Colleen Morgan

Not yet. I try to integrate artists into every grant bid I make now. It’s incredible value added. They will make you understand new things about your archaeology. Gen ai images just regurgitate bad tropes and removes the productive cognition that is engaged by creative media.

THISSSSS 👇

Trialling the 360degree video room to share impressions from our dig on remote Oronsay. 🏺 With @clmorgan.bsky.social on the controls and @archsoundscapes.bsky.social digging in the background. @leizarchaeology.bsky.social

Today I'm writing about how to derive evidence for gestures in the past from archaeological data, and how that translates into immersive reconstructions. Then importing more footage into our 360 room, including of a Mesolithic excavation.

My gorgeous Zigzag is clearly a time traveller.

Ruins are good. We've had quite a lot of heritage visiting these last few weeks, which I've enjoyed. But I've much preferred the ruins to the buildings which have been maintained, both because they are less celebrations of wealth and power, and because the emphasize change

Regardless of who wins today, the streets, social movements, neighborhoods, and workplaces remain the primary arenas of struggle for building resistance and halting the far-right.

…wot?

Probably shouldn’t have worn the “help I’m alive” shirt to A&E (It’s not serious)

Happy to welcome Dr Marjory Da Costa-Abreu, Associate Professor in Ethical Artificial Intelligence to the Wolfson DAH Lab today for a training workshop for staff, students, and heritage practitioners on Ethical Uses of AI in Museums and the BRAID toolkit.

I very much like these small paintings of explosions, volcanic and other mechanisms, by artist Donna McLean. They are part of a larger installation called (you guessed it) Boom! @saatchigallery.bsky.social

Because “Archaeologists digging at Sanam Temple in Napata, the old capital of the Kushite Empire in Sudan, have uncovered a faience workshop” dating to the 7th century BCE. I give you my favorite faience object archaeologymag.com/2026/10/anci... It is a New Kingdom rolled up hedgehog (at the Met) 🦔.

This Saturday 24th at 2:45pm UK time I will be giving my talk "Maidenless? Against Archaeogaming as the Handmaiden of Historical Game Studies," in which I'll argue for grounding archaeogaming in archaeological theory and methodology, and the potential to view it as a form of HCI and design practise

JOB: Lecturer in Historic Buildings, Conservation and Stained Glass dual appointment between @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social & Art History. G7, open contract Build a new stained glass studio, work with artisans, enjoy living in a city full of old stuff. ✨ jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Sad but necessary—climate refuges here in York. www.yorkmix.com/york-to-crea...

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and post one that you like.

Blue glass bead from #MustFarm - made in Iran in the 9th century BC and lost to the bottom of a fenland river c. 850BC #InternationalArchaeologyDay

The bastards are literally stealing the sky from us

Said: I am happy to provide an excellent reference for XXX, please find it attached. Unsaid: I find your use of comic sans in your reference request form absolutely diabolical

Niche problems but T was using my Vinted account to shop for accessories for her zombie prom queen Halloween outfit and now it’s completely poisoned my algorithm. Wall to wall tiaras

So many people answer “archaeologist” Babies, there’s still time. ❤️

E B A! E B A! This is so exciting!!

Hoping I'll see some folks at @caa-uk.bsky.social in Glasgow next month. And that you'll excuse this photo which was taken a lifetime and two cameras ago. 💙

Boiling oil as a normal, extensively used thing to defend castles.

I like the idea of calling an artefact handling box a "petting zoo" We're making a contemporary digital archaeology teaching collection and there's some great ideas for additions below.

No longer lurking. Fie 🤧

We're holding a cuneiform making day at @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social sometime soon and I for one cannot wait to make my very own data-biscuit

happy happy chop chop

So I listened to the second episode today and while there wasn’t a discussion of pseudoarchaeology, @iwriteok.bsky.social emphasised the importance of context, careful work and how thoroughly Schliemann fucked Troy’s stratigraphy.

Behind the Bastards is covering "archaeologist" Heinrich Schliemann this week and it's pretty fun. In the second episode I sort of hope he'll link it to the modern pseudoarchaeology put forth on Joe Rogan's show, but we'll see. 🏺 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

Q: would you teach archaeology to a fascist student? Genuinely curious about your answer, and mine’s probably not what you think.

We had some American relations in town last weekend and the thing that reliably shocks them the most is how much my pay-as-you-go cellphone bill is each month: £10. Unlimited minutes, texts, 10GB of data. And it works in Europe. I could get 75GB for a bit more, but I don't really need it.

Contents of an ostrich’s stomach extracted after its death. Taken at the Zoological Society of London, ca. 1930: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/contents-of-an-ostrich-s-stomach-ca-1930

Please enjoy this very normal cottage :) www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...

OTOH citational politics is important and full names and sources should be listed correctly in the bibliography OTOH we could just list DOIs and have happy lives

The watcher in the woods

He likes to hold hands while he’s sleeping

oh god these send me way back. Instant shot of nostalgia