Colleen Morgan

A photo of a St. George’s cross being taken down in front of York Minster.

Direct action gets the goods 🖤

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Art meets archaeology in new exhibition about Wiltshire landscape - BBC News Artist and archaeologist Dr Rose Ferraby's exhibition aims to show Wiltshire's influence on art.

The exhibition at the Wiltshire Museum in Devizes consists of screenprints, paintings and relief prints, alongside books, lithographs, prints, paintings, drawings and maps drawn from the museum's own collection.

1) it’s the Hindsgavl Dagger, super pretty, look it up
2) drawing flint at a small scale is diabolical
3) it’s a flint skeuomorph of a bronze dagger so counts for both days nyaaaaah
4) idk it’s @cjfrieman.bsky.social’s research not mine, ask her

Drawing of a skeuomorphic spear head made of flint. It says, “bronze bronze bronze bronze…what’s wrong with stone?” And hashtags in the tweet.

“Bronze is brilliant!” #archink #inktober - bronze & flint
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A three-panel digital illustration showing the archaeological process of residue analysis. In the first panel, a clay pot sits over a small fire surrounded by stones. In the second, a broken pot is uncovered in the ground with a trowel nearby. In the third, gloved hands hold a sherd and take a sample with a small tool. Two circles highlight what residue analysis can reveal: plant grains and a goat

day 3 of #archink2025: residue. what's left inside a pot can say a lot. grains, fats, traces of meals long gone.
drew that chain in a kind of comic style: pot in use, pot buried/excavated, pot in the lab.

Small remains lead to past recipes.

#archInk #archaeology

A digital illustration showing two hands reaching toward a circle of bronze artefacts, including swords, spearheads, and axes. Each object has a different shade of bronze — from golden yellow to deep reddish-brown — representing the varied colours of Bronze Age metalwork

day 4 of #archInk2025: bronze. tin meets copper, and new colours are created based on the mixture, from gold, green, brown, red.

i drew them circling between two hands, an acknowledgement of how innovative humans are and bronze meant exchange and shared skill

#archInk #archaeology

#archInk2025 Day 2: Shell
During prep, the Conch of Teleportation reminded me of oracle bones, divinatory records from the Shang. They feature some of the earliest writing in China. I thought dragon turtles, taken from Chinese mythological creatures, would help expand a focus on Chinese archaeology.

day two of archInk 2025: shell. the central piece today is a scallop shell painted in watercolour. around it i sketched different shell artefacts — scrapers, spoons, containers, ornaments. it shows how versatile shells are as archaeological finds, and how many uses they once had. this page is also a small experiment in drawing itself. mixing digital work with watercolour and pen sketches makes it feel layered, like different notes on the same theme.

day 2 of #archInk: #shell.
a watercolour scallop in the centre, with digital pen sketches of shell artefacts and tools around it. shells are versatile in archaeology, and this page is also a mix of drawing techniques, from watercolour to digital.

#archaeology #archInk2025

Pretty good, I think, after having my flu & covid jabs in my shoulders earlier today.

A drawing of a banana skin on top of a Neolithic pot sherd.

Behold, the first evidence of the Neolithic banana.

Or, be careful where you eat your lunch.

#archink
#inktober
“Residue”

Handmade flyer. Blue lettering on a hot pink paper with a lighter pink background on turquoise paper. It reads BANDCAMP FRIDAY BENEFIT FOR IMMIGRANT DEFENSE FUND

Good morning! It is Bandcamp Friday again and this time we are raising funds for @ndlon.bsky.social's Immigrant Defense Fund! We have a couple of very special, limited edition cassettes for it: bikinikill.bandcamp.com/merch

Drawing of a tiny white shell with the text, “in Qatar you could find sites where there wasn’t much left besides a surface of the tiniest white shells used as a floor” with tags that are in the tweet.

Quick one today after the pub.

So we’d find these spots covered in tiny white shells in the desert on survey. The only problem was that this also a contemporary practice so you couldn’t always easily tell if the shell floor was archaeology or last week’s family campsite #archink #inktober “shell”

That's cochineal

Here you go, humans of bsky. I spent ages carefully revealing the hands on the platform and then removed them as part of the replastering layer beneath. There's burials in the hole on the left.

It was one of a series of 4 different decorations on the platform. 🏺

Just finished talking to my local LEGO league! There are a couple teams that are very fascinated by/focused on doing something with caves. Would anyone be willing/able to talk to them via Zoom about archaeological work in a cave environment?

We’d be happy to have you, even for just one day!

A hand-drawn illustration showing the archaeological Inktober prompt "Pigment". In the centre is a large stone with a prehistoric bull painting in brown and black. On the left, a flat stone holds red, yellow, and black mineral pieces. On the right, another flat stone shows brown mineral lumps ready for grinding. Labels identify bright red, golden yellow, black (charcoal), and rich brown pigments. Text explains that pigments are minerals ground on flat stones and mixed with water to paint.

starting archInk 2025 with pigment. i kept it digital today, a bit like field journal notes, an archaeology journal. pigment feels small, but it made the first colours on stone.
minerals: grounded, mixed with a binder, painted on a surface and suddenly there’s an image.
#archInk #inktober

Also what kind of idiot draws a hand on the first day of inktober?

Meeeeeeeeee

(I even used another drawing as a reference)

A drawing with a finger held up and red pigment on the fingertip. Next to it is written “cinnabar, treasured world-wide for its fiery red hue, is toxic and poisoned those who sought its beauty.” Hashtags are in the tweet.

Super cool to learn that I was huffing cinnabar while laboriously excavating paintings at Çatalhöyük. #archink #pigment #inktober

An illustration of a box of pigments and a bottle of binder. It reads from top to bottom: ArchInk Day 1. Nolzur's Marvelous Pigments. Includes: Fire beetle, Sussur Bark, Merrow Coral, Residuum, Glowcap Phospher, Infernal Iron Soot.

#archInk2025 Day 1: Pigment
Back at it with a D&D bend. Today’s piece is Nolzur’s Marvelous Pigments. The item text says you can dip a brush right in, but pigments are technically the colorant. You can use them dry, but painting needs a binder. So I imagined some natural sources and the medium.

A watercolour illustration of a cave art bison inspired by the cave of altamira,

Day 1 #ArchInk2025 - Pigment. Bison cave art from the Cave of Altamira.

Trying to use this challenge to improve my illustration skills on Photoshop. I double brushed areas to show cracks in the cave walls and added an aged paper texture background.

#ArchInk @jonaschlegel.com #Archaeology

Not at the cost of countless pelican and puffin lives sacrificed in the name of crossing. Pearls clutched, tuts tutted my friend.

Also you could have at least named one "chicken"

Huge congratulations to a very deserving @gabemoshenska.bsky.social, newly Professor of Public Archaeology!

Two copper cymbals, green from oxidation, viewed from above and the side.

~5000-year-old copper cymbals from Bronze Age Arabia for #InternationalMusicDay

They share parallels with Mesopotamian and Indus Valley examples, indicating music connected these three ancient civilisations.

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🏺 #Archaeology

I think it's the (Pelican) that sends me

A form that says, "I would like to request the following type of pedestrian crossing improvements: (tick relevant box" with the following boxes "dropped kerbs, pavement build-out, central refuge, zebra crossing, puffin crossing (pelican), toucan crossing" with an X in the toucan crossing.

I sometimes forget how freaking weird England is

oh god I LOVE this

26 September James, Colleen, Peter, Guy Current digital research at York 3 October Ahmed El Antably Nubian Chronicles: You've been talking to the wrong people 10 October Stephanie Döpper Co-creating smartphone tours at archaeological sites with the ArchaeoTrail App 17 October Mariana Lopez Sound Heritage: methods and considerations 24 October Maki Wardle Moonlighting at ESA: A Postcard from a Digital Archaeologist in Space 31 October off off 7 November Despoina Sampatakou Cultural objects in reality and virtuality: a comparative study in XR 14 November Florence Smith Nicholls (Not) Dying of Anticipation: Video Game Archaeologies of Contemporary Play 21 November ADS What's new at ADS/HSDS 28 November Mark Altaweel AI for palaeoclimate research 5 December Marta Diaz-Guardamino TBA

We have a new series of "Digital Lunch"- free, hybrid talks hosted by the Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab at the University of York. Don't be fooled by the name, we've asked experts on the very cutting edge of the field to talk to us about their research.

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Book cover design that says 'Sonic Pasts: acoustical heritage and historical soundscapes' At the centre we see a circle formed by swirly colour bands and different outlines of people, objects and places, such as a desert landscape, a diver, Stonehenge and Notre Dame. At the bottom it says Mariana J López. The book cover is yellow with dark purple font.

Delighted to have been invited to speak as part of the Digital Archaeology/Heritage Lab series of talks at University of York. I'll be presenting some of the work from my book 'Sonic Pasts: acoustical heritage and historical soundscapes'. Thanks @clmorgan.bsky.social for the lovely invitation!

Back away very slowly from 'cobra' and 'the mother of pain', leave the Asian hornet to peruse your site notes, carry a long stick and whizzz-le with cows. Don't ever get between a mammal mother and her offspring (humans included) and bribe the stoats to show you the bottom of your ditch fill.