#Archaeological

The Tattooed Trowel

LewisBorck

One of the most important people in North American archaeology was a Black cowboy named George McJunkin, who was born in Texas, enslaved, prior to the end of the Civil

Flint Dibble 🍖🏺📖

FlintDibble

For Valentine's Day, I present to you a collection of bad archaeological dating jokes memed on bad stock photos and introduced with bad poems. It's bad, like train-wreck badRoses are

Michael E. Smith

MichaelESmith

Rant: The “science problem” in archaeology. I am dismayed about the continuing low level of understanding of science among archaeologists. This was set off by reading Lars Fogelin’s nice open

Dr Tess Machling 💙

Tess_Machling

This Friday there will be a decision made about whether the Stonehenge tunnel will built.Over the years I have seen many plans put forward for Stonehenge - from previous plans

Adam Daubney

ajdaubney

Some thoughts on the ongoing issue between @lincolncouncil and @LincolnshireCC regarding the archaeological collections:1. Lincolnshire has a world-class archaeology collection, managed by world-class curators. 2. This material has helped t

Flint Dibble 🍖🏺📖

FlintDibble

TerribleThe commodification of these looted antiquities goes against all archaeological ethics. Many of them are clearly illegal w/ provenance postdating the 1970 UNESCO conventionThe kicker is that doing this for

Harvey

HarveyArchaeo

The sale of human remains has prompted some discussion on social media recently. I've seen a lot of comments about how it must be illegal - so I thought I

Ann_T_Christ

AnnTChrist2

Muslim rulers did not build Tajmahal, Lal Qila, Kutub Minar, Agra Fort, Fatehpur Sikri, and hundreds of other historical sites. While serving in India as A.D.C. to the Governor-General (1836

Joanne Hammond

KamloopsArchaeo

I’m reviewing applications to destroy 67 archaeological sites for TransMountain pipeline. That’s just one 80 km stretch of a 1,150 km route.It’s not a good day to be an archaeologist.

Jack Keating

JackKCLST6

#CLST6Archaeologists examine evidence to understand general trends in ancient daily life. However, after this #CYO2, it is evident that individualistic and outlandish items found in caches have the capacity to

Dr. Sarah Parcak

indyfromspace

When you correct+ mansplain an Egyptology expert about pyramid building after she expressly asked you not to...given that it’s all about pyramid construction....YOU GET A FREE BLOCK (don’t spend it

British School at Rome

the_bsr

John Bryan Ward-Perkins, BSR Director 1945–74, and pioneer of field survey in Italy, was #BOTD in 1912. His library, archive & collection of over 40,000 images was left to the

Ayushi Nayak

ayushi_nayak

1) This past week saw the publication of a paper in @ScienceAdvances about the role of female hunters in Late Pleistocene & Holocene Americas by @ForagerLab & my feed was

RealScientists | Counts

realscientists

1It’s been amazing getting to interact with you all here, & before I leave I want to share a story about my favourite recent archaeological discovery!CW: skeletal remainsThis story starts

Christian Thomas

northernpapa

#archaeology Here is a wall profile from a site on the Yukon River, not too far from the border of Yukon/Alaska. In vertical relief it depicts the entire colonial history

Eliza Durbin

ElizaCLST6

#CLST6 For my #RR19, I explored material culture on Dartmouth's campus. I focused on culture that will survive for the future but does not have an easily distinguishable purpose in

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