Ollie Harris

Lunch time quick read is a new blog @archscot.bsky.social: "This is the first in a series of blog posts where I will take you with me as I follow in the footsteps of Audrey Henshall & other women who pioneered archaeological research into the Neolithic of the west coast of Scotland." bit.ly/3IVkxWb

Drystone facade with large megalithic stones forming entrance to passage entering large cairn

Passage of cairn with large stone side slabs all covered incised decoration and with stone slab floor and capstones

Large standing forming side slab of passage. Covered in incised decoration comprising rainbow 🌈 shaped forms, large ones in middle and smaller to side.

View into large square chamber at end of passage. Two large decorated backslabs and massive single paving stone.

Gavrinis is the most amazing megalithic site I have been privileged to visit. Taking a boat to reach, you encounter a remarkable concentration of #Neolithic rock art at a single megalithic monument. A deeply powerful & inspiring place.

@megalithic.bsky.social #rockart #archaeology #TombTuesday

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Screenshot of first page of multi-authored American Antiquity forum, "Questions Worth Asking"

Just out, #openaccess forum, "Questions Worth Asking: Un-Disciplining Archaeology, Reclaiming Pasts for Better Futures." Download here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Please share. #archaeology

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.

doi.org/10.1017/S095...

Hamilakis, Y. 2026. Archaeology as a hauntology of remains. In Shadow Archaeologies In the Shadow of Antiquity or For Other Modes of Archaeological Worldmaking, edited by A. Nativ and G. Lucas. London... In this chapter, I propose a hauntological archaeology, not as a subdiscipline, a subfield, or a method but as an affect, as a way of allowing or rather enabling material remains to haunt us. This is ...

Archaeology defined as a hauntology of remains. A theoretical statement grounded on my work on ruins as well as my recent work on the remnants of contemporary migration. Part of a great volume! Grateful to the editors and to many colleagues who helped out!

www.academia.edu/143309448/Ha...

Geographers of the ancient Greek world. Selected texts in translation – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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I am really enjoying these lectures from FT — well worth the money and this week it’s Empedocles, Deleuze’s favourite pre-Socratic philosopher (according to one of his seminars). A must listen for my long Sunday drive! We all need distractions at the moment and this series is a great one.

Sure?! Shows my proof reading skills are not where they should be 😹

A poster showing a fist and encouraging people to send in abstracts for a TAG session

Come and chat power with us @tag2025york.bsky.social in December!

Living Amongst and with Trees: Botanical Agency and the Archaeology of Plant-Human Relationships The last decade has seen a significant change in the way the humanities have approached the study of botanical life. Termed ‘the plant turn’, this questions traditional views of plants as a largely...

New paper on the nature of plant life and its relationship to human life during the Mesolithic! Thanks to @ojth.bsky.social, Amy Gray Jones and @graemewarren.bsky.social for comments and advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Outcome is my best guess!

This event featured a brilliant, emotive, passionate and funny speech by my colleague Alice Samson. She represented the fabulous and talented women I am so lucky to work with. Our School is such a special place on days like today

📢Today, the home of our Schools of #Archaeology & Ancient History & Museum Studies has been renamed the Kathleen Kenyon Building, the first academic building on campus to be named after a woman.

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#InternationalWomensDay

Time for a #FindsFriday with a late Bronze Age socketed hammer dating between 1000-700BC.
This hammer is made from copper alloy, and has been cast, in fact, it is possible to see the casting seam along the length of the hammer!
Follow the record link here:
finds.org.uk/database/art...

It is a great pleasure to announce that my book Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife is now available in Open Access: bit.ly/3Xn9HfB

Please download, read, and share with anyone who might be interested in new ways of thinking about Egyptian religion.

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He’s also 45 whatever nonsense he says about the Covid year not counting

A bullhorn on a circle background with the Ouse and Foss. Around the outside it says "Theory in Action TAG York 2025"

Uh oh...TAG York 2025 logo and theme just dropped!

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The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | Editorial Editorial: The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed

An entirely new financial settlement is needed in Higher Education - as many of us have been saying all along. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’ve been thinking lots recently about the concept of ‘monumentality’ in #Etruscan necropoleis & its impact on multi-sensory experiences, or rather, the multi-sensory experiences that contribute towards the perception of ‘monumentality’.

Yeah very tough indeed!

“Sometimes, Ollie, you just have to tell them to go and read a fucking book”

Words to live by. RIP John.

He also offered me excellent advice including to go to Cardiff for my MA.

At a conference some years later I was nervous that my paper (an early engagement with material vibrancy) would go down badly with the scientists in the audience. John’s reassurance was typically combative: 2/3

Very sad to hear of the death of John Barrett, my undergrad dissertation supervisor and the man who made me fall passionately in love with archaeological theory. As others from my year at Sheffield have been reflecting his teaching was inspiring and life changing 1/3

We have a whole series of FFS site codes which stands for fragments field after an argument that took place there many years before we started digging there between @archaeocobb.bsky.social and me about the comparative superiority of Fragments from Antiquity and Time, Culture and Identity

Lovely to see you @alejandragalmes.bsky.social and catch up! Great paper too!

I didn’t see the winning paper but I can definitely say Sam’s was excellent - one to watch for the future