Colleen Morgan

Yeah, my 9 year old would like a hard pass

Will have to listen to it! Wish I had more time for swoleness these days

Detecting social differences in diet in medieval towns: isotopic evidence from Cambridge, England, c. AD 940–1538 | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Detecting social differences in diet in medieval towns: isotopic evidence from Cambridge, England, c. AD 940–1538

My first proper first-author paper has been published in Antiquity! The article is fully open access, so it’s free for anyone to read and share. The research came out of my PhD and uses a “whole-town” isotopic analysis approach to explore diet in Medieval Cambridge🏺 1/4

tinyurl.com/mu8a38zb

A Roman mosaic in black and white. It's a disaster. The mosaicist clearly had no real plan for what they were trying to achieved and essentially busked the entire design. It's all over the place. It's the mosaic equivalent of when you start a sentence but have no real idea what it is you're trying to say.

Woops. 😳
#MosaicMonday

helenmilesmosaics.org/making-mosai...

I can't get over how perfectly this image encapsulates our current colonial museum moment. Tony Molelia wears a cotton smock so the cloak doesn't touch his skin. It's instead held in place by a museum curator. Descendants can get only so close to their heritage in a place controlled by preservation.

A doorway overlooking a bay, labelled “paradise”

Just in case you were wondering where it is

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York Staff, Students, and Alumni present at CAA-UK Big presence at conference demonstrates strength of digital research at York

Thanks to @clmorgan.bsky.social for this news story on all our fantastic digital archaeologists at @caa-uk.bsky.social in December!

www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/...

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"

🚨 Please Share

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. 🖤