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The Black Trowel Collective
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Anarchist archaeologists collective
https://blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com
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BOYCOTT EAA-ATHENS 2026 🏺

This is not a BTC action but we are helping to disseminate this call, as the president of the EAA has shown great willingness for reprisals.

Please distribute widely, particularly to offline colleagues.
Poster titled BOYCOTT EAA-ATHENS, with a circle/slash crossing out the EAA 2026 Athens logo. This is an urgent call for all members of the archaeological community to join this boycott. Do not submit a session to the EAA until Eszter Banffy steps down as president of the EAA after her anti-democratic actions. There has been a concerted campaign of intimidation against individual members of the board, including large numbers of threatening and defamatory emails and individual participants, groups, and student volunteers have been intimidated. Even after close documentation of her shameful autocratic actions in the press and on social media, she refuses to step down. We cannot let this happen, this is not what we stand for as a community. Many departments and institutions already decided not to participate and submit sessions after it has become clear that the EAA has not resolved its issues. Do not submit a session until Banffy steps down. If you have already submitted a session, retract it.
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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BTC Call for Action - EAA

EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.

Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
September 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Day 20: HEARTH✍🏻✏️
#inktober #archink #archink2024
October 20, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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DAY 19: SHATTER
#archink #inktober #inktober2024
October 19, 2024 at 5:39 PM
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DAY 16: FREE
"On a hammock, free as a bird" with embroidery!
#archink2024 #inktober #archink
October 19, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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Day 12: BOG ✍🏻✏️
#inktober #archink #archink2024
October 19, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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Day 11: CHILDREN ✍🏻✏️
#inktober #archink #archink2024
October 19, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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Day 10: MATTER ✍🏻✏️
#inktober #archink #archink2024
October 19, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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Day 9: GAME ✍🏻✏️ 🎲
#inktober #archink #archink2024
October 19, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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Day 8: ORGANISE ✍🏻✏️
#inktober #archink #archink2024
October 19, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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Day 7: RAGE✍🏻✏️
#inktober #archink #archink2024
October 19, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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Day 6: MIDDEN #archink

The poppy is the flower of the partisan in Italy.
A broken column with midden layers built up next to it, and a poppy growing out of the top layer.
October 7, 2024 at 5:23 AM
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Day 5 of #ArchInk #Inktober "Bag"
a colourful sketch of a cat peeping out of a bag captioned "excavation cat 2024 find bags."
October 5, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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day 4 of #ArchInk #Inktober "celebrate" - two more images! 🏺
a pen sketch of stick figures planning a party with one tagged as Ea Nasir a digital drawing of a rose and a loaf of bread surrounded by text from the Black Trowel Collective manifesto
October 4, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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Two today for "Survey" #ArchInk #Inktober
a drawing of fragments of artefacts on the ground with a watercolour vibe a photo of a person at a total station in the mist with superimposed text "we survey partial pasts through the mists of time and unknowable cultural distance"
October 3, 2024 at 11:12 AM
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day 2 off #ArchInk #Inktober "Collective" 🏺
a pen drawing of a 12m megalithic Umm An Nar tomb at Hili
October 2, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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happy Inktober comrades!

Day 1 of #ArchInk "Gather"
a notebook with a simple pen drawing of three people in workwear in a parking lot. they're waving to each other and one has a six pack with an open bottle in their hand
October 1, 2024 at 12:50 PM
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What time is it? Almost October???

IT'S #ARCHINK TIME!

ARCHINK is the archaeology-themed #inktober, where you draw or create something for each day and tag it with #ARCHINK.

Follow along, heap praise on the creators, and celebrate the darkening days. Use our prompts or share your own. 🏺
List of prompts for #archink created by the Black Trowel Collective. 1) Gather 2) Collective 3) Survey 4) Celebrate 5) Bag 6) Midden 7) Rage 8) Organise 9) Game 10) Matter 11) Children 12) Bog 13) Break 14) Natural 15) Care 16) Free 17) Sample 18) Record 19) Shatter 20) Hearth 21) Clay 22) Equal 23) Dog 24) Learning 25) Testing 26) Connection 27) Heat 28) Play 29) Friends 30) Disturbance 31) Haunt
September 26, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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reminder for those attending EAA Rome that we're hosting a pay-what-you-can lunch for students tomorrow 29 Aug at 1pm on the Sapienza campus
poster for the lunch including a map of Sapienza with three arrows pointing to a Green area in front of building CU003
August 28, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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The Black Trowel Collective is hosting a "pay what you can" mutual aid lunch for students at the upcoming #EAA2024 in Sapienza 29 August, 1pm

Location TBD soon
invitation to the BTC party what you can student lunch repeating the same details as the post but with cute sketches of a pizza slice and a sandwich
August 25, 2024 at 6:19 AM
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The BTC is organizing a session at EAA2024 in Rome titled "So Falls the World! Archaeology and heritage against empire(s)" We are looking for papers that scrutinize imperial narratives in archaeology and heritage! Call for papers is now open and deadline is February 8.
December 20, 2023 at 10:56 AM
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Moxie Marlinspike, anarchist, creator of the Signal app said it best: "the curse of traveling -- where you end up knowing and loving people in many different places and are always missing someone or something somewhere"

Welcome to archaeology. #archink #inktober 🏺
Drawing of a cellphone with a messaging app. The messages say: DIG Folx "I miss you all! I'm lonely after excavation." "I hope we all get to be together again someday" "Let's all make a dig commune." "Yes!!" "Scattered" #archink 2023 <3 the BTC
October 11, 2023 at 4:04 PM
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Technology is cooperation materialised! #archink #archaeology #technology #inktober

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Stick figures excavating together, creating a pot, creating bows, weaving baskets, and stoking a fire. There is text: "Technology is cooperation materialised" #archink <3 BTC
October 10, 2023 at 9:31 AM
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The struggles of the past echo in our fights for the future #archInk #inktober2023 Acoustics 🏺
A fist punching upwards, with "echoes of resistance" above it.
October 8, 2023 at 4:42 AM
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For the #Black #archink prompt, a makeup compact excavated from the trash pit behind the Cole house in Dallas, occupied by a formerly enslaved couple. This project was conducted by Maria Franklin, James Davidson, and Jamie Brandon. 🏺
A drawing of a makeup compact with the words "high-brown"/overton/chicago alongside a woman's profile. Around the compact is written: "Significantly, the compact recovered from the back yard contained not a preparation designed to make one more "white" in appearance but rather was specifically formulated to enhance the natural beauty of women of colour..." #black #archink - with <3, the BTC
October 8, 2023 at 4:37 AM