Colleen Morgan

Archaeologist and trumpet player Miquel López-Garcia carefully plays a shell trumpet from Neolithic Catalonia.
The high-intensity sound would have been useful for long-distance communication, and they may have also been effective musical instruments.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Killing the Priest-King: Addressing Egalitarianism in the Indus Civilization - Journal of Archaeological Research The cities of the Indus civilization were expansive and planned with large-scale architecture and sophisticated Bronze Age technologies. Despite these hallmarks of social complexity, the Indus lacks c...

@adamsgreen.bsky.social studies similar things in the Indus, and has a nice paper about it with a catchy title:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I work in a region (BA Arabian Gulf) where there was certainly a social order but no clear hierarchy, even while they traded and interacted with very hierarchical societies in Mesopotamia. How these folks resisted/evaded/ignored social hierarchy is a central question.

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It's fine, I'm 98% shitposter myself so.

There are a huge amount of misconceptions about anarchism but I'm happy to chat about it with people who are genuinely interested.

There are always various forms of social order, but they are implemented in different ways at different times.

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Lmk if you’d like me to respond seriously

A screenshot of one of the publications referenced in the CAA proceedings: "An Experiment in the Use of a Computer for On-Site Recording of Finds"

All of the publications in the @caaint.bsky.social's first proceedings in 1973 have direct modern analogs and a lot of the problems raised still haven't been solved.

proceedings.caaconference.org/paper/03_buc...

Anyway, continue with your day

Smile at the past and the past...smiles back

A common misconception of anarchism. Without rulers, not without order.

Direct them my way next tume! 😆

I’m only having polish visitors from now on 😋

The hunt continues!

I wrote a little follow-up on this excellent post with some artefacts of this prehistory. 🤓

middlesavagery.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/a...

This whole discourse revolves around being able to define what is and is not a technology. I'm a technology maximalist. Cooking is a technology. Reading is a technology. Mutual aid organising is a technology. Technologies are systems where people and things interact to reshape the world.

I wish I had more of these today 😭

مبارك عليكم الشهر، وكل عام وانتم بخير 🌙

Polish chocolate covered plums

Oh my god where have you been all of my life I am obsessed

"how" not "ways in which"

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If anybody has any material culture related to protesting the Cass Review specifically, and would like to share pictures of them with me, then please send me images here or via owen.hurcum@york.ac.uk. I have an idea to do a little write-up about them from the pov of an archaeologist

a man is using a vacuum cleaner to clean a fire pit Alt: a man is using a vacuum cleaner to clean a fire pit

tbh I have enough fires at the moment thank you

The second union of archaeologists in Greece taking a stance on the EAA saga. They represent the contract archaeologists, the largest sector; they call for a boycott: the majority of the local archaeological community in Greece does not support the Athens EAA meeting, under the current leadership.

They were the best combo of both. Absolutely lovely. 🖤

New post: A Prehistory of Digital Archaeology

introspectivedigitalarchaeology.com/2026/02/01/a...

#digitalarchaeology #digitalhumanities

I guess we’ll see

No gods, no masters, no time, no energy...?

tattoo that on my FACE

I'm meeting with a bunch of academics who study anarchism this afternoon and I'm super curious to see if they'll act like anarchists or academics or an arcane mixture of both

Thanks for just screenshotting and not linking. I can hear the “tee hee, THIS will get them” in the stupid ass headline

ATG #3: From Blade Runner to Luis Arraez Edition Scene from Blade Runner 2049. Copyright Warner Brothers, 2017. Image found via this post. After a bit of a fall hiatus due to all the stuff that’s happening everywhere, here’s another i…

Anthropology the Gathering #3: From Blade Runner to Luis Arraez Edition (plus Star Wars and power, democracy, anthro community, coastal anthropology, and the value of drawing cell phones): anthropologia.org/2026/02/15/a... #anthrosky #anthropology #roundup

Teaching and Learning the Archaeology of the Contemporary Era The tools and techniques of archaeology were designed for the study of past people and societies, but for more than a century a growing number of archaeologists…

Thanks! I have a chapter about the assignment here www.bloomsbury.com/uk/teaching-... lmk if you want a copy of it

An art installation by Maarten Inghels. The photo is a view of paving sets. Mist of these are grey, but the central set in the image is dark brown and engraved with the words ‘I used to be a mountain’.

‘I used to be a mountain’ by Maarten Inghels onboards.be/nl/product/m...
📷 Maarten Inghels/Onboards Biennale
#urbangeology