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Mark Gillings
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hannahfluck.bsky.social
Looking for some free archaeology inspired fun this summer? Check out these locative games inspired by Avebury @nattrustarch.bsky.social
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Avebury Adventures: Exploring Avebury through Locative Games - LoGaCulture
25th-26th July 2025, 10am-4pm, Visitor Reception Barn at Avebury Come to Avebury for the launch of a panoply of locative games! Experience history in and around the ancient landscape with games and st...
logaculture.eu
June 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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louisearchaeology.bsky.social
I am honored to have received an Open Research Award for my undergraduate dissertation 'No Stone Left Unturned: Archaeogaming, Archives, Audiences'. Thank you @uoyopenres.bsky.social🪨

#Archaeology
uoyopenres.bsky.social Open Research at York @uoyopenres.bsky.social · May 15
🏆 CONGRATULATIONS to @louisearchaeology.bsky.social @dah-lab.bsky.social for creating No Stone Left Unturned, a game which re-purposes digitised archival materials from the Avebury Papers Project to create public engagement for archaeological research ⛏️
No Stone Unturned | Play on gd.games
Play No Stone Unturned on gd.games, a game created with GDevelop, the free and easy game-making app.
gd.games
May 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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tag2025york.bsky.social
What's this? An announcement of a second keynote speaker for TAG 2025? That's right!

Dr Sadie Watson will be talking about what archaeological theory can mean for commercial archaeology, and how the two can be better integrated! Check it out here: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/keynote-spea...
Title of talk: Just Do Something: Fieldwork as Action against a Backdrop of Inaction Sadie Watson FSA MCIfA is a leading proponent of embedding social value in developer funded archaeology. She is Site Director at Museum of London Archaeology, a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leader Fellowship holder, an Honorary Research Associate at the University of York and has played leading roles in the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA). Sadie is not only noted for her work on social value in archaeology, but also in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in archaeology, and Roman London.
April 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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clmorgan.bsky.social
Don't forget to submit your session to the Theoretical Archaeology Group 2025 conference, hosted here in York in December 2025:

tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk

I am absolutely threatening you with a good time
tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk - TAG 2025
tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk
tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk
April 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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bristolantharch.bsky.social
Time to get to know more of our staff! 📺

Next up is Fiona Jordan, a Professor of Anthropology at our department. Warning: snake 🐍

Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendock-Wicks from
@uobartsmatter.bsky.social.
April 2, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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williamcarruthers.bsky.social
The language in these announcements (‘best size and shape’) is always the same
eicathomefinn.bsky.social Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Mar 28
'Staff were told on Thursday the jobs could affect academic faculties and professional services, and that its four faculties could be cut to three.'
Bournemouth University plans to cut 200 jobs - BBC News
The university says it must make changes "to be in the best size and shape for the future".
www.bbc.co.uk
March 28, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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fionacoward.bsky.social
Really looking forward to representing @buarchanth.bsky.social at the Royal Anthropological Institute's annual London Anthropology Day (londonanthropologyday.co.uk) - at Senate House on the 25th April this year. See you there?!
Home - London Anthropology Day
London Anthropology Day (LAD) is a FREE annual university taster day for Year 12, 13, FE students, undergraduate or graduate students interested in Master's degrees, careers advisers and teachers, org...
londonanthropologyday.co.uk
March 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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worsted.bsky.social
Ghost scissors in the archive
Part of a page from a massive press cuttings album relating to the 1893 miners' strike. The outline of a long gone pair of scissors can be seen, marked on the page in rust.
March 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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bristolantharch.bsky.social
Today’s BAARS
with Ines Ruis Alvarado (Universidad Cientifica del Sur), ‘Defenders of the Territory: Amazonian Women-Leaders and the Way to Gender Equality’ 👇🏽

#Anthropology
March 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
mgprolix.bsky.social
Found me a scraper
March 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
mgprolix.bsky.social
What a lovely day to be digging with friends in the Avebury Manor gardens
March 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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bristolantharch.bsky.social
Successful Offer Day today with parents and potential students 🙌🏽

Thanks to everyone for coming out! We hope you enjoyed all the events 🙏🏽
March 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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fionacoward.bsky.social
PDRA x2 in soc anth
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DME121/p...
Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) in Social Anthropology x 2 at University of Bristol
Recruiting now: Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) in Social Anthropology x 2 on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
www.jobs.ac.uk
March 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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antiquity.ac.uk
Needles weren't the only thing ancient people made from bones! In Neolithic China, everything from chisels to hairpins and even arrowheads were made on a household level, with dedicated industries coming later.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Bone, antler and teeth products, shell tools and stone tools excavated at Pingliangtai. Bone products: A) chisels; B) awls; C) spatulas; D) hairpins and needles; E) arrowheads; F) gorge hooks; G) other products; and H) broken products. Other finds include: I) animal teeth; J) antler arrowheads; K) other antler products; L) oracle bones for divination; M) shell tools (1–4 are knives, 5 is an arrowhead); and N) stone tools (6, axe; 7, adze; 8, blade; 9–10, arrowheads; 11–13, chisels) (figure by Xiaochen Pei).
March 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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antiquity.ac.uk
Archaeologists excavating a beautifully-preserved wooden mask at the pre-contact Nunalleq site, located just south of the Indigenous Yup'ik village of Quinhagak, Alaska. A new digital #museum makes this important #archaeology accessible.

🆓 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.235
Two people lifting a wooden mask from the ground.
February 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
Panel One: A man is cooking in a kitchen. Behind him, his partner unpacks books from a cardboard box and puts them on shelves. He says to here “Your library can't spread in here as well! The books will get damaged by oils and steam from my cooking.” “Good point.” She replies. Panel Two: The woman now sits at the kitchen counter reading. Her books fill every shelf and cupboard in the kitchen. Through the window we can see that outside, in the rain, the man is attempting to cook on a barbecue.
February 15, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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fionacoward.bsky.social
Thoroughly cheered this morning to discover a petition I signed and promoted ages ago has completely infuriated some idiot fascists. Petitions may not be enough in and of themselves but they're surprisingly useful little acts of resistance, and the bad guys are total snowflakes
February 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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clmorgan.bsky.social
Uh oh...TAG York 2025 logo and theme just dropped!

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A bullhorn on a circle background with the Ouse and Foss. Around the outside it says "Theory in Action TAG York 2025"
February 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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handle.invalid
Word of the day is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to have a distinct sense of going backwards.
February 12, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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theguardian.com
The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | Editorial
The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | Editorial
The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed In one of David Lodge’s famous campus novels, a young English literature lecturer pictures her university as “the ideal human community, where ……
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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antiquity.ac.uk
These engraved plaques from the island of Bornholm, Denmark, are Neolithic miniature art, engraved with plant and field motifs. Excavation found they were scattered evenly in ditches. Could they have been 'sown' like seeds to ensure a good harvest?

🆓 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.217
Two stone plaques, engraved with lines that appear to represent furrowed fields and plants.
January 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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antiquity.ac.uk
Underwater archaeologist examining one of England’s only 13th-century AD shipwrecks #MedievalMonday
Large, multi-stage trade networks provided many jobs, so this wreck provides a unique opportunity to examine peoples' livelihoods in medieval England.

🆓 https://buff.ly/4a7HvCx
Diver pointing at underwater timber, the remains of the Mortar Wreck.
January 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social
A venn diagram. The three circles are labelled: The Archaeologist The Pirate The Dog The area where all threel overlap is labelled: Loves digging things up Dog/Archaeologist overlap is labelled: Gets excited by bones Pirate/Archaeologist overlap is labelled: Good with maps Dog/Pirate overlap is labelled: Buries things for later
January 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
mgprolix.bsky.social
Here goes nothing..
January 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
mgprolix.bsky.social
You know its getting chilly when your cat goes full tribble
December 21, 2024 at 10:37 AM