this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Available free to download for the next two weeks: www.cambridge.org/core/element...  doi.org/10.1017/9781...

This week many of our colleagues are sharing memories of Dr. Lynne Goldstein, who passed away Saturday, April 18. She was a leader in community engaged archaeology and fierce advocate and ally to students and women.

Or speaks another language.

The south gate of Gla lookin' so pretty

Delighted to be part of this new special issue of the Cambridge Archaeological Journal on “Kinship Trouble” (link to full Table of Contents in next post) with perspectives from archaeology, archaeogenetics, and social anthropology. Critical as data from archaeogenetics becomes pervasive.

I'm gonna ride my llama from Peru to Texarkana

Updated historical Elo chart for the newly crowned men's basketball National Champion, Michigan. Greatest Michigan team of all time? They have a strong argument.

Public comment is closing tomorrow, so click the link and let your voice be heard. This is one of the most significant sites in North America

The Secretary of the Interior proposes to revoke the withdrawal of up to approximately 336,425 acres of public lands within ca. 10 miles surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park; you can voice your opposition to this proposal here: eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home...

Bye bye, archaeology funding. 🧪🏺😢

Oxford Journal of Archaeology Vol. 45, No. 2 (2026) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680092... @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

“the sacrifice of a considerable part of the earth’s resources in order to gain possession of one of the ghastliest of all the piles of pebbles rattling around in space. Let's move on.”

The interlibrary loan librarians at my university are amazing; I gave them what I knew about an article, put a ? in the fields I couldn't fill in, and within the day I had a PDF of the article (from Jahrbuch der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften)!

"all writers use AI" nope, get the entire fuck out of here with that

Open access from the École française d’Athènes: "Pencil and Dust. Women who shaped archaeology in Greece and the Greek world" books.openedition.org/efa/20128

"Arizona is like AI. They gather data. It modifies their gameplan. And then they become deadly." - Jim Jackson #MarchMadness

I visited Ann Arbor over the summer; my father always maintained that I went to Michigan because of the basketball team (the Fab Five)...

Bluesky friends, I am happy to advertise a conference on ancient and medieval slave trading in the Mediterranean, co-organized by myself and Elizabeth Fentress, to be held in Toronto next month (April 15-17, 2026). Contact me via email (rather than here) or the email on the poster for more info!

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

Excited to announce that after years of saying "I will get around to it"... I HAVE FINALLY BUILT UP MY PHOTOGRAPHY WEBSITE. It is mostly nature and national park themed. I've uploaded thousands of photos. There is a gallery for EVERY U.S. National Park🥲 bluebarronphoto.com

"Interestingly, glume wheats are absent from the site, with the notable exception of a concentration of emmer wheat found in an open area, which has been interpreted as part of the site’s ritual activities." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Of course my first post on here will be shameless self-promotion. I have two books coming out imminently. Cambridge is offering 20% off until the end of April with this discount code TCCCR2026 www.cambridge.org/9781009295130

Henry Miller, Colossus of Maroussi (1941): "as long as human beings can sit and watch with hands folded while their fellow men are tortured and butchered so long will civilization be a hollow mockery, a wordy phantom suspended like a mirage above a swelling sea of murdered carcasses."

Millet in Bronze Age Thasos! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

📣 New issue is out now! As Women’s History Month begins, this issue brings attention to gender bias in #archaeology. These articles examine persistent inequities in visibility, citation, and leadership, and offer concrete strategies for change. Explore more here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Renfrew's a big reason that I'm an Aegean prehistorian; this will be well worth watching www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/remem...

"The walls which you see in Greece, when they are not of Turkish or Venetian origin, go back to the Cyclopean age."

She's a genius: youtube.com/shorts/e0KIH...

My review of "Mothering and Archaeology" edited by @savarchaeoalliance.bsky.social and Suzanne Spencer-Wood is out in Historical Archaeology! rdcu.be/eZpdj #academicsky 🏺

How tough is “tough enough” in archaeology? Sarah Simeonoff, Marie Matsuda, Gabrielle Perry, and Breeanna Charolla explore how fieldwork culture shapes experiences and inclusivity. Learn more about their proposed avenues for reform in this AAP FirstView Article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Sure Bayern won 5-1 over Hoffenheim, but at least they didn’t have their stepovers go wrong like Lennart Karl’s attempt. 👍🏼

Greek archaeologists: February 20, 2026 is the deadline for you to submit a letter supporting the renewal of the bilateral agreement protecting Greek cultural heritage: www.archaeological.org/preserving-b...

New article! "Changing the Landscape of Archaeological Publishing" in Current Anthropology, by a giant collaborative group of coauthors fearlessly led by Jess Beck and including @bridgetalex.bsky.social @benmarwick.bsky.social @christinawarinner.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

OPEN ACCESS in @saa-aap.bsky.social: This team analyzed 22 years of data from the annual meeting of the SAA to examine how women's participation has changed over time. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Given that Odysseus thought the most beautiful man in the world was Memnon the Ethiopian, casting a black woman as Helen may have been the only defensible choice.

Thucydides did not say that the strong will always win out over the weak.

Check out this blog post and the article; driving slowly around Examilia with Tim, Lita, David and @billcaraher.bsky.social is certainly preferable to this Examilian mini-tragedy: mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/w...

take once a week or so for best results www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtTp...

Peopling the Past is planning Season 5 of our podcast! We are looking for folks who are interested in appearing as episode guests: the theme of Season 5 will be the relevance of the ancient world to our understanding of important but challenging contemporary issues docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... /🧵

On this day in 2019, the splendid @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social posted this photo of Delphic double rainbows 🌈 on Twitter (taken by Ross Nichol and shared by the Archaeological Museum of Delphi). And I think it’s the only thing I want to repost from Twitter anymore.

February 1 is the deadline to nominate books for the AIA's Felicia A. Holton Award. If you know any books published in the past three years that make bring the excitement of archaeology to a general audience, please nominate them here: www.archaeological.org/grant/holton...

A new and open-access book, "Time of Textiles in Ancient Greece" by Marie-Louise Bech Nosch: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Vegetarian Greek food restaurant called Don't Meat Your Gyros

Super interesting article on the archaeology jobs wiki and trends in archaeology job ads

Elsevier's questionnaire about my (a peer reviewer's) ancestry is pretty strange. "Select all geographic areas from which your ancestors first originated"?