Almost Archaeology

Vultures: almost archaeologists

Future archaeologists: fertility cult

Telephonic archaeology

#hairchaeology

#beerchaeology

Patella regalia!

#warchaeology

I just published my article Archaeology as Worldbuilding, an effort that grows out of 20+ years of digital (and analog) archaeological making. Adjacent to recent arguments about storytelling, I broaden our scope to make past worlds & tell stories in community with others.

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Forget Tomb Raider and Uncharted, there’s a new generation of games about archaeology – sort of In this week’s newsletter: an archaeologist (and gamer) on why we love to walk around finding objects in-game and in real life

I wrote a piece for the Guardian games newsletter this week on my PhD research into preserving play experiences, and why I think that the most archaeological games are those that that actually make you *think* like one 🏺

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Ben Affleck: almost archaeologist

Archaeology of the Plastic Age (Plastocene? Plastozoic?)

@urbanprehistorian.bsky.social

Revolutionary heritage

Heads up @drspacejunk.bsky.social who was just posting about flaked glass this morning! Cosmic! bsky.app/profile/drsp...

Stumbled on this incredible bit of colonial archaeology wandering through Melbourne. It's a piece of European bottle glass flaked into a scraper by Kulin Nation First Peoples, excavated from the 1855-70 settlement at Wesley Place, now displayed at 130 Lonsdale www.wesleyplace.com.au/content/news...

Skate #parkaeology

“Disappointment is the most common response to time capsule openings”

We live in the ruins of a greater civilization

A tweet from Thinkwert that reads "we live in the ruins of a greater civilization". Attached is a photo of a Wii Sports Resort disc with its half being rotten and covered in dirt.

Hot Fuzz Heritage

Entrance label to art installation Callum Preston's Video Land at Melbourne Museum

80s and 90s comedy VHS tapes as displayed in art installation Callum Preston's Video Land at Melbourne Museum

Magnetic memories: Callum Preston's Video Land, a recreated VHS rental store as art installation at Melbourne's Immigration Museum

Archaeogaming: An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games | Berghahn Books Independent Publishing since 1994

Hey, kids. My eponymous #Archaeogaming book (2018) paperback is on sale for 50% off this week. I only need 12 more people to buy the book to crack 1,000 lifetime sales! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Reinha...

Those lithic balancing acts, those stone nexi holding landscape in their thrall, refuse to be relics. They exist as complexities, fierce engines of the imagination. They manifest the Long Neolithic as ongoing pilgrim destination, as conversation with the now. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

#archaeosnack

Archaeologists to excavate Glasgow skatepark – with help from skaters Kelvingrove park is site of Scotland’s first skatepark, Kelvin Wheelies, which has been covered in rubble for decades

"We’ll have skateboarders on site who used the park as teenagers and will be re-living that experience at the end of a trowel".

Archaeologists to excavate 1980s Glasgow skatepark – with help from skaters

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Scotland's first skatepark to be dug up by archaeologists A University of Glasgow team will undertake excavation and survey work at the former Kelvin Wheelies park.

Upcoming excavation of Scotland's first skatepark! #ArchaeoSkating and #parkaeology with @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social

New hashtag #archaeosupermarket

Andor series 2: Chandrilan Materialities and Antiquities And here you were… all that time, hiding in the shelter of Imperial peace and quiet. Dedra Meero to Luthen Rael, ‘Make it Stop’: Episode 10 of Andor series 2 In Andor series 2, th…

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Andor series 2: The Archaeology of Ghorman Pride This is the third of a series of blog-posts reviewing the archaeology of Andor series 2. Having explored Coruscant and Chandrila, we now turn to the archaeology of the planet that is the focus of r…

Andor series 2: The Archaeology of Ghorman Pride howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/16/a...