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Bulletin of the History of Archaeology
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Established in 1991, the BHA is a peer-reviewed #OpenAccess journal focused on global histories of archaeology, published by Ubiquity Press.

See more at https://archaeologybulletin.org/, and follow us here for updates on articles, research, & events!

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December 5, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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New publication from the BHA! If you're looking for a primer on the history of archaeological research in #Ethiopia, check out Alebachew Birru's "Archaeology in the Central Highlands of Ethiopia: Research Trends and Prospects." #OpenAccess: archaeologybulletin.org/articles/10....

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Archaeology in the Central Highlands of Ethiopia: Research Trends and Prospects | Bulletin of the History of Archaeology
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December 4, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Coming up on December 8! Panel discussion on the Ottoman Aegean and antiquities @britschoolathens.bsky.social covering local communities, Ottoman officials, foreign diplomats & so much more: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/archa...
Happy to have been part of this project!
#MMARe #MSCA #HistoryOfArchaeology
William Barlett, Rhodes, with the channel between the Islands and Asia Minor (1836), Wikimedia Commons From the BSA announcement: https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/archaeology-in-the-ottoman-aegean-consuls-culture-commerce/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOb_NdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE3SzlyTVVFMEJudG54dE5tc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHrZSGVcsU0mDwsf5R221XlAHJtoBfDGGGFkkuGJb1ZaXsHZRbVgMvhnzFUdc_aem_xK4IlV-OWH1eVH7V3b2AKA
December 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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New publication from the BHA! If you're looking for a primer on the history of archaeological research in #Ethiopia, check out Alebachew Birru's "Archaeology in the Central Highlands of Ethiopia: Research Trends and Prospects." #OpenAccess: archaeologybulletin.org/articles/10....

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Archaeology in the Central Highlands of Ethiopia: Research Trends and Prospects | Bulletin of the History of Archaeology
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December 4, 2025 at 2:14 AM
bhajournal.bsky.social
Fascinating thread! Always interested to read more on gendered labor in archaeology—check out this @trowelblazers.bsky.social post on Irene Mound, or these three recent BHA publications (#OpenAccess, as always!)

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November 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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fossilhistory.bsky.social
#OnThisDay in 1953, the Piltdown man fossils were declared a “perfectly executed and carefully prepared fraud," concluding a hoax that had lasted over forty years. 🏺🧪
Old newspaper clipping titled “The skull that never was.” Large illustration of a skull being measured with calipers and two hands pointing at its eye sockets, next to an oval portrait photograph of an older man in a suit and tie. The headline suggests a scientific hoax being exposed, referring to the Piltdown skull. Small columns of text fill the page in typical mid 1900s newspaper layout.
November 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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robertpatalano.bsky.social
This is a important read on the challenges many African ECRs continue to face when doing archaeology or paleontology at home. Note that the authors are from Ethiopia, Sudan, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.
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View of Against All Odds: An Archaeologist's Journey in Africa
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November 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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hmaloigne.bsky.social
🏺🗃️ And I'm done!

Over 12 articles I've explored the #HistoryOfArchaeology, through histories of marginalised communities and actors, the role of antiquities dealers and multinational corporations or forced labour in fieldwork, collecting and research

I've learnt a lot and hope readers have too!
November 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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animalarchaeology.com
📜🏺 Faience animals undoubtedly some of the cutest artefacts in all of archaeology.
garstangmuseum.bsky.social Garstang Museum of Archaeology @garstangmuseum.bsky.social · 23d
Today we are sharing one of our favourite digitised glass plate negatives. The original photo was taken during Garstang’s excavations at Abydos and shows two ancient Egyptian faience hippos!

#glassplatenegative #digitisation #ancientegypt #excavations #Abydos #museum
November 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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⛏️ Dig through these updated collections of popular, free-access #research from the three journals of the #SAA: 🆓✅
🟡 AAP - https://cup.org/4mXXmYW
🔴 AAQ - https://cup.org/4q5WaWq
🔵 LAQ - https://cup.org/3KMgEmM

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#americanarchaeology
@saa-aap.bsky.social
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November 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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PUBLICATION DAY for In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico!

Use discount code 6AF25 for 40% off—that's $18 plus taxes and shipping (paperback/ebook)! Thanks, @univnebpress.bsky.social!

For more: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978....

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Flyer for book, IN THE SHADOW OF EL TAJIN: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico. "Immensely important.... Sam Holley-Kline reframes the archaeological site of El Tajín as a location of recent, rather than just ancient, Indigenous history. In the Shadow of El Tajín makes a significant contribution to the emerging field of the history of archaeology in Mexico and beyond, as well as to our understanding of Mexican political economy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries." -LISA PINLEY COVERT, author of San Miguel de Allende: Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site. Located in the Papantla municipality of the Mexican state of Veracruz, El Tajín is a UNESCO World Heritage site but a lesser-known tourist destination and national symbol. The Indigenous Totonac residents of the region know well that the site's relative absence from discussions of global archaeology and heritage belies a century of wide-ranging labor, extractive industries, and commodity exchange. In the Shadow of El Tajin tells the story of how a landscape of ancient mounds and ruins became an archaeological site, brings to light the network of actors who made it happen, and reveals the Indigenous histories silenced in the process. By drawing on the insights of Indigenous Totonac peoples who have lived and worked in El Tajín for more than a century, Sam Holley-Kline explores historical processes that made both the archaeological site and regional historical memory. In the Shadow of El Tajín decenters discussions of the state and tourism industry by focusing on the industries and workers who are integral to the functioning of the site but who have historically been overlooked by studies of the ancient past. Holley-Kline recovers local Indigenous histories in dialogue with broader trends in scholarship to demonstrate the rich recent past of El Tajín, a place better known for its ancient history. SAVE 40% with code 6AF25 at nebraskapress.unl.edu
November 2, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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lemoustier.bsky.social
🏺🗃️ Brilliant few days in Cambridge w/ @toriherridge.bsky.social & Emma Pomeroy for #ExcavatingGarrod - some highlights as we work through archive material gathered so far
- DG writing from Palestine field camp after Newnham fellowship award
- Mary Kitson Clark on dig visitors
- Belinda the donkey
Photo of letter written in ink, addressed from Wdy el-Mughara, nr. Athlit, Palestine. Screen grab of dig diary in ink, text: "Miss Bate arrived on the 12.29 pm. At tea time Henry Field turned up in an enormous car which was laden with all sorts of queer horrors - snakes, bugs, skulls, corpses etc". Screen shot of a black and white photo of donkey foal lying flat out asleep outside a building. Photo of a framed pencil portrait of Dorothy Garrod, wearing glasses, her hair drawn back.
October 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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artemis-p.bsky.social
On this #InternationalOpenAccessWeek (www.openaccessweek.org), let me share the link to #BulletinOfTheHistoryOfArchaeology (@bhajournal.bsky.social), the OA journal of which I am a co-editor. Many of the articles cover the Mediterranean: archaeologybulletin.org. #MSCA #MMARe #HistoryOfArchaeology
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October 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Can I have some help identifying the people in this photo, please? I am there, Ghanim Wahida is there and the bloke with the neck brace is called Diamond and worked on Use Wear. Other than that I have drawn a complete blank. Knossos, Villa Ariadne late 1960s, probably 1969 🏺
October 23, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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🏺🗃️ 🤗 very excited to be at the @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social conference this week to talk abou the #HistoriansOfArchaeology online support group

You can sign up to join our meetings, co-working sessions, reading group and #Discord server anytime via this link:

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October 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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unevendays.bsky.social
Went to the new Jewry Wall museum in Leicester today and really enjoyed it. Also really enjoyed getting to see the notebook and photos of Kathleen Kenyon, who excavated in the 1930s 🏺
A Roman wall, quite high, with two arch windows. Behind is the square tower of a church and trees. Grass in front and some ground level Roman remains. Overcast sky Black and white photo of a woman in a long skirt and blazer/ jacket, holding a trowel I'm a trench with high sides Page of Kenyon's notebook with sketches of the fill and walls excavated Roman mosaic floor with geometric patterns
October 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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chrisseddon.bsky.social
There's something quite beautiful about Sir Mortimer Wheeler's box-system excavations at Maiden Castle. Such a fantastic photograph!

Image Rights: Society of Antiquaries (held at Historic England Archive)

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An historic black & white image of the box excavations at Maiden Castle during Sir Mortimer Wheeler's excavations in 1937. Image Rights: Society of Antiquaries (held at Historic England Archive)
October 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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lheathstout.bsky.social
I'm starting to work on designing my "Archaeology and the Public" course for next spring. Does anyone have syllabi, assignments, or lesson plans they'd be willing to share on the subjects of public arch, collaborative arch, pseudoarch, or journalistic & pop culture depictions of arch?🏺 #academicsky
October 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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rogueclassicist.bsky.social
(71) The Hidden History of Egyptian Labor in Abydos - YouTube
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The Hidden History of Egyptian Labor in Abydos
YouTube video by Penn Museum
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October 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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prehistoryteller.bsky.social
#RepresentationMatters is published! Jo Zalea Matias, @archaeologiskop.bsky.social and I, together with our fantastic authors, are happy and proud that we finally made it! For more info and to order: link.springer.com/book/9783031...
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Cover of a book, the upper half a drawing of a diverse group of people engaging in every day tasks, in blue and red colour. The names of the editors are embedded in white: Jo Zalea Matias, Nicola Scheyhing, Doris Gutsmiedl Schümann. The lower half is a golden brown, with the title printed in dark blue: diversity in visual representations of the past. Representation matters. At the lower rim there is the logo of the European Association of archaeologists on the left side, and the logo of the publisher Springer press on the right.
September 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Check out our Historical Archaeology collection, with FREE and #OpenAccess content such as:

🇵🇱 Forced labour camps of the 19th & 20th centuries
🇸🇹 The origins of plantation slavery
🇬🇹 The revival of Indigenous Maya religion following Spanish conquest

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View of Dunyvaig castle and the Lagavulin distillery in Lagavulin Bay on the Scottish island of Islay, with the text 'Historical Archaeology, Antiquity'.
September 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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It's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians and all other academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs) tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky 🗃️(pls boost to relevant feeds)
September 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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#OnThisDay in AD 1923, Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, was annexed by the UK. Following independence, the country was named after the Great Zimbabwe: capital of the medieval Zimbabwe Culture, famous for its monumental, freestanding dry-stone walls.

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Monumental dry-stone wall with chevron patterns made from the bricks.
September 12, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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prehistorian.bsky.social
Okay, I think the first teaching of later prehistory in Britain is by P.G.H. Boswell at Liverpool from 1917. From Pamela Smith, early prehistory is first taught by Alison Quiggin in Homerton College, Cambridge by 1912.
September 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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uofa-ipia.bsky.social
Check out this important new paper, co-written by IPIA scholars Dr. Kisha Supernant ( @archaeomapper.bsky.social) and Solène Mallet Gauthier (@somag.bsky.social), on confronting and disrupting "grey zones" in Canadian archaeology 🏺
Confronting Archaeology’s “Gray Zones” | American Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Confronting Archaeology’s “Gray Zones” - Volume 90 Issue 3
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September 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM