Colleen Morgan

A field of heather with a patchwork of English countryside in the background.

AFK. If you need me, send a Shadowfax.

A poster featuring the archaeologist Ivan Simeonov Ivanov posing with a copper age bowl and being rather intense about it.

My bowl and I spotted you across the bar and we really dig your vibe.

I ran my fastest (recorded) 5k today!

So my fav, simplified example of archaeology vs history is when I was a TA for Laurie Wilkie's intro to archaeology and she pointed to the sign in the classroom that said: NO FOOD OR DRINK (history)

And then pointed at the students who, almost to a person, had coffee mugs and/or food (archaeology)

Archaeology: you rang?

Get out of my house please sir

Oh no, I’m so sorry John. Wendy was such a sweetheart. ♥️

A laptop showing the ADS Data Catalogue interface

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A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

You are 100% fucking cool!

*guide to

really hashed the wording on this one through too much editing.

Anyway, it's super cool, and finding people who can actually dig stratigraphically and write about it cogently afterwards is vanishingly rare.

A link to save:

The Archaeologist's Guide to Good Practice:

archgoodpractice.com

The best and perhaps the only post-excavation stratigraphic analysis--principle developer is York's James Taylor, Keith May, Kenneth Aitchison, & Doug Rocks-Macqueen, funded by AHRC.

*me and my book project

There are loads of phase videos available from Catalhoyuk that'd work well for this: www.catalhoyuk.com/research/vid...

The PhD students and postdocs I work with (past and present) are all so amazing! They're smart, brave and ridiculously capable and I'm incredibly inspired by them.

Happy Friday. 🌞

Image of bronze bench with a bronze seated figure. There are various logos at the bottom of the image and the main text in the image reads "Sackville Gardens Community Excavation 2025"

If you are in Manchester this summer and fancy getting involved in an inclusive community excavation, well then is this an event you should look into... 👀

All skill levels welcome and it's completely free!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sackville-...

I find it really scary!!

Yes! Media archaeologies have been messing up my literature searches for 15+ years

Fantastic thread from @kjkillackey.bsky.social who is a huge inspiration for me with regard to worldbuilding and visualisation.

A finger pointing to a frog that is <2cm on asphalt

There were about a zillion tiny frogs on the running path today! 🐸

I feel like I should tag @brennawalks.bsky.social in this

(I do extremely serious and important thinking about archaeology in case you are wondering)

Front cover of a coco wyo coloring book that depicts a cozy room with a cat, bed and mirror drawn in an isometric style

Another isometric room, this time an uncolored page of a coloring book with a cat, tv, and attic clutter.

BIG NEWS!

Isometric drawing isn’t dead!! 🎉🎉🎉

Also would just about die for a coco wyo style coloring book of archaeological reconstructions.

Call for Papers - TAG 2025, York, UK ATRIUM

ATRIUM invites contributions to the session "Towards Adaptation: Environmental Sustainability in Archaeological Workflows" at TAG 2025 at University of York 15-17 December. More information: www.ariadne-research-infrastructure.eu/2025/07/15/t...
The Call closes on 1st August. #ATRIUM-EU

CRT hauntology

Emma Goldman: "I feel sure that the police are helping us more than I could do in ten years. They are making more anarchists than the most prominent people connected with the anarchist cause could make in ten years. If they will only continue I shall be very grateful; they will save me lots of work"

Congratulations!

Getting your eye in for the post-industrial when out in the UK is very strange, a mix between abject horror of what had been done and a bit of hope for regeneration. Though the utter lack of animals and insects still freaks me out sometimes.

Yeah I think it was similar for me after being used to landscapes in the American west (esp Texas, Colorado & Wyoming) that felt untouched, though were obviously shaped by indigenous folks. +

This blew my mind when I first moved here. The unwild wilds.

Collecting Abeokuta: Tracing the Provenance of Egba Material Culture from the Church Missionary Society Yoruba Mission The Reverend Henry Townsend (1815–1886) was a missionary of the Church Missionary Society who worked in the city-state of Abeokuta, in present day southwestern Nigeria, from 1846 to 1876. While the...

Super proud of my friend and fellow ESBAA society member Benjamina Efua Dadzie. This is her first research article in a journal and is in part synthesised from her PhD 🤩 Said I would share so here it is and open access too 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 🏺

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....