OUT NOW! Advances in Digital Archaeology: Proceedings of the 2023 conference Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology – 50 years of synergy 📚 Read online for free or purchase a printed copy at www.sidestone.com/books/advanc...

This is happening today! There's still time to book your free ticket: events.humanitix.com/machine-lear... #digital #archaeology #machinelearning

Bit of a blast from the past with this one!

We invite you to our upcoming Machine Learning for Archaeologists panel, Wednesday 8 April. Our speakers are Dr Jarrad Kowlessar, Dr Christopher Bateman, and Dr Robert Haubt, hosted by @touremily.bsky.social. You can register for free at Humanitix: events.humanitix.com/machine-lear...

Big news from #CAA2026 in Vienna! The 3D Analysis SIG roundtable session was a big success. The new board was voted in & we'll be reaching out to new members soon! Equally as exciting, a new CAA Japan national chapter has been approved! More info & updates also coming out soon! #archaeology 🏺

Really enjoying the functionality of this app. It's been a big help in planning and keeping track of presentations! #CAA2026 🏺

htmlpreview.github.io?https://gith... Check out the interactive app for the #CAA2026, and create your own calendar to attend the different presentations and sessions!

The 3D Analysis SIG is hosting a roundtable "New Advances & Directions of 3D Analysis in Archaeology" Thursday, from 8:30 to 10:30 in the Franz König Saal. We're looking forward to a productive group discussion on where the field is, where it's going, and how the 3D Analysis SIG can help! 🏺#CAA2026

Timeline cleanse of a cute little mejiro (warbling white-eye) being silly hanging upside down at the temple the other day. #Japan #Kyoto

Got a chance to do a bit of #photogrammetry work with some Final Jomon period pottery 🏺 (~2000yrs ago) from the Sugisawa site in Shiga Prefecture using the big turntable last week. Was a nice refresher on how all the bits a pieces of the system connect together. #Japan #archaeology #Jomon #3D

Some really nice views of Mt. Fuji on the way to and from Tokyo this weekend! #Japan #Fuji

The Yanai Initiative is digitizing thousands of early modern Japanese books & manuscripts across the UC system in collaboration with Ritsumeikan University's Art Research Center, creating what could become the largest digital collection of its kind outside of Japan. newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ear...

theconversation.com/3d-scanning-... #archaeology #3D

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Couldn't get this idea out of my head in game so I made a little meme for my DnD group. #dnd #ttrpg #fireball

Alignment updates. Changed file structure which disconnected meshes & textures (too many to auto-link). Linked textures back, VR plugin not working with Blender 5.0. Unable to append models to older version, so I had to re-import 100+ models again. Up & ready for next week🫠 🏺 #archaeology #3D #VR

We're still looking for new potential board members for the 3D Analysis SIG. Deadline for submissions is February 16th! #CAA2026 #archaeology #3D 🏺

Majority of my puzzle pieces are prepped 🏺. Hopefully the alignment process will go smoothly 🤞🤞 #archaeology #3D #Photogrammetry #Blender

We are looking for a research project manager for the upcoming FORAGER ERC Synergy Project. Based at the University of York, this is an exciting opportunity to work in a team of 37 researchers from the UK, the US, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia and Japan. Join us! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Indigenous Archaeological sites in BC are not 'misfortunes'. My op-ed about the again-delayed reforms to the Heritage Conservation Act looks to Japan for inspiration in protecting and caring for Indigenous archaeological places. @uvicanthro.bsky.social @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

Excited to share the job advert for the 1st of several PostDocs who will join us in the ERC Synergy FORAGER Project! This one is 5 year post at the University of Montana with Prof. Anna Prentiss, focusing on Pacitific Northwest Coast archaeology. apply.interfolio.com/180545

In case anyone was wondering, here's the view you'll get if you decide to cancel your Sketchfab account & have models that exceed the size limits of the free account. The download option is disabled as well which might be important if you don't have a local copy for some reason. #3D #archaeology 🏺

Elections to the 3D Analysis SIG committee will be held at #CAA2026. Details below if you're interested in joining, and more info about the SIG can be found here: caa-international.org/special-inte...

How should we interact with 3D history online? 🏺🖥️ Join our workshop to visually prototype a new platform for UK #CulturalHeritage 3D data. Help us design the features that bring artifacts to life. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-heritag... #H3DAR #GLAM3D

Registration is now open for #CAA2026! Come join us in Vienna, 31 March - 4 April. Early bird registration closes on 25 Feb so don't miss out! 2026.caaconference.org/registration...

Putting this out again for any #CAA members that are interested in restarting the #3D Analysis SIG this year! While the field has made a lot of progress, there are still some big problems out there for us to tackle, & working together is the best way to make that happen! Please spread the word!🏺

Students from the Ritsumeikan Archaeology Research Group put together a wonderful temporary exhibit at the Kyoto City Archaeological Museum on mountain temples around Kyoto (京の山寺). One of the students made a really impressive video using a few scans I helped with :) #archaeology #Japan #Kyoto #3D

A preschooler. www.startribune.com/preschooler-...

On the topic of #3D #archaeology, I made this starter pack for people new to #bluesky a little while back. If you would like to be added or have some more recommendations for the list, please let me know! 🏺 go.bsky.app/FYCUrF3

Leap motion controller script for the mouse. The video is a little chaotic because I was trying to hold the phone, talk, and be deliberate with my movements. Anyway, it works and I intend to pair this with a pepper's ghost type live display system I'm building […] [Original post on scholar.social]

Got an email about the autorenewal for my Sketchfab Pro account & decided to cancel the subscription. This will result in a lot of dead links to models that exceeded the free plan size limits, but it serves as a good incentive to push forward with some more sustainable alternatives #3D #archaeology🏺

Science isn't something you can just restart by a snap of the fingers either. The amount of lost knowledge and lab-specific know how lost is immeasurable. Like poisoning the soil in a forest of 300 yo trees. You can't just replant and hope things are like before.

The CAA 3D Analysis SIG is putting out a call for new board members! Application details are included below. The deadline for candidate applications is 16 February 2026 and voting will take place during the #CAA2026 conference in Vienna. We look forward to hearing from you! #archaeology #3D 🏺

A recording of the #H3DAR AMA session, is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbMt... We discussed: 🔭 The scope of the issues at stake. 🚧 Challenges faced by heritage organisations. ⚖️ The balance between heritage practice & achievable (affordable) data management. #GLAM3D #GLAM #DataManagement

Calling all UK heritage professionals working with #3D data: I want to hear from you as part of the *UK Heritage 3D Data at Risk* project. 3 Minute introduction video: youtube.com/watch?v=ZILD... Join the AMA session, January 13 2026, 10am UK: eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-heritag... #GLAM3D

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?

Rep. Seth Moulton: "This is insane. What the hell are we doing? ... this is illegal."

We looked at 10 years of archaeology tenure-track job ads (2013–2023) to see what departments actually ask for: topics, methods, regions, and application materials. Open-access paper: doi.org/10.1017/aaq.... Data and R code used for the study are openly available here doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪

Time to get settled with a cup of tea & watch this

While I'm pretty happy with the way it generally prints, this is the second time I've had a failed print due to filament being glued to the inside corner of an eSUN PLA+ roll. #3Dprinting #esun

📢Calling all *UK* heritage folks working with 3D data: I'd like to hear from you! "UK 3D Heritage at Risk" project seeks to gather info from *at least* 50 organisations... Links in thread. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZILD... . #GLAM3D #UK #Heritage #3D #Data #Galleries #Libraries #Archives #Museums

The recent 7.6 offshore earthquake near Aomori has impacted the Jōmon World Heritage Sites in the region. I found an article online discussing damage to artifacts from the Futatsunomori Shell Midden (north of Hachinohe). Local staff are working with university partners to respond to the damage.

This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... and these are our closest allies!

Remember remember the fifth of December -- where we will have our next meeting. 🤪 😉 Let's update each other on recent developments in scripting languages, new papers and similar. Also there's the matter of the Maintainathon Zack raised las time which we can discuss in more detail. 🤓 📢 We meet […]

Researchers from Yamanashi Prefecture's Mount Fuji Research Institute and the University of Tokyo begin excavation of houses buried in the 1707 eruption of Mt. Fuji in Oyama town, Shizuoka prefecture. #Japan #archaeology 🏺 www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1

Day 2 of trying to get R put back together before starting a new project. Rrtools provides a great way to put together a research compendium for reproducible research, but getting all the required dependencies to install or update can take a bit of work. github.com/benmarwick/r... #R #archaeology 🏺

Ah, the familiar feeling of trepidation when starting a new project in R when you haven't opened the program in a while.....

Recent underwater 3D scanning of the submerged Tsuzuraozaki lakebed site in Shiga prefecture captures images of a Jomon period pot that likely dates back to around 10,000 years ago. 🏺 #Japan #archaeology #3D #photogrammetry #Jomon www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...