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« Introduction à l'archéologie du genre » est maintenant disponible en anglais, aux éditions @barpublishing.bsky.social !

Nouvelle maquette en noir et blanc, nouveau format, nouvelle langue, mais toujours le même contenu essentiel, écrit par Isabelle Algrain et @anemonenyme.bsky.social✍️
February 6, 2026 at 4:27 PM
The reviews are in! 🏺

Check out Sue Harrington's book Excavations at Highdown, West Sussex, now available on our website.

Read more here: doi.org/10.30861/978...
February 4, 2026 at 4:15 PM
If only we were clever enough to come up with a hedgehog/archaeology pun...
Happy National Hedgehog Day! 🦔

Meet Petunia who is possibly the only pet to have made it onto the back cover of a BAR book!

Petunia got a special shoutout in author Christopher Dwan's bio on his recent publication Landscape Stability and the Formation of Social Memory in Prehistoric Britain.🏺
February 2, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Happy National Hedgehog Day! 🦔

Meet Petunia who is possibly the only pet to have made it onto the back cover of a BAR book!

Petunia got a special shoutout in author Christopher Dwan's bio on his recent publication Landscape Stability and the Formation of Social Memory in Prehistoric Britain.🏺
February 2, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Happy #FindsFriday friends!!🏺

We can't believe we haven't seen this one before today! This adorable dog sketch was excavated in the Valley of the Kings and comes from the New Kingdom period.
January 30, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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Un atelier per maioliche di età rinascimentale a Roma examines a workshop with a Renaissance furnace for the production of maiolicas. This is the first discovery of its kind documented archaeologically in Rome.

Read more about it here: doi.org/10.30861/978...
January 30, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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Nikolas Bakirtzis' Architecture and Sacred Landscape is the first in-depth study of Prodromos monastery’s architectural history and organization, as well as the first attempt to locate it at the nexus of a sacred landscape surrounding the well-preserved complex. 🏺
January 28, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Our #FindsFriday this week comes from our recently published book Excavations at Highdown, West Sussex edited by Sue Harrington! 🏺

Read about this lovely bird brooch and more here: doi.org/10.30861/978...
January 23, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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Muchas gracia por acompañarnos en la presentación de nuestra nueva edición en BAR !!
Our lovely editors presented their new publication El Agua en Mesoamérica y Aridoamérica at the Ateneo Peninsular in Mérida.🏺

Their book analyses daily and symbolic use of water, discussing its management, use, distribution and associated hydraulic technology in Mesoamerica and Aridoamérica.
January 20, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Napatan Region and Gebel El-Barkal explores how how archaeological sites exist simultaneously as global monuments, national symbols, and living spaces imbued with everyday cultural meaning.🏺
January 20, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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Our recent publication Social Differentiation among Non-Elites in China’s Central Plains, 1735-1530 BCE is the first to study Erlitou society via household archaeology, focusing on non-elite households in the capital.🏺
January 16, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Our first #FindsFriday of 2026! 🏺

Starting the year off with this terracotta zoomorphic askos...we'd appreciate anyone who can tell us what animal this is meant to be...
January 16, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Now available📣

This volume originates from the Maritime Archaeology Research Exchange Online Lecture Series, which promotes the work of graduate students and early career researchers in maritime archaeology. The contributions highlight diverse theoretical and methodological techniques in the field.
January 9, 2026 at 3:24 PM
We are thrilled to be at the SHA in Detroit this week!🏺

Stop by our stand to browse our books or chat to us about your projects!
January 8, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Ringing in the new year with one of our newest books Duke Alexander and his Sarcophagi by Aidan Dodson. 📣

Part Egyptology, part antiquarian history, it tells the remarkable story of two Egyptian stone sarcophagi owned by Duke Alexander - one later reused for his own mummified body.🏺
January 5, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Very excited to see this out in the wild 👀🏺

It's a real collaborative monograph which details the excavation of the Bowl Hole & provides a wider overview of the excavations at the castle.

The first chapter, co-authored with Graeme Young & Barbara Yorke, is freely available to read 👉
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The Bamburgh Bowl Hole Anglian-period Cemetery is the full publication of the sixth- to eighth-century burials excavated between 1999 and 2007. It integrates archaeological, osteological and isotopic data into a comprehensive account of the cemetery. 🏺

@brparchaeology.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
📣Now Available📣

The Bamburgh Bowl Hole Anglian-period Cemetery is the full publication of the sixth- to eighth-century burials excavated between 1999 and 2007. It integrates archaeological, osteological and isotopic data into a comprehensive account of the cemetery. 🏺

@brparchaeology.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Recension | Magali Bailliot, L’iconographie des tablettes de malédiction. Envoûter et dessiner dans l’Antiquité gréco-romaine, @barpublishing.bsky.social
Par Aymeric Gaubert
journals.openedition.org/frontieres/5...
December 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Now Available! 🏺

Looking for the perfect present for the archaeologist in your life?

An Introduction to Gender Archaeology by Isabelle Algrain and Laura Mary is now available on our website!

@anemonenyme.bsky.social @greekvases.bsky.social @payetatruelle.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Stuck for present ideas? How about 2 shiny new #medieval publications?

- The Bamburgh Bowl Hole Anglian-period Cemetery: A bioarchaeological study of a Northumbrian royal site by Sam Lucy, Charlotte A. Roberts and Graeme Young
December 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
📬You've got mail!

We have one last BAR Bulletin to share with you all before the new year.

Check your inboxes for news on our 10 newest titles - don't forget to use your membership code for 20% off! 🏺
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Hello TAG!🏺

We are so pleased to be at #TAG25 in York! We've already had a lovely drop-in from our recent author Despoina Vasiliki Sampatakou, pictured here with her book 'Creating and Evaluating Digital Media for Archaeological Storytelling: The life and death of MYC1V at Grave Circle A, Mycenae'!
December 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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December 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
🎄Happy BARmas🎄

Our small (but mighty!) team celebrated the holidays BAR style yesterday. Quizzes were won, chocolates were eaten, and Mariah Carey was played on repeat!

Happy holidays from our family to yours!💫
December 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Congratulations to our friends over at Headland Archaeology who have been nominated for Rescue Project of the Year! 🏺

Curious to know more about the project? Check out Living and Dying in a Lancashire Cotton Town which details the excavations at St Peter's Church.
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM