New comedy series, ‘Dig’, featuring fictional archaeologists being planned.

Was giving a presentation on some of my recent and ongoing archaeological work at a conference today and unexpectedly came across this promotional poster for my forthcoming book ‘Once Upon This Land: Archaeology in British Columbia and the Stories it Tells’.

Earlier today I received word that I will be receiving emeritus status from Capilano University at the June convocation. I’m thrilled.

Men walked on the Moon - but women made the guidance computers that got them there and back. At the landing sites and command module crash sites the computers are evidence of a unique women's lunar heritage. 🧪🏺

Don't forget to human today. Make stuff. Do stuff. Go see something interesting. Move around. Eat. I sometimes get busy and forget to human.

the draft programme is available (and looks amazing!) and registration is open for the 2025 bc studies conference, which is being held at the university of british columbia from may 1-4. #bchist #cdnhist #bcpoli #bced blogs.ubc.ca/bcsconferenc...

I'm delighted to see archaeology accepting the jigsaw pieces we won't find. The ephemeral, the perishable....they've got their own story too, as you know I've written of....

The TAG 2025 website is up and running, which means we are open for session proposals! Check it out here: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk

My latest book: ‘Once upon This Land: Archaeology in British Columbia and the Stories it Tells’ is available for pre-order. www.ubcpress.ca/once-upon-th...

Hello Archaeologists! Welcome to the official BlueSky page for the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) 2025 conference! Watch this space for our website and Call for Sessions! Find us on: Facebook at TAG 2025 at York X at @TAG2025_York Instagram @tag2025_york #tag25 #tagyork #tag2025york

Archaeology of contemporary times

Write every day for 1 hour. If you miss a writing day add 1 hour to the next. It’s incredible! Tomorrow I’m writing for 7 years.

It may be a bit "inside baseball," but I'm wildly excited about the promise of palaeoproteomics -- not quite as much info as DNA, but can give us info from millions of years ago. This new paper out today shows they were able to figure out biological sex of an A. africanus specimen (2-3.5myo). 🏺🧪

I wrote an article for The Conversation about generative AI visualisation in #archaeology, will discuss it further in a thread tomorrow. 🏺 theconversation.com/how-ai-image...

This week's blog post is a little different. On: Capturing the embodied experience of archaeology in games Games as lists Archaeological stratigraphy as a spatial list Vocabulary lists and queer identity Erasure Perpetuity florencesmithnicholls.com/2025/02/04/o...

The juxtaposition of a mammoth reduced to the barest line, with the most human of symbols in blood-red ochre. Yes, there is probably something to decode, but first it's important to share the awe that human art can persist for such spans of time. That we can still encounter it. Chauvet ~32,000 🏺🦣

Cover reveal! Check out this beautiful cover for our edited volume coming out later this year from Berghahn Books. Very excited about this.

Today I registered for the 2025 Honolulu marathon. I started recreational running in 2022, and nobody is likely to be more surprised than me that I like it. I’m slow, but I get there.

Reviewing the copyeditor’s comments and suggestion on my latest book ms. I almost always find myself in awe of copyeditors, and this is no exception. The ms is for ‘Once Upon This Land: Archaeology in British Columbia and the Stories it Tells.’

Colin Renfrew has passed away. A hugely influential figure in archaeology throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries. Here are a few photos of him from about 15years ago, when I was working on his Keros Project.

Foundation of an oforu (Japanese bathhouse) from early 20th c Japanese settlement in Canada. Very cool site. No historical documents mention it. Very little arch visibility on surface. Excavations revealed evidence of about a 14 small houses, a garden, and a shrine. Sudden abandonment.

Tools of my trade. My personal trowels.

Taphonomy of a face mask, part of my arch of Covid project

an archaeologist’s journey from Ancient Greece to outer space

What will happen to New York City in the next 10,000 years? New video on Archaeology Tube that uses the study of preservation and site formation processes to explore a common pseudoarchaeological claim. Please share and subscribe! 🧪🏺🐡 #RealArchaeology #Archaeology youtu.be/PtVQW50oC28

Except for now looking older, I don’t think I’ve changed much at all. This photo of me is from a long time ago, on my first paid arch project. My fashion sense hasn’t changed at all and I still enjoy a beer once the day’s work is done.

Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement? Me: Definitely. How specific can we get? Publisher: As specific as you like.

Some artifacts from my long-term archaeological project excavating largely unknown/forgotten early 20th century small settlements of Japanese Japanese Canadians in the forests of western Canada

Please feed the archaeologists. I put this sign up on most of my field projects.

Archaeology of campus trash

Boat taphonomy. On my local walks and hikes I see lots of boats entering the archaeological record. I wish I started recording the year-to-year changes earlier

Just submitted a proposal to regional conference - on three of my archaeology of contemporary times projects: arch of Covid; campus trash; and arch of what is probably the world’s oldest intact (but now buried) skateboard park.

Today is the day. Moving over here from after a long run at X/Twitter. I’m mostly interested in archaeology, and peripherally anthropology and history. I recently retired from a career as a university prof but remain active in research and writing.