scicomm : words & visuals matter in reporting. Based on Google News results, all but three major news sites used some variation of "human" or "people" to report this. Those that didn't? BBC & The Guardian used "man" (now altered)... and GB news used "cavemen" (I'd bet deliberately)
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes
about 1 month ago
Guardian chose poor lead image, inaccurate anatomy. BBC went for stylised; an idea of fireside life? (inc musical instrument not appropriate for period) NYT & Nat Geo used BM-sourced illustration; beautiful but details inc anatomy questionable? [NB where sex identifiable, males shown more active]
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Andy Brockman
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#HeritageCrime
News At the request of prosecutors in Ukraine Polish authorities have arrested and remanded in custody, Russian archaeologist Alexander Butyagin, who is an employee of the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. Mr Butyagin is accused of conducting illegal excavations in occupied Crimea.
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Poland arrests Russian archaeologist wanted in Ukraine
The allegations against the suspect includes the illegal excavation of an ancient city in Crimea.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clydz0j1yego
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Umberto Albarella STOP THE GENOCIDE!
about 1 month ago
Best way to start your day is to show solidarity and sign this petition! Should you be in Sheffield, please come to our student-led rally on the University Sheffield Concourse (Student Union building) at 12noon!
#Sheffield
#UCUstrike
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
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No lockout for University of Sheffield staff
UCU members have been standing up against the continual cutting and restructuring of the last several years which has significantly damaged the University’s international standing, the quality of educ...
https://www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no-lockout-for-university-of-sheffield-staff?source=facebook&time=1765486262&utm_source=facebook&share=488d74b6-8466-49a3-9974-89ac7d82f0df&fbclid=IwY2xjawOokmxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeu4X4wP0jMDg478nYjp9aFGJIBQRxY5Q0JB2Kum4OIw6N7uzrOefqeBKaJAY_aem_k0mow-Fhbo3SflY8vBiS8Q
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Sonia Zakrzewski
about 1 month ago
How come the media isn't reporting what is going on in universities? The implications of this (and this is just 1 of many universities doing the same) are terrifying. For the local populations, for the towns affected, for the next generation, for research & development, for the future!
#academicsky
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The Archaeology of 'Skeleton Crew' part 2
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For my blog post -
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The Archaeology of 'Skeleton Crew' part 2
YouTube video by Archaeodeath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY0NXn9qt3M
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