Ollie Harris
@ojth.bsky.social
Professor of Archaeology | Fan of archaeological theory and Neolithic and Bronze Age stuff | Co-director of the Ardnamurchan Transitions Project | Collaborator on the New History of Bronze | Likes a bit of Deleuze at the weekend
In shock news — I’ll be there!
Just under a month until the Theoretical Archaeology Group meeting
@tag2025york.bsky.social!
This year's theme is 'Theory in Action', so come along from the 15th-17th December to explore how archaeological theory can make an impact on the world.
Learn more: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/
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@tag2025york.bsky.social!
This year's theme is 'Theory in Action', so come along from the 15th-17th December to explore how archaeological theory can make an impact on the world.
Learn more: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/
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November 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
In shock news — I’ll be there!
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Huge congratulations to @sinskip.bsky.social, Anna, and the whole THH team! Celebratory cigars don't seem too appropriate though 🤣
#THEAwards Research Project of the Year: Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences goes to the University of Leicester for an interdisciplinary study, led by Dr Sarah Inskip, which uncovered the long-term health impacts of tobacco use in historical populations. Leicester’s second win tonight! 🤩
November 14, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Huge congratulations to @sinskip.bsky.social, Anna, and the whole THH team! Celebratory cigars don't seem too appropriate though 🤣
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Lunch time quick read is a new blog @archscot.bsky.social: "This is the first in a series of blog posts where I will take you with me as I follow in the footsteps of Audrey Henshall & other women who pioneered archaeological research into the Neolithic of the west coast of Scotland." bit.ly/3IVkxWb
Setting Sail: Henshall Project Beginnings and the Journey to Ardnamurchan | Archaeology Scotland
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October 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Lunch time quick read is a new blog @archscot.bsky.social: "This is the first in a series of blog posts where I will take you with me as I follow in the footsteps of Audrey Henshall & other women who pioneered archaeological research into the Neolithic of the west coast of Scotland." bit.ly/3IVkxWb
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Gavrinis is the most amazing megalithic site I have been privileged to visit. Taking a boat to reach, you encounter a remarkable concentration of #Neolithic rock art at a single megalithic monument. A deeply powerful & inspiring place.
@megalithic.bsky.social #rockart #archaeology #TombTuesday
@megalithic.bsky.social #rockart #archaeology #TombTuesday
September 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Gavrinis is the most amazing megalithic site I have been privileged to visit. Taking a boat to reach, you encounter a remarkable concentration of #Neolithic rock art at a single megalithic monument. A deeply powerful & inspiring place.
@megalithic.bsky.social #rockart #archaeology #TombTuesday
@megalithic.bsky.social #rockart #archaeology #TombTuesday
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📢 Registration is now open! 📢
Sign up for in-person attendance before 31 October 2025 to get Early Bird prices.
Waged delegate fee is £110
Unwaged delegate fee is £40
More information and links to register can be found on the TAG York website: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/registrat...
Sign up for in-person attendance before 31 October 2025 to get Early Bird prices.
Waged delegate fee is £110
Unwaged delegate fee is £40
More information and links to register can be found on the TAG York website: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/registrat...
September 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
📢 Registration is now open! 📢
Sign up for in-person attendance before 31 October 2025 to get Early Bird prices.
Waged delegate fee is £110
Unwaged delegate fee is £40
More information and links to register can be found on the TAG York website: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/registrat...
Sign up for in-person attendance before 31 October 2025 to get Early Bird prices.
Waged delegate fee is £110
Unwaged delegate fee is £40
More information and links to register can be found on the TAG York website: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/registrat...
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I’m trying to post my gofundme link consistently but not too much. Tbh I’m probably not posting it enough but I don’t want to harass you all.
Repost/share/signal boost greatly appreciated! 🙏
Repost/share/signal boost greatly appreciated! 🙏
Donate to Help FT Stay Here...Or Start over, organized by F Theory
Short version first:
I’m an undocumented freelancer/gig worker with no health insu… F Theory needs your support for Help FT Stay Here...Or Start over
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September 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I’m trying to post my gofundme link consistently but not too much. Tbh I’m probably not posting it enough but I don’t want to harass you all.
Repost/share/signal boost greatly appreciated! 🙏
Repost/share/signal boost greatly appreciated! 🙏
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As ever, thank you, friends, for helping us fight the algorithm and supporting independent presses 🙏🏼🖤✨
Ready for a new issue? Pre-orders for The Mirror Issue are now open worldwide! ✨🪞✨
Mirror magic, ritual masks, films that cast a spell, doppelgängers and fetches, changelings, evil portraits, spirit traps and much more.
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Mirror magic, ritual masks, films that cast a spell, doppelgängers and fetches, changelings, evil portraits, spirit traps and much more.
👉🏼 helleborezine.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
As ever, thank you, friends, for helping us fight the algorithm and supporting independent presses 🙏🏼🖤✨
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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
Please share. #archaeology
September 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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
Please share. #archaeology
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I just published my article Archaeology as Worldbuilding, an effort that grows out of 20+ years of digital (and analog) archaeological making. Adjacent to recent arguments about storytelling, I broaden our scope to make past worlds & tell stories in community with others.
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
Archaeology as Worldbuilding | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge Core
Archaeology as Worldbuilding
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August 27, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I just published my article Archaeology as Worldbuilding, an effort that grows out of 20+ years of digital (and analog) archaeological making. Adjacent to recent arguments about storytelling, I broaden our scope to make past worlds & tell stories in community with others.
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
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Archaeology defined as a hauntology of remains. A theoretical statement grounded on my work on ruins as well as my recent work on the remnants of contemporary migration. Part of a great volume! Grateful to the editors and to many colleagues who helped out!
www.academia.edu/143309448/Ha...
www.academia.edu/143309448/Ha...
Hamilakis, Y. 2026. Archaeology as a hauntology of remains. In Shadow Archaeologies In the Shadow of Antiquity or For Other Modes of Archaeological Worldmaking, edited by A. Nativ and G. Lucas. London...
In this chapter, I propose a hauntological archaeology, not as a subdiscipline, a subfield, or a method but as an affect, as a way of allowing or rather enabling material remains to haunt us. This is ...
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August 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Archaeology defined as a hauntology of remains. A theoretical statement grounded on my work on ruins as well as my recent work on the remnants of contemporary migration. Part of a great volume! Grateful to the editors and to many colleagues who helped out!
www.academia.edu/143309448/Ha...
www.academia.edu/143309448/Ha...
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Geographers of the ancient Greek world. Selected texts in translation – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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Geographers of the ancient Greek world. Selected texts in translation – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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July 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Geographers of the ancient Greek world. Selected texts in translation – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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I am really enjoying these lectures from FT — well worth the money and this week it’s Empedocles, Deleuze’s favourite pre-Socratic philosopher (according to one of his seminars). A must listen for my long Sunday drive! We all need distractions at the moment and this series is a great one.
This week in Lectures on the Early Greek philosophers: Empedocles!
The guy who invented the concept of the “four elements,” Empedocles wrote in verse and was one of the kookiest early Greek philosophers, walking around in purple robes claiming to have magical powers.
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$5 audio
The guy who invented the concept of the “four elements,” Empedocles wrote in verse and was one of the kookiest early Greek philosophers, walking around in purple robes claiming to have magical powers.
$2 text
$5 audio
LEGP LXII Empedocles | FT
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July 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I am really enjoying these lectures from FT — well worth the money and this week it’s Empedocles, Deleuze’s favourite pre-Socratic philosopher (according to one of his seminars). A must listen for my long Sunday drive! We all need distractions at the moment and this series is a great one.
Come and chat power with us @tag2025york.bsky.social in December!
June 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Come and chat power with us @tag2025york.bsky.social in December!
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New paper on the nature of plant life and its relationship to human life during the Mesolithic! Thanks to @ojth.bsky.social, Amy Gray Jones and @graemewarren.bsky.social for comments and advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Living Amongst and with Trees: Botanical Agency and the Archaeology of Plant-Human Relationships
The last decade has seen a significant change in the way the humanities have approached the study of botanical life. Termed ‘the plant turn’, this questions traditional views of plants as a largely...
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June 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
New paper on the nature of plant life and its relationship to human life during the Mesolithic! Thanks to @ojth.bsky.social, Amy Gray Jones and @graemewarren.bsky.social for comments and advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This event featured a brilliant, emotive, passionate and funny speech by my colleague Alice Samson. She represented the fabulous and talented women I am so lucky to work with. Our School is such a special place on days like today
School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester
@archanchistleic.bsky.social
· Mar 7
📢Today, the home of our Schools of #Archaeology & Ancient History & Museum Studies has been renamed the Kathleen Kenyon Building, the first academic building on campus to be named after a woman.
🏛️ le.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...
📷 UCL Institute of Archaeology, CC BY 4.0
#InternationalWomensDay
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📷 UCL Institute of Archaeology, CC BY 4.0
#InternationalWomensDay
March 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This event featured a brilliant, emotive, passionate and funny speech by my colleague Alice Samson. She represented the fabulous and talented women I am so lucky to work with. Our School is such a special place on days like today
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📢Today, the home of our Schools of #Archaeology & Ancient History & Museum Studies has been renamed the Kathleen Kenyon Building, the first academic building on campus to be named after a woman.
🏛️ le.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...
📷 UCL Institute of Archaeology, CC BY 4.0
#InternationalWomensDay
🏛️ le.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...
📷 UCL Institute of Archaeology, CC BY 4.0
#InternationalWomensDay
March 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
📢Today, the home of our Schools of #Archaeology & Ancient History & Museum Studies has been renamed the Kathleen Kenyon Building, the first academic building on campus to be named after a woman.
🏛️ le.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...
📷 UCL Institute of Archaeology, CC BY 4.0
#InternationalWomensDay
🏛️ le.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...
📷 UCL Institute of Archaeology, CC BY 4.0
#InternationalWomensDay
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Time for a #FindsFriday with a late Bronze Age socketed hammer dating between 1000-700BC.
This hammer is made from copper alloy, and has been cast, in fact, it is possible to see the casting seam along the length of the hammer!
Follow the record link here:
finds.org.uk/database/art...
This hammer is made from copper alloy, and has been cast, in fact, it is possible to see the casting seam along the length of the hammer!
Follow the record link here:
finds.org.uk/database/art...
March 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Time for a #FindsFriday with a late Bronze Age socketed hammer dating between 1000-700BC.
This hammer is made from copper alloy, and has been cast, in fact, it is possible to see the casting seam along the length of the hammer!
Follow the record link here:
finds.org.uk/database/art...
This hammer is made from copper alloy, and has been cast, in fact, it is possible to see the casting seam along the length of the hammer!
Follow the record link here:
finds.org.uk/database/art...
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It is a great pleasure to announce that my book Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife is now available in Open Access: bit.ly/3Xn9HfB
Please download, read, and share with anyone who might be interested in new ways of thinking about Egyptian religion.
Please download, read, and share with anyone who might be interested in new ways of thinking about Egyptian religion.
March 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
It is a great pleasure to announce that my book Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife is now available in Open Access: bit.ly/3Xn9HfB
Please download, read, and share with anyone who might be interested in new ways of thinking about Egyptian religion.
Please download, read, and share with anyone who might be interested in new ways of thinking about Egyptian religion.
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so this happened last night and tbh we don't know if Athens will ever recover. pure magic.
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Pretty Persuasion - R.E.M., Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy and friends. February 27, 2025
YouTube video by Jason Billips
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February 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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He’s also 45 whatever nonsense he says about the Covid year not counting
I'm 44 years old and FPL is the worst thing to ever happen to me
Goodnight
Goodnight
February 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
He’s also 45 whatever nonsense he says about the Covid year not counting
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Uh oh...TAG York 2025 logo and theme just dropped!
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February 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Uh oh...TAG York 2025 logo and theme just dropped!
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An entirely new financial settlement is needed in Higher Education - as many of us have been saying all along. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | Editorial
Editorial: The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed
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February 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
An entirely new financial settlement is needed in Higher Education - as many of us have been saying all along. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I’ve been thinking lots recently about the concept of ‘monumentality’ in #Etruscan necropoleis & its impact on multi-sensory experiences, or rather, the multi-sensory experiences that contribute towards the perception of ‘monumentality’.
January 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I’ve been thinking lots recently about the concept of ‘monumentality’ in #Etruscan necropoleis & its impact on multi-sensory experiences, or rather, the multi-sensory experiences that contribute towards the perception of ‘monumentality’.
Very sad to hear of the death of John Barrett, my undergrad dissertation supervisor and the man who made me fall passionately in love with archaeological theory. As others from my year at Sheffield have been reflecting his teaching was inspiring and life changing 1/3
December 28, 2024 at 8:50 AM
Very sad to hear of the death of John Barrett, my undergrad dissertation supervisor and the man who made me fall passionately in love with archaeological theory. As others from my year at Sheffield have been reflecting his teaching was inspiring and life changing 1/3
I didn’t see the winning paper but I can definitely say Sam’s was excellent - one to watch for the future
Highly Commended in the Don Henson prize for debut paper, Sam Scott-Moncrieff @samscomo.bsky.social of Edinburgh Archaeology for his paper "A building lineage? Palimpsests, brochs, and complex identity in the Scottish Iron Age".
December 16, 2024 at 3:19 PM
I didn’t see the winning paper but I can definitely say Sam’s was excellent - one to watch for the future