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Archaeo-CNC
@cncipolla.bsky.social
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Anthro prof. & director of Tufts Archaeology. Former curator. Author of some things, most recently Archaeology for Today & Tomorrow. Interested in hist. #archaeology, #collaboration, #theory, #writing. Also: #dogs & #skateboards. Views my own. He/him/his.
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Archaeo-CNC @cncipolla.bsky.social · Dec 18
Please join us this summer for our first Mohegan archaeological lab school. We’ll be working with an 18th-century collection from the Mohegan Reservation. Come and learn more about #archaeological lab techniques and research. Please share. #archaeology #archaeologicallabmethods
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JOB ALERT!

3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community.

PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January

www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...
Here's what it looked like on my return to work this morning - beautiful red brick gabled building of Girton's Hall, with a dusting of snow on the grass in front.
January 5, 2026 at 9:00 AM
cncipolla.bsky.social
Or even better, Skate parkaeology
cncipolla.bsky.social Archaeo-CNC @cncipolla.bsky.social · 23d
Skatepark archaeology
toriherridge.bsky.social Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 23d
Guys! I have news!
December 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
cncipolla.bsky.social
Skatepark archaeology
December 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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suegreaney.bsky.social
Senior Research Technician post in our department at Exeter! Closing date 4 Jan - be quick! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV452/s...
Senior Research Technician at University of Exeter
Explore professional services job openings, including the Senior Research Technician position, on jobs.ac.uk. Apply today and discover more about this role.
www.jobs.ac.uk
December 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
cncipolla.bsky.social
Please join us this summer for our first Mohegan archaeological lab school. We’ll be working with an 18th-century collection from the Mohegan Reservation. Come and learn more about #archaeological lab techniques and research. Please share. #archaeology #archaeologicallabmethods
Lab school flyer
December 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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jeffontherock.bsky.social
Caloplaca sp #lichen on seaside cliffs. Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends
Photo of bright yellow lichens on rock. Several lichens meet, covering the entire rock surface except for an open area at the centre of the photo.
December 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
cncipolla.bsky.social
Just out

oxfordre.com/anthropology...
December 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
cncipolla.bsky.social
Attention #zooarchaeology peoples: Any leads on disarticulated domesticated animal skeletons? A pig or goat would do. Need one for my #archaeology lab.
December 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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ojth.bsky.social
Interested in archaeological theory? PhD or postdoc? Have a think if you fancy coming to our inaugural summer school next year! Lots of theory and lots of fun over three days

le.ac.uk/research/cen...
Archaeological Theory Summer School 2026 | Centre for Material Worlds Past and Present | University of Leicester
Find out more about the summer school at the Centre for Material Worlds Past and Present.
le.ac.uk
December 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
cncipolla.bsky.social
New Tufts #archaeology logo
Tufts Archaeology logo featuring an archaeology trowel in the Tufts colors (blue and brown) and reading “Tufts School of Arts and Sciences, Archaeology.”
November 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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profdanhicks.bsky.social
earlier this year a Swedish archaeologist launched an ad hominem attack on me in the International Journal of Cultural Property

I'm grateful to the editors for inviting my right to reply—and the opportunity to correct the record

www.academia.edu/144803887/On...
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On "Distorting History" - a reply to Staffan Lundén Earlier this year a Swedish archaeologist based at Gothenburg University’s Centre for Critical Heritage Studies published an unfounded ad hominem attack on me in the pages of the International Journal of Cultural Property. I am grateful to the editors for this right to reply to Staffan Lundén’s wholly spurious claims, and order to correct the record. Despite its provocative, “clickbait” title, not one substantive mistake or incorrect fact was identified in Lundén’s article in my book “The Brutish Museums”. The motivation for Lundén’s serial accusations against colleagues with whose scholarship on the history of the Benin Expedition he disagrees - from curators at the British Museum to members of the Royal Court of Benin - is discussed. In conclusion, the allegation that my book The Brutish Museums is “part of a trend away from pro-British perspectives” is contextualised and refuted. On the contrary, this reply argues, openness and transparency about the colonial past and present is a key element of the reclamation and reimagining of Britishness that is unfolding in the 2020s – this unfinished period that the book calls “the decade of returns”.
November 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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williamcarruthers.bsky.social
We're offering our MA in Heritage and Museum Studies as a two-year degree with placement from next autumn. I'm very happy to talk to anyone interested in taking it: www.essex.ac.uk/courses/PG01...
MA Heritage and Museum Studies with Professional Placement - Heritage and Museum Studies Degree | University of Essex
MA Heritage and Museum Studies with Professional Placement offers a unique opportunity for you to gain relevant work experience within an external business.
www.essex.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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legolostatsea.bsky.social
Hair barrettes/slides, all found washed up on Cornish beaches.
#plasticarchaeology #Anthropocene
October 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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legolostatsea.bsky.social
The changing nature of beachcombing. Construction related debris, picked up from the beach.
October 28, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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bakerdphd.bsky.social
Good
October 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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lmpanich.bsky.social
We're hiring! Santa Clara University is searching for a TT assistant professor in biological anthropology. We're a friendly department with strong interdisciplinary ties across the SCU campus. Feel free to reach out with any questions. Deadline is 11/1. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37879320...
Assistant Professor in Biological Anthropology - Santa Clara, California (US) job with Santa Clara University | 37879320
Seeking for a teacher-scholar with an active field/lab based research program at the intersection of infectious disease/immunology/human growth & dev.
jobs.chronicle.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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izzywisher.bsky.social
Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵

Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺

doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Close-up image of a sand coloured stone, with a diagonal crack. The sand rock has a textured surface, and small spots of blue can be seen towards the centre of the stone. The background is grey. Microscopic photo of the blue spots, that are irregular in shape and size and positioned diagonally across the image. The rest of the photo shows the rough sand coloured texture of the stone.
September 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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legolostatsea.bsky.social
The Dentalux toothbrush shown here and found last week is from the cargo ship Wec Van Eyck, which lost a container of Lidl goods bound for Spain in Feb 22. Many years ago, a friend found 100s of unused toothbrushes washed up. He told us he had a lifetime's supply for his family.
Unused dentalux toothbrush from a cargo spill pictured among an array of brightly coloured plastic objects picked up from the beach
September 27, 2025 at 5:33 AM
cncipolla.bsky.social
Just out, #openaccess forum, "Questions Worth Asking: Un-Disciplining Archaeology, Reclaiming Pasts for Better Futures." Download here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Please share. #archaeology
Screenshot of first page of multi-authored American Antiquity forum, "Questions Worth Asking"
September 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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drspacejunk.bsky.social
My PhD wasn't about space. It was a usewear and residue study of flaked glass artefacts that had been used for body modification, in the Pitt Rivers Museum. I made a bibliography of flaked glass and posted it to the Lithics-L back in 1998. Here it is if anyone is interested! 🧪 🏺
Flaked glass bibliography: a resource for lithics studies
I put this together for my PhD years ago, and sent it to the lithic email discussion list. Until recently it was still available online but ...
zoharesque.blogspot.com
August 31, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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cultarchaeo.bsky.social
🏺Skateboard archaeology in action!
urbanprehistorian.bsky.social Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · Aug 25
You can follow our excavations at the KG \ Kelvin Wheelies 1970s skatepark in Glasgow all week by following #KelvinWheelies! Thanks in advance to our funders @socantscot.bsky.social
& partners @archscot.bsky.social
+ Archaeology at @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Filled in slalom run at the KG \ Kelvin Wheelies 1970s skatepark in Glasgow Concrete remains of the KG \ Kelvin Wheelies 1970s skatepark in Glasgow
August 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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ad-of-aaa.bsky.social
The AAA Nominations Committee is looking for candidates for positions on the AAA Executive Board and the Nominations Committee. If elected, service would begin November 2026. If you are interested in nominating yourself or others, find more information here: americananthro.org/about/govern...
Governance & Leadership - The American Anthropological Association
The American Anthropological Association’s Governance & Leadership section to access bylaws, leadership structures, committees, and annual meeting governance procedures.
americananthro.org
August 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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libbybrooks.bsky.social
"We’ll have skateboarders on site who used the park as teenagers and will be re-living that experience at the end of a trowel".

Archaeologists to excavate 1980s Glasgow skatepark – with help from skaters

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...
Archaeologists to excavate Glasgow skatepark – with help from skaters
Kelvingrove park is site of Scotland’s first skatepark, Kelvin Wheelies, which has been covered in rubble for decades
www.theguardian.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
cncipolla.bsky.social
Archaeology's Epistemological Breadth: Collaborative-Indigenous and ontological turns in historical perspective

New article, download here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lXYR-JVc4...

#historyofanthropologicalthought
#archaeology
#anthropology
#collaborativeIndigenousarchaeology
#ontologicalturn
Screenshot of first page of article "Archaeology's Epistemological Breadth: Collaborative-Indigenous and ontological turns in historical perspective" from the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.
August 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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finnarne.me
We are hiring! Fully tenured associate professorship in environmental history! We are looking for someone who can be a strong contributor to the history group, to a new #envhum related MA program (if all goes well), and to @greenhouseuis.net. #envhist
Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801) | University of Stavanger
Job title: Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Thursday, August 7, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
June 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM