Dr. Elijah Camille Fleming
@ecfleming.bsky.social
Archaeologist, Food Enthusiast
Assistant Professor in the Academic Writing and Learning Center, University of Minnesota Duluth
Assistant Professor in the Academic Writing and Learning Center, University of Minnesota Duluth
*Evil cackle*
Join us for a review of this classic tale of human explorers finding themselves caught in a centuries-long struggle betwixt newly born larvae and a teen coming-of-age party. It's got archaeology, some form of feminism(?), and whole heaps of blood. 2004 called and said, "this movie's EXXXTREME!"
a predator is playing with an alien on a swing
ALT: a predator is playing with an alien on a swing
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April 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
*Evil cackle*
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Great first day at #CAMWS! We had a chance to check out a reception panel that was *chef's kiss*. Time to enjoy some amazing wine and Italian food at the nearby Napoli's. Come say hi!
March 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Great first day at #CAMWS! We had a chance to check out a reception panel that was *chef's kiss*. Time to enjoy some amazing wine and Italian food at the nearby Napoli's. Come say hi!
Join us!!!!!
We'll also be at #CAMWS2025! In fact, we'll be holding our first live audience show right after this panel! If you are attending, be sure to join @ecfleming.bsky.social, @voguearchaeology.bsky.social, and @apistone.bsky.social in their discussion of #podcasting and Netflix's #KAOS.
I am very excited to be a part of this @antiquitymedia.bsky.social panel! It's the first time I'll be talking about popular reception in an academic setting instead of just on the @movieswedig.bsky.social podcast.
Who else will be attending #CAMWS2025 this year? #Academicsky #AncientBluesky
Who else will be attending #CAMWS2025 this year? #Academicsky #AncientBluesky
March 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Join us!!!!!
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I am very excited to be a part of this @antiquitymedia.bsky.social panel! It's the first time I'll be talking about popular reception in an academic setting instead of just on the @movieswedig.bsky.social podcast.
Who else will be attending #CAMWS2025 this year? #Academicsky #AncientBluesky
Who else will be attending #CAMWS2025 this year? #Academicsky #AncientBluesky
March 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I am very excited to be a part of this @antiquitymedia.bsky.social panel! It's the first time I'll be talking about popular reception in an academic setting instead of just on the @movieswedig.bsky.social podcast.
Who else will be attending #CAMWS2025 this year? #Academicsky #AncientBluesky
Who else will be attending #CAMWS2025 this year? #Academicsky #AncientBluesky
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Fun Fact: Both @ecfleming.bsky.social and I have worked on archaeological sites with Flint, so we know first-hand what an awesome person and archaeologist he is. Make sure you check out his work in making #realarchaeology accessible to a broader audience at www.youtube.com/@FlintDibble.
Archaeology with Flint Dibble
Sharing archaeology. From the nitty gritty to the grand.
Get access to behind-the-scenes content and support making more videos by subscribing to Patreon: patreon.com/FlintDibble. Or buy a needed cof...
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February 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Fun Fact: Both @ecfleming.bsky.social and I have worked on archaeological sites with Flint, so we know first-hand what an awesome person and archaeologist he is. Make sure you check out his work in making #realarchaeology accessible to a broader audience at www.youtube.com/@FlintDibble.
Just cackling to myself on this one....
Much like our adventurers Joan Wilder & Jack Colton, @ecfleming.bsky.social gets a little waylaid in her summarization of #RomancingtheStone. There may not be a lot of #archaeology going on, but it's a good time all around w/special guest @digitwithraven.bsky.social!
Listen now at movieswedig.com!
Listen now at movieswedig.com!
"Speaking of Substance..." An MWD Plot Summary of Romancing the Stone with @DigItWithRaven
YouTube video by Movies We Dig
youtube.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Just cackling to myself on this one....
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How can men find their way to war but not find their way to a good #podcast? We assemble our biggest survey panel ever to court the latest re-imagining of Homer’s #Odyssey (or the back half at least): The Return. @apistone.bsky.social @sentantiq.bsky.social @joegoodkin.bsky.social #Ancientbluesky
MWD Reception Battle: The Return (2024), with Amy Pistone, Joel Christensen, and Joe Goodkin
YouTube video by Movies We Dig
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January 31, 2025 at 12:39 PM
How can men find their way to war but not find their way to a good #podcast? We assemble our biggest survey panel ever to court the latest re-imagining of Homer’s #Odyssey (or the back half at least): The Return. @apistone.bsky.social @sentantiq.bsky.social @joegoodkin.bsky.social #Ancientbluesky
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For anyone wondering, some possible dog names have survived from cuneiform sources.
On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.
dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”
munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”
mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”
On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.
dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”
munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”
mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”
January 30, 2025 at 10:13 AM
For anyone wondering, some possible dog names have survived from cuneiform sources.
On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.
dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”
munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”
mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”
On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.
dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”
munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”
mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”
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If there’s one thing I’ve learned since starting to talk #RealArchaeology online it’s that conservatives often do not know what science grants are. It is not surprising to me that Trump is targeting them, they are a bogeyman in conspiracy communities. 🧪🏺
Bright Insight Lied
youtu.be/2GQ-6dg59xk
Bright Insight Lied
youtu.be/2GQ-6dg59xk
Bright Insight Lied
YouTube video by Archaeology Tube
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January 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
If there’s one thing I’ve learned since starting to talk #RealArchaeology online it’s that conservatives often do not know what science grants are. It is not surprising to me that Trump is targeting them, they are a bogeyman in conspiracy communities. 🧪🏺
Bright Insight Lied
youtu.be/2GQ-6dg59xk
Bright Insight Lied
youtu.be/2GQ-6dg59xk
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Leave it to Zuckerberg to fashion himself a modern Augustus only to fold quicker than Lepidus.
January 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Leave it to Zuckerberg to fashion himself a modern Augustus only to fold quicker than Lepidus.
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Grab your witches hats and your godly boons as we delve into the Underworld again with @supergiantgames.bsky.social Hades II. Helping us out with this gaming katabasis is the wonderful Meg Sullivan @celticqueenmeg.bsky.social of History N' Games.
Listen at movieswedig.com! #AncientBluesky #Podcast
Listen at movieswedig.com! #AncientBluesky #Podcast
January 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Grab your witches hats and your godly boons as we delve into the Underworld again with @supergiantgames.bsky.social Hades II. Helping us out with this gaming katabasis is the wonderful Meg Sullivan @celticqueenmeg.bsky.social of History N' Games.
Listen at movieswedig.com! #AncientBluesky #Podcast
Listen at movieswedig.com! #AncientBluesky #Podcast
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Rewatching #TheReturn for tonight's discussion while typing up my shownotes (still love it). I am eager to learn what everyone has to say about it! #Podcast #AncientBluesky
@ecfleming.bsky.social
@sentantiq.bsky.social
@apistone.bsky.social
@joegoodkin.bsky.social
@movieswedig.bsky.social
@ecfleming.bsky.social
@sentantiq.bsky.social
@apistone.bsky.social
@joegoodkin.bsky.social
@movieswedig.bsky.social
January 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Rewatching #TheReturn for tonight's discussion while typing up my shownotes (still love it). I am eager to learn what everyone has to say about it! #Podcast #AncientBluesky
@ecfleming.bsky.social
@sentantiq.bsky.social
@apistone.bsky.social
@joegoodkin.bsky.social
@movieswedig.bsky.social
@ecfleming.bsky.social
@sentantiq.bsky.social
@apistone.bsky.social
@joegoodkin.bsky.social
@movieswedig.bsky.social
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While we do see a lot of new faces in #GladiatorII, the overall story is wrapped up in its mythologizing of the original. Helping us out in this episode is special guest (and Maximus/mentor figure to two of your hosts), Dr. Glenn Storey. Listen now at movieswedig.com! #AncientBluesky
The New Nightmare of Rome- Movies We Dig Discusses Gladiator II with Dr. Glenn Storey
YouTube video by Movies We Dig
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December 24, 2024 at 3:17 PM
While we do see a lot of new faces in #GladiatorII, the overall story is wrapped up in its mythologizing of the original. Helping us out in this episode is special guest (and Maximus/mentor figure to two of your hosts), Dr. Glenn Storey. Listen now at movieswedig.com! #AncientBluesky
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So @movieswedig.bsky.social completely summed up my problems with Gladiator II: 1, that the conclusion is a white hetero populist reclaiming kingship from queer and black usurpers through a speech of togetherness to an army, and 2, real Caracalla is fascinating and that's not him at all!!!
December 20, 2024 at 3:19 PM
So @movieswedig.bsky.social completely summed up my problems with Gladiator II: 1, that the conclusion is a white hetero populist reclaiming kingship from queer and black usurpers through a speech of togetherness to an army, and 2, real Caracalla is fascinating and that's not him at all!!!
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Feel free to guess at any point, or start the challenge along with us! #20filmchallenge @voguearchaeology.bsky.social @ecfleming.bsky.social
So without further ado, here is Day 1:
Host 1- The Thing (1982)
Host 2- Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Host 3- The King and I (1956)
So without further ado, here is Day 1:
Host 1- The Thing (1982)
Host 2- Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Host 3- The King and I (1956)
December 19, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Feel free to guess at any point, or start the challenge along with us! #20filmchallenge @voguearchaeology.bsky.social @ecfleming.bsky.social
So without further ado, here is Day 1:
Host 1- The Thing (1982)
Host 2- Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Host 3- The King and I (1956)
So without further ado, here is Day 1:
Host 1- The Thing (1982)
Host 2- Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Host 3- The King and I (1956)
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A reminder to come hang out with us tomorrow! We'll be streaming #HadesII on our YouTube channel. If you can't join us live, you'll still be able to able to watch the playthrough on your own time there. #AncientBluesky
Hey it's been a hot minute since we played #HadesII! And this time we'll have the whole MWD Crew join in on the fun! Join us Saturday, November 23 at 11 AM Eastern as we play through The Olympic Update. Watch the stream live on our YouTube channel at: www.youtube.com/@MoviesWeDig
#AncientBluesky
#AncientBluesky
November 22, 2024 at 5:55 PM
A reminder to come hang out with us tomorrow! We'll be streaming #HadesII on our YouTube channel. If you can't join us live, you'll still be able to able to watch the playthrough on your own time there. #AncientBluesky
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It's time to return to the OG archaeologist on film! Joined by special guest, author, & archaeologist David West Reynolds, we examine our own experiences w/Indy, the enormous impact on the public perception of #archaeology and what these films, namely Raiders, gets remarkably right. #AncientBluesky
November 22, 2024 at 1:28 PM
It's time to return to the OG archaeologist on film! Joined by special guest, author, & archaeologist David West Reynolds, we examine our own experiences w/Indy, the enormous impact on the public perception of #archaeology and what these films, namely Raiders, gets remarkably right. #AncientBluesky
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I published this article in the journal Metal Music Studies two years ago today, and I’m still quite proud of it.
I have more work on this topic coming over the horizon.
I have more work on this topic coming over the horizon.
November 17, 2024 at 6:26 PM
I published this article in the journal Metal Music Studies two years ago today, and I’m still quite proud of it.
I have more work on this topic coming over the horizon.
I have more work on this topic coming over the horizon.
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✨NEW ARTICLE!✨
With Gladiator 2 in the cinemas, Alexandra Sills has taken an expert eye to the presentation of day-to-day gladiating life in the movie.
Thumbs up? Thumbs down? Find out by clicking the link. With your thumb. 😊
www.workingclassicis...
With Gladiator 2 in the cinemas, Alexandra Sills has taken an expert eye to the presentation of day-to-day gladiating life in the movie.
Thumbs up? Thumbs down? Find out by clicking the link. With your thumb. 😊
www.workingclassicis...
Did gladiators really do that? — Working Classicists
Did they really launch ships in the Colosseum? Did they really wear fancy
breastplates? Alexandra Sills, checks how accurately Ridley Scott’s film
presents the life of a gladiator.
www.workingclassicists.com
November 17, 2024 at 4:30 PM
✨NEW ARTICLE!✨
With Gladiator 2 in the cinemas, Alexandra Sills has taken an expert eye to the presentation of day-to-day gladiating life in the movie.
Thumbs up? Thumbs down? Find out by clicking the link. With your thumb. 😊
www.workingclassicis...
With Gladiator 2 in the cinemas, Alexandra Sills has taken an expert eye to the presentation of day-to-day gladiating life in the movie.
Thumbs up? Thumbs down? Find out by clicking the link. With your thumb. 😊
www.workingclassicis...
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Trump’s staffing picks make Caligula’s choice of Incitatus seem reasonable.*
*yes, yes, hostile historiographical tropes
*yes, yes, hostile historiographical tropes
November 15, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Trump’s staffing picks make Caligula’s choice of Incitatus seem reasonable.*
*yes, yes, hostile historiographical tropes
*yes, yes, hostile historiographical tropes
I didn't get to be a part of this chat because this movie left theaters so incredibly quickly in my tiny town. But I can guarantee thinking about this hot garbage with my brilliant colleagues is 10X better.
New episode alert! We utilize our amazing artistic abilities to stop time(?) and discuss Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, a modern retelling of the Catilinarian Conspiracy. Here to help us out is the lovely @opietasanimi.bsky.social! Listen now at movieswedig.com. #AncientBluesky #Podcast
November 15, 2024 at 2:43 PM
I didn't get to be a part of this chat because this movie left theaters so incredibly quickly in my tiny town. But I can guarantee thinking about this hot garbage with my brilliant colleagues is 10X better.
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Extra galling that I'm required to think up dinner ideas as the empire crumbles.
November 13, 2024 at 11:25 PM
Extra galling that I'm required to think up dinner ideas as the empire crumbles.
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Don't Panic! How to fight fascism as an archaeologist.
Hey, archaeologists! As archaeologists, we tend to be the doing sort, the busybodies shoveling and sorting, keeping and caring, custodians of time, places, people, it's time to lean into that!
blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2024/11/13/d...
Hey, archaeologists! As archaeologists, we tend to be the doing sort, the busybodies shoveling and sorting, keeping and caring, custodians of time, places, people, it's time to lean into that!
blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2024/11/13/d...
Don’t Panic! How to Fight Fascism as an Archaeologist
Hey, archaeologists! As archaeologists, we tend to be the doing sort, the busybodies shovelling and sorting, keeping and caring, custodians of time, places, people. It’s time to lean into that, to …
blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com
November 13, 2024 at 10:45 AM
Don't Panic! How to fight fascism as an archaeologist.
Hey, archaeologists! As archaeologists, we tend to be the doing sort, the busybodies shoveling and sorting, keeping and caring, custodians of time, places, people, it's time to lean into that!
blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2024/11/13/d...
Hey, archaeologists! As archaeologists, we tend to be the doing sort, the busybodies shoveling and sorting, keeping and caring, custodians of time, places, people, it's time to lean into that!
blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2024/11/13/d...
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May as well dive right in.
Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?
According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’”
Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...
Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?
According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’”
Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...
November 13, 2024 at 11:20 AM
May as well dive right in.
Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?
According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’”
Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...
Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?
According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’”
Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...
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Collaborating with brilliant colleagues Angela Trentacoste & Erica Rowan to host the inaugural #Environmental #Archaeology Summer School in situ at Falerii Novi 🎉🙌
Rare enviro research-led, in-field training w/leading experts! 🏺 🗃️ ClassicsBluesky
Info + Apply: faleriinoviproject.org/opportunities/
Rare enviro research-led, in-field training w/leading experts! 🏺 🗃️ ClassicsBluesky
Info + Apply: faleriinoviproject.org/opportunities/
March 13, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Collaborating with brilliant colleagues Angela Trentacoste & Erica Rowan to host the inaugural #Environmental #Archaeology Summer School in situ at Falerii Novi 🎉🙌
Rare enviro research-led, in-field training w/leading experts! 🏺 🗃️ ClassicsBluesky
Info + Apply: faleriinoviproject.org/opportunities/
Rare enviro research-led, in-field training w/leading experts! 🏺 🗃️ ClassicsBluesky
Info + Apply: faleriinoviproject.org/opportunities/