Erin Walcek Averett
@erinaverett.bsky.social
Mediterranean archaeologist, Creighton University. Associate Director, Athienou Archaeological Project (Cyprus)
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In February 2025, #WCCWiki created or edited 19 #Wikipedia pages for classicists who self-identify as women or non-binary! That's a significant leap forward in the gendered representation of classicists and open-access knowledge. Thread ...
March 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In February 2025, #WCCWiki created or edited 19 #Wikipedia pages for classicists who self-identify as women or non-binary! That's a significant leap forward in the gendered representation of classicists and open-access knowledge. Thread ...
Love all of this. “We are engaging in the most humanistic act we can imagine- refusing the prompt.”
Love to refuse a prompt. static1.squarespace.com/static/53a4b...
March 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Love all of this. “We are engaging in the most humanistic act we can imagine- refusing the prompt.”
considering using this account to showcase my dogs since I’ve had zero inspiration or motivation to post about anything more cerebral this year. Here’s Layla
March 6, 2025 at 2:01 AM
considering using this account to showcase my dogs since I’ve had zero inspiration or motivation to post about anything more cerebral this year. Here’s Layla
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"Perhaps the most trenchant critique of the imbrication of art, property and racialization today can be found in scholar Eunsong Kim’s 2024 book The Politics of Collecting...in which she traces how the mid-19th-century consolidation of wealth+
www.frieze.com/article/gala...
www.frieze.com/article/gala...
Towards a New Museology
Gala Porras-Kim works to heal institutional spaces shaped by the lasting impacts of colonial extractivism
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February 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"Perhaps the most trenchant critique of the imbrication of art, property and racialization today can be found in scholar Eunsong Kim’s 2024 book The Politics of Collecting...in which she traces how the mid-19th-century consolidation of wealth+
www.frieze.com/article/gala...
www.frieze.com/article/gala...
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Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.”
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February 20, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.”
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We are officially coming off of X and focusing our efforts on fostering our archaeology community here!
Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!🏺
#ancientbluesky #archaeology #classicsbluesky
Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!🏺
#ancientbluesky #archaeology #classicsbluesky
a drawing of a cat and a blue butterfly by debbie olicone
Alt: a drawing of a cat and a blue butterfly by debbie olicone
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February 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We are officially coming off of X and focusing our efforts on fostering our archaeology community here!
Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!🏺
#ancientbluesky #archaeology #classicsbluesky
Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!🏺
#ancientbluesky #archaeology #classicsbluesky
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Check it out! New volume alert! 🚨📖 “Mothering and Archaeology: Past and Present Perspectives” brings together research on #motherhood and mothering in the past with women’s contemporary experiences of the relationships of mothering to #archaeology…
www.routledge.com/Mothering-an...
www.routledge.com/Mothering-an...
Mothering and Archaeology: Past and Present Perspectives
Mothering and Archaeology brings to light new insights connecting mothering in the past and present by exploring all aspects of this important but frequently under-valued and thus neglected subject an...
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January 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Check it out! New volume alert! 🚨📖 “Mothering and Archaeology: Past and Present Perspectives” brings together research on #motherhood and mothering in the past with women’s contemporary experiences of the relationships of mothering to #archaeology…
www.routledge.com/Mothering-an...
www.routledge.com/Mothering-an...
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When my dad was little in Saudi, his mother noticed a scorpion crawl up his coat sleeve.
She got him to shuffle the coat off the way toddlers do, and in one swift movement, swept it into the air in a wide arc and smashed it to the ground.
Thread on scorpions and motherhood in ancient Mesopotamia.
She got him to shuffle the coat off the way toddlers do, and in one swift movement, swept it into the air in a wide arc and smashed it to the ground.
Thread on scorpions and motherhood in ancient Mesopotamia.
January 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
When my dad was little in Saudi, his mother noticed a scorpion crawl up his coat sleeve.
She got him to shuffle the coat off the way toddlers do, and in one swift movement, swept it into the air in a wide arc and smashed it to the ground.
Thread on scorpions and motherhood in ancient Mesopotamia.
She got him to shuffle the coat off the way toddlers do, and in one swift movement, swept it into the air in a wide arc and smashed it to the ground.
Thread on scorpions and motherhood in ancient Mesopotamia.
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🏺 Archaeological #ASMR
Something special for the lithophiles for #FlintFriday and #FieldFriday - two ends of the Levallois spectrum from my survey yesterday in Luxor. I’ve never seen anything quite like either of them 🤩
January 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
🏺 Archaeological #ASMR
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A divided city revisited
A divided city revisited
Nicosia, Europe’s last divided capital, has long been a city of contrasts, its bustling streets juxtaposed with the silent, guarded buffer zone. Now, the Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia invites v...
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January 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
A divided city revisited
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This season, we will be turning our focus to cultural heritage and the dangers threatening it today, the ethics of museums and collecting practices, and the legacies of colonialism in the study of antiquity. We are so excited to share this with you all! peoplingthepast.com/2025/01/14/p... /end
January 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This season, we will be turning our focus to cultural heritage and the dangers threatening it today, the ethics of museums and collecting practices, and the legacies of colonialism in the study of antiquity. We are so excited to share this with you all! peoplingthepast.com/2025/01/14/p... /end
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Enjoying this whole museum-off: nerdy, affectionate yet brutal heritage slam.
If only the Ulu Burun & Akrotiri were on bluesky to join the fray...
If only the Ulu Burun & Akrotiri were on bluesky to join the fray...
No disrespect to Sutton Hoo, but it's not as shiny as they make out, plus most of the helmet has been replaced...
We suppose the eyebrows are shiny, and they are original, but it's no Tutankhamun's death mask..
We suppose the eyebrows are shiny, and they are original, but it's no Tutankhamun's death mask..
January 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Enjoying this whole museum-off: nerdy, affectionate yet brutal heritage slam.
If only the Ulu Burun & Akrotiri were on bluesky to join the fray...
If only the Ulu Burun & Akrotiri were on bluesky to join the fray...