New from Alexander Anthony (Syracuse U.) on the archaeology of human remains from the Milwaukee County Poor Farm in Wisconsin. "In essence, pauperism became punishable by anatomization."
It is with profound sadness that the Department of Archaeology at Simon Fraser University announces the passing of Dr. Roy L. Carlson, a foundational figure in our institution and a giant in Pacific Northwest archaeology.
My book has a cover! IN LATIN AMERICA YOU COULD BE FREE: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY tells the story of the place and promise of Latin America in the political imagination of African Americans and of their movements to the region in the antebellum period.
Out on Basic Books, November 11, 2026! 🥳
Metropolitan Museum Acquires Another Vase
Metropolitan Museum Acquires Another Vase https://theonion.com/metropolitan-museum-acquires-another-vase-1830499658/
🚨 @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social and I - along with a dream team of incredible collaborators - are excited to announce a new book challenging residential school denialism!
Truth Before Reconciliation will be released in September with the University of Manitoba Press: uofmpress.ca/books/truth-...
The filmmaker who was supposed to make this residential school denial film had a YouTube account full of Nazi propaganda, Holocaust denial, caustic racism and antisemitism and conspiracy theories.
Too much even for Juno News.
This is a good article, gift link.
It illustrates the real impacts that are occurring from the current US government's attacks on science funding 👍
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...
Number 18 on the walking tour at Christ Church Cemetery Dartmouth marks where remains of African Nova Scotians from a church burial ground on Crichton Ave were relocated to in 1977. Their original graves were expropriated for housing.
#AfricanHeritageMonth
Archaeologists are excavating timbers from a suspected 17th Century shipwreck revealed on a beach after winter storms.
The remains were discovered at the National Trust-owned Studland Bay, in Dorset, on 28 January.
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
Excellent review of Spondylus (limbatus... a.k.a calcifer) along the Pacific Coasts of the Americas.
Research completed by a team of archaeologists and biologists. Incredibly detailed and much needed work that will inform archaeology.
#Archaeology #Ecology
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bdj.pensoft.net/article/1805...
This is the way. When they come at us, we come back at them twofold. Raise that Pride flag every time they take it down. If they prevent that, surround the park with Pride flags. Ruin their petty little lives until they shit rainbows. Never stop. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/n...
NPS removes Native American signage at Little Bighorn National Monument www.militarytimes.com/veterans/mil...
Archives matter - but not to the Carney government. Canada has only ONE federal funding program for community archives, and they just killed it. Gone.
@wgreaves.bsky.social
www.canada.ca/en/library-a...
John R. Welch, Fred Nials, Emma L. Britton, Christopher D. Dore, Brandi L. MacDonald, and Randy Ream discuss approaches to investigating archaeological resource crime, outlining how #geoforensic methods can increase fieldwork efficiency.
Read in AAP’s FirstView:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Katherine McDonald’s truly marvelous “Four footprints, two languages, one tile”deserves your time: “Two slaves, working in conditions that were no doubt very difficult, taking a little time to mess about as friends and enjoy each other’s company.” katherinemcdonald.net/2016/01/14/f...
VIRTUAL LECTURE TONIGHT at 5 p.m. MT: Learn more about Fort Decatur, a one-year War of 1812 naval site with an outsized legacy. Dr. David Leslie will walk through what geophysics and excavation revealed on Allyn Hill. Join us live via Zoom Webinar or Facebook Live.
Register: buff.ly/rJegPWI
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Sean Carleton for an online presentation and discussion about the rise of residential school denialism in Canada:
Truth Before Reconciliation: How to Identify and Confront Residential School Denialism
Thursday, January 29, 2026 | 11:30 am PST
Register: buff.ly/XYUWMcb
Seen in Los Angeles
(Credit: Zurita Carpio)
A poster giving the details of Sean's talk, with a QR code, and image of Port Alberni Residential School facade.
Truth Before Reconciliation: How to Identify and Confront Residential School Denialism. An online presentation by @seancarleton.bsky.social , Thurs, Jan 29 11:30 am PST. To register: sfu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Sponsored by the SFU Depts of Archaeology, English, History, and Indigenous Studies
Upcoming Seminars: IHR Europe and the World, 1500-1800
Join us in-Person in London or online
Registration: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"
"Slavery was real"
Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.
Presidents House, Philadelphia.
Given the rising tide of residential school denialism and anti-Indigenous hate in BC recently, I sat down with Phyllis Webstad and Willie Sellars to talk about how we Can address it: m.youtube.com/watch?v=RorH...
Trump in Davos, Switzerland:
"Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German".
German is the main language of Switzerland.
Interested in our Summer 2026 BC North Coast Field School? Join Field Director, Dr. Bryn Letham, for information sessions to find out more!
⛏️ January 28, 10:30am - 11:30am | SWH 9084 and online
⛏️ January 29, 12:30pm - 1:30pm | SWH 9084 and online
Zoom link found here: buff.ly/2OX7YSg
Something for those interested in a CRM career to check out. Particularly if you're in the Vancouver area. 🏺
www.eventbrite.ca/e/sfu-archae...
Job alert! 🔊
Lecturer in Western European Prehistory @ucc.ie
Closing date: 30 March
Salary scale [new entrants]:€34,912 – €56,713
Kylie's amazing #DisHist #histmed book Jim Crow in the Asylum is out today.
Its also open access, so sharing the link for anyone interested in the histories of race and disability, systemic racism in medicine, histories of madness and asylums, histories of the US South, and more
