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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 👉
📣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. 🏺

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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
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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!

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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
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Nous sommes très heureuses et fières de vous annoncer la parution de la traduction en anglais d’ « Introduction à l’archéologie du genre » aux éditions @barpublishing.bsky.social ! 🎉

👉 www.barpublishing.com/book/an-intr...
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Gender archaeology seeks to understand the influence of gender on the social, economic, political and cultural practices of ancient societies, as well as their power dynamics. Integrating gender into ...
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December 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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We are very happy and proud to announce the publication of the English translation of ‘Introduction à l’archéologie du genre’ by @barpublishing.bsky.social ! 🎉

👉 www.barpublishing.com/book/an-intr...
An Introduction to Gender Archaeology - BAR Publishing
Gender archaeology seeks to understand the influence of gender on the social, economic, political and cultural practices of ancient societies, as well as their power dynamics. Integrating gender into ...
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December 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
💫Now Available💫

The reviews are in on Las Tierras del Mayathan. Exploring Maya culture in the Northern Lowlands across time - from pre-Hispanic to present - this volume brings together research on archaeology, anthropology, ethnohistory, calendars, astronomy, mural art, and codices. 🏺
December 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This artefact is a familiar favourite but we've just found out his name is William! The nickname was first recorded in 1931 and has stuck around since then. How could we not choose him for #FindsFriday?!🏺🦛

William is on view now at The Met.
December 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Here is Richard climbing up to the upper level of the Junction Site cliff-dwelling, Grand Gulch, Utah in 1973! 🪜
December 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
📣New Book Announcement 📣

Richard Ahlstrom's Ladders and Axes of the American Southwest’s Pueblo Region, 400–1900 CE brings together evidence from artifacts, architecture, dendrochronology, historical documents, and ethnography to detail the histories of the ladders and axes from the Pueblo people.🏺
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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.
November 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Happy #FindsFriday everyone! 🏺

This week we've chosen an Egyptian ring with a small mouse amulet. The amulet is inscribed with the cartouche of Thutmose III. 🐀

On view at the Met.
November 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Josy Luginbühl's new publication Grabfunde als Spiegel der Bildung uses artefacts found in burial contexts to explore female literacy in the Roman western provinces. 🏺

Her book is now available and free to read here: doi.org/10.30861/978...
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
We are so pleased to see a lovely review of Anna C. Moles' Urbanism and its Impact on Human Health: A long-term study at Knossos, Crete in the BMCR!

Read the review here: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.11...
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
📣New Book Alert📣

We are pleased to announce the publication of Alexander Belov's Sails and Rigging of Ancient Egyptian Ships from the Predynastic Period to the End of Antiquity.

The book provides an invaluable resource for any scholar interested in the development of ships in Ancient Egypt.🏺⛵
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It's been a few weeks since we've posted our favourite animal artefact for #FindsFriday! 🏺

The winner this week is this Babylonian frog shaped weight which weighs 10 minas, a Mesopotamian unit of measure weighing around 18 ounces.
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Our recent publication Economies of Scale in Old World Archaeology is the topic of session 4I at the ASOR conference today at 4:25-6:30 EST.

Join editors Jeremy A. Beller, Tina L. Greenfield, and Kent D. Fowler for 7 talks in honour of the work of Haskel J. Greenfield.
November 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
We are very pleased to announce the publication of Matthew Fittock's Fragile Gods: Pipeclay figurines and related objects in Roman Britain! 🏺

This book provides the first comprehensive catalogue and analysis of the nearly 1000 published and unpublished pipeclay objects now known from Britannia.
November 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Our newest BAR Bulletin just dropped! Discover six new titles that journey across vast temporal and geographical worlds, from ancient Egyptian boats to Puebloan ladders and axes.🏺

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November 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM