Picture of Victorian geologist w text reading oh look another day where we celebrate an under represented group by asking them to do a bunch of work reminding us they have a legitimate reason to be. Elebrates
Happy no-longer-boycotting-#IWD -actively-protesting-it-day ;)
Shout out to everyone does this work anyway ❤️💪
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Digital Classicist London 2026 call for papers. Papers on any aspect of the ancient or pre-colonial worlds *and* that address innovative digital approaches. Deadline Monday 16th March 2026. blog.stoa.org/archives/4370
Amazing 🤩
For the #Archaeogaming crowd: You can play as Venture, an archaeologist in Overwatch 2!
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#archaeology 🏺
Happy 181st birthday to "The Raven", Edgar Allen Poe's mannered, gothic, archaising poem of grief, madness and anthropomorphic avians, first published in the New York Evening Mirror #onthisday in 1845.
Join us for this talk on 3D modelling and visualisation in archaeology and heritage. I’ll be mumbling about the theoretical underpinnings and Katrine will talk about super cool 3D modelling projects she’s working on :) Thank you Gabby @palaeofuturist.bsky.social for the invite!
Digital Classicist Wiki editing session: Mediterranean antiquity themed content (including ancient societies and cultures adjacent to the Greco-Roman world). Today at 15:00 GMT. Please sign up at ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... for the link.
Stop sign in red over the EAA Athens call. In black the text reads: “Save EAA. Vote. Boycott.”
Tired of excuses and obfuscation from the EAA Executive?
Want a collegial and supportive society fit for its members? Then #boycottEAA
Read our call for voting and boycotting below!
If you want a detailed description of the events so far please read: drive.google.com/file/d/1jdGO...
Further to the EAA saga and the actions of its leadership...Zena is the editor of the Association's journal, and we now how much hard and unappreciated work that entails. She was attacked in the meeting of 9.1.206, and yet the people in charge seem to want to withhold the evidence. Enough is enough.
A JCB excavating sand on the edge of a circular tomb, mentioned in the post. Archaeologists and tools are dotted in the landscape.
In a week’s time I’ll be on site in Al Ain, UAE, working on the Muʿtariḍ Archaeology Project.
It’s a cracking team, and we are excavating a big Bronze Age Umm an Nar tomb. I’ll probably post on TikTok but in the meantime, updates on Instagram: www.instagram.com/mutaridarcha... 🏺
So, if you are an @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social (EAA) member from 2025-2026, you received yesterday your email for the per-rollam vote of the past Special Meeting and the documentation attached to it… if you still doubt what to vote, please read all the documents. My short digest:
Yesterday I resigned from the EAA Appeals & Anti-Harassment Committee (AAHC) after I was targetted in what I believe was an attempt to disprupt & undermine the AAHC. Be assured, AAHC are v much committed to making EAA a safe space, despite the restrictions imposed on them by the existing statutes. 🏺
Solidarity Zena, I hope you’re alright. As an early career researcher this is mortifying to me.
In spite of the Safe Space Policy being clearly stated at the beginning of the meeting, Prof. XXXXX targeted me by name, calling for my resignation from my position as Editor of the society's journal. Furthermore, his misuse of my title, referring to me as "Miss Kamash", felt deliberately demeaning. This intimidating behaviour explicitly contravenes the EAA Safe Space Policy. Although he was muted, for which I was grateful, I experienced a panic attack following his comments and did not feel safe to speak for the remainder of the meeting. This was further compounded by not only Prof. XXXXX being allowed to remain in the online meeting, but also being invited to take the floor again after the break. This gives me strong concerns about the effectiveness of the Safe Space Policy. On a broader point about the effectiveness of the Safe Space Policy, I also note that members whose position aligned with that of Concerned EAA were repeatedly and persistently accused of anti-Semitism throughout the meeting. This is a serious accusation that should not be levelled without due care and evidentiary support. Its use as a blanket accusation seems to have been designed with the explicit aim of silencing and intimidating members aligned with Concerned EAA, which again contravenes the Safe Space Policy and should have been dealt with more robustly during the meeting.
Following yesterday's EAA Special Meeting, I have submitted a complaint to the EAA Appeal and Anti-Harassment Committee. I post it here, with names redacted, for any members who were not present. Thank you so much to everyone who has reached out with messages of solidarity and support 🙏💓🙏
🚨Urgent‼️ The EAA has doxxed members who have been working to reestablish justice, democracy and accountability in the association. This is a chilling move. We must take action. ALL EAA MEMBERS OUT FOR THE SPECIAL MEETING THIS FRIDAY JAN 9TH! #EAAforDemocracy
Plea to stop using prehistoric monuments & peoples as a sub for present-day national identities. Past peoples are not ‘ancestors’, they had no idea of the concept of a nation-state & this archipelago has seen a lot of traffic since the last ice age
Owen standing in front of a screen showing a slide demonstrating a critical analysis of “an archaeology of non-binary”
Popped over to the tremendous @owenexiehurcum.bsky.social’s session for their presentation which is whip-smart, well argued and fun. 🤩
Ok this storytelling session at #TAG2025 is getting better and better!
Peter Lawson telling stories with a rebec 🎶
Lovely storytelling performance by Harold Myrtum in the storytelling session at #TAG2025 in York! Just amazing :)
Moerike Tobias is now tracing the history of archaeology in Gaza to analyse its positioning and reproduction as a crossroads. @tag2025york.bsky.social 🏺#tag2025
I will! :)
Great talk by Sara Perry on data activism, and also cool to see our paper up there, go have a look!
Theres my grrrl Despoina @archaeobruja.bsky.social looking awesomely glowing !
I’ll try putting a group chat together and maybe we can agree on a time for a call :)
Awwww Rena! Missing you :)
Re-opening our sign-ups for the @tag2025york.bsky.social Archaeology as Worldbuilding game-playing session. It's on 15 December from 9-12, so it doesn't conflict with other sessions. Hope to see you there:
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We are all storytellers, in period-inappropriate drag
Digital Classicist Wiki editing session and discussion next Monday, 16:00 GMT: Digital approaches to ancient art and iconography.
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Please join us!
If you are planning to attend CAA in Vienna and you have an #archaeogaming paper to present consider submitting in our #archaeogaming session! Deadline has been extended to November 9 so there are a few more days left!
