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If you want to hear more about the newlly published Monograph for the Bowl Hole Cemetery at Bamburgh Dr Sam Lucy is doing a lecture that is open to the public One of the editors of the new volume Dr Sam Lucy of Cambridge University is presenting a lecture to the Society of Antiquaries of London on 26 February at 5pm. This is open to all and also live-str…

Dr Sam Lucy is doing a public lecture on the recent publication of the cemetery site at the Bowl Hole Bamburgh do check out the details on our blog

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We are pleased to announce that The Shipwreck of the Santo António de Tanná (1697) is now available!

The book details the excavation of a significant part of the ship’s hull and more than 7,000 objects related to its operation, life on board and commercial activity.🏺

« Introduction à l'archéologie du genre » est maintenant disponible en anglais, aux éditions @barpublishing.bsky.social !

Nouvelle maquette en noir et blanc, nouveau format, nouvelle langue, mais toujours le même contenu essentiel, écrit par Isabelle Algrain et @anemonenyme.bsky.social✍️

The reviews are in! 🏺

Check out Sue Harrington's book Excavations at Highdown, West Sussex, now available on our website.

Read more here: doi.org/10.30861/978...

If only we were clever enough to come up with a hedgehog/archaeology pun...

Happy National Hedgehog Day! 🦔

Meet Petunia who is possibly the only pet to have made it onto the back cover of a BAR book!

Petunia got a special shoutout in author Christopher Dwan's bio on his recent publication Landscape Stability and the Formation of Social Memory in Prehistoric Britain.🏺

Happy #FindsFriday friends!!🏺

We can't believe we haven't seen this one before today! This adorable dog sketch was excavated in the Valley of the Kings and comes from the New Kingdom period.

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Un atelier per maioliche di età rinascimentale a Roma examines a workshop with a Renaissance furnace for the production of maiolicas. This is the first discovery of its kind documented archaeologically in Rome.

Read more about it here: doi.org/10.30861/978...

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Nikolas Bakirtzis' Architecture and Sacred Landscape is the first in-depth study of Prodromos monastery’s architectural history and organization, as well as the first attempt to locate it at the nexus of a sacred landscape surrounding the well-preserved complex. 🏺

Our #FindsFriday this week comes from our recently published book Excavations at Highdown, West Sussex edited by Sue Harrington! 🏺

Read about this lovely bird brooch and more here: doi.org/10.30861/978...

Muchas gracia por acompañarnos en la presentación de nuestra nueva edición en BAR !!

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Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Napatan Region and Gebel El-Barkal explores how how archaeological sites exist simultaneously as global monuments, national symbols, and living spaces imbued with everyday cultural meaning.🏺

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Our recent publication Social Differentiation among Non-Elites in China’s Central Plains, 1735-1530 BCE is the first to study Erlitou society via household archaeology, focusing on non-elite households in the capital.🏺

We don't unfortunately! Although it's on view at the MET if anyone wants to scout it out for us...

Our first #FindsFriday of 2026! 🏺

Starting the year off with this terracotta zoomorphic askos...we'd appreciate anyone who can tell us what animal this is meant to be...

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This volume originates from the Maritime Archaeology Research Exchange Online Lecture Series, which promotes the work of graduate students and early career researchers in maritime archaeology. The contributions highlight diverse theoretical and methodological techniques in the field.

We are thrilled to be at the SHA in Detroit this week!🏺

Stop by our stand to browse our books or chat to us about your projects!

Ringing in the new year with one of our newest books Duke Alexander and his Sarcophagi by Aidan Dodson. 📣

Part Egyptology, part antiquarian history, it tells the remarkable story of two Egyptian stone sarcophagi owned by Duke Alexander - one later reused for his own mummified body.🏺

Very excited to see this out in the wild 👀🏺

It's a real collaborative monograph which details the excavation of the Bowl Hole & provides a wider overview of the excavations at the castle.

The first chapter, co-authored with Graeme Young & Barbara Yorke, is freely available to read 👉

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The Bamburgh Bowl Hole Anglian-period Cemetery is the full publication of the sixth- to eighth-century burials excavated between 1999 and 2007. It integrates archaeological, osteological and isotopic data into a comprehensive account of the cemetery. 🏺

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Couverture du livre

Recension | Magali Bailliot, L’iconographie des tablettes de malédiction. Envoûter et dessiner dans l’Antiquité gréco-romaine, @barpublishing.bsky.social
Par Aymeric Gaubert
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Looking for the perfect present for the archaeologist in your life?

An Introduction to Gender Archaeology by Isabelle Algrain and Laura Mary is now available on our website!

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Stuck for present ideas? How about 2 shiny new #medieval publications?

- The Bamburgh Bowl Hole Anglian-period Cemetery: A bioarchaeological study of a Northumbrian royal site by Sam Lucy, Charlotte A. Roberts and Graeme Young

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We have one last BAR Bulletin to share with you all before the new year.

Check your inboxes for news on our 10 newest titles - don't forget to use your membership code for 20% off! 🏺

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Hello TAG!🏺

We are so pleased to be at #TAG25 in York! We've already had a lovely drop-in from our recent author Despoina Vasiliki Sampatakou, pictured here with her book 'Creating and Evaluating Digital Media for Archaeological Storytelling: The life and death of MYC1V at Grave Circle A, Mycenae'!

Couverture d'introduction à l'archéologie du genre. Plus d'informations : https://www.editions-fedora.com/product-page/manuel-du-genre

Couverture de An Introduction to Gender Archaeology, la traduction anglaise du premier ouvrage mentionné dans ce post. Le titre se trouve en haut à droite, suivi des noms des autrices (Isabelle Algrain et Laura Mary). Un vase grec à figures noires se trouve à gauche, une photo noir et blanc d'une femme archéologue anonyme acroupie, avec un foulard sur la tête se trouve à droite. https://www.barpublishing.com/book/an-introduction-to-gender-archaeology/

Je ne les avais pas encore mis côte à côte, maintenant c'est fait.

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Wow c’est tellement beau 🤩

🎄Happy BARmas🎄

Our small (but mighty!) team celebrated the holidays BAR style yesterday. Quizzes were won, chocolates were eaten, and Mariah Carey was played on repeat!

Happy holidays from our family to yours!💫

Congratulations to our friends over at Headland Archaeology who have been nominated for Rescue Project of the Year! 🏺

Curious to know more about the project? Check out Living and Dying in a Lancashire Cotton Town which details the excavations at St Peter's Church.