Or even better, Skate parkaeology

Skatepark archaeology

Senior Research Technician post in our department at Exeter! Closing date 4 Jan - be quick! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV452/s...

Please join us this summer for our first Mohegan archaeological lab school. We’ll be working with an 18th-century collection from the Mohegan Reservation. Come and learn more about #archaeological lab techniques and research. Please share. #archaeology #archaeologicallabmethods

Caloplaca sp #lichen on seaside cliffs. Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

Just out oxfordre.com/anthropology...

Attention #zooarchaeology peoples: Any leads on disarticulated domesticated animal skeletons? A pig or goat would do. Need one for my #archaeology lab.

Interested in archaeological theory? PhD or postdoc? Have a think if you fancy coming to our inaugural summer school next year! Lots of theory and lots of fun over three days le.ac.uk/research/cen...

New Tufts #archaeology logo

earlier this year a Swedish archaeologist launched an ad hominem attack on me in the International Journal of Cultural Property I'm grateful to the editors for inviting my right to reply—and the opportunity to correct the record www.academia.edu/144803887/On... or www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We're offering our MA in Heritage and Museum Studies as a two-year degree with placement from next autumn. I'm very happy to talk to anyone interested in taking it: www.essex.ac.uk/courses/PG01...

Hair barrettes/slides, all found washed up on Cornish beaches. #plasticarchaeology #Anthropocene

The changing nature of beachcombing. Construction related debris, picked up from the beach.

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We're hiring! Santa Clara University is searching for a TT assistant professor in biological anthropology. We're a friendly department with strong interdisciplinary ties across the SCU campus. Feel free to reach out with any questions. Deadline is 11/1. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37879320...

Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵 Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

The Dentalux toothbrush shown here and found last week is from the cargo ship Wec Van Eyck, which lost a container of Lidl goods bound for Spain in Feb 22. Many years ago, a friend found 100s of unused toothbrushes washed up. He told us he had a lifetime's supply for his family.

Just out, #openaccess forum, "Questions Worth Asking: Un-Disciplining Archaeology, Reclaiming Pasts for Better Futures." Download here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Please share. #archaeology

My PhD wasn't about space. It was a usewear and residue study of flaked glass artefacts that had been used for body modification, in the Pitt Rivers Museum. I made a bibliography of flaked glass and posted it to the Lithics-L back in 1998. Here it is if anyone is interested! 🧪 🏺

🏺Skateboard archaeology in action!

The AAA Nominations Committee is looking for candidates for positions on the AAA Executive Board and the Nominations Committee. If elected, service would begin November 2026. If you are interested in nominating yourself or others, find more information here: americananthro.org/about/govern...

"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...

Archaeology's Epistemological Breadth: Collaborative-Indigenous and ontological turns in historical perspective New article, download here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lXYR-JVc4... #historyofanthropologicalthought #archaeology #anthropology #collaborativeIndigenousarchaeology #ontologicalturn

We are hiring! Fully tenured associate professorship in environmental history! We are looking for someone who can be a strong contributor to the history group, to a new #envhum related MA program (if all goes well), and to @greenhouseuis.net. #envhist

Please share: we have a Teaching Fellow in Roman History post available! I want to be up front: 0.4 FTE for basically 10 months. We know what that means, but we are supportive, friendly & not cruel taskmasters. Applications close June 30. Full advert here: jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/11....

A student essay just referred to scholarship from the 1990s as "old articles from the late 1900s"

My book, In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico, is out in November—and it has a cover! Couldn't be happier with @univnebpress.bsky.social. For more: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... 🗃️📚🏺🏛️🇲🇽

The University of Southampton seeks to appoint a full-time, permanent Lecturer (A) in Archaeology specialising in Palaeolithic Archaeology and/or Palaeoanthropology. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

I assume all the same right-wingers who went after Harvard's president will demand resignations here, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

This interview may not be seen as helpful in this moment to scientists who see "politics" as a dirty word. But there is no outside the social. We help train Indigenous scientists to do science with joy in support of Indigenous life & governance, and we'll continue amidst volatile settler politics.

McMahon unwittingly reveals the essence of the Trump administration's confrontation with American universities: the demand that universities be "in sync" with what MAGA is trying to accomplish. UNIVERSITIES ARE ABOUT THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH--NOT ABOUT BENDING FACTS TO MAKE AN ADMINISTRATION HAPPY.

Today I became a tenured member of Tufts Anthropology!!! (Last year’s photo, sorry)

Looks like an actual good ECR job! 1-year, includes 3rd year Vikings module, inc research time, proper lecturer salary www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND030/l...

I somehow missed that Tufts Arts & Sciences put Rumeysa on the home page: as.tufts.edu

Finally!

Congratulations, 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦!!!

New job at Oxford - do please share widely! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS153/a...

The university refused to make changes it said would "dictate what private universities can teach" and "whom they can admit and hire," among other things.

Job ‼️ Bio Anth lecturer at Tufts. Please help spread the word! #anthropologyjobs

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

Let’s go, #AmesburyMA! #handsoff

Attended a panel event put on by our AAUP today about authoritarianism and universities. The panelists had expertise on past and present authoritarian regimes from around the world. Big takeaway from all of them: universities capitulating to early requests didn't save them from further crackdowns.

Publication 🚨!!! Out in print now. “An Acre of Land to Plant or a Stick of Wood to Make a Fence or Fire”: An Archaeology of Mohegan Allotment. American Antiquity www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #archaeology

Excellent blog post on race from anthropologist Jon Marks

Well done, Wisconsin!

Trump's 3/27 executive order targets the Smithsonian for advancing "the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct." Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.

When I read things like this, it really makes me cherish my Canadian citizenship.

The end of college life.

That other shared war plan, in case you missed it: in 2021 Vance gave a speech in which he declared: "we have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country... professors are the enemy." www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcE2... #academicsky