Come work with us! We’re advertising a one-year full-time post to cover teaching in #MuseumStudies 🏺🗃️ www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Very much looking forward to going to Reading and seeing the Radical Rural trail at @themerl.bsky.social soon. #ContestedCommons #LandRights

Always read Will!

Relooted drops tomorrow!! 🏺

The only Super Bowl thread anyone should be reading

Cape Town! Are you interested in the history of #water? Specifically the history of the #Lesotho Highlands Water Project (#LHWP)? Well, I wrote a book on it! Launch: 27 Feb, Exclusive Books, Waterfront, 1800 RSVP here and come hear me talk! exclusivebooks.co.za/pages/events...

More Breaking Palaeo-news! 🐘 Boxgrove preserved oldest Elephant Bone beyond Africa. 🐘 Early Neanderthals using bone to shape beautiful tools. 🐘 New research from Simon Parfitt @uclarchaeology.bsky.social Silvia Bello of the @nhm-london.bsky.social. 🦣🏺🐘https://share.google/20WUjY5TybDAr4QoT

I tried something new this year by building a suite of #archaeological #theory practicals, so a 🧵 on resources I (and my students) loved 🏺. I’ve linked to online materials but will happily share purpose-made stuff:

A tower of crates containing c9000-year-old lithics fell over, snapped my laptop in two, and gave me the odd scrape. My career as a lithicist was dying already but that really clinched it.

Just now discovering that #SouthAfrican academic and activist Renfrew #Christie passed away. He did his PhD on the history of #electricity generation is South Africa so he could figure out how to sabotage RSA's #AtomicBomb efforts during #apartheid. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...

Holy hell, what an obituary

The Norfolk Carnyx: a Playmobil story in 4 parts. 🧵 #DiggingForBritain #DrawingDiggingForBritain #PlaymobilInfestation @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social 1: Life

Just published a paper on the complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir meme, the decade-old tumblr in-joke that continues to impact the public understanding of the ancient world. Paywalled but email me if you want a copy. 🏺

In honour of #HillfortsWednesday I’m pleased to report that since my second years have asked for MORE HILLFORTS next year’s class will indeed be getting MORE HILLFORTS

Funded PhD opp. Uni of Stirling “situated at the intersection of built heritage, housing, and climate justice, focusing on tenants in historic tenements in Stirling”https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/2026-ahrc-doctoral-landscape-award-collaborative-doctoral-award-cda-phd-studentship/?p193000

Just out! In this piece, I argue that the United Fruit Company served as a conduit through which political economies of racialized labor were brought to bear on archaeological practice. This one was three years in the making and it's available #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1017/S001... 🗃️📚🏺🇬🇹

A reminder to us all of the good people at Traffic Scotland giving us even more amazing gritter names www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac... Carrie Bradthaw Brinestone Ploughboy Spready Mercury Skid Vicious Gritney Spears (x2) Stone Cold Steve Frostin

Does anyone else take great pleasure in printing out vintage line-hachure drawings of prehistoric monuments? Sometimes I mount them on card, sometimes I create handouts for field trips from them. I just love the detail and tangibility of these beautiful, evocative, technical works. 🏺

Hilarious and heartbreaking, and not just because I would absolutely try to make this sandwich (see: me raiding the dining area at a certain morally bankrupt surveillance tech company when my employee friend invites me over)

‘Curriculum Effectiveness Enhancement and Quality Magnification and Intensification’ 🎯 www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...

I love so much about this fascinating research … but it can make its point perfectly well without referencing entombment etc, which simply aren’t the analogies they’re made out to be here

Shout out to the extreme passive aggression of my daughter’s pre-school, who sent her home with a sealed envelope full of loose glitter

🏺guys, I’ve found the book for all of us in #HigherEd teaching admin. Magic school, with Ofsted and risk assessments for demonic possession, and just generally great fun uk.bookshop.org/p/books/unti...

Hiba's seminar will be first in Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies series, on "Collaborative Archaeologies in (Post)Conflict Contexts". All welcome, in-person only, book via this link: www.bbk.ac.uk/events?tag=1...

