Patella regalia!

I just published my article Archaeology as Worldbuilding, an effort that grows out of 20+ years of digital (and analog) archaeological making. Adjacent to recent arguments about storytelling, I broaden our scope to make past worlds & tell stories in community with others. doi.org/10.1017/S095...

I wrote a piece for the Guardian games newsletter this week on my PhD research into preserving play experiences, and why I think that the most archaeological games are those that that actually make you *think* like one 🏺 www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...

Ben Affleck: almost archaeologist

Archaeology of the Plastic Age (Plastocene? Plastozoic?)

Revolutionary heritage

Stumbled on this incredible bit of colonial archaeology wandering through Melbourne. It's a piece of European bottle glass flaked into a scraper by Kulin Nation First Peoples, excavated from the 1855-70 settlement at Wesley Place, now displayed at 130 Lonsdale www.wesleyplace.com.au/content/news...

Skate #parkaeology

“Disappointment is the most common response to time capsule openings”

We live in the ruins of a greater civilization

Hot Fuzz Heritage

Magnetic memories: Callum Preston's Video Land, a recreated VHS rental store as art installation at Melbourne's Immigration Museum

Hey, kids. My eponymous #Archaeogaming book (2018) paperback is on sale for 50% off this week. I only need 12 more people to buy the book to crack 1,000 lifetime sales! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Reinha...

Those lithic balancing acts, those stone nexi holding landscape in their thrall, refuse to be relics. They exist as complexities, fierce engines of the imagination. They manifest the Long Neolithic as ongoing pilgrim destination, as conversation with the now. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

"We’ll have skateboarders on site who used the park as teenagers and will be re-living that experience at the end of a trowel". Archaeologists to excavate 1980s Glasgow skatepark – with help from skaters www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...

Upcoming excavation of Scotland's first skatepark! #ArchaeoSkating and #parkaeology with @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social

New hashtag #archaeosupermarket

Andor series 2: Chandrilan Materialities and Antiquities howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/a...

Andor series 2: The Archaeology of Ghorman Pride howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/16/a...

Star Wars archaeology

The Jetsons, cylindrical refrigerators and accelerating curves: the architecture of The Fantastic Four: First Steps www.dezeen.com/2025/08/07/f...

The materiality of borders 👍

I wrote about archaeology on Comet 67P in 2017! Great that Justin has tackled the geoarchaeology.

The best description of TV series *Spartacus* (2010-12) from today's @theguardian.com "like being shot in the face by a pump-action bum-gun" 🤣 www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

A really nice review and reflections on the OXO Museo Del Videojuego, Madrid Adrián Maldonado (@almostarch.bsky.social) ... #archaeogaming #archaeology #videogaming almostarchaeology.com/post/7901803...

Just discovered there's an online preservation initiative called Flashpoint which is rescuing tons of old Macromedia/Adobe Flash games and animations from the inexorable Digital Dark Age to come. Including Weebls Stuff and much more: flashpointarchive.org #archaeogaming #InternetArchaeology

NEW POST! The next level of videogame museums: OXO Madrid, by @archaeonado.bsky.social The new OXO Madrid Museo del Videojuego provides historical context while sacrificing none of the fun, and invites into the display what had previously been a missing part of the puzzle: the players themselves

A rare, muted Covid-19 pandemic memorial in Pollok Park, Glasgow by Alec Finlay #archaeoronavirus

Beautiful musical heritage in Glasgow But also can't help reading it in Kanye voice

'Luton Henge', a new stone circle is being built: share.google/S7TkvefjmNmL...

"The trade in antiquities in the age of empires here on Earth has always had a tendency to follow upheaval, and we can imagine that is also the case in a galaxy far, far away."

Happy solstice youtu.be/mbyzgeee2mg?...

There are a lot of kooky theories about Stonehenge. Not me: my theory is grounded, evidence-based and manifestly correct. Stonehenge, as originally constructed, was a Federation starship.

Galactic heritage on Earth

What's next now that #Andor is over? Time to read on! The Battle of Yavin was just the beginning of the end after all. - Here comes the entire #history of the #Empire (as yet known) compiled by none other than Beaumont Kin, eminent Sith history expert and excavator of the Sith Citadel on Exegol! 😉👍

It's great to see how far, wide and varied Buddo's travels are from their Neolithic Skara Brae origins, thanks to our replicas made by Orkney 3D. Here's Buddo at Brooklyn Bridge after a colourful makeover by American artist Ford Rogers. Buddo models are available from our shop: tinyurl.com/3mdszmtm

Digging Through Space: Archaeology in the Star Wars Franchise, by Karissa Annis (2021) Brilliant read, mainly but not solely on Doctor Aphra. Now needs a sequel after all the new insights Andor provides into the galactic antiquities market on Coruscant! www.academia.edu/68637610/Dig...