Entrance steps of WW2 air raid shelter on the Rockingham Estate, south London. Dig up by @uclarchaeology.bsky.social students. Note white paint for visibility in blackout. Section on right seems hollow, could this be a way inside?? 10 mins later: nope it is well sealed with solid concrete. Dammit!

It is with deep sadness that Dr Marianne Moen and I resigned our positions as Editor-in-Chief and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Archaeology this morning. What follows is the letter we sent to the EAA's executive board, outlining the reasons for our resignation 1/n

Happy birthday to John Brown, who knew exactly how to handle the south’s “Peculiar Institution”

Recording railings made of old WW2 stretchers. Part of @uclarchaeology.bsky.social students’ study of wartime heritage on the Rockingham Estate in south London.

Not me, laughing at this for 10 minutes straight.

so a fascist party won, that's not great if you weren't born here, aren't white, we once again have confirmation that millions of your neighbours hate you & will prioritise hurting you over their own livelihoods

The roof of a WW2 air raid shelter in the bottom of our trench.

Low-flying RAF Chinook briefly interrupting modern staging of Mother Courage at the Globe last night felt a bit on-the-nose.

Well this is a hell of a thread.

Archaeologists unearth vintage snacks! Our @uclarchaeology.bsky.social dig in South London mostly focuses on WW2 air raid shelters, but this is glorious crispy nostalgia. 🏺

Oh so they can do this

Why would we want to learn from our pasts, or ponder the power of the written and spoken word, or explore the deep questions of humanity? According to the University of Hertfordshire, we wouldn't. They've just cut all of our undergrad Humanities programmes

Just want to re-up this fantastic post by @cultarchaeo.bsky.social on best practices for addressing pseudoarchaeological discourse and other misuses of the past, including by the right-wing. bonesstonesandbooks.com/2024/02/02/a...

CERN weasel is on display in an exhibit in Rotterdam! Which naturally makes one wonder if it might be possible to collect its DNA, clone the weasel and send it back into the LHC for a timeline reboot

His knees drawn up, my husband lies asleep, so like Tollund Man — the sacrifice found pickled in a bog. He sinks night-deep, a similar repose upon his face.

Archaeology 101: “Here’s how shit-for-brains petit bourgeois racists with massive chips on their shoulders have, historically, turned bullshit archaeology into nationalist myth.” Shit-for-brains petit bourgeois racists with massive chips on their shoulders sat at the back: *takes notes*

Happy international workers day! If you aren’t in a union, it’s never too late to join or start one! ❤️✊

Happy May Day from Fidel Catstro and Frida Katlo! They won’t come if you call their names, but the will always come running when they hear The Internationale.😻 #MayDay

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

Job Alert: Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Highlands & Islands, Orkney. WOW! myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/ork...

Whenever I see a pic of Timothée Chalamet I hear Homer’s voice

The state harms trans people every single day, both through its deliberate inaction and action. It is relentless. It is a moral evil, a stain on a nation. I believe it is directly comparable in its intended effects to the Nuremberg Laws, and an outrage as repugnant as the UK’s attacks on migrants

I know where they got it.

En los últimos años he excavado campos de concentración y chabolas, he descubierto la cara oculta del Valle de los Caídos y hasta me he colado en casa de Francisco Franco. Lo cuento en "País en ruinas": la primera arqueología de la España franquista. Ya en librerías @Ed_Critica

We're living in divisive times. If We Tolerate This by @trillingual.bsky.social is a short, gripping and essential book on how we got here, and what we can do about it. Available in ebook for just £2.99, ends 30th April ⚡ Get your copy and support indie bookshops! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

Very sad to hear about Jess Phillips. She's fine. Out there spreading racist hatred as usual. Very sad.

🧵 I can understand the urge to minimise #Covid, from a #journalism perspective. (Hear me out.) Covid is global, but you want to talk about the problems endemic to your country (UK in our case): health inequality, food poverty that leads to poor diet, mouldy homes, NHS in crisis, child poverty...

Yup that’s a British school alright.

Writing a biography of a guy whose dad was briefly a surgeon on HMS Victory c.1780 so I'm reading Master and Commander and its 19 sequels for deep background research.

Sometimes the algorithm speaks to me

Sounds like a job for a squirrel-murdering prince-seducing highwaywoman.

Today marks 110 years since the 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic. This copy of the 1916 Proclamation, owned by Dr. Kathleen Lynn, features the names of eleven of the women imprisoned in Mountjoy Gaol after the Rising, signed on 19 May 1916: doi.org/10.7486/DRI....

"He shoots - he scores!" - Sergio Leone on set, pointing out what Clint Eastwood and Ennio Morricone's jobs are.

Archaeologist Carole Crumley talking about heterarchies, if you are looking to cite someone in addition to Mark Fisher wrt capitalist realism. The ability to dream outside of hierarchies and the state should be taught by every archaeologist. GOOD MORNING

“AI is here, so we have no choice but to accept it” so are immigrants and trans people, but I guess that’s a skill issue

Sorry, your two vast and trunkless legs of stone sound more like an archaeology thing. We can take the pedestal though but the colossal wreck, boundless and bare should probably remain in situ.

🗃️🏺Come and say hello if you're at BANEA 2026 at UCL today 👋 Our friendly Project Coordinator (me) will be happy to chat to you about our historians of #archaeology online support group @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @banearch.bsky.social

This is incredibly relevant to my interests [writing a book about buried books] [while also writing a book about unrolling Egyptian mummies]

Pointing out hypocrisy of 'free speech activists' just acknowledges their power.

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political, I must listen to the birds. And in order to hear the birds, the warplanes must be silent” - Marwan Makhoul

adulthood is just a series of reminders to replace various filters

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

Easter choc 75% off??

The old world is dying, the new world struggles to be born: oceans are now battlefields.

"To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental."

From an Irish perspective, my most striking memory was immediately pre-08 crash, my now wife/then gf noting a nationwide building slump cos the December archaeology job she did was listed as job 500-something on the govt register, when her 06 December job had been welllllllll into the mid-thousands.

More pictures of the talented archaeologist Dorothy Liddell and her team excavating Hembury Iron Age hillfort and Neolithic enclosure #Devon 1930-5 for #HillfortsWednesday 📷 © Devon Archaeological Society For more on her life and contribution to archaeology see: trowelblazers.com/2016/12/23/d...

Really pleased this collaboration with @carlyschuster.bsky.social is finally published! We lean on queer feminist theory to discuss kinship as a dynamic set of relations and map their flow around funerary rites - we see burials as cannily assembled, not simple mirrors of the living world

Hot off the press!! New open access special edition of the Cambridge Archaeological Journal on "Kinship Trouble". www.cambridge.org/core/journal... All papers are open access, and the papers, I think, really capture this dynamic moment in studies of past kinship.