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Colleen Morgan
@clmorgan.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer at the University of York. Director of the Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab & Centre for Digital Heritage.

I post about beautiful archaeology, digital phantasmagoria and anarchist imaginaries & realities.

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clmorgan.bsky.social
Time for my long winter's nap, catch you all in 2026!
A dark, foggy, wintery view of Exmoor, with heather in the foreground, patches of snow, and trees on the hills.
December 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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punkacademic.bsky.social
On a less immediate level, it's one of the reasons I think with my politics it is important to actually use the word anarchist. I say this all the time, but it's the idea they hate. You give ground on anarchist, you give ground on socialist, eventually you can't speak at all. Which is the point. /1
flyingrodent.bsky.social flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 16d
I don’t use these phrases myself, as you’ll have noticed. But I am here to tell you that if we could impose an effective blanket ban on use of any particular phrases and symbols, then this bullshit would instantly shift to different phrases and symbols at exactly the same intensity.
James Ball @jamesrball.com • 3m I don't support criminalising slogans, except when they're directly used to harass or intimidate. But I think it's a profound moral (and tactical) failure that campaigners didn't stop using them long ago. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-b... That is not, however, how everyone means them. It has never been how Hamas nor many of its regional allies mean the slogans, and it is not how some extremists, fuelled by hate, intend them either. It is also not how many Jews across the world hear them. "From the river to the sea" is heard as a call to abolish Israel, and "globalise the intifada" as a call for violence against Jews across the world. To ignore this, at a time when innocent Jewish civilians around the world are being targeted and slaughtered in terror attacks is a profound failure of solidarity from people who believe themselves above such myopia. It is as wrong to blame Jews for the actions of Israel in 2025 as it was to blame Muslims for the actions of Al Qaeda in 2001. In truth, the slogans probably contribute little to the motivations of fanatics who would kill - but they contribute to the very real atmosphere of fear.
December 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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intarcheditor.bsky.social
The Open Access #Archaeology Fund 🏺helps authors who have no means of institutional support (and whose data is potentially more at risk) with the costs of publishing in Internet Archaeology or depositing data with ADS

Donate today.

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Open Access Archaeology Fund
Reduce the barriers to open archaeological research and advance knowledge of our shared human past.
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December 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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aroddick.bsky.social
My first TAG uk done @tag2025york.bsky.social. Met lots of digital space friends. Great talks, chats, and parties. Hope that @pennybickle.bsky.social @evamol.bsky.social and @clmorgan.bsky.social get a well deserved break. (A screen grab from the talk @kjkillackey.bsky.social and I gave)
Talk title by Andy Roddick and Kathryn Killackey from TAG 2025 conference “unflattening Late Formative Tiwanaku: Time, uncertainty, and diverse publics in an Ancient Andean city”. The project logo of a staircase and painted wall is shown.
December 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
clmorgan.bsky.social
You are all amazing. Thank you so much for a fantastic @tag2025york.bsky.social. Enjoy York and Godspeed for your journey home. 🖤
December 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
clmorgan.bsky.social
Popped over to the tremendous @owenexiehurcum.bsky.social’s session for their presentation which is whip-smart, well argued and fun. 🤩
Owen standing in front of a screen showing a slide demonstrating a critical analysis of “an archaeology of non-binary”
December 17, 2025 at 12:08 PM
clmorgan.bsky.social
Iwaisi asks, how to curate our way out of genocide? @tag2025york.bsky.social 🏺
December 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
clmorgan.bsky.social
Iwaisi cites Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of others in normalising Gaza as a ruinscape in museums and media.

“The living person disappears between the archaeological past and the catastrophic present.”

🏺 @tag2025york.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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boothicus.bsky.social
Perhaps also a cautionary tale that craniometric methods not only risk perpetuating racial thinking, but are also unreliable in terms of inferring ancestry. I think also there is point about resisting hanging potent narratives of the past on single individuals where there is ample uncertainty....
December 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
clmorgan.bsky.social
Now Mazen Iwaisi, “Gaza in the Museum: subject, materiality & memory,” mentions this exhibition “This is not an Exhibition” palmuseum.org/en/exhibitio...
This is Not an Exhibition
Brought to you by Shababek for Contemporary Art and the Eltiqa Art Gallery in Gaza
palmuseum.org
December 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
clmorgan.bsky.social
Brian has been replacing/re-photographing Dorothy Garrod’s photos with Palestinian students from Birzeit University, I LOVE this!

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Brian Boyd standing at a lectern in front of a screen. On the screen are two photographs juxtaposed, of a cave with a person, an example of re-photography.
December 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
clmorgan.bsky.social
We now have Brian Boyd, "A 'Prehistory' for Gaza?", apologising for the manel--there's many logistical issues with organising around this topic. @tag2025york.bsky.social. He discusses the "exodus" narrative and how it has fuelled Zionist framing of cultural heritage in the region. 🏺
December 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM
clmorgan.bsky.social
Moerike Tobias is now tracing the history of archaeology in Gaza to analyse its positioning and reproduction as a crossroads. @tag2025york.bsky.social 🏺#tag2025
December 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
clmorgan.bsky.social
Incredibly moving opening to “Decolonizing Gaza’s ’Crossroads Theory’: Reflections on
Imagination of Violent Crossroads and a Victim City” by Mazen Iwaisi, asking us to maintain rigour & academic engagement while recognising the horror and persistence of a girl in Gaza, picking books out of rubble.
December 17, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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antiquity.ac.uk
Are you an Early Career Scholar? Do you want to learn how to publish in international journals?
Together with Archaeological Dialogues & Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, we are hosting a publication workshop
@tag2025york.bsky.social today, from 13.10-14.10 in room TFTV/109
December 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM
clmorgan.bsky.social
CONGRATULATIONS to the @trowelblazers.bsky.social for their incredible contributions to the field.

Praxis baby, praxis
trowelblazers.bsky.social TrowelBlazers @trowelblazers.bsky.social · 18d
We've been up in York for @tag2025york.bsky.social conference where 3 of us met, Brenna gave a talk on the challenge of creating an accidental archive, AND... we only went & won the Outstanding Achievement Award for Archaeological Theory In Action 🏆!
Huge gratitude to the entire community ❤️ 🏺
Two photos showing two women in each smiling at the camera, one of them is the same person. In one photo they are in front of a black curtain, in the sitting in a restaurant. Photo showing two of the women on stage, one is talking with a microphone. Photo courtesy of Speaking Archaeologically Instagram account. Caption says "Nothing more inspiringfor an organisation run majorly by women archaeologists in India to see TAG Award being awarded to @trowelblazers !". Photo showing woman with dark hair and glasses holding a ceramic vessel with strap-like handles, and smiling. The vase is white, pink, red and dark red in colour. Photo showing a lecture in progress with woman speaking on stage. The slide shows text, titled: "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of an accidental archive" with boxes showing further information in a "good vs bad" format.
December 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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kjkillackey.bsky.social
This was tons of fun and great to meet @apolitopoulos.bsky.social and Stu Eve after months of zoom meetings (@clmorgan.bsky.social and I go waaaaay back but seeing her in person is wonderful too).
apolitopoulos.bsky.social Dr Aris Politopoulos @apolitopoulos.bsky.social · 19d
After a short presentation by @clmorgan.bsky.social, our Worldbuilding session at @tag2025york.bsky.social is in full swing! Many many archaeological worlds are being built!
December 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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guerraenlauni.bsky.social
Algunos de los diseños urbanísticos más perfectos jamás creados son obra de pueblos sin escritura. Aldea karamojong, norte de Uganda.
December 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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972mag.com
Israel preparing largest ever act of ‘archeological cleansing’ in West Bank

Subordinating scientific value to colonial expansion, Israeli archeologists are putting up no resistance as the state moves to expropriate swaths of Sebastia.

www.972mag.com/sebastia-arc...
Israel preparing largest ever ‘archeological cleansing’ in West Bank
Subordinating scientific value to colonial expansion, Israeli archeologists are putting up no resistance as the state moves to expropriate swaths of Sebastia.
www.972mag.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
clmorgan.bsky.social
Fully funded postex
December 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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roopikarisam.bsky.social
Friends at Brown, sending much love 🥺
December 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
clmorgan.bsky.social
Happy ACAB day to all who celebrate! 😊
December 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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mark-bray.bsky.social
Bologna Antifascista Sempre
Mural of antifascist red and black flags with the above text
December 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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archaeohawke.bsky.social
Zeus-Ammon. #Roman copy of a #Greek original from the late 5th century BC. The Greeks of the lower Nile Delta and Cyrenaica combined features of supreme #god Zeus with features of the #Egyptian god Amun-Ra.
Königsplatz collections. #Art

#AncientBlueSky🏺 #History
After the Greeks colonized Cyrenaica—now part of Lybia—and established settlements in the lower Nile Delta, they came to associate Zeus with the Egyptian supreme god Amun-Ra, who was often depicted with the head of a ram. The features of both deities are combined in this sculpture. Worship of Amun, called Ammon by the Greeks, also spread north to the Greek peninsula, with statues and temples erected at Delphi, Sparta, Thebes, Aphytis, and Megalopoli. The poet Pindar wrote a hymn to Ammon, which was inscribed on a triangular pillar at Thebes, where Ammon came to become the principal local deity
December 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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ryanboyd.bsky.social
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM