Hobbit Hoard! Tolkien archaeology! Cassette excavation! "The discovery occurred during routine track renewal work when maintenance crews came across a set of cassette tapes buried at the base of an overhead line mast."

Enjoying a treat this #NationalSnackDay? Don't forget to dispose of your waste! Archaeological survey at the Iron Age hillfort of Castell Henllys found lots of plastic waste from modern visits, suggesting we now live in the 'Plastic Age'. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... #HillfortsWednesday🏺#Archaeology

I'd also delete the whole "civilisation" bit, comb homeboy's hair and beard, and maybe add some women

The long 2010s are finally over

Newly published short story by JRR Tolkien, The Bovadium Fragments, which makes 'gentle fun at the pomposity of archaeologists' - I wonder who he had in mind? His former co-author Mortimer Wheeler perhaps? @richove.bsky.social @johngarthwriter.bsky.social tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Bov...

Punch-card prehistory

YouTube is archaeology “The V&A has acquired a reconstructed early webpage and the first video ever uploaded to the platform by co-founder Jawed Karim” edition.cnn.com/2026/02/18/s...

TV show pitch: ‘Tome Team’, where a group of rare books librarians and book historians are sent to investigate an uncatalogued library for interesting incunabula, marginalia and provenances - and they have just three days to do it.

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

The Archaeology of Discworld Thoroughly enjoyed this double episode despite being a Pratchett noob. Got a lot more books on the queue now, thanks Tilly and Ash!

Brutal heritage

#StandingStoneSunday I'm in #Lewis #Leòdhas and it's littered with megaliths, both standing and 'resting'. How to choose? So here's a nice gate I saw at #Callanish #Calanais interpreting the raising of the stones.

On today's episode we’re reviewing Cavegirl (1985), a movie about a teenage incel and his manic pixie cave girl, which Wikipedia misleadingly describes as a “sex comedy”, since it fails to deliver on both fronts 🧪🏺 youtu.be/4bfJsO3frI4

New post: A Prehistory of Digital Archaeology introspectivedigitalarchaeology.com/2026/02/01/a... #digitalarchaeology #digitalhumanities

Roman #parkaeology

"...no archaeologists, just antiquarian explorers and adventurers. Likewise, there are museums, no sense of heritage protection, no deep-time stories, no sense of a coherent shared past beyond vague fables. This is a Galaxy shrouded in amnesia...this is a Galaxy without a sense of its own past."

I have been remiss in not highlighting Logie Baird objects @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social today. Here's one, from 90 years ago, which is on display www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c... #histSTM 📜

New career path: Curator of Bovine Material Culture

🏺📽️ With the follow-up to '28 Years Later' now in theatres, I wrote about the Bone Temple and how it fits as part of a longstanding tradition of funerary practices from later prehistoric Britain. animalarchaeology.com/2026/01/19/b...

Mailbox archaeology

Star Wars: The Clone Wars, series 1-3. An Archaeodeath Guide howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/s...

Hopefully you all know how I love the mixture of archaeology and art. Today I visited the @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social & saw the spellbinding collection of Rose Ferraby work. Of so many things precious to me - landscapes, sites, artefacts. One week left - go and see it! #archaeology #art #wiltshire

Visiting my son Porter in Alabama, this morning we drove to Mobile, and stopped nearby to see Bamahenge, which Wikipedia describes as "a full-scale fiberglass replica of England's prehistoric Stonehenge monument, located on the grounds of Barber Marina near Josephine, Alabama."

Heritage pops up in all kinds of situations. Theres a museum room of Dundalk train station in the statio itself and it is the sweetest , most ridiculously Irish thing. Please visit it.

In light all of last year's attacks on museums (as delineated in our most recent post), this one is maybe the most harmful in the long term

New post on #AlmostArchaeology! The thrilling conclusion of Luthen and The Louvre: How Andor foretold 2025, by @archaeonado.bsky.social on how the antiquities trade in the Star Wars galaxy predicted a year of museum heists in ours

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

Think someone at the Beeb has been at the New Year drinkies early... 🤣 #Archaeology 🏺 #Hic #HappyNewYear

The TMNT generation rises to power

"Denying the revisionism the Western underwent [in the sci-fi era] and instead sending it into the future in its most archaic, unnuanced form."

#archaeobaking and also #archaeochristmas

A Silmarillion cover band called Númenorvana

"Looting with a diploma": the archaeology of imperialism

We've been up in York for @tag2025york.bsky.social conference where 3 of us met, Brenna gave a talk on the challenge of creating an accidental archive, AND... we only went & won the Outstanding Achievement Award for Archaeological Theory In Action 🏆! Huge gratitude to the entire community ❤️ 🏺

Wasn't expecting this: Pope Leo, Amost Archaeologist www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

New hashtag #archaeospa

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Nuclear Pictish heritage! A glass paperweight commemorating the closure of the Dounreay, Caithness Prototype Fast Reactor in 1994, with early medieval Pictish symbols. National Museums Scotland X.2024.249.1 www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c...

Finally got my hands on the physical book for Carved in Stone by Heather Christie @archaeoplays.bsky.social and Brian Tyrrell @stoutstoat.co.uk. Really gives me hope that early medieval archaeology can inspire worlds that are hopeful, empathetic and overall, fun www.stoutstoat.co.uk/products/car...

I forgot that in 2019 I started a whole website about Ludovic Mann, #TheManntheMyth. I had plans to do a podcast & update this regularly. If this gets to 100 followers (from current total of 23!) I’ll revive it and start adding content! #LudovicMann themannthemyth.home.blog

We did it! The world's nerdiest souvenir!