Happy to see my book reviewed in @antiquity.ac.uk!

The Greek newspaper @kathimerini.gr ran a story about our ongoing XRF study of the Linear B tablets from Pylos: www.kathimerini.gr/culture/5638...

I'm compiling some statistics about the proportion of articles about Aegean prehistory in major American journals (it's about 15-20%) and every so often, you get an issue that's all Aegean all the time (ajaonline.org/toc/1183/):

So often I went from Berlin to #GöbekliTepe in the past 20 years or so - but finally the Tepe is coming to Berlin! 😉 🏺 www.trtworld.com/article/a7e6...

Ralphie! @iotasubscript.bsky.social

Habemus Ralphie (no I'm not going to try to Latinize Ralphie): cubuffs.com/news/2025/9/...

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

📕 #BookReview How has the rise of commercial ancestry testing affected ancient DNA studies? Can past lives become props in modern-day ethical and cultural debates? Explore all this and more in Matthew David Teasdale's review of 'The trouble with ancient DNA' by Anna Källén 1/2

Magnitude : 5.1 Region: *Aegean Sea* Time: 2025-09-08 21:27:57 UTC Epicenter : 24.09°E 38.20°N Depth: 10 km *First posted at: 21:30 UTC* https://geofon.gfz-potsdam.de/eqexplorer/events/gfz2025rqkg/general ##GEOFON ##GFZ ##earthquake ##magnitude

the 16th colloquium on Mycenaean studies (basically Aegean scripts) begins in two days in Madrid: www.uned.es/universidad/...

Penelope Mountjoy obituary | Archaeology | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

‘Even if the coastline we know is young – its features only relatively stable for the last five or six thousand years – mental traces of earlier configurations survive.’ @josephinequinn.bsky.social on the ancient coast: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I'm excited to announce that the Palace of Nestor IV is officially out, and thanks to a grant from the Packard Humanities Institute, it is being made available from Lockwood Press for only $100 and is being distributed as an eBook for free! www.lockwoodpress.com/product-page...

The hero we need

"...most faculty have given up on 'cop shit' in their classroom a long time ago. My goal is not to 'catch' my students cheating, but to create situations where cheating isn’t seen as a viable recipe for success in the class." mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2025/08/14/t...

Humanities' teaching subsidize STEM at universities is actually a "everybody subsidizes professional schools' and the engineering college's teaching." profession.mla.org/the-humaniti...

Archaeology defined as a hauntology of remains. A theoretical statement grounded on my work on ruins as well as my recent work on the remnants of contemporary migration. Part of a great volume! Grateful to the editors and to many colleagues who helped out! www.academia.edu/143309448/Ha...

Adobe Acrobat suggested that its AI assistant could offer me a summary of an academic article I was reading in Hebrew. I clicked. Here’s what it gave me. Thanks but no thanks.

Current international frameworks for heritage are products of nationalist logic— archaeology is absorbed by nations as part of their validation among their peers. In colonized countries, this perpetuates the violence of dispossession of colonial “conquest”. 1/

I'm doing this in ten days (free, online, registration required): www.getty.edu/calendar/art...

This was a fun little discovery this morning at the Melissa bookstore in Athens:

100% this: '“May your work be less relevant” is what academics should wish for each other, in my opinion' donnazuckerberg.substack.com/p/the-joys-a...

@robertmays.bsky.social where did you eat in San Sebastian? In 2016 I went to Martín Berasategui and Asador Etxebarri in Axpe. Both were unbelievably good

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Holiday snapshots: out of the frying pan into the… forge. thesphinxblog.com/2025/05/15/m...

The cruise ship terminal, Thessaloniki.

NO MICROSOFT I DO NOT WANT TO SAVE THIS DOCUMENT TO ONE DRIVE. I WILL NEVER WANT TO SAVE ANYTHING TO ONE DRIVE. NOBODY BUT A GRANDMOTHER WHO DOESN"T KNOW ANY BETTER WILL EVER WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH ONE DRIVE. WHY DO YOU INSIST ON SUCKING SO BAD

"One couple at a voting station in Port Credit said they would rather not speak to American media. They then apologized three times." Perfect reporting from @kaleighrogers.bsky.social

Since I have so many new followers, I'm re-upping the announcement that MY BOOK IS OUT! It's called Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology, and it's the result of 100 interviews with archaeologists, eight years of work, and so much community support! www.routledge.com/9780367743987 🏺

Population, culture history, and the dynamics of change in European prehistory★ - Shennan - 2024 - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Out now: What *is* ‘ancient history’? Why it is much bigger and more important than we might think, how generations of scholars have dismembered it, how we can do it justice – and why ‘Classics’ has run its course: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The Norton Library edition of my translation of the Iliad, with stylish red cover, is now available. It has complete text, maps, notes, introduction and translator's note, and it's yours for under $10 (as are many other tempting Norton Library volumes). wwnorton.com/books/978132...

It's hard to believe it, especially in the present climate... I am certain that there are many other worthy colleagues who deserve this (perhaps more than I), but I was notified today that I received a Guggenheim Fellowship... I am grateful to the Foundation for the support. #guggfellows2025

tune in via zoom today starting at 8.30am PT

"The death of the author, for Roland Barthes, was intended to be the birth of the reader. GenAI gives us the shambling undead version of both." @nevillemorley.bsky.social on AI, which mostly makes me want to reread Calvino: thesphinxblog.com/2025/03/22/i...

I tried in this paper to address social structure and non-elite groups on the Greek mainland in the Late Bronze Age: www.academia.edu/128439720/Re...

Excited to be a small part of the publication of the 2023 Langford conference: www.sidestone.com/books/social...

Excited that this wonderful article by Anne Duray is now out in the latest issue of the American Journal of Archaeology: ajaonline.org/article/the-...

Publication news! 🎉 Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences is NOW AVAILABLE for everybody to read! We are so excited to share this work with you all: www.routledge.com/Ancient-Past... 🎉 Cover art by the wonderful @flaroh.bsky.social!

Theseus 2 Minotaur 4 (final score was 3-5, today outside of Chania)

New Supplement of Ariadne No. 5 (2024) ejournals.lib.uoc.gr/Ariadne/issu... #openaccess KO-RO-NO-WE-SA. Proceedings of the 15th international colloquium on Mycenaean studies @annapjudson.bsky.social @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social

Grace Erny and I have a chapter entitled "Gender and Power in the Practice of Mediterranean Archaeology" in this book hot off the presses, edited by Sarah Kielt Costello and Sarah Lepinski:

Alan Lloyd's commentary on Hdt II, pp. 153-4: "most Greeks, both ancient and modern, are endowed with a basic urge to communicate what lore they possess..."

A spectacular bronze head of a griffin went missing from a Greek museum and ended up in the Metropolitan Museum, which is now returning it after research showed it was stolen. Great, you'd think... unless you know this research was done 87 YEARS AGO. 🧵 from your local provenance grump.

This podcast episode is very much worth listening to: byzantiumandfriends.podbean.com/e/130-a-conv...

Coming soon! Andrew Shapland on "the emergence of Aegean Prehistory as a discipline, starting with the first recorded encounters with prehistoric monuments and artefacts and ending with the decipherment of Linear B in 1952": www.cambridge.org/core/element...

If you're in the Boulder, Colorado, area, I'll be giving a book talk this coming Wednesday (Feb 26, 5pm) at the University of Colorado Boulder. It's free and open to the public. Hope to see you there!

In the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean, distinctive stirrup jars were used to transport oil and likely wine #NationalDrinkWineDay 🍷 Their presence at the Greek town of Pefkakia suggests it was a major harbour, making it the northern-most Mycenaean port. 🆓 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.221