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New post on #AlmostArchaeology! The thrilling conclusion of Luthen and The Louvre: How Andor foretold 2025, by @archaeonado.bsky.social on how the antiquities trade in the Star Wars galaxy predicted a year of museum heists in ours

#beerchaeology

Really lovely article on archaeology through the eyes of archaeologists' 'spouses, parents, children, and close friends' - just published in Public Archaeology: 'Archaeological Osmosis or How Is Archaeology Seen by Those Who Share Our Lives?' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Contemporary archaeology

Finally have one for #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday! This week’s theme (Week 191) is “Lords of Gondolin”. We all know that Glamdring, Orcrist and Sting were famous blades of the First Age, but how did they end up in a Troll Cave thousands of years later? A fun podcast for you 👇

...urban medievalism?

Join me in Adelaide, Thurs 22 Oct, for a no-holds-barred conversation about gender, power and the new Space Race with author Elise Stephenson. Our future in space is too important to leave to chance. 🧪 🔭 #WomenInSTEM

#archaeobreakfast

Am I in National Treasure 3 because this has to be a clue to something

Tilly and Ash are back with Dr Adrián Maldonado to uncover the archaeological layers of The Hobbit! The team ask some surprising questions: Has Elrond let his familial ties to the material culture ruin the runic report of Gondolin swords? Have we got the Trolls entirely wrong this entire time?

Is this what archaeology needs? We think so! On Nov 23, Peacock and NBC Universal will release a new comedy based on Kate Myers book, Excavations, released in 2023. It will star Amy Poehler and Hugh Laurie. In this episode, Chris talks with the author about the book and the making of the TV show.

New hashtag #trollchaeology

Optical heritage

The Archaeology of The Hobbit series on And My Trowel has finally reached the Troll Cave and I've got some THOUGHTS Thanks Ash and Tilly for inviting me on this expedition! @archaeoteacup.bsky.social @archpodnet.bsky.social

Living the dream today: the Playable Heritage conference at National Museums Scotland, on how to collect and preserve videogame culture. Here's James Newman, whose 'Best Before: Videogames, Supersession and Obsolescence' (2012) first introduced me to this world almostarchaeology.com/post/8158827...

Voting is now open for the 2026 APN Awards! 🏆️ We will be sharing the nominees this week here on our socials, but you can already see the full list and vote through our website! www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com

Electrostatic heritage

"Rendering the familiar unfamiliar." Great stuff from @johnschofyork.bsky.social in the latest @currentarchaeology.bsky.social "Contemporary archaeology gives us the tools to interrogate the material traces of our own lives...reminding us that the present is already becoming the past"

My archaeological review of the 9/11 Memorial Museum in 2014 soon after it opened. I wonder what it would be like to revisit it now

Halloween goals

#archaeocandle

Ancient

The archaeology of Oscar Wilde

Open day precautions at #CamphillDig26

New hashtag #hikeaology

The archaeology of archaeology A shed used from 1910 by Arthur Bulleid and Harold St George Gray during excavations at Meare Iron Age Lake Village Rediscovered in 1982 filled with tools and newspapers dating from 1890 😮 Now at Avalon Archaeology #Somerset #IronworkThursday #MetalworkThursday

“The town is devastated … I'm even trembling. The truth is that for those of us from Villena, this destroys us. It's part of our heritage, of our wealth," the mayor said. Makes me so sad to read this 😞 emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

#archaeofashion

New hashtag #bikeaeology

First Andy Samberg does Digman, now this! Is archaeology having a comedy moment?

The next blockbuster: The Sea People Heroes: Rameses the Great & Ammurapi of Ugarit Villain: Odysseus Plot twist: climate change caused mass migration Final scene: Phoenician makes it out of Ugarit with an iron sword Film-making twist: archaeologists consulted Chris Nolan: call me Visuals:

Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!

In 1999, the Lunar Prospector orbiter was deliberately crashed into Shoemaker Crater at the Moon's south pole. The spacecraft carried some of the ashes of legendary planetary geologist Eugene Shoemaker. 🔭 🧪

On August 5, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is predicted to crash onto the Moon. What has crashed on the Moon before? The very first human object to touch the Moon - Luna 2 in 1959. A probe, 3 bombs, and a rocket body! 🧪 🔭

#archaeobaking

Bore da / good morning on #StandingStoneSunday Here are the Gorsedd stones inside Aberystwyth Castle at dusk; they were erected in 1914 for the Eisteddfod. It is the only Gorsedd circle in Wales to include a stone from every county 😮 🤔 coflein.gov.uk/en/sites/800... 📷 My own, last night

#beerchaeology

"This battle of trying to erase the Palestinian culture and Palestinian memory – it’s not something theoretical" ... "Every scan, every backup and every replicated copy is an act of resistance against erasure...to ensure that Palestinian memory survives even if the places that hold it do not."

Archaeo-policing - thanks to @thebugle.bsky.social "Archaeologists called in to investigate by Italy’s Carabinieri military police discovered the 'ancient' structure contained fibreglass, papier-mâché columns, rendered blocks and plaster statues dating from the early 2000s."

Uh, did Emily Wilson's Odyssey takedown crash the @lrb.co.uk website?

"...attributed to the Ziwiye hoard, discovered in north-western Iran...a trove of gold, silver, bronze and terracotta found in 1947... the surviving pieces were 'sold in antique markets out of Iran in the 1960s' and 'are now scattered in different museums and private collections'.

Almost Archaeologist of the year

Another view of that tall space beneath the M8 Kingston Bridge approach, a kind of cathedral to the internal combustion engine.

Optical archaeology

#archaeoswag

Archaeologist heritage

Extreme archaeology

Deep time art and geological heritage

Unbelievable job title alert