Shout out to everyone who thinks about this scene in Mad Men at least once a week

This is *such* a good description of this trend. I’ve said ‘whiplash’ in I don’t know how many meetings at this point

Applications due 30 December for the Malmberg Fellowship at the University of #Pittsburgh (USA) to study for a fully-funded #masters degree. Open ONLY to #Lesotho nationals! www.global.pitt.edu/cas/students...

Closing date Dec 3rd. 1 year post as Researcher on our Prehistoric Policies project. 👇👇👇

Instead of a dozen AI tools I never asked for why can’t I have a device that lets me cook with fresh thyme and not have 100s of little twiglets in my food

New report on how people engage with archaeology is out - Trowel and Error: A Public User Needs Survey. Lots to digest but key conclusions are: 1) archaeologists risk undervaluing and hiding ourselves, our practices and the role we play in society... www.archaeologyuk.org/our-work/tro...

It’s historical archaeology! Its heritage! It came out 24 hours before my first child! Not my most recent book but maybe my most obscure (and beloved) for the above reasons Unformatted open access version on my UCL Profiles page

Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research? We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections. Find out more: collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/

THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR LET’S GOOOOOO

Our first speaker for the series will be Hiba Alkhalaf (Voices of Heritage/Aswat Alturath). She'll be speaking about "From Destruction to Recovery: Syrian Heritage, Fourteen Years on". Link to book below. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

There is nothing better than Robert Lloyd Parry reading a ghost story in a chapel in December. It is as much a part of Christmas as carols, presents and watching It's A Wonderful Life for the forty-first time.

In the immortal words of Sir Mix-a-Lot: "And ugh, double-up, ugh, ugh". 2 doggy papers are so much better than 1. Both studies a testament to slow science & international collaboration between brilliant people. What it's all about. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨 Job Klaxon! 🚨 @ucl.ac.uk Institute of Archaeology currently has a vacancy for an Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Islamic Archaeology (Ref.: B03-02751) The post is available from 1 Jan 2026 & is funded until 31 Dec 2028 in the first instance, providing cover for Corisande Fenwick bit.ly/4oxQgfp

Super excited to use this fabulous ‘Behind the Paper’ article by @petravaiglova.bsky.social and @kjkillackey.bsky.social to teach my undergrad theory students about how good visualisations are well-theorised ones. Such a wonderful piece of sci comm! 🏺🧪 communities.springernature.com/posts/making...

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings! Look on my UNESCO World Heritage list works and advance neoliberal governmentality!

The latest output from my milk research with Johanna Zetterström-Sharp @uclarchaeology.bsky.social published in @theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-politics...

Just over a week out from publication day for my book, In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico (@univnebpress.bsky.social). Read more below or at www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978.... 🗃️📚🇲🇽🏺 #skystorians #Mexico #archaeology #heritage

Look at the cool things my colleagues are doing! ✨

So very excited to be a panellist at #UAD25 @uclarchaeology.bsky.social! Come ask me anything (and entertain my kids who will be on their own half term adventure) 🏺

Book cultures in archaeology YESPLEASE!🏺

Reviewer 2 says I need to ‘engage with Rachel King’s work more’ in this paper and 1) right on, but also 2) do I not have a distinctive writing voice?! Is this a hidden superpower?

NEW Sudan is a diverse country with a rich cultural heritage that is under threat from conflict. In a guest editorial, Habab Idriss Ahmed & Geoff Emberling discuss the brave efforts of the Sudanese antiquities department (NCAM) to protect Sudan's #archaeology 🏺 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Are you a student at a UK university and looking for support to come to TAG York? Did you know the Royal Archaeological Institute Cheney Bursary is available to support you? You can find more details here: www.royalarchinst.org/grants/bursa... @royalarchinst.bsky.social

Teaching the 2019 Big Gods paper (retractionwatch.com/2021/07/07/c...) as a cautionary tale in archaeological theory, and also in how not to use excel

Super excited for this! And what excellent timing now that we’re putting together a module on (among other things) gaming 🤗