Dr Gillian Wong

Kick off the school year with the Archaeological Ethics Online Resource Database! Explore articles, syllabi, podcasts & case studies that dive into ethical practices in archaeology. Perfect for students, educators & researchers! 

https://archaeologicalethics.org/online-resource/

And I’ll say it again to my students: we will NEVER stop fighting for you. We will fight for all our students to be safe and have access to healthcare and human rights. We will fight to keep this planet viable for your future.

I’m also behind on fighting the decisions this administration is making about academia, LGBTQIA+ rights, healthcare access, museums, public lands…the list goes on. But let’s go send some letters, sign petitions, donate to orgs that make change, and march. This is a disaster!

Everyone is just going to have to receive emails from me late at night American continents time. Childcare is in flux right now so this is me every night working from my home office in my PJs to catch up. I’m too tired to schedule send all this. #AcademicMom

I agree, although obvious considerations have to be taken when comparing us doing something to people in the past. I also think experimental archaeology is an incredible teaching tool.

This whole cluster of jobs and the project look so cool!

Do you need resources for an ethical framework for your research? The Archaeological Ethics Database has over 1,200 books, articles, and online resources ranging from archaeology in the time of war, safety in the field, and many more. 

Find out at: https://archaeologicalethics.org/

One more week until classes start at University of Texas at El Paso! Gearing up for our online #archaeology classes this semester: Human Origins and Popular Archaeology. Offered through the Sociology and #Anthropology Department.

Attempting a return to social media. Stay tuned for updates about the field, teaching, and microfauna. Enjoy this photo of me and the little kiddo in South Africa this summer! #archaeology

Already second week at Boomplaas Cave with @justinpargeter.bsky.social.
First week launched the season with introduction to the dig and a rock art tour for the students.
@leakeyfoundation.org @umr5608traces.bsky.social

Is this my favorite student definition of #archaeology? “the study is old stuff people left behind” …probably 😄😍

This is the last week of our semester. This semester has been so special and so hard. My #zooarchaeology students are truly spectacular. I’m going to miss working with them every week. 🥹🥹

“When Wartime Plunder Comes to Campus” by Petra M. Creamer

Read the full article: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

📸 During the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, looters ransacked the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad to sell objects on the international antiquities market. Patrick Robert/Corbis/Getty

Omg this is one of the best things I’ve seen!!! So cool!!!! You can see these pieces at a number of places in Baden-Württemberg: Ulm, Blaubeuren, Tübingen, Stuttgart…

Same! Excited to be there with you guys this year!

Saw it at the auction at SAAs this past week! Didn’t win the auction for it so I’ll be ordering it!

Everyone’s trays in process! I’m so impressed with how quickly they moved from working with mostly medium and large vertebrates to the very small verts in this assemblage.

Students working on modern owl pellets collected by Dr. Tyler Faith (University of Utah) in the Western Cape, South Africa last summer. They are doing taxonomic and element IDs for one pellet each then working together to combine and analyze their data as a whole. #zooarchaeology

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Yeah. I’ve always got a case of the good ideas 😂

Me to our field director: hey! Let’s maybe turn that workshop we’re doing in the field into a publication with the students!

Also me: hasn’t even written up that manuscript on modern owl pellet #taphonomy I promised him by the end of the year 😬😬😬

Yes! This is like my accidental overall semester theme 😅 we started the semester talking about how Zooarch addresses the past and present and used Karen Schollmeyer’s work on animal distributions in NM as an example. And now this!

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

Oh man the worst.

Not me changing my entire lecture plan for #Zooarchaeology class this morning so we can talk about “dire wolves” 😂🐺

😂😂 very cute! Thanks for doing your part in de-extinction

Colossal Bioscience did not revive dire wolves, despite a sensationalist Time Magazine cover story.

Making genetically modified animals that are cosplaying as extinct species is not de-extinction.

Yes! This! These are not actually dire wolves. This is not actually helping conservation. How do I know? I’m an expert in extinct animals and past ecological systems.