Millet in Bronze Age Thasos!
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📣 New issue is out now! As Women’s History Month begins, this issue brings attention to gender bias in #archaeology. These articles examine persistent inequities in visibility, citation, and leadership, and offer concrete strategies for change.
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Renfrew's a big reason that I'm an Aegean prehistorian; this will be well worth watching
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"Tiryns smells of cruelty, barbarism, suspicion, isolation. It is like an H.G. Wells setting for a prehistoric drama, for a thousand years' war between one-eyed giants and blunder-footed dinosaurs." (I'm reading Henry Miller's 'The Colossus of Maroussi')
"The walls which you see in Greece, when they are not of Turkish or Venetian origin, go back to the Cyclopean age."
One of the best scholars of the Third Dynasty of Ur is a professor at Western Washington University
My review of "Mothering and Archaeology" edited by @savarchaeoalliance.bsky.social and Suzanne Spencer-Wood is out in Historical Archaeology! rdcu.be/eZpdj #academicsky 🏺
Lots of archaeology proposals (viz, archaeological surveys) are basically this too
How tough is “tough enough” in archaeology? Sarah Simeonoff, Marie Matsuda, Gabrielle Perry, and Breeanna Charolla explore how fieldwork culture shapes experiences and inclusivity.
Learn more about their proposed avenues for reform in this AAP FirstView Article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Somehow I never knew about the clapping (and I TAed for TKH and took two classes from him!). That's so bizarre
I was half-joking... on the one hand, it is really weird. On the other, my rule is: if it's weird that means it's prob interesting. West points out in his commentary that Kirke is on the eastern horizon, but I tried to argue way back when (2004) that far East and West can converge on each other
too weird IMO, better to forget about it
Generally I think Collinsworth is pretty good but he was terrible today
Sure Bayern won 5-1 over Hoffenheim, but at least they didn’t have their stepovers go wrong like Lennart Karl’s attempt.
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Greek archaeologists: February 20, 2026 is the deadline for you to submit a letter supporting the renewal of the bilateral agreement protecting Greek cultural heritage: www.archaeological.org/preserving-b...
That line (this is how men behave) d disgusted me; I just hope I'm not anomalous
New article! "Changing the Landscape of Archaeological Publishing" in Current Anthropology, by a giant collaborative group of coauthors fearlessly led by Jess Beck and including @bridgetalex.bsky.social @benmarwick.bsky.social @christinawarinner.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
OPEN ACCESS in @saa-aap.bsky.social: This team analyzed 22 years of data from the annual meeting of the SAA to examine how women's participation has changed over time.
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Screenshot: Google books search of "mycenaean sword" yields result of book in preview mode
I just tested it and it seemed to be working as usual:
For sure. I was thinking of the Greek support of Cyrus and then the invasion of Agesilaus, but to be sure that's basically only a decade of irritating activity after the defeat of Athens
Given that Odysseus thought the most beautiful man in the world was Memnon the Ethiopian, casting a black woman as Helen may have been the only defensible choice.
I dunno, they were pretty annoying from ca. 500 to 334 BCE
Thucydides did not say that the strong will always win out over the weak.
A rental car mostly driven into a ditch
Check out this blog post and the article; driving slowly around Examilia with Tim, Lita, David and @billcaraher.bsky.social is certainly preferable to this Examilian mini-tragedy: mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/w...
take once a week or so for best results www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtTp...
Peopling Podcast logo with additional text reading "Season 5: Call for Contributors"
Peopling the Past is planning Season 5 of our podcast! We are looking for folks who are interested in appearing as episode guests: the theme of Season 5 will be the relevance of the ancient world to our understanding of important but challenging contemporary issues
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