TrowelBlazers
@trowelblazers.bsky.social
Pioneering women in archaeology, palaeontology & geology — past & present. Posts by Tori Herridge, Becky Wragg Sykes, Brenna Hassett, and Suzie Birch. www.trowelblazers.com
I mean, are you going to take gendered misrepresentation of archaeology LYING DOWN?
Or will you be mattocking ;)
Or will you be mattocking ;)
Oh you’d like me to undertake a gendered analysis of excavation tasks in the 10 excavation shots I have from four 1930s excavations? I hear you.
November 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I mean, are you going to take gendered misrepresentation of archaeology LYING DOWN?
Or will you be mattocking ;)
Or will you be mattocking ;)
For anyone who doesn’t know Rachel and her work… geez, where ya been? ;) 🙌
New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#openaccess✅
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#openaccess✅
Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core
Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology
www.cambridge.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM
For anyone who doesn’t know Rachel and her work… geez, where ya been? ;) 🙌
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@wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social
"Stuart Piggott planning the position of a stone in the North West quadrant of the stone circle, Avebury, Wiltshire, 1936."
Is the other figure Dorothy Liddell? Guessing from images on hemburyfort.co.uk/gallery.html
"Stuart Piggott planning the position of a stone in the North West quadrant of the stone circle, Avebury, Wiltshire, 1936."
Is the other figure Dorothy Liddell? Guessing from images on hemburyfort.co.uk/gallery.html
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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"Stuart Piggott planning the position of a stone in the North West quadrant of the stone circle, Avebury, Wiltshire, 1936."
Is the other figure Dorothy Liddell? Guessing from images on hemburyfort.co.uk/gallery.html
"Stuart Piggott planning the position of a stone in the North West quadrant of the stone circle, Avebury, Wiltshire, 1936."
Is the other figure Dorothy Liddell? Guessing from images on hemburyfort.co.uk/gallery.html
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🏺🗃️ Just applied on behalf of @trowelblazers.bsky.social for something v exciting 🤞
November 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
🏺🗃️ Just applied on behalf of @trowelblazers.bsky.social for something v exciting 🤞
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I’m excited for #tag2025 because I plan on doing 100% more world building alongside my normal @trowelblazers.bsky.social screaming into the void 🤘
Look @clmorgan.bsky.social and @apolitopoulos.bsky.social, Brenna Hassett is coming prepared for our #TAG2025 session on worldbuilding in Archaeology!
Went to see this most beautiful collection of Ursula K LeGuins maps in the word for world exhibit. Wandering around thru ritualised imaginings of unreal worlds; it’s archaeology and anthropology (and turtles) all the way down. Massive ht to @kjkillackey.bsky.social Let’s go play world building ;p
October 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM
I’m excited for #tag2025 because I plan on doing 100% more world building alongside my normal @trowelblazers.bsky.social screaming into the void 🤘
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I talked to Nature Methods about fieldwork and @trowelblazers.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... -- never say no to two many chandeliers, hey
When fieldwork calls your name - Nature Methods
These scientists prefer digging in the hot sun or hauling in ocean data in the sub-zero cold.
www.nature.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I talked to Nature Methods about fieldwork and @trowelblazers.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... -- never say no to two many chandeliers, hey
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Remember how Star Trek's Captain Jean-Luc Piccard is an archaeologist? He followed in Trowelblazing footsteps, Jaquetta Hawkes, who scripted this distopian "what if" for the BBC in 1962.
Watching this it's important to remember Monitor was the BBC's leading, prime time, arts and culture programme.
Watching this it's important to remember Monitor was the BBC's leading, prime time, arts and culture programme.
And today I learned that in 1962 the BBC let Jaquetta Hawkes imagine the archaeology of apocalyptic Britain. As a short film 👀10/10 Will weird your day youtu.be/c8yEIe69M4k?...
1962: What Was Britain Like Before the Apocalypse? | Monitor: The Lonely Shore | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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October 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Remember how Star Trek's Captain Jean-Luc Piccard is an archaeologist? He followed in Trowelblazing footsteps, Jaquetta Hawkes, who scripted this distopian "what if" for the BBC in 1962.
Watching this it's important to remember Monitor was the BBC's leading, prime time, arts and culture programme.
Watching this it's important to remember Monitor was the BBC's leading, prime time, arts and culture programme.
And today I learned that in 1962 the BBC let Jaquetta Hawkes imagine the archaeology of apocalyptic Britain. As a short film 👀10/10 Will weird your day youtu.be/c8yEIe69M4k?...
1962: What Was Britain Like Before the Apocalypse? | Monitor: The Lonely Shore | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
youtu.be
October 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
And today I learned that in 1962 the BBC let Jaquetta Hawkes imagine the archaeology of apocalyptic Britain. As a short film 👀10/10 Will weird your day youtu.be/c8yEIe69M4k?...
Congratulations to this #trowelblazer, a specialist in prehistoric shafting and adhesives!
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It gives me much pleasure to be able to announce that, on my suggestion, the Working Group on Small Body Nomenclature (WGSBN) of the IAU announced yesterday the naming of asteroid:
(732272) Langejans
...after TU Delft scientist Geeske Langejans.
It gives me much pleasure to be able to announce that, on my suggestion, the Working Group on Small Body Nomenclature (WGSBN) of the IAU announced yesterday the naming of asteroid:
(732272) Langejans
...after TU Delft scientist Geeske Langejans.
September 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Congratulations to this #trowelblazer, a specialist in prehistoric shafting and adhesives!
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Also, @trowelblazers.bsky.social, are you able to amplify this call for aid?? @skypeascientist.bsky.social is the best!
August 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Also, @trowelblazers.bsky.social, are you able to amplify this call for aid?? @skypeascientist.bsky.social is the best!
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@500womensci.bsky.social @trowelblazers.bsky.social @ad-of-aaa.bsky.social can anyone help out? Skype a Scientist is super cool!
Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches.
This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists!
Archaeologists! Please volunteer
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists!
Archaeologists! Please volunteer
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
a woman is smiling and holding a cup that says help me .
Alt: a woman is smiling and holding a cup that says help me .
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September 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
@500womensci.bsky.social @trowelblazers.bsky.social @ad-of-aaa.bsky.social can anyone help out? Skype a Scientist is super cool!
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If you’re in the Preston area and fancy talking palaeo-parenting or primate placenta, well aren’t you in luck ;) come to this totally free talk at the University of Lancashire, kick off at 17:40 on October 8th www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/growing-up...
Growing Up Human
This talk will look at the incredible evolutionary story of how humans came to spend quite so much of our time playing around.
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September 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
If you’re in the Preston area and fancy talking palaeo-parenting or primate placenta, well aren’t you in luck ;) come to this totally free talk at the University of Lancashire, kick off at 17:40 on October 8th www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/growing-up...
So gdm angry about this. And not just a little scared. They have new ways to silence scientists now
Like science? Then you better be interested when *someone* starts putting out hit pieces on scientists. This is beyond the pale ethically and honestly anyone who doesn’t want to slide to hell on a slick of ai generated content that benefits billionaire business, maybe now is the time to get angry.
August 1, 2025 at 7:10 AM
So gdm angry about this. And not just a little scared. They have new ways to silence scientists now
Was really nice to speak to people who have done so much for representation in archaeology. Out soon! www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress... 20% discount code 006120
July 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Was really nice to speak to people who have done so much for representation in archaeology. Out soon! www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress... 20% discount code 006120
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Happy #PublicationDay to @gregjenner.bsky.social @rikinparekh.bsky.social and… me! This has been the most fun I have ever had writing a book, hands down — exactly the way archaeology ought to be ;) (otherwise I’d get a real job, wouldn’t I) www.walker.co.uk/978152952249...
July 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Happy #PublicationDay to @gregjenner.bsky.social @rikinparekh.bsky.social and… me! This has been the most fun I have ever had writing a book, hands down — exactly the way archaeology ought to be ;) (otherwise I’d get a real job, wouldn’t I) www.walker.co.uk/978152952249...
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Due to a non-serious yet unignorable Health Thing, I'm unable to go to Musée d'Archéologie Nationale in Paris this week for our first #ExcavatingGarrod 🗃️ archive trip.
Amidst 😭 at missing out, I'll hopefully also share tidbits on what @toriherridge.bsky.social & Emma Pomeroy find there!
Amidst 😭 at missing out, I'll hopefully also share tidbits on what @toriherridge.bsky.social & Emma Pomeroy find there!
July 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Due to a non-serious yet unignorable Health Thing, I'm unable to go to Musée d'Archéologie Nationale in Paris this week for our first #ExcavatingGarrod 🗃️ archive trip.
Amidst 😭 at missing out, I'll hopefully also share tidbits on what @toriherridge.bsky.social & Emma Pomeroy find there!
Amidst 😭 at missing out, I'll hopefully also share tidbits on what @toriherridge.bsky.social & Emma Pomeroy find there!
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Early doors for me today as I whizz off to Paris on the Eurostar in search of treasures hidden in the archive of Dorothy Garrod.
Garrod was a major hub in the networks of women archaeologists who pioneered the palaeolithic (and beyond), and I cannot wait to see what we will find
#ExcavatingGarrod
Garrod was a major hub in the networks of women archaeologists who pioneered the palaeolithic (and beyond), and I cannot wait to see what we will find
#ExcavatingGarrod
Due to a non-serious yet unignorable Health Thing, I'm unable to go to Musée d'Archéologie Nationale in Paris this week for our first #ExcavatingGarrod 🗃️ archive trip.
Amidst 😭 at missing out, I'll hopefully also share tidbits on what @toriherridge.bsky.social & Emma Pomeroy find there!
Amidst 😭 at missing out, I'll hopefully also share tidbits on what @toriherridge.bsky.social & Emma Pomeroy find there!
July 2, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Early doors for me today as I whizz off to Paris on the Eurostar in search of treasures hidden in the archive of Dorothy Garrod.
Garrod was a major hub in the networks of women archaeologists who pioneered the palaeolithic (and beyond), and I cannot wait to see what we will find
#ExcavatingGarrod
Garrod was a major hub in the networks of women archaeologists who pioneered the palaeolithic (and beyond), and I cannot wait to see what we will find
#ExcavatingGarrod
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In honour of #ExcavatingGarrod I’m resurrecting a @trowelblazers.bsky.social post from 2014 and asking you all: What’s Your Garrod Number?
If we are being strict mine is actually 5:
Garrod>Bate>Mary Leakey>Maeve Leakey>Eleanor Weston>me!
Networks matter!
trowelblazers.com/2014/05/09/d...
If we are being strict mine is actually 5:
Garrod>Bate>Mary Leakey>Maeve Leakey>Eleanor Weston>me!
Networks matter!
trowelblazers.com/2014/05/09/d...
July 2, 2025 at 8:22 AM
In honour of #ExcavatingGarrod I’m resurrecting a @trowelblazers.bsky.social post from 2014 and asking you all: What’s Your Garrod Number?
If we are being strict mine is actually 5:
Garrod>Bate>Mary Leakey>Maeve Leakey>Eleanor Weston>me!
Networks matter!
trowelblazers.com/2014/05/09/d...
If we are being strict mine is actually 5:
Garrod>Bate>Mary Leakey>Maeve Leakey>Eleanor Weston>me!
Networks matter!
trowelblazers.com/2014/05/09/d...
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I am wondering if I can get this shorter—paging my fave trowelblazing collaborators who may be even closer to DG
@gevemac.bsky.social
@elliescerri.bsky.social
@neaarlab.bsky.social
@gevemac.bsky.social
@elliescerri.bsky.social
@neaarlab.bsky.social
In honour of #ExcavatingGarrod I’m resurrecting a @trowelblazers.bsky.social post from 2014 and asking you all: What’s Your Garrod Number?
If we are being strict mine is actually 5:
Garrod>Bate>Mary Leakey>Maeve Leakey>Eleanor Weston>me!
Networks matter!
trowelblazers.com/2014/05/09/d...
If we are being strict mine is actually 5:
Garrod>Bate>Mary Leakey>Maeve Leakey>Eleanor Weston>me!
Networks matter!
trowelblazers.com/2014/05/09/d...
July 2, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I am wondering if I can get this shorter—paging my fave trowelblazing collaborators who may be even closer to DG
@gevemac.bsky.social
@elliescerri.bsky.social
@neaarlab.bsky.social
@gevemac.bsky.social
@elliescerri.bsky.social
@neaarlab.bsky.social
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If I'd been able to go (😭), Tori, Emma & I would be channeling this exact #trowelblazers vibe right now: L - Germaine Henri-Martin, R - Dorothy Garrod, C - Suzanne de Saint-Mathurin (from whose archive this photo comes, & within which Garrod's archive was found, only in the 1990s!)
#ExcavatingGarrod
#ExcavatingGarrod
July 2, 2025 at 9:50 AM
If I'd been able to go (😭), Tori, Emma & I would be channeling this exact #trowelblazers vibe right now: L - Germaine Henri-Martin, R - Dorothy Garrod, C - Suzanne de Saint-Mathurin (from whose archive this photo comes, & within which Garrod's archive was found, only in the 1990s!)
#ExcavatingGarrod
#ExcavatingGarrod
It’s also our birthday, probably our 12th? Which I am planning on celebrating by checking the guilt inducing unread email stack … in a week or two 😅🤘
May 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It’s also our birthday, probably our 12th? Which I am planning on celebrating by checking the guilt inducing unread email stack … in a week or two 😅🤘
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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
May 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
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Our booklet on Gender stereotypes in archaeology has been downloaded or read online 13079 times! You can check out for free @sidestone.bsky.social and also look up for some other great books!
#gender #archaeology
www.sidestone.com/books/gender...
#gender #archaeology
www.sidestone.com/books/gender...
Gender stereotypes in archaeology @ Sidestone Press
Were men the only hunters and producers of tools, art and innovation in prehistory? Were women the only gatherers, home-bound breeders and caregivers? Are all prehistoric female depictions mother godd...
www.sidestone.com
May 6, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Our booklet on Gender stereotypes in archaeology has been downloaded or read online 13079 times! You can check out for free @sidestone.bsky.social and also look up for some other great books!
#gender #archaeology
www.sidestone.com/books/gender...
#gender #archaeology
www.sidestone.com/books/gender...
Here’s that link www.arqueologas.es/herstory/
April 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Here’s that link www.arqueologas.es/herstory